5 Deadliest Rebel Alliance Capital Ships | Star Wars Legends 

I remember reading the Home One was a special variant of the MC80 that had capabilities considerably better than ships like the Liberty or Cathleen. While a typical MC80 could go toe-to-toe with an ISD and maybe win, the Home One variant would outright smash an ISD in a 1v1 battle.

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the question is: you are hired by the rebel alliance to design their new capital ship. How do you allocate 100 points to 4 categories shields and defensive capability, offensive capabilities and firepower, speed and maneuverability and fighter carrying and fighter support?

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You should make a top 5 deadliest star fighters for each faction

Poor rebel alliance in canon. Legends seems real good for them right about now.

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I remember hearing about a ship that the Alliance operated that was almost twice as long as an Imperial Star Destroyer and packed twice the firepower of a Star Destroyer as well

50 firepower 40 shields 20 engines 30 carrier 100 math skills

me: just spam MC-30'S and shields don't even exist! (maybe take a carrier of 2) for starfighter cleaning

Hmm, the Liberator's "side wings" look a lot like those on Systems Alliance warships.

1:43 FIRING CLUSTER BOMBS. Literally the bane of my Empire at war campaign

Most rebel ships have hyperdrive, from fighters on up. So retrofit the hangers with extra power generators and a couple smaller power cores so you can support adding the turbolasers to match the star destroyer's. Then fill the rest of the hanger bays with missile and torpedo racks with launchers. That mixed with the Mon Cal shielding would out gun a star destroyer.

Shielding/Defense: 25% Offensive Capabilities: 40% Speed/Maneuverability: 10% Fighter Amount: 25%

Another tough question. Well, this is something that i threw together. Defence and shielding: 75. Offensive capabilities: 10. Speed and manouvering: 15. Fighter carrying/support: 0. As most rebel ships are smaller than the average imperial craft, they usually get torn up pretty bad in an unfavorable engagement. So, this ship is made to rectify this issue. Imagine a manta ray looking ship. It has these giant wings that are quite thick, made from just armor. So, when this ship gets into a combat situation that is unfavorable, it will bank heavily so that the two armored wings will cover the fleet through just sheer metal. When facing enemies in combat it will also have a relatively slim profile from the front, so it will most likely be in good health when it does that banking turn. Smaller ships can hide behind this capital ship while they fly away and the shield ship of sorts will sit there and take the damage until the fleet's most vulnerable ships have made it to safety. It would probably be quite useful if a rebel fleet is ambushed or plans on doing a hit and run attack on a highly superior force, where the shield ship can tank the damage that the fleet would have sustained during the retreat, or hide vulnerable ships under or behind its wingspan, like a CR90. The CR90 is out of the line of fire and has sufficient anti fighter to keep itself safe from strike craft. What little guns it has are probably placed around the centre structure, near the bridge. The heavy armor would force ships to attack that area directly if they wish to do any proper damage, which would mean they'd get into the line of fire of the few guns the craft has, which are few, but very concentrated. It would be near useless if it's alone however as it's very slow and has no fighter support of it's own. Therefore, it would probably go well with very squishy carriers that can hide themselves in the shadow of the vessel. It would also not be able to fulfill it's purpose if the fleet is surrounded. However, if a rebel fleet is surrounded, then that means the engagement has already gone horribly wrong.

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I'm glad you showed some love for the Alliance Assault Frigate Mk. II. It's definitely one of my favorite rebel ships, in Empire at War it forms the backbone of my fleets

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Question, how big was the Rebel Fleet when it entered the Battle of Hoth? In Rogue Squadron II for the Nintendo GameCube, it was only 2 Mon Cal ships, three Rebel Blockade Runners, the Medical Frigate, and maybe two Rebel Transports. Here, I'm seeing another frigate, and several other odd ships... EDIT: Found a partial answer in this channel's Everything Wrong with The Battle of Endor. 8 Mon Cal ships sounds a lot more reasonable. Thank you guys! :)

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Another great Video broski! Maybe a Top 5 Consortium ships?

Excellent video, and I agree completely with your list. However, I believe that the DP20 Frigate at least deserves an honorable mention.

Good list however Home One shouldn't be considered an MC80 because its actually far bigger than the stated 1.5 km. If its actually scaled properly from ROTJ its closer to 3 to 3.5 km in size.

