how useful would a jedi be

The grounds battles will be really tough while the tech will likely go in favor of the empire I would say that the Elites,hunters,brutes are better fighters than storm troopers but they have an entire galaxy to get troops while the covenant has species at their disposal like the drones,grunts and jackals for lackeys. Now if we add in tech I think the storm troopers have better vehicles and the only ones the only ones they would have to worry about are the sacrabs. So the ground battles will go either way depending on the strategies used and the numbers per each side.

If you're talking about strict infantry versus infantry, then the fights would be much harder to determine. Several species of Covenant infantry grossly outmatch stormtroopers in terms of physiological strength and stamina; Brutes, Elites, and Hunters would decimate squads of stormtroopers on pure strength alone. But both the Covenant and the Empire rely on more than just infantry to wage ground battles; they also utilize weaponry. All Imperial technology -- including the blasters and weapons utilized by the stormtroopers -- outstrip Covenant technology. AT-ATs, AT-STs, and various other Imperial ground support vehicles would decimate the Covenant ranks and even obliterate their heavy units such as the Scarabs.

Let's not forget that Covenant idealogy would work against them as well. Their reliance on Forerunner technology prevents them from modifying it or utilizing enemy technology. The Empire would retrieve Covenant technology and exploit its weaknesses or work to upgrade them.

Though this doesn't take into account Darth Vader and his cabal of Dark Jedi.

Yea straight up infantry wise I'd give an edge to the covies but when tech comes in like you said than I don't see the covenant surviving a whole lot and then with the dark jedi's in play I don't see them winning plus another part of the covenant strategy will come to hurt them and that is they do sacrifice a lot of their lower castes in battles and what happens when they are all gone,plus once the leader of a group is killed the lower castes become cowards and retreat.

Originally posted by Gideon
If you're talking about strict infantry versus infantry, then the fights would be much harder to determine. Several species of Covenant infantry grossly outmatch stormtroopers in terms of physiological strength and stamina; Brutes, Elites, and Hunters would decimate squads of stormtroopers on pure strength alone. But both the Covenant and the Empire rely on more than just infantry to wage ground battles; they also utilize weaponry. All Imperial technology -- including the blasters and weapons utilized by the stormtroopers -- outstrip Covenant technology. AT-ATs, AT-STs, and various other Imperial ground support vehicles would decimate the Covenant ranks and even obliterate their heavy units such as the Scarabs.

Let's not forget that Covenant idealogy would work against them as well. Their reliance on Forerunner technology prevents them from modifying it or utilizing enemy technology. The Empire would retrieve Covenant technology and exploit its weaknesses or work to upgrade them.

Though this doesn't take into account Darth Vader and his cabal of Dark Jedi.

LMAO Good one. i just picture an AT-AT stomping on a scarab with scared elites like wtf and leaping out for thier lives which get ended quickly when clone troopes on swoop bikes gun them down. cuz goodness knows a swoop bike is faster than a ghost. and hunters getting stepped on by clone walkers till the orange worms show lol.

Originally posted by Man of Christ
LMAO Good one. i just picture an AT-AT stomping on a scarab with scared elites like wtf and leaping out for thier lives which get ended quickly when clone troopes on swoop bikes gun them down. cuz goodness knows a swoop bike is faster than a ghost. and hunters getting kicked around by clone walkers till the orange worms show lol.

Originally posted by Man of Christ
LMAO Good one. i just picture an AT-AT stomping on a scarab with scared elites like wtf and leaping out for thier lives which get ended quickly when clone troopes on swoop bikes gun them down. cuz goodness knows a swoop bike is faster than a ghost. and hunters getting stepped on by clone walkers till the orange worms show lol.

We're all looking forward to your incredible counter-argument.

Originally posted by Gideon
We're all looking forward to your incredible counter-argument.

counter to what?

The lack of effective shielding would be the Covenant's downfall. Imperial weapons would rip through their armor faster than plasma would get through say, an AT-AT's. The Empire's ground forces use more than just what we see in the movies, there are modified walkers of several variations just to begin with. Throw in the sheer numbers than the Empire would willingly sacrifice, and they've got victory no matter what.