User blog comment:Samurai96/Noble Team vs Delta Squad/@comment-107.188.20.218-20150803142712

Delta squad stomp

They faced tougher enemies and survived while most of noble died fighting worse enemies Not to mention that unsc weapons are less effective than modern weapons and that goes for vehicles too

One blaster bolt (depends on what calcs your using) either packs 8 megajoules of energy or 300+ megajoules of energy, both of which would one shot every spartan

Katarn class armor can survive direct hits from artillery and be intact, while spartan armor gets destroyed from kilojoules of energy