User blog comment:Wassboss/Fight from the Future: UNSC vs RDA (Rematch)/@comment-379205-20180812012207

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Sidearms: The M6 Magnum fires a 12.7mm high explosive round that can take down shields and kill even the biggest Covenant creatures once they are "de-shielded", and has more capacity than the WASP. The full auto and burst modes are generally going to be a bad idea given the WASP is standard six-shooter revolver. Edge: UNSC

Assault Rifles: The MA5C is reliable assault rifle that stood up through the Human-Covenant War, and has a higher rate of fire, but the higher capacity of the SIR give it the advantage. Edge: RDA

Sniper Rifles: The Nailgun is a powerful suppressive weapon, but, in the end, I give the edge to the UNSC's S2-AM rifle for it's devastating discarding sabot rounds that can punch through energy shield and armor, allowing it to disable to the AMP suit with a well-placed shot. Edge: UNSC

Shotguns: The M90 is a reliable weapon, and fires a powerful 8-gauge round that can "de-shield" a lower to mid-rank Elite or Brute in one shot at close range, and can do significant damage even to heavier shielding, but the CARB has a faster rate of fire and a larger magazine- not to mention a quicker mag change with that detachable stick mag. Edge: RDA

Launchers: The M222 has a greater rate of fire, however, the UNSC's M319, while a single-shot weapon, has far greater versatility. In addition to regular frag grenades, the weapon can launch EMP grenades for frying vehicle engines, launch what are effectively remote mines for use as traps, and even act as a miniature guided missile. Edge: UNSC

Vehicles: The AMP suit has a heavier weapon and has mobility to keep up with the Warthog. The 12.7mm LAAG might be a powerful weapon, but the AMP has as 30mm chain gun firing explosive shells. Edge: RDA

X-Factors: Both units are equally well-trained, and while the RDA takes the edge for brutality, the UNSC take the arguably more important edge of Combat Experience, as they have fought against the Covenant, an interstellar alien empire and, while they were often forced to retreat from the Covenant's space superiority, the UNSC often won battles on the ground against the Covenant, such as on Harvest, Reach, and Earth. Edge: UNSC

Overall Winner: While the RDA has a better assault rifles, shotguns, and, at least as far as the weapons featured in this battle, vehicles, but in the end, the UNSC win win- and this is even without access to their best toys like the M41 Rocket Launcher and Scorpion tank. The UNSC's M319 grenade launcher is more versatile and will be able to knock out the AMP suit, and make it an easy target for the anti-materiel rifle to punch through the cockpit armor and kill the pilot. The RDA were defeated by a bunch of stone age-era aliens armed with what are basically sticks and rocks, while the UNSC fought hard against the a more advanced adversary, and even inflicted some defeats against them, even if their finally victory was the result of the Elites realizing that the Covenant is basically an interplanetary suicide cult and joining them. Either way, overall winner: United Nations Space Command