The Death Star vs 100 Super Star Destroyers | Star Wars: Who Would Win 

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If they use a flank group of 20 Executors, directly fly above the openings of the Superlaser Dish where the Beams come out and aggressively open fire at the openings, they would easily diseable the Superweapon functionality. Because it takes a few minutes to recharge the superweapon, enough time to destroy the Death Star Dish. Well one or two has do die to do this but in the end the DS will going down.

So thrawn was right, it's better to invest in the navy

I wonder if the Death Star's super laser could get through Scarif's pamnetary shield

What if an Executor rammed into the eye of the superlaser and disabled it?

According to the star wars wikia. '' In addition to its superlaser, the surface of the Death Star was also >> peppered

Spaceball one vs super star destroyer

Next time 1.000.000 Death Stars vs Jar Jar Bings ;)

Meanwhile, one tiny ass A-wing fighter ramming the bridge, causes the intire super star destroyer to loose control. What a brilliant peice of engineering right there.

Executor ssd vs viscount star defender

Super Star Destroyer vs Covenant Super Carrier (Halo)

Valor-class vs Harrower-class

Nice! Keep it up!

Do "25 regular star destroyers vs the eclipse"

I really like your channel and I'm happy to see it growing so fast.

Defiantly the super star destroyers Death Star 2 vs star killer base

Do you think it would be interesting to see how much the DeathStar (1 or 2) cost in terms of resources and then match it up against a comparable cost in Executor type SSDs in a kind of 'was it worth it' scenario? 'Cos I think that would be a cool thought experiment. Loving the videos btw, I'm fairly recent to the channel so there's quite a bit to catch up on... you're a prolific poster aren't you!? Lol

First the matchup - EckhartsLadder - I agree that the Super Star Destroyers would win, with one very big caveat - the targeting of the Superlaser, and how the SSDs meet the the Death Star. If the Superlaser can adjust its aim some amount (say on the order of 5-10 degrees) without the Death Star moving, and they can keep firing so it cuts across multiple SSDs in one shot, then the Death STar can become much more effective. But, I don't know that this is possible. Still pushing for E-Wing vs T-70 X-wing

He put the best music in the best fight...bless this youtuber :D

Another spot on analysis!

2 Eclipse class SSD versus the Death Star I

lets no forget that once the outer layer is destroyed, the deathstar has basically no defense at all

great video

As per the Star Wars encyclopaedia Star Wars: Absolutely Everything you Need to Know, the original Death Star took 24 hours to recharge its super laser once it had fired a single shot. However I don't know whether this is only at full capacity (i.e. enough power to destroy an entire planet) and also this is in-canon, I think. I know legends had mind-blowing numbers so maybe this was possible in the expanded universe. Nice video however. Keep it up!👍👍

I think it would be interesting to see 13 SSDs vs the Death Star, since there were 13 confirmed Super Star Destroyers, and I think it's a slightly fairer fight. However, since you've already made this I don't think people would be too interested to see another SSD vs DS video.

The nebula class star destroyer vs the imperial II class

I subscribed and could you pls do a vid on what the next super weapon will be for Star Wars?

I totally agree. I think I have heard that three Imperial-Class Star Destroyers can destroy a full-size planet in a matter of hours (Base Delta Zero). Then 100 Executor-Class Star Dreadnoughts attacking a not-well-armed Death Star. I think it is quite obvious that Death Star cannot sustain. Good job, Eckharts!

How's Thrawn's 7th fleet vs Vader's Death Squadron sound?

Oh you actually did it.

Person shooting the Death Star: NOSCOPE COLLAT! NOSCOPE COLLAT! I HIT, I HIT!

I think this quote from the Vader comics is pretty apt in describing any matchup where numbers are not the same. "The starfleet is a sea. It is endless, cannot be beaten, and, given enough time, turns even the strongest rocks to sand. Our larger plans cannot be based around any individual asset...such assets are best used...as a force multiplier."

Death Star has 15k Turbolasers, 2500 Laser Cannons and 2500 Ion Cannons, thats what 30 Executors will bring to the fight already. This one was obvious ;)

Can u do series on all the dreadnoughts in Star Wars?

