Everything Wrong with the Battle of Ryloth
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- The Battle Ryloth was one of the first major battles we saw in the Star Wars Clone Wars Cartoon. It was great start to a great series... but there was a lot of things that kind of didn't make any sense.
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Holy Shit, you predicted the Raddus ramming into the Supremacy
You forgot that ahsoka's squad was the ONLY squad. They sent in a single squad of fighters against a blockade. The venators had hundreds of fighter Each. Yet they only sent in a single squad of V-19 torrent fighters.
Bobby Flynn how to tactics 101
Yularen must be like:10/10-would send my squad to its death again.
Maybe Yularen just wanted to get rid of his V-19s so he could requisition some decent fighters instead.
SummonerOfEclipse lol
A single squad against a ship that could carry more fighters than all venators together.... Yeah, sounds like a good plan !
Ahsoka got my boy Ax killed 😢
Nadhar Vebb got me killed
RIP AX... they came from behind
True
So sad....
MY BOI GEETSLY'S! Btw ax was a badass
LAST JEDI MINOR SPOILER
Funny you mention ramming things out of Hyperspace.
That part honestly screws over the entire franchise. Like why build a Death Star when you can ram a ship at Hyperspace to a planet and If not destroy It,destroy majority of It's surface? And also why don't they just make Hyperspace missiles? Just a slap together an engine,a hyperdrive and maybe a droid brain and boom! You got Hyperspace missiles.
Who wants to pilot the sucide ship to destroy the Death Star. What
@@blastingdisc567longlivelor3 Well, droid pilots are a thing.
Lieutenant Pepper yeah but we need some one to die
@@lieutenantpepper3421 To be fair we must remember the cost, how hard it would be to position the ship correctly, and that droids can't do everything.
"Ashoka leads her squadron into a trap, and when her master and admiral Wullf Yularen order her to leave, she disobeys orders and gets most of her squadron killed, and leaves the Republic capital ships unprotected. The Republic suffers heavy casualties and withdraws from the field of battle. At this point Ashoka should have been arrested, court marshaled, and sent back to middle school."
Middle school sounds like an appropriate punishment for leading a squad to their deaths.
Captain Rex no modern drivers ed at least georgia dont know about other states or countries. just went though it. Its basiclly hell
Captain Rex On the other hand, Anakin is using a child soldier and Yularen doesn't even bother to point that out, therefore they should be arrested as well. Along with the senate who legalized use of slave soldiers. Are there any good guys left in the galaxy?
the galactic empire... to restore order and prepair agianst an intergalactic invation.
No, galactic empire had anti-alien shit and no good rights especially on outer rim.
hard and drastic measures were needed in order to keep the peace besides.. most of the separatists were aliens.. see what happens when you give aliens to much power? for the empire!
Battle of umbara: Vietnam of Star Wars
Battle of ryloth: Afghanistan of Star Wars
Oh please, those fictional battles weren't that bad!
I'll take those two together over Verdun or the Somme anytime of the day!
@@Wayne_Wheeler no i think it would be the first battle of geonosis cus the clones attack literaly full defensive position just running from without cover
Now that you say that... The connection between Ryloth and Afghanistan becomes super clear. In this case the Seperatists (the terrorists) are using the populace as living shields, thus making it more difficult for the Republic (the US) to do their job without killing the civilians.
Good thing they atleast cover how Military leaders hated that the Jedi were given high ranking military position with no actual military experience and training. Due to this many military leaders did not have any issue with Order 66 as the Jedi's lack of military skills cost the Republic a lot in both resources and lives that could have been prevented if actual military experienced people were in charge.
In my opinion, order 66 didn't come fast enough.
Most Jedi were great warriors but not generals
Mace Windu said it himself: "We are keepers of the peace, not soldiers." Jedi from the Old Republic time sure. Those guys had been fighting Sith left and right. But that was a thousand years ago. Jedi at this time were better suited for diplomatic or commando missions, rather than leading arms and fleets.
It is canon that they where trying to phase out the Jedi as they started to find regular human officers that could do the Job.
The jedi were the republics main military body for thousands of years. Why are they blamed for following the orders given to them by their democratically elected leaders, it's like blaming a career general for letting drafted soldiers die during the Vietnam war, it's not his fault those soldiers were there.
I just love how Allen hates on the Jedi order.
Makes me smile every time :)
Pravdik 189 Me too. And he's just so fucking RIGHT!!