Loving these top 5 videos

@3:57 A Star Wars battlestar (top right). Nice. 😄😄 That's actually a really friggin cool looking design !

Finally a channel that makes top 5s and top 10s that isn’t really annoying.

Awesome Video. And they mention that you are running out of Factions. About that there are plenty of them:Yuuzhan Vong, Galactic Empire, Mandalorians (Old Republic is better), Sith Empire, New Republic (other designs than the Rebels though), maybe even Galactic Old Republic ships.

Love the use of screenshots from Rebellion

The Liberator carrier looks more lime a KILRATHI ship, especially in those colours!

nice job playing home - resonance when showing the home one lol

Personally I have grown really fond of the Nebula class Star Destroyer and Endurance class fleet carrier. By having the large and reasonably tough fleet carrier bringing the arguably superior starfighter forces into battle the Nebula can focus on its own role. Being extremely tough and well armoured in order to bring the fight to the Imperial class ships. They are a fairly perfect duo. You do not have to create a perfect ship, just a ship that does its job in its specialized role and help support the larger fleet.

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Hello! What about the most powerful ships of the Old Republic Era ? I'm new to this channel. I LOVE THIS CHANNEL!

On your end question, the answer would likely be to have both ship types. A dedicated Carrier using the same tech as one of the MC-80 or Home One variants would carry even more immense numbers of fighters which could increase the effects on the battlefield. Whereas as ships like Home one offered a balance that definitely seemed right out of the Old Republic playbook. This would offer a high level of doctrinal flexibilty in how to handle battles and missions. The only additional type of ship built to similar scale to a MonCal I would add would be the Star Wars equivalent of a dedicated Battleship, sacrificing fighter cover for EXTREME long range fire bombardment capability. However, the RA wouldn't build such a ship as it flies in the face of their usual fighter-centric tactical doctrine.

Will there be a video about the Five Deadliest Galactic Empire Capital Ships? Looking forward to that! Also, I love your videos of Starships! I am a Navy fan, so I naturally just love different types of ships (in both ocean and space)!

If I were to design a new Rebel Capital Ship, it would need to fill a role that none of the existing types fulfils. This role would be probably be that of Command Ship/Heavy Battleship. It would therefore be at least 8 km long, and with enough firepower to take on at least 10 ISDs simultaneously, or be able to effectively engage Star Dreadnoughts. It would have 180 quad super heavy Turbolasers, 180 Heavy Ion Cannons, 420 Triple Heavy Turbolasers, 600 Double Medium Turbolasers, 360 Ion Cannons, as well as at least 720 point defence weapons for anti fighter/antimissile defence, totalling just under 2500 weapons emplacements arranged in 6 different firing arcs (Bow, Stern, Port, Starboard, Top & Bottom) to ensure there are absolutely no blind spots to exploit. It will have a minimum of 8 wings of fighters (576 fighters), split equally between X-Wings, A-Wings, B-Wings and Y-Wings. I will call it the Defender Class. Points split would be the following: Armour/Shields- 30 Offensive Weapons- 50 Manoeuvrability- 8 Carrier-12 It would definitely be a command ship. I can't see the Rebellion building more than about 5 of these, but they would be an exceedingly powerful addition to their Navy.

This is why the 5th fleet was so outstanding. They had a mixture of craft that all served a synergistic function. All of the groups had a Star Destroyer or MC90 as the heavy hitter, with some more dedicated carriers, fighter screening ships and anti capital smaller ships on top of there balanced fighter complement.

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40 fire power, 35 shields, 25 engines,0 fighters because it has a support fleet

I love the home one myself. It was so different from the other ship I seen

Alot of your old vids are being reccomended. Not complaining tho

versatility is a perfect word for the MC80. one the best tactics used by the alliance with it in a heads up battle with a star destroyer, was as the fight went on and one side of the moncal shields would deplete the ship captain would execute an axial roll to ensure those the same number of weapons came to bear and present the enemy with a fresh set of shields. while not having as many gun emplacements as a SD the mc80 had its guns more evenly spaced across the hull. so if 2 or 3 of them went up against a larger force the 3 ships could line up bow to stern and commit an Ackbar slash. dive in to the middle while performing an axial roll and shooting multiple targets at the same time. this also force enemy ships to inadvertently shoot each other if their shots missed.