Very Interesting. I never would have thought that 100 SSDs would carry more fighters than the DS

A little idea for future versus episodes. could you put the numbers of the guns like the turbo lasers, the ships that it can carry, and whatnot. it would help the viewers to compare the ship(s). I am getting this idea like from the Infographics show, also on RU-vid. if you could take this into consideration, I'd appreciate it

Mellenium Falcon vs Dash rendars ship the Outrider

Spaceball One vs. Eclipse SSD

(great video as usual :-) here's my suggestion for a strategy for the Executors to employ) I'd use 10 to 20 executors to keep the death star laser team distracted and then set up 4 more ships out of turbo laser range on the side of the Death Star opposite the laser - then in unison have all 4 try to hyperspace ram the Death Star in roughly the same area (amended: the gravity effects of the Death Star may complicate this strategy unless you can override the automatic "shut off" feature of their hyperdrives that would presumably be triggered by the gravity well created by the mass of the Death Star itself) I realize deliberately destroying 4 Executors is extreme, but you have to weigh it against how many large ships and Tie fighghers would have been destroyed by the Death Star's super laser and other armaments in the time it took for the Executors' to take out the Death Star with their weaponry. Prior to initiating the attacks you could/should certainly reduce the crews of the 4 ramming ships down to the minimum required to simply allow the ships to perform the hyperspace ramming maneuver - thus having to sacrifice the fewest lives possible (could also attempt to ask for volunteers from the each ship to employ as the skeleton crews to further lessen the overall negative morale impact of the strategy) Having finished the logistical preparations for the attack: have the Executors' stagger their timing slightly so that they don't chance hitting each other as they go in - could come diagonally down and inward so that from 4 separate outward starting points they all impact within a mile or two radius. The idea being that successive strikes to roughly the same location could possibly be enough to fatally compromise the Death Star's hull integrity down to a depth that wouldn't be repairable in time to save the station. In the event that the final ship pierces all the way to the core of the Death Star (which is obviously a long shot considering how big it is) that would pretty well take out the station a la the destruction of the 2nd Death Star. In the movie, we did see what the effect (by no means fatal but pretty nasty none the less) would be of an Executor impacting the death star at a relatively slow speed, but now instead combine the mass of 4 Executors accelerated to the speed achieved by hyperspace ramming. I guess you could calculate the physics with a formula to see just how much force would be applied upon impact (and that doesn't count the effect of the ships' reactors and any volatile ammunition on board, if there is such in the Star Wars universe, exploding *within* the Death Star's outer "hull" (not sure what the right word would be) - where the inner structural integrity/strength will actually work against the space station by restricting the volume of the explosions, thus increasing the blast pressures created. (to ending question - I think he's right. Turbo lasers and photon torpedoes etc can only do so much damage against something as massive as a planet, though it probably would depend on the make up of the planet's crust as to just how damaging regular star ship weapons would be against a planet. But ultimately I think 10,000 star ships wouldn't be able to blow up a planet b/c their weapons systems just don't have the max energy necessary to take out a planet. The Death Star only pulls it off b/c of its ability to concentrate an obscene amount of energy and direct it to a relatively small area - I'm guessing the Death Star takes out planets by having its laser bore through the crust, down to the core and then by disrupting or igniting or something the core of the target planet - maybe by triggering a massive fusion reaction/explosion within the planet's core that rips the rest of the planet apart)

hi , love the channel , how about the ship from the movie the "last stat fighter" vs 1 x wing?

Executor Vs Apocalypta

Millennium Falcon VS Ebon Hawk

admiral thrawn upon seeing fleet of executors: IT'S A TRAP, IT'S A GOOD THING I BROUGHT ESCORTS!

