How Thrawn Sieged Coruscant and Crippled the New Republic | Star Wars Battle Breakdown 

Thrawn: *Breathes* New Republic: "Ah hell no! We surrender!"

You would think the republic would have learned by now that coruscant isn't untouchable afte what happened under the old republic and the clone wars

Might as well make a series called “how Thrawn won everything.”

I can't believe they don't use thrawn in movies I think it would be perfect, he has so much history and he is such a good character

My favorite thrawn gambit, it showcased pretty much every one of thrawns strengths as a commander.

Thrawn was the only guy who can destroy the new republic

Thank god (Eckhartsladder) You saved me from a boring video Everytime i hear "Garm Bel Iblis" im triggered, because he always attacked my unprepared ground forces

Absolute unit

Thrawn is absolute madlad!

What about when Thrawn tricked them to believe he could fire through planetary shields by firing at the shield, then having a cloaked ship under the shield fire in rhythm to appear as if it was going through?

Thrawn is good tactician that he is able to use a wide variety of ships to deliver a blow to his enemy

Why didn’t the republic just hyperspace into one of the Star Destroyers and destroy the entire fleet?

This is how you write a massive galatical threat without the need of a super weapon. Zahn is brilliant writer!

Always thumb up Thrawn content. There is no other option. Hey Eckharts, when u gonna do some of those slick battles from the new Thrawn book? (Or the one coming out shortly)

One of the two "outside the box" ways Thrawn used cloaking devices. The other way was in the infiltration of the Sluis Van shipyards. The Ukio attack was also innovative but closer to classic use of a cloaking device. Thrawn used cloaking devices more for deception than stealth.

Thrawn was the most intelligent admiral the Empire had. Once he died any hope of victory died with him. Had Thrawn lived the Empire would've been rebuilt.

Thrawn is awesome. Could you do the Battle of Sluis Van battle break down?

Should be "besieged" in the title.

The only thing for certain you can say about Thrawn, he was the closest to have ever destroyed the Republic. Now what I wouldn't give for a Legends book where Thrawn survives and leads the New Empire against Palpatine and then against the Yuuzhan Vong.

I liked him in Rebels cu he's alive than being killed by His Bodyguard rukh in legends but overall what a great masterplan he is

Man Thrawn is just the absolute best isn't he. Part villain, part intellectual, all tactician, no force or mystical shenanigans, just pure tactical thinking.

Well Eck, I've been watching you for about a year now and I've finally watched all of the backlogged content. Looking forward to many more vids!

I always welcome videos on Thrawn, super cool character.

Thrawn is such a badass

UNSC vs System's Alliance

I LOVE IT YOU GOT TALENT ECKS!

I like how you let us vote on the next videos topic. Keep up it up with the good content!

And they say imperial admirals are bad... Keep it up, nice video! (+ that outro is my favourite, music is great, dogs are great)

Great vid as always

Should do a video on Thrawns admiration of general Grievous, and other notable figures such as Admiral Ackbar.

I just want to say, the six ISDs jumping in at 2:08 reminded me of an video game series called Escape Velocity. Escorts fly in that hexagonal formation.

I love the intro and outro, I always stay until to watch both :)

Nice vid! Enjoying it!

Love your vids can’t beleive you post so much 😹🙌

Nice video Eck

THIS IS THE THRAWN WE NEED AND ABSOLUTELY DESERVE!!!! NOT THE REBELS SENDOFF BULLSHIT!!!!!!

do a versus between an A wing and a Viper MK2 (BSG)

Best transforming fighter: VF-11 thunderbolt from Macross Plus vs the Union Flag from Gundam 00 vs the Viking from StarCraft vs the Mecha Tengu from Command and Conquer vs the Legioss from Genesis Climber Mospeda.

I love this guy content

After watching any of your battle breakdowns I always want to play empire at war😂😂

I know you'll get to this in the finale of the Vong sub-series. Won't stop me from going through the motions though. Anyways: Can you breakdown what is by far the largest space battle in the entire franchise? *The* *Battle* *of* *Yuuzhan'tar!* I have made this request: Forty-six times.

Brilliant tactic. Brilliant video.

Recusant Class Light Destroyer vs Something MC75 or Assault Frigate perhaps?

I would send an unmanned space vehicles, so they would be destroyed by "an invisible asteroid", and either make it visible, or at least give me a targeting solution. There were only 22 cloaked Asteroids on Orbit. It's almost impossible to hit them! Especially if You try to cover orbits of different azimuth. You'd run a cargo convoy with 500 ships, and oops 1 destroyed. Mechanical failure is more probable than hitting those asteroids.

I love the Thrawn trilogy

This video alone is 10x better than the sequels lol

I wish we had gotten 10-15 books about Thrawn. He was a great adversary and he knew how to properly use imperial forces.

