Problem is the rebel alliance is not a conventional military like all the others on this list. Its an entirely guerilla-fighting style army. Its a galaxy wide guerilla army that uses hit and run tactics. The Rebels knew that they would never be able to fight the Empire in a conventional war, and if the rebel alliance was to travel through time to battle against any of these armies they would use the same tactics. That's why they were so successful. Strategy is just as important as weight of numbers or quality of troops.
@@tailssonicteam1604 Laugh in trillions roger roger. Seriously. If your ennemy can deploy 100 000 droids on hundreds of planets for find some rebels you dont dont stand a chance. They dont have fancy weapon like the executor or the death star,the have thing like the malevolent class who can destroy entire rebels fleet. In ground warfare they dont use some bunky vehicle but fast vehicle. And the droid are more efficient than the empire. Juste of the destroyers (droiddeka) can be a dangerous threat to the front. Because rebels dont have jedi in their ranks.
@@tailssonicteam1604 yes but vs mindless droids that spray in the billions that use tactics that fought the republic also did mentions a sea of billions of billions of battle droids and other nasties sorry cis beats rebel alliance
Not to mention that there was thousands of sith warriors, and used various amounts of battle droids... the sith empire was enough to almost destroy the old Republic. Aint no way the sith should be this low.
@@Noxtorious Y'all are trying to create a hypothetical which would go against EVERYTHING the siths stood for, them trying to kill eachother was a part of their entire DNA. That's like saying "If only the Jedi Knights would have been more cold blooded killers instead of taking prisoners they would have been stronger".
@@glennlittle6356 it's not much of a hypothetical they did in fact beat the Old Republic to a Truce Darth Malgus made sure of that when him and his special troops just straight up dropped on the Jedi Temple. The Old Republic lost many territories in the war that during gameplay time The Republic tries to take back through questionable logistics and attempts at abusing the loopholes in the treaty. Ironically the Sith system of Apprentice Master does in fact work rather well. If the master kills his apprentice during his training via the harsh conditions then the acolyte is just too weak If the acolyte overpowered the Master then the master passed the torch to a rightful successor. The rule of 2 was somewhat this on steroids, except for Sidious who cheated the system by not actually overpowering his master
The thing is, good sith power could be few and far between, but for example the CIS' whole ideology is "Bury them with numbers". Along with the fact that the main goal of any sith would be to get more power by any means necessary, so it could never work.
If it had the same territories as the galactic empire did, then maybe. But in lore it was very much weaker than the empire that came later on. Plus there was also a lot of corruption between the sith, trying to kill each other and take their ranks
The CIS apparently had TRILLIONS of droids against millions of clones, Geonosis was probably the only major large scale battle with both sides having over 100,000 soldiers deployed.
@@Suno6723 Largest Trading nation and fleet check, The Banking clan check, Techno Union, Corporate Alliance, and Commerce Guild! There's a reason why Separatists dominated space battles with massive numbers, it was said only the Republic had trouble with money and who did they go to for money? The Banking Clan who were CIS. Sorry about the trillions thing but they had so many more droids Dooku said that droids outnumbered clones 100-1, as you said millions for the clones that's hundreds of millions of droids. Money was never the problem for the CIS it was Palpatine not allowing them to send hundreds of ships in each battle with like a million B1s to take out 1 battalion. Droids take like 30 minutes to make, it takes 9 years for a clone.
The fact that the cis just rolled up at coruscant and said f u to the republic's face is a show of power. Not many factions have the resources to attack what's pretty much a capital for the galaxy.
Well the Sith Empire came to Corrusant, conquered it and the Jedi Temple in a really short amount of time and managed to keep it. It only lost Corrusant (gave it away) as part of a peace treaty with the old Republic!
And without adding the BX or the Droidekas. Add Grievous has their commanding officer and the Rebel alliance would have be gone in a matter of days, weeks at best.
