User blog comment:Death'sapprentice77/Clone Commandos vs. Spartan III's/@comment-181289-20111111032347/@comment-24.245.102.121-20111112221005

Some of your statements about clone commandos are just wrong. First of all the Separatist forces weren't just droids. Systems allied with the Separatist would send their own armies to fight with the droids. Commandos battled lots of living being, some fought them even more than they fought droids. Second you have no evidence to support your support your claim of commandos having worse armor. We can not tell who has better shields because the weapon systems they fight against are different. Also Spartan armor has weak points like the back if the neck where as Clone Commando armor does not. Third Clone Commando's have a much, much more advanced HUD display. In the Star Wars novel Hard Contact a jedi put on a clone commando's helmet on and was unable to process all the information the HUD was giving her, however clone commandos can take it all in just fine. This HUD display gives the commandos warnings of danger far before a spartan would even be aware of it. Case and point, on reach the Spartan Catherine was killed quite easily from behind. A clone commando would have seen a warning on his HUD and reacted to it and would have been able to avoid being shot.

Your idea of how the clone commando's were trained is way off the mark. Unlike regular clones, clone commandos did not regular simulation training. in clone commando simulators the most highly trained mandilorians in the galaxy were firing live rounds at the clones where the clones only had dummy rounds. Entire squads of clone commandos were wiped out during these "simulations". Also the loyalty issue you are dead wrong on. A group of spartan trainees attempted to flee the UNSC training camps. Most of them killed themselves. Only two of them were recaptured. Another thing, if the UNSC ordered that every Spartans was to destroy the closest fellow Spartan without any reason, I am betting that some of those Spartans would refuse. The jedi were not just commanders to the clone commandos. Some of they had fought together with them for years. In some instances the jedi were close and personal friends.