unbeataBULL wrote:i've always wondered how the Vong handled massive-scale conflict. do they have ANY equivalent of a blaster rifle? i could only find thudbug grenades and melee amphistaffs.
i mean, what are their battle tacitcs? is it mostly orbital conflict?
They have multiple battle tactics.
Firstly, so you know, it was explained that their creatures are genetically engineered to have minature power generators inside each cell that generate enough power that they can resist a lightsaber strike for a few seconds. Therefore, their armor requires a lightsaber to press for several seconds, or several blaster bolts to the same spot (or a lightsaber or blaster shot to a weak spot like the armpits or joints), and their amphistaffs can use an energy field to flatten themselves out thin enough that the points are molecule-thin and can cut through practically anything.
So basicly they don't die in one hit like a Stormtrooper.
Secondly, their razor bugs can home in, and they can throw other bugs with explosives inside that aren't very pretty.
But most importantly, they take every single captive they have and implant control seeds in them. Consider the sheer population of the SW galaxy- even colony worlds have millions on them. So imagine the forces they'd have.
For example, the battle of Dantooine had very few Vong on the ground in the battle. Instead, they had a massive army 2 km wide and 7 km long of mind-controlled slaves that just kept marching and marching straight into the enemy camp, simply too many to shoot, and the Vong flying fighter cover and controlling the ground vehicles (yes, they have plasma-blasting artillery weapons and tank-analogs).
Through corridors the Vong like to run around throwing bugs around corners, then fly around the corners waving the amphistaffs (in that way they're like Klingons, except that they're smart enough to use ranged weapons when they can't reach with the staffs

).