1. That may be true, but te ones in that ship couldn't hit a door sized hole. They were garbage.
2. You assume he couldn't get in without passing a check point. You have no evidence if this. Considering how easy it was to get to a ship and get out. It seems more likely that it wasn't worth the effort to avoid the troopers to begin with. They are, after all, "simple minded".
3. They knew where the pod landed. They should have been there within an hour or two tops. They also have star craft and could easily cover a search area of wide open desert for bright, shiny droids, yet they were a day behind. They could have killed every farmstead the crawler came across. Even inept troops can kill farmers.
4. Yes, letting the leaders of the rebellion escape with ease instead of killing them when you have a golden opportunity is a brilliant plan. Your drawing a bullseye around an arrow that clearly went wide. Vader killed admirals for making stupid decisions. He even explained his reasons.
5. Your examples are horrible. Singapore was hardly the best defended fortress in the world, and the Japanese had armor and air support. The Geemans killed 15 Russians for every German lost and mostly lost due to sheer numbers. Who cares about a Viking in an era before guns. You are right that AT-ST's are pretty indestructible in that case, so why would they open the hatch in the first place? Incompetence.
6. Verification? You're right, we commend Bond villains all the time for waiting for slow moving machines to kill Bond and not making sure he's dead.
1) I'm glad you agree I am correct. They did hit a door sized hole - you see shots going straight through it.
2) You assume it was easy to get a ship. You have no evidence of this. You seem to be confused about what Star Wars is. It's a mythic morality tale, not a military simulation. You know, movies don't show you EVERY SECOND of what goes on. Or did you think people in the Star Wars universe don't pee?
3) How do you know? Maybe 2 minutes after they landed there was a huge sandstorm that ended 2 minutes before the next scene started. See above. Also, of course they could kill farmers, but you then have to search an entire farm. Or every sand crawler. Maybe the Sand Crawler has a sensor jammer.
4) ALL the leaders weren't there, genius. Neither were all the ships. That doesn't happen until the end of V.
5) My examples rock. UK lost Singapore because of their own decisions. Japan could not have taken it if they had defended it properly. You clearly had no idea what I was talking about in regards to the Russians:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavlov%27s_House
Did you watch the film? He opened the hatch to get the ewok off. He figured it was no threat. Like I said, HUBRIS.
6) Once again...did you watch the movie?





