The Empire's Awful Tactics at the Battle of Hoth | Star Wars Battle Breakdown 

Patience? Vader was breathing down the neck of every officer and demanded quick results. Otherwise he would've killed them instantly. This fear and panic most likely compelled many Imperial Officers to commit to a poorly planned and executed offensive, which was intended to producea quick and very presentable victory to boost their reputation and prevent a slow and painful death. It was really Vader who failed at Hoth. He never set any meaningful plans, immediately killed one of the Imperial admirals and didn't do anything on Hoth except lumber through the corridors of Echo Base and slaugher Rebel stragglers. He didn't plan a good offensive and didn't prevent any of the key personell from escaping.

I personally subscribe to the theory that Ozzel was either a rebel spy or sympathizer. First, he tries to dismiss the evidence of the rebel base, arguing it's probably just smugglers, and only goes to Hoth once Vader insists and it is inevitable. Then, Ozzel comes out of hyperspace early, allowing the Rebels to detect Death Squandron and bring up their shields and begin an evacuation. This allowed the rebels to survive, along with most of the high command, and live to fight another day. Sure Imperial officers are often incompetent, but Ozzel is next level, every decision he makes hinders the Empire's attack. It would actually make more sense if he was making these mistakes on purpose.

To be fair to the Empire, the Rebels just had too much plot armour

So I know part of the blame is on Ozzel, but I personally believe that a lot of the mistakes are because of Vader's obsession with capturing Luke.

Clearly, the Empire did not learn enough from that time they tried to invade Russia in winter

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In regards to the “send all the TIE Bomber and TIE Fighters you’ve got,” it wouldn’t actually work because as observed in “Empire at War,” bombing runs are ineffective against base shields, even orbital bombardment is ineffective as General Veers puts it. “Com-Scan has detected an energy field protecting an area of the sixth planet in the Hoth system. The field is strong enough to deflect any bombardment.” Even _Force Commander_ has a general say “We would simply bomb the base, but the Rebels have established a shield around it [the base].” Apparently, not only is the field resistant against energy weapons, but against fast moving solid objects. As established in Episode I, it appears that slow moving objects are able to penetrate the shields as well as objects that have contact with the ground, which was probably why the MTTs nor the AATs could bypass the Gungan shields. Another reason why Vader wanted to attack immediately was because he wanted Luke Skywalker, to convert him over to the Dark Side of the Force, so he could neither risk killing him nor give him any time to escape. There was also the Millennium Falcon and Luke’s allies. As evidenced in the DLC of _The Force Unleashed_, Lord Starkiller managed to use the Force to hold the Falcon hostage in order to tempt Luke to the Dark Side, which he was successful. Such would have been the case for Vader had he managed to get to Luke or the Falcon in time. Lastly, the Rebels _did_ suffer significant losses, 17 out of 30 GR-75 transports were destroyed, over 50% to 57% personnel were killed in the escape. And don’t forget Vader’s order to Captain Piett, who was immediately promoted to Admiral, to “deploy the fleet so that nothing gets off the system.” So, he _did_ account for that. They had a considerable amount of success, and the Rebels were desperate to escape as well. The biggest error was that Ozzel brought the fleet “too close to the system.” Had Ozzel brought the fleet out of range of the Rebel sensors, jammed them, then they could have bombed the base successfully.

Not being funny but if the empire had completely destroyed the rebels with overwhelming tie bombers and orbital laser cannons it would kinda of been a short film..

The outro still gets me.

simplest no-nonsense strategy: lock down the place, keep them on edge with orbital bombadment, deploy ground units to take off the shield generator, once it's out throw down as many tie fighters as possible and follow later with bombers once air superiority is ensured to take down all the important infrastructures, THEN you can go with infantry to sweep the place.

