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Like that, it all depends on how well the UNSC can recover for what ever it had to sacrifice. So if it had been another company, of Marines or ODSTs, the chances of victory would have been smaller, but the cost of losses would have been different. [[User:Tuckerscreator|<span style="color:#6600cc;">'''''Tuckerscreator'''''</span>]]<sup>([[User talk:Tuckerscreator|<font color="#008000">stalk</font>]])</sup> 00:20, 20 April 2011 (EDT) | Like that, it all depends on how well the UNSC can recover for what ever it had to sacrifice. So if it had been another company, of Marines or ODSTs, the chances of victory would have been smaller, but the cost of losses would have been different. [[User:Tuckerscreator|<span style="color:#6600cc;">'''''Tuckerscreator'''''</span>]]<sup>([[User talk:Tuckerscreator|<font color="#008000">stalk</font>]])</sup> 00:20, 20 April 2011 (EDT) | ||
:I see it like this. Alpha and Beta Company did their jobs, inflicted hundreds, if not thousands of casualties, and set the Covenant war machine back months. But they were absolutely destroyed. It was pyrrhic for them, because they were left totally inoperable afterwards. The Spartans at Thermopylae did the same - killed vastly more than their own number, but were killed to the last man (except for Eurytus and Aristodemus) as they held the pass. It was still a pyrrhic victory - they didn't hold the pass long, and didn't even ''survive'' the battle, but they allowed the other Greeks time to prepare their own defences and marshal more forces, and to eventually defeat the vastly larger Persian empire. Do you see the point? | |||
:I also have to agree with Forerunner on your apparent attitude towards Spartan-IIIs - the UNSC ''do not'' have assets that are just as effective, except for the fewer and more experienced and visible S-IIs, who they can't afford to lose for morale purposes. It's still a difficult and expensive process to "recruit", train, equip and deploy them. The difference is that they use cheaper SPI armour - cheaper ''compared to MJOLNIR'', thirty suits of which cost as much as an ''entire battlegroup''. Kelly even notes that not even the ODSTs use similar gear yet. S-IIIs are still far ahead of the curve, just not as far as their S-II predecessors. These are still highly effective, efficiently and expensively trained supersoldiers who are skilled at what they do. They aren't just thrown away, every Spartan gives their life in high0risk, high-reward missions that will buy months, if not years, not to mention billions of lives, during which time the rest of humanity can try and find better ways to counter the Covenant. Like Thermopylae. -- [[User:Specops306|<b><font color=indigo>Specops306</font></b>]] [[w:c:halofanon:user:Specops306|<u><i><font color=blue><sup>Autocrat</sup></font></i></u>]] [[User talk:Specops306|<u><i><font color=purple><sup>Qur'a 'Morhek</sup></font></i></u>]] 20:13, 20 April 2011 (EDT) | |||