Master_of_Ossus posted:In real life battles, this has not been a significant issue even after heavy fighting. It seems dubious that a clone wars battle would be any different, particularly since each soldier carries enough firepower to punch through walls and other obstacles given even a few seconds of concerted effort. Using reality as a guide, the use of droids actually reduces the difficulties associated with protracted warfare because they don't have to be buried and do not spread disease.
sidious618 posted:Y'know I didn't really care about the number of clones until I played Battlefront 2. I realized that there had to be more than 3 million clones to help compensate for the number of times that I've died.
Master_of_Ossus posted: Everyone knows that clones are much better military leaders than Jedi. That's why the Republic uses Jedi as generals. Oh, wait....
Master_of_Ossus posted: Conceded, although being Jedi-led must logically be better than being led by clones or else the Republic would not consistently use that strategy.
Master_of_Ossus posted: How quickly, exactly, were the militia for the Republic mobilized for offensive operations against the Confederacy? Training people takes time.
Master_of_Ossus posted: You wouldn't be skimping on troops, though, to deploy a force only a fraction of the size of the droid army, though, if the 3,000,000 clone adherents are to be believed.
Fist_of_Mandalore posted:The most recent canon (dont give me this ITW quote being higher canon any Saxtonites out there) states that the clones are 3,000,000+ strong from Kamino.
LtNOWIS posted: About Muunilinst: The NEC says "hundreds of assault ships," not hundreds of Acclamators. Since 200 fully-loaded Acclamators clearly doesn't fit the canon, it's possible the historian meant LAATs, not Acclamators. It would be pretty hard to land an Acclamator behind enemy lines, since they were in a city. Furthermore, we only see 11 Acclamators emerge from hyperspace in Clone Wars chapter 2.
President_Sharky posted: Don't try to be coy. You know as everyone else knows that the "Republic Assault Ship" is a colloquialism for Acclamator-class trans-galactic military transport ship. And you see a hell of a lot more than 11 Acclamators in CW. Besides, the NEC is quite specific in stating that hundreds of assault ships were used at Munnilinst.
President_Sharky posted: As for Traviss new idiocy, the "hundreds of millions of droids", it is already been invalidated by many other articles, such as her own GGAR (quadrillions of droids), the ROTS:ICS (quintillions of droids), and the General Grievous articles (quintillions of droids, with billions starfighters alone).
Lord_Hydronium posted: And "Saxtonite"? ITW was written by Simon Beecroft.
LtNOWIS posted:It was "rumored to be quadrillions" in the GGAR. I forget the exact quote, but it was deliberately ambiguous.
Karen Traviss posted:I think this is because I have such a different professional background to most folk, and so such a different take on life, that I see things that others don't.
LtNOWIS posted:Lord_Hydronium posted:And "Saxtonite"? ITW was written by Simon Beecroft. ITW-AOTC named him as a consultant.
Lord_Hydronium posted:And "Saxtonite"? ITW was written by Simon Beecroft.
Rogue_Follower posted:To her credit, Ms. Traviss makes it sound plausible, especially when it is pointed out that if the CIS had quadrillions of droids, then why didn't they use them in the very beginning to take Coruscant?