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Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
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It's a trick question. There weren't any panzers on Hoth, just AT-ATs, AT-STs and Snowspeeders.
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Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
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I think the Imperial weapons procurement divisions thought that walkers looked cooler, of course if they'd had panzers they wouldn't have been vulnerable to small rebel fighters.
Again.
Why didn't the designers ever consider small rebel fighters?
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I do think the rebels performance on Hoth was rubbish, they should have possessed at leat the odd weapon capable of taking out an AT-AT, they had no mobile armour and there trenches wern't big enough to stop the walkers
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They never intended to fight a stand up battle, just hold them off long enough to evacuate. They managed that so it was a success.
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But they didn't really hold them, there was no point where the empires forces had to pause or regroup or even change direction. They walked through.
And having your primary offensive weapon(speeder) incapable of penetrating the armour of the AT-ATs is a really big mistake. Someone high up needs to be sacked.
Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
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You seem to be confusing the rebel forces with a real army. They are a hit and run guerrilla force, they aren't supposed to be getting involved in pitched battles with heavy armour.
At least they had Mr Bronson as a mole on board the Imperial fleet to come out of hyperspace early and give them warning.
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What are you exactly talking about?
Taking Stalingrad without a fight before the russians start defending it?
If it's that that you mean, I don't know enough about it.
I just found this quote from von Kleist:
The 4th Panzer Army was advancing on my left. It could have taken Stalingrad without a fight, at the end of July, but was diverted to the south to help me crossing the Don. I did not needs it's aid, and merely congested the roads I was using.
When it turned north again, a fortnight later, the Russians had gathered just sufficient forces at Stalingrad to check it.
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You have to remember that most of the rebel forces were not only under-trained but in fact pretty cowardly. A lot of them were criminals, drug addicts, and other misfits who had fled the Empire's reach. They were clawing over each other to get out of there at the first sight of Imperial forces.
I thought it was a proper civil war, The rebel fleet in episode 6 is pretty impressive.
Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
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I bet it was Gripper Stebsons faultOriginally posted by MikeH
You seem to be confusing the rebel forces with a real army. They are a hit and run guerrilla force, they aren't supposed to be getting involved in pitched battles with heavy armour.
At least they had Mr Bronson as a mole on board the Imperial fleet to come out of hyperspace early and give them warning.
Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
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The rebel fleet in episode 6 is pretty impressive
All show and no go. Most of the best weaponry had been sold off by corrupted rebel "officials" or was inoperable due to incompetence or lack of spare parts. The only reason the rebels performed as well as they did was that the Empire had more pressing business elsewhere.
I bet you were gutted when vader betrayed his emporerOriginally posted by mindseye
The rebel fleet in episode 6 is pretty impressive
All show and no go. Most of the best weaponry had been sold off by corrupted rebel "officials" or was inoperable due to incompetence or lack of spare parts. The only reason the rebels performed as well as they did was that the Empire had more pressing business elsewhere.
Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
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Still totally outnumbered by the imperials though, they were getting slaughtered when they took the Imperial fleet on it was only the freakish loss of the Executor and the Imperial forces loss of their mind link to the Emperor that turned allowed the Rebels to triumph.Originally posted by TheStinger
I thought it was a proper civil war, The rebel fleet in episode 6 is pretty impressive.
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I never understood this, if you can build a ship 3/4 the size( my guess) of a star destroyer why not just build 1 as big and powerful. Sometime the rebles were just stupid
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I love the impersenation of the Iraqi Information Minister.Originally posted by mindseye
You have to remember that most of the rebel forces were not only under-trained but in fact pretty cowardly. A lot of them were criminals, drug addicts, and other misfits who had fled the Empire's reach. They were clawing over each other to get out of there at the first sight of Imperial forces.
They will be slaughterd at the Gates of Coruscant
Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
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Lack of resources.Originally posted by TheStinger
I never understood this, if you can build a ship 3/4 the size( my guess) of a star destroyer why not just build 1 as big and powerful.
Yeah, it's like saying if you can afford a 20 year old citroen C5 why can't you afford a Maclaren F1?
Why has the UK got a couple of crappy little harrier carriers and the US got loads of big nuclear Nimitz carriers?
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Because we aren't fighting the US, if you are going up aginanst an enemy in a conventional war then you build the right stuff. The rebels aren't like those stupid little anti government groups in the US, they are big. They managed to build fighters better than the empire's.
Once you have decided to build a blood huge ship it does not costs that much more to build a gigantic one.
The rebels leadership is lacking managerial expertise.
Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
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They weren't fighting a conventional war with the Empire. They were playing to thier strengths on going the route of guerrilla warfare due to thier relative weaknesses wrt Empire. The only reason you saw them out in force in Episode 6 is because they in a do or die situation due to the construction of the Death Star.Originally posted by TheStinger
Because we aren't fighting the US, if you are going up aginanst an enemy in a conventional war then you build the right stuff.
Any army that relies on a geeky weirdo, a big teddy bear and a crook to win their war has severe organisational defficiencies.
Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
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Hey, that's Blair's war cabinet you are talking about.
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If not for Admiral Ozzel's blundering, Hoth could have been the rebels tomb.
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I love the impersenation of the Iraqi Information Minister.
The rebels are sick in the mind, committing suicide at the gates of the Empire. They are nowhere near Hoth.
According to the official short story book I read, deliberate act of treason, not blundering.Originally posted by monkspider
If not for Admiral Ozzel's blundering, Hoth could have been the rebels tomb.
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