How to Kill A Spartan | Lore and Theory

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4 ай бұрын

In this episode: We take a look at one of the best ways to kill a Spartan.
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@yodaslovetoy
@yodaslovetoy 4 ай бұрын
Rule #1. Make sure there's no boss music
@selectthedead
@selectthedead 4 ай бұрын
Make sure the doom muisic starts because you are there, not the Spartan!
@Primarch_Rogal_Dorn
@Primarch_Rogal_Dorn 4 ай бұрын
Too late, a fog wall appeared
@jollygoodfellow3957
@jollygoodfellow3957 4 ай бұрын
Rule #2: Beware of suspiciously large amounts of resources between firefights.
@Ludawig
@Ludawig 4 ай бұрын
Rule #3: Make a pile out of said resources
@Kai-1138
@Kai-1138 3 ай бұрын
“Rule #1. Make sure there’s no boss music.” Rule #2. The same as Rule #1 Unless it’s coming from you
@Tottleminerftw
@Tottleminerftw 4 ай бұрын
We all know that all you need is an overcharged plasma pistol shot followed by a headshot.
@Daginni1
@Daginni1 4 ай бұрын
Or a near invulnerable Covie warship that UNSC Warships cant match. Its honestly baffling why the Covies just didn't use their warships to nuke the site from orbit. Its the only way to be sure. Spartan "Demons" might as well be the Covies movie version of our "Aliens".
@ayudrs
@ayudrs 4 ай бұрын
@Daginni1 I think they did do that no? Can't beat the "demon" on the ground? Glass it.
@commandoepsilon4664
@commandoepsilon4664 4 ай бұрын
@@Daginni1The only time the Covenant even landed troops during the war was if there were Forerunner artifacts or something else of interest on the planet, every other planet was glassed as soon as the UNSC fleet was defeated. Some planets, such as Reach, were even partially glassed, even with Forerunner artifacts, because the resistance was so fierce. But if there is a Demon on the Holy Ring, well can't glass that so somebody is just gonna need to go kill the Demon personally.
@victorlagos6099
@victorlagos6099 4 ай бұрын
Ma sfacil dicho que hecho, los spartan canonicamente pueden esquivar y desviar misiles, predecir la trallectoria de disparos, etc... Siempre que se ha logrado matar a spartans es con numeros abrumadores o con trampas como bombas de demolicion o nucleares, incluso al atacar con un gran numero de tropas a un spartan en una embiscada esta garantizado que perderas un par de pelotones como minimo
@nestorgamer9746
@nestorgamer9746 3 ай бұрын
​@@Daginni1 they did but since it's the franchise's name there's a lot of battles in Halos and other Forunners structures And the Covenant worship these structures....
@TheSwedishMoose91
@TheSwedishMoose91 4 ай бұрын
Aa as a soldier: every Army, no matter how powerful, can be defeated in a ambush.
@terriblefez
@terriblefez 3 ай бұрын
Or if targeted with a strategic-level asset.
@aljeandropacheco3608
@aljeandropacheco3608 3 ай бұрын
It's either a defeat. Or a seriously difficult victory that rarely ends with good or any positive results.
@theboysacdnr1659
@theboysacdnr1659 3 ай бұрын
I would argue that it IS a flaw in their training as in the Halo: The Flood novel Chief even states that the Spartans were trained to work as a team and he’s used to having someone watching his back and isn’t adjusted to being a lone wolf
@SFO195
@SFO195 3 ай бұрын
​@@theboysacdnr1659 with that in mind this strat would work the worse against Noble 6?
@ProtocolAbyss
@ProtocolAbyss 3 ай бұрын
@@SFO195 ONI lone wolf operatives and spec ops teams are given extra training to work alone. So yes and no, since they could still be given detrimental damage in ambushes, but they'd be better trained and equiped for it.
@inductivegrunt94
@inductivegrunt94 4 ай бұрын
Step 1: Be a Sniper Jackel during the first Battle of Earth and battle of Installation 05 Step 2: Find a good spot to set up Step 3: Wait Step 4: Enjoy a nice refreshing mug of Spartan tears
@Jedi_Spartan_38
@Jedi_Spartan_38 4 ай бұрын
I love how 343 has recently made reference to Legendary Jackal Snipers by making them their own unit with one of them being in the Suban based Waypoint Chronicle.
@TheDemigans
@TheDemigans 4 ай бұрын
@@Jedi_Spartan_38wait so the Jackal Sniper that got Kat was perhaps one of these Jackals?
@Jedi_Spartan_38
@Jedi_Spartan_38 4 ай бұрын
@@TheDemigans I think it was an Elite (either a Zealot or the type with helmet horns) in that cutscene... although it does still remind me of 2 of my favourite jokes about that moment - "We now interrupt Halo: Reach to bring you the Halo 2 Jackal Sniper." and "Kig-Yar Sniper says 'whoops' in the chat!"