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1:10 in the bottom of the picture, next to a Y-wing, you can see the Ghost from rebels

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I would head more towards attack and fighters, honestly. But if it was early on in the Rebel Alliance, I'd choose speed and fighters.

Nice list and to be honest the only other ship i would put on the list is the DP20 corvette but it might not fit the criteria of the list which in my opinion only allows for 9 ships classes at most. I also didnt realize the Liberator-class cruiser was a ship class it managed to fall under the radar. As for your question my ship would be the Nebula class Star Destroyer or maybe the Republic Class Star Destroyer.

The Mon Calamaris will forever be the best starships, period. :D

Would have to know if that vessel would be intended to dominate the fleet or simply be added in for a specific role. Most rebel vessels were versatile and often fit their respective role nicely. I think since they didn't have a hard hitter, it would be fun to make one for them. Something around 45 in offense or even 50 while splitting the other categories between 55 or 50 would be interesting.

Where can I find more info about remaining Seperatist people and equipment that ended up in the Rebel Alliance, like the droid control ships you mentioned?

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If I recall correctly, the assault frigate mk2 had 50 weapon emplacements : 15 Turbolaser cannons, 15 Laser cannon and 20 quad laser cannon. Happens to be my favourite rebel ship, a nice combination of a Carrack and Lancer.

Oh, this is fun!! As I understand it, the Empire's star destroyers were generaly badly equipped to handle fighters and relied on TIE's to defend them. With that in mind I would focus on large compliments of strong fighters, strong point defence, heavy shielding and as much speed as possible. If i have points over for a strong hull, i would put some there too. This I think would make it possible to overwhelm star destroyers and take out their TIE's quickly. The fighters and bombers are the real firepower here. Any thoughts?

Maybe you could make a top 5 blasters for each faction

That MC-30C Mon Calamari frigate kinda reminds me of the CIS Recusant-class light destroyer.

wow eck you kind of took my idea from the live stream yesterday

Oh and one more thing about the alliance naval doctrine. Their use of many smaller support and escort ships, although for much of the war a straight necessity rather than purposeful strategy, actually turned out to be a major factor in their many naval victories. When you look at imperial fleets at the time they focused almost all their resources into fleets of ISD’s in order to overwhelm enemy navies with sheer turbo laser firepower while almost all of their fighter screens were made up of tie wings. The rebel alliance however, while almost always outnumbered in the capital ship department, had many smaller escort classes that all had either a mix of turbo lasers and smaller laser batteries or strictly smaller lasers and quad lasers that were effective in taking out fighters and bombers, while dealing minimal damage to larger warships. This allowed the rebel fleets great protection from attack craft especially bombers from being able to harm their cruisers and carriers, while their own fighters and bombers were able to lay down the hurt on the fleets of ISDs almost unmolested. To a rebel bomber pilot an ISD is basically a giant slow moving target with lasers too large and slow to provide any real threat. The rebels even took this to a new level as the war progressed when you look at a lot of the newer purpose built warships or retrofits of older ships for war, such as the modified cr90s that had a sleeker profile especially around the engine block, better shields and armour, and more than double the firepower added with more double and quad lasers added to the standard duo of turbo lasers making them even better anti fighter corvettes. I think that maybe the rebels get too much credit when looking at their military doctrines. Like I said before, having such diverse fleets with such great escort ships wasn’t planned from the beginning it was a happy accident formed out of the necessity of taking any ships they could get their hands on. They just lucked out, especially when looking at how poor the imperial naval doctrine really was.

The Assault Frigate and the Dauntless reminds me of the heavy cruisers the Republic uses in SWTOR, mainly in its design and appearance.

I guess since the rebels operate so many different ships and specs and usually move in together as fleet, the speed should be all similar. Otherwise a slow ship will just make the whole fleet slow. As for the other stats, depends on the function of each ships. Strong shield/hull with strong offense ships should move at the outer formation of the fleet. Whereas ships with extremely lots of fighter supports can sacrifice it’s shield by moving at the center of the fleet and use those fighters as offense/defense purposes

i dont think that i can use your hundred point system, but i think that any decent capitol ship (particularly as a flagship) must have good defensive powers (particularly in shields), good point-defense, and an emphasis on very long range weaponry. This means that your main damage dealer can remain relatively safe throughout the entire battle, while also providing enough cover for support ships. In addition if you moved a bit further than necessary inside your own firing range, you would not need a great deal of speed to attack retreating enemies (if you so choose) and would allow the capitol ships who are generally the most important single vessels in combat and also usually the most expensive and difficult to produce to begin to retreat early and still cover the rest of your fleet as they fall back in the event of a defeat.