I mean for damn sure, the saying is usually quality over quantity but the CIS has so much damn quantity that it didnt even matter. Each clone probably had to kill close to 100 droids to make it even worth it
Fun fact: the CIS were held back by palpatine. Their full potential if they weren't used as a puppet for a greater plan not only would've decimated the republic, but even the galactic empire. The plans for the death star were also initially in the hands of the CIS, so without palpatine pulling the strings they would've had it eventually instead.
Yes, it was obvious, the CIS numbers alone showed that, had Palpatine not been able to become the emperor, he would've just full on sided with the Cis.
Bruh that doesn't make sense bc if thats true then why wouldn't he just have them not hold back, win the war, and still take over like that makes no sense if it's true that just makes palpatine look fuckin stupid
@@cooperdesrocher6046 why? Because he doesn't want the confederate of INDEPENDENT SYSTEMS to win. He wants the republic to win so he can use his power as supreme chancellor to make the empire. The cis know him as sidious and wouldn't let palpatine- the enemy leader- be their own leader. He's manipulating them in the shadows. The CIS is also presented as the enemy. He wants the empire to look like the heroes, not the villains.
He was slowly becoming aware of that the clones are starting to question order 66 which they executed in the past so he replaced them with stormtroopers due to preventation of uprising which happend on kamino but they were quickly neutralized and this incident was covered.
im sorry but if you have ever see. episode 3 revenge of the sith you would know the republic wouldnt have won when the cis legit managed to get to the capital and get palpatine on foot numbers quite does matter on a large scale conflict
Yes, the Yuuzhan Vong are gigantic but I think that the ones in the Video are the canonized ones, and the Sith Empire, for example, is canonized but the Youzhan Voung only appear in Legends and I also suppose that it refers to those who are in this Galaxy and the Youzhan Voung They are aliens that are not part of this galaxy
The CIS is the greatest army, it’s unparalleled both in its diversity of troops and numbers. Billions of battle droids were made. In the RC novels there’s a scene where Omega squad is wondering why the CIS don’t just invade the republic head on because CIS has the numbers to do it. The only reason the CIS lost was because of Palpatine’s grand design.
@@redactedredacted2982 Perhaps but not enough to keep up with the droids. In the RC books, Omega Squad question why the CIS is holding back because they mention that CIS has more than enough droids to overwhelm the entire GAR.
@Basios Rasian What I'm saying is that Palpatine didn't have to spend much money in the GAR since they were gonna end up winning anyways. All that money he didn't spend on the GAR was probably spent on operations like the one where he was supposed to be kidnapped but Obi-Wan was undercover. If Palpatine didn't control both sides He would've had a bigger budget for the GAR. A bigger budget would give the GAR more soldiers and technology. He also wouldn't have let the CIS invade Courscant.
The Sith Empire (and by extension the Eternal Empire) was a monument to a madman that wanted to eat the galaxy. It was enforced by power hungry Sith that would team up together to kill their masters which would lead to the tendency to have each generation of Sith become overall weaker than the last because the student wouldn't become superior to their master before they offed the master to continue the cycle of master and apprentice. They would also tend to fight for dominance and glory in the Empire they were desperately trying to maintain through war with the Old Republic which caused huge inefficiencies and needless deaths of many of the high ranking Sith of the time. The best example is how Darth Malgus split the Empire when he caused an insurrection and proclaimed himself the new Sith Emperor. The Rule of Two is a critical necessity for the Sith to grow in power. Without it, they do the Jedi's job for them.
@@lechethefarmer9823but hes not wrong though, in this list they would rank first. The old republic still couldnt contend with the sith empire despite all the in fighting. It was also the sith empire that did most of the heavy lifting during the war with the eternal empire.
@@IllegalHelios they would absolutely not rank first. The separatists and republic both have an infinite troops cheat code. The empire has Palpatine who is planetary in his own right by his own power without the need for rituals or other BS like vitiate plus death star weapon schematics equipped on a fleet of star destroyers.
