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Well who would win in a fight?
After a few debates about this with Unreal Toast i've decided to ask you guys what you think

You have no idea how many times this has been done.
It comes out Sm every time.

Meh i was just curious you know?
Well it's 3:1 to the spartans atm so yea....

Oh god I cringe every time I hear those words. It is mutually agreed that Marines would win.

Sorry for beating a dead horse but like i said i was curious!

In my opinion Spartans are much much more tactiful, and are much smarter then the space marines, but when your a space marine, you dont really need tactics, the armour does it all for them :/

When you are larger and more durable than nearly anything, carrying weapon that are essentially automatic rocket launcher and sword that make molecules explodes thereby ignoring armor

you still need tactic?
why?

A Spartan is basically Space Marine .1

A Space Marine is Space Marine 8.0

Retrias wrote:When you are larger and more durable than nearly anything, carrying weapon that are essentially automatic rocket launcher and sword that make molecules explodes thereby ignoring armor

you still need tactic?
why?

Read my post again and then blow yourself up.

Considering that outside of possibly the Video Gaming Section there is no Halo thread on this site (aside from these) I wonder if the outcome of this vote might be a little biased?

IMHO Duke Nukem is more of a tactical shooter then any of the Halo's. At least in DN your health bar didn't recharge to full just because the shooting stopped. Where as in WH40K against a capable player even SM's (aside from the Blood Angels) have to at least have a general plan to win a game.

Space Marines just because they outnumber the "Current" Number of Spartans atleast one million to one.

Seriously, not again. This has been way overdone. And the answer is always the same... No one cares!

Moving thread to 40K General Discussions.

Please take note that the 40K Background forum is for 40K Background.

This again? *Sigh*

It was cool the first time though.

Unreal Toast wrote:In my opinion Spartans are much much more tactiful, and are much smarter then the space marines, but when your a space marine, you dont really need tactics, the armour does it all for them :/

WAIT WHAT?
I read this and thought wtf?
Seriously! dude Space Marines use tactics! Its just no good writer from the black library has ever thought to ask a military person ever! Spartans are kinda dumb because they all basically died on reach! And Last time i checked Spartans can't take a take shell to the face! And Live!

I reckon it's a pretty foregone conclusion too - although it's also interesting to consider the 'bad guys' from each franchise as a yardstick of comparison. Master Chef or whatever his name is has to contend with the Covenant, who, while quite badass, are certainly no eternal bloodthirsty gods of the warp, all-devouring bioengineered death machines, undead robot skeletons in flying pyramids, fungal super-warriors with a penchant for chainsaw axes or perverted spiky space pirates. As a group of different alien species working together, the best they can be compare to is the Tau, who have much better guns.
In any war, those who don't die rise to the challenge. Thus, the uniquely horrible conditions of the 41st mil have helped make the SM into very, very hard b*stards indeed.

Oh Christ, not this thread again. To the depths with ye!

Do you remember (in the first Halo game) when the monitor asks Master Chief why he's wearing such crappy armor?
In game terms I imagine mjolnar as 4+5++ armor that loses its invuln after a shot or two. Spartans Die pretty easy compared to spehss mahreens.

Please use the search button next time.

Think of it this way. Who wins, the 8-foot tall behemoth with a rapid-fire armor piercing grenade launcher or shorter one with a little rifle?

Asherian Command wrote:

Unreal Toast wrote:In my opinion Spartans are much much more tactiful, and are much smarter then the space marines, but when your a space marine, you dont really need tactics, the armour does it all for them :/

WAIT WHAT?
I read this and thought wtf?
Seriously! dude Space Marines use tactics! Its just no good writer from the black library has ever thought to ask a military person ever! Spartans are kinda dumb because they all basically died on reach! And Last time i checked Spartans can't take a take shell to the face! And Live!

Actually half of red team including Linda and Kurt survived :O

And they died protecting the orbital defence platform generators, so it wasnt really a dumb thing to have nearly died on reach, it was merely unfortunate that they were still planet side when they began to glass the planet.

Space Marines all the way.
Spartan's are pretty terrible in comparison.

And Space Marine's do use tactics, as apparent in the fluff - else they wouldn't survive half of what they have.

Yes, but does a space marine shot aliens and doesn't afraid of anything?

Spartan equivalent, Storm Troopers.

Well 'ard, but not Space Marine territory.

asimo77 wrote:Yes, but does a space marine shot aliens and doesn't afraid of anything?

What Type of question is that?
And they shall know no fear.... Mean to you?
Sparatans are scared when they fight the enemy!

A bop in the back wont kill a space marine.

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Nononononono Jesus Christ noooooo not this thread again.

I voted SM, but as a Halo fanboy I must say that I think the Spartans would at least give a fairly good fight to the SM, in some situations.
Hell, either way I'd watch it.

I'm sorry, Spartans don't stand a chance in hell.

To those saying Space Marines have no tactics, then how did they manage to get the combat tactics special rule?

Well if you consider Tau to be somewhat like the Covenant then maybe a Spartan might be a worthy foe since they pretty much beat them, though he'd still get pulverized in the end. Then again I don't know how any of their guns short of a Spartan Laser or Rocket Launcher would do anything.