Re: [GZG] QUESTION Re: Walkers in 15mm

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Remember, by the time of RotJ they'd been cloning these guys for ~20
years.	Imperial troops are clones of clones of clones of
clones.   Given the usual errors in the cloning process, these guys are
breaking down pretty bad by the time of the last movies.
That seems to be confirmed by their poor performance throughout the last
3 movies.

  Grant

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Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 5:51 PM
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Subject: Re: [GZG] QUESTION Re: Walkers in 15mm

A funny man from across the pond wrote:

Um, well... today's MBTs can also be taken out of the fight by dropping
big
trees on them from ambush (particularly the kind of elaborate ambushes
featured in RotJ). OK, they won't *explode* quite as nicely as the
chicken
walkers do, but you can disarm them, blind them and immobilize them...
and
they're not even recce units :-P

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I'm not saying you can't immobilize a tank with a good pit trap or with
logs. Mind you, we've both seen tracklayers pull out of some pretty
extreme scenarios that looked like it should bog them. Break vision
blocks and electronics, possibly. I guess a big enough logfall might
damage the weaponry.

But the whole 'trip it with a rope held by about 6 fat fuzzy bears" etc.
is a bit dodgy. If we assume Imperial Troops are decent (might not apply
to AT-AT crews, just Stormtroopers - who else can be so precise?), at
the first sign of trouble, they'd lock their hatches (if something is
knocking on the roof, you ask your stormtroopers to shoot it until it
stops) and they'd be aware of the possibility of tree falls and
rockfalls and suck and govern themselves accordingly. 6 fat fuzzy bears
isn't going to stop one.

And if it looks like you're going to get a rockfall, instead of tipping
over and blowing up (must have been made by the Republic Pinto
Engineering Company of Banasdan), they might just dig the feet in. Then
they wouldn't be trying to walk on logs.

At worst, they get knocked over anyway, at best, their legs hold and
they might be stationary, but at least they are upright and can shoot.

And I have doubts about these bears as arboreal climbers. Most of them
were too rotund to get up on a log without a Princess to help.

And don't get me started about the uselessness of Stormtrooper Armour.
Won't stop a rock, won't stop a blaster, won't stop a lightsaber, limits
your visibility, limits your movement.... arrrghhh....

Wee wakka, ee chupa! Yub-Nub! YUB-NUB!!!!!
"Translation: Those Stormtroopers are killing us! Run! Runnnnnnnn!!!!!"

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http://www.theforce.net/SWTC/holocaust.html

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