@@IllegalHelios they would absolutely not rank first. The republic has an infinite perfect soldier cheat code and the empire has Palpatine who is planetary by himself plus a fleet of star destroyers equipped with death star lasers and a whole bunch of other nonsense like the Centerpoint station or the death stars themselves. Palpatine can literally swallow an entire fleet with a single force storm from across the galaxy. I can't stress enough how much his presence helps the empire in power scaling. He alone is worth several death stars.
@@lechethefarmer9823 the sith empire had planet killing weapons too. They also had the most powerful sith ever. Palp isnt the strongest by a long shot. He loses in both force powers and dueling by a long shot compared to many old sith. Ok he can use force storm, well the easiest way to tell a siths strength with the force is the colour of their force lightning, palps was blue/purple. Red > purple > blue. You forgetting about nihilus who just consumed planets for a snack? Darth sion, bro literally too mad to die. Vitiate or whatever you want to call him was a superior force user to palp. Revan, one of the greatest duelists of all time, although hes both a sith and a jedi at different times so maybe he doesnt count. Yes the sith empire was a cluster fuck due to power struggles, but theres no denying that the individual sith lords are greater than palp, the empire had their own super weapons, their knowledge of the force was greater, and they man handled the old republic which was just as militarized, if not more so with higher quality soldiers than the galactic empire.
Funnest fact. The separatist alliance under command of Palpatine held back 60% of its actual number of operational battle droids to prolong the war and to secure his plot to take over the galaxy. Ps. It was order 69 in case 66 failed.
Bruh i search up order 69 and this is what i get Order 69 was one of many orders in a series of contingency orders which the clone troopers of the Grand Army of the Republic were programmed with. This order demanded that all attractive female Jedi were not to be executed, but instead captured and married to the most successful trooper in the capturing unit.
@@bullbuster944 where did you get the idea that the republic has a better navy? The republic navy had better vessels for sure but like their army counterparts the CIS navy still outnumbers them by a lot. Logistically, the clones had a very small chance of winning if it was an all out war. Even under the assumption that the republic navy would win an all out battle if all the vessels from both sides clash head on (very very very unlikely that they would win anyways), the numbers advantaged still meant they would cover more reach, establishing more territorial control and providing more supplies to create even more vessels and infantry
@aster4405 The Republic had more production capability (it had more worlds). The republics Navy was a bit less powerful at the start of the war, but by mid to end, the fleets were far more numerous as they didn't need to produce a fuck load of droids. The whole plot of the movie was that the Republic had a 2nd bloody whole army and fleet that was deployed during the battle of corasont. Ultimately, a large droid army means nothing once the space battle is won. What would droids do without power and a commander? It's simply just a dismantling when you compare the time and time again when a small clone army has thought of hordes of droids for weeks and held out long enough for supplies, a droid army couldn't do the same
The CIS is underrated AF. They just used their droid army way too inefficient. They can produce a big number of soldiers in a short time, that don’t need any training, which is a really big advantage against the other fractions.
If Palpatine hadn't kept them from producing all the droids they could, they would have easily been a lot more powerful. But Palpatine had it all planned out for the Republic to win. All part of his grand plan.
CIS was the greatest army to ever exist in Star Wars, the ratio was 100 B1s for every one clone, if they weren't restrained by Palpy and the Repuplic's plot armor they probably would've taken over the galaxy with ease, they also were responsible for the design of the death star and were probably wealthy enough to build it, without the weakness implementation by a imperial engineer it would've been far harder to take down.
I feel like droids are underrated as hell Considering that had trillions of droids and if they were used to there full potential they could crush every army on this list ( maybe not SITH but idk)
They were not the best clones, just the most popular, Boss, Sev, Gregor and many more were superior. Cody was a great tactician but was nowhere near as good as the others, Rex was very good on the frontlines but doesn't have the feats others do.