@PackHunter117
@PackHunter117 4 ай бұрын
@@Jedi_Spartan_38 It’s a Field Marshal. Probably the same one Noble Six kills at the Mac Gun
@halolasomaster3900
@halolasomaster3900 4 ай бұрын
Some of the players I've encountered in multilayer are tougher than Jackal snipers
@praetor-009
@praetor-009 4 ай бұрын
This reminds me of Destiny's Gurdians thing they kinda go after. "Devotion inspires bravery. Bravery inspires sacrifice. Sacrifice, leads to death".
@Emanon...
@Emanon... 4 ай бұрын
And death leads to the dark side.
@theapocasmith
@theapocasmith 4 ай бұрын
It's been a while since I've played, but Guardians were always considered nigh unstoppable. It almost always required a highly skilled team to be lucky executing a well-planned attack to even have a chance to permanently bring one down. This isn't to say they're gods, the Hive are especially skilled at killing Guardians and the Vex can literally wipe you from existence, but it was never easy.
@Hrrrrrrrrrreng
@Hrrrrrrrrrreng 4 ай бұрын
Death fuels devotion.
@ibnfaiz7430
@ibnfaiz7430 4 ай бұрын
@@theapocasmithEspecially when there are millions of guardians if we go by player count
@gl8862
@gl8862 3 ай бұрын
​@@theapocasmith i mean crota killed thousands solo when they attacked the moon. And he was a weak hive god. It's been mentioned in lore a ton that in reality, aside from a select few elite gaurdians, the only reason they are such a formidable force is due to never being able to die in most situations.
@Freelix2000
@Freelix2000 4 ай бұрын
Spartans are subject to the same rule that applies to real life war today, which is that you're very likely to be killed by something random and completely beyond your control. Even a Spartan as capable as the master chief could have unceremoniously met his end if he'd hit his head on a big rock after jumping from Truth's ship. Or if the Covenant attacked Cairo station before attacking the Malta. Or if he just ran out of time one of the many times that he ran away from something about to explode. The whole "luck" thing always seemed cheesy to me, but if Cortana could really be so sure that it was an intrinsic trait of his, then it really was the most valuable trait a Spartan could possess.
@joshconnaught9347
@joshconnaught9347 3 ай бұрын
I mean tbh, the whole luck thing really isn’t cheesy, because think about it, when you go outside there’s more than a million ways you can die but you don’t, you get back home every day safe and sound (at least I hope and pray that you do) even soldiers in the military experience this I’m sure
@jose-enriqueortiz2786
@jose-enriqueortiz2786 3 ай бұрын
GOAT comment
@AlextheRed1917
@AlextheRed1917 4 ай бұрын
Something to note about an ambush. It's not JUST about catching your enemy unaware, it's about catching your enemy in a trap that you have planned ahead of time. If you are setting an ambush then you probably know what your enemy is packing and have a plan for how to defeat it, much like the insurrectionists using the anti grav plate. With this in mind it shouldn't be surprising that this is how most Spartans die. Their enemies are planning ahead of time to kill them specifically, which can be rather hard to react to.
@teezzmegee972
@teezzmegee972 4 ай бұрын
Remember this, even a grunt has a possiblity to kill a spartan (including you) if they have not only the BALLS, but also the opportunity...
@Ludawig
@Ludawig 4 ай бұрын
Look at the BALLS on that grunt
@mercury2157
@mercury2157 3 ай бұрын
​@@Ludawig the bright, blue balls
@zzzxxc1
@zzzxxc1 3 ай бұрын
A group of grunts got (relatively) close to killing John in The Flood by trying to take off his helmet and use plasma grenades
@Yamaazaka
@Yamaazaka 4 ай бұрын
I mean you ever walk around a corner in halo 2 to a raging brute and get absolutely bludgeoned to death. Understandable
@5-Consecutive-Hairpin-Turns
@5-Consecutive-Hairpin-Turns 3 ай бұрын
Everybody talks about the jackal snipers but those damned brutes killed me far more...
@Bocchi-chi
@Bocchi-chi 3 ай бұрын
​@@5-Consecutive-Hairpin-Turns The brutes killed me more because there were so many of them. Only one Jackal Sniper made me so tense that I made mistakes and he didn't forgive me...
@_Gravy__
@_Gravy__ 4 ай бұрын
From an irl military perspective, I think that this issue has more to do with doctrine and the deployment of spartan teams. How often are delta force, seal team 6, or the SAS ambushed? Never. Nobody should know that they are coming and if they do get ambushed then it is probably because they hung around too long. There are no weapons without weaknesses, so the officers in charge of deploying spartan teams should keep that in mind.
@akyer8085
@akyer8085 3 ай бұрын
Part of the reason why these famous teams are not getting ambushed is that they ARE the ambush.
@johnhalo-ug4go
@johnhalo-ug4go 3 ай бұрын
I think its more got to do with the fact that there are enemies of humanities which are on par if not simply superior to them, After cortana destroyed the home planet of the brutes. Atriox set out with the mission of destroying humanity and he being the tactical genius he is, saw that spartans if left for later could shred through their plan which is why he called on mercenaries or contract killers who could deal with spartans, and then went for the ship which was basically their operating base. You could argue that infinity being the home base should've been a secret is true but end of the day, reporter being the conveyer of "truth" they are wanna dig deep into everything. Had spartan project not come into lime light, so many of these spartans would've been less likely killed by an ambush as their presence and info would be more concealed.
