1. In that thread, THE WORLD (not a single country) has the advantage in numbers, supplies, aircraft and longe ranged weaponry. The Empire has the advantage in tech.
2. In this thread, USA has the advantage in...well...everything.
3. The Empire isn't as overpowering to the world as USA is to Rome. Romans have a HUGE range disadvantage and can do NOTHING to tanks or aircraft. The Empire does NOT have an advantage over us in range (in fact, we do since the Empire doesn't get access to artillery/missiles in that scenario), nor can they mow us down in the thousands before we get close to them.
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actually, the empire v america is probably a good comparison. The biggest disadvantages the Romans would have would be mobility and range, also that, compared to the American military, it would be stationary and incapable of retreat (especially given ICBM tech).
Same could be said in this scenario. Regardless of how powerful the Americans were, there would be no place they could go for reprieve or to regroup. They would literally be isolated to a location (earth) which the galactic imperial army could turn into ash, much like the American army could do to Europe. Both could do it from a distance the other couldn't account for (intercontinental or orbital range) and there is nothing that could be done to prevent the attack given the essentially prehistoric tech the Americans or Romans would have, comparatively.
It was gonna be wookies originally on Kashyyk.
How cool would that have been...?
Finally getting to see a wookie pulling arms out of sockets and shit.
Plus the distance between Wookie tech and imperial tech would have been shorter.
But with enough of a gap to get the message of "Even a small disadvantaged force can make a big change.."
But nooooooooooooooooooooooooo........
F***ing Ewoks.
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DID YOU EVEN READ THE THEAD SPECIFICATIONS???? IT WAS A SMALL INVASION GROUP VS THE ENTIRE EARTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LET'S SEE:
No space/air support, just ground troops (for the empire)
The empire sends an invasion force w/:
500,000 stormtroopers
1000 AT STs and tanks
100 AT ATs
Darth Vader is commander
Would they succeed?
READ BEFORE YOU POST!!!!
__________________ Introduce a little government. Upset the established gangs, and everything becomes order...
Democracy is the very definition of awesome.
__________________ Introduce a little government. Upset the established gangs, and everything becomes order...
Democracy is the very definition of awesome.
so it isn't the empire, it is a handicapped force, smaller than any invasion force the empire would send, and including only technology that modern Earth armies may be able to destroy
also, again, we are dismissing any advanced tactics and what not. This is essentially the same problem as with the Roman forces. We could handicap the Americans enough that they would lose, but that isn't the American army, it is us being creative.
Vader wins. He can force choke through a video monitor. He kills all world military leaders until the people of earth realize there is no advantage to fighting against a Jedi.
Not to mention, the empire isn't dumb. They wouldn't send such a small invasion force, especially given that nuclear arms would probably defeat them all.
read what? a thread that isn't linked to, that is retarded in the first place, and I have no interest in because it is either a) completely ignorant of military combat or b) a designed spite thread against the empire.
The Starwars Holiday special was released on TV once in 1978 or 9.
It had Boba fett cartoon in it and the most of the entire thing took place with Chewie Family on Kashyyk.
The first 10 mins is all unsubtitled wookie dialogue.
Look it up. Its great (In a "omg I actually cant beleive how terrible it is" way)
From what I could see, Blaster Bolts are not as fast as bullets. Someone did the calculations and they are between a third and 1/2 as fast as a normal .22 round.
Well, that dude was on the same ship. It is established, even in the EU, that that was probably the farthest it could be done. Very rearely do force powers work over long distancs. Twins communicating with the force are just about the only exception I can think of.
That's a good point. I thought he posted that in the thread already. (I looked above and saw that he posted it...but I am I work so I got interrupted for a few minutes before I submitted my post.)
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