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This is irrevelant, since he did not give a new order to the fleet, so Piet was not informed that he could then destroy the rebel fleet. Maybe it sounds like, but it is not. It is instead "force them to remain in front of the superlaser" (after the superlaser as the emperor's plan was revealed). At the opening stage the rebel fleet was between the DS and the Executor. When the rebel fleet moved toward the imperial (and likely toward the Executor), it remained in the line of sight of the superlaser. Ozzel did not exactly underestimate the rebels. (Side note: in the fourth draft of the shooting script Vader previously told him to snake upon the rebel base and killed him because he disobeyed that order.)(Actually he did not even make a mistake' date=' since the shield was already set up and the evacuation was in progress.) And by thinking he would otherwise disobey the emperor's order? Undoubtedly. When the rebel fleet arrived in point-blank range (and became obscured from the Death Star), the task of the imperial fleet changed to the destruction of the rebel fleet. Only it was already too late. In the novelisation (when the fleets were close and Calrissian wanted them to move even closer), even Ackbar complained that they knew nothing about the tactic of point-blank combat. You label Piet and the entire imperial command staff *REALLY STUPID* because they were unable to conquer a completely new tactic from a very difficult situation. Before I agreed I would like you to present a plan which would work when the enemy ships are inside of your formation. If you cannot create such a plan within a few minutes, you will also deserve your label of *REALLY STUPID* just as myself.

You wandered why there were no Bombers among the fighters those attacked the rebel fleet. There were no Bombers because Bombers could accidentally destroy one or more large ships. The rebel fleet approached to close range. (The novelisation mentions this situation as a tank duel from twenty steps, so the fleets were likely only a few kilometers from each other.) Then Lando wanted the ships to move even closer to prevent the DS from firing at them. It means that even when the fleets were quite close, the DS had no targeting problems. So the situation from Piet's point of view: They have come closer and firing on my ships. Has it changed the plan and gave me the right to quickly wipe them out? Hmm, the DS is still firing, so the emperor's plan for them is still working. Are they dangereous? No. At that range they will not hold for long even if we do not concentrate our return fire. Holy shit! Since we are not really endangered if I order a concentrated return fire, it would be desobeying a direct order without any real reason. First af all, it assumes that they had other fighters in reserve. And when the DS shield dropped the rebel fighters were followed by Ties numbering twice their amount. So nearly at the end of the battle we can assume a 2 to 1 numerical superiority for the Ties. (And it suggests an even higher ratio at the start of the battle.) However this did not prevent the rebel fighters from reaching the reactor shaft in numbers, so likely it would also not prevent them from quickly destroying any Bombers launched late in the battle.

Stop! Harassing does not equal to 'attack to destroy'! The emperor wanted to destroy the rebel fleet as slowly and overwhelming as possible, to 'impress' Skywalker. So, Piet's order was to destroy the rebel fleet if it would flee, but otherwise keep it intact! Do not forget (when playing armchair Piet) that if Piet had overriden the orders from the emperor, he would have seriously risked his life (regardless whether he would win the battle)! As an armchair Piet: Opening: WDHD (What did he do?): He set the rebel cruisers as primary targets for the Tie fighters (without real chance for the Ties), and held back all other fighting force. Other options: 1: You could destroy the rebel capital ships with your destroyers and/or with your bombers. Consequence 1: You would win the battle only to be executed. (Remember your former superior, Ozzel.) 2: You could destroy the rebel fighters with your fighters already on their way. But without their fighters (and without the main chance to take out the DS), the rebel cruisers would immediately retreat. Since you caused them not to act according to the emperor's plan, see consequence 1. Phase 1 (The DS is firing and the rebel fleet just sits.): There is nothing to do, everything goes as planned. Phase 2 (The rebel fleet is approaching yours and opens fire on your ships.): WDHD: Started to destroy the rebel fleet with his destroyers. Other options: 1: You could launch your Bombers. However, your ships are already under fire, so launching ships was somewhat risky, and as Ackbar's aid said your fleet were clearly superior in that kind of battle, so it would be only an overkill. Phase 3 (The rebel fleet is moving into your formation.) WDHD: Nothing. Other options: 1: You could launch the bombers from the farther destroyers (shielded from rebel fire by your closer ships). Yes, it would help, but not a lot, since the Tie fighters were already decimated to the point that they were largely unable to stop the rebel fighters from anything. Besides you had no time to create a plan because the rebel ships surrounded the closer destroyers and destroyed them one after another and they already started to bomb your own ship! (So, your armchair is shaking.) 2: You could retreat. But if the emperor and/or Vader survived the battle, you would be executed.

