#4466613 - 03/20/19 12:23 PM
A stormtrooper and a redshirt...
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..engage in a duel. The stormtrooper fires, but all his shots miss.
The redshirt dies anyway.
In all my years I've never seen the like. It has to be more than a hundred sea miles and he brings us up on his tail. That's seamanship, Mr. Pullings. My God, that's seamanship!
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#4466638 - 03/20/19 02:11 PM
Re: A stormtrooper and a redshirt...
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PM, The only explanation is that the Galactic Empire won most of the battles using Napoleonic era line formations to create a mass of fire. Although the Empire forces are at a clear disadvantage in the narrow confines of spaceship hallways, on the open field their superior numbers negated their poor marksmanship. Also, they could destroy entire planets if only they worked out the kinks in their prototype super-weapons. [/nerd mode]
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#4466678 - 03/20/19 04:08 PM
Re: A stormtrooper and a redshirt...
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But in the first Star Wars when they come apron the sand crawler, Obi Wan says that it had to be Imperial Stormtroopers since only their blast points would be so precise.
He said so, but I never saw it in any of the movies.
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#4466731 - 03/20/19 09:12 PM
Re: A stormtrooper and a redshirt...
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Ya beat me to it, OG. And the answer to the puzzle is quite simple. It's what I call, selective accuracy. And the writer is the one who does the selecting. It's the reason the good guy wins all the gunfights.
A great example of selective accuracy is found in the early part of "Thunderbolt and Lightfoot". Clint Eastwood is posing as a preacher when two former partners in crime interrupt his sermon. The one guy has a Broom-handle Mauser and opens fire from no more than fifty feet away...and his shots go all over the wall. His spread is literally about half the distance to target. As he's reloading, Eastwood runs out of the church and gets maybe 75-100 yards of separation before the baddie shoots again. This time he puts two or three consecutive shots (it's been a while since I've seen the movie) into the wood fence post Eastwood is using to help him leap the fence. Selective accuracy.
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#4466735 - 03/20/19 09:57 PM
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If only stormtroopers have that kind of pinpoint accuracy, that doesn't mean ALL stormtroopers have that ability. In a backwater like Tatooine, you're not likely to find first-rate troops..much more likely to find the Empire's version of kitchen police...unless the first-rate troops happen to be in the neighborhood and somebody sends them there looking for some lost droids. Like maybe if they were on a Star Destroyer on orbit.
We're also assuming that it was shoulder fired small arms.
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#4466759 - 03/21/19 12:50 AM
Re: A stormtrooper and a redshirt...
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Well, they couldn't hit friggin' space wizards for crap because, well, duh, space wizards.
Add in that they never, ever actually aim. Waving a rifle from the waist in the general direction of a target usually generates negative results.
Plus the Star Wars galaxy is full of complete wuss worlds. "We have no Army or weapons to defend ourselves! Oh noes! How could it ever happen that a completely defenseless world would be thought of as an easy mark for even the most inefficient group with actual weapons?"
One doesn't have to be super competent to win - one only has to be better than the other guy.
The only two worlds to actively defend themselves against the Empire in the entire series of films were WookieWorld and the moon over Endor.
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#4466796 - 03/21/19 10:27 AM
Re: A stormtrooper and a redshirt...
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What about the "A - Team" ?
Supposed to be a crack team of special forces. Never actually hit anyone that I can remember ........
Andy I tried watching an episode of the A-Team a few years ago and I stopped the DVD after about 10 minutes. The 80's cheese and campiness was in FULL force.
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#4466799 - 03/21/19 10:36 AM
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What about the "A - Team" ? Masters of suppression. They are so good, they never need to hit the baddies to make them give up. They are the true masters of firearms.
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#4466895 - 03/21/19 05:44 PM
Re: A stormtrooper and a redshirt...
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#4466923 - 03/21/19 08:20 PM
Re: A stormtrooper and a redshirt...
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Force-filled heroes like C3PO, R2D2, Chewbacca, Han Solo, you mean? Chewie I can't speak to. The driods are probably ignored as essentially non-threats unless specifically targetted by superiors by order. Han on the other hand. Han's affinity for the Force has been debated often. Where'd he get his fabled luck, so well known years before he meets the old man, the kid, and the walking trash barrel?
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#4466986 - 03/22/19 11:44 AM
Re: A stormtrooper and a redshirt...
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Hypothetical battle: An army of Star Wars stormtroopers vs. an army of the Padishah emperor's Sardaukaur? The latter is from the Dune universe in case you didn't know.
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#4641637 - 01/25/24 05:54 PM
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Exodus
by RedOneAlpha. 04/18/24 05:46 PM
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