Hello I have a question. Now I haven't read that many Star Wars books or comic not like my brother but I do love and and I know little bits here and there. But I don't know everything and I've always wondered. How did the Mon Calamari able to build their ships without the Empire crashing down on them?

Defense:30 Offense:25 Mobility:15 Fighters:30

I will have a 12km dreadnought with (Yamato 2199)two wave motion guns in the front and 5 kyber crystal powered quadruple laser turrets(like VERY scaled down death star one) as the main damage dealing armaments(3 front 2 back) as it is designed to have long range gun duels instead of CQC. In case of CQC, there will be a LOT of triple heavy turbolaser turrets(main battery of space battleship Yamato 2202) as secondary armament. Also there are smaller triple DP turbolaser turrets (like 127/38 gun on US ships during WWII) and HUGE amounts of light laser cannons and Gatling laser batteries (40mm bofors and 20mm oerlikon respectively) against fighters, with central firing computer calculations they are expected to shred 500 TIEs in 5 seconds. Standard mon calamari shielding will be used but important places like main gun batteries, reactor core areas,conning towers and engines are reinforced with 6x shielding power(~ the eclipse) and thickened durasteel armour plates. Capacity of 120 fighters will be expected since this ship will go in a fleet. For such power requirements, reactor cores with 1/2 death star powers will be installed to fulfill the requirement. This ship is not speedy but it is faster then the executor.

what was the name of the ship that jacen solos wife's home planet used as its capitol ship? I can't seem to remember.

I heard somewhere else that the "home 1" was not a proper ship as such. It was originally a vertical skyscraper type building. They just put engines and stuff on it to convert it to a ship after their planet had been attacked, or something. So the "home 1" name was literal.

It would have been nice to see more laser blast from threes ships.

Could you do a empire top 5

I just realized that the Dauntless-class ship is similar to the early Escort-Carriers operated by the US and Royal Navies in the early part of world war 2 since the Dauntless was built on the hull of a luxury liner while the Escort Carriers were built on the hulls of unfinished Merchant Ships.

the imperial list will be wow next top 5 faction starfighter

40 points to speed, for quick attacks and control. 30 to guns for fire power added to a fast ship, 25 to shields to make it last and 5 for a small fighter escort, relying on corvettes and other smaller craft to support it.

Do top 5 Imperial Ships!

I really like the Liberator and that it is a small, well-shielded carrier that can bring in many fighters. I suspect if it is around 500 metres long, most of that would be hangar. That is what I would choose, with an emphasis on getting pilots in as many X and A wings as possible for a truly compact serving of chicanery. Back it up with B wings for bombing missions. Course, this is hypothetical. I am for the Empire, and all rebels should be destroyed. In a few weeks, my TIE pilot players will face one with accompanied by an assault frigate, that is investigating a wiped out wing of rebels fighters (courtesy of the players). Thanks for helping my game.

I like dedicated carriers. Hanger bays take up a lot of space that could be used for more guns, power generators, shield generators, etc. Also the dedicated carriers can hang back away from the battle area. By not being directly in the battle you can skimp on shielding and they can get away with only having a point defense system.

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Now, as lead ship build er for the Alliance, my ship (the MC 130 Valiance) would capitalize on the superior fighters and bombers of the rebel alliance. The ship would possess very powerful shields and extensive hangars, so I'd opt for 35/15/10/40 approach. Speed would not matter much as fighters are very fast, same goes for firepower. Defense should be really strong to buy the fighters time to do their job. The Valiance would also employ tracking jammers that affected enemy laser turrets as to make the jammed ship more vulnerable to fighters. The MC 130 also carries a very good hyperdrive.

Were I tasked to design a ship for the Alliance, I would create a Frigate. Specifically a fast support frigate that can hit at long range. Picture a Marauder corvette, but a bit larger, quicker, with stronger shields, a further striking range, and a small-ish hanger to house a starfighter squadron or two underneath. Instead of turbolasers and diamond boron missiles, it would use ion cannons and anti-starfighter batteries. I would I would call it, the "Support-class medium frigate". Frigates are generally small -- 200-400m -- but I consider that a good thing. A large ship would make it too high profile. Plus, its ion cannons could weaken and or disable ships at great ranges.