I love how when he says that only a few SSD's would be in the laser, Leia says "WHAT?" In the background

Star Wars star destroyer II vs Stargate Ori warship

or 100 x wing vs 75 tie defender

felt the analysis was pretty spot on. Also like to mention that the death star was supposed to be equipped with several docked capital ships, 4 strike cruisers I believe. Of course the SSDs could chew these up in under a minute. In terms of tactics, I would play the battle somewhat differently. I would order any SSDs with line of sight to target the super laser emitters and try to disable that weapon. the ssds could fire on the super laser while outside of its firing arc. as the ssd was I believe 18 km long that makes it over 10% the diameter of the 160km death star(120km by some sources). The closer they could get to the hull the easier it would be to maneuver such as to avoid the main weapon by outpacing the death star turn rate. Another point is that I would order fire concentrated on the death stars engines, so as to immobilize it and prevent it maneuvering, meaning the superlaser would be easily avoided. the disadvantage here is that many SSDs that close would form a fairly dense shell around the DS and collisions would be a great danger. I would therefore order the SSDs to fly with their sides facing the death star so as to give each other more room. at face value this seems to give perhaps less than half of the SSD weapons a shot at the death star, but when you consider at a distance of perhaps 15km the deathstar will present a massive target, I believe 85% of the SSD weapons could target SOME portion of the death star in this orientation. And as you said the SSDs have a combined total of about 10x the turbolasers of the DS. even if only 40% of the SSD weapons could target the DS, the SSD fleet could task 3-4 turbolasers to destroying each of the DS turbolasers. with this ratio I believe the SSD fleet, with good coordination from the fleet commander in assigning each ship target areas and from ship captains in dividing up targeting responsibilities between batteries, could effectively destroy the death star surface guns in perhaps 2 minutes(once the fleet had surrounded the DS), though the surface would be progressively cleared as the fleet spread around the station. by this point the DS fighters would have been deployed and I would have my ships switch to targeting them instead. Also while the SSDs ties have a 2 to 1 advantage, I believe they would be able to destroy the DS fighter compliment even more quickly. I would have the fighters fly screens around the SSDs keeping a distance far enough away from the DS turbolasers to avoid losing too many fighters, even keeping the well shielded SSDs between them and the DS, which would also avoid the risk of friendly fire from the SSDs targeting the DS. with a 2 to 1 fighter advantage and each DS fighter being targeted by a good 10 laser batteries I expect a very decisive victory with only 1200-1500 of my fighters lost at most. Now with practically every DS surface weapon destroyed and its fighters and capital ships gone, my remaining 13-14 thousand fighters(including the bombers which would only now be launched since air superiority had been achieved) would be tasked to strafe and bomb the super laser dish until that weapon was inoperative. at which point the death star could simply be pummeled with impunity. A look from the other side though, if I saw my battle station being rapidly disarmed in this fashion, it would be immediately clear I was losing the battle. If I could not escape to hyperdrive, I would wait till they moved to within a close distance and trigger a reactor overload so as to take the whole fleet with me.

I agree with this assesment. Assuming it makes a kill every 2-3 minutes like you said, It'd take DS1 almost two full hours to shoot down 100 Capital ships, assuming the ships all stay in the same quadrant so DS doesn't have to reposition, AND the ships aren't fighting back. It's like a lion vs. a swarm of bees.

Melenium Falcon vs Slave One!!!

executor vs malevolence

The Second Death Star could fire every 3 minutes due to it having three reactors. But the original Death Star took 24 hours to charge.

for future episodes, I would suggest looking into the Wing Commander universe. LOTS of fighters and capital ships to look at. for the new ground channel, MechWarrior/BattleTech.

100 SSDs Vs Star Killer base

Imperial Star Destroyer versus U.S.S. Enterprise D.

You should do another one of these with the Executor vs the Devestation(Bigger version of the Malevolence with an Eclipse like cannon at the front of it).

Gorgon-class Battlecruiser with an Air Wing consisting of; A2 Viking Armored Mechanical Hybrids, CF/A-17G Wraiths and Ravens vs Imperial II-class Star Destroyer in a 1v1 scenario

It took 24 hours to recharge by the way

A 100 star destroyers vs the 1 super star destroyer like if you agree

How about the "Death Star" vs the "Vong Homeworld ship" that sounds like an interesting match-up.

2:52 Princess Leia says "What" when EckhartsLadder mentions that only certain ships would be in the path of the superlaser. She must've been shocked to realize that the Death Star wasn't as powerful as it seemed.

Can you do Death Star vs SSDE (Super Star Destroyer Ellipse) for you next RU-vid video !?

Could you do a head to head of the Eta-2 Actis Interceptor vs the Delta-7 Aetherspirte interceptor?