I hate how most of the fanbase defends the atrocious 'tactics' the glow stick- swinging magicians hurl out. I was facepalming throughout all of the Clone Wars seasons, because there's so little logic in their battle tactics! They constantly NEEDLESSLY sacrifice their men, they ignore basic military knowledge and rather hope for the Force to help them then actually strategisong, scouting etc. GAH!
Gooooood gooooood
It makes me sad that I agree with him.
I'm just enamored by the fact that the Clone Wars series being written primarily by writers with no military experience winds up having not only a valid in-universe justification but actually adds to the wider narrative about the moral complexity of war.
The jedi order is awsome haters
BattleSins
EVERYTHING WRONG WITH
*THE BATTLE OF RYLOTH*
IN 7 MINUTES OR LESS
SPOILERS!
(Duh....)
Daniel Huffman ...
Nice Cinema sins reference
This space scene does not contain a lap dance.
I see Ahsoka’s squadron went to to the permeates school of flying away from things.
Anakin rips off the Japanese kamikaze stratedgy from suicide.
I already figured the "hyperdrive kamikazi" plot hole. I believe that planets have gravity wells (like interdictors) and therefore stops ships. However this theory is then destroyed by VII when the falcon goes 50 ish meters above star killer base...
Peter Tomkins Han had disabled the safety mechanism that auto dropped ships from hyperspace to do that, your point stands
Plus it could also be due to the fact that the Falcon was a much smaller ship and thus would be able to maneuver more quickly out of any danger they come close to as they did in Episode Seven which something the size of a venator would be unable to do.
This was something I always wondered about, how did they get into SKB's atmosphere while in hyperspace.
If that was possible why didn't the rebels do it every time they had to deal with interdictors.
Would you willingly cut the hydraulic brake fluid lines on your car if you could at all avoid it? It was a safety mechanism and it's there for a reason.
No, seriously, in every star wars ground battle ever... where's the air support?
To be perfectly honest, Clone Wars era tactics are some kind of bastardize combination of Renaissance era tercio block formations for the droid infantry, WW1 style mass vehicular walls to soak up fire on both sides, and Napoleonic light cav tactics for fast walkers/speeders, Clones fight like WW1 infantry with trenches and cover suddenly being thrown out at random for a mass charge, and air power is also WW1 esque: considered n afterthought. But what did you expect when your leaders are medieval swordsmen?
Fanus Obscurus only exception was zumbara for a bit and Geonodid
HAHAHA! Right on
+Fanus Obscurus Right? I remember playing Battlefront back in the day just doing strafing runs and thinking "why didn't they do this in the movies?"
Stewart Hines funny you mention it. Episode 7 where they went to discount Mos Eisley Cantina.. That's basically what Poes squadron did
Ahsoka got Geetsly's boy Ax killed.
He was everyone's boy he was the best
Shit.
"Why don't they hyperspeed a ship into another in every movie?"
*Allen predicted Vice-Admiral Holding and TLJ*
Empire building challenge
Guidelines
1. You are the head of this Empire.
2. Choose your capital.
3. Chose one Supreme Commander for your military.
4. You have five fleets in your Navy chose one character from legends or cannon as your Commander for each fleet and chose two Lieutenants for them.
5. Your Navy must consist of one ship for each class those classes being a Battleship, Frigate, Destroyer, Corvette, Carrier/Command ship, Troop Transport and a Gunship any ship from legends or cannon can be used your only limitation is you can’t pass the New Republic Era.
6. Your Star Fighter Core must be made up of a Regular Star Fighter, Interceptor, Multirole Star Fighter, Bomber, and a Recon fighter. Same rules as guideline number five.
7. Pick five special forces units any group goes.
8. Pick one special Capital ship for you and your Supreme Commander.
9. Pick one Force Sensitive group as your Secret Service.
10. NO SUPER WEAPONS
11. Ground Commanders and ground armies are optional.
I am the Senate.
Javier Pullido damn u wrote alot
This comment is from an EckhartsLadder video btw, great channel to check out if you like Generation Tech.
1. I am Palpatine
2. Coruscant
3 - 11. I clone _myself_ all the way down.
Why did the Republic only have 1 squadron of fighters? The Venator cruiser was supposed to have loads of fighters, that is what everybody talks about when comparing it to the ISDs. Later they have loads of fighters, during the fancy maneuver, what where they doing with them? Afternoon tea? Court ordered anger management? I swear the early seasons were very inconsistent with how much equipment the Republic had and what it could do.
