Star Wars Space Battles but they're lore accurate

A dogfight between an X-Wing and Tie Fighter ends in an extremely predictable way

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[TheManicMole]

I love the pause when he stares at the wall "oh yer, there is no side windows... and even if there were the wings would block them."

[FiL_]

"Sir, the pilots for the new TIE fighter are complaining about having a limited field of view"

"Sucks to be them"

[SacredGumby]

They are missing the point where the tie pilot would just spin his tie 180 degree horizontally and shoot the x-wing as it goes the other way.

[debes]

I thought imperial pilots helmets had a visor that gave them 360 degree visibility through the walls?

[nicktanner]

He really hit that tie-pilot with the Tokyo drift

[caarctrper]

Alternatively, “fighter combat as described in the Rogue Squadron books.”

[PeacePetal]

TIE Fighter is more maneuverable and has sensors. Honestly in the OG flight simulator, TIE had better vision than the Rebel fighters because you use the sensors when they're behind you anyway, and having that great frontal vision made deflection shooting easier.

[Shadx]

In Tie Fighter PC game, the sensors do give 360 degree coverage.

[stormykeep]

That "power slide..." Corran Horn's favorite maneuver in the X-Wing novel series!

[sagasky]

Scientifically accurate feels more like Star Wars tie fighter game

[Emberheart_]

It's why the old games had view panels on those sides that projected what a window would have shown.

[skenzyme]

I'll try drifting — that's a good trick!

[adamb]

You can do this in Star Wars: Squadrons. There's a specific training mission that teaches you how to do this.
Like, you can cut your engines, flip a 180, and fire while flying backwards.

[MikMoen]

Scientifically accurate: X-Wing cuts engines, rotates 180 degrees to face the TiE and fires back while momentum continues to carry him "forward".

There's actually a scene just like that in Battlestar: Galactica.

[yagxr]

“scientifically accurate.”

who’s gonna tell him?

edit: they changed the title. that should be quite obvious.

[antonalexander]

They have screens in their helmets that show where the enemies are

[mrzirak]

I love how T-series astromech was used instead of some r2 recolor

[xSuperFryx]

In Squadrons I felt like the TIE had more visibility than the rebel fighters since you could see the bottom half of the screen. Excluding VR

[noahburrow]

"Lore accurate"
That's a really cool T unit. Didn't know they still made them after 4000 years

[lazyman]

So I get why for a space adventure fantasy movie it better fits the tone to have space ships that dogfight like WWII fighters with loud engines and pew pewing lasers, but I always liked how some of the old now non-canon EU novels actually came up with a lore explanation where they establish that ship's flight computers automatically self orient to fly like planes, which you can turn off make extreme maneuvers, and that space actually is silent, but all ships use cockpit speakers to simulate the sounds of nearby engines, lasers, explosions, etc to help the pilot with situational awareness.
I kinda wish that for just one shot the movies would have done something fun with that lore where maybe a fighter is briefly damaged in a dogfight and those systems stop working for a few seconds and it just drifts backward in silence.