Yes thats how it was done in the movies, but I thought that would require bringing the things to the ground before they would be vulnerable in that area

That certainly makes sense, those cannons on the head were very effective against the snowspeeders.  I wonder if there is a better way to implement that in the BF:2 engine.  I remember in GC it was very hard to hit the snowspeeders with the head cannons.  Is there anycode in the engine that would allow the cannons to automatically track the snowspeeders?  It couldn't track them perfectly or it would be too easy, but at least a little bit would be cool.