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Star Wars: was The Galactic Empire really that bad?

Well .................. not necessarily ... there is always sabotage .... can't fly a starcruiser or build a deathstar if the people who are building them are doing their best to ensure things go wrong at some later date.
 
sparkchaser said:
What I don't get is why The Empire didn't orbitally bombard the factories that were building Alliance spacecraft.
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The factories could have been disguised as something else. Perhaps they were built in quadrants where the Empire wasn't heavily patrolling. They could have been bought from other galaxies who weren't in league with the Empire, or were willing to see them taken down. The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
 
sparkchaser said:
Like how highly trained stormtroopers can't hit the broad side of a barn and are beaten by teddy bears with sticks?
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The teddy bears were on their home turf using guerilla tactics. The stormtroopers might not have had training to combat primitive, non technological weapons or to fight in such an environment. They only knew what they had been trained in on Kamino.
 
That would have been up to the commanding officers and if they had been wrong... Also any change of battle tactics may have to have been approved by Vader or the Emperor. Remember in WWII the reserve panzers were not used during the Invasion because Hitler had to allow it and he was having a temper tantrum, so no one asked.
 
And that is why the Empire fell -- they didn't let their commanders fight!

This seems to have a historical precedent :shifty
 
regdog said:
The teddy bears were on their home turf using guerilla tactics. The stormtroopers might not have had training to combat primitive, non technological weapons or to fight in such an environment. They only knew what they had been trained in on Kamino.
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America won their war of Independence using exactly the same tactics against the superior fire power of the British.

Don't underestimate the power of a determined enemy fighting on its home territory in a guerilla war.
 
Meadow337 said:
America won their war of Independence using exactly the same tactics against the superior fire power of the British.

Don't underestimate the power of a determined enemy fighting on its home territory in a guerilla war.
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Americans seem to forget that if it wasn't for the French helping out, the colonies might have lost. It's actually surprising that we did win. And now, almost 220 years later, America kicked England's ass because America is Awesome. And 2nd Amendment.
 
sparkchaser said:
Americans seem to forget that if it wasn't for the French helping out, the colonies might have lost. It's actually surprising that we did win. And now, almost 220 years later, America kicked England's ass because America is Awesome. And 2nd Amendment.
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History is written by the victors.
 
We defeated the Brits for several reasons:

1. Their diet: tea and crumpets. Our diet: whiskey and raw squirrel.

2. We wore not fancy uniforms and hid behind trees and shot at them while they lined up to shoot us and wore bright red uniforms that were easy to hit.

3. We had George Washington, Paul Bunyan, and Ulysses S. Grant. They had Mr. Bean.
 
sparkchaser said:
We defeated the Brits for several reasons:

1. Their diet: tea and crumpets. Our diet: whiskey and raw squirrel.

2. We wore not fancy uniforms and hid behind trees and shot at them while they lined up to shoot us and wore bright red uniforms that were easy to hit.

3. We had George Washington, Paul Bunyan, and Ulysses S. Grant. They had Mr. Bean.
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now that's revisionist history in the extreme :rofl

how about you didn't win, the British just got bored and went home :p
 
sparkchaser said:
Honestly though, it's amazing we actually won.
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Like I said don't ever underestimate the power / effectiveness of guerilla warfare. Historically speaking there have been many times when a superior force was overcome by an inferior force who were fighting a guerilla war on home ground. Also the cost of mounting a war across an ocean is very expensive. I think that at least part of the reason America won the war of independence has to be attributed to other factors such as the cost to Britain, the unpopularity of King Whatisface - George III and a lot of times poor military strategy on the part of the British.
 
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