@PackHunter117
@PackHunter117 4 ай бұрын
You forgot the Sangheili Field Marshal that snipped Kat with a Needle Rifle from a Phantom
@FR3AKuency
@FR3AKuency 4 ай бұрын
Still proves the point; catch a spartan in a clever ambush or a sneak attack and they have little recourse.
@jonomano3992
@jonomano3992 4 ай бұрын
Well that was because orbital glassing. Huge emo wage goes with that. Knocked out her shields....for a while.
@jonomano3992
@jonomano3992 4 ай бұрын
Lmfao emo, EMP*
@Redditor6079
@Redditor6079 4 ай бұрын
Yup that's standard Covenant weaponry right there, just another example of Covenant superiority.
@tommynguyen5909
@tommynguyen5909 3 ай бұрын
​@@jonomano3992Yup, and furthermore, if i am not mistaken, Kat was so shaken by the sudden glassing that she only put on her helmet part ways. Not connecting it to the seams of the neck. With that, even if the EMP effect passed, her shields wouldn't have regenerated.
@philippebrown342
@philippebrown342 4 ай бұрын
I wish there was a 3rd person headhunters game thats similar to ghost recon, showing true spartan speed and strength being able to overpower almost any enemy but the enemy AI is smart enough to team up and take you down so you have to plan unless your feeling brave, constantly stalked by silent shadow members, different planet biomes as maps, get called demon like a bad ass
@nekomancer4641
@nekomancer4641 4 ай бұрын
Strictly talking about combat gameplay and not story, Ghost Recon really makes me feels like a badass more than any Halo ever did.
@Imaperson-ow1wr
@Imaperson-ow1wr 4 ай бұрын
Closest thing to that is Halo: Spartan Assault. It’s a god-eye view, and you travel through different planet biomes whilst hunting down powerful covenant foes, destroying anti aircraft turrets or defending an objective.
@martinvicktor
@martinvicktor 3 ай бұрын
This would be amazing, add the movement and pakour mechanics of splinter cell in and it would be perfect
@infinitespace2520
@infinitespace2520 2 ай бұрын
@@Imaperson-ow1wr I get what you mean, but to be honest, Spartan Assault isn't even close to what he's describing. Sure it checks some of the boxes, but it's still really far from it, it's just a twin stick, top down mobile game. A non-mobile, fleshed out, first or third person, and open world Spartan Assault like game would be fantastic and even closer to what OP means, but sadly despite it being a fantastic idea, it's probably never going to happen.
@joolian4763
@joolian4763 4 ай бұрын
Walk up behind them and hold melee
@StayFrostyOfficial
@StayFrostyOfficial 4 ай бұрын
"How to kill a spartan?" 343 Industries has entered chat
@LuoSon312_G8
@LuoSon312_G8 4 ай бұрын
no matter how strong the warrior, how meticulous their training, or how durable the armor they wear. they're only human; overwhelm their senses, bury them under might of numbers. in the end it doesn't matter, they're only human, and that is all that's needed.
@adamdahlstrom2095
@adamdahlstrom2095 4 ай бұрын
Could you please do a video on “If Elites/Brutes got the Spartan augmentations”. Would be REALLY cool to hear you theorize about that! Great video as always!!
@lumarian_writer
@lumarian_writer 4 ай бұрын
Brutes don't need the augmentations, on their own they are already a threat to a Spartan who is careless. An augmented Brute would be a true nightmare for ANYONE to fight, probably would take a couple of shots from a max charge Guass cannon just to put it down
@AlextheRed1917
@AlextheRed1917 4 ай бұрын
There's a solid possibility that augmentations wouldn't do much for them because they are already operating at the maximum for any organism of their respective sizes. That might explain why the covenant doesn't bother doing so despite having the technology (E.G. the highly augmented San'Shayuum super soldiers which don't appear in the games)
@elis7081
@elis7081 4 ай бұрын
Yoo if they gave the arbiter spartan 2 augmentations he would probably be able to take on atriox with the chief.
@Jimmy_Rings
@Jimmy_Rings 4 ай бұрын
This would be nuts. Imagine an intelligent brute with augmentations equivalent to the Spartan 2’s. Nobody would be safe
@Redditor6079
@Redditor6079 4 ай бұрын
​@@Jimmy_RingsThere already is one, he just doesn't have Mjolnir power. His name is Atriox and he made Chief his bitch.
@jonathan_1177
@jonathan_1177 4 ай бұрын
Trick them into going in a pool ez
@Daginni1
@Daginni1 4 ай бұрын
Jokes on you, I put my Spartan Kayak into this planets pool and nuked the bottom with NOVA Bombs. ..... Why am I falling?
@Tank50us
@Tank50us 4 ай бұрын
Hmm... What I'd argue when it comes to an Ambush is that the Spartans have _MOTION_ Detectors, if the subject can remain still, or make very subtle movements, the Motion Tracker won't pick up the movements (You can try this for yourself in the games, have someone just crouch and move very slowly towards you from behind. The MT won't see them). The other thing to remember is that in most cases, someone making an ambush always has the "Home Field Advantage", they know the area better than you do, and will exploit that to their advantage.
