Why Star Wars Ground Battles Make No Sense

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"I payed for the whole army I'm going to use the whole army"

"We're just ground battles, we're meant to make sense" "Not to me"

"made for children" "Master skywalker. There are too many of them, what are we going to do?"

As generals during the Iraq war said. "You can drop as many bombs as you'd like. Shell them with artillery. But they'll somehow survive in pockets. That's where my marines come in."

Oh my guy, orbital bombardment isn’t the issue. The issue is the standing completely out in the open and charges akin to those of ww1

Space: The Ultimate High Ground

I just tend to assume that unless stated otherwise, all planets have some form of planetary shield, even if it's not mentioned. For example, we know that Geonosis had planetary shields, because a major plot point in Rebels was the team recovering the core from one of them.

this is the same problem with modern air force: you cant win without ground forces to support, it doesnt matter how advanced your air force is

"God fights on the side with the best artillery. " -Napoleon Bonaparte

The mission isn't always just to destroy as many enemies and their stuff as possible regardless of fallout. A lot of times they are trying to recover intel, property, capture prisoners, and/or rescue prisoners. It's also hard to confirm whether you killed a VIP, destroyed valuable intel, or accidentally killed your own captured soldiers if you just bombed the crap out of everything. And many battles happen on inhabited planets with innocent people nearby on top of that.

I was expecting a bit of commentary on the way a lot of clone troopers didn't take cover. A lot of battles in clone wars had the look of like a civil war fusillade as lines of troops exchanged fire standing right across from one another.

Well the empire couldn't cause they had to maintain a good image, remember they tried to constantly act as the good guys, and tried to pass off the Rebel alliance as just terrorists. Also the Republic could not as it might cause the senate to loose faith in them, as orbital bombing is super cruel. The CIS was being manuplated by palps, so their main purpose wasn't just pure domination by eradication, but instead to create conflict, and what better way to create conflict by holding ground battles rather than just destroying planets.

Grievous just wanted Ventress’s lightsaber .

Hears "maybe shouldn't bomb the crap out of the civilians" Laughs in Warhammer 40K

Isn’t this like saying why don’t we just nuke everything?

May have been said already Palpatine wanted the Jedi Temple intact so he could raid the archives and the vaults, destroying it would have been a waste

Clone wars: is made for children Also clone wars: Has some of the most gruesome deaths.

Finn: Eckhartsladder don’t worry.........THEY’LL USE THE FORCE!

Geonosis was a proving ground for the clone army, heavy equipment and tactics. Bombardment would have been more efficient however it appears the goal was to battle-harden the initial wave of clone troopers to develop their level of experience. The siege on Umbara was the best Clone Wars operation in the series. Why didn’t they develop the Republic Commando unit rather than the Bad Batch team. The RCs are much more interesting.