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There are two key elements you're overlooking. 1. A lot of the things you're referencing didn't actually happen (the video game clips of TIE Bombers attacking transports) or didn't exist at the time the movie was made (Interdictor Cruisers). As well, the Rebels don't use X-wings against the AT-ATs. Which could suppose that use of TIE fighters within a planetary shield is dangerous. They are much faster than Airspeeders and could be in danger of exploding against the shield (they could theoretically "fly slower" but there could be more to it than that. we go with what we know; neither side used starfighters). 2. And most importantly, Darth Vader was in command and the destruction of the base meant nothing to him. It was not his objective. His sole purpose for finding and attacking this base was to capture Luke Skywalker. That's why he used the ENTIRE Death Squadron to pursue ONE ship and let the rest of the rebels escape. It's also why he didn't use any orbital bombardment, AND it's why he went down to secure the base himself. He wanted to capture the crew of the Falcon without risking damage to Luke. In other words, this wasn't a campaign that was mismanaged by the Empire (save for Admiral Ozzel's fatal misstep), but rather Darth Vader using a giant fleet of ships to capture one ship. Which, technically, in the end he did.

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While I absolutely agree that the decisions made in this battle were flawed, it still made for some of the most iconic scenes in cinema history. A cultural victory, I suppose.

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A planetary blockade seems to be what they tried, which is why the ion cannon was so effective. The ships were spread way out to cover the escape path, but because they could literally fly out from anywhere they needed lots of space between them. I also think the shield somehow blocks aerial vehicles like TIEs, which is why they weren’t used in Rogue Squadron until after the shield fell.

i love that intro music and outro it realy is calm and relaxing to listen to in your videos

Correct me if I'm wrong but I think I remember in one story or another stating that the Imps did send in commando's to disable the Ion Cannon's which is what that one rebel in the movie warns about, "Imperial Troops have entered the base. Imperial Troops have -", before getting shot by said commando's

Please create a battle that you come up with on your own with your favorite battle tactics from Star Wars. I want to see what your awesome mind comes up with, maybe do a colab with spacedock. Just a suggestion.

5:36 I’m not sure if that Rebel was killed by that ATAT, or if he just tripped. It took a second of so for him to fall after the blast lands

Perhaps the Empire’s intel was lacking - the probe droids confirmed a rebel base, but perhaps not the ion cannon.

Based on what we see in Episode 1, the rebels shield might not have allowed fast moving ties to move through it. We see battle droids almost shuffling in order to get through the gungan shield. The slow speed of the ATAT might have been an asset there.

Vader did not care about destroying the Rebel Alliance so much as capturing Luke Skywalker. In the novel Star Wars Battle Front: Twilight Company, Vader only force chokes Everi Chalis to get information about Skywalker. Vader could care less that she betrayed the Empire!

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Should we consider that Vader wanted Luke alive and that intention hobbled the tactics proposed above i.e. hence we got 'General Veers, prepare your men' as opposed to a hypothetical 'Admiral Piett, prepare your fighters' to kill Rebels selectively ?

I thought the Tie Bombers in Rogue Squadron were deployed after the Rebel's shield generator was destroyed. The shield generator would have protected the Rebel base from bombing runs, just like it does in games like Empire at War.

"Let the escape pod go." "Don't lock down docking bay 94 before we go in blasting." "Let the rebels escape with the Death Star plans so we can track them down." "Put the one-and-only shield generator on a moon and defend it with bikers."

3:21 is on of my favorite scenes. It only lasts for a second, but the shot of the snowspeeders rushing across the ground like that, with the AT-ATs in the background is really cool. It's a great action shot, even if the special effects are a little lacking, and if anything, I personally love those lesser quality, but still easily watchable graphics. It's almost like an unintended, gritty scene that totally befits both the rebels, but also the intensity of the scene in my opinion

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from a filmmaking perspective in the 70s an attack with walking tanks was absolutely perfect

What about the Rebels awful tactics of not having the shield generator buried underground. It's thanks to that Generator that Vader realized they were on Hoth.

This video should serve as an example to the most vicious sequel haters that the battle strategies in these movies have always been horrific.

