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Ending: Retarded tactical choice bythe colonial. Let fly all our aircraft into a very confine hard to maneuver route to the target. Let not take satellite imagery of the area the morning off. Most of them die blue cat people win.

Re-written version: Use the shuttle as a shuttle. Fly up and over the mountain come down drop payload and leave.  You don't need 40 aircraft and you win. 

 

Star Wars. The storm troopers can hit their targets and the TIE Pilot near the end doesn't magically crash towards the left.