Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site topaz.RUTGERS.EDU Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!packard!topaz!phil From: phil@rice.ARPA Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Ewoks and victory Message-ID: <3374@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> Date: Wed, 21-Aug-85 13:57:57 EDT Article-I.D.: topaz.3374 Posted: Wed Aug 21 13:57:57 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 24-Aug-85 14:05:55 EDT Sender: daemon@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 19 From: William LeFebvre>From: /Bruce N. Wheelock/, arpanet: crash!bnw@ucsd > Aside from English and French colonial history being full of > examples to the contrary, remember that the Ewoks were not fighting > alone. There was a squad of Rebel troops and a Wookie in a > Scoutwalker. Also remember that if it hadn't been for the Wookie in a Scoutwalker, the Ewoks probably would have lost. At least, that was the impression I got. So I think that the story fits the assumption that "guerillas don't win without assistance from an allied force" (even tho' that assumption doesn't always ring true). William LeFebvre Department of Computer Science Rice University or, for the daring: