Nobody currently, but in a conflict it's well-known that "little arms lead to bigger arms", and very quickly.
In the 1980s Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, for example, a Mujahideen fighter with just an AK-47 (or even just a pistol!) could shoot a Russian soldier who was carrying an RPG and his buddy who had a big case full of RPG rounds, and now guess what? The Mujahideen dude has an RPG and a shitload of warheads for it.
Don't fall for simplistic, incorrect "static model" thinking where you think one level deep and then stop (e.g. "the populace only has small arms, the military has bigger arms"). At the very start of a conflict, sure, but that rapidly becomes very untrue because the real world operates on the "dynamic model".
Watch out for their deadly logs swinging towards each other on vines! It'll smash your thick high-tech blast-resistant armor for sure, at least in BullshitLand!
LOL, what a dumb premise that whole battle was. But it was entertaining, and the Ewoks were super-marketable for making tons of licensing cash for toys and merch.
It's true. Only the first three movies released (1977, 1980, 1983) were worth a damn if we're being honest with ourselves, and the Ewoks in that 1983 last one were a shark-jumping moment. After that, the prequels were laughable hot garbage and then The Mouse(tm) ruined everything even further.
I could've TOTALLY believed ("bought into") the reality of the Ewoks and they would've been an acceptable addition to the narrative universe IF the Empire would've come in and crushed them into extinction quickly and with little trouble, as would happen in the real world.
But once midget caveman-tech-level teddy bears defeated a high-tech, spacefaring, mechanized armed force with directed energy weapons, I mentally checked out of the franchise, forever.
(Then, not knowing they were going to suck hugely, I made the mistake of seeing the first of the "prequels", during which there is a "pod race" with a pair of ESPN-style wisecracking TV announcers, one of whom actually ACTUALLY SAID after a nasty impact, "he'll feel THAT in the morning!" and I nearly got up and left the theater that instant. Only my cheapness kept me in my seat, as I had paid for a ticket).
To be fair, the trees on the planet were meant to be pretty damn large and therefore heavy, and there isn't a lot of kinetics in Star Wars -- so it makes sense, especially aided by the more technological humanoids and space wizard samurai
Also, how many troops and lower level officers are going to be cool with fighting patriots on their soil? Sure, many of the generals are bought and paid for, but the men on the ground, will they back up the deep state? I think at least a sizable portion won’t. The big guns will come over to the side of the righteous quickly enough.
Also, I doubt that all states will remain on the same side. The Texas lawsuit showed us that there are serious tensions between the states or rather the individual state governments and SCOTUS failed in adjudicating by simply denying any resolution.
Nobody currently, but in a conflict it's well-known that "little arms lead to bigger arms", and very quickly.
In the 1980s Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, for example, a Mujahideen fighter with just an AK-47 (or even just a pistol!) could shoot a Russian soldier who was carrying an RPG and his buddy who had a big case full of RPG rounds, and now guess what? The Mujahideen dude has an RPG and a shitload of warheads for it.
Don't fall for simplistic, incorrect "static model" thinking where you think one level deep and then stop (e.g. "the populace only has small arms, the military has bigger arms"). At the very start of a conflict, sure, but that rapidly becomes very untrue because the real world operates on the "dynamic model".
An AT4 is cool and all, but an AT-AT is better.
Just need to round up some stinky little Ewoks and a fast Speeder.
Watch out for their deadly logs swinging towards each other on vines! It'll smash your thick high-tech blast-resistant armor for sure, at least in BullshitLand!
LOL, what a dumb premise that whole battle was. But it was entertaining, and the Ewoks were super-marketable for making tons of licensing cash for toys and merch.
Yep. The start of the monster that ate Hollywood, the almighty dollar. The Ewoks sucked.
Ewoks were the start of the end of the franchise
It's true. Only the first three movies released (1977, 1980, 1983) were worth a damn if we're being honest with ourselves, and the Ewoks in that 1983 last one were a shark-jumping moment. After that, the prequels were laughable hot garbage and then The Mouse(tm) ruined everything even further.
I could've TOTALLY believed ("bought into") the reality of the Ewoks and they would've been an acceptable addition to the narrative universe IF the Empire would've come in and crushed them into extinction quickly and with little trouble, as would happen in the real world.
But once midget caveman-tech-level teddy bears defeated a high-tech, spacefaring, mechanized armed force with directed energy weapons, I mentally checked out of the franchise, forever.
(Then, not knowing they were going to suck hugely, I made the mistake of seeing the first of the "prequels", during which there is a "pod race" with a pair of ESPN-style wisecracking TV announcers, one of whom actually ACTUALLY SAID after a nasty impact, "he'll feel THAT in the morning!" and I nearly got up and left the theater that instant. Only my cheapness kept me in my seat, as I had paid for a ticket).
To be fair, the trees on the planet were meant to be pretty damn large and therefore heavy, and there isn't a lot of kinetics in Star Wars -- so it makes sense, especially aided by the more technological humanoids and space wizard samurai
Also, how many troops and lower level officers are going to be cool with fighting patriots on their soil? Sure, many of the generals are bought and paid for, but the men on the ground, will they back up the deep state? I think at least a sizable portion won’t. The big guns will come over to the side of the righteous quickly enough.
Especially when they know they voted for Trump and their votes got stolen.
Also, I doubt that all states will remain on the same side. The Texas lawsuit showed us that there are serious tensions between the states or rather the individual state governments and SCOTUS failed in adjudicating by simply denying any resolution.
I better start watching YouTube tutorials on operating Abrams tanks and Apache gunships
shame 800 yards is a far walk to pick up the RPG.
That's where bikers for Trump comes in. Equip them with high end Japanese-made crotch rockets and send them on retrieval runs