I don't understand how jumping too close to the system is a bad decision. Sure, they say it, but the closer you are, the closer your turbolasers are to their base meaning that reaction time is much faster for the attackers as opposed to just raising a shield? How would the asteroid field have helped at all aside from sensor scrambling? Launching fighters and landing craft from behind the belt? They'd blind themselves (turbolasers) with the asteroid field, so they couldn't bombard the base before deploying their items. If the Rebels had a shield generator anyway, then a ground force would have been needed anyway? How would there have been plenty of time to prepare if they were closer and right on top of them? I don't understand the lore's explanation of this problem... I'm not smart. edit: am hafway through the video now. Your bombardment by fighter rules make more sense but the Rebels still had time to escape? And the Empire did set up a blockade... Dunno

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The empire is actually even dumber than this video makes it sound. Their plan was thus: send in the AT-ATs to disable the shield so that the fleet can bombard the base, killing all the rebels. The rebels can only flee in their ships when the shield is open, so there is no reason to disable the shield if you do not immediately kill the rebels. However, instead of this, Vader decides to go down there personally, something that *in no way requires the shield to be disabled* because he could just take an AT-AT. However, though the shield was disabled, the presence of the Empire's commanding officer on the battlefield made bombardment impossible. Wow that plan was stupid.

This video reminded me of a post I saw where someone says that during all of TESB Vader is simply trying to get Luke. Yes destroying the Alliance is the Empire's goal, but that was secondary to capturing Luke. He's acting solely on the basis of finding Luke, which is why he chases the Falcon through the asteroid field and clearly instructs 'No disintegrations' to the Bounty Hunters. Explains why he was so impatient, searching through the base, not wanting to completely obliterate it less the risk of Luke dying and the questionable tactics. Also it may be hilarious to imagine him thinking 'son, son, son, son,' while you listen to this theme as he shows up on screen. Anyways, nice video. I enjoy your perspective on the warfare of this franchise.

just to notice, it was a group of 6 Imperial Star Destroyers and the Executor, not hundreds of imperial ships in orbit if i recognize it correctly...

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Their biggest mistake (Besides Ozzel's blunder obviously) was not bringing any Interdictor Cruisers with them in the first place.

Didn't Darth Vader say something about how the general made to many mistakes so he killed him. So it was mentioned in the movie.

It’s been a while since I’ve seen the Empire Strikes Back but I thought the reason they did what they did was because they wanted prisoners specifically Luke Skywalker.

"Why not use TIE Bombers?" Because as it has been shown in EP1, the clone wars, and in ROTJ, you can move through a shield but only VERY SLOWLY. Slower than even a thrown grenade. Bombers would slam against the shield, and your attack just ended before it begun. And your second argument is "Why not relax and use some patience?" You argue this after saying that walkers took too long to attack the base. The Hoth battle plan was sound as it was: >Come out of hyperspace further away from the planet, undetected in the asteroid belt, and move into a blockade position. >Land heavy ground units to penetrate the shield, destroying the front lines, and leaving it open and exposed. >Land reinforcements, mop up, destroy remaining ships/defenses. >Revel in the glory of the Empire. What foiled the Empire from a total crushing defeat was the admiral who came out of hyperspace in the wrong location, giving the rebels time to prepare and evacuate.

actually empire did manage to destroy most of the escaping transports; but of course, no main characters were harmed due to plot armour

No one: Absolutely no one: Not a single soul: Eckhart: CALL IN THE INTERDICTERS

The Empire fucking had a super star destroyer and like a dozen star destroyers but yet they couldn't destroy a few GR 70s and a few x wings.

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My interpretation of this battle is that: 1. The Empire *did* blockade Hoth in an attempt to intercept the fleeing Rebel transports and this is why the ion cannon was able to clear a path for them by targeting one ISD at a time - the fleet was widely spread out. Transports could simply be given new egress vectors to counter any reactive Imperial redeployments. 2. The slow method with a prolonged orbital bombardment to wear the shield down would have meant heavy losses from the ion cannon. Combined with the need to spread out to effectively blockade the planet meant that the Rebels would likely still be able to flee. 3. The Empire couldn't simply send in TIE Bombers to destroy the shield generator because - at least when this battle was written - aircraft couldn't pass through a shield from the outside. Thus, the need for a ground assault to destroy the generator. Once the shields were down *then* bombing became possible. If you can simply send bombers through a shield to destroy the generator then there's virtually never any reason to mount a ground assault and armies become instruments of occupation only - Star Wars writers should keep that in mind. The thing I've never understood is why dropping out of hyperspace too close to Hoth alerted the Rebels and bought them time to prepare. It would make more sense the other way around if Ozzel - out of excessive caution, which would be fitting for his character - brought the fleet out of hyperspace too far away in direct contravention of Vader's aggressive intentions.

