Is the Warthog a a good military vehicle?
>>64294217Looks kinda fake.
>>64294242Just a Fiero with a body kit
>>64294217Only if you are wearing power armor
>>64294217Does it brrrrrrrt?
Impressive durability plus on board radio, but I hear comms are an issue in these models. Capacity of three or four if a friend sits on the passenger's lap seems a bit low. You could argue the shortcomings of the original were admitted by the creators when they released the other variants. Probably nostalgia talking but it's still a 10/10 fuckable vehicle, but still unsure if you could pick up chicks in it.
>>64294217it's good for Spartans but for the average grunt, it needs more protection like doors and a roof. They don't even have to be that heavy since I don't think the Covenant plasma weapons have great penetration
How hard would it be to recreate these using one of those 4x4 golf cart things you can buy at Home Depot/Lowes?
>>64294495> You could argue the shortcomings of the original were admitted by the creators when they released the other variants.That’s mostly because the Warthog became popular, so they decided to use variants of it to do things that really should have been done by other vehicles. Remember, the Warthog is not a troop carrier or APC. It’s a light recon vehicle, more akin to a WWII jeep or one of those armed dune buggies that high speed low drag units use, rather than a Humvee or Bradley.
>>64294529>They don't even have to be that heavy since I don't think the Covenant plasma weapons have great penetrationCovenant handheld plasma weapons are like 40mm grenade launchers retard. They melt fist sized holes in metal and set people on fire from near misses.
>>64294745I saw PFC Chips Dubbo take a direct hit from a Plasma pistol and he just got up and dusted himself off like nothing happened
>>64294217I'd say it looks more like a Puma.
Halo sucks
>>64294217>anybody riding it is exposed>even bothering with a gunner when even a very basic bitch program could easily do the job of targetting ayyys
>>64294745You don't have to respect that the books talk big shit and then the games have them as neon nerf guns. The bit where you actually shoot them is the important part.>>64295746Yeah lol just link the machinegun on the back of your beach buggy to fucking grok, great idea.At least just have the guy riding shotgun control it, that seat never hits anything.
>>64294217I could see it as a flawed yet doable expeditionary vehicle for special operations and raiding and stuff, the way the UNSC uses it as some kind of IFV to fight alongside tanks is absolutely suicidal though.
>>64294531How hard would it be to turn a go kart into a corvette? Fucking retard.
>>64294217I mean as a light recon vehicle it's honestly not too bad. A three man scout team could definitely make use of it and considering just how nasty something like a gauss gun mounted on the rear could be in an ambush it can have a nasty bite. Like the Humvee however it's really not that great as a general purpose vehicle it really shouldn't be used as a general purpose troop and cargo mover that it got shoved into and it sure as shit isn't suited to be some sort of fast attack vehicle
>>64297204It's a shitty 4x4 with a gun on it, hence I asked how difficult it would be to strap a gun to a shitty 4x4 to make a real life one.
>>64294217The Warthog is a fictional vehicle, thus not a military vehicle at all.
>>64294531https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj9-OlkqJqQ
>no roofit's a suicide cart
>>64301345the roll cage is insignificant since Marines' heads and upper torsos stick up out of the vehicle
>>64294217too open. yeah, it's super easy to shoot out of, but it provides *zero* cover. i know, game balancing first and lore second, but come on.another gripe is that the suspension is just two bigass arms right under the vehicle with basically no armor. one or two shots from a plasma pistol would melt that almost instantly.people get in-game and lore performance mixed up a lot, which is obviously understandable. keep in mind: the closest to lore-accurate the game will get is legendary difficulty. these get melted almost immediately on that difficulty, as well they should. if you're playing normal or heroic (like me) you're not getting the lore accurate experience.
>>64297173in the hogs case its in a setting where even the most retarded programs can actually do their jobs, especially since automated turrets are already a thing and at least for covies a lot easier to recognize who is friend and foe
>>64297201you see that in the games because it's invariably in a setting where that's all they have available for armor. the mission "winter contingency" in halo reach is a better example of how they're supposed to be used, you have a machine gun to take out infantry and you're basically just driving around the map as you learn the game's controls. in CE, everyone is just fucked and stuck on that goddamned ring, so any armor is better than no armor even if it's just a really light dinky jeep like this. you stand a better chance moving fast than trying to be foot mobile. even in 2, i can't recall when warthogs are used as a support to tanks, it's always just a car with a gun on it.
>>64294745Not canon.
>>64294217I bet its a fun off road rig, but i wouldnt want to be on the turret at speed or being shot at
>>64295111Chupathingy. Got a ring to it.
>>64303204Heroic is the "canon" difficulty, although if you want to imagine the Marine experience as opposed to the Spartan experience, yeah, shit probably feels like LASO. If you think about the Warthog as purely a scout vehicle, alot of those concerns seem fairly easy to stomach. It mirrors stuff like the RSOV in many ways. If you're going to be deploying to alien worlds with presumably minimal roads or infrastructure, it makes total sense to design a bare-bones off roader with just enough firepower to defend itself. That is of course until you start driving headlong into pitched battles with them like in Reach.
>>64294217Seeing how the covenant's artillery and tanks lob giant balls of plasma I'd imagine speed is more important than protection. If i recall correctly the UNSC had way more vehicles in the beginning, but by the end of the war they've optimized their resources down to what they can make very quickly with their shrinking industrial base. Same idea with their ships since they were pumping out small speedy frigates instead of more marathon cruisers
>>64308299By reach the warthogs, mongooses and scorpions were pretty much all they were making at that point
>>64308299Easy is the canon difficulty. Heroic is just the way it's recommended to be played at.
>>64308781Nice
>>64308781I need a massive Spartan blonde dommy mommy
>>64316161That was the best thing about the TV show.
>>64308299Geez mum let's you have two MGs?
