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Why didn't the pilots braked while in the trench?
2004-09-24, 7:00 PM #1
With those TIEs behind them, wouldn't it make sense to brake and try to shoot them from behind?
2004-09-24, 8:00 PM #2
TIE's have breaks too...
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2004-09-25, 10:21 AM #3
This is not the forum you were looking for. [We're talking about the DVDs, not the mistakes the movies have always had! :p]
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2004-09-25, 11:10 AM #4
It is kind of related to the DVDs....yes I realized the TIEs have brakes, but wouldn't the X-Wings braking in the trench take them by surprise?
2004-09-25, 11:43 AM #5
There were turbo lasers too. They had stopped, but if the x-wings brake, they become perect tagets for the stationary towers.

Plus the death star had gravity, braking might be a bad idea if so doing causes you to drop.
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2004-09-25, 11:55 AM #6
Actually, braking in space probably wouldn't work too hot. My experience trying the same in XWing and TIE Fighter is that I die. Quickly.
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2004-09-26, 12:41 AM #7
wouldn't they risk having the TIEs crash into them if they did that?
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2004-09-26, 1:30 AM #8
I always found that a particular cruel part of the movies. The wingmen basically bought with their very lives the seconds the leader needed to reach the spot where he could launch the proton torpedoes.

I bet the wingmen would have gladly given their right hand for some mines or a blaster they could shoot rearward...

But given the resources at their disposal they should have had another wing to take care of the few TIEs. Like Han Solo basically did for Luke.

But of course it was far more dramatic this way.
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2004-09-26, 5:25 PM #9
STOP OVER ANALYZING STUFF!
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2004-09-26, 6:33 PM #10
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STOP OVER ANALYZING STUFF!


Stop telling people what to do and let them discuss the damned movie.
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2004-09-28, 12:18 PM #11
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Stop telling people what to do and let them discuss the damned movie.


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2004-09-28, 1:27 PM #12
Weren't the rebels essentially funded by charity? Maybe they didn't have enough money to put fancy pants brakes on all their X-Wings. When times our tough, sometimes you have to do without the luxories. I mean, did you see their targeting computers? What was that, a hacked atari pong cartridge?
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2004-09-28, 1:52 PM #13
What they needed were some flares like in XvT or XwA. Whenever a Tie would get on my tail, I would realease a flare and it wouldn't quite kill them, but it would take them down to 66% and make them spin uncontrollably. It would have probably made them spin into the Deathstar had they had some of them.
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2004-09-28, 2:39 PM #14
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Stop telling people to stop telling people what to do!


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2004-10-01, 7:30 PM #15
It's a movie. Logic is meant to be flawed.
2004-10-02, 12:46 PM #16
they could have ejected their R2 units in hope it might collide with a fighter...i'm sure that would take down a TIE fighter.
2004-10-02, 5:47 PM #17
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Originally posted by El Scorcho
I mean, did you see their targeting computers? What was that, a hacked atari pong cartridge?


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2004-10-03, 12:23 AM #18
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Originally posted by Duo Maxwell
they could have ejected their R2 units in hope it might collide with a fighter...i'm sure that would take down a TIE fighter.


No it wouldn't.... it would be like throwing a beer can at a Dodge Dakota. Have you played Battlefront? You walk up to a TIE fighter, and its freakin huge (they have to fit a person in that sphear between the "wings").
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2004-10-03, 4:47 PM #19
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Originally posted by KOP_Snake
What they needed were some flares like in XvT or XwA. Whenever a Tie would get on my tail, I would realease a flare and it wouldn't quite kill them, but it would take them down to 66% and make them spin uncontrollably. It would have probably made them spin into the Deathstar had they had some of them.

True, very true. Those things annoyed the crud out of me in the XvT missions when i was trying to take out Y-Wings.
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2004-10-04, 6:58 AM #20
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Originally posted by KOP_Snake
No it wouldn't.... it would be like throwing a beer can at a Dodge Dakota. Have you played Battlefront? You walk up to a TIE fighter, and its freakin huge (they have to fit a person in that sphear between the "wings").


with the speed the tie fighter would hit the r2 unit, i expect a wonderful R2 shaped hole would appear in the TIE fighter & the TIE pilot.

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