I read those books, they are fantastic

These videos are great!!!!!

Please do some Battle Breakdowns for the Thrawn Ascendancy Trilogy!!

All Hail The Lord Eck!

I love the Thrawn episodes.

Remote explosives spread out in a grid, they might not to take out the asteroids down but at the very least you can establish a supply point you could protect

loved the stream

Love your channel!

The New Republic countered the asteroids pretty well, they dropped sensor dust into the solar wind paths and waited for an asteroid to dispel the dust, then fired along the vector of the dust. They destroyed all the asteroids, but didn't realize until the smuggler Talon Kardde told them there were only 22.

How to counter, well assuming I didn't miss anything it's pretty simple. After the initial thrawn pincer they should know to keep an eye on those interdicers. More importantly that it's a double edged sword as the new republic can use thrawns own interdicers to pull off the same maneuver. So I would find a way to send a message to the fleets and counter pincer with the recall before they move in to siege positions.

I WANT THE HALO 4 MAMMOTH VS THE A6 JUGGERNAUT THIS IS LIKE MY 5TH TRY

when i was younger i used to draw out battle fields on paper kinda in the format you do these vidos. if i may ask what do you use? id love to mess around with it to bring back old memories (i also did it with starwars mainly space battles)

My daughters could care less about your videos, but watch them all the way through to the end with me everytime. They can't get enough of that dog!

I love your videos watched everyone of them. But one point I find incorrect about your vids are the Interdictor cruisers, they project cone shapes, not spheres. Hence the sharp lines to bring the ships out of hyperspace in the right place. This is true in Legends anyways, but they may have changed it for the re-booted stuff. Either way, great vids, great detailed breakdowns and tactics, cant wait for more.

It was a awesome strategy by Thrawn make your enemy stuck on a planet with minimal effort.

One way to clear Coruscant's orbit of asteroids would be to deliberately induce what is known as Kessler Syndrome which actually something that's a very real possibility in Earth orbit just because of all the junk in orbit we have (and I mean literal junk). Kessler Syndrome is when orbital objects (one could be a space station the other could be a lost screwdriver) on different orbital paths start smashing into each other (and even though something small like a screwdriver might not seem dangerous it's speed relative to something on a different orbital path might be similar to what you'd see from a rail gun projectile so there's a lot of kinetic energy in the collision) creating a great deal of debris that goes off in all directions at great speed likely crashing into something else repeating the process again and again filling orbit with tens of million (or more) of small high velocity object that'll smash into anything in orbit altitudes from the planet. Now you might be thinking how does that solve the problem for getting rid of the asteroids in orbit of Coruscant, that just seems like it will make the problem so much worse (as I said it's a real danger for Earth). Well the debris will smash into the orbiting asteroids jut as much as they'll smash into any other satellites so just by observing where those collisions happen it's possible to determine the location of an asteroid at the point of collision and by analysing the data from multiple collisions it should be possible to determine the approximate size and mass of the asteroid as well (by seeing it's change in velocity and direction after any given impact). This way the Golan Defence Platforms or warships can target the asteroids with their weapons and blow them apart with no need for the special sensors. But that leaves the problem of all the debris in orbit, so far all this has done is replace all the big asteroids with millions of small objects crashing into ships going to and from Coruscant and yes that's a problem, but it's a lot smaller one for them than cloaked asteroids because 1) even we in the real world can build lasers suitable to cleaning up orbit so there's no doubt they can do it even better than we can, 2) they've got shield technology in star wars, any ships going through the Kessler Syndrome debris with shields should be fine and should have some sort of laser aboard for any larger chunks they don't want to take on the shields and the New Republic government can organise a series coordinated sweeps of Coruscant's orbital volume with armed and shielded ships to clear it of debris using both shields and laser cannons to do the cleaning (actually it would be a great test of point defence weapons capabilities). The real downside to this method would be that it would entirely destroy any unshielded satellites in orbit that the New Republic would want to keep but that's a relatively easy thing to fix given their capabilities.

Best bet for countering the cloaked asteroids cheaply would be to use relatively expendable spacecraft carrying payloads of some kind of marker material (preferably one that can be spread out over a massive area like a gas) that you vent into the path you want your larger, more important ships to pass through. If your sensors find a hole in the gas, chances are it's a cloaked asteroid.

Assuming an interdictor cruiser could be used it would be impractical due to the size of the space around Coruscant (absolutely huge). Of course I’m suggesting that the crystal gravfield trap was capable of far more efficient and widespread scanning, but it’s conjecture without more details on both it and an interdictor’s gravity well.

Basically ANY ship large enough with a tractor beam strong enough would have been able to pull the asteroids away, the problem was LOCATING those damn things. Hence the battle for the crystal grav-field trap, it´s a device to LOCATE the asteroids via their gravitational field.

