How different would Star Wars of been had the empire spend spent less resources on the Deathstar and more on Stormtrooper training?

[llorando]

[NamerOfStars]

Relatively little. Think about what we see them do:

-they board the Tantive IV, in a not-particularly efficient open charge down an occupied hallway, but even something like tossing in a smoke grenade would've given the rebels a chance to return the favor with something far more dangerous. They have the situation WELL in hand before Vader even shows up. The only two we see go down are killed in the first seconds, immediately outside the smoke from the breaching welds.

-they search the crash side of the escape pod, and find mechanical parts, which one uses to deduce "droids". Offscreen, they gun down a sandcrawlerful of jawas, and I don't know WHAT they did to Owen and Beru Lars, since mere blasters don't reduce a body to a charred skeleton.

-they ARE mind tricked by a Jedi, but still manage to track him and the droids down in Mos Eisley, failing to catch them only by a hair. These are their only real failings in the movie.

-they don't stop the escape from the Death Star, but that's because they've been specifically ordered not to, so that the Falcon might be tracked to the rebel base, which would be destroyed by the Death Star. THAT only failed because the Force guided a child of the Chosen One to destroy it- which the stormtroopers had nothing to do with.

Let's keep going:

-Hoth is a total triumph. The rebel base is destroyed, and only Needa's incompetence prevents all from being captured.

-Bespin is a total triumph, the city taken without bloodshed, allowing for the appearance of normality that allows for the captures of Solo and Skywalker- the later apparently choosing death instead.

-Endor is their only real failing, and it's highly questionable how much of it was really their fault, as opposed to Palpatine underestimating the ewoks.

Lack of training isn't the problem.

[purplepoppy]

Governments love their vanity projects, never enough money to paint the library but always cash for a death star. Same as the UK government billions on an aircraft carrier that doesn't work while soldiers have to shout "bang" because there's no money for bullets.

All the empire needed was one decent sniper.

[Phoenix98]

Which canon are we talking about? Disney or EU?