It's a carrier. They have multiple decks in which to store fighters and bombers, and yet we only see a single squadron to come out of at least one of them. We saw this in the Battle of Bothawui too. It's annoying.
It could be to conserve them, if you send everything out in one wave then you have a higher chance of losing the battle outright if they get decimated.
Because of limited budget.
Ryloth was Very early in the War the Republic Wasnt as powerful as it was and probably had to either rush to Ryloth before more Seperatist Ships arrived or they just didn’t have enough Fighters or pilots to supply all 3 ships
Wait, did Alan just predict the Last Jedi scene where that purple haired lady uses a hyperspace-ram? "It could instantly destroy anything"
Do the battle of Utapau plzz
Elemental Jedi Yes!!
they already did
No they didn’t, check their list
+Elemental Jedi sorry thought you said Umbara
Elemental Jedi why there’s nothing wrong with it it’s a perfect Blitzkrieg tactic the republic just attack and overrun the planet in less than a hour while obi wan fought grievous
The end
4:03 A question I ask myself all the time since the last Jedi was released. It seems so easy and costefficient
Avatarbee right but if you are going to destroy it why not just do that instead
I mean the death star is fucking huge, hyperspace ramming a cruiser into it would be like getting a scar that doesn’t make a huge impact on you.
"of course the venator has very heavy plot armour"
+MotorBoatMyGoat2 class 4 durasteel
4:40
4:07 oh my gosh he said exactly what admiral holdo did in the last Jedi...
Awesome video. As for the Twi'leks being portrayed as hardcore fighters when the time calls for it, I could have sworn in a separate video someone explained that one of the biggest reasons Twi'leks are so exploited is because they're not a very aggressive people. A twi'lek quote used in the video was, "Twi'leks prefer to ride the wave rather than fight against it".
The problem with your robbing a bank analogy is the fact that in the hypothetical scenario you succeeded. Now if you are being trained by people to rob a bank and you do so and are given sweets than its all right because you succeeded in your mission however if you had failed in your mission after being told you can lead a heist for a long time and then have to be rescued by your fellow criminals and then told that you get to command everyone in the operation than yeah its screwed up plus you'll be elated
Oh and on the subject of child soldiers. In the imperium of man children from hellhole planets like death worlds and the lower rungs of hive cities are taken (at around 10-12 years old) and for years are surgically operated upon, their memories pretty much erased through hypnosis and other indoctrination techniques. At one point the child is skinned alive to have a black carapus put all over his body then stitched up and the skin put back on, do keep in mind half of all of this is done without anesthetic and is done over a course of YEARS...many of course die during the process but hay details.
After that said children (that are also sterile at this point) become huge human wrecking balls that violently murder anyone they are told to in the name of the emperor and will most likely...actually they will certainly die on the field of battle "Only in Death Does My Duty End".
As cool as the Warhammer 40K universe is, you REALLY don't want to live there.
This. Though GW has confirmed that Space Marines are capable of having children its just that a majority of them aren't interested in having any and for those few who do there children do not receive the benefits of their augmentation.
But their children are more likely to not reject the geneseed implants and therefore not die during the process
Geneseeds have their own 'blood-types' in a way
Just like blood donations, they have to match with the recipient
Do you know of the Sabbat Worlds Crusade?
Imagine if Gaunt's Ghosts engages Anakin, Obi-wan and the Clones under their command
(Ahsoka, Rex and Cody would have been killed in the first few seconds)
I've never heard it confirmed that Space Marines are fertile, do you have proof of this claim?
I do remember reading that Salamanders having families of their own. Though it was never explicitly stated that they were the genetic fathers, it would seem odd for them to bother with adopting children with the extremely limited schedule they have when they are not on campaigns. Plus, we have seen examples of Loyalist Marines being attracted to regular females so it does show they have some semblance of a sex drive so they could get it on. But as stated before they have so little time and are so devoted to the Emperor most don't bother so its hard to tell.
The plot armor thickens.
It reached its thickest when R2 blew up.
In Legends, several Jedi were killed by slugthrowers/AK-47s
Can't block all the bullets that were hitting them
To make it worse, imperfect blocks would actually turn the lead bullets into searing-hot liquid!
