Hmm, I wondered that, too, but having played a lot of the Rogue Squadron games makes me have another theory. Based on that and Biggs's line, "We'll stay back far enough to cover you," makes me think that they were assuming the fighters would go after the leader, and they could provide cover fire when that happened. Other than that, yeah, they probably were meat shields, trying to stay evasive enough to give the leader enough time to pop off a shot.
Post #328279
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- Gaffer Tape
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- The battle of Yavin.
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- 28-Aug-2008, 10:33 PM