@eliflores9819
@eliflores9819 4 ай бұрын
That is a good point, the only counter I could think of for how Atriox beat Cheif on the Infinity is that the battle to evacuate was THAT chaotic that it gave Atriox a tiny window of time where Cheif wasn't looking at his motion sensors. But even then, it doesn't really tell you what KIND of enemy it is, could've easily been a grunt perhaps. But motion sensors could also be jammed or overloaded I guess. On the Hyrophant (idk the context cause I don't have the book), I imagine it wouldn't be super useful since they were crawling thru vents so you'd have enemies everywhere constantly + it's not like they come with a floor map. BUT beyond those very niche situations, I completely agree with your take
@Meravokas
@Meravokas 4 ай бұрын
Also lore wise the motion tracker is not the "Oh big things" And "Oh that's bad that's not" piece of "Equipment" we see in game. In lore at least Mk.4 and Mk.5 have highly sensitive motion trackers that can pick up leaves on trees being blown by the wind. It's useful, but only as useful as the situation can dictate. Also has no known actual FoF/IFF detection, even if it did it'd show all non marked targets uniformly. Spartan 2's were taught to trust their instincts, their training, their senses and themselves and their skills first and foremost, equipment can break at random or glitch out in a way that you don't realize until you're well into a space where that suddenly becomes useless or a potential detriment and/or hazard.
@amdkillaplays
@amdkillaplays 3 ай бұрын
They had a copy of Cortana with her intrusion subroutines to aid them breaking into the Hyrophant. She would have been able to give them a floor ppan​@eliflores9819
@amdkillaplays
@amdkillaplays 3 ай бұрын
The motion trackers show vehicles and Hunters as large red dots. Given how Atriox towers over even the Master Chief, the motion tracker would likely register him as a large contact. The brutes in Halo 3 had a motion tracker jammer that would feed the motion tracker false information. Its likely that Atriox potentially has similar tech built into his armour
@ATG3192
@ATG3192 3 ай бұрын
First, ambushes are easily among the deadliest scenarios to find oneself in during war, because ideally the group performing the ambush have all the cards, while the group being ambushed have none. Second, I recently read The Fall of Reach for the first time, and one point that stood out was the chapter in which the Spartans get their Mjolnir armor, but with the energy shields. Chief takes note that, because of the shielding, he'd subconsciously allowed himself to take chances he wouldn't have prior, noting that it could form bad habits. Much like how in Vietnam, American fighter pilots had become so reliant on missiles and their lock-on capabilities, that many had forgotten how to properly dogfight with guns (in fact, because of missiles, there were some variants of F-4 Phantoms that were produced without a machine gun).
@thesurvivalist.
@thesurvivalist. 4 ай бұрын
Easy counter, give the Spartans Micro Drones, the size of flies, to go out before them and not be seen, they will have a 360 real time picture at all times!
@handsomeivan1980
@handsomeivan1980 4 ай бұрын
Imagine if the UNSC or covenant were to actually use modern tech like thermal optics nods on every soldier accompanied with drones
@thesurvivalist.
@thesurvivalist. 4 ай бұрын
@@handsomeivan1980 I would love to see a 8 man team of Elites or Brutes, try and take on a Spartan with both techs!
@drakkonahn8544
@drakkonahn8544 4 ай бұрын
Spartans never die, they just go missing in action.
@eliassayavong652
@eliassayavong652 4 ай бұрын
they just respawn
@Redditor6079
@Redditor6079 4 ай бұрын
No they definitely die. They die all the time and Covenant takes big fat shits all over the Spartans.
@eliassayavong652
@eliassayavong652 4 ай бұрын
@@Redditor6079 i think your talking from experience
@Stormkryptonian
@Stormkryptonian 4 ай бұрын
Spartans have the same weakness real life special operations have. Putting a small team up against a larger force somewhat works out if there is a mismatch in technology or training but if the larger force is just as skilled and just as advanced it turns into a slaughter pretty damn quick Plus a larger force can bring more equipment suited to the situation. A good thought analysis would be thinking about how likely a 2 man spartan team would be able to take down a 12 man spartan team if the group of 12 was the ones doing the ambushing.
@Crazeddude1000
@Crazeddude1000 4 ай бұрын
During my time in the military (US), this is exactly how we are taught how to fight. Super-soldier or not, if you get caught off guard and the enemy gains fire superiority, you’re dead. Look up the books “One Bullet Away” and “Starship Troopers” both go into incredible detail on the proper mindset to have when it comes to being victorious in battle.
@Chrisspru
@Chrisspru 4 ай бұрын
spartan training should include some oni spook sensitivity training to guess traps. and more king of the hill to solo mass ambushes, as well as unarmored training against armored spartans to simulate overwhelming enemies. spartans are too used to being the big and smart ones, leading to a lacking vigilance to the bigger and smarter fish in the ocean. reinforcing armor against blunt trauma (roll cage), core vital sacrificial plates (allowing for one more misstep) and some oni spook esoteric sensor and ping tech would greatly improve the effectiveness of spartans against overwhelming single, lucky amassed or very sneaky foes. the mjolnir black passive stealth layer should be standard too.
