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Posted: 2003-03-17 04:22pm
by phongn
Master of Ossus wrote:Just a quick correction, Phongn, that actually supports your general argument. A wing in SW is made up of 72 starfighters, as shown in multiple sources but most clearly in the Essential Guide to Vehicles and Vessels, in which conversion factors are posted.
No. Imperial fighter wings were comprised of 6 squadrons of fighters, but
Rebel fighter wings had 3 squadrons. It was never made clear whether or not the New Republic moved to wings of 72 fightercraft.
Also, "wings" became more flexible in the New Republic Era, IIRC. They acted more like the modern definition of a wing - a collection of squadrons not neccessarily of
n starfighters.
Posted: 2003-03-17 05:18pm
by Ender
Illuminatus Primus wrote:Ender wrote:Illuminatus Primus wrote:
You made a specific claim and based proportional arguments off of it. That is an assumption. The burden of proof is on you.
Try to find a reference to massive disparity anywhere. You won't.
You're the only one who made an assumption. Now justify it.
My assumption is based on conservitism. You step in and tell me I need to justify using low end. I see no reason to assume that the energy shields must be massive compared to the particle shields. So if you think there is, post it.
Already done in quoted post.
Wow, do you have jedi precog that you could dodge the contradictory proof so easily??
The 3 ISDs slamming into the Executor at near light speeds and the Executor not even getting its paint scorred blatently contradicts you assertion that the particle shields are weak.
Posted: 2003-03-17 06:21pm
by phongn
Shit! Triple post, can a mod clean it up?
Posted: 2003-03-17 06:54pm
by Master of Ossus
phongn wrote:Shit! Triple post, can a mod clean it up?
I got it. I was always under the impression that Imperial and Rebel wings were equivalent. Do you have a source for that?
Posted: 2003-03-17 07:13pm
by phongn
Master of Ossus wrote:phongn wrote:Shit! Triple post, can a mod clean it up?
I got it. I was always under the impression that Imperial and Rebel wings were equivalent. Do you have a source for that?
The old WEG sourcebooks (if Shep still has them up) showed it. Stackpole's X-Wing series also used this, though this was only +3 ROTJ and thus the Republic had not consolidated themselves.
http://www.theforce.net/swtc/novels/xwwg.html