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::::::::Again, I feel that your view on the SPARTANs is that they are equal to regular marines - they are far more important and combat-effective. Had the Fall of Reach instead been a UNSC victory, it would have been pyhrrical even with the UNSC outnumbered by the Covenant because of two things: a major loss of life in SPARTAN supersoldiers and the UNSC's inability to replace its men and women and warships at a rate comparable to the Covenant, whose war machine has shown itself in fleets consisting of hundreds, and their liking for attacking minimally-defended systems en masse.-- '''[[User:Forerunner|<font color="blue">Fore</font>]]''[[User talk:Forerunner|<font color="green">run</font>]]''[[Special:Contributions/Forerunner|<font color="red">ner</font>]]''''' 21:34, 19 April 2011 (EDT) | ::::::::Again, I feel that your view on the SPARTANs is that they are equal to regular marines - they are far more important and combat-effective. Had the Fall of Reach instead been a UNSC victory, it would have been pyhrrical even with the UNSC outnumbered by the Covenant because of two things: a major loss of life in SPARTAN supersoldiers and the UNSC's inability to replace its men and women and warships at a rate comparable to the Covenant, whose war machine has shown itself in fleets consisting of hundreds, and their liking for attacking minimally-defended systems en masse.-- '''[[User:Forerunner|<font color="blue">Fore</font>]]''[[User talk:Forerunner|<font color="green">run</font>]]''[[Special:Contributions/Forerunner|<font color="red">ner</font>]]''''' 21:34, 19 April 2011 (EDT) | ||
The Covenant lost more, that's why it was a UNSC victory. Being an empire though, the Covenant will just be set back for a year or so, then they'll recover and fight at the same speed again. The UNSC, however, doesn't have any way to back itself up after that. Using ODSTs, for example, would take up to a thousand, and there's little way any person could organize a thousand ODST together, as well as destroy them all in one suicide rush. An S-III company was still cheaper than 75 S-IIs, but still would take at least half a decade or more to push out. Their hope was that the battle would slow down the Covenant long enough that the UNSC could recover for a bit and build up a larger force. That was the gamut of its strategy for most of the entire war. [[User:Tuckerscreator|<span style="color:#6600cc;">'''''Tuckerscreator'''''</span>]]<sup>([[User talk:Tuckerscreator|<font color="#008000">stalk</font>]])</sup> 21:39, 19 April 2011 (EDT) | |||