Clone pilots are aiming impaired?

[Darth Andrew]

excuse us for offending you in anyway, im so sorry. idiot

Actually, I was defending your post:

yeh exactly what im saying, the droid star fighters were in like a clump behind them, JUST HOLD THE TRIGGER.

that happens to be over a month old. Just sayin'.

[Redtech]

No, USE MISSILES!

 

There you go. Pfft, these guys don't know the first rule of air-air combat. If they can't see you, then they can't tell where you're shooting from.

 

As for the violence, well, I suppose it is to make the film "Kiddy" although the argument that "adults don't buy Star Wars" falls a bit flat, I mean, I bet more adults buy Star Wars toys then kids! Unless the next generation are 100% dweebs..oh well, less threat of being beat up in my old age then.

[Kurgan]

Yeah I'd imagine only rich kids can afford to keep up collections with adults (who have jobs and thus more money). Even kids often get their parents to buy them stuff, so it's often adults buying the stuff than kids...

[Prime]

My "adults don't buy SW toys" was in jest.

[Redtech]

And that is why all of us need to learn how to become sarcastic online. Heck, I can't do it IRL well either.

 

Mind you, I want to buy a Tri-fighter model. They do have a certain "elegance" in form.

[Kurgan]

Yeah, sorry I had to pawn my Sarcasm Detector... ;(

[Justus]

They were basically swarmed with fighters. Plus it appears that the ARC-170 isn't as agile as the droid fighters, or even the Jedi starfighters so it may have been difficult for them to do evasive maneuvers against the droid fighters. Not much they can do if they are swarmed with fighters, the one clone pilot made it pretty obvious they were overwhelmed "They're all over me...get them off m...*static*".

 

Even though I like the ARC-170, it is a bulky fighter - would make an easy target.

[Prime]

Even though I like the ARC-170, it is a bulky fighter - would make an easy target.

It appears to be more akin to the fighter/bombers of WW2.

[Justus]

It's possible some of those ARC's got hit with some buzz droids, so that could account as to why they were doomed. I haven't read the novel, so I don't know what it says about the situation.

[Kurgan]

"They're all over me...get them off m...*static*".

 

Or as he says in Backstroke of the West, "He's in my behind!"

[Redtech]

Am I allowed to make gay innenuendo in this board?

 

Oh yeah, I've skimmed the book, tends to add that they were swarmed. Pretty much Tie-fighter strategies, but with decent ships.

 

Tri>>>Tie after all.

[JMAS]

Why does this bother people so much? It makes perfect sense.

 

Who are the clone troopers the predecessors of?

 

Stormtroopers. And we all know Stormtroopers couldn't hit the broad side of a bantha to save their life.

 

[Darth Andrew]

And yet the clones absolutely slaughtered the droids on Utapau.

[Darth Alec]

Because the movies mean that the stormtroopers would miss Alderaan with the DS, but clones have to win. In th EU there are loads of Imperial victorys.

[RaV™]

Well the Clone Pilots aim was on fine mark when they killed Plo Koon over Cato Neimoidia. So it worked for something didn't it?

[Darth Ru]

There is an explanation for the clone's lack of space combat proficiency. And although never really explained in the movies, the recent Starwars game, Battlefront II, in its cut scenes, explains that the republic clones didn't have enough pilots, so many of the pilots where actually ground combat troops that where pressed into filling pilot roles and given crash courses in space combat. Their clone training didn't really cover space combat or was glazed over in favor of the ground combat. When we see the clone trainging/growing facility on Kamino in AOTC I don't remember seeing any of the clones doing space fighter simulations, which I thought was kind of odd. But there you have it, most of the pilots wheren't really pilots at all. Its like taking a marine that has been trained to hold his own with a squad and saying hey we don't have enough pilots, here read this manual on how to fly an F-16 and get up there and take out some MIGs.

[PoiuyWired]

well, actually its the weaponary design's fault.

 

If droid fighters are always cramped together, then weaponary with AoE effect would work on them more efficiently. So it would only be reasonable if they have some "time bomb" like weapon dropping out from the tail of those arc 170s

[Elukka]

Well, if the Republic were to use weapons like the Slave 1's bomb, the Droid fighters probably wouldn't be flying cramped together.

[PR-0927]

Well, the reason they died is probably that they really couldn't hit every fighter in the swarm of droid fighters.

 

The Jango Fett clones were extremely...elite and well trained. The Imperial Stormtrooper ranks are filled from new recruits or their clones. The clone pool got diluted. They are not as good.

 

- Majin Revan

[JoesGuy]

Let's just say the shear numbers of Vulture Droids pwnd those clone pilots. =D

[RC-1162]

They're better than those TIE retards.

 

MC, they are those TIE retards

[Pho3nix]

Actually that whole sequence was badly made, some dogfights would have been nice. :|

[JoesGuy]

I know what you mean Pho3nix. It was to centralized around Ani and Obi.

[St. Jimmy]

It'd be cool if they made like, an extra scene that follows a squad of clones for a bit during a battle.

[Nedak]

This is how I see it. Lucas made it so that clones were only good sometimes, he made it so Stormtroopers stink at shooting and die way to fast, He never showed any blood or gore during any battles (which ticks me off). The way I see it he messed up 1,2,3, and 6. I love the movies but I have to admit that he should have considerd more things when making the movies.