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huxsmug:
grey-jedi-enters-the-game:
huxsmug:
galadhir:
diesnefasti:
kehrite:
Thank you, I needed to hear that Q^Q
It explains so much. a) why the background material calls him a mastermind.b) why he’s achieved such a high rank at such a young age - a military organization can only reward its tech genius via higher ranks.c) why he’s nevertheless not honestly great at commanding a battle. That’s like expecting your brilliant mathematician to also be a great olympic polevaulter - non transferable skills, dude
100% agree on all of this! Commanding a navy is not really his thing and he doesn’t have a lot of real combat experience because he uses simulators (that he designed btw).
However I think he still did great on Crait considering the circumstances. Remember that the First Order had lost most of its fleet, a lot of troops died, a lot of weapons/vehicles were destroyed and of course kylo didn’t want to listen to hux and cooperate with him during the assault.
All of this honestly. He may be a genius, but navy is not in his field of expertise. Crait went better because they were on the ground. As you said, he’s changed quite a lot about trooper training program since he took over after his father, simulatuins included, so naturally he knew what he was doing. If Kylo didn’t stop him to fight with Luke (who wasn’t even there technicaly), the whole saga would end right then and there.
Also let’s not forget that Hux saved Kylo 3 times already! In the new upcoming Resistance comic, on Starkiller Base and when he called Kylo to come back to the fleet! (Well this one is debatable but kylo was clearly not thinking clearly and he was shaken by his mother apparent death, so he could have been killed like the other pilots!) And Kyko is not even grateful for that…
Ha! I would like to think that the writers thought “Hux is better at commanding a ground engagement because he’s been writing simulated ground engagements for his troopers for years,” and that was why they had Crait go so much better for the FO. I suspect what they were actually thinking was “we need things to go badly for the Resistence here to ramp up the tension and give Luke his big moment.”But it works with the back story even so :)
huxsmug:
grey-jedi-enters-the-game:
huxsmug:
galadhir:
diesnefasti:
kehrite:
Thank you, I needed to hear that Q^Q
It explains so much. a) why the background material calls him a mastermind.b) why he’s achieved such a high rank at such a young age - a military organization can only reward its tech genius via higher ranks.c) why he’s nevertheless not honestly great at commanding a battle. That’s like expecting your brilliant mathematician to also be a great olympic polevaulter - non transferable skills, dude
100% agree on all of this! Commanding a navy is not really his thing and he doesn’t have a lot of real combat experience because he uses simulators (that he designed btw).
However I think he still did great on Crait considering the circumstances. Remember that the First Order had lost most of its fleet, a lot of troops died, a lot of weapons/vehicles were destroyed and of course kylo didn’t want to listen to hux and cooperate with him during the assault.
All of this honestly. He may be a genius, but navy is not in his field of expertise. Crait went better because they were on the ground. As you said, he’s changed quite a lot about trooper training program since he took over after his father, simulatuins included, so naturally he knew what he was doing. If Kylo didn’t stop him to fight with Luke (who wasn’t even there technicaly), the whole saga would end right then and there.
Also let’s not forget that Hux saved Kylo 3 times already! In the new upcoming Resistance comic, on Starkiller Base and when he called Kylo to come back to the fleet! (Well this one is debatable but kylo was clearly not thinking clearly and he was shaken by his mother apparent death, so he could have been killed like the other pilots!) And Kyko is not even grateful for that…
Ha! I would like to think that the writers thought “Hux is better at commanding a ground engagement because he’s been writing simulated ground engagements for his troopers for years,” and that was why they had Crait go so much better for the FO. I suspect what they were actually thinking was “we need things to go badly for the Resistence here to ramp up the tension and give Luke his big moment.”But it works with the back story even so :)