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::::::Those numbers don't relate to a pyhrric victory. Operation Bodenplatte was a pyhrric victory because, while the luftwaffe was successful in its mission, it completely drained its reserves, rendering it useless. It took several years in all three cases to train SPARTAN-IIIs - you are treating them like the standard marine. Furthermore, you have the time and money to find three-hundred children of a particular age-range with a particular, and rare, genetic make-up allowing them to be augmented safely without the drugs simply killing them. The Covenant on the other hand ''could'' replace their machinery very effectively - remember that Scarab facility on High Charity? Further, I don't see how the possibility of Beta company loosing would make it a Covenant pyhrric victory - while the refinery was important in that area, it would have by no means have been their only source of fuel near UEG space. They can adapt.-- '''[[User:Forerunner|<font color="blue">Fore</font>]]''[[User talk:Forerunner|<font color="green">run</font>]]''[[Special:Contributions/Forerunner|<font color="red">ner</font>]]''''' 21:10, 19 April 2011 (EDT) | ::::::Those numbers don't relate to a pyhrric victory. Operation Bodenplatte was a pyhrric victory because, while the luftwaffe was successful in its mission, it completely drained its reserves, rendering it useless. It took several years in all three cases to train SPARTAN-IIIs - you are treating them like the standard marine. Furthermore, you have the time and money to find three-hundred children of a particular age-range with a particular, and rare, genetic make-up allowing them to be augmented safely without the drugs simply killing them. The Covenant on the other hand ''could'' replace their machinery very effectively - remember that Scarab facility on High Charity? Further, I don't see how the possibility of Beta company loosing would make it a Covenant pyhrric victory - while the refinery was important in that area, it would have by no means have been their only source of fuel near UEG space. They can adapt.-- '''[[User:Forerunner|<font color="blue">Fore</font>]]''[[User talk:Forerunner|<font color="green">run</font>]]''[[Special:Contributions/Forerunner|<font color="red">ner</font>]]''''' 21:10, 19 April 2011 (EDT) | ||
:::::::While I find your argument to be an intelligent one (been on B.net forums lately, lol), I just want to go back to basics. The Covenant lost a LOT more, as I orignally said, tens of thousands of troopers. And so what if they're S-IIIs? The UNSC has many other equally effective assets. It took the lives of only 298 Spartans to take the lives of an armada. <font color="black">Something<b>Different</b></font> 21:25, 19 April 2011 (EDT) | |||