The Eternal Empire should definitely be in here somewhere. Not only did they have a vast armament, they also had the Rakatan Fleet. They were very impressive, with each ship being able to destroy a planet. But it is no competition. The Eternal Fleet is the biggest of all time, made out of Iokath Technology and commanded by SCORPIO Droids, it could pound its opponents to shreds. The Knights of Zakuul weren’t your average Jedi or Sith either. They used the force as a tool for justice in the Zakuulan Empire. They were tasked with protecting Valkorian and his children. They were soldiers and city sentinels. They also took both aspects of the light and dark sides of the force. Nothing was off limits to them and they were fierce warriors. The First Order would have become the Last Order real quick if they ever went up against them.
Eternal Empire could honestly probably be closer to 1st. The clones are hard to outmatch, but the ranks of their empire are advanced droids and Knights with advanced force abilities.
@@technoisthegoat223 Agreed, but the Republic army also had the full support of the Jedi Order in - arguably - its prime. The Jedi were no push overs in battle either, so I think when you factor that into the equation it would probably come down to a war of attrition … At that point it’s hard to say who could pull more resources as the Kaminoans could produce clones quite efficiently. At the same time though, one could argue that Valkorion is the ultimate trump card, but in my head canon Anakin would be able to defeat him because if he reached his fullest potential in the Force (given that he never turned) … Anakin essentially would have been a walking Force Nexus. Though, it would be interesting to know how Palpatine would have adjusted his grand plan if there was a credible threat to his position like Valkorian. We saw what he did to Maul on Mandalore, but Maul is an ant to him, so having real competition would have been a monkey wrench in his whole galactic domination thingy lol. If only Star Wars Theory could do a “what if” episode! 😆
Nop sith empire is the real deal. Such a lame generation of star wars fans we got in these days. Legends was the true star wars form... and the 2003 clone wars is the proper series.
The clones were actually on the losing end of the clone wars for most of the conflict, and also the sith empire are probably number 3 due to them practically doing what the empire did, just before the empire
6-Rebels, The navel is just small and relies on gorilla tactics 5-The Sith Empire,Although the sith had so many force users their navel capability’s wouldn’t be very good because of the technology 4-The first order, the tech and indoctrination used by the first order is really good the only thing limiting them is size. Don’t just hate because it’s sequel 3-The Republic The clones where amazing troopers and the army was one of the best in the galaxy’s history and the only reason that they aren’t 3 is because of the empires bigger industry 2-The Empire With thousands of IDS their navel game was unrivaled also with the amazing ground weapons and vehicles 1-The CIS, The only reason the CIS didn’t curb stomp the republic is because Palpatine didn’t want them to, so the CIS only used a fraction of their resources when they actually had trillions of battle droids and could’ve produced trillions more if they needed to
Very true cuz the cis had machines even though the clones could be cloned the cis had a good naval force and their droids could be made within a matter of days. And also like you said palpatine didnt want them to win
@@_GODSFIGHTER only thing I disagree with is cis over tbe empire, the enpure had entire galaxy worth of troops at their disposal along with upgraded tech off the Republic. They're the republic but bigger(their no 1 issue) and more advanced
The Droid army is the most underrated fictional armies out of all them and all time they can use the starships to repopulate planets of more machine they would outnumber any Army no cap
i think the sith empire should've been at least 2nd for sure they had a fairly descent balance of disposable military assets in droids and similar but also more powerful and numerous elite units then any of the other factions like they had a whole species of force users as part of the core of their military no other group had that
The mandalorian crusaders would have destroyed the alliance and first order without a doubt and the only true power that has managed to destroy the republic is the sith empire.
@@nille17 the Republic army of clones could have beaten any army. And they did. It was created to battle test them to be able to withstand anything and it did untill it was made weak by letting conscripts in.
@@SheLxvDracoPero los mas Importantes serian los que son Considerado Canon, Como el Imperio Sith y aunque no menciono en el video la Orden Jedi era gigantesca en la Antigua Republica
Fun Fact: If the CIS didn't hold the majority of their forces in reserve(The B1 Battle Droids in reserve alone would likely be in the trillions as the exact number has never been confirmed) they would be in two on this list or maybe even one considering the fact that the republic was already struggling to fight the Droid forces that weren't in reserve and without the interference of Palpatine(AKA Darth Sidious) the republic wouldn't even have the clone army thus they would have lost the "war" in a few weeks or months due to the Jedi Order and Planetary Self Defence Force(PSDF) that many if not all the core worlds had.