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Battle of Hoth - Good example why the Empire should keep Turbotanks in its arsenal.

Empire does make a lot of mistakes and great video love your channel and videos.

poetic licence. Lucas wanted to show how terrifying it is to fight against the Empire. The first time you see the AT-ATs, it’s pretty mind-blowing. Plus it paints up the whole inhuman, mechanistic nature of the Empire. That the walkers lumber slowly is on purpose, to build the tension as their overwhelming firepower draws ever closer. If the battles made military sense a lot of the poetry and drama would be lost.

Not the whole fleet just one star destroyer under the moronic ozzel

Regarding, re: TIEs; it's mentioned that they have to specifically open the shield to let the x-wings and transports out in the movie. Suffice to say, it's easy to assume that TIEs would go splat against the shield if they tried to fly down, hence the use of AT-ATs. The other thing to remember is that the air speeder isn't a proper aircraft either. They skim at low to medium heights, so from that alone, can assume that whilst the shield protected from above, ground forces (which would include the speeder) could operate beneath it.

I agree with u and I like the end of this video keep it up

"He is as clumsy as he is stupid. General, prepare your troops for a surface attack." -Darth Vader

Before watching this, I'd like to remind everyone that the Empire was the victor at the Battle of Hoth. The Rebels were still caught unprepared and narrowly managed to escape. 2:45 TIE Bombers probably weren't used because they don't pack enough firepower to destroy the shield generator. Remember that the shield prevents all forms of orbital bombardment, so the Empire's no. 1 objective was to take out the generator. It took two blasts from an AT-AT at maximum power to destroy it. TIE bombers are great for destroying craft, gun emplacements & foot soldiers, but no much else. Since you mention the Rebel Strike video game, remember that Y-Wings are comparable to TIE bombers, and in one of the missions, it takes multiple drops from a Y-Wing to destroy a structure much smaller than the shield generator. Just curious.....your graphic shows 20 regular Star Destroyers surrounding the Executioner --- where do you get this number from? It was my understanding that the Executioner was flanked by only 2, possibly 3 regular Star Destroyers -- encountered by the Millennium Falcon during her escape.

Its amazing how every battle with the empire seems to be "They got overconfident and screwed the pooch." Like, the Battle of Endor may have been the best thing that happened to them since Thrawn and Pellaeon seemed to have been able to do more with less. Unless you count canon, but who actually does that? Rebel sympathizers, that's who.

I think that makes sense though, patience is something that anakin struggled with, he would on occasion rush in when he should have waited. The difference is that Vader/anakin could handle rushing in, normal troops can’t.

