Army Vs. Navy

I tihnk theres too much emphasis on Navy and not enough on Army in Star Wars. We have these great space battles and everything but so far only the second movie of each trilongy had a ground battle [and the volume and beauty of them actually makes up for the other but thaz not the point].

And in the books there are never any ground battles. No great big tanks or walkers, no big shoot outs between platoons... nothing. I'd like to find out what armored unit the NR uses for thier ground battles.

Any one agree with me?

... and I fergot bout the gungan-trade fred thing in episode 1

 

I think by the time of the NJO era, ground battles are an outdated, or at least least preferred, means of conqueoring a planet when an orbital bombardment or blockade suffices. The army is probably used as a means of peacekeeping and cleaning up (like a Kosovo or Somalia type operation).

But with new Clone War books coming out, I bet we'll see more of it.

 

an orbital bombardment leaves u with alot of destroyed things you'd wanna keep and a blockade takes too long.

Send in an armoured unit, duke it out with the local army, calim their base/kill their leader and you have won the planet.

 

The vong should never fight on the ground, they want the land not the stuff on it.

However they're idiots.

Furthermore you're considering the problem wrong, how do you resupply the earth bound forces when the invaders hold the ultimate high ground?

 

The ground battles in the NJO are...

Dantooine (nasty fight)
Gydine (fairly nasty fight)
Coruscant (really nasty fight)
Mykr infiltration and Worldship assault (tremendously nasty fight)
Borelis (mildly nasty fight)
Yelsia (pretty nasty fight)

Each of those battles were discribed indepth. Even though it was short, Luke and Mara fighting with alongside a turbolaser crew against a horde of Yuuzhan Vong was one of my favorite moments in Star by Star.

 

Uh, wasn't Ithor a ground battle? The Jedi being forced to slaughter those thousands of Chazrach, bathing in the blood of their incessantly-advancing enemies?

 

It's different when both sides want to capture something on the ground, you need ground forces to do that. However it could be argued posisble sucessfully that the Vong should have destroyed Ithor from the start.