Down played them bad. They were able to take both eternal empire and come out on top in the end (but mainly due to the fact that the sith empire destroyed itself and the eternal empire was destroyed by both the empire and the old republic).
Eternal empire makes a good case for #1 since we’re doing legends and canon. Smoked both the Sith Empire and the Galactic Republic/Jedi and had the biggest fleet of ships recorded in legends I believe. Plus a whole army of powerful force wielders who use both light and dark. That’s just part of it too
@@brob3003 probably woulda beat the yuuzhan vong, considering a mass of their armies were sky troopers, which were powerful droids. And the knights, which were on the same level as a Jedi knight, and were considered foot soldiers.
I don't know TOO much about the Eternal Empire but i do know it could MOP THE FLOOR with many an opposing force. From what i know at least. I know lots about the Clone Wars less the eras beforehand
There were literally Quintillions of battle droids. In comparison it would take literally trillions of the ENTIRE GAR TO EVEN MATCH THE NUMBER OF SOLDIERS THE CIS HAD. Despite everything quintillions (a trillion millions) would be enough to take out every other military in the universe combined. Also First Order might’ve been hated due to movies but they had a weapon that could blow up 7 planets at once. Also starkiller base took energy from a entire star which could probably destroy 1000+ planets.
The Grand Army of the Republic was amazing!!! A strong, brave and smart army with the chosen one, space jesus and Ahsoka being generals made it the most powerful army to exist
@cod G.I? you mean kathleen kenedy since lucas sold it to disney and this was also in episode 4 and 6 literally did no shit (writers most likely dead or retired)
Whole star war movies based and inspired by World war 2 Where:- 1.Galactic Empire is just like Nazi Germany 2.Rebel Alliance:-Soviet Union 3.Grand Army of Republic:-USA 4.confederacy of Independence System:-Imperial Japan 5.Sith Empire:-Britian 6.First Order:-France
Placing the thousand-year-lasting Sith Empire, lead by legendary Sith warriors, like Naga Sadow, Darth Nihilus, Darth Sion, Tulak Hord, Darth Revan, Darth Malgus, under the fcking Galactic Empire, which existed for a shorter period of time than the Soviet Union, is wild.
@@N_4747 ignoring Disney canon there would still be more storm troopers cause they aren't just fight in the clone wars they were basically the galaxy's police and there's a shit ton of planets. Also at the start of the clone wars they only had 2 million clones that's not a lot
People who play SWTOR would know that the sith empire was strong enough to challenge the republic and the galactic empire and could actually even win. The sith empire did fight for more then a millennia against the republic before it’s collapse.
Sith empire could never have beat a Clone wars republic and Empire at their height. Technology difference and amount of planets each faction owned was different in several orders of magnitude. There is a 4000 year gap of tech and colonization of new planets.
The Republic, sure, if refitted to be brought up to peer technology. The GAR is pretty awful once you get past it's elite. It didn't have that large of a main fleet or that many clones, only a few billion at most clone troopers on a galactic scale. For comparison WWII had more than a billion active military personnel. Most of the GAR was made of sector fleets and planetary armies. It was very patchwork and ineffective, especially for it's size. If it went full aggression right from the start all out like the clone commanders wanted to, go effectively Mandalorian, it could at least put up a strong fight with it's elite center to try and break the logistical chain before attrition and multiprong attacks break them. Jedi would have to be removed from command though for any chance of it being successful. The Galactic Empire? Hahaha no. The Galactic Empire had an enormous and fully centralized and organized military. Just in garrisons for Imperial-Class Star Destroyers it's elite Stormtrooper Corps numbered in the trillions. One Dark Trooper Mk II could kill an entire small cruiser. It had 30,000 ISDs, each of which carrying truly ludicrous weapons arrays and advancements in plasma weaponry that outstripped any other turbolasers of their period. The Galactic Empire through sheer logistics alone wipes every single other military in Star Wars. The Galactic Empire might be wounded, but the second it gets a solid target it could send thousands of ISDs in full formation. It only takes three ISDs a few hours to melt a world, and they can sustain in that kind of firepower for a substantial amount of time. The main flaw of the Galactic Empire was that only a few people could lead it. Tarkin, Vader, and maybe Thrawn were the only ones who had the positions, power, and skill to keep the empire from dissolving into infighting over a power vacuum if the Emperor was missing and thus gaining it's own splinter factions as it's greatest enemies. The Galactic Empire, unified, is essentially unchallenged in conventional direct conflict within Star Wars.
