Quote Originally Posted by Darth Drizzle View Post
The TIEs were never said to have sheilds. They don't get shot down by anything because of HOW they are deployed. The swoop down from space/high altitude after the area has been scanned and targets aquired by the Lambada or other craft and taking out any Artillery/AA weapons which is standard warfare moves and they are the Empire who literally has taken over thousands of okanets. They also have TIE bombers with the ability to wreck any WW 2 underground bases considerably as they did futuristic bunkers from other planets. Also after said bombing run they can still land ATs and other Land Machines to sweep up the rest knowing that no back up is getting their in time to stop them.

Answer this. How are they shooting down an enemy they don't know is coming, can see every weapon/vehicle they have, and strike with weapons that hit like missles without running out of ammo and taking out all of their defenses before ANY alarm is even sounded?

Or are we going off the ridiculous assumption that the Imperials always fly blind into a fully prepared battlefield where hundreds of Planes, Tanks, Artillery are ready and just looking into the sky for hours on end waiting to fire on the first thing that moves. Because that is what good strategic minds do when outnumbered by the Thousands. Just blindly fly into a Battle where they already have planes in the Air and Artillery geared up in the exact position to open fire when they drop from space at any place in the world.

The Allies will never get past or come up with a way to stop the Imperials from scanning and dropping from space and obliterating their targets across the world day or night and leaving without suffering any loses to their side.
How are they shooting down an enemy they don't know is coming

by 1944 there was a pretty large, and complex network for detecting aircraft in Western Europe. the British had one. the Germans had one too. they were constantly looking for enemy aircraft. there were radar stations, acoustical detection networks, people searching the sky with binoculars, search lights. anything that was important had somebody watching out for enemy aircraft. people were trained to recognize the sound of particular types of engines and give people a warning. between June of 1944 and 1945 the skies over Europe were among the most closely monitored skies in the history of the world up to that point. you're proposing that even when people are actively searching for enemy aircraft 24/7 because of an existing threat that they can't possibly detect a new one?

keep in mind that all Imperial weapons fire in a straight line. so, if nothing else, people will eventually figure out that somebody got attacked from a specific direction. those giant green energy bolts that people said would leave people completely demoralized? those are going to make the presence of the Empire highly visible.

look, you can't have complete secrecy and an effective reign of terror at the same time. you have to pick one or the other.

I guess the Imperial deflector shield can actively stop anybody from getting within visual range of the Star Destroyer so as to prevent people from looking at it. well, okay... maybe the shield will simply make the vehicles that come nearby explode and crash instantly. while that is going on the Imperial crew can actively jam any and all radio signals, telephone lines, and telegraphs to make sure that it's impossible for people to say anything. then they can make sure to instantly spot and murder anybody who may have casually seen them, so that they don't report it back to the local authorities. gotta watch out for those motorcycle recon patrols, bicyclists, and pedestrians too. then they'll send out Stormtroopers to collect all of the burned out vehicles and dead bodies to help keep it even more secret. and, since nobody could possibly notice large numbers of people and vehicles simply disappearing within a 30 mile circle... the Imperial secret is completely safe! there's no way people could possibly see a stranded space ship sitting on the ground that's nearly 2 kilometers long.

at any rate... while all the Star Destroyer is effortlessly destroying everything within a 30 mile radius and collecting all of those charred vehicles and carcasses... then they'll send up cargo transports to recon the planet... these transports are also perfectly suited for ground attack and reconnaissance. even though these shuttles are about 70 feet long and 70 feet tall and 50 feet wide while in flight.... nobody will see them! even though it's been proven that it takes them over 30 minutes to leave the atmosphere at top speed... NOBODY will ever notice them because they move so fast. oh, and they are invisible to radar... for REASONS. even though we have no feats to back this up. these shuttles will then emit a powerful radioactive energy that will blind people and erase their memory in case they just happened to see something.