At 1:00 the Luuke (really what the book calls him) clone looks so much like Anakin.

THANK YOU!!!!

You need to do this in your next stream. Siege Corusant in Thrawn's revenge.

Super hyped for Thrawn in the SWEU. He was name dropped in The Mandalorian.

It's a pity we don't see any of Thrawn's true strategic potential and genius from the EU in Rebels. What a waste! That show did him no justice at all, because as we can see in Legends he is twice as savage and downright absolute badass!

suggestion for a future video: borg vs the vong

I don't know why but know I'm imagining Thrawn toting a hat saying 'Make the Empire Great Again' in the dankest way possible

The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power to *_capture them intact!_*

A good question to ask is; would Thrawn have been such a bad leader if the New Republic fell? He was fair to his men by and large, didn't display the racism inherent to the Empire, and could well have turned back the Vong and other threats with considerably less loss of life

Can you do a video about how to break blockades and sieges?

They should have been able to recognize the pincer after its many uses there for they could have come with a counter by then also was there a reason for the lack of engagement of the original engagement with the interdiers

New Republic: *exists* Thrawn: It's free real estate

We can agree that Eck is the best strategist in the universe

Why weren't the Golan 3 defence Platforms put into a lower-orbit so as they could be supported by the ground-base ion cannons?

I did this in star Wars empire at war. The thrawn pincer

To counter the asteroids, use a helluvalotof seismic charges in orbit. Those have a large enough blast radius to cover the portion of orbit. Also, they could have placed a mine field around the planet...

based on his profile pic, i imagine Echartsladder as this little dog in a little navy outfit who gets tons of respect from all the other admirals. Not even Thrawn messes with him. he even has his own super star destroyer, even though he's... you know... a dog!

The only antagonist that can go up against plot armor lol

So I'm not the only one who came up with Kessler Sieging? Good.

The Tau empire from 40K vs the UNSC.

Thrawns genius is exceptional.

how are you makeing the tactical arts ?? I want to make some as well

Thrawn was and still is the best villain in Star Wars. No other Admiral, not even Lord Vader or Grand Moff Tarkin can match Thrawn's coldness.

The better strategy would have been to keep the defense Fleet around Coruscant. Considering there extensive experience with hit-and-run tactics, there would be more New Republic commanders who could recognize a feigned retreat when they saw one. The New Republic frequently allowed the enemy to control the terms of the engagement.

could you do a video on when the borg attacked earth in star trek

The New Republic could have built some sort of shieldship and put that into orbit, clearing out the orbits.

One idea I have that might take out the cloaked asteroids would be like this you know how in that movie Gravity when the satellite breaks and it takes out other satellites and it just creates a big debris field that grows and takes out everything if they did that on a larger scale and it took out the cloaking devices on the asteroids sure you'd have a big debris field but now you know where everything is at least. Maybe you could have some ships come by with tractor beams and scoop up the debris afterward.

When's the next republic at war playthrough @echartsladder?

When you said interdictor cruisers my first response was here goes the thrawn pincer a minute later he launches the thrawn pincer

How do you make the Tactical chart at 1:30?

I would find some way to use Thrawn's Interdictor cruisers against him. I'm sure the New Republic was well aware of these ships and their capabilities, as well as the characteristics of the gravity wells they produce. I would imagine those wells are impartial, and affect anything in hyperspace, regardless if they're Imperial or NR. I would launch a small fleet of ships out of system in an angle that, once they jump back, would come out of hyperspace behind his fleet, in a direct line to the interdictor cruisers. The ICs would either have to leave system or move forward and mix in with the main fleet. In any sense, the frontline assault would have to divert resources and assets from the initial direction of assault to counter the flank. It would take some time, but the shield on Coruscant would no doubt last a very long time under any type of bombardment. It would also lead the commanders of the Imperial side thinking that the NR is trying to flee, and would bolster a heightened sense of confidence, in turn emboldening their efforts and increasing the ensuing chaos upon the activation of the flanking maneuver. However, that's just my opinion. Tell me what you think down in the comments!

I've been trying for a while to figure out how the asteroids besieged the planet and I think I understand now, but I might be wrong so help me out if I am. The point isn't that Thrawn released enough asteroids to form a minefield around the planet, it's that he threatened that. The Republic couldn't know how many asteroids there are, and couldn't see them. They got lucky by shooting blindly and getting all of them, but the Republic had to check if the threat was clear before the shield could be lowered. And the only way to be certain if you got them all was that crystal thing.

4:20 why is there a UNSC friget in the small fleet at the bottom?

Thrawn is an absolute genius and I’m hoping they show this in Ahsoka. I want to see Thrawn bring the new republic to its knees.