Ep.3 Republic/Empire military units discussion

a clone pod? never heard of that

Also, don't forget that in this episode we are at war. There is a need for these giant war machines, like the Juggernaut. In the OT the war is over and all this military stuff is streamlined to be more for enforcement and and intimidation.

Clone pods are those three legged artillery walkers in that Wookie army photograph

Originally posted by Darth Luke
im not sure if this is posted but in this pic ive posted the at-te's have sprouted tall legs, i think that is the origin of the at-at

look here behing the wookie army

its called an at-ap all terrain attack pod

there are no AT-TEs in that pic, just Attack Pods and Juggernauts. At-TEs are shown in this pic

Originally posted by Alliance
Also, don't forget that in this episode we are at war. There is a need for these giant war machines, like the Juggernaut. In the OT the war is over and all this military stuff is streamlined to be more for enforcement and and intimidation.

Yes thats very true. That's why the stormtroopers are noobs and badly trained.

Originally posted by Alliance
there are no AT-TEs in that pic, just Attack Pods and Juggernauts. At-TEs are shown in this pic

well all i said is that they were at-te's with tall legs, i didnt know what they were called so i just put my words like that

Originally posted by Lord Banshee
Yes thats very true. That's why the stormtroopers are noobs and badly trained.

Despite that, I don't see why in the world the Empire eliminated the LAAT Assault gunship from its arsenal. Imagine if those would have been used at Hoth.

they could of wiped out the snowspeeders, but the empire aint smart they rely on everything else like when they came out hyperspace too close to hoth they thought they were strong enough, probaly were but vader wasnt happy

No, that was Ozzels fault. He died for the mistake too.

well he was the admiral or commander so he was representing the empire

Well, Vader does too and he was very disappointed with him. It could have been personal pride but it still seemed to be a mistake.

he probaly thought he was smart and tried to impress everyone, he seemed quite full of himself

This is true; and then got what was comin to him 😛

yeah, his air was cut off, he should of took some airwaves chewing gum lol

ha

After seeing ep2 and being super spoiled about ep3 does anyone think that the A-wing could be a spawn of the jedi starfighters?

Originally posted by Echuu
Despite that, I don't see why in the world the Empire eliminated the LAAT Assault gunship from its arsenal. Imagine if those would have been used at Hoth.

Thinking of the trilogy in are time...they weren't even created yet. Thats why they weren't there 😂 But good point the Empire should have thought about air cover.

Yeah it was a dumb question on my part; I suppose you could say though that they were fighting a bunch of rebs so they hadn't much need for airsupport; they just send in the shuttles with the troops and fly off!

And it wouldn't do much for the plot if they were entirely anhilalated.
BUt yeah, all this clone wars/EPISODE III weaponry rocks!

The new ARC ships remind me of X-Wings crossed with Snow speeders. I kinda like that, but the only thing that looks wrong is the sleek curves and stupid looking s-foils. A bit too Star Trek, but that's my personal preference.

I actually like the evolution of the land based craft. AT-ST's and AT-AT's really do look awesome now. More armoured, untouchable and fearsome than the clone predecessors. They are a logical progression with the Empire theme of "invincibility".

The Jedi Starfighters remind me more of TIE Interceptors. The main body is the shape of a Interceptor wing. Makes sense because the TIE Interceptors were the Empires finest fighters, so they oughta be based on the superior Jedi fighters right?

I would have preffered to see some Y-Wings though. They were always stated as the old school fighters, and the X-Wing replaced them because they were faster, and the older Y-Wing fighters were converted into bombers. Woulda been nice to have seen pre-bomber Y-Wings in Episode III. It would have also have been cool if we saw Vader's TIE Fighter, but in huge volumes, because that, at one point was the prototype TIE fighter but was too expensive to mass produce. Yeah, it's EU, but i liked it.

I never liked the Naboo Starfighter. It looked so out of place in a Star Wars movie. I know, they were the royal ships, so they would be sleek and clean - but come on, I can't respect any ship that gets dubbed as "The banana fighter" by fans.

I'm also not convinced with the TRI fighter either. Looks a little too "borg" or "matrix" rather than Star Wars.