Evolution of Combat in Star Wars 

I’m pretty sure the people in the lower levels of coruscant don’t live in luxury so being in the military would be a step up for them

Sith Troopers: We’re the best! Death Troopers: No, we are! ARC Troopers: Y’all saying something?

The Old Republic Troopers went hand-to-hand against Sith Warriors. I say that’s badass.

Jedi “ oh blasters are so crude and uncivilized” Also Jedi “but decapitation is ok”

"Look at how precise these stormtroopers are firing into a crowd of innocent terrorists"

“Innocent terrorists” best line I have ever heard

In really shocked that nobody questioned the Clone Army further and investigated more thoroughly

Knights of the old republic sith troopers: we exist Rise of Skywalker sith troopers: unluckily for you history will not see it that way

Generation Tech: War...... It changes bruh.

I want a video about how and where starships are built.

There was one area the Empire and First Order significantly regressed from the Republic, that was in the use of airborne infantry with dedicated air support. TIEs were never as good at supporting the troops as the LAAT and they also lost a lot of ground mobility because of that.

This actually makes so much sense. I love the military evolution of star wars (until the sequel trilogy) Before the clone wars planets had to defend themselves with fighters and small cruisers. They didnt have the resources to make and maintain capital ships. This ideology was used in the clone wars. The republic and CIS navy is based off this mindset. It used retrofitted civilian ships, consular, cr90, lukrehulk, munificent and created ships to support a fighter dominated warfare, venator and providence. The republic through the development and use of victory class and probably prototype ISDs found out heavier, stronger ships were more effective in a conventional war. So with the trasition into an empire, with this mindset, they built more and more ISDs. But to have hands on control of the galaxy ISDs were too expensive and resourse intensive. (Even the republic couldn't patrol the entire galaxy) That's were the tarkin doctrine comes in. Control the galaxy through fear. But the tarkin doctire military was ineffective against rebels who use hit and run tactics. This evolution is amazing because you can see the military evolve. As the audience we can nitpick and see why this and that could've been done better, but within the lore, the military evolves using it's own history. The empire didnt know of the rebel threat when it created its military. It only had the clone wars to look to for guidance. A war that could've been prevented/won earlier if it had a heavier hand and stronger ships. Therefore the empire created the tarkin doctire and ISDs

This is a history educational channel disguised as a Star Wars channel. I love it ~

You made a mistake, you said the First Order invasion lasted from 0 ABY to 5 ABY. That is the GCW! You could've extended the video to the Old Republic era or beyond...

"Then there is the message of hope" Shows Porg PORGS ARE THE HOPE OF THE GALAXY

Starkiller Base had such a long firing range that it had the option of travelling or not travelling to the system designated to be destroyed. Death Stars had to pull hyperspace jumps for every attack.

So... the clone wars were a combination of the american revolution and the Vietnam war? Edit: and ww2. Let me explain. There were iconic troop transports that could hover. Dog fights at a close range happened.

If Earth is in Star Wars, the Terrans are a master of any groundbased warfare and atmospheric combat. Even better than the Mandalorians!

Rogue Squadron is said to be the best dog fighting war movie to date. I’m excited for all the new Star Wars content.

I WISH they had shown a First Order upgraded Imperial Star Destroyer. I know they made them automated to require a lot less crew. But I would have liked to have seen them. Maybe they protect worlds and assets in the Unknown Regions?

10:59 Palpatine should have been like Michael Scott and tried to make people afraid of how much they loved him.

When i was little, I always new that the droids were the good guys. They were the good guys by the end of the clone wars.

I have watched countless number of your vids. I really enjoy your presentation even when I disagree. Keep it up.

The republic fought like prussian forces during the napoleonic wars The empire was spread thin like ww1 germany The 1st order efficiently marched through like the 3rd Reich, but also wasted away from superweapons and crazy brass members

Generation Tech: we're not going to compare to this to the American war... This is more about taxation without representation

You forgot to explain the resistance's space "gravity" bomber

Great video. I've spent hours watching war documentaries primarily WW2 and Vietnam. I can appreciate your perspective. Huge fan btw love the channel keep it up bro.

Devil’s advocate: I’m getting kind of sick of hearing about that one time where Anakin rammed his Venator into that Lucrehulk under the guise of surrender. In our world, yes, that’s terrible and sets a bad precedent. But you need to remember who it was they were fighting. The separatists were already breaking all the rules of engagement and had been committing numerous war crimes from the very start of the war. At that point, just pretending to surrender as you prepared a counterattack is tame in comparison. Also, keep in mind that surrendering to the CIS wasn’t really an option for a Jedi. You’d most likely either be executed on the spot or experience an “accident” on your way to your cell. Best case scenario, Dooku might see you as potentially useful, so you’d be tortured until you turn to the Dark Side and agree to join him.