(Kenobi saw his fellow Jedi having their skin melted in front of them)
Why does neither side use Cluster Bombs?
Replace the Stormtroopers will realistic fictional soldiers like the Cadians!
Nah replace them with Catachans, both Jedi and Sith would piss themselves if they had to go up against Col. Straken
Nah replace them with the Death Guard and watch Star Wars turn adult and filthy!
Plague Clones and Plague Force Users would decimate the Imperium!
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When are you guys going to finish the Earth vs Series?
Oi! Noice!!
Generation Tech. questions could you do the same thing but order 66
4:11 Marg Sabl closure maneuver.
2:58 Everything you mentioned plus beaten into hospital by Rex.
He absolutely fucking nailed that hyperspace ramming prediction my guy
4:10 you predicted it bro hyperspace ramming
Beheading wars grievous squishing a clones head suiced bombing a worm eating someone and even clones being cut in half
Toatly for kids
Seen worse in Warhammer Fantasy
And that isn't bad compared to Warhammer 40k
Rebels: No one ever does on screen
Just saying, Sev is the better commando.
There are Guardsmen in 40k that have better military records that these so-called Clone Commandos!
Predicted The Last Jedi pretty hard there
Generation Tech, can you guys please do the battle of kamino?
"Dew it!"
At 4 minutes he calls what happens to smokes capital ship
5:15 as someone who has watch dozens of star craft 2 tournaments. you never send an escort. EVER.
what game was that he showed, I remember playing years ago but the name slips my mind
gotta love the comment about using hyperspace to destroy something and then the last jedi happens
Thanks to GT and Geetsly's for this! I love how this was explained.
There'd be no air support when you're spread thin and in a hurry.
3:48 that moment when you predict The Last Jedi a month before release
Most of these can be explained primarily due to the fact jedi were never trained as military commanders. They were trusted enough because of their fighting skills(but not strategic), their good reputations and their use of the force. They were confident because they mainly rely on the force for almost everything.
Great vid GenTech, I like the duality of this series with Geetsly.
Nice to see you doing collabs with Geetsly's. Keep on (space) truckin'!
this is by far the best star wars related channel on youtube :)
4:03 Rian Johnson: Wow good idea Allan!
Great video, keep up the good work and make more of these
2:15 As someone from east Asia, I died of laughter from this one. It's SOOO true, um, except for the bones part, that's only for special occasions.
3:57 THANK YOU! Finally someone else brings up weaponized hyperdrives!
Lightspeed through a ship? You literally predicted the last Jedi 1 month in advance. Theory idea to cover, why don't they do that more often? Light speed to destroy ships and stations
How?
The writers of episode 8 must have taken notes from this video
Yeah, most of these battles are meant to depict the humanity of the clones, as well as extremely high body counts on both sides for the hell of it - creating more chaotic situations.
Predicted the hyperspace ram in last jedi lol
I really like your videos Allen. I know a lot about about Star Wars but I still learn from your videos
+Mobile Mayhem awesome good to know thanks!
The reason there was no air support later on was because there was still a large number of enemy fighters crowding the air. Anakin needed all the fighters he had to handle them, and even then he barely managed to save Windu's strike team from the bombers.
Alan predicted the last jedi light speed ramming
"Why don't they send a freighter through the Death Star at hyperspace speed? Wouldn't that destroy it?"
Bro Alex predicted The Last Jedi
You predicted when Admiral Holdo rammed the Mon Calamari star cruiser through the Supremacy in The Last Jedi
Where's the sin counter?
4:00 alan predicted episode 8
Awesome Video!!!
The answer to your Hyperspace Kamikaze question is shields. The Death Star was the size of a small moon and possessed shields that would make such an attack impossible. My proof comes from Rogue One when Vader's Flagship comes out of hyperspace and smashes apart several Rebel ships who didn't have shields. According to Newton, such an explosive collision should have done equal damage to the Destroyer, but the shielding shrugged off the damage entirely.
i would agree with you but force awakens for better or worse has changed the rules, now you can time your jump to when the shield refreshes. I have no idea how one does that but hey space magic
Warhammer 40k would destroy Star Wars within seconds (even with Legends)
*Facepalms*
Goddamnit.
No, it wouldn't (and I'm a Guard Player). Everybody and everything is far too bogged down in conflict with one another to put out enough to actually annihilate the Star Wars universe, let alone conquer it.
