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: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) | :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) | ||
:I'd like to point out to Tuckerscreator that killing more than the other only related to a "War of Attrition". The Battle of Staligrad was a decisive Soviet victory, and even though they lost nearly 200,000 more than the entire Axis-contingent ''combined'', it was not a pyhrric victory - this is because the Soviets were able to quickly replace their numbers from a large pool of potential "volunteers". Further, Soviet production was begining to advance rapidly, to the point where only a small percentage of produce was deemed necessary enough for the defence of the city. Because of their impressive ability to replace resources, this Soviet victory can not be defined as ''pyhrric''.-- '''[[User:Forerunner|<font color="blue">Fore</font>]]''[[User talk:Forerunner|<font color="green">run</font>]]''[[Special:Contributions/Forerunner|<font color="red">ner</font>]]''''' 10:49, 7 May 2011 (EDT) | |||