Originally posted by Tortoise Herder
No tripe. I said that it was very likely that the CLONES had brought arty, air support, and armor with them, no the Jedi.
Originally posted by Tortoise Herder
.O.K., .O.K., as funny as this has been, back on topic. I believe that the Jedi's support, from arty to armor to air support, would have a decisive effect on the battle.
Guys, in the first page someone unwisely tried to state how he would divide up the troops to take each type of Jedi. This is very foolish. First of all, you should always take the most dangerous opponents first. This is the Masters. I would send EVERYONE at them. They can't survive and fight forever. Hell, they aren't even the beastly Masters, they were all killed on planetary missions (Ki Adi and Plo). This leaves the training master which are good, but not on par with Plo and the other good ones. After taking out the Masters you move on to others. I would split them into platoons of 50 each and deal with any jedi left. It doesn't matter if you have 50 against 1 padawan, they are dangerous and the fight will end quickly enough that way that you won't have super heavy causualties.
You don't have to worry about a massive group of jedi to take on say 200 clones anyway, they don't want to group up like that. The best bet for the Jedi is to split into small groups and try sneak their way out. But if I was Appo, I would have some big gun at each exit, entrance and hose anything that came out.
Ok, Sorry, but I have been away for a while.
Anyway, you mention that you doubt that the clones would have air support in the actual academy. Had they been trying to fit the gunships through the front doors. However, you have forgotten that the roof, the walls, and everything else are not made of some invincible super-gel brought down by Thor from Mount Olympus while he was speaking Polish (joke, intentionally inaccurate).
They are made of stones, metal, etc. Now I will not pretend to be an expert on the building materials used in-universe, It is quite easy to imagine that the Clones could knock holes in the roof/walls in the course of their fire-missions, or even for the stated purpose of allowing the flyboys to do their thing (yes this has been done before, like the Serb-Bulgar war of 1885, in the battle of Pirot, the Bularians used arty to blow holes in the roofs of some buildings (even those that were not important) in order to allow the Bulgarian Infantry to attack their Serbian counterparts while having an advantage in firing field and the element of shock.
It is easy to see how they could use the same principles with airpower.
has anyone actually read Dark lords, Rise of Vader!???
Even Darth Sidious says that Anakin wasn't needed in the slaughter in the temple.
How the hell are the younglings going to fight experienced soldiers? Can they even block 3 shots from a Z-6 rotary blaster cannon, which fires 166 rounds PER SECOND? Can even Jedi knights or masters block that much?
And a DC15A could blast 50cm holes in ferroconcrete walls. Imagine hitting flesh. IT'd go right through!
And the clones won't be standing around to get hit by deflected blaster bolts, they will be MOVING, and TAKING COVER.
The clones take this