Want proof? Read up the Damocles Gulf Crusade. The Tau are a fraction the size of the Empire.
The Tau don't suffer from PIS though and have much better technology and understanding of war than the Empire
Plus, they use their FTL in an intelligent manner
Fire Warriors have better armor and weapons than Guardsmen and Stormtroopers (Star Wars)
The Tau Navy does have some advantages over Imperium Ships
It only takes a small force (like the one used in the Sabbat Worlds Crusade) to destroy Star Wars Legends
If the Imperium, Necrons and Eldar DO NOT destroy Star Wars in time Chaos would corrupt it
Which would mean the end of 40k
The clone wars..that brings back memories..really good episode..
Mate, focus on the battle (Recon, tactics, Assets etc) used, rather than Ashoka, clones' age etc. Or how star wars relates to real world.
Plus seems like you are narrating everything everyone who watched the episode already knew.
Nice vid btw
(Certain new movie spoilers) I may be late on this but sending a ship to crash into something else to from hyperspace is a legit thing to do as shown in a certain new Star Wars movie
COMMAND AND CONQUER CLIP? EPIC!
I like this series. You got my sub =)
Great vid bro
About the Jedi tactics: They weren't meant to be military leaders and that was Palps plan the entire time.
the Jedi are looking more and more like bad guys.
Alkatron That's because those glow stick swinging magicians/maniacs ARE bad!
#plapatinedidnothingwrong
There's a difference between being a bad guy and being an incompetent guy. For the most part, the Jedi were the latter.
Reality Rejection Service Point taken .
Because they are!!! Glory to the Sith!
Ahsoka should have got the old fashion treatment, the CANE! or the LIGHTSABER CANE!
Subbed!!
Excellent
I have to disagree with you, giving Ashoka command would make sense, she's the next in command and Anakin would be out, it'll be a challenge as well.
4:00 I think it's because you need to have very exact coordinates to do it, also Most combat ships have inbuilt matter shields that would destroy anything coming near and another reason is that ships can detect objects coming near them from hyper space.
I just re watched this last week
Yup gotta love that Venators plot armor, Wait! Is it still holding!?!
Allen is my fav CZcamsr!!
I personally kinda viewed anakin putting ahsoka into power of the whole fleet as how parents force kids to smoke multiple packs of cigarettes after catching them smoking but I understand the point of not putting a child in charge of a military fleet
"The Clones are more Human than most Jedi"!!!! Exacurry!!!!
1:47
Every person who watched the episode and was older than 8yrs old :)
Remember in the battlefront2 beta that the rebel ship wasn’t destroyed when a star destroyer came out of hyper space imagine that with the Death Star
Spartan A111 But the CR90 was destroyed though.
1:57 probably my favorite character in the prequels.
In a galaxy not just far far away... but where a kid can command a battle fleet.
Ahsoka did have some experience which was why she was given command of a fighter group. The Jedi Order were essentially the Spartan Monks of their Galaxy. child soldiers are viewed differently in martial societies than our own, which the Jedi Order was at least partially martial. And Ahsoka was trusted by Anakin which was why they succeeded. She was only promoted by the necessity of the situation and the dire circumstances. In World War II, most smaller court martials didn't result in arrests due to the great need for every soldier. Only larger crimes resulted in military arrests. Ahsoka turned her ship on its side to prevent vital portions of the ship from taking fire. She could also boost the shields of that portion of the ship taking energy away for the shields for the other portion of the ship and the weapons you mentioned they weren't going to be using anyway. The Separatists attacked and grouped together because they dumb. They were droids and that was the expected course of action from them. Mace Windu probably didn't use the drop ships to drop the tanks closer to the capital because the CIS still had air superiority until Anakin finally finished off all the bombers.
You should do a series comparing star wars characters from different time lines. Ex. Kylo vs Ahsoka, Vader vs Maul, jedi Anakin vs Luke, Palpatine vs Bane
Legends Palpatine beats Bane after a long and brutal fight
Vader beats Maul
Anakin vs Luke depends on whoever uses the Dark Side first
The weakling Ahsoka defeats the emo Kylo
It is the marb saber manuvear use by Thrawn and is effective against races without a abitilty to adapt or driod brains
dude, I love the series but you need to do some deeper study into how tech works in star wars. the reason they don't come out of hyperspace on top of an enemy is because its bloody hard to do, even thrawn needed to use gravity well generators that were more advanced then what they currently have. where are the dropships.. didn't you point out the cis had air superiority and that the republic had lost many fighters and ships in orbit? the slavery thing is interesting and I think the jedi didn't understand it because they themselves were slaves of a kind, both were deeply dedicated to duty and raised that way since birth/very young.
