10 Reasons why the Acclamator Class Was Underrated 

Say what you will about George Lucas' ability to write scripts - but he did at least hire designers and artists that created vessels and warships that made sense within the universe, whilst still being visually distinctive and advancing the universe. The Acclamator is one fine example of a multi-role warhship that would be loved by a Navy that is suddenly finding itself fighting a galactic war

And if the landingzone isnt free, that thing has turbolasers. Make it free

I always picture one lone Imperial Acclaimator patrolling the edge of the Outer Rim stocked with V-19s, LAATs and AT-TEs tasked with rounding up pirates, going for decades without upgrades to later star fighters or walkers. Their equipment would look more like patched up rebel stuff but after a while that crew would take pride that they still maintain their old vehicles. You could base a whole series of books on that, or an RPG campaign

I would pay happily for someone to make a "virtual tour" of the Acclamator (and other Republic ships) where you can just explore all the decks. Huge task though.

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Seems the Republic was big in to highly specialised multi-role ships: with its speed and landing ability the Acclamator was the perfect heavy duty invasion platform, whilst the Venator's carrying capacity and firepower output made it an unparalleled space superiority vessel. Put them together, you've got a fleet's worth of capability in just two classes of ship.

The Republic ships during the Clone Wars are the best for me. Helped that they had clones who were so loyal and talented crew them. Edit - Alright went down these comments and my personal ship from the Clone Wars Republic is Apocalypta a special Mandator 2 Star Dreadnought that was heavily improved over many years. Its my ship now.

If I ended up in Star Wars, I would want one of these ships! I could run cargo, ships, my own Mercenary company. This ship could easily pay for itself outside of a combat role!

I know this probably isnt canon, mainly because when the game released the Venator wasnt a thing yet, but in Republic Commando (the game) 2 acclamators were capable of demolishing a Lucrehulk with only Turbolaser fire (though as far as I remember its shields were lowered)

If I was a Rebel Officer, I’d find a way to steal/buy one of these and refurbish it. Not into a warship like the others, but as a tactical base. I’d convert the lower loading deck into a hanger-recovery bay-hybrid, and have it used to receive shipment of material, while the side hangars would be used for starfighter and freighter launches. With its speed and quick landing time, I would have rebel pilots perform hit and fade attacks, and only need to perform a single jump to the ship, which would then be able to outpace all possible pursuers. And while she wouldn’t match an ISD in combat, any Arquittens she ran across would be in for a good fight. Further, the large cargo space could be converted into a fighter construction and maintenance facility, to make new craft for the rebellion. Not only that, the size leaves room for storage, refineries, and numerous other facilities. We’d only need mole miners or raw materials, and new starfighters could be pumped out like clockwork. Post war, I’d keep her as my personal starfighter and freighter construction company: Arrowhead Limited, where I could continue producing craft for military purposes, and evade any attempt to steal my product.

There's a carrier refit which is occassionally mentioned employed by the Empire, though we don't have much in the way of details on it. But knowing that it exists and served long after the GAR was dissolved proves that the Acclamator was a very valued ship well worth its development time.

I definitely agree, the Acclamator Class Star Destroyer was very underrated it could transport an Army to wherever needed in the galaxy and was ideal for mass deployment. If the LZ was too hot for the Acclamator to land then LAATs and Y-Wings could go in and secure it so the Acclamator could land and unload the troops and heavy units needed for the combat situation. Another underrated ship is the ARC-170 despite its size it was misused as a star fighter and should have acted as a dive bomber that can serve a star fighter role if necessary.

Post Clone Wars (and probably post Empire… they would be testy about such a ship in unofficial hands) the Acclamator would make a brilliant independent Freighter for a more roguish type. And with its massive hold, they could _scoundrel_ on an industrial scale.

Shame we didn't see it in the clone wars tv show apart from a few episodes

So basically an all-purpose ship that was built to last? Plus it just looks cool.

During the time of playing "Star Wars: Empire at War", while online my buddies would upgrade our space station once and just start building fleets of "Accs" and unleash hell early on to win the game. Good times and great ship.

More flying space Doritos dammit

That Ship reappeared many decades after the Clone Wars in the "Fate of the Jedi" Series, during the Battle over Exodo II as Natasi Daala's ship.

Acclamators were pretty impressive to see when AotC was in theaters, they've been an aesthetic favorite of mine since then. Point 9 put things in perspective for me too, always questioned why Hera had one for her flagship instead of something more robust.

