 | | Re: Finally got to see the movie! —Richard Dee
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| | | On Wed, 2 Jun 1999 17:14:09 GMT, Steve Bliss uttered the following profundities... (...) Leads me to ask a question.... Why, when the issue of "who started it" was done with (the tanks started the battle), did the Gungans not attack the droids when (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jun-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | | | | Re: Finally got to see the movie! —Joey Feland
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| | | | | (...) Quote from TPM the book: "The Gungan shield wall was designed to deflect large, slow-moving objects of density and mass such as artillary vehiclas and small, fast-moving objects generating extreme heat such as projectiles from weapons fire. (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jun-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | | | | Re: Finally got to see the movie! —Eric Joslin
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| | | | | (...) It looked to me like the Gungans couldn't throw their little blue balls through the sheilds, just like the Tanks couldn't fire in. Once the Droids got through the shield, they opened up on them. Dropping the sheild to hit the Droids as they (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jun-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | | | | Re: Finally got to see the movie! —Steve Bliss
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| | | | (...) Because they knew they were just stalling for time? Why hasten the battle when your goal is to use up time? I don't like the explanation of "can't fire out through the shields". Who would come up with a defense like that? Steve (25 years ago, 3-Jun-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | | | | | Re: Finally got to see the movie! —Kevin Bane
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| | | | Steve Bliss <blisses@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message news:3756afb3.148651...net.com... (...) Dunno. Someone who didn't wanna get turned into green pastey goo? When the other guys have long range heavy artillery and all you had was sling thrown (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jun-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | | | | | Re: Finally got to see the movie! —Sonny Sidhu
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| | | | I think that the Gungan army held off to conserve ammunition. They knew that the tanks (oops! Errr... ATT's that is) were not the main threat to them because of their powerful shields, but the Battle Droids were. Why waste ammo on something that (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | | | | | Re: Finally got to see the movie! —Paul Foster
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| | | | (...) Wasn't the Gungan army just there to provide a diversion? Otherwise they would have advanced (or tried) when they were under the shield. (25 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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