The Art of "Not Dying" in Star Wars Close Quarters Combat

Although, sometimes, you don't know you are canon fodder/npcs until it is too late.

"Soldiers are not as afraid as losing their heads as opposed to losing their legs, if you cover them they will keep on fighting forever" - some dude on Bunker Hill

I've always loved how in Halo, humanity has essentially made all it's warships into massive sniper rifles

I remember this one time playing Battlefront my team and the other got into a classic hallway shoot out. It was the most Star Wars type experience I had in that game.

It always surprised me the larger ships didnt have deployable defenses during boarding actions. Such as barricades raising from the floor or methods to force enemies down heavily armored choke points

I do like that in Star Wars boarding actions are almost always when one side wants to seize some asset the other side has without destroying it. Too often I've seen scifi series and movies have a boarding action where it would have just been easier to do something else

That last scene with the rare imperial carrier getting captured reminds me of the exploration that it was among the worst ships they could capture. It was big, slow and painted a giant target on the rebels.

I feel like they should add barricades or something in these hallways. Not that it’ll do much as hallways are basically war zones for force users.

In a universe like we see in Star Wars where there are droids who can translate thousands of languages or plan out entire campaigns it seems very strange to me that nobody within that universe ever considers fitting an automated security turret in access hallways and in front of sensitive areas on larger vessels or space stations. Thus far the only thing like this I have seen was at the beginning of The Phantom Menace when the Jedi transport was destroyed.

To be fair, regardless of what this videos about, you've got to be bloody quick thinking come up with this much Star Wars content, Alan from across the pond in the UK, I salute you mate, must be hard work so fair play

Couldn't you imagine a javelin vs an old wooden sailing ship?

So basically all the horrors of urban/indoor combat with the added terror of space and Darth Vader being in a less than ideal mood. God I wanna see Star Wars in a more "mature" light.

Hands down some of the best land combat was from the commandos in Rogue One, that's what you get though when you hire former military extras. I would love to see something similar in CQB form on a ship at some point.

One of the many reasons that I liked Rogue One is it made it a bit easier to really focus on an aspect of Star Wars that is usually treated as background: The absolute heroism of rebel NPC’s. In the scenario you describe, everyone really has to believe in their cause, because the risk of death is so high. As you pointed out, you might have a brilliant ambush point and blast 5 guys, but then you ARE gonna die. And when storming a ship like this, if you’re in front, every single intersection offers a very high chance of death. In a starfighter dogfight, a pilot with shields at least has a chance if they’re skilled. But in so many personal combat situations, the moment you engage you are seconds away from death no matter how well trained you are.

Are the new republic boys wearing stormtrooper footwear? That would make sense to repurpose military surplus.

I feel like non-major characters in Star Wars make such tactically poor battlefield decisions on screen (eg, not taking cover properly, etc.) because it just makes the combat easier and more obvious to follow for audiences who aren't veterans or haven't read a lot about warfare strategy. It's probably more cinematic to see dramatic laser exchanges between gaudy and obvious enemies firing slow moving bolts that strike guys who can't duck or hide behind walls. It feels like in an actual battle, gunfire exchanges would be far secondary to artillery and mortar and grenades thrown behind cover. And also armored units just killing everything.

You describe fictitious universes in the same way a Historian would relay history lessons…. Truly makes it one of a kind Keep on the good work man 💯🤞🏼

The war nerd inside loves the hell out of these types of videos.

Stun grenades are vastly underappreciated and under utilized in fiction.

40k still has the ultimate boarding action, the tight confines of ship passageways is the last place I would want to be with those roided up, super child soldiers otherwise called astartese.