4:04 The separatist actually designed a ship droid ship with ramming opposing ships as a secondary function.
re. age... Depends. She may be already not child for her species at 14. In any case, James Farragut was commissioned as a midshipman in the US Navy at the age of 9, and in 1812 he was assigned as a prize master (officer responsible to bring a captured ship home), aged 13 he was injured in battle and taken prisoner of war...
I get why Ashoka’s little space battle trick worked: Because the enemy commander was neutralized and the Driods on their own are rock stupid.
But can we all stop and appreciate the fact that Anika’s only won because he committed a massive war crime. I would have loved if in a later episode Anikan came across this guy again, tried to surrender for real, and this guy proclaimed “Not falling for that again! Shoot!”
Part of the problem with the CLONE WARS was the Republic Senate. Faced with reelection, the senators refused to enact the draft to bolster the Republic military & give it more manpower, or at the very least put more money toward upgrading their equipment.
Trevor Pate that's crap the Senate could have put out a request for troops, and if each of the Ten thousand planets had contributed 100 people from their planets security forces they could gave easily assembled several hundred thousand troops in hust a few weeks who would have already trained in basic military skills.
4:05 Are you proud of what you caused?
Ya' know, when Generation Tech points out all the faults in this battle, the Jedi make war seem easy.
4:22 Which is called "Marg Sabl maneuver"...
1:51 *insert video of han telling rey “that’s not how the force works”*
Oona, queen of the FiremindΦ Jan telling fin
Well, only thing I gotta disagree about here is the whole "where are the dropships?". Like, there are so many reasons why they aren't being used. It was a planetary retake. Maybe they are being used somewhere else. Maybe there aren't enough. Maybe they were destroyed.
You can see where they got the idea for the last Jedi battle
Big problem with Star Wars space battles, they don’t send cruisers to the other side of the planet or under the enemy’s or above them
Thier hyperdrive is shit!
Say what you want about the Warp of 40k, it gets the transportation job done!
They only show the major events, if you ask yourself where the air support is, you should realize that this is a planet wide battle, not just the one scéne you're looking at. Same goes for the 2nd battle of geonosis and all the other battles. They usually counted on not needing air support when there was a jedi around.
You left out how Ahsoka’s flight group seemed to be the *only* fighter wing protecting three Republic cruisers. Going by Wookieepedia, each Venator-class could carry a complement of almost 200 interceptors, 200 V-wings, and 36 ARC-170’s. Yet, Ahsoka’s flight group of twelve, I think, was supposed to be enough to knock out an enemy command ship while also protecting three Venators in case of fighter attack?
4:00 I think the reason for that is because in Star Wars Rebels the Empire with their technology couldn't let ships use hyperspace near them so it could be that. Or that they would just shoot them down
Can a Death Watch vs. Earth episode?! That scenario would be amazing!!
why isn't the Venator bombarding the tank position. well thats easy, because they can't hit something that small from range. we have NEVER ONCE seen even a star destroyer able to accurately hit something from orbit. At best it can blanket an area but even then. Rebels have a planetary shield covering a square km of a planet... and the Imperials couldn't even land shots in the same ZIP CODE... they were hitting the shield yes, but they were also landing shots miles away. remember, these are not high tech computer controlled guns that can hit 1 building without damaging anything around it. These are optically sited, manualy aimed slower then light magnetically accelerated plasma shots that drift, are affected by gravity and other factors. heck a force senstive can simply grab and hold the plasma mid air stopping the blast. this means had they tried to fire... they would likely have wiped out their own tanks... come on, these are ww2 battleships not star trek ships.... eish.
Then if not the ships in orbit, the bombers or even fighters remain a supporting option which could have completely pinned down those tanks if not destroy them. Still, that whole manoeuvre of moving troops through a vulnerable position was skewed in the first place. They never should have pressed forward without at least some air superiority of some kind.
3:55 Well duh, of course it isn't a very Jedi thing to do, he's ANIKIN! He married Padme' when he wasn't supposed to, he disobeys orders constantly and he is destined to become the baddest villain in movie history.