Next video: half a death star vs. 50 super star destroyers

with that many tie fighters how long would it take to disable the super laser array/ the main disk if they ignored the trench?

Executor-class is such f-ing cool looking ship.

When/if you run out of ship vs ship matchups, you could totally go after character vs. character matchups that don't happen in the Canon or extended universe. Like Anakin vs. Darth Vader. or Darth Bane vs. Lord Sidious. The possibilities are endless.

Actually the Death Star shields went offline when they were preparing to fire the superlaser. It took that much energy to fire it. That was based on the RPG rule book for Star Wars.

While the Executors would absolutely have a decent chance at fighting back, we need to remember that the Death Star is designed to fight off enemy fleets. I think a more accurate figure would be 7 to 8 out of 10 in favor of the Executor.

What about The open circle fleet vs. the death squadron. I know it isn't one on one, but like this Match-up. I think it could be interesting

Now we are asking the real questions

i have an idea Mon calamari MC 80 home one cruiser vs imperator 2 star destroyer . thank you for the video !

Finally an outcome I totally agree with, I love this channel but usually disagree with them because it's not done mathematically, it's more of an appeasement to both sides etc. But this one...yes totally agree

Can u do a halo vs star treck like the unsc fleet at the covey fleet vs the star treck fleet

10 Super Star Destroyers under Thrawns command vs 100 Mon Calamari Star Cruisers under Admiral Ackbar command

This was a VERY Thorough cross analysis, but I feel its more of a Draw, a TIE because we're looking at Total and/or Complete Destruction with little to no survivors (escaping through escape pods technically counts as a loss). The problem is that even though the Executor Class Star Destroyers could Pummel the Surface to the point that the Death Star couldn't fight back, the Death Star is still there, there are Survivors who are still inside that could actually fight back. . . You are probably understand where I'm getting at with this so. . . New Rule(s) on Carrying Capacity and/or Intangibles: Boarding Actions; if a ship has enough troops and/or specific ships to perform boarding actions, then make it so!

The best Starfighter Pilot in the Galaxy using an Xwing vs. an Imperial Star Destroyer. In XWing Alliance this was totally doable, by taking down the escorts first, then the shields, some weapons and then keep hammering it without falling asleep.

The best strategy would be for the Super Star Destroyers to enter the system and then get into medium range. Keeping the ships on the move constantly avoiding the firing arc of the Death Star while using their fighter wings to gain air superiority. The Star Destroyers would need to focus on a few or one point to hammer the station and break its "crust" as you suggested. Once the Death Star has a substantial hull breach, the combined firepower of even 5 Super Star Destroyers would be enough to devastate the stations structural integrity. Bombers could also be deployed since the Death Stars fighter wing would have been taken out to further the damage and render the station combat ineffective or even destroy it entirely. Alternatively about 20 of the Super Star Destroyers could park right in front of the Death Stars main weapon and, using imperial knowledge, disable the weapon allowing the Super Star Destroyers to get in even closer and make their turbo lasers even more effective.

If you're bending your 1-on-1 rule further, maybe a 2-on-2 match as a nod to the final arc of the New Jedi Order. Maybe a Viscount and an Executor vs. either two Vong dreadnoughts or a Vong dreadnought and 'skip carrier?

borg cube vs super star destroyer would be really interesting

Around 4:30 it was mentioned that the Death Star has minimal shields. This obviously isn't cannon but in Rogue Squadron II during the Death Star level the first thing you do is blow up towers that are projecting a shield. I thought I'd mention this because you can see the same towers being blown up in the movie. Perhaps this is why the fighters are capable of causing damage with their strafing runs.

Eckharts could you do a video on a Covenant Super carrier from halo vs a super star destroyer or a first order class star destroyer

"Our deflector shields cannot take firepower if that magnitude!"

Centurion-class battle cruiser vs a Recusant-class light destroyer, an Old Republic Inexpugnable-class command ship vs a Keldable-class ship, or a Crusader-class corvette vs a Geonosian corvette, or Phoenix Home vs the Endar Spire

I could be mistaken but wasn't Han Imperial trained? And that was how he met Chewbacca? I'm sure it was a legends story but as yet it hasn't been contradicted by anything Disney has put out (we'll see what happens in the solo solo film) so if I'm remembering it right he was training at the Imperial Academy to become an officer when he witnessed the treatment of the Wookiee's and that started to make him doubt his decision to join the empire.

