crimson5pheonix said:
Oh is that what's happening? Is the remainder of the Republic fleet going to come over the space ridge with ride of the Valkyries playing? It won't matter, they were already inferior to the FO fleet before they were mostly wiped out.
I don't know if the remaining Republic fleet will show up in the next movie, I'm just stating a reason why they have not shown up in
The Last Jedi. So, according to you the Republic fleet is worthless because they were heavily damaged by a surprise attack, right? Does that mean that the U.S. fleet was worthless during WWII because they were nearly wiped out by the Japanese surprise attack?
The FO capital ships (like the one destroyed) have medical facilities, easily enough to temporarily reinforce a damaged or destroyed base. Not to mention that's unusually underhanded for the good guys to do, but honestly I would love to see heroes play dirty pool like that.
That doesn't change the fact that the First Order will have to pull their resources away from their normal positions, which would given the Resistance a weaker front to attack.
Funnily enough the agriculture thing was done in an anime for basically the same reason, but I'm not sure it'd be as effective against the FO. For one destroying one agricultural center isn't a very big dent when FTL exists, second the FO won't play games and will just wipe a world's population out to take their food if they need to maintain their battle fleet in the now.
Then maybe the Resistance could destroy more than one agricultural center. And if destroying one agricultural center weakens that particular sector of First Order space that gives the Resistance a weaker target to attack, which would further weaken and destabilize that sector.
This is something they should have been doing before. But as established despite 30 years of preparation, the resistance didn't bother to survey the FO's base of operations at all. So who knows how well defended they are. Remember that "key force" Poe lost could about take on one ship when it doesn't defend itself properly.
Where does it state that the First Order was building up for the past thirty years? Where does it state that the Resistance, which is a separate entity from the Republic, has been around for thirty years? Where does it state that people knew about the First Order for thirty years?
How do you know that the Resistance has not surveyed First Order facilities? How do you know that they have not been raiding First Order facilities for years?
Those ships that Poe lost did just fine against the Dreadnought itself, but they were ravaged by the hundreds, if not thousands, of TIE fighters that the Dreadnought carried. Other First Order facilities might not have as many TIE fighters on site.
See the "gritty realism" possibility for the next movie. I beat you to that punch and Poe losing those ships doesn't have an affect on the strategy in that case.
Poe throwing a temper tantrum and staging a short-lived mutiny led directly to hundreds of Resistance members being killed. Had he obeyed orders and not bet the future of the Resistance on a Hail Mary plan with an exceedingly slim chance of success then Holdo's plan would have succeeded. The First Order did not know to look for a bunch of unarmed, unshielded transports hiding behind the
Raddus
Ah, if but they were launching that flanking maneuver. Instead Poe took something they had no plans to take at the time. Because thinking a handful of fighters and bombers could take a capital ship would be a stupid thought if it weren't Poe at the front.
So you are saying that Poe, by virtue of his very existence, can turn a dip-shit, near-suicidal idea into a valid military tactic? What is it about Poe that makes him capable of such feats?
Maintaining troop morale is also a job of a commanding officer. Like I said in another post, whatever punishment Poe and the rest of the mutineers would get in a court martial, they would also investigate the commanding officer to see why they mutinied.
"She didn't tell me what she was planning." and "She didn't want to use my super awesome plan that relied on dozens of variables and could easily have failed several steps along the way." are not valid reasons for mutinying. They would most likely be shot, jettisoned into space or imprisoned for the rest of their lives with that excuse.