Man I love the Venator design, but the Acclamator is just as awesome.

TBH, is this my favorite star destroyer because of its design.

I just noticed that Alan says “hi friends “ at the beginning of his videos

I would love to see the earlier days of the CW with the Repyblic using these bad boys in ship to ship battles and then being introduced to the Venators.

And its one of the best looking ships in my opinion.

I've heard it said that the Acclamator-class vessel is the Swiss Army Knife of the Republic. I find that quite accurate. Break through a blockade, land and drop troops, return to orbit, fight off more enemy vessels, perform orbital bombardment, land and retrieve majority of troops, leave system for another warzone... and that's the least of its capabilities!

Next underrated ship munificent

I've been smacked by the sonic booms from Tomcats multiple times which was quite an experience. The boom from one of these zipping past would probably level buildings. Edit to add: RU-vid should still have the first episode of Robotech. The mass destruction the future SDF1 causes during it's crash landing is what I'm thinking .

Great video bro, only one correction: the ARC-170 and the Vulture droid fighter did not have a top atmospheric speed of 10 thousand Kph. It was about 1200 Kph. They could go at the speed of sound, but many of our fighters are faster. Cheers

At 8:27 I initially thought that a very long legged small bottomed blue alien was bent over doing toe touches

Ah, my go-to in Empire At War. Not to mention 1 1/4 Acclamators defeated a Lucrehulk (see Republic Commando).

These would have been extremely useful for both the Empire and the Rebel Alliance. The empire could have used the mass transport and mobile base. The Rebel could have used the bulk mover and mobile repair and command post. With Hyperspace capable fighters, it would have been an amazing lighting assault tool or a base that never needs to be abandoned because it can just run away under it's own power.

Basically an amphibious assault ship in space

This was awesome to watch! Thank you so much for sharing this and and all the hard work you and your team does to make these videos. These videos bring a smile to me. Btw...also loved your video on the venator class ships.

The Providence Class need more love. This Ship is amazing.

Your videos are helping me a lot GMing my SW RPG campaingn with my friends, thank you!

I have the book from which you show often the picture of the datas and structures of vehicles (the black background) and i love it.

If the U.S. Army command structure existed in Star Wars, this would be their go-to transport ship. It's entirely multipurpose, something anyone who served in the Army or was contracted to make equipment for is VERY familiar with.

Acclamators are my favorite.

I always wanted to see this, great work!

Great video man!

Love this video. The Acclimator is one of my favorites!

_Kualt Drive Yards engineer having a secret meeting with Chancellor Palpatine_ *Palpatine:* So tell me of your design proposals for the Acclamator class. *Engineer [Nervous]:* Well sir, as you know the Acclamator has a very large boarding ramp that leads straight into its cargo bays. So my concept is for roll on modules that can be simply wheeled in and installed to provide a series of additional roles as needed. They plug into ships systems and clamp onto bulkheads so they become part of the ship itself. It saves the effort of building individual variants and provides flexibility to adapt to changing demands - although I still recommend a dedicated line of heavy missile attack Raiders, although I have a work around for that. As well, being a roll on, roll off addition to a current ship it would not slow down production, and more importantly GAR commanders could not paint their ships to indicate what format they are currently configured as … a problem with the old school Brass I'm afraid who aren't used to the concept of total war. *Palpatine:* I agree, there are a lot of issues with the old order, we really do need a new order… New order? …. hmm, I like the sound of that, but it needs something? [Engineer looks confused] Oh nevermind, you were saying, what sort of modules do you have in mind? *Engineer:* All of these take advantage of the fact that the Acclamator is an incredibly fast ship sir, and has the advantage of the logistics of all using the same basic ship. Well medical bays, with the high speed it will allow quick evacuation and turn around of injured troops. Racks for non hyperdrive snub fighters. And the big one I'm most proud of, missile magazines that feed to the autoloaders of the missile tubes. They will allow a Acclamator to keep up a continuous missile barrage for hours, which could turn the tide of battle. That's why I wanted to design a special line with more launchers, but this is still a order of magnitude in firepower from the base layout. And in addition to this there's also proton bomb racks that can disperse through the secondary hatches. In fact both can be added to the same ship for a fast Raider to strike behind enemy lines doing hit and run attacks, dropping a massive load of ordinance on a target and getting out before the enemy can respond. Never underestimate the power of hit and fade sir, it can't do a knock out blow, but it can sap a fixed enemies strength and will over time. *Palpatine [slightly annoyed]:* Don't lecture me about long term planning… Still your designs are interesting, they could well end the war quickly if fully implement. Tell me, _who else_ have you told of your ideas? … …

