Could Hoth's 4th panzer have accomplished its mission had it not been diverted?

[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.

[TheStinger]

Originally 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.

I bet you were gutted when vader betrayed his emporer

[MikeH]

Originally posted by TheStinger
I thought it was a proper civil war, The rebel fleet in episode 6 is pretty impressive.

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.

[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. Sometime the rebles were just stupid

[DinoDoc]

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.

I love the impersenation of the Iraqi Information Minister.

[TheStinger]

They will be slaughterd at the Gates of Coruscant

[DinoDoc]

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.

Lack of resources.

[MikeH]

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?

[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. 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.

[DinoDoc]

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.

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.

[TheStinger]

Any army that relies on a geeky weirdo, a big teddy bear and a crook to win their war has severe organisational defficiencies.

[MikeH]

Hey, that's Blair's war cabinet you are talking about.

[monkspider]

If not for Admiral Ozzel's blundering, Hoth could have been the rebels tomb.

[mindseye]

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.

[MikeH]

Originally posted by monkspider
If not for Admiral Ozzel's blundering, Hoth could have been the rebels tomb.

According to the official short story book I read, deliberate act of treason, not blundering.