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9/23/2017 7:14:13 PM
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I just thought of a pretty great comparison in terms of strength for the Cabal and Covenant. Thresher gunships take, on average, 3 Drake shells to destroy, where-as a Covenant Phantom has regularly required at least 5 Scorpion shells to destroy. This either means the Thresher has significantly weaker armor, or the Drake is significantly more powerful than a Scorpion. Either way, it doesn't paint a good picture for the Red Legion versus the Covenant.
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The Drake is a human Tank, not the Cabal's. If you want to see a Cabal tank, look no further than the massive hunks of metal that float on four legs that can shoot blast out of it's primary cannon so powerful it 1 hits everything, or shoot a volley of ark projectiles from a mounted launcher. You see one driving across the bridge at the begining off the game when you're still hobbling around the ruined city. You also see one come down the massive elevator in that one stike, and your ghost is all like "Cayde, I bet you some glimmer there's a tank on that elevator."
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And I was comparing Human tanks versus Cabal and Covenant air vehicles. Not Human tanks to Cabal tanks. The Goliath isn't actually all that powerful either, it's shells have an extremely small lethal blast radius, it's slow, and doesn't have an effective range out of short. It only ever fires Solar munitions, as well. I believe you confused the Arc bomb launcher on the Fallen Walker as one of the Goliaths weapon systems somehow. Either way, your post is entirely irrelevant to my original post, as I never mentioned the Goliath. I only talked about the Thresher. If we want to do a comparison involving the Goliath, however, it takes an average of 4 shells from a Drake to destroy one Goliath. The nearest Covenant equivalent is the Wraith, which takes roughly the same amount of Scorpion shells, maybe one more, It's been a while since I've shot a Wraith with a Scorpion. I'll give the Goliath the edge in terms of weaponry and functionality, with it's ability to launch anti-infantry and anti-vehicle missiles, do a charge while firing a barrage of said missiles, having a gunnerless coaxial turret, and ability to do a solar impulse to fling enemies away from itself. And, unless the Red Legion variant is somehow worse than the ones encountered in Destiny 1, they are all able to perform every described action at once. The Wraith only has it's plasma mortar, a simple boost, and an exposed coaxial gunner turret. The Wraith may be slightly faster, too. But that's about it.