I like what I've seen on this channel so far so I don't want you to think I'm coming at you personally but I have a lot of issues with this analysis. The Empire's problem started when their probe droid was discovered. The Rebellion was already finalizing plans to evacuate and the shield might even have been already up before the first SD arrived. Vader blamed Ozzel for coming out of hyperspace to close to the planet and that didn't do them any favors but the Rebels were already committed to pulling out and expecting trouble. The Empire was just as much on the clock as the Rebels. Again, before they even arrived the rebels had a plan and were moving forward with it. There's dialogue in the movie about how the ground attack was making them step up their timetables and taking more risks than they wanted with the transports. If the empire had sat back to wait for reinforcements they were only going to make the rebel escape easier. For all we know they did call for help but had to move forward without them. The movie pretty well establishes that air and space craft cannot pass through the shield. The shield has to be lowered (or at least a part of it does) for the transports to get through. Vader has to wait for the shield to go down before he can begin his assault (presumably he's waiting in orbit). The speeders can operate because they're already inside the shield. TIEs do not appear in the movie or novelization. Even in the games where they're present, as far as I can remember they only show up once the shield is down. Regardless, I'm absolutely not going to take the games over what is seen in the movies. That the Empire could've easily just blown up the ion cannon whenever the shield drops takes a lot of conjecture and assumptions I don't think are safe to make. It's questionable how well the Empire could reconnoiter through the shield. It's also assuming the rebels are operating in a predictable pattern. The ion cannon could potentially cover the entire hemisphere, meaning where (and when) it would attack next and what path the transports would take from move to move was an open question. It's also questionable that the Empire can really hit the cannon at the instant the shields drop. There are a lot of times in Star Wars where shields open and close for a split-second (you especially see this in ship hangars when they launch fighters). Nobody seems to be able to consistently exploit those moments. There's no reason to assume they could do better here. If the shield is only opening a space wide enough for the ships and ion shots to get through, that only makes it harder. If it was really as trivial to do as you imply it should be, I'd say failing to exploit it goes way past bad tactics to making this actually a pretty shitty movie since it destroys the drama of the film's major setpiece. A commando raid would have been a poor choice for taking out the generator. A compact and contained fortification on high alert with little cover on the approach through an extremely hostile environment is... not an ideal way to expend your elite troops. A group like that needs the element of surprise and an enemy they could distract or misdirect and (most importantly) have several priorities they need to juggle. Literally the entire rebel army was devoted to protecting this relatively small area and especially the shield generator. Going head-on against an enemy you can't surprise is a job for the infantry. Historically nations have put their special forces against a main battle line and what they discovered is that their best guys die under massed artillery enfilading fire just like everybody else. I honestly think the Battle of Hoth is probably the only time in all of the movies where both sides' actions make sense as far as doing everything they can as well as they can, without the shocking incompetence (the Empire's overconfidence) seen elsewhere or getting distracted by personal issues (aside from maybe they could've done more damage if Vader hadn't been trying to capture Luke alive).

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I don't know why this was in my recommended but I'm really glad it was.

I know this would be difficult, but can you breakdown what is by far the largest space battle in the whole franchise? *The* *Battle* *of* *Yuuzhan'tar!* I have made this request: Three times.

As some people have mentioned, I like the idea of Ozzel being a rebel sympathizer. Once his plan to dismiss the shield generator failed he likely knew he was a marked man in the Empire and just tried to bungle as much as he could to help the Alliance. The Empire had also lost their best and brightest military strategists just three years earlier in the Death Star destruction and Anakin wasn't always shown to have the brightest military mind in The Clone Wars tv show.

I bet the Krogan would have done it better. Or the Brutes. Hey, you should put them against each other. [89th ask]

I think that the Empire’s main goal was to capture the Rebel leaders. If a quick bombardment took them out, they couldn’t capture the Rebel leadership and make examples of them to prevent further rebellion

Could the ion cannon disable the Executor Super Star Destroyer?

Don't forget that Vader wanted Skywalker alive beyond all other goals. I'm sure that dictated Imperial tactics.

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Samuel Hayden: "You can't just shoot a hole into the surface of Hoth" Vader: "Watch me" *flawless victory*

You wanna know why the empire lost? Cause they were the bad guys.

They tried to use shear firepower through ground vehicles. Or wait until the rebels go into space above Hoth, then fire all weapons on the ISDs

Cover the human-formic battle at the end of Ender's Game.

I've long had difficulty with the idea of blaming Ozzal for "taking the fleet out of hyperspace too close to the system." Vader's orders did imply getting there fast and that a battle was expected. I think Ozzal real mistake was questioning Vader's insistence that the Rebels were ideed on Hoth and Vader was looking for an excuse to strangle him.

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Yeah I have to agree on that. That’s when Star Wars Empire at war and its expansion came in handy. I had an Interdictor Star Destroyer or cruiser as there also called. But the only time I needed tie bombers is for indeed bombing runs and yes orbit bombardment was also a must. So yes your right about that.

