Monroville said:
ChainsawAsh said:
I think the most that needs to be done is adding in a couple shots of AT-STs going ahead of the AT-ATs to take care of the Rebels in trenches. I've always wondered why they didn't do that - send the smaller AT-STs ahead to make way for the big AT-ATs.

SImple: budget. George and company no doubt wanted to do more, but being 1980 and the limits on technology and what money they had to spend, could only offer what we see. That doesn't mean anybody should overload the film with anything, but let's all remember the whole point of the SEs to begin with was Lucas' attempt to bring them "up to date".

On the other hand, those suggested foremost AT-ST's still weren't added to the later SE versions. Perhaps because that was never an option, because they would detract from the reveal of the wonderful scale of the more gigantic AT-AT designs? ...and because the AT-AT's themselves were not exactly thought to have needed the smaller AT-ST's to clear a way for them, since they were considered to be mostly impervious to the Rebel's firepower, and pretty overpowering themselves.