From what I understand of both, it would be a close fight. Physically, they are very similar species. Tough, big, reptilian, and bound under some form of honor.
But I imagine this wouldn't be just a hand to hand fight, though either species would willingly accept such a challenge.
And so technology comes into play. Both species have very advanced, and again very similar technology. Cloaking, counter-cloaking, plasma weaponry, close-range weaponry, the list goes on.
But the way I see it, the covenant have two major advantages. First: space warfare. In all my searching, I have not come across any real evidence of the Predator race having substantial practice in space borne combat, instead preferring to fight on the ground. Their ships do not seem to be ridiculously powerful. Meanwhile, the elites have been shown to be masterful tacticians in regards to space warfare, and their craft are incredibly advanced. Guided plasma weaponry, incredibly durable shielding, faster-than-light travel, and sheer size all help to tip space combat in the Elite's favor. And once a covenant force gains control of local space, we all know what happens next...glassing.
But I mentioned two advantages. The second involves the culture of both species. The elites, especially their modern incarnation, are a superbly trained and drilled military force, the strongest in the Covenant before they were betrayed. They have fought wars against all manner of enemy for centuries, fighting their equals on civil wars and staving off the many threats to their Covenant.
The predators are very different. They are dedicated to hunting, and incredibly good at what they do. But their society is not a military one. Their tribes are separated and isolated, in a way that even the post-schism elite keeps are not.
In short, there is an incredibly well-trained militaristic society facing tribes of incredibly well-trained hunters.
Predators are masters at their game, but such conflict would no longer be their game. It would not be a hunt, it would be a war.
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Edited by Ze TacoLover: 7/12/2015 6:42:38 PMPredators live in a roman like empire on their planet and go to war all the time. The space ships are shown off more in comics but still ridiculously hard to find anything about(idk it's the Internet) but the picture above is essentially their war party riding into battle on alien mounts with canons on the Predators shoulder. Roman chariots in a way. Regarding how they defend their planet is by ginormous plasma cannons placed around their city which can be seen in avp: requiem(awful movie) it's the only look we've gotten at the Predators [i]home[/i]world. As someone else brought up, each side has something to counter the other and this would be a war of endurance
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Enormous cannons? Interesting. Of course, I can think of another large empire that used enormous cannons for planetary defense. Even though they could blow a hole through covenant shops with a single shot, two networks of orbital defense platforms were circumvented.
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Who are you referring to?
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Halo humans. Reach and Earth had networks of Orbital Defense Platforms in geosynchronous orbit. Reach had somewhere around 20, if memory serves, and Earth had 300. Each had a Super Magnetic Accelerator Cannon capable of propelling a slug with a few teratons of force. Each shot could punch through a covenant capital ship, and yet both networks were circumvented, with Reach being glassed and Earth being besieged as a result.
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