You forgot the ultimate X-Factor: Grand Moff Tarkin.

From Han's statement, I think it would be similar to the Sith bombing of Taris, in legends, only more severe and thorough, but given enough time and energy reserves a small fleet of ships could destroy a planet.

Could you do an Acclamator-class assault ship vs the rebel Assault Frigate Mark II?

Can some1 tell what's the name of the song that starts at around 8:10? Thanks!

I wonder if full power Death Star laser could go through multiple super star destroyers. Like I’m sure there would be some behind others. Still only a couple or a few at a time, but still. I also think the Death Star could park itself beside a planet and have the planet at its back, so the SSDs can’t flank it. Best they could do is form a cone in front of it

I have one of the death star owners manual (Legends) and it talks about the death star having hundreds of thousands of tie fighters. It's hard to quantify power as diferent legends sources vary.

How about a Kandosii-type dreadnaught vs a Keldabe-class battleship, both of Mandalorian design but from 2 different eras.

Pls leave a link in the description for the vote so i and others watching on mobile devices can vote too

What if one of the super star destroyers went light speed into the Death Star. That would be interesting!

I have a question, What if maybe a X-Wing or like a Cruiser went into the laser of the Deathstar? Would it disable it or do nothing to it?

I would say that the SuperStar Destroyers could just park in polar orbits around the Death Star, and maneuver to stay out of the arc of fire of the super laser. If they all concentrated their fire on the focusing dish, I'm sure they could knock that out in relatively short order. The SSD's could probably then move further away from the Death Star, to a range where they could target the battle station, but where the Death Star would have a harder time hitting them, and where their shields would protect them from more of the impacts. Heck, they could even abandon a handful of the SSDs and park them broadside in orbit, to provide cover for a couple more SSD's, and then fight from a relatively safe position. If the SSD's concentrated all of their fire on a couple of points, they could pretty quickly punch through the decking and armor of the Death Star, and work their way into the core and the vulnerable areas of the guts of the battle station. I think both sides would do best to pick one specific target and concentrate as much firepower as possible on that one point. Both opponents are too big and well armored for a general distribution of firepower to have much of an effect

I think the problem with the Deathstar shielding is that it was meant to stop capital ships and big energy shots but not starfighters because the designers thought that nobody in their right mind would send starfighters to fight a space station the size of a moon.

I agree. And I wonder, how about a shadow killer cloud or Bolton planet killer, or heck, both vs the death star!

Your correct, although I think even then you give the super weapon to much credit, once the super star destroyers knew it was a threat, all they needed to do was keep their position out of it's arc of fire. Sure it might get lucky a couple times, but that's it. Even the other weapons on the death star are no real threat to the destroyers because, while there are a lot of them, they are spread around the entire circumference of the death star so very few would be able to fire at any destroyer at any given time, where the super star destroyers would be free to maneuver themselves into positions where the most turrets possible were able to fire on the death star. The only real thread to the super star destroyers would be the large number of fighters the death star could launch, so as long as the super star destroyer could deal with them, via it's own fighters and anti fighter weapons it would just be a question of how long it would take for them to either cause enough damage to the death star that it exploded, or to dig down far enough that they could target it's main power core directly to blow it it. I think even 10 super star destroyers would easily be able to take out the death star, it would just take longer, and with only ten it would be that much easier to stay out of range of it's main weapon. As for star destroyers destroying a planet, I think was it was referring to was the death star exploded the planet, where star destroyers don't do that, they just destroy the surface crust of the planet, turning it into a unlivable molten slag but the planet itself would still be intact. I've long felt that the empire should have invested the resources they put into the two death stars into super star destroyers. They could have make executor class SSDs the center of each fleet, with a few smaller fleets with eclipse and other "speciualty" SSDs at the center moving to support whichever main fleet might as needed.

I can't help but feel you missed out on the very powerful tractor beams that the deathstar would have which would be able to slow or even stop the many of the SSD's allowing the Deathstar to maneuver it self into a position to bring its turbolasers and superlaser to bear on them.

I don’t know why,but this lets me think of rististance bomber vs first order Dreadnought