pashnak Posted February 17, 2014 Share Posted February 17, 2014 http://imgur.com/gallery/w5MHii8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr_hair Posted February 17, 2014 Share Posted February 17, 2014 Ha superb! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeMaxim Posted February 17, 2014 Share Posted February 17, 2014 Amen to that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iconoclasta_88 Posted February 18, 2014 Share Posted February 18, 2014 LOL!! So true... I on the other hand, have a different theory, based on the same facts... 1. Imperial Stormtroopers are highly trained soldiers that have the whole galaxy under control for many decades. 2. They do shoot most rebel targets during the whole trilogy, including foot soldiers, navy crews, starpilots and other heavy equipment. 3. Luke is, for practical means, a semigod. His father was created by the force itself and we know his destiny is even greater than that of Vader. 4. Imperial Stormtroopers are either human clones or human recruits. Neither of whom have any super power. 5. The only times where Stormtroopers seem to be un-efficient is when they have to confront Luke (and his very close friends including his twin sister). So... given the facts, I think that expecting Stormtroopers to defeat Luke Skywalker, would be like expecting regular soldiers to defeat Thor, Superman or Hercules... They had no chance. Not even Palpatine nor Vader were able to defeat him. If we went fully into the "Hero's Journey" theory, the only one who could ever top Luke was Leia, just cause she has the same powers by heritage, and is a woman. Naturally more powerful and wiser than men. And that almost happened in Dark Empire as far as I understand (have never read it luckily). My 2 cents on this. OH! And yes, it is a movie. Saludos Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daetrin Posted February 19, 2014 Share Posted February 19, 2014 Old news... This is from a post I did on FISD in 2006.... http://www.whitearmor.net/forum/topic/380-the-stormtrooper-effect/ A person on the same forum replied: "Nice analysis. I think the baddies in any movie, including those made long before SW, always get wasted en masse by the heroes. They wouldn't be heroes if they couldn't, right? Watch a WWII flick and you'll soon lose count on the number of nazis that are mown down by just a handful of guys - remember 'The Dirty Dozen'? Maybe they're picking on the poor stormies just because SW happens to be one of the most popular and high-profile movies of all time. Does this include the pilots?" My interpretation was: "Probably not. The rebels lost all but two pilots (Wedge/Luke) in ANH, with the impression that all were lost in ship to ship combat. And IIRC, Han barely escaped by the skin of his teeth in ESB. The rebels weren't doing too hot in ROTJ until the Death Star got defeated either." Below are my thoughts from the perspective of my alter ego, TK(TD)8020. OK, I just have to defend our guys in black and white. First off, I was there in docking bay 94. Our orders were to stop the ship. The only reason that scruffy Correlian lived was because we weren't aiming for him. If we killed him and the ship got away we'd be disobeying orders, so everyone aimed for things like the insystem flight controls to keep them from taking off, or to cripple them so they couldn't run in case they did get off. That was the priority. Yeah, a few of us bought it, but not everyone had the opportunity to run for cover & there was a pretty powerful laser cannon swinging our way...I like to think we were able to soften up at least the lateral controls. My buds in orbit said it wasn't maneuvering all that well and they barely escaped. Now I wasn't on the Death Star when all that hullaballoo went on (though I was earlier), but I talked to another of my buds who was, and he said that Vader had issued orders that those prisoners were not to be killed and to let them get away. So all that running around escaping bit you hear about? Well let me tell you they were only supposed to keep up enough fire to keep them running, not to kill them. At any cost. And the ship escaping? Same thing, he was in the docking bay (what a coincidence - both of us doing the same thing) and he told me that they were told just to aim to miss, e.g. let them get away. Why? Vader's idea. Dumb move if you ask me. So us guys in white did an outstanding job when you understand what was going on. And the TIE pilots? Again, they kicked some major butt. Only two rebel ships plus that frieghter got away - the rest destroyed in ship to ship combat. Yeah, our TIE guys don't get nearly enough credit as they deserve. Endor? Jeesh, I never hear the end of it. Listen, those guys were all ROADs (retired on active duty) and guys out of basic. Apparently the higher ups thought Endor duty was pretty low risk what with all the other hardware around, and it was just after holiday. Most of them were pretty toasted. And my cousin who's in intelligence and watched some of the classified security tapes told me that they were very much outnumbered, more so than the general public was led to believe. As if a small band or so locals could defeat troopers. As if. There were a lot more of those little fur coats around and a lot of them bought it before our troops were overwhelmed. Dirty little secret the rebels didn't want to reveal - made them look much tougher than they really were. OK long story short. We've gotten a lot of flack and some writers and what not have tried to lump us in with the sorry suckers of other military forces, but the reality of the situation is that we're the elite, and don't go down as easily as we're made out to be. TK/TD-8020 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cantina Security Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 That's funny, makes sense though... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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