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OK either from the books or the movies I have often heard about ships in Star Wars 'Angling deflector shields'

How do they do this if said field is possibly a bubble?

I could be wrong sounds like a good idea...angling the field so thers more energy for the shot to try to pass through or even skid off. But still.. how do they do it?

Assuming that we were limit SW shields to bubble shape only, "angling the deflector shields" could still be done by changing the shield's shape so that it's like an rugby-ish ball with the sharp end(s) pointing towards the enemy.

Typhonis 1 wrote:OK either from the books or the movies I have often heard about ships in Star Wars 'Angling deflector shields'

How do they do this if said field is possibly a bubble?

I could be wrong sounds like a good idea...angling the field so thers more energy for the shot to try to pass through or even skid off. But still.. how do they do it?

Or it could just mean reinforcing an area of the shields with additional energy, as opposed to actually changing the shape of the shield.

Double front, and normalise shields back up this, along with WEG fighter shields rules.

I can never remember hearing the phrase "angle the deflectors" in Star Wars.

Where was this heard?

Han to Chewie, leaving Tatooine in ANH: "Angle the deflector shields while I make the calculations for the the jump to lightspeed."

Or something like that.

Typhonis 1 wrote:How do they do this if said field is possibly a bubble?

But the shields are typically not a bubble. Even snubfighters have at least two shield sections.

IIRC, most shields are hull-conformal.

Angle the deflectors meant to Place maximum protection in one direction. So you see a captian in a one on one engagem,ent that angles his shield to face the enemy will usually win against a captian who does not do so. This is assuming they have the same ship. The enemy having fighters capable of carrying Antiship missiles can force an opponent to deploy his shields more evenly which is why fighters can be helpful to a ship in a battle.

Now Calrisian's comments in the Battle of Endor, seem to indicate that the Empire only attacking with their fighters did not make sense alluding to the idea that he felt they could not win that way.

Isolder74 wrote:Angle the deflectors meant to Place maximum protection in one direction. So you see a captian in a one on one engagem,ent that angles his shield to face the enemy will usually win against a captian who does not do so. This is assuming they have the same ship. The enemy having fighters capable of carrying Antiship missiles can force an opponent to deploy his shields more evenly which is why fighters can be helpful to a ship in a battle.

I don't think so. The view in the Millennium Falcon's shield display indicates that you can angle the shield facing to improve its deflection characteristics. Ideally you'd want the incoming bolt to hit at something other than a 90 degree angle.

Now Calrisian's comments in the Battle of Endor, seem to indicate that the Empire only attacking with their fighters did not make sense alluding to the idea that he felt they could not win that way.

Again, I disagree. It was entirely out of character for the agressive Imperial Starfleet to just sit in a holding pattern (or entrapment configuration) without going on the offensive to crush the Rebel fleet -- something that they could have done quite easily.

Old Plympto wrote:Han to Chewie, leaving Tatooine in ANH: "Angle the deflector shields while I make the calculations for the the jump to lightspeed."

Or something like that.

No, it was while they were under attack by the TIE patrol while escaping the Death Star.

In ROTJ we're lead to believe the reason the ISD's don't attack is because the Emperor (in his arrogance) wanted to "show off" by wiping out the Rebels with the Death Star's weaponry. The Imperial Fleet was simply there to "prevent them from escaping." So the fighters would keep the Rebels busy and mop up what the Death Star didn't take out, I guess.

I can imagine the invisible shield hugs the hull and can assume "different geometry" at least for short periods of time to more easily deflect specific attacks. WEG might be an interesting example, but remember that's a game, and we all know that game mechanics can be thrown out for obvious reasons.

The fleet may have just sat there HOWEVER.They did take the oprotunity to practice long range gunnery .Remeber they were in the optimun position for all 8 heavy turrets to fire at the Rebels.

Typhonis 1 wrote:The fleet may have just sat there HOWEVER.They did take the oprotunity to practice long range gunnery .Remeber they were in the optimun position for all 8 heavy turrets to fire at the Rebels.

Yet Piett said hold here

So they might have taken that oppertunity but they didn't.

Rogue 9 wrote:

Old Plympto wrote:Han to Chewie, leaving Tatooine in ANH: "Angle the deflector shields while I make the calculations for the the jump to lightspeed."

Or something like that.

No, it was while they were under attack by the TIE patrol while escaping the Death Star.

No, then it was "Come on kid, we're not out of this yet." Old Plympto is correct.

YT300000 wrote:

Rogue 9 wrote:

Old Plympto wrote:Han to Chewie, leaving Tatooine in ANH: "Angle the deflector shields while I make the calculations for the the jump to lightspeed."

Or something like that.

No, it was while they were under attack by the TIE patrol while escaping the Death Star.

No, then it was "Come on kid, we're not out of this yet." Old Plympto is correct.

Then why was Leia in the cockpit with Chewie while he was angling the deflector shield, hmmm? Not to mention Han and Luke being in the turrets, and a notable absence of General Kenobi.

In a lot of refrences from the movies and EU, a character usually makes a comment or the author says they reduced power to the engines to put more power into the deflector shields. In my opinion the deflector shield is the whole shield. Angling it, is putting more power from the drives or other parts of the shield into the spot of the ship that needs it most.

Rogue 9 wrote:Then why was Leia in the cockpit with Chewie while he was angling the deflector shield, hmmm? Not to mention Han and Luke being in the turrets, and a notable absence of General Kenobi.

For very good reasons which have no bearing on the point at all. Trust me, I've watched ANH over 30 times. I know what the line was. And it was that.

Rogue 9 wrote:Then why was Leia in the cockpit with Chewie while he was angling the deflector shield, hmmm? Not to mention Han and Luke being in the turrets, and a notable absence of General Kenobi.

You have the scene memorized wrong. From a script online:

Han Solo wrote:HAN: It looks like an Imperial cruiser. Our passengers must be hotter than I thought. Try and hold them off. Angle the deflector shield while I make the calculations for the jump to light speed.