Have you played the Star Wars: Rebellion? It is an old strategy game, which has most of those ships. However, the Calamari cruisers have relative weak shields, but they are easy to repair after the battle. Their point is to absorb damage to protect your carriers and frigates.

I mean, you need to allocate approximately 30 points for shields and 25 for weapons to match any imperials that close ranks another 20 to mobility and 25 to fighter support. Being that it is the rebels the fighters boost the effective firepower and shielding ability by acting as a defensive screen and offensive wing. The only problem is if you come across a lancer frigate then the offensive capability of the main cruiser come into effect. It’ll never out shoot a ISD on its own but it’s not meant to. The additional bonus is the variability built into the design allowing for hit and run tactics without bringing the ship into the system on the initial attack but rather keeping it as a surprise if an ISD or similar shows up giving time to escape

I was surprised you didn’t put Admiral Raddus’s ship

1:03 picture, lower right corner: Battlestar!

as I'm watching this I'm currently playing Empire at War Galactic Conquest Rebellion faction and using many of the ships in this list.

I'd give it a similar design to the dountless but a couple hundred meters longer (I'm going for more a browler) 2 obtouple (sorry for my spelling) barbet turbo lasers one under the front armor plate and one on the top middle area and then have about 50 double turbo lasers lining the sides with quad laser cannons placed around the engine,hanger and command tower with some spotted within the turbo lasers and then the copasity to hold 90 fighters and 12 ion cannons toward the front with the usual mon kala shielding. There a brawler that can take on a star destroyer

Dedicated heavy carriers that stay in hyperspace most of the time and dump out fighters at the edge of battle and smaller armoured battle carriers that stay with the fleet so that you can resupply your fighters(hot decking) so that you can support larger fighter forces during combat .Only bring your expensive heavy carriers into combat after it is safe..

I'd have a Mon calamri ship that could carry hundreds of independent troop carriers and fighters with perhaps three hangars and a huge engine compartment at the back that contained the reactor and the shield generator. The ship would have enough firepower to seriously protect itself against a Star destroyer or perhaps even be an important distraction for any surgical missions. If it could hold off a fleet just by itself even for a few minutes it would mean everything on the battlefield.

I would go for a fast attack craft. Designed to go in attack vital ship sub systems then withdraw to a safe distance. The captain would then assess the situation. If the battle was going well another attack run would be made. An attack run would also be made if the damage caused was significant and the captain believed another run had a chance to disable the enemy ship. If the battle was going badly or the enemy ship had suffered minimal damage then the Captain would retreat from the battle to fight another day. As such I would allocate the points as follows. Hangar: 5 Offence: 25 Defence: 25 Speed: 45 The hangar space would be useful as a small complement of fighters and/or bombers could help protect the ship and/or assist in targeting the subsystems on enemy capital ships. Naturally there would need to be decent offensive capabilities, probably in the form of fewer more powerful weapons to cause more damage during the shorter engagement period the tactics create. In the same way these ships would have to be able to take some heavy hits as the charge towards the enemy and in their withdrawal. Not as much as ships that are expected to stay in the combat zone for a long period but these ships will still have to take some direct and heavy hits. Finally Speed would be prioritised. This ship would have to be able to move very quickly and have high manoeuvrability. I would even go so far as to have back up propulsion systems and give the engines a high level of protection. If the engines were to be taken out the ship would be very weak so speed is armour but I would armour my speed.

The assault frigate Mark II looks like half of a ship to me, like they just made half of it was like alright that's good enough. It could also do to lose that under bit as well.

