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Originally Posted by Jason Thompson
The Ewoks didn't do too badly really. It was a fair mix of success and failure on both sides. On the one hand there were Ewoks on gliders being shot out of the sky (and it is heavily implied he was then stepped on by an AT-ST walker), blasted by Imperial AT-STs (one definitely was killed on screen) and having some of their attacks fail entirely (like trying to bring down an AT-ST by using a trip rope: it just pulled them all along behind it). On the other hand, it was the Ewoks who destroyed two of the AT-STs (releasing a pile of logs to trip one over, and using two logs swinging from trees to crush the cabin of another), and they did catch a few Stormtroopers using slings, trip wires, and sticks. It is arguable, however, that the tide of battle turned when Chewbacca successfully captured one of the AT-STs and used it to blow up another then blast the stormtroopers into retreat.
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I agree with this general overview of the battle for the shield generator, it's just that the battle as depicted, was totally rediculous. First of all, the Emperor's Elite Stormtroopers(he called them, a Legion of his "finest troops") were totally incompetent. Weren't these the same guys who fought so well in the Clone Wars? They couldn't aim very well and their protective armor seemed to be vulnurable to arrows and rocks. In the first Ewok attack, arrows and rocks brought down many Stormtroopers. Then they broke ranks and chased the Ewoks into the forest instead of massing their troops around the shield generator. They also had at least one big AT-AT walker(it was shown in the scene when Luke turned himself in to Vader) and several At-St's at their disposal. The AT-AT was never shown as taking part in the battle and it's incredible that the "Elite" troopers would send their AT-ST's into a heavily wooded area, instead of forming a perimeter around the generator.
The easy way that Chewbacca managed to capture that AT-ST was also pretty amazing - the "Elite" troopers saw an Ewok making fun of them thru the window, then decided to open the hatch and go out and get him!
I would rather have seen a nice battle for the shield generator; involving a decent sized Rebel force, who at least had similar advanced weapons, to take the shield generator from the Imperials. The fleets fighting above Endor were also mismatched, as the Imperials had more powerful ships and outnumbered the Rebel fleet ten to one. The Rebel fleet was caught between the active Deathstar(which did destroy at least two Rebel capital ships) and the fleet of stardestroyers, but it didn't matter as victory for the Rebels was assured.