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Something I didn't get as a kid was why it mattered that the fleet emerged so close to the system. I figured that if anything it would give the imps an advantage. The reason it messed everything up for them is that if the fleet had slowly moved into the system which was rather cluttered with asteroids, they could have remained undetected, then bombarded the planet from long range. When a ship emerges from hyperspace into normalspace it emits a burst of radiation that is easily detectable from a few light seconds away. So while a ship might not be able to be detected if it jumps in outside the system (which would be a number of light *hours*), the radiation of an inbound jump would be easily detectable if the ships jumped in close to the planet, even if the ships themselves are outside sensor range

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Man alive it is rare to see the empire do really well.

one small point in the Empire's favor: the Rebels had set up some gun turrets abound their base, which probably could have handled Tie Bombers. but the AT-ATs had enough armor to shrug off the turret fire and keep right on walking.

Exactly my thoughts.. Swarm it with ties, and protect those walkers

The SSD should have hyperspace rammed the planet

When you have a shear advantage in numbers, you tend to think that strategizing is not essential, though it's still not an excuse to not plan ahead.

IIRC, ray shields like the rebel’s planetary shield do not block most objects, but will block any craft that uses repulsor lifts, so they couldn’t use TIE bombers, and the AT-AT was the best vehicle they could use for the assault.

Suggesting airstrikes from within the atmosphere against the rebel base forgets one crucial fact: The shield is strong enough to not only block turbo-laser fire from obit, but also block smaller spacecraft from passing through it. This is evident by the fact that the rebels need to "open the shield" briefly to let transports and their fighter escort out. This is strongly indicative that attempting to fly through the shield would either result in outright destruction of the craft, or perhaps more likely, the shield will majorly distrupt spacecraft flight controls leading to a crash. This is also probably the reason why the rebels opted to engage the walkes with ground-skimming snowspeeders, instead of their much more heavily armed X- and Y-wing starfighers who are perfectly capable of atmospheric engagement and just a handful of them would have made a mess of the ATATs in short order. In sort. Landing on the ground and walking through the shield was indeed the only option available to the empire.

All ships present at the battle of coruscant (or just one side) vs the byss fleet during shadow hand (with or without byss present)

6:01 I was not expecting that

I think the biggest issue was when Vader heard the planetary shield was strong enough to repell any bombardment he jumped straight to a land campaign. And given his history of of killing anyone who talks back to him no one was going to suggest that maybe there would be a better way to attack the Rebels.

Here is what is interesting about the shields. It blocks turbolaser bombardment but not ground or air vehicles. In my opinion, the shield was a high energy electromagnetic field. The cannons were plasma based weapons. Magnetic fields can repel plasma.

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The picture what you put in as Hoth is actually a picture of Saturn's moon Enceladus.

'someday, people's going to look too much into it' Alec Guinness lol

I believe the reasoning of why the TIEs weren't used the way you suggest was because the planetary shields prevented them from doing so, and the terrain dictated where the Imperials could and couldn't land their troops, and the AT-AT's are used partly as terror weapons. Plus from what I've read, Death Squadron only had a limited number of snowtroopers and other cold-weather specialized troops, which limited how many troops that they could deploy, not to mention that Vader would've been to impatient to go for the blockade/siege option (even as Anakin Skywalker, patience was never his strongest point).

They didn't have interdictor star destroyers back in 1980, and the last movie featured a space battle, so a ground battle was a really sensible option

From what I understood, the walkers were the only weaponry that could penetrate the shield itself (the generator being inside the actual shield). TIE Bombers would have just crashed into the shield, and it IS "strong enough to repel any bombardment"; you only see them in action in Rogue Squadron when the shield is already down (which, incidentally, is why the Rebels can't just wreck the AT-ATs with their X-wings). But all that is somewhat moot when you realize Vader wanted to capture Luke alive; it WOULD have been smarter to bomb the base until it was a crater, and then bomb the crater, but he wanted to wait until Luke had been secured before going all-out on the base. Thus the more inefficient ground assault. A good video, just a small nitpick.

Loving this series so far, but I can't wait for one dealing with the original battle of Sigma Octanus IV and the Keyes Loop