I think if you supplimented the First Order with battle droids like what the CIS had you'd make a more efficient military. Be interesting to see what kinda military doctrines you could play Frankenstein with.

This week on Generation tech we’re gonna be talking about war and how it never changes 😂

Great job on the great video thank you Generation Tech and Happy New Years 2020 Generation Tech.

This is so well thought out and super interesting. Thanks for the amazing video!

Haven’t had time to see episode 9 and just finished watching episode 8 again and now I decided to drop everything and go watch episode 9

Hang on, if… in The Rise of Skywalker the off the cuff comment to remove hyperspace ramming is correct… "Why not try the Holdo maneuver?" "That was a one in a million shot" That means there was only a 0.0001% of it working and a 99.9999% chance of Holdo either getting away (assuming the Supremacy didn't follow the jump) or just splatting on the front of the Supremacy's shields, like a GR75 on the front of the Devastator's shields over Scarff.

people like to compare clones and stormtroopers but it's important to remember that they were fighting different enemies in different wars clones were fighting a conventional war against a bunch of droids stormtroopers fought against an insurgency of living soldiers, and guerrilla warfare is ALOT harder to deal with then conventional warfare, Infact when the rebels try to fight a conventional war against the empire, they just straight up lose, almost always just something i felt needed to be pointed out

Love your star wars content and star wars combat

How durable is Mandalorian armor in the Expanded Universe when compared to other armor sets like Spartan MJOLNIR armor or Terran Dominion armor? And how useful would they be in real life?

The more Star Wars grow, the clanker the combat will be

Basic tie fighter: we have numbers. X wing: we can see around us. First order tie: who needs to see when I got a gunner in the back?

This is such a good video. I never thought about looking at this :)

You gotta love the Star Wars EU for all its post-hoc rationalizations for why all their military technology designs and strategies are trash.

Has anybody ever explained how Starkiller Base was able to shoot planets so far away so quickly? Speed of light is actually really slow at space distances. Or how Han and Finn and them were able to see it happen from where they were?

Love the channel Allan. Best of luck to you in 2020. 👍 Happy New Years my friend.🥂🎆🎇✨🎉

Good video .love what you do. Keep doing it.

Wow, I've never been this early.

Seriously, you guys should do a crossover with Eckharts ladder

Great video appreciate the information really got me back into Star Wars favorite character Captain Rex to this day

Informative and interesting video :)

War, War Never Changes

Why do people dislike? They didn’t evolve in combat it seems

"They were seen as monsters" *happy upbeat presumably house music proceeds to play*

can you guys do a video on how reys light saber is completely fine in TROS even after it got ripped in half in TLJ? would really appreciate getting that cleared up

So long and thank you for all the fish! Happy New Year to all the great peeps at Generation Tech! Oh...and Allan guessing you've not escaped from the Dolphins yet, so just threaten to turn them into cans of Tuna and see if that helps you escape their clutches hehe ;)

I think you're having too high regard of the First Order compared to the Empire They might improved on certain aspects going for a quality over Quantity Tactic since after all they were the Attackers but their sheer inability to succeed at anything makes it hard to believe they're actually led by competent technocrats and certain ships including the Dreadnought have severe flaws

A VERY FRESH AND UNIQUE WAY TO LOOK AT STAR WARS, AWESOME CHANNEL

Well said! Great video.

The First Order. Hmm. The remnants of a defeated empire that fled to an unexplored region of space, build up their forces, corrected what was wrong with their forces last time, then out of nowhere returned to known space and launched a sudden attack that caught- wait, I've heard this somewhere before... *peers at the Star Wars: The Old Republic box* hmmmm....

10:22 I think you mean TIE/LN, not “TIE/IN”

Love your content keep it up.

thanks! I enjoyed that!

Star Wars: 1,000 years are a lot of time Warhammer 40k: sure...

"Evolution"...don't you mean devolution?

You did a good job, explained alot.

This is a great channel

I got the notification for this vid 4 minutes ago and their are some comments that are 4 hours old

the first order strategists play D&D? no wonder they're more effective than the empire XD actually fits pretty well considering my friend in our star wars D&D who wants to reform the empire to be more effective and alot of what they're planning is the type of improvements the first order did. except he wants to use droids instead

“War never changes, but the world it’s fought in does.”

A collection of all the combat scenes, with absolute minimal backstory/context, from all the Star Wars films in story order would be great. Sequel trilogy pulled the franchise off the rails storywise.

