Bingowings said:
The Endor campaign is even more bonkers.
The Emperor claims that there is an entire legion (about 5000) of his best troops there but we only see the sort of troop numbers we would expect to see guarding an instillation of such importance.
The Empire sends in AT-STs when speeders, wheeled vehicles and ground troops would be better suited for forest combat.
No carpet bombing (which would make even better sense than sending in troops).
No gun emplacements or aircraft cover for the shield dish.
The Rebels are just as bad.
They have a large ship and never consider landing it on the platform or near the dish and blowing it up.
When the battle kicks off no fighter or bomber craft enter the atmosphere to shoot the dish off it's tower.
With a ship that size why aren't they carrying more guns or even some suicide droids strapped with explosives?
To be fair, the Empire may have had advanced anti-aircraft gun emplacements guarding the dish that we are never shown, which could be why the rebels ruled out an aerial bombardment.
Overall though, I agree wholeheartedly. I've said it before, but this is the main reason why I think it could be so cool to make the entire 2nd Death Star a diversion, incomplete except in terms of its weapons systems, and with only the most paltry and expendable troops guarding the shield generator (which should have been built on the Death Star itself if it were to actually be effective). The Emperor on the Death Star 2 is a clone, and Vader is sent to the Death Star because the real Emperor suspects he is plotting against him (which he is). The Imperial fleet retreats after the destruction of the Death Star, so the Empire only loses a couple of Star Destroyers and a Command Ship (perhaps because the real Emperor expected Vader and/or his failed Admiral Piett to be on it, and had the bridge shields sabotaged), and the result is that all of the deeply planted pockets of rebel resistance on many worlds reveal themselves to begin a full scale revolt with the death of the Emperor.
Then the Emperor reveals himself to be very much alive, and crushes the rebellion with an altogether more powerful and impenetrable battle fortress, and the Rebellion is all but destroyed throughout the galaxy.