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Here are the TIE Striker concepts I was referencing, which use the wing-spoiler which is instead used on the TIE(Death Trooper)Transport.
I don't think they were, I've seen the movie twice and they don't show Tie pilots much at all but I remember the silver stripes.
There's a few running around in the foreground when the X-Wings attack Eadu, if I recall correctly.
Think of the TIE Striker as the Empire's air speeder. We've got Scariff that is cut off from space by the shield, so if any TIE's are stationed on the surface they aren't going to see much action outside the atmosphere. Sure the TIE Fighter can operate both in space and in an atmosphere, but I would assume the TIE Striker is special made for atmospheric performance. So the Striker makes sense to use it over the standard TIE Fighter in such a special circumstance as Scariff demands. I assume the Fleet Officers wouldn't like having their precious TIE Fighters being wasted stuck planetside behind a shield.
That scene was created for the trailer. It's the same shot as the scene of Jyn heading for the tower console used in the film, but it didn't seem dramatic enough out of context so they dropped a TIE in there for the trailer.
Right I get that, why wasn't a striker used?
It's just marketing, so they're going to use the more iconic version. I doubt the filmmakers had much to do with it.
As I understand the scene was in fact shot for the film, it would have been followed by the X-Wing fleet arriving and shooting it away, allowing Jyn to proceed, at the same time the X-Wings and U-Wings taking aout the AT-Walkers, particularly the barrage against the AT-Walkers, and shot of the being taken out.
Conceptually Strikers maneuver better, quicker in atmosphere. While regular TIEs for outer space, how is that complicated for you?
Unimaginative, intellectually devoid people that need every detail laid out
I get what you're saying regarding the Striker, and overall I feel it probably was more an excuse to sell toys. The dropship version was really more impressive than the Strikers themselves. That said, some of the other stuff added did make sense. The At-ACTs were cargo carriers first, used to move resources around Scarif. But they were built on the same sort of designs as the AT-ATs, so they still have weapons for defense. Scarif just happened to already be a well fortified planet.
I believe if you got back a couple pages, someone was buying these, and they aren't bootlegs, but probably factory defects. I think the person buying mentioned some had excess glue that could be scraped off , or other minor problems, but nothing that really affected the quality of the figures themselves. Guessing though as factory defects, you're kind of playing the lottery with what kind of damage you get.