Grand army of the republic was so scary if you think of clome army, jedi order and other major armies like from naboo or other star sustems. Palpatine really was a space Hitler.
well its actualy possible the infine empire could beat most them given had control of nearly the entire galaxy for a long time not just the main area ether like the republic or the GE though they did have their power broken by the adasian sith empire and never recovered from that fight
The COS army was massive. They would overwhelm any army on this list with numbers. The clones fought hard but we’re losing to the billions of battle droids. They would’ve lost if not for the grand plan that involved shutting off all the droids and ending the war and then becoming the empire.
Can you imagine an army of pure Mandalorians if they had not had their rivals between clans? Maybe they would have been at the level of the clones or more, although they would not exceed the empire due to numbers, but in terms of troop quality, just like the clone army
@@seanbyrne3727 No, read the knights of the old republic comics. The Mandalorians did wage war against the republic, and they would have won if it wasn't for Revan. Tha happened around 4000 bby.
@@malucas29 "The "Mandalorian Army" was an unofficial term used in reference to the dominant military forces of the Mandalorian nation. Mandalore lacked a national military as a result of the feudal, clan-based society that governed it". Mandalore waged war but not under the one banner they're comprised of clans there was never a national mandalorian army under the one banner.
I absolutely agree with this list especially with the first order on this list when they were the ones that staging an invasion of the galaxy and the leader was Kyle Ren the first order was a up rise from the crumbled galactic empire when darth vader got killed and the death star destroyed by the Rebel Republic and the destruction by the hands of Luke Skywalker
Something almost all these armies have in common is that most of them were screwed over by their own commanding officers or chain of command rather than actually losing to their opposing force they were fighting against, that's really sad when you think about it.
Plus trained Sith warriors and inquisitors and troopers and had both mandolorians ,hutts and a few senators to join them. Not to mention Darth Vitiate the 1,500 year old Sith who could (possibly)give Yoda a run for his money in force abilities (Yoda would slap in lightsaber combat)
The fact the CIS was able to keep up production during war and keep the factories hidden and safe. While somehow never running out money/resources blows my mind.
There's something about the Clone Army that is so powerful and unique. They may have had the same face and voice, but they had some of the greatest and most unique soldiers.
If I think of, what inspired the prequels, I would say the American civil war, because the planets under the control of the droid army are separatist and are a confederacy like the Slave States were. And the planets, which were under the rule of the Clone army and the Republic were like the Free States.
The Sith Empire can easily destroy the rebels and the galactic empire with just a snap of their fingers. Not only they had the most powerful super weapons ever existed, but they had millions of soldiers and Sith.
It didn't last long. The confederacy had the biggest army over time. The clones were made to compete with the confederacy. Starwars was the foundation to Mass Effect. In short period biological creatures are able to corporate but machines are single unity. This fight is as well seen in LOTR where the world changes to explosives and crossbows from chivalry. Equally the new weapon is blasters and the lightsaber is a weapon from a past civilization. Machines like androids are seen skeptically making people in servitude to robots. Jobs create power over the lords.This power was changed from biological to machinery. That's why all androids as well are included as potential assets in a war effort and why the confederacy only getting stronger.
