Why the Tie Fighters in Andor Are So Terrifying

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[MrSteveK]

It's the equivalent of WW2 Zero fighters: fast and deadly, yet fragile

[eddieram]

Very true, but at the same time having TIE's and their pilots do the pre-flight checks is a very real situation as you do the same in real life. If Andor can keep doing this, it will expand the lore for as long as Filoni's pet characters remain off this show.

[mewtwo.]

This is the difference between Andor and Filoni

The time travel put Star Wars into a fantasy mode

Andor, brings Star Wars to the daily life feeling

That's why I love Andor more

Even "Bee" is one of the first droids (if I'm not wrong) that is getting charged and gets worried about it

[johanscheffer]

This scene reminded me of the scene in Mandalorian S01E04 where we got to experience the AT-ST in a much more terrifying form than we were used in the OT.

[RXVBK]

This was one of the first things that made me think that Andor was going to be a different SW experience. I loved the TIE fighters when SW first came out in '77--I was an 11 yr old comic book/Star Trek fan. So to hear them on those Dolby stereo theater speakers at the Loews on 86th street in NYC was phenomenal (I think their first seen flying towards the DS1--a transition to Leia in her cell). After the decades of seeing them blasted to bits or crashing into ship sides or asteroids I no longer saw them as cool or threatening...until Andor. That scene you showed--I was watching intensely, home audio system turned on. Then when that beautiful bitch disappeared behind the cliff and reemerged that scream/groal made me jump! My first words after that was niccceeee.

[garettcastle]

Tie fighters all carry what is possibly the deadliest weapon of all, a radio. While they themselves may not be that terrifying, it’s only a phone call away to bring in something that is.

[andyb]

Can you imagine the size of the grin on the TIE pilot's face, though?

[HolyknightVader]

Hopefully, now that Stormtroopers have made a big appearance in Andor's Season 1 finale, Tony Gilroy will apply the same effect to them as he did to the TIEs and make them scary again. Too much of Dave Filoni's work has practically castrated the image of the Stormtrooper among the fandom, and they need to be made scary again, like they were in the first SW movie.

Also, TIE Fighters aren't so harmless in dogfights, Alan. There's this game called Rogue Leader, the second game in the Rogue Squadron series. The stats for each fighter in that series, from firepower to shields and speed, are based on SW lore. It is the most lore-accurate SW flight sim. X-Wings are very balanced, A-Wings are faster than most ships, B-Wings have a lot of firepower, Y-Wings move as slow as molasses, and TIE Fighters die like flies when shot. And I was still able to kill whole squads of rebel starfighters in the bonus Imperial missions using a TIE Fighter, either by boxing them in and letting turbolasers kill them, or tailgating them and blowing them to bits myself. And having played as the rebels in that game myself, if a TIE gets in your back, you're in big trouble, and you need to shake off that bogey before he smokes you.

[TheLiamster]

The way the tie fighters hang from racks make them look like bats

[rexlumontad]

Whenever Tie Fighter fly around, they ask their enemies how is their health plan.

Apparently it was great.

[HansLemurson]

It really highlights how vulnerable and underequipped the rebels are. TIE fighters can be dealt with if you have turbolaser batteries or an X-wing of your own... but what if you don't?

Even the Storm Troopers are presented as a worrying upgrade to regular imperial army or security forces, which already outgun the rebels.

[GenerationTechShorts]

mistakes were made and we had to take down our last episode fry everyone who saw it

[eriviscale]

It goes to show that there are plenty of unique stories to tell in the Star Wars universe that dont require fan service. No offence to Filoni but Ashoka or the Mando do not have to be in everything.

[RoderickGMacLeod]

I really like the way the tie fighter makes the same noise flying through a highland valley as it does in the vacuum of space.

[mrmastaofdesasta]

That's very similar to what I thought when watching the Book of Boba Fett, and the Mandalorian. Simple droids and AT-STs seem much more terrifying than they appear in e.g. the Clone Wars. We've seen entire armies of them razed to the ground in less time than it takes the mandalorian to defeat a single one. I think this really highlights the difference between "military grade" technology and "civilian grade".

[ajc-ffcm]

The TIE fighter reminds me of the Stuka dive bomber. Effective at scaring the be-jezus out of the enemy, until they have effective countermeasures.

[DanielTsosie]

Non pressurized means the big delicate ball of a tie fighter doesn't have pressure differentials to deal with on its structure. Since the fighters are not designed as transit vessels, you basically only need to be suited up for your short single mission sortie. You aren't transiting in hyperspace. Take off every unit of scrap to make it cheap, very fast, and suited for its narrow range.

[shieldphaser]

Heh, those tie fighter racks range back to at least force unleashed 1, where you see them in the first mission there. The new battlefront 2 is certainly not the first time it's been a thing.

[pirobotbeta]

The scream was 'borrowed' from Stuka diver-bombers that had sirens mounted in their landing-gear.
At speeds above 150 MPH or so, the "Jericho Trombones" would be powered by passing air and make a deafening noise.
Civilians would stand and stare, soldiers would run/hide or shoot.
It was supposed to give the Stuka pilots a way to tell military targets from 'just folks'.
In practice, they strafed and bombed everyone.
Pilots were not immune from the noise! Many would disable the siren, to save their hearing.
Lucas wrote nothing new in his Epic Tale; his genius was in using things people already knew.

[MattSipka]

TIE Maulers are light anti-infantry tanks used in Empire at War.
Would be nice to see them in another game or in live action.