Hoth was one of my favorite maps for GC and I'm looking forward to it in 'First Strike' which I know will be much better.
In my own opinion I think people need to stop trying to be so accurate to the movies by making comparisons to the game versus the movies. A game will play much differently than worrying if it's 100% accurate or not.
Personally I really want Hoth to be a rather huge map to support all the vehicles in it. It is not a map to be based mostly on ground infantry.
This is one of the many problems with regular BF2. Too many people have ruined it by only wanting small city based maps for mainly infantry and no vehicles this is one of the many downfalls if not the death of BF2.
If there is one thing I must stress to the First Strike team is please do not follow that particular mainstream. Maps should be big with a variety of different vehicles.