Galactic Warfare

[Nom Carver]

This is more about the story being told rather than an amazing creation, the picks are more like a visual support to the events being narrated (thou I had to build some of the environment objects and ignoring that the events depicted here happen in a very sleek surfaced planet with a yellowish atmosphere). To make your journey a more delightful experience I added links to Star Wars music according to the situation (beware of those d@$# ads).

Song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPCPw1dww3E

”Gentleman, You have been chosen to complete a very important task, I am General Reegar, and our mission consist on capturing a well defended planet near to the outer rim that shall remain secret until the orders are given, meanwhile you will be briefed into your specific roles during the attack.

01 por Nom Carver, en Flickr

The planet is well defended and prepared to counter any space assault or land attack, in space they have deployed a cruiser filled with snub fighters while on the surface the city is protected by an ion cannon, a tight anti-air defensive turret grid and a powerful deflector shield.

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In order to break these defenses we developed a plan that consists of three phases:

Phase one: Covert Op

First, the storm commandos will move into the planet on board of a smuggler ship, an old YT-2000 corelian transport that will land on the far side of the planet so they can carry the explosives and equipment that they require into the city without any suspicions.

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Once they have infiltrated into the city, they will retrieve as many intelligence as possible and prepare to sabotage the ion cannon energy supply so that the fleet can arrive safely.

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With the ion cannon partially disabled, the attack can begin, coordination is vital in this phase to avoid the ion cannon to be repaired in time to counter the assault, the fleet must arrive in the precise moment of the generators destruction.

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Song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3IIeNorhVU

Phase II: Asault

The fleet must be prepared to attack, while the destroyers take offensive positions to disable the enemy cruisers shields, fighters and bombers take off to eliminate as many turrets before their own fighters respond to the attack.

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The TIEs must drive the attention away from landing crafts heading to the surface or into the enemies hangar, destroying as many as possible before they can be overrun by their fighters giving the landing crafts enough time to stop their arrival.

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The Imperial landing crafts that manage to sneak into the hangar can disable the fighters before they take off and deploy commandos to sabotage the cruiser from within or claim it for the empire (very unlikely).

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Without a Cruiser to support, the enemy fighters won’t stand a chance and therefore opening an opportunity to the ground forces to reach the surface.

Song:

Phase III: Landing

With the way clear, the land vehicles can proceed to march into the city, but to do so they have to land on a safe location away from the anti-air guns range, in order to penetrate the shields perimeter, the land vehicles must be either have wheels or legs, in this case we chose AT-ATs and AT-STs .

09 por Nom Carver, en Flickr

The AT-ATs, with their high position, can destroy many of the enemy’s artillery before the scout walkers or the infantry move into their effective range while the AT-STs protect them from dangerous infantry rides below. After the battle of Hoth, we learned that AT-ATs are vulnerable to towing cable maneuvers, for that reason if one of these vehicles is caught by this maneuver it must not move any further until the cable is cut.

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The main attack should work as a distraction for the imperial commandos to move in and further sabotage the enemy positions, specifically the shield generator.

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Once the skies are clear, air support can arrive and the destroyers can shoot an orbital strike on key targets.

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With the enemy positions weakened, the commandos can proceed to take down the high profile target (enemy commander); while the land troops can deal with the remaining resistance that won’t last long without their lead.

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As soon as we take control over the city we must try to repair the ion cannon to avoid being overrun by enemy reinforcements.

Song:

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This is the way we should proceed in order to succeed, Do you have any doubts regarding to the plan? Fine, dismiss. ”

I hope you liked it, comments and criticism are welcome.

[Chills]

LOL, that was awesome, Nom Carver. I'm not sure if this has been done before, but I love the creativity in the story and the panes. If anything I'd like to see more action shots of the battles in space and on land.

[Bob De Quatre]

I must admit I didn't really paid attention to the "quality" of the MOCs, I was like watching a movie while the music reminded me the emotions I had while watching episodes 4-6... Thanks for this wonderful moment Nom Carver

[(Dutch)]

Very original idea adding in music. while I was reading your descriptions the music playing added to the whole mood of the moc. Well done!

-Dutch

[Nom Carver]

Thanks to you all, regarding to the battle scenes, I had a lot of trouble with my crappy camera and the lack of red light sabres (3) made it a lot more dificult to make some cool visual effects, regarding to the music, we all know that is esential to any star wars adventure, and maybe the next time I would use a natural enviroment (and another camera) but in separate posts, it took me almost all day long to search the bricks, build the scenes, take the pictures, and write the story, I always wanted to show this little story I had in my mind, afterall we never get to see any tactics on the movies (with the exeption of episode VI).

I also remember a very silly episode of the clone wars series where "Darth Savage" (who named him Darth?) simply lands into a planet, kills a few clones and "wins the battle for the CIS (It makes no sence).

I am glad you enjoyed it.

Edited July 16, 2013 by Nom Carver

[King Aragorn]

Amazing idea, fantastic pictures!

[Nom Carver]

I guess they weren't so bad.

[Only Sinner]

This is so cool. I really liked to see the Imperial tactical point of view. Nice pictures, too.

[Nom Carver]

The rebellion has the force, the empire has the strategy, I just wanted to point out that SW isn't only about swinging lightsabers.