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Gatineau
Dec 2001
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The USS Enterprise D would have kicked Hoth's a**!
/double threadjack
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Cruddy
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quote:
Originally posted by Lancer
Could Hoth's 4th panzer have accomplished its mission had it not been diverted?
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An academic question. If it had not been diverted the attack on Moscow would have been slower. Stalingrad is a helluva lot further than 2 weeks advance.
No, IMHO.
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Cruddy
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Originally posted by MikeH
Hard to go to the toilet in a hurry though with all that armour on. |
Even today's spacesuits have sanitary facilities. You'd think the SW equivalent was a bit more high tech.
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Demerzel
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IIRC the calamari capital ships were adapted from their peacetime vessels - so they were naturally smaller and less powerful than a custom built Imperial alternative.
Storm Trooper strategy seemed to be keep throwing troops at the enemy until they run out of juice for their guns. No wonder they didnt have enough troops to control the whole empire at the end.
And why with a high-tech empire, could no-one make a gun that actually shot straight? the accuracy ratio in SW must be about 5% of all shots fired hitting their intended target - if that..
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Cruddy
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Two notes about Lucas' direction of SW movies:-
1) The spaceship explosions in the original trilogy were clearly not filmed in a vacuum. It makes me laugh to this day to see them.
2) The laser bolt effects he uses are very much like modren day tracer fire. They are certainly totally unlike laser beams, which travel at light speed (of course).
Are you guys still convinced about this space opera?
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Main_Brain
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Economic World Center
Jul 2002
time: 06:28
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I'd say yes.
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Lonestar
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AECCP Dark Lord of the Sith
Aug 2000
time: 00:28
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quote:
Originally posted by Demerzel
IIRC the calamari capital ships were adapted from their peacetime vessels - so they were naturally smaller and less powerful than a custom built Imperial alternative.
Storm Trooper strategy seemed to be keep throwing troops at the enemy until they run out of juice for their guns. No wonder they didnt have enough troops to control the whole empire at the end.
And why with a high-tech empire, could no-one make a gun that actually shot straight? the accuracy ratio in SW must be about 5% of all shots fired hitting their intended target - if that.. |
Some Mon Cal vessels were converted cruise ships, others, such as the winged MC80 series, were designed from the keel up to be warships. While the intial Mon Cal cruisiers were, of course, under powered and armed, by ROTJ the first MC80's were being used by the Rebels.
Stormtroopers are shock troops, they are not the Imperial Army proper. Even the Old Republic Army was mostly made from Federalized sector forces and draftees (But the Republican Grand Army was, of course, the Clonetroopers)..
There's plenty of shooting straight.
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MRT144
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Seattle Washington
Oct 2002
time: 21:28
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Originally posted by loinburger
Yup, my Suspension of Disbelief gene is still in good working order. If I wanted good science, then I'd fall asleep reading a textbook rather than watch a Science Fiction film. |
im surprised the gene kept working after episode one.
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Cruddy
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Who is upset? I just think the premier company for special effects could have made it a bit more believable that's all.
As for the mystical force bit - well, just another branch of science from my point of view.
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