@SpartanJoe193
@SpartanJoe193 4 ай бұрын
I played Halo CE, and I can confirm ambushes are effective af.
@andrewbutton2039
@andrewbutton2039 4 ай бұрын
I think a fair few of the deaths were lone Spartans, if we look at those specifically we could perhaps say the Spartans weakness is their team training, they arent quite as top tier on their own due to being incapable of watching their own six. But the team takedowns are harder to explain.
@andrewbutton2039
@andrewbutton2039 3 ай бұрын
I remembered something I should have thought of earlier, in The Flood, Chief got slapped about a bit because he was fighting all on his own. He changed tactics when he realised that expecting fire support from his team (that was mostly on Reach) would be a serious problem for his continued aliveness.
@PMW3
@PMW3 4 ай бұрын
I was going to make a very ""Orignal" and no doubt "'creative"" comment about a back alley Jackal, but when you think about it, that's exactly what they were doing on Halo 2 in that alley. It was a perfect bottleneck ambush with a high power sniper.
@PeteNice29
@PeteNice29 3 ай бұрын
But it was stupid OP. It’s like shields and armor didn’t exist. Dumb.
@tylerp4130
@tylerp4130 4 ай бұрын
I’m not sure what you mean, a Spartan has never died. They’re just MIA.
@thomas.02
@thomas.02 4 ай бұрын
An ambush is the only thing possible short of orbital bombardment or equivalent. If the enemy is faster stronger and more resourceful than you, you either throw overwhelming force at it which may not work, or you find a way to negate as many of their advantages as possible. There might be survivor bias (heh ironic) too, in that all the attempted but failed ambushes weren’t logged into the books/games.
@ianmastin
@ianmastin 3 ай бұрын
You dont... you pray that something more important happens in another part of the galaxy.
@jamesthomas6234
@jamesthomas6234 4 ай бұрын
How to defeat Spartans TLDR: “Bushwack the mfs”
@potato7794
@potato7794 4 ай бұрын
Glassing them seems to work, Source "reach"
@MarlonS-gj5tb
@MarlonS-gj5tb 3 ай бұрын
that is interesting, could you make a video on how to make up for this flaw, whether its a newer peice of tech that involves a greater sense of awareness or training that makes up for this flaw entirely?
@cameroncastillo333
@cameroncastillo333 3 ай бұрын
Marine here, back in boot camp, during our Crucible, one of the many events that occur is the execution and implementation of an ambush. Being on the receiving side of that, they can happen instantly without any cue there is something about to happen. After this happened, I remember coming up to my Drill Instructor, requested permission to speak to him, and asked if there is anything one can do when an ambush happens. He replied "Nope, best you can do is try to squeeze a round off before you die". A crazy world warfare is. You could be the very best of all, and still, an ambush might be your end.
@kiarvolfenberg8790
@kiarvolfenberg8790 4 ай бұрын
+ My respects to the scene with Keyes's speech to Marines... "Now show those scaly bastards: They F...ed with the Wrong Planet!!!"
@Jedi_Spartan_38
@Jedi_Spartan_38 4 ай бұрын
**Halo 2 Jackal Sniper has entered the chat...**
@crusader7eth163
@crusader7eth163 3 ай бұрын
I mean Spartans are all about going head first (normally) so being ambushed sounds about right. I think it’s fair to say it’s a flaw that they could even go into and make into a-bit of story.
@lasthand3428
@lasthand3428 3 ай бұрын
In Halo The Flood, Master Chief almost gets "ambushed" by enemies he had already spotted previously he realizes that it was because Spartans are trained to work as a team covering each others backs and weaknesses, so he worked like that by himself until he realized he was alone and needed to stop fighting as if he was in a team with other spartans or marines whenever he was alone.
@IntelCorei-KProcessor-go2to
@IntelCorei-KProcessor-go2to 3 ай бұрын
Spartans survive every ambush until they die to one. Its not a flaw - its simply the odds.
@antoine121
@antoine121 4 ай бұрын
Another great video.
@AbdiYohan
@AbdiYohan 4 ай бұрын
Great concept and execution for a video.
@SPARTAN_B-312
@SPARTAN_B-312 4 ай бұрын
00s accent is so thicc the auto captions wrote "spaans" instead of "spartans"
@Duder5000
@Duder5000 4 ай бұрын
"Die? Didn't you know? Spartans never die." -Kurt
@Ambulatory_Viscount
@Ambulatory_Viscount 4 ай бұрын
@Installation00 Supposition: being "humanity's greatest warriors" doesn't necessarily mean anything. That they're "supposed" to be the best doesn't necessarily mean that they are, or that that means anything. You also forgot Sheila being killed by a squad of Elites, and an unnamed Spartan getting killed by an Elite and a lance of Grunts as early as 2531. The existence of the Hand of Atriox seems to suggest that Spartan-Killing is a matter of preparation, mindset, method of approach, and skill, rather than anything else. I'd say that all of this simply confirms what had always been obvious: Spartans were powerful enough to make a difference, and well-trained enough to almost never be caught unaware or off-guard. But it doesn't matter how good a soldier you are, when your enemy outmaneuvers you and starts a fight on their terms.
