Posted by: Spartan1995324
Posted by: pgshents
You both raise good points...
However how many Spartans are there..? Let's say they wouldn't throw themselves at Spartans, but perhaps at regular Marines.
As for the hollow bones theory, they could wear some kind of armour which could help to absorb some of the recoil as they throw themselves into things. Probably a simpler technology than say, buckler-laser shields, don't you think???It would weight them down more, and therefore cause them to be slower than they really are.
Your average marine probably has more mass than a skirmisher does. So if the skirmisher rams into the marine and his body armour, they will both get hurt. However the object with less mass will probably feel the effects of the reaction force ("bouncing" off) much more.
So since the marine weighs more, he won't suffer as much from the recoil, probably some broken bones. The skirmisher most likely has hollow bones, so a LOT more of them will break. Even more so if they hit an ODST.
If the skirmisher wore armour it would slow them down as I said. Therefore the force of impact wouldn't be as much on either object.
About the Spartans... There are quite a few left. Gamma Company alone has 300 or so Spartans, then Grey team is missing, Black team is still alive, Ash, Olivia, Fred, and Kelly came out of the Dyson sphere, Master Chief is still around, and now there are all these new Spartan IVs.Thank you for such a technical response. I suppose the "charging" technique is less efficient than I would hope. However even if they don't physical charge "into" the Marines they could employ other tactics...Perhaps give them energy swords or a variant? Perhaps replace those laser shield bucklers with something similar to Altair's wrist blades?? Imagine how deadly they would be as assassins!! SLICE, DEAD, and then they flee from the scene of the crime.
Posted by: Wolverfrog
I have the most amazing image in my head of a Spanish marine waving a red cloak before a Skirmisher sprinting towards him at 100km an hour.More like 250km/h!!!! LOL!
And I will contact the wiki author.