I would allocate offensive weapons towards the front of a ship as well as armor to the sides and front, and decent shielding to boot. I'd have a rear and side hangar bay placement for the fighters but I would likely not focus too much on fighters but if I had them they would be at the back to be out of the line of fire. Engines also not too much but enough to at least maneuver well. So to put in numbers: Weapons: 30 Armor: 20 Shields: 20 Engines: 15 Fighters: 15

What is the fighter that’s flying behind the millennium falcon kind of looks like a flying wing

If this is just for fighting the imperials during the rebellion era there are probably 2 cap ship ideas that come to mind that would be useful The first idea would be a very defensive ship, slower then most rebel ships, but able to barely keep up with their doctrine at least. It would act as a sort of tank ship, trying to get in between damaged ships that need to relief in a pitched battle, hopefully soaking up damage that would otherwise destroy valuable limited capital ships. Put the rest of the points into weapons to help draw attention so it can't just be ignored The second idea would be a glass cannon capital ship, putting most of it's points into firepower, followed by speed, and maybe a bit of defense to make sure it can survive a pass or 2. It won't and shouldn't engage in any pitched battles, just hit hard and leave. would be useful for smaller rebel groups that are on the go and just want to harass, or only useful in a pitched battle if they can loop around knife the rear of a fleet and run I don't see a need to design any new ships that have hangers for the alliance since they already had many of those, and several already very good designs like the Home one. These ships aren't for solo use and would need to be coordinated with other ship types to make them truly effective

The torpedoes on the MC30 could penetrate shields and armor. Which is why it was more effective than the non shield penetrating turbo lazers of the MKII assault

7:28 my ship is a carrier/ frontline assault ship it wood have 300 turbo lasers 50 ion cannons and 5 hangers! It's called the ishi tib cruiser!

I'd say 30 to maneuverability, 30 to offensive capabilities, and 40 on defense. a juggernaut that hits hard and can still maneuver very well. Additionally I would want it to have dedicated anti-strike craft weapons. Lots of light and medium laser cannons to take out fighters and bombers. I would also want dedicated anti-ship weapons, like heavy turbo lasers and maybe even large scale anti-ship missles. It would also be advisable to diversify between those weapons to make some anti-shield and others anti-material. That way it brings down a diverse set of threats with relative ease

In all honesty the Liberator should be at the top of this list. Since he wanted to open up the SW Legends back. To be precise the New Republic and the Rebel Alliance both used the Liberator. Which as I point out from the Legends entry itself and yes he also referenced the D6 Star Wars Table Top Pencil and Paper(Not minatures) RPG. The Liberator was 1040 meters long. It carried 240 Heavy Turbo Lasers. 40 front, 40 rear, 80 port and 80 Starboard. It was also equipped with 200 Ion cannons. 40 forward and then 80 on both Port and Starboard sides. Plus 6 squadrons of fighters. Which he was correct in the amount of fighters it carried., Also as someone else pointed out why not use the Viscount-Class Star Defender? It's easily the equal to the Super Star Destroyer if not superior. An idea given credit because there were at least twenty years development between the time of the end of Galactic Civil War and the Yuuzen Vong Invasion.

I'm surprised you didnt mention the MC80B. Mon Remonda traded blows with Iron Fist (SSD) and destroyed a incomplete Razors Kiss (SSD).

If I'm to design the newest alliance capital ship, I would want something easy to make, use, and apply to most roles. I would design a kind of frigate, Ideally a modular one that can be customized fairly easily. 100 points 30 to speed 20 to weapons 25 to defenses 25 to carrying capacity

I really think that the mc80’s were a huge reason for the rebel alliances success throughout their various naval victories. When looking at the true capital ships on both sides of the war speed and maneuverability were not very important so I’ll get that out of the way. As far as the offensive, defensive, and carrying capacity go (as eckhart says) the mc80 classes make for much more effective ships than their imperial ISD counterparts. Much better shielding and stronger hulls is in my opinion the biggest advantage over the ISD. Their firepower however, while lighter than the imperials star destroyers, had much better coverage and firing arcs basically able to lay down significant firepower in 360’, while also having somewhat of a point defense system of normal lasers and concussion middle batteries for bomber defense which the ISD completely lacked. And finally carrying capacity. Not only did the mc80 variations house larger numbers of attack craft (fighters, interceptors, and bombers) but it’s a well known fact that the quality of rebel fighters far surpassed the average imperial counterparts as the empire took a quantity over quality policy which the alliance completely went with the opposite. Whether that was out of military strategy or necessity due to lack of trained pilots is anyone’s guess but the fact remains it was instrumental in their eventual success in the war. Long story short the mc80 class was of tremendous importance to the alliance naval power and without them, or a class of warship with different statistics and layout the war could’ve went very differently and in almost every variation, a negative way.

Maybe a top 5 ships for the Yuuzhan Vong?