- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: FireSpartan13
Posted by: MBHSnareDrummer
(Frankly, the Halo series' MBT- the "Scorpion"- SUCKS. Modern tanks can hit forty-something miles per hour. The Scorpion's top speed is somewhere near twenty or twenty-five. Halo portrays the human tanks as being big lumbering beasts. But tanks stopped being that way in world war one. A tank, especially one as small as the Scorpion, should be nimble enough to move around sixty tons without being a sitting duck for the enemy. The Abrams is powered by jet turbines...so why does a tank 500 years in the future barely go faster than a toy scooter!?)
For Halo 3, Bungie needs to update the Scorpion and make it faster and more futuristic. the books say spartans can run around 55 KPH the tanks aren't small(in halo 2, in halo they really are small) and they can go twice has fast has a spartan.
First off, kilometers per hour and miles per hour are very different. 55 KPH is about 22 mph. Secondly, any tank that only needs two people to operate is a very small tank, the Abrams has a four man crew, and the British MBT (sorry guys, don't know the name) also has a four man crew.