@lasagnakat5
@lasagnakat5 3 ай бұрын
Would’ve been funny to have a random cutaway meme with the UNSC/ONI goin “why you still watching?” In the intro lol
@stegg9
@stegg9 4 ай бұрын
I feel like this is reverse survivorship bias, spartans may get killed or defeated in an ambush but how many more ambushes have they foiled or overcame. If you get ambushed by overwhelming force its hard to fault them when 1/100 finally gets them and the more spartans there are the more likely it is to happen
@Armed_Gamer
@Armed_Gamer 3 ай бұрын
Now we’re all gonna be on ONI’s watch list for watching this 😅
@aramj974
@aramj974 4 ай бұрын
Humanity on the 26 century shot themselves in the foot everytime they halved the budget.
@DivineHellas
@DivineHellas 3 ай бұрын
Outnumber the Spartans, attack from multiple aspects at the same time and put immense pressure, surprise them and make traps for them if possible. Use far more advanced technology (like the covenant).
@bmxdude1337
@bmxdude1337 Ай бұрын
Interesting theory. I like it.
@methanseagullamine
@methanseagullamine 4 ай бұрын
Thanks, this will be very useful for later:)
@St0rmrider87
@St0rmrider87 4 ай бұрын
The one thing that would counter any form of ambush if it’s not already included in a Spartans electronic suite on their suit is if they were to develop a module similar to the one that was developed in the first alien movie that measures disturbances in molecular density or air pressure,so that way if you have somebody sneaking up on you or you have somebody who is cloaked and trying to strike you from behind regardless of if your attention is fully forward facing that system would be able to defend you and give you an advance warning of any potential ambush .
@Destroyer_V0
@Destroyer_V0 4 ай бұрын
So... the motion trackers if they could detect any living being in their radius rather than anything that moves.
@St0rmrider87
@St0rmrider87 4 ай бұрын
More so anything that doesn’t register visually being highlighted. Anomalies in the standard detection systems. Or even the heartbeat of a person being disturbance enough to create a silhouette of the adversary.
@Sorrus-B4lyfe
@Sorrus-B4lyfe 3 ай бұрын
When you see Locke and his team whizzing around... you could easily assume = They can just fly off and escape. It's obvious now it's been retcon and that Spartans are back to being a walking tank.
@javierisaai
@javierisaai 4 ай бұрын
Man, this is some info we need to keep away from the enemy. Whoever that maybe nowadays.
@3dburger
@3dburger 4 ай бұрын
A Ghost splatter should do the trick
@UniUnknown
@UniUnknown 4 ай бұрын
It’s not really ambushes it’s isolation and bad leadership, Spartans need to stick together and they should have more say so considering their value.
@randomeman3
@randomeman3 4 ай бұрын
I really wish they'd flesh out how Leonidas got back onto the training startion. Unless it was just a fragment left in somones armor. I doubt jun would plug him back in.
@Saberfighterx
@Saberfighterx 4 ай бұрын
He’s back when did he come back unless I’m missing something last I heard of him was when he was sniped by Romeo
@randomeman3
@randomeman3 4 ай бұрын
@@Saberfighterx in infinite it's says he destroyed the station.
@benrudolph5582
@benrudolph5582 3 ай бұрын
8:21 Problem of statistics; sudden, short term action that ends as quickly as it arrived. A "blip" is likely, but when and how strong is unknown in advance.
@dawnspooner586
@dawnspooner586 3 ай бұрын
“Didn’t you know? Spartans never die” Kurt Trevelyan
@AP-te6mk
@AP-te6mk 3 ай бұрын
Probably the fact that even though they're Spartans, they don't have complete situational awareness at all times. Cal is a good example of that. She absolutely bodied that brute in a straight up fight, but when attacked fast enough even she wasn't able to react in time. The Spartans either need upgraded armor and sensor packages, or better small unit tactics.
@Specter_1125
@Specter_1125 3 ай бұрын
It’s literally impossible to anticipate every possible ambush without having precognition.
@Penultimeat
@Penultimeat 3 ай бұрын
Haven’t seen the video yet but take a shot when he mentions Linda.
@petpen
@petpen 3 ай бұрын
Kinetic movement is important for any fire fight as a 0311 if it’s lost you lose where trained to ramp up in ambush push out fire in all directions to suppress assess and kill so makes sense small units that get jumped losing out we have a whole squad with motor or machine gun in our patrol still don’t always come out on top
@The_Unchained_Predator
@The_Unchained_Predator 3 ай бұрын
Imagine going through everything it takes to become a Spartan, and your first op is a suicide mission where you die quickly, lol. Don't even get to enjoy being a Spartan lol.
@RBG-ez7pd
@RBG-ez7pd 4 ай бұрын
Unless you’re Vannak. Then an Arbiter just casually walks up and stabs you with a needler needle with almost no resistance or assistance.
@MentalMachine
@MentalMachine 4 ай бұрын
I would definitely be an ODST but would love to be a Spartan.
