Battle of Genosis (Force Substitution)

[sonofccn]

First off I would like to thank Cpl Kendall for reminding me that the Laats had shields, I had indeed forget that the novel claims shielding.

I will also say perhapes I mispoke before. I was simply stating that laats dish out and are expected to recieve(ie juding from ATOC battle scence) weapon outputs that mordern earth would not have a very hard time duplicating if not exceeding. So the Terran Confederacy should have no trouble dishing out enough damage to hurt those flying machines. Likewise any shot that lands on the wraith would no doubt do plenty of damage as well.

[Cpl Kendall]

Hmm, the novel eh? Never considered that angle. Of course I don't have it anyways so that wouldn't have been of any help. And my local library is woefully short of sci-fi.

[Mr. Oragahn]

The LAAT being downed was flying along side with the other LAATs which took off from the arena.

Therefore, if it was weakened before hand, it can only be from some cannon or blaster in that arena, and we know what geonosian droids and sonic pulses were capable of: not that impressive.

After that, the whole group goes on towards the plateau where there's a whole legion of wheeled droids equipped with laser DCA.

One hit and bang! No more LAAT.

I pretty much doubt that such droids had a firepower superior to that of a geonosian fighter.

That said, when you look at what those fighters' bolts were doing on the sand dunes, or on the rock cliffs, it was clearly not impressive either.

There's no real way to walk around that. The LAATs are not true flying juggernaughts. Their advantage is in mobility, troop transport and weaponry, but certainly not shields.

Then why did Obi-Wan's LAAT take several hits before disembarking him? Whatever we can say about the yield of SW weapons (an argument that has been flogged to death) the gunship clearly absorbed several hits.

Sure, I won't deny the fact that the LAAT's shields absorbed the concussive shock of multiple geonosian shots flakbursting all around it.
The thing is, the yields are so low that the total energy needed to drop the shields is not impressive at all.

[Mr. Oragahn]

Then why did Obi-Wan's LAAT take several hits before disembarking him? Whatever we can say about the yield of SW weapons (an argument that has been flogged to death) the gunship clearly absorbed several hits.

Could it be that they haven't hit important systems but unimportant systems and the "armour" on the back of the LAAT? You know that not every plane explodes at once when it is hit?

But maybe they should us the sand from Geonosis as armour.
(click on an image to enlarge it)[/list][/list]That has to be exceptionally sand if it can withstand the super-duper-hyper yields of Star Wars weapons.

Less than a second later, we can a second bolt hit the tip of a dune. Considering the angle, which was upwards, and considering that we don't see the bolt poping out on the other side of the dune, we're pretty much settled on the "super focused" argument.

Besides, it's in this sequence that we see the LAAT take a direct hit at the right wing.

The DVD will probably be good to catch the minor explosions due to the second fighter's bolts hitting the clonetrooper, the platform's edge and the rocky cliff.