0:39 so what you’re saying is... war has changed?

How would weapons and vehicles from Planetside 2 compare to the weapons and vehicles from Halo like the BR rifle and Scorpion tank?

Very interesting!

Zerg Rush, It always works!

Hello Allen. I love you so much. I hope you're having a great day.

The first order doesn’t get enough credit for their strategy and planning. The resistance got too much credit, they basically didn’t do anything as a insurgent group. All they did was pleaded for help, the rebellion had to earn their allies. The resistance asked J.J. for an army and he gave them one, copy and pasted dozen more raddus like ships, medic frigates, ugly star fortresses. We ask ourselves how did the FO get so big, real question where did all of the resistance allies come from?

A podcast!!! Yes!

It would have been cool to have seen some more repurposed old droid technology. It seems like battle droids were better back even before the clone wars and people just stopped using them.

Thanos: War... it never changes Generation Tech: ACTUALLY

The colors of your new studio rather make your skin tones look alien. Are you Alien? Humanity FIRST! Seriously though please check your lighting.

By matter of odds, characters that can be built up, Star Wars has an infinite narrative potential

The First Order had potential to be more unique from the Galactic Empire, a meaner, leaner version, the marines to it's army. It could have felt like something that was a spiritual successor to the Imperials while at the same time being it's own thing. It wouldn't have been as powerful, but it could have done a good job with what it had. If Star Wars took notes from Mass Effect and Metro, the Resistance and last elements of the New Republic could have had their work cut out for them by not only having to deal with updated bite sized Empire, but also other factions, too. Think about how in Metro, the good guys had to deal with both the Reich and the Red Line, with some secret feudal illuminati faction controlling all the other factions from the shadows (as well as a nuclear wasteland haunted by mutants-Star Wars could be the leftovers of worlds terraformed by the Vong if grafted with legends, and possibly the FO deploying Death Wing Zombie virus on vulnerable planets). Also think about how in Mass Effect 3 you had to deal with the Reapers and Cerberus at the same time. The Resistance and New Republic wouldn't just be challenged by space nazis, but undermined by space commies doing an evil version of their values, coming full circle (think if the Dathomir Witches and Diversity Alliance from legends started gaining support). This revolutionary anti human and jedi sentiment would actually feed into people supporting or tolerating the First Order, and all factions would be manipulated from the shadows by a space Illuminati of sorts, possibly based in Canto Byte, perhaps guided by the spirit of Darth Plaguis. It also would have made it more unique if the Resistance actually tried to undermine the FO by doing rescue missions of the children they recruited so that they could save them before indoctrination. This would not only show that the Resistance was trying to be humane and ideal, but that it would adapt to the situation. There would be a lot of batman esque non lethal combat scenarios and tactics used to minimize under age trainees regarded as innocents. But the movies were rushed and they didn't give it wiggle room to grow and establish itself as different. Some of the books did, which is cool if you get to read them, but it would have been better if we saw it fleshed out in a TV series like the Clone wars. No, not Resistance. That was nothing but filler.

Civil war, was based on both slavery an taxation. Also before the war slavery was slowly dieing out.

When the walls start speaking dolphin

Is there any way that we could continue our Clone Wars history? I've waited a long time to hear the rest.

Amazing

4:37 he does realize the American civil war started in the basis of unfair taxes and teriffs. Damn that got me fired up

My friends called me a madman for saying that the empire was the good side, but then they rewatched/watched the movies... and saw that i was right

Hey Alan from Generation Tech What if Darth Sidious kept making the clone army and kept recruiting citizens at the same to fight the Rebellion during the Galactic Civil War. Can you please make a video about it please.

Gotta ask, the music in the background, what is it? I love it!

The American civil war was about states rights, not slavery.

Basically, the troops become more incompetent each installment. (I haven't watched the video but I'm pretty sure the Empire and First Order would have lost to the Romans on the battlefield despite their superior technology.

nice

There should be a video on Old Republic troopers vs. Old Republic sith warriors.

At least troopers nowadays dont run out like the clones in the battle of geonosis lol(clones did look cooler tho)

Taxation without representation....Clone Wars over similar premises to the American Revolution

But yeah you are doing a Awesome job explaining this man Your Awesome keep at it I hope you keep making videos cause you and your other guy sorry I forgot his name are Awesome guys keep it real

I caught that RKO there... 👍

"The Jedi and Sith The fight between freedom and control" We all know the Jedi are space monk control freaks. Freedom in the Sith!

Ehh, legends has the best, most epic combat, hands down, back in the old republic.

Yes

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