Hollywood Tactics: Difference between revisions

**** Blockading is already hard enough on a 2D surface without strategic choke-points. In 3D space it's totally impossible. Interestingly, Star Wars universe actually allows for blockading, as the hyperspace routes are 1D pathways. You can just blockade entire systems using them as your focus. But this is disregarded because of the [[Rule of Cool]]: you can't display a nice bunch of mega-spaceships around a planet.

**** Stuff with the Trade Federation is understandable when you consider this was an army commanded by businessmen, who are following Darth Sidious's orders [[Truth in Television|and individuals with no military training often actually do make the kinds of blunders they did when commanding an army.]] Plus they had it easy since Naboo's security force have little to no means in standing against a fully mechanized army.

** ''[[Attack of the Clones]]'' had thousands of infantry in a slowly advancing skirmish line in an open field battle involving lots of heavy weapons, and ''[[Revenge of the Sith]]'' had numerous occasions of clones running headfirst at heavy armed and armored droids (and they were being cut down by the dozens as a result).

** The Battle of Hoth in ''[[The Empire Strikes Back]]'' is pretty good by ''Star Wars'' standards, considering the Imperials were denied aerial and orbital support by the shield generator and the Rebels were only stalling for time, but it still has the Rebel pilots charging headfirst at vehicles that could only fire forward, and the Imperials having vehicles [[Fixed Forward-Facing Weapon|that could only fire forward]].