Finally, I've been waiting for this

I didn't know there was a rebel general called Harrison Doula... (I love subtitles XD)

I would combine the best qualities of this ship with the Venator class star destroyer. It may not be able to hold as many troops or equipment, but it will have better weapons and armor. I would also incorporate the best qualities of the Resurgent class star destroyer. This would probably result in a versatile ship that would hopefully be not to big or small, have excellent weapons, armor and shielding.

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dude that was an awesome review of a great ship.

Great vid Gen Tech! As awesome as the Venator is, the Acclamator is my favorite Republic capital ship. RAS Prosecutor FTW!

The Acclamator is my fav ship. Not only because they were sturdy, but because they're just awesome

To be honest, one thing you didn't touch on but got pretty close to is the sheer versatility of it, with the combined top speed of the acclamator you could (theoretically), use it to as a distraction on a blockaded world, CIS vessels would have had to split off to engage the ships, but would have been woefully unprepared for its weapon systems and tonnage in that fight, and if the separatists or any other faction wanted to base delta 0 them, they could also split off and make for a much harder target to hit as they could simply outrun most CIS capital ships, leaving them open for any escorting forces to come from behind and start shooting full force up their engines.

I've always thought of the acclimator as a good sort of extra galactic sort of colony / exploration vehicle due to its rapid speed its ability to carry large quantities and its robust reactor. It would be simple matter of loading several thousand colonists in there with a Carbonite conversion for reduction in food store needs as well as being able to say rotate out crew.several of them would be able to act as support in terms of carrying extra fuel and just its overall very very effective ability. I really like the ship once I started really taking a look at it

The bridge is a bit silly being above the hull. It would house the captain during battle, so the bridge surely would be better being inside the main hull, where it has more protection. Windows for starships seem... pointless. Sensors and cameras displaying video feeds on screen can do as good a job as windows. But being deep into the hull you can't breach the 'windows' as they dont exist. No risk of being flushed out into space ala Leia in Last Jedi. I dare say most captains wouldn't be able to use the force to fly back into the ship so... yea.

I still gotta say I love this machine-! It's too useful, and has no apparent flaws..at all.

Can't believe you're only doing star wars content. You're such a warhammer guy!

Beautiful ship. One of my faves.

I mean 2 of em were able to blow up a droid command ship. These things were badass

At the *First battle of Geonosis* all that the GAR needed to do was dedicate a few Acclamators to heavy bomber roles… and load them up with _proton bombs !_ Have their entire holds filled up with proton bombs, no troops (except for a couple to kick any bomb that got jammed in the mechanism to jar it loose) nothing else. They fly high over the massed droid armies *and* the _control ships,_ and just rain death. Basically map reference grids would become cratered wastelands - which has the added benifit that when later on Clones do clean up patrols of the area, they have cover. One Starfortress was able to drop enough ordinance to blow up a dreadnought in TLJ (okay they got a weak spot), comparing sizes one Acclamator could carry more proton bombs than the entire R̶e̶b̶e̶l̶ Resistance bomber squadron - they could probably carry the entire bomber squadron! It would have been a knock out blow. And later on, such ships would make devastating Raiders for other CIS faculties. And with their fast hyperdrives they could jump in as close to the planet as possible, do a bombing run, jump back to base and resupply quickly. The economy of the remaining CIS worlds could be destroyed by low orbit bombing if the GAR was willing to inflict a lot of collateral damage. Now consider a Acclamator loaded up with proton _missiles…_

Imagine taking this thing and then sticking a bunch of Vulture Droids to just stick on the outside on it. They're the perfect compliment since they're fighters which don't need to actually be stored in a vessel. So this ship would truly be a vessel which could duke it in out in space, in atmosphere, and lead an assault... by itself. Also imagine a Droid army in place of a clone one. You could carry probably 10x as many and thus have an entire army's worth in a single ship. Bring in a sister ship to carry all of the extra equipment and you've got a full army armed to the teeth in 2 ships that, if need be, can also pack up and reposition on the other side of the planet in about an hour. If you want a mobile army, this would be how you do it.

Would be neat if you did more polls

Venators are my all time favourite, but the Acclamators are definitely right behind them.

