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I agree that its highly doubtfull that even with the Thrawn theorie in place its highly unlikely that the rebel fleet would have been able to defeat the Imp fleet.

Okay Jahled, luke could do that but he's exhausted from battling both vader and Palpy. And he probably doesnt have enough energy left do mindtrick a whole bunch of alert troopers. I take it that The emperor deployed mostly elite troops to his DS. There not some backwater screwups found on Tatooine. And it would take time, time he doenst have. Vakundok, Ur first point states that luke needed a couple of minutes to recouperate from the battle. Losing time he's already short of. Second point: Agreed, but the shuttle's in a Flighthanger are u trying to tell me that there was not a single imp on duty that could have taken off with the shuttle. Or some stormie desperate enough to try fly it anyway. Third point: I dont agree, luke has constantly tried to save/redeem evil people because its the right thing to do. Both The Novels and the movies. Fourth Point: Stormtroopers are trained to follow orders and serve the empire even if it means that they will loose their own lives. Furthermore their are always loyal fanatics who will try everything to stop luke. Fifth Point: Doesnt matter it was an reply to somebody's statement.

Well first of all Vader kills Goold ol' Palpy before lando knocks out the reactor. So luke has been dragging vader around for at least a couple of minutes. So nobody is pre-occupied with trying to get the hell of the DS. Second is everybody is indeed running for his life why is nobody escaping with the shuttle, and everybody just leaves is there ready to go, and besides isnt luke jedi bound to try and save as much people as possible? Furthermore luke is the most wanted person in the known Galaxy he has a huge bounty on his head for capture and the trooper lucky enough to cath him will undoubtly earn a promotion of some sort. and finally how the hell do 1.5 million people know that the emperor is dead?? Vader and Luke are the only witnesses and they would have no clue that the emperor has perished.

I believe in the Novel "darksaber" it is mentioned that the first DS had a recharge time of about one hour on its Superlaser and the DSII could fire every 15 minutes so that would increase the timeframe from the battle a little. But the only sensible argument i can bring into this discussion is that both fleets where very close to the DS when the Rebel fighters began their Trench Run. Perhaps the Rebelfleet anticipating the DS destruction withdrew from the battle and the imperial fleet allowed them to back-off as they where under direct orders by the Emperor not to interfere, when Wedge and Lando blew up the DS the imperial fleet didnt have enough time to distance themself from the resulting explosion and a number of ISD where destroyed/crippled. Seriously reducing their strength. But what strikes me as odd is the fact that nobody seems to bother luke while he's dragging vader to the shuttle to escape the DS. After wedge and Lando destroy the reactor they have barely enough time to escape the resulting explosion, while Luke has all the time to drag Vader halfway around the DS and then claiming a shuttle and departing without any interferance.

Stormies are my favorite even do they seem to have diffecult time aiming their blasters.

Injured characters are inactive and wont try to escape untill the are fully healed.

How about adding the smugglers, pirates, Slavers to one of the sides. Or the Mystral shadow guard, Bountyhunters guild. These could be used for covert missoin that wouldnt effect moral in any way.

Just read thru all of ur posts on this whole Y-wing fighter discussion. I believe that the reason Y and B-wings are killed has to do with thier movement rating being so low. An A wing squad with much less shields last far longer becuz they more manouverable. I thoughed it had something to do with the way damage done to ur ships is calculated. Shield increase the number of hits a squad can take before being destroyed. And the movement rate reduces the damage ur squadron takes from enemy fire. So if u could set it high enough enemy's couldnt hit fighters.

Well i usually make my HQ also my Prison Planet, as it has to be heavily defended anyhow. And what annoys me is the fact that captured agents always seem to be able to flee. Even when i have insane amounts of Troops on planet, like 50 Sullus Reg + a general. And having a fleet around ur planet is also very helpfull becuz it will act a fishing net, capturing or killing most of the escaped agents immediatly.