RE: Stormtroopers N tie fighters

> Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 03:42:42 -0500
> From: "Thomas Barclay" <kaladorn@magma.ca>

> It has been said:
>
> Based on the more "realistic" battles in the
> X-Wing series I can say that 15 X Wings
> can kill a lot of TIE fighters,

X wing books base thier combats on the X-Wing computer game, all the
way up to the SSD kill.

If you've played it you know theres no real reason for large warships
at all.

> [Tomb] Obviously you never played TIE
> FIGHTER.

Same game engine different stats. Both were tailored for player
enjoyment.

> [Tomb] One last thought before you dump
> too much on Tie Fighter pilots. If you
> consider the three sanctioned Han Solo
> books by Brian Daley (the earliest, pretty
> much, of the SW novels, long ago) to be
> canon, then Han went to Imperial Academy
> and was an interceptor/fighter pilot. So
> apparently they have had a few excellent
> pilots from time to time.

So was Wedge and a number of other Rogue Squadron personnel.

> Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 10:23:40 -0800
> From: Michael Llaneza <maserati@earthlink.net>
> Subject: Re: Stormtroopers N tie fighters
>
> Good point about TIE Fighter Tomb, and if we'd seen any
> advanced models
> besides Vader's protoype model  I'd have mentioned them :-)

Like the Interceptor, which we do see.