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Re: Just a question
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Thu, 3 Jun 1999 16:43:47 GMT
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On Thu, 3 Jun 1999 00:05:49 GMT, "John Bauman" <jtb86@ptdprolog.net> wrote:
> From the Essential Guide to Vehicles and vessels:
> Walkers were designed to fill the need for a nonrepulsorlift heavy assault
> vehicle
> for armored platoons.While the emipre had countless repulsorlift vehicles,
> drive
> systems could be foiled by gravity fluctuations, unusual planetary magnetic
> fields,
> and other special conditions; the Empire needed a vehicle which could be
> used
> on the terrain of many different worlds.
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> The finished AT-AT walkers passed Imperial expectations. Almost
> unstoppable
> as a weapons platform,, they proved potent psychological weapons.
Yeah, as long as the opponents don't have any spare rope laying around. Or
wrecking balls to crush the 'armor plate'.
Steve
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| (...) There is a really good short story in the book "Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina" about training a driver for AT-AT's and how to destroy them. (25 years ago, 3-Jun-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Just a question
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| From the Essential Guide to Vehicles and vessels: Walkers were designed to fill the need for a nonrepulsorlift heavy assault vehicle for armored platoons.While the emipre had countless repulsorlift vehicles, drive systems could be foiled by gravity (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jun-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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