Performence of Naboo N-1s against Imperial era starfighters

[Praxis]

Oh and btw, as for your claim that X-wings died in one hit...did you notice, "Deflectors on Double Front"? To dumb it up for you, it means they turned off the rear shield and doubled the forward shields to protect from surface fire from the Death Star during the attack run. Guess what? The TIE fighters shot them in the back, where the shields were OFF.

Just so you know, a moment after the TL fire stopped Gold Five said to "stabalize your rear deflectors, watch for enemy fighters". Now they may not have been able to recharge the rear shields in time but the two groups of X-Wings which followed shouldn't have made the same mistake.

I recall that, but then Luke survived a direct hit to the engine with just a little glow and "I'm hit but its not bad". Then they went back into the trench and if I recall, they doubled their forward shield again. Then Darth Vader came in and blasted their rears.

[Praxis]

Thanks for restating what I said earlier. Learn to read, moron.

So you're saying that you believed TIE shields were ultra weak and couldn't take a single hit ALL ALONG? If so, then why the heck did you even bring them into the arguement? My point was, N-1 shields can take several hits, TIE fighters can't take one, and your arguement was, "They do have shields!" You conveniently left out that they're so pathetic they can't take a SINGLE LASER HIT.

The point about TIEs having shields was more of a nitpick than an actual point. I would have taken it out if I had thought about the post longer. The real point was that Star Wars shields on fighters don't seem to protect against direct hits anyway, so the N-1's shields won't help. More on that below.

Oh and btw, as for your claim that X-wings died in one hit...did you notice, "Deflectors on Double Front"? To dumb it up for you, it means they turned off the rear shield and doubled the forward shields to protect from surface fire from the Death Star during the attack run. Guess what? The TIE fighters shot them in the back, where the shields were OFF.

Good point. I forgot about that bit of dialogue. Have we seen fighters take direct hits in instances where we knew their shields were up? Perhaps during the Battle of Endor?

In ANH there was a short period where they restabilized their rear shields between trench runs. Luke took a direct hit on his engine. It glowed, then was fine with only minor damage.

In ROTJ I'm fairly certain we saw them surviving hits, but I can't recall and specific scenes.

Oh, and one of the X-wing books where they're making a run against the Iron Fist (a SSD) has a scene where Wedge orders them to put shields on double front, and he recalls that it was just like on the Death Star run, with their backs completely unprotected so their forward shields can survive a hit from the big ship's guns.

Plus several novels have the X-wings surviving a couple TIE hits to the shields (It is stated that a head to head run with a TIE fighter will almost always result in the TIE's death, and heavy damage to the X-wing's shields, though they won't fail, so we know the X-wing can't survive any kind of sustained fire from an opponent, but it will ward off a few hits). Novels are canon unless contradicted by the movies, and since the only possibly contradictory scene is in ANH and it is explained in the books, we have to use it as a canon explanation.