staby
posts on 7/26/2008 12:05:22 AM
tie fighters didn't have shields in order to make them more manoverable, and to force the pilots to fight harder. also, if a huge swarm of ties comes at you, chances are you're running or dead before you can fire. the imerial navy was made for more intinidation than for actual fighting, before the rebellion they just wanted to make people so scared that they wouldn't fight. remember, the best weapon is one you only have to fire once.
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padawan learner
posts on 8/26/2007 1:51:10 AM
hey, the fighters were for numbers and size. they weren't meant to be powerful, thats what the [super] star destroyers are for!
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Ross
posts on 8/13/2007 6:28:30 AM
The TIE is meant to be fast, light, and above all, cheap. To outfit each ship with shields would have cost more and meant the Empire couldn't afford as many of them. Not to mention that the Empire didn't really care about the life of a single TIE pilot. Worthwhile pilots were put on different kinds of craft with shields and better weapons.
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The commentator
posts on 8/2/2006 3:04:42 AM
the tie fighter didnt have sheilds due to the fact that they are light which is very useful....getting away with any ship other than the a-wing. they just love to pick on the y wings for they cant really do anything...the problem without any shields though is just going to cause havic. one hit from and ion cannon and your sitting there for a bit. one shot and its down.
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The commentator
posts on 7/29/2006 1:13:12 PM
TIE fighters are small and nimble vessels, and generally had no room for bulky shield generators. As a matter of fact, they had now landing gears either, they were carried in the hangars suspended on racks.
I believe later developed TIE's, like the TIE Advanced (Darth Vader's)had shields installed.
Look at it this way. A Nimitz Class aircraft carrier has long distance radar, sonar and heat imaging equipment, laser tracking machine guns that can take out air to surface missiles, and counter measures to stop a Submarine's torpedo...however, the fighter aircrafts they carry hold none of these.
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The commentator
posts on 7/27/2006 3:39:35 PM
TThe empire did not find it important to have a large amount of shields. If you recall in episode 6 after 5 shots from A wings the "super star destroyer" lost its main bridge deflector shields and after 1 kamikaze the rest of the ship was destroyed. the empire was fighting a physiological battle. If you send 50 Ties head on to one ship firing it doesn't matter if a single shot hits you will freak the pilot to death. Also look at the first Death Star, it had ultimate fire power and yet 1 proper hit would destroy it. Not to mention you only see the rebels send 12 ships to attack it. The empire thought they would be crazy to attack it. They thought that if they could get enough fire power then no one would bother them anyway, so shields were not to important.
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The commentator
posts on 7/12/2006 6:06:17 PM
The same reason Hum-Vees didn't have armor underneath at first.
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The commentator
posts on 7/11/2006 9:59:19 PM
tie fighters dont have sheild generators. sheild generators are very heavy and a tie fighter is way too small.
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The commentator
posts on 6/21/2006 9:30:56 PM
there are millions of Tie Fighters, there are just to many to put shields on.
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The commentator
posts on 5/24/2006 8:10:38 PM
the standard tie fighter has little sheild, but is fast, slippery, and powerful. the bomber has stronger sheilds for it is slow. the defender is the level under elite. then there is the intersepter the best of the best strongest sheilds, weapons, etc this ship was of the ace elite fighters. then darth vaders ship custum made with the most advance.
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The commentator Psirenne
posts on 12/14/2005 5:10:05 PM
My knowledge here comes mostly from the games. Early models like the TIE fighter were built without shields so as to be highly maneuverable (as has been said). It worked, too - those things can be extremely hard to hit. Adding shields with any sort of recharge-rate means that they move slower, thus making them sitting ducks that are well-shielded. X-Wings are easy to hit, but the lesser-shielded A-Wings become quite a challenge. The exception here seems to be the Tie Avengers, which get very good shields but are still very fast. You can't get something for nothing, though, so those things have to have larger energy-cores (making them cost a pretty-penny, I'm sure). As it is, you give the lowly fighters to your lower-ranked fighters to use them as shock-troops, and have the elites in better ships so as to keep them alive. Sounds heartless, I'm sure, but then again we ARE talking about the Empire, here, and fighting a war is a heartless business.
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aliciaskywalker
posts on 12/14/2005 8:31:33 AM
You are forgetting, the Emperor and Vader are unfailingly arrogant. They probably thought that no one would actually be able to fight against TIE fighters before the Rebellion turned up, and anyway, shields would have been expensive.
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rand
posts on 11/27/2005 11:00:18 PM
i always figured they did have defensive shields of some sort, but they weren't strong enough to deflect a direct hit.
also, it's been years since i've watched the original movie, but isn't vader surprised to learn that a ship the size of the falcon has shields? is that's the case, maybe the tie fighters' engines didn't produce enough power to generate a force field. take care.
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Bounty Hunter
posts on 11/26/2005 9:04:02 PM
Because shields where to expensive for reggular tie regular tie fighters where mass produced so they could swarm all over the enemy and over run them but a tie advanced fighter had shields and where given to tie piolets who survived at least five tie battles but after the second death star was destroyed the empire began to realise that the old way of using tie fighters would not work any more because there numbers where to small then they began to put some lesser sheild generators on the tie fighters that attacked luke's jedi academy when his neice and nephew attened in their teenage years
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Kelborn
posts on 11/7/2005 10:40:17 PM
Once again the Emperor probably cut the sheild budget so they could creat the Death star and all those star destroyers and nice litte men in red robes that can easily be cut down by jedi.
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gazz
posts on 10/27/2005 4:26:44 PM
tie fighter pilots view sheilds as tools of cowards so there prefer to die as pointless canon fodder rarther than life to kill a rebel another day.
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The commentator Bang Bang
posts on 10/23/2005 12:35:54 AM
The TIE fighters didn't have shields, probably because there wasn't enough room for the shield generator on board. All the available space was taken up by the amplifier and huge speakers to produce the "roaring" Stuka dive-bomber sounds that scared the daylights outta everyone!!
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The commentator Supreme praotor of knowledge
posts on 10/20/2005 11:03:01 PM
First ties dont have shields because they are supposed to be expendeble and highly manuverable. putting a shield generator on it would hanpen its manuviribilty and speed plus cost alot more. and if its one thing the imps dont like to do its spend money. greddy retards
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Star Wars Fan
posts on 9/20/2005 10:48:45 AM
How could tie fighter pilots see left and right past the huge wings?
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Defender_16
posts on 7/29/2005 6:45:00 PM
Of course The New Republic got all of it's Tie fighters from the Empire so they could afford to put light shielding on them later in the war. The New Republic balances it's incredibly smaller military by having ships with higher surviveability. Even Thrawn began putting shields on some Tie Interceptors when they started running low on numbers. The Empire at it's height just didn't need to care about Tie losses. Production easily replaced losses and you have a population in the hundreds of Billions to conscript pilots from.
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