Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-27758956-20150705190539/@comment-26272311-20150707234431

The Indomitable wrote: Eureka Enderborn wrote: You just said that twice. Furthermore, almost no sith have such armor. Only the really heavy or paranoid ones do. Also, Master Chief has choked before. He can still shoot. But what the heck, I'll bite.

Height: 7ft 2in

Weight: 990ib

Armor: Mjolnir MK IV armor

Armor protection type: literally everything. This armor helped him survive a fall from space.

Armor mobility: spectacular

Close ranged weapon: combat knife

Medium ranged weapon: SAW

Long ranged weapon: Spartan laser (and this is one that can't be deflected!)

Special weapons: his body. MC was trained and conditioned from boyhood. He is the ultimate weapon, and his body is loaded with useful cybernetics of all kind. Oh, and Cortana, who provides him with tactical information of all kinds.

Mentality: Stubborn, determined, fearless. With that childhood, some force powers would work real well... (The Sith's armor stuff was my attempt to describe the armor worn by the Sith in the picture. The Kevlar and blast gel was my assumption as to what was under the leather, because that is actually what the cloth parts of Darth Vader's armor were.)

The armor can't save him from getting his internal organs crushed telekinectically. Powerful Sith are known to do that. And Indom is right. If our Sith managed to examine MC's memories with the Force, he could use the Sith technique of Dun Moch. This technique was developed as a means to break your enemy's will. It goes a lot deeper than simple namecalling, though. It taps into elements of your enemy's psyche, preying on any insecurities you find, sometimes even ones they didn't even know they had. Still, Dun Moch could backfire, as we see in the final duel between Luke and Vader (that's what Vader was doing to try and lure out Luke.). While I think it unlikely that MC would be affected that much if he expected it, if I were him, I'd be pretty shocked when the guy I'm fighting and have never seen before, started referring to me as John. The Sith might even use memories MC doesn't know he has, of the days before he was conscripted into the SPARTAN-II program. But seriously, let's move along to the various points.

Height: Height can actually help in battle, specifically, melee combat. However. The large difference in the reach of the two warriors' close quarters weapons makes me feel that the extra reach height provides would pretty much be negated. Against a normal opponent, MC's size may intimidate them. But a Sith Lord would be so sure of his own capability that he wouldn't be intimidated by what is in his case only a few inches of height difference. My opinion on the height point: Doesn't matter.

Strength: The Sith has likely put what body mass he does have to good use. Still, one can't argue with MC's raw strength. However, the Sith is capable of significantly augmenting his natural strength with the Force, and that's before he gets in a Force rage.... Still, I give the comfortable edge to the Spartan.

Agility: MC is very fast and can jump quite high. However, the Sith has Force augmentation abilities. It's estimated that a skilled user can use these techniques to run 400% faster than they would run naturally, and double their normal jump height/distance. And this Sith is in pretty good shape to begin with. The difference in armor mobility though, is what makes this a bit more complex. In the end, I give the slight edge to the Sith Lord.

Close range weapons: Is this even a question? I think we can all agree that lightsaber beats combat knife any day.

Medium range weapon: While the SAW is a pretty good weapon, I give the comfortable edge to the Sith here, if only because of the incredible versatility of the Force.

Long range: The SPARTAN laser is a nasty "little" bugger, that's for sure. But if I didn't already know what the thing did, and was shown a picture of it, I would think "Oh! That's obviously a rocket launcher!". And because of the extreme difficulty of stopping a missile with the Force (I don't know why, it's just apparently really hard to catch a rocket. Maybe it has to do with it being so small and so fast), the Sith would, like me, probably assume it shot missiles, and would A) try to catch the nonexistent rocket with the Force, or B) dodge. Since Sith prefer not to take unnecessary risks, he'd probably pick B). My opinion: undecided.