You want to find a balance which does not exist.Ackbar actually ordered them to retreat. (After the first shot from the DS.) However Calrissian wanted to give Han more time. So, the rebels did not flee mainly because Calrissian trusted Solo and Ackbar trusted Calrissian. Not to mention they had no other chance. And if you have no other chance, you will stay and fight despite the chances. How the rebel fleet survived is another question. Piet's order was to stop them from fleeing but otherwise do not really attack the rebel fleet. (So he used only the expendable fighters to harass the enemy and possibly attract the enemy fighters away from his fleet.) Since the rebel fleet did not flee, the imperial fleet did nothing, as ordered. The things went well, until the rebel ships closed to the imperial fleet. The star destroyers opened fire as expected and would likely decimate the rebel fleet. But something happened. The rebel ships did not stop and die, but instead went inbetween the imperial ships and used them as cover against the DS and each other. That tactic was completely new, so noone really knew how to react and what to do. The imperial ships lost the chance for concentrated fire and many of them had no target left to fire on at all. Ackbar soon realized that his ships were in relative safety inside the imperial formation and begun to attack the closest destroyers with concentrated fire. I cannot imagine any tactic that would help Piet to save the day, and he had even no time to think about it and create a plan.

Yes. However if we add the anti fighter firepower of the rebell capital ships, we will get a more frustrating number. I counted 3 squads for normal cruisers and 10 for the Home One. The imperial fleet were hiding over Endor. By the time the destroyers orbited the moon the fighters were ready. That was all we saw. Ties cannot stay long (for half a day or even more) and remain effective, so this (keeping the fighters of the DS with the fleet) would require constant huge fighter traffic between the hiding fleet and the DS, the only vessel large enough to serve its fighter compliment. It is not good for a trap. That was the other reason why I left out the fighter compliment of the DS completely.

Personal thoughts: 1.: We can count only 2/3 of the fighter force of the defenders. The pilots of the other 1/3 are sleeping at any given time. (Maybe 3/4 if we consider the Tie pilots to be clones.) 2.: Likely the DS did not launch its fighters. It would require the shield, the only protection, to be lowered, with the rebell fleet quite close to the shield perimeter. (According to the novelisation a few ships even hit the shield.) It would not be a really good idea. 3.: About fighter composition: The Falcon was accompanied by 5 X- wings, 4 B- wings, 5 A- wings and 8 Y- wings. Whether these ratios were typical is unknown. I read somewhere that at the time of the battle of Endor only 25% of the Tie fighters were replaced with Interceptors. Whether this was typical for the trap fleet is unknown. 4.: About the battle: It seems that Bombers were not used. It is not a mistake when you have dozens of star destroyers to provide the hitting power against enemy capital ships. However suddenly Piett ordered the destroyers to stop. This left the imperial fighter forces to fight against the whole rebell fleet without any support. So, not only rebell fighters vs imperial fighters, but rebell fighters and capital ships vs imperial fighters. Using official numbers: At least 9 Nebulon-Bs were visible and two of them were said to be converted. 14 squads. I cannot remember the number of cruisers, but 6 plus the Home One seems to be credible. 28 squads. The novelisation also mentions carriers and a ship appeared to be similar to a Bulk cruiser was visible among the rebell ships before the hyperspace jump. Approximately 26 ISDs were seen, but Bombers were unseen. Likely 130 squads. The Executor. Likely 10 squads. So 504 rebell fighters, plus several capital ships against 1120 imperial fighters.

Well, theoretically it couldn't do that. Interesting. However if you want them not to build it, lower its construction and maintenance costs to zero.

The encyclopedia pictures are not in the dlls. They are in the folder /Edata. The files Edata.??? are actually standard bitmaps. If you do not have a picture viewer that displays them (like AcdSee for example) rename them as Edata???.bmp to see.

So, Rebed does not change the damage pictures (masks). Likely it also doesn't change the hyperspace masks. A few points for a new editor.

Was it building or did it simply have one or more of it?