EAW players know how useful these things are. Especially in the early GCW Imperial campaign where most of your fleet will be old Acclamators.

Love both Acclamators and Venators. :3 In fact, almost every piece of GAR hardware is badass.

finally, the ship that I like the most in star wars are getting a video

Thank You Alan!!!!!

They were also surprisingly graceful.

I love this ships, I really like how well optimised it is to carry republic equipment. It could carry stupid amounts of men and weapons. Great design overall 10/10

It was always so brutal destroying these is battlefront 2 classic as I knew they where filled with clones....but orders are orders, RODGER, RODGER

I have to agree with this I often believe that the acclimator was underestimated despite having outlasted many other models of ships from the clone wars still continuing to be in service in the empire and eventually even a small role in the New republic.

The Acclamator is around the size of the old Harrower-class Sith Dreadnaughts. It could easily have had the personnel capabilities removed and replaced with shit tons of cannons and the hangar reworked for launching swarms of fighters.

Do a video on the pelta class frigate!!

Honestly that has been my favorite ship and i think it needed more screen time.

I think the Acclamator would make a good planetary defense fleet ship in the post-Empire era. It's a very effective multi-role ship (being at least decent against capital ships and starfighters); has a good balance of firepower, durability and speed/maneuverability; is bigger than the average pirate ship but not so big that it's horribly expensive to crew or is a threat to other planets; its massive cargo/hanger capability gives it flexibility in mission profile and non-combat uses for peacetime; and the ability to land on the ground means that it can be serviced and repaired locally, even if the planet does not have an orbital spacedock. If I was a planetary leader who only had the budget to buy one ship for defense purposes, the Acclamator would be at the top of my list.

Idk why but the venator is just my favourite capital ship in all of Star Wars, might not be as powerful as an isd but I still think it’s great

No question about it, this is a well-designed, robust, versatile, impressive ship. I have a soft spot for troop transports and landing crafts, so this is one of my favorite SW ships.

Hey Allen I love your guys channels I'm subscribed to both, but I wanted to ask you if there ever was a cure made for the clones advanced aging?

The Acclimator was the battleship to the Venator's carrier.

I have an idea for a video if it's not been done. He may be more wise than this, but "5-10 times Palpatine was in over his head".

Well here before videos up again

Imagine a commando droid with corrtosis armor

I would take it but add more anti-starfighter lazers. I would also convert some area to more starfighters. Add an area to be able to make repair ships. And then you have and op command cnter

I definitely want one now.

Well, now I know what transport ship I want to be on if I was ever in Star Wars.

Not only can it land and unload its troops, it can even float on water! (see the 2003 Clone wars cartoon)

It's kinda what I love about the Republic's war machine, almost everything is so incredibly over engineered. Sure in some cases it isn't an advantage, but in many cases it really just is. And it kinda adds into the Mandalorian principle of having one soldier being able to do everything. The republic made sure it's war equipment was capable of almost every role it could possibly be used for. Maybe not the best in it, but capable.

ACCLIMATOR CLASS: LUDICROUS SPEED, GO!!!!

GenerationTech, would you consider, making a video about actual size of G.A.R?

Where can I get that wallpaper that in your computer screen? Love it!

I love you Allen

can you do one of these videos about Arquitens class light command frigate?

An escort actually slows the trip down

People wonder how the clones were funded and authorized. Mine was mainly how the military tech was built with the restrictions on military grade weapons and vehicles was licensed and allowed to be built.

Can you make a video about the Nebula-class Star Destroyer

You realize the GAR naval fleet resembles the old Sith fleet of thousands of years ago

The Hyperdrive was awesome tactically you could literally land your initial force destroy the blockade and have the acclimater move in instantly towards the planet avoiding enemy warships

My biggest issue with this ship is with the battle of Ryloth. One ship was shot down in like one shot by a single ground cannon. Doesn't seem to be that defensive against attacks.

That was good!!

Were there other droid factories out there? How did the Separatists maintain such a massive army throughout the war if their factories on Geonosis got ambushed on day one?

the Venator must have been in production and/or testing by the battle of Geonosis, just not enough to use or not completely fit out yet

Could u do a video on what if darth plagues survived

6:58 Acclamator max speed in atmosphere 1,200 km/h. ARC-170 and droid Tri-fighter had a maximum in atmosphere speed of just 10,050 km/h. Something's not right there.