@GlobalTRIGGER
@GlobalTRIGGER 4 ай бұрын
"Spartans never die, there just missing in action"
@thetower8553
@thetower8553 4 ай бұрын
Simple, plot
@thatoneguy9291
@thatoneguy9291 3 ай бұрын
Spartans have been taken down by far less. The single Infection Form that almost killed Chief, and the Zealot that steamrolled and would’ve stabbed Six if not for Kat. There’s a Grunt in the Swords that spars with Elites. Spartans’ strength was always shock, cohesion, and force, but their force has usually been matched and the shock has long since worn off. Coupled with the fact most factions are using each others’ tech, and it’s no wonder the Banished is as strong as they are.
@0oDRAGONFIREo0
@0oDRAGONFIREo0 3 ай бұрын
logically speaking their advanced reaction speed goes into overdrive whilst in combat but not out of combat so it makes sense that if you can ambush and kill or incapacitate them before this ability fully activates they lack the speed they need to be the killing machines they normally are
@NightShadowVI
@NightShadowVI 3 ай бұрын
@Installation00 Left out the Silent Shadow ambushing Bianry Headhunters Roland B210 and Jonah B283.
@thewatermelon3831
@thewatermelon3831 3 ай бұрын
n00b combo does the trick all day
@MrGame470
@MrGame470 3 ай бұрын
Sounds like the successful ambushes were done while they were preoccupied, in a firefight, or dealing with something else, when they are ambushed, would lead them to not see it coming from behind. Also, they have motion trackers, so if the enemy stays still in a dark place, they can still pull off a successful ambush. The issue is they are entering areas that have not been properly scouted prior to going in, or they are the scouts themselves.
@augury2699
@augury2699 3 ай бұрын
I'm in the middle of reading Silent Storm and thought back to this video. Even back in basically year one of Spartan Operations Johnson and Crowther already exposed the Spartans weakness to numbers and ambushes. It seems like their training brought them up more as part duelists, part ODST. Where they operate very well with the addition of the shock factor. But being a known factor has led to a glaring weakness pretty much glowing red. Thematically though, it in my eyes lends itself to the saying "No man is an island..." a lone Spartan despite being extremely capable can only do so much. Pg76-78
@colonelsanders515
@colonelsanders515 3 ай бұрын
Kate from reach you’d think a EMP grenade was your best friend to complete the task
@nobleman9393
@nobleman9393 4 ай бұрын
"Got a job for you 621, this request comes from the United Rebel Front"
@_itsmark
@_itsmark 3 ай бұрын
Installation00 could you please do a most detailed about the Artemis-class battlecruiser, please.
@ArcTrooper-fx4wh
@ArcTrooper-fx4wh 4 ай бұрын
From what I heard it took 17 years to take out some Spartan 2's(John's generation) and the Spartans after that fell kinda abit frequently
@alfonsoroque8637
@alfonsoroque8637 3 ай бұрын
You know what is funny about ambush tactics being used to beat Spartans? Spartans should be masters of ambush tactics since that was what they're originally made to do. Also that time that blue team got captured and Kurt rescued blue team? that only happened because the rebels got more or less enough intel on what Blue Team is and made the necessary adjustments, otherwise I think their mission would have gone off without a hitch.
@mannyhernandez6507
@mannyhernandez6507 3 ай бұрын
The reason mostly is lack of support. That's why the "ambushes" are successful.
@alexandermartinez8085
@alexandermartinez8085 4 ай бұрын
Where is the beginning cutscene from? I love halo! And can’t imagine I’m missing out on any kind of halo content
@synthwavespartan2808
@synthwavespartan2808 4 ай бұрын
How hard is it to kill a spartan? 343: Super esay barly an inconvenience.
@jslund9427
@jslund9427 4 ай бұрын
Just one needle…to soon?
@AKlover
@AKlover 4 ай бұрын
Most Spartan IIIs did NOT get shields or Mjolnir armor, thus you really have to remove MOST of the first two companies as they don't really meet the baseline for consideration here.
@Primarch_Rogal_Dorn
@Primarch_Rogal_Dorn 4 ай бұрын
I was under the impression that the second class of 2s were trained as it had been stated Nicole from Dead or Alive was canon but the events werent canon
@brentthorman1318
@brentthorman1318 3 ай бұрын
Most spartan 11’s sent to reach died defending the generators when a covent ship glassed the base. I think no more than 4 died from the jump
@lordshmee13
@lordshmee13 4 ай бұрын
i never knew what happened to those spartans in Infinites campaign, you know in Halo CE when the Flood were unleashed we got that cutscene of Chief watching what happened there through that video he grabbed off the marine, the Weapon should of channeled what they saw to Chief to give us a sense of these warriors going down and gives insight of what we are going to face from the brothers to Jega like come on 343i
@tonystewart7179
@tonystewart7179 4 ай бұрын
I love O92 and 117, but Atriox just ignores pain. He doesn't need an ambush to kill Spartans. Even upon finding out Spartans are just humans, he didn't change his outlook. Granted the plot armor he carries is indestructible, I still find it cool that he is able just go. No U
@lukethomas.125
@lukethomas.125 4 ай бұрын
6:42 Correction, late 2559
@johnmcconnell7052
@johnmcconnell7052 4 ай бұрын
One of the things that us military does differently than some of allied forces is when ambushed they are trained to not hold position but instead charge forward because of the unexpected action. Spartans were either kidnapped or saved turned into Spartans or you had the Gen 4s. Gen 4s are a standard soldier with armor. Gen 3s are more ruthless and reckless than the Gen 2 while the Gen 2 was taught your team is important and you can sacrifice yourself. Instead of training to hold the line and be unkillable they were shown they had weakness since the beginning this does limit them. They were also broken humans mentally as the augmentation did a number on the mind
@speedyazi5029
@speedyazi5029 4 ай бұрын
I think Ambushing as a strategy will always be viable against a force that is superior technologically or trained. We’ve seen this with the history of war. Spartans themselves know the strength of ambushes and they make use of it to impressive effect when deployed for covert missions. Most Spartans that are killed as stated in the video, die to ambushes and relentless attacks. There is only so much you can do with the best tactics and gear when faced against and ambush you had no intelligence about.
