The Covenant from Halo could defeat the COG, Locusts, and Lambent from Gears of War

I will respond to my opponents arguments before referring to my own.*****REBUTTALS*****R1:Covenant Technology "Actually, if The Arbiter (Thel Vadam) had not argued otherwise, the Elites on their own would have destroyed the humans. The UNSC only prevailed because the main military power of the Covenant broke off."You see, but this is a flaw in and of itself. Troop moral is probably the biggest and best factor when preparing for a full fledged war. If you want your troops to perform at their peak, then they must have faith in what they are doing, and know and believe in the fight and cause they are fighting for. The Marines of the UNSC have no problem with this. However the prophets, the leaders of the Covenant Army have lied to their people. The Elites see this, and no longer trust in the faction in which they are fighting for. But even worse than that, they don't just leave the cause, they completely work towards destroying it! How could the Covenant ever win a war with the humans if their own troops don't support what it is they are fighting for!?"Also, Con does not realize that Earth was protected by 300 Orbital Defense Platforms." I think the instigator of this debate, does not know the true power of the humans that faced against it. Before the incident on reach, the Covenant Civil war was lost by the humans. Please see below."The conflict was closely connected with, and the cause of, the Covenant Civil War, both of which resulted in the final defeat of the Covenant Loyalists and Flood. The official cessation of hostilities occurred on March 3, 2553. The war was incredibly costly to both sides, with over twenty-three billion humans and billions of Covenant killed during the hostilities and further heavy casualties during the Flood plague. The war ultimately lasted for a total of twenty-eight years."You can read on to find the cause of the war being completely irrelevant to the covenant, and contradictory of their beliefs on the great Journey. Basically the prophets of regret jumped into a war, destroying billions of their own, so they could remain with the appearance of power, and control. In an attempt to Continue their power, they contradict everything they know and believe. If all their troops were privy to this information, other than just the arbiters, what point would any of the covenant now have to fight?"The Prophets found out that the Forerunner objects that the Luminary revealed on Harvest were actually Humans (which the Prophets interpreted as meaning that the Humans were descendants of the Forerunner, or possibly surviving Forerunner). Initially, the Covenant interpreted the glyph from the luminary as "Reclamation". Startlingly, the Forerunner AI 05-032 Mendicant Bias revealed that the interpretation was wrong: the glyph meant "Reclaimer". The Prophets Regret and Truth realized that if the Humans were actually Forerunners, then it was possible to be left behind when the Great Journey occurs. This stood in contradiction to the Covenant religion, which held that no one would be left behind in the Great Journey. The Hierarchs, recognizing that this truth would destroy the Covenant, declared war on Humanity, hoping the truth would perish with their newly-declared foe."http://halo.wikia.com..."Realistically, chainsaws are not very effective weapons of war"I would beg to differ. Close combat occurs in game play and in the story line all the time. We constantly see Use of close combat efficiently used with the Elite's Energy Sword. Now When we compare this sword with a chainsaw gun, we can see the difference in power. Not only can the chain saw rip through the armor of the Elite, but it can also be fired. The gun portion allows the wielder to be cautious at a distance if he feels the combat fight with the saw vs sword is going poorly, and he can instantly finish off his opponent with a few bullets. The Elite cannot do this with his energy sword." And again, you have to realize that the Covenant employs energy shielding, which a chainsawwould have no effect on short of delivering the Kinetic Energy from each swing."This is not true. The energy shields that are deployed by the Covenant are generically bubble shields, or deployable barrier shields. The barrier shields can be destroyed with a few easy bullets. The bubble shield actually doesn't provide any assistance at all against close ranged combat. While they deflect bullets, Humans and Covenant alike can easily enter into them. Drones/engineers can be disabled with a few quick bullets as well, thus pretty much wiping out all "Shield Factions" you feel the covenant have in their arsenal. All are extremely fallible, and only provide more weaknesses for the covenant. "Con also needs to realize that the Covenant can simply destroy all Hammer of Dawn Satellites before they even."Finding and locating these satellites isn't as easy as you are presuming it is. This would require the covenant to search the galaxy for a simple piece of equipment. This would take years to accomplish. Let's keep in mind the power these weapons hold. Covenant Drop ships, Freight carriers, wraiths, ghost, anything. The beam of the hammer of dawn is extremely powerful and can completely destroy most of the covenant's air force."The fact of the matter is that the Covenant isn’t defeated easily by UNSC weaponry,which is by no means “normal human weapons” "They are normal to the human forces in the halo saga so I fail to understand your point. Also those weapons you provided in the links were largely contributing to huge damage profile ratio's against covenant forces. The covenant could easily be defeated by the humans, though the victory is widely attributed to the Spartans, master Chief, etc. http://www.bungie.net... "Reach was attacked with a fleet containing over 400 ships. Also, what is to stop the Covenant from sending more? They have entire planets devoted to building ships, and thousands of ships reside around High Charity."Thousands of ships around high charity eh? You mean the covenants holy City that is destroyed?http://halo.wikia.com...http://www.fanfiction.net...Reach was attacked un-expected, and was a direct result to the covenants Defeat in the civil war. When Spartans and ODST's were dropped on the planet, most of the damage had already been done. While reach was a stronghold, most of the heavy military forces were deployed elsewhere, and having arrived sooner, definitely would have been able to reject the attack made on the Planet."This is 690 million armed forces fighting for Earth. The population of Sera is nothing but a mere drop in the water to the Covenant"Yet the covenant was still defeated. Wow, doesn't take a lot to destroy them does it? Even without the help of the arbiters, the war would have been won. Master chief was able to destroy the for runners rings mostly by himself.http://en.wikipedia.org...(Halo)**** MY CASE ****NUMBERS "If this were true, the COG forces would not be in the losing position that they had been in. I will need actual proof of such a claim before it can even be considered."Need proof? Ever play the game? Please see the video provided above. This is after combating and destroying hundreds of thousands of locusts with just the four of them. You can fast forward the video to about 4 minutes in"Combine this with Active Camouflage, superior numbers, superior tactical control, and unassailable supply lines (space), you get an enemy you cannot defeat." The active Camo is a joke, anyone can see the illusion a mile away. Tactical control is clearly in the COG's hand with technology (see video). Hammer of dawn destroys supply lines rendering them useless. Please view the rest of this debate in the link below. http://www.debate.org...