Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-4851119-20140323173912/@comment-18016240-20140412005442

173.25.47.250 wrote: You're full of sh**, Supahbadmarine. You know why?

One, I was accounting for the vehicles from Halo Wars. These vehicles include a wide variety of specialized vehicles for a variety of  roles. In addition, two of the three you mentioned were meant for specialties as well. A Baneblade wouldn't stand a chance against a Gremlin and Rhino, hands-down.

In addition, I must remind you that UNSC armor technology incorporates far superior energy shielding on a smaller scale than the Imperium, across the board. The Imperium, as you conceded only issues these to higher ranks.

Personal armor in the UNSC is far more advanced than the Imperium, with the laughably archaic Power Armor being in the Forerunner scale, a class 1 at the very most.

The second point of personal melee weaponary seems to treat the Energy Sword, a envelope of superheated matter/plasma wrapped in a forcefield as "just a sword".

Ranged Weaponary is yet again, treating weapons able to pierce Spartan Armor as laughably incompetent.

And might I remind you, Mini-nukes are quite common for the UNSC.

Pretty sure a power sword is at least the equal of an energy sword.

The USNC alone still uses ballistic weaponry like we do in modern real life, correct? Well then, they lose on the rank and file war, since your average Imperial Guardsman has flak armor which can stop quite a bit more than the bullets fired by and smg or battle rifle that most USNC soldiers have.

Also, you're forgetting the three major advantages that the Imperium has: ridiculous numbers, psykers, and a complete lack of craps to give for losses. (Lord that sounds so lame, but I can't swear or the admins/mods will throw a fit.)

On the first, the Imperial Guard numbers in the countless billions, and Space Marines will deploy several companies and even devote entire chapters to assaults on average. Spartans as said before, are more of a spec ops unit, and thus are geared towards working alone or in small groups.

On the second, aside from rare examples, the USNC and Covenant don't have acess to psychics or the like, they won't know how to counter opponents like Librarians or sanctioned psykers who can do all kinds of crazy things with the warp.

Finally, the Imperium is extremely spiteful and is a sore loser to the extent that if they should lose a planet or something they will exterminatus the thing to deny them victory, regardless of whoever's on the planet when they blow it up.