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Also, you say Prophet gets the Predator bow. How much ammo? Only normal Impact arrows, or also electroshock, super-thermite explosive and airburst fragmentation?

 Ashiraya wrote:
Also, you say Prophet gets the Predator bow. How much ammo? Only normal Impact arrows, or also electroshock, super-thermite explosive and airburst fragmentation?

Only a quiver of arrows.

But he does not get his suit.

Then Prophet is screwed. Without his suit he dies instantly as it is the only thing keeping him alive.

Even if it didn't, without it he'd just be a naked guy with a bow against crazies like Space Marines and nuke-shooting Starship Troopers.

In fact, he can't even use that bow at all without the suit's strength!

 Ashiraya wrote:
Then Prophet is screwed. Without his suit he dies instantly as it is the only thing keeping him alive.

Hmmm. Then he wears the suit underneath but he cannot use it in this debate. Because he is using someone elses equipment to make it fair.

That is fair. If he is wearing something in addition to his normal Nanosuit, that just means he can't use Cloak mode and not the great agility and speed of the suit either.

 Ashiraya wrote:
That is fair. If he is wearing something in addition to his normal Nanosuit, that just means he can't use Cloak mode and not the great agility and speed of the suit either.

Well seeing as 40k is winning in the equipment department, we will decide if it is Power Armor or Assassin Armor or Carapace Armor.

 Asherian Command wrote:
Well seeing as 40k is winning in the equipment department

Debatable - can power armour tank nukes?

They certainly have an edge in firepower though, until you bring out the Starship Troopers guys.

 Ashiraya wrote:

 Asherian Command wrote:
Well seeing as 40k is winning in the equipment department

Debatable - can power armour tank nukes?

They certainly have an edge in firepower though, until you bring out the Starship Troopers guys.

That is in terms of what the characters are going to wear. Not as to who will win the match up.

Are you both crazy? We have doom guy, prophet, a starship trooper and chuck norris in the contest, and you think the 40k team are in any winning department?

Oh yeah, if you are going to give everyone the same gear then you may as well hand it to the Space Marine, because some of the other guys are really badass but they won't stand a chance against the post-human Astartes on equal ground.

Prophet and Starship Troopers rely mainly on their gear (and in the former's case, their obscene skill at using it) for performance, whereas Doomguy relies on an old gakky game to draw approval. Chuck Norris is just memes, and they won't last long.

OTOH a naked Astartes will whack you all the same.

Yeah, true. That rules out prophet, doom guy & the starship trooper then. So, chuck norris wins. Next competition?

 Torga_DW wrote:
Yeah, true. That rules out prophet, doom guy & the starship trooper then. So, chuck norris wins. Next competition?

niceme.me

 Torga_DW wrote:
Yeah, true. That rules out prophet, doom guy & the starship trooper then. So, chuck norris wins. Next competition?

Hold on there mates. It might be Carapace armor. Its basing on skills, intelligence, brawn, and ability.

Remember this is a vote. We will vote to see what the armor is, and then what weapons they use. And then we will get to the competeting group.

Remember they also get one weapon from their universe.

so.... chuck norris. This game was fun.

edit: A Chuck Norris-delivered Roundhouse Kick is the preferred method of execution in 16 states. No weapons needed.

 Torga_DW wrote:
so.... chuck norris. This game was fun.

edit: A Chuck Norris-delivered Roundhouse Kick is the preferred method of execution in 16 states. No weapons needed.

Then he faces Iko Uwais or Bruce Lee and then loses.

Chuck Norris stared evil in the face, and it backed down.

Chuck is out

 Torga_DW wrote:
Chuck Norris stared evil in the face, and it backed down.

Iko Uwais for those who don't know who he is:

WARNING EXTREMELY VIOLENT

Semi Violent


Oh no.... The violence


Even More Violent.


Even More Violent!

Shrug. Chuck Norris originally appeared in the Street Fighter 2 video game, but was removed by beta testers because every button caused him to do a roundhouse kick. When asked about this glitch, Norris replied: "That's no glitch".

Actually, I just remembered why Prophet would win. At the end of Crysis 3 he merges with the Nanosuit and becomes a transhuman being, appearing like a normal man but with all the powers of the Nanosuit (invisibility, super strength, speed, armour...)

