The colours are all screwed up by skydrive again I had to yank up the saturation and yank down the brightness to get it to look remotely like the image I was working on.
The big gun/guns would explain why none of the fighters in the space battle didn't drop down and try and take on the base from the air (seeing as they were getting their arses pretty much handed to them a few fighters wouldn't have made that much of a difference to the space battle if the ground base was as unarmed as it seemed to be in the theatrical cut).
It seemed odd to me that there was no air support during the ground battle.
The Tie Bombers didn't appear in the space battle at all and they seemed to me to be the ideal craft to bring into play above the treeline.
Think Apocalypse Now's helicopter runs but against Ewoks and Rebels (mockup quality as always is limited to source material and only there to illustrate a concept not to be a representation of a final scene).
Is there a piece of John Williams music that sounds like Ride of the Valkyries?
Tie Fighter Attack from ANH has a Wagnereque feel to it BTW.
It would possibly mean taking the blast of it out of the Death Star run (it really needs to go from the Sarlacc Pit fight, why the hell wasit there in the first place?).
I just thought of a ending to the Tie Bomber sequence too, when R2 lugs into the bunker he tells the big base gun to target the bombers and then gets's shot (so it's a down moment, followed by an up moment, followed by a down moment)
For those lucky enough to have the technology to do it a video mockup of this idea would be very welcome.