@devileye90
@devileye90 4 ай бұрын
ambushes typically tilt the relative combat power heavily to the ambusher’s side, even as a smaller force. the element of surprise is crazy effective. in civi terms, ambushes are like getting robbed. the aggressor always has an advantage. spartan or not.
@GrandmaKeith
@GrandmaKeith 4 ай бұрын
We saw how Vannak 134 was killed.
@pearsegallagher9832
@pearsegallagher9832 4 ай бұрын
well i dont know how often an enemy will catch a spartan in that exact situation
@mason103000
@mason103000 4 ай бұрын
To be fair to them, the ambushes that killed the Spartans are only the ones that worked. Spartans were always meant to be offensive powerhouses, not defensive, and they prove that by being eminently aware, prepared, and competent as aggressors. They successfully evade or counter a threat nearly every time they’re given the slightly opportunity to do so, and the very nature of an ambush removes that ability. Getting crushed by a brute in a confined space is about as inevitable as getting hurt from a fall at terminal velocity, and an ambush removes all opportunity to respond to that danger.
@southwesthellraisers4931
@southwesthellraisers4931 2 ай бұрын
I think its the overwhelming odds that gets spartans killed the most the way noble 6 fell is good evidence of that
@ReaIHuman
@ReaIHuman 4 ай бұрын
Spartans never die, they're just missing in action.
@ambiguumspectatoremespecta9803
@ambiguumspectatoremespecta9803 3 ай бұрын
An un-augmented Brute can just about body any Spartan Class in their power armor in a contest of strength and explosive power. The main advantage a spartan has over the more physically imposing species of the covenant is their reaction time and combat training - ambushes or dirty fighting tactics eliminate those variables. You could be an elite world class fighter but can still get bodied by a group of amateurs if they jump on you out of nowhere.
@JohnYossarian
@JohnYossarian 3 ай бұрын
"Is the fact that these super soldiers can be defeated be ambush when that ambush involves novel and unexpected use of resources and overwhelming force an inherent flaw in their training?" Only as much a flaw as "living on a space station that can be destroyed by a suddenly hostile AI."
@nunull6427
@nunull6427 3 ай бұрын
"How to kill a spartan" 1. Have paramount make a live action series of them
@clonedelta22
@clonedelta22 3 ай бұрын
Just ambush seems a bit reductive. Before the human-covenant war, spartans were a well guarded secret. During and after the war, they've become a symbol, and thus also, a target. They used to be deployed on more covert missions, but as our time as players in Halo shows, more often during/post war, spartans are being deployed into ongoing battles, or reactively to enemy attacks, meaning the enemy is on guard and likely setting ambushes anticipating retaliation. In short, spartans have been deployed into situations where the enemy either already knows their objective, or at least can reasonably suspect it. Handing the element of surprise to the enemy. It's also worth noting that enemies like grunts and jackals can sort of lul a spartan into a false sense of security as sacrificial lambs while cloaked elites, brutes or snipers can use the distraction to position themselves advantageously. Many spartans were ambushed en route to very obvious targets with little to no UNSC intelligence what they might encounter, with the enemy having time to entrench themselves, and warning of human presence. I think the UNSC seeing spartans as indestructible and dependable in impossible situations has lead the military to rely on the skill of it's spartans, rather than the spartans being able to rely on the intelligence, strategic and logistical support of their military, causing increased spartan casualties as a result. It's worth pointing out that most of these spartan ambush defeats were also in melee combat. Jerome, Alice, Douglas and John lost to Atriox in melee combat. Cal, Noble 6 and Emile also died in melee combat, as well as the spartan IVs hunted by the banished in Infinite. Halo is a shooter, but it is fairly obvious that spartans are more firearm and explosives focused than hand to hand in their training and equipment. The covenant have consistently got gravity hammers and energy swords, while the UNSC doesn't have any widely adopted melee weapons beyond conventional knives and fists. Modern military training, which UNSC training strongly resembles, focuses much more heavily on firearms than melee combat. I would suspect standardized energy blades in the gauntlets of spartans similar to those of elites in Reach might have turned a few of these losses to victories. Particularly those against Atriox. Better melee weapons and melee combat training, possibly with techniques and tactics based around the physiological weakenesses of covenant species would surely not hurt, either.
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