So no fans of classic scifi here who have any idea what a Protector is capable of then?

And I don't just mean physically - they're much, much smarter thn all of the other contestants combined...

Bran Dawri wrote:
So no fans of classic scifi here who have any idea what a Protector is capable of then?

And I don't just mean physically - they're much, much smarter thn all of the other contestants combined...

What?

Actually, I just remembered why Prophet would win. At the end of Crysis 3 he merges with the Nanosuit and becomes a transhuman being, appearing like a normal man but with all the powers of the Nanosuit (invisibility, super strength, speed, armour...)

Read for gods sakes, this thread hasn't gotten there yet.

The Arbiter from the Halo cartoon collection with an Energy Sword. You know, the Arbiter that badassed his way through hundreds of Hunters, Jackals, Grunts, and Elites alongside some Wraitha with nothing but his two Energy Swords? This was also the guy who took the title "Arbiter" and turned it from a title for the Covenant version of Master Chief mixed with the fame of every 70's rock band combined into a title of shame that a disgraced warrior bares to redeem himself.
If you don't know him, then the white Elite Shipmaster from Halo 3 with an Energy Sword.
If not him, then Tartarus from Halo 2 with his epic grav gammer.
If not him, then a Ghost from Destiny with his puppet Guardian.
If not him, then a Pilot from Titanfall with a Mag Launcher.
If not him, then... Uh... Jedi Master Yoda at his prime with a Lightsaber.
If not him, then....... Uuuuummmm....hmmmm........nñ...... I got it! Darth Vader with the Death Star!
If not him then.... Um... I got nothin'.

If it's the Nanosuit 2.0, it obliterates everyone else in melee.

By Crysis 3 Prophet is an immortal cyborg who canonically cannot die (death is just a game mechanic), is far stronger and faster then any space marine or equivalent, and IIRC has a lensing field. Plus the suit literally eats that which it kills and assimilates the DNA into its own hardware.

However if they all had their usual armament, the Starship Trooper would murder everyone with tactical nuke launchers.

Well, a Spartan II can fall from orbit and, providing they are wearing their armour, survive with nothing more than a sprained wrist/ankle or at the most a broken limb where as a Space Marine is smush. So I vote the Spartan.

 master of ordinance wrote:
Well, a Spartan II can fall from orbit and, providing they are wearing their armour, survive with nothing more than a sprained wrist/ankle or at the most a broken limb where as a Space Marine is smush. So I vote the Spartan.

You do realize virtually everyone on that list can do that, riiiiight?

Not to mention that Spartan II's and Starcraft Marines are so weak they may as well not even be parties involved on this list. Same with Doomguy probably. He may be a badass, but nothing he's done is really impressive compared to the other parties, especially Prophetaz or the Marauder Suit.

Bran Dawri wrote:
So no fans of classic scifi here who have any idea what a Protector is capable of then?

And I don't just mean physically - they're much, much smarter thn all of the other contestants combined...

You mean a Pak Protector from Niven's Known Space? Fighting beasts truly, but I think the rules leave aliens out...

 Wyzilla wrote:
If it's the Nanosuit 2.0, it obliterates everyone else in melee.

By Crysis 3 Prophet is an immortal cyborg who canonically cannot die (death is just a game mechanic), is far stronger and faster then any space marine or equivalent, and IIRC has a lensing field. Plus the suit literally eats that which it kills and assimilates the DNA into its own hardware.

However if they all had their usual armament, the Starship Trooper would murder everyone with tactical nuke launchers.

Idk, the nanosuit 1 can tank a nuke and the nanosuit 2 is even tougher.

And yes, he does have a lensing field. It's why the weapons go invisible too. It's crazy.

 Agent_Tremolo wrote:

Bran Dawri wrote:
So no fans of classic scifi here who have any idea what a Protector is capable of then?

And I don't just mean physically - they're much, much smarter than all of the other contestants combined...

You mean a Pak Protector from Niven's Known Space? Fighting beasts truly, but I think the rules leave aliens out...

Correct, but Jack Brennan (and others in that universe, too) is a human modified by the Pak retrovirus into a human Protector, so if other genetically modifed humans such as 40K Space Marines can enter, so can he.

Edit: Also, if this Prophet guy is basically immune to conventional weapons as well as tactical nukes, he's basically unbeatable, and therefore out of the competition.