I am normally good at suspension of disbelief, but even as a kid this one was hard for me. The storm troopers never showed themselves as particularly precise shooters. The sandpeople seemed above average in comparison. The shots on the sand crawler were frankly all over the place. No non-verbal evidence for his claim whatsoever.
It’s also funny that one of the ongoing gags of the entire films series is just how terribly they shoot at everything … especially at the main cast.
I always took it as more of the organized nature of the assault, not literal accuracy. Like there’s an obvious difference between a gang rolling up on you and a SEAL team assaulting a place.
Either way, the result is a bunch of dead Jawas.
I always thought it was Jedi sarcasm. It has damage all over, not in just a couple of key areas.
TBF, none of them hit Anakin, Not Just the Men, but the Women and Children Too
Maybe he was being sarcastic
Some of the best trained soldiers in the galaxy, sent after the biggest security breach of the war, stationed at the most important military asset in the Empire, can’t hit a naive basically untrained 19 year old kid and his sister to save their damn life
A common interpretation is that it’s a deliberate strategy by Tarkin to let them escape and then track them. Leia even says it out loud in the film: “They let us go. It was the only reason for the ease of our escape.”
The Stormtroopers were sent by Vader, to recover the droids. Leia was referring to the escape of the Ebon Hawk from the Deathstar.
Plus the Force manipulates luck