There is a theory about that the destruction of the Executor was caused by engine misfire not by the gravity well of the DS. Problems with the gravity well theory: 1: The gravity of the Endor is stronger than the gravity of the DS2. (Otherwise, the Endor would orbit around the DS2, not the DS2 around Endor.) So, the Executor should have fallen toward the Endor. 2: It started to spin. The speed of this spinning (actually its acceleration) was too high too be caused by normal gravity. Things supporting the engine misfire: 1: The novelization mentions that the Executor had maneouvering/control problems prior to the destruction of the bridge. 2: The ISD that was hit by the ion cannon moved in a quite similar way. And being taken out by an ion cannon is quite similar to loosing the bridge. The fact that the crew was unable to regain control in time can be explained by the possible failure of the inertia compensation system. However this is only my opinion.

The problem exists in the .net site as well. It does not occur on other sites I usually visit.Side note: The banner "NHGF.net Closed" (NH Gaming Network (http://www.nhgn.us, http://www.nhgf.net)) causes this pop-up to open up.

I do not know, whether Tsunami sett both the hyperdrive and the backup hyperdrive to 0 or not. (Side note: DWORD means 32 bit unsigned integer type and WORD means 16 bit unsigned integer type.) Characters (family 48 - 56) Major characters: Mjcharsd.dat (in DWORDs unless specified) Header: 1, 6, 48, 56 Structure (37): 1 - number (sarting from 576) 2 - unknown (maybe the active flag), allways 1 3 - unknown (since a person canot be produced), allways 0 4 - unknown (since a person canot be produced), allways 0 5 - family, 48 Mon Mothma, 49 Leia Organa, 50 Luke Skywalker, 51 Han Solo, 52 Emperor Palpatine and 52 Darth Vader 6 - identifier (actually two WORDs the second is 2 the first can be used directly to get the name from Textstrat.dll) 7 - alliance (0 or 1) 8 - imperial (0 or 1) 9 - unknown (maybe the conctruction costs), allways 0 10 - unknown (maybe the miantenance), allways 0 11 - unknown (maybe the research order), allways 0 12 - unknown (maybe research difficulty), allways 0 13 - diplomacy base 14 - diplomacy variance 15 - espionage base 16 - espionage variance 17 - ship research base 18 - ship research variance 19 - troop research base 20 - troop research variance 21 - facility research base 22 - facility research variance 23 - combat base 24 - combat variance 25 - leadership base 26 - leadership variance 27 - loyality base 28 - loyality variance 29 - jedi probability 30 - known jedi (flag) 31 - jedi level base 32 - jedi level variance 33 - can be admiral (flag) 34 - can be commander (flag) 35 - can be general (flag) 36 - unknown (in RebEd it is the won't betray flag) 37 - can train jedis (flag) Minor characters: Mncharsd.dat Header: 1, 54, 56, 60 The structure is the same. All of their family is 56.

Thanks for the info! Well, it seems that your 7 pm is actually 3 am here.

Sometimes it is boring, but this is the right method. (With using DOS style short filenames.) (I am quite lazy, so I do not plan a Windows based Capital Ship Replacer program right now.) Your overcome of the problem is something new to me. But, at least you have results.

Excuse me, but what is pst relative to gmt?

I do not know whether there are any. Especially because Resource hacker can not only view but change the resources too. So, what did you do exactly? Did you try to save a single resource and use the bin->bmp function of the converter? Or did you delete the older (wrong) .bin files before using the convert all .bins in a library?

It looks like an imperial code!

Well, a dll is a collection of functions or resources, that more programs can use. So, the advantage is the lower disk space requirement and easier upgrade/maintenance.

In Resource Hacker select the resource in the browser, eg 3043 (I do not know the numbers) in the 303 folder. Click on it and a 1033 "thing" will appear. Select it and some code will apear on the right. Now you can find the "Save resource as a binary file" under "Action" in the menu.

Celeron 466 MHz 256 MB RAM 45 MB hard disk EDIT: Oops, I mean 43 GB 32 MB TNT2 card 384 ADSL

"fdisk /mbr" from a DOS/Windows system disk?

The goal of the program was to continue playing as the leader of the opposing side. It did not acheive this goal, so I deleted it.

Even without carried fighters? In tactical, you get an endless battle. In strategic, it will flee.

Scathane: What does happen, if you attack without the DS (but with the Bulwark)? I think, in strategic combat the DS is allways controlled by the empire. In tactical combat, you canot fire with it and the imperials canot harm it, so it is only a fighter carrier.