Which Star Wars Faction has the BEST SHUTTLE? 

It's the Empire without a doubt. The Lambda is a thing of beauty

Two more great things about the Lambda is that it can be reconfigured to have small staterooms instead of the troop bay and the cockpit is detachable as an escape pod.

The best shuttle was definitely the one from the Old Republic. It was so good that not only was a boatload of Sith able to penetrate Coruscant in one, it also survived being driven straight through the front of the Jedi Temple.

I love the Nu-Class from the Clone Wars era because of its usefulness as a gunship, but the Rho-Class which is a variant that pops up later in the war is actually my favorite. It takes a step toward the Lambda in that it has the larger dorsal fin, but it also has a detachable cargo bay underneath that could be used in many different ways adding a ton of versatility.

The Lambda will forever be a favorite, it looks so elegant and stately compared to the drab and brutalist architecture of an imperial hangar bay and escorting Tie Fighters. I like how in the new canon the designer based the ship off of an origami on their desk.

The CIS shuttle gets an extra point because Adam Savage built the one for The Phantom Menace

the Sheathapede is such an underrated design

I personally have a preference for the Nu-class shuttle. Not because I think it's better, but because it's closer to my _true_ favorite, the Rho-class shuttle. I just love the idea of having the modular cargo pods available to change the mission profile of the ship on the fly.

Yeah Kylo's command shuttle is a gorgeous piece of ship design. I love how it always looks like an eagle swooping down. There's something menacing about it, I'm reminded of Pink Floyd's Goodbye Blue Sky animation.

I love Krennic’s shuttle, like the lambda, but much more menacing and very sleek

Idk but I love the Sheathapede. The design just looks so Star Wars-y to me.

It feels like the Lambda could be an outstanding bounty hunting ship with a minor refit, well armed and armored, very fast and with a decent cargo space (not to mention built in escape pod)

I used to absolutely love these factions compared videos! Right as school ends. Perfect timing

I’m glad to see this series return. An idea for another video of this series could be “Which Skywalker had the best ship” you could do both legends and canon, like the Anakin Solo owned by Darth Caedus and then we can use Anakin/Vaders Executor, and Kylo Ren’s ship and maybe if Luke had one we could use that

I’d like to see a video on the vehicles utilized by the minor galactic factions (Hapans, Hutts, Bothans, Chiss, etc.).

I've missed the factions compared vids, it's fun to get them back

The Lambda shuttle at 1:10 looks way smaller than the cross section at 1:50

The best shuttle in my opinion is the Delta t3c shuttle used by krennic, I always liked the design and the fact that its a stealth ship

I gotta go with the Lamda also. Such a classic ship. But I didn’t know that the Republic shuttle was meant to be a long distance replacement for the LAAT. Great video Eck!!

I consider the lambda the only good choice the empire made when it came to how they reorganized their space fleet

The Lambda is the armed FMTV of space. I love how the Star Wars universe even includes information about the doctrine and logistics of each faction.

Love this series I'm glad it's still here

Yes!! I have missed factions verses series!

The Empire actually has a lot of really cool shuttles, the Lamda being one of them. Great video! Maybe do a video on Hell's Hammers, would love to heat you thoughts about them...

I love the Republic Ships color and Shapes too much

Great video.... but the T-6 shuttle from TCW really deserves an honorable mention. While unarmed, its shields could take a beating.... and its ejection system is second to none.

Yea!!!!! These are the videos that got me into your channel, love to see they are back

absolutely love your factions compared videos!

You should have used the U-wing for the rebel alliance instead of including the First Order As it is though, I love the Factions Compared Series and will always watch them if you make them

Great to see some Factions Compared videos again! This is the format that got me interested in your channel in the first place.

I'm so happy to see another video of this format. I really hope we can see more in the near future.

Love to see you getting back to this! I don't know if I have any particular ideas but something I'd like to see is comparisons between ships within the same faction sharing roles. I'd love to see a good side-by-side of say B-wing verses Y-wing, maybe throw in some other alliance bomber options and/or speculation on how either design could be improved.

Glad these videos are back!

4:50 Lapiz Cutter (Gunray's personal shuttle): "Am I a joke to you?"

The Lambda will always be my favourite ship design from the entirety of Star Wars, but I do have a lot of admiration for the Upsilon-class too

Love that this series is back

Honorable mention to the MC-24a light shuttle, a small, short-range, maneuverable shuttle meant for use in dangerous environments like asteroid fields or orbits with heavy space debris.

It has been a long time since you have did a vs video. I have missed these type of videos. Especially since you for long time used these videos your bread and butter for the channel.

This type of video is why I originally subscribed, not that your other videos wouldn't have done the same, I just love this type of stuff, hope you make more :-)

Id love to see a video on who had the best logistical system as quoted; "infantry wins battles, logistics wins wars". - General John J. Pershing.

Great to see a return to this series! I've always loved the designs of the Lambda and the Sheathapede, whereas the others always felt more forgettable. In the future it would be cool to see you maybe compare which faction has the best dropship, mostly because I really wanna see how the LAAT stacks up against the others. The empire has had a few designs across canon and legends and the CIS seem to forgo dropships in favour of their huge deployment craft, however that's all based on my more limited memory of things.

I was always a fan of the Lambda shuttle, but there is one ship that has sneaked ahead of the Lambda Shuttle on first place of my personal ranking: The Zeta-class heavy cargo shuttle. I love that design!

Dude yes, love the throwback episode!

Though I love the spaciousness of the Lambda I really love the geometry of the Sheethapede(sp?) especially the Phantom 2 with the cropped dorsal. Thanks for doing a shuttle vid.

I love the Upsilon shuttle but I think the Xi class light shuttle should have been used for the First Order as the Upsilon is only used by Kylo Ren

Lambda class shuttles are a true classic, but with my love of the Clone Wars era (phase 1 specifically) the Nu-Class shuttle is one that will always be a top 3 shuttle

I'm a 34 year old man that has been flying for 21 years... and the lambda class shuttle is the absolute goat. If I could somehow die and respawn in the Star Wars universe, I bet I'd be all about flying the lambda.

I missed these! I think you doing a total remake of these in order and then comparing all them would be cool, I'd watch. Maybe just a compilation of all of them

the dog at the end never fails to put a smile on my face

Ayyyyy the series has returned!!!

The clone trooper shuttle is so awesome looking. One of my favorite star wars vehicles

THIS is the content i subed for, well and the lore vids and fleet battles. I miss the halo stuff.

I would like to see how ships change and time line changes kind of more in-depth and how many times it shows up in canon

I really love "'the best" or a "top 5" video. Maybe do a "the best" of all starfighters (not only from the factions / the basic fighters)? Or a top 5 combat droids? The best pirate ships? Keep up your nice videos!

I Love this video format

Excellent video

Lol, I was literally just thinking a couple of days ago of asking if you would consider coming back to this series #Eck. Could you do a factions compared on dedicated Carriers?

Yesss. I love this series.

I love this format, plz do more. Perhaps you could recover old topics with different factions, cause there are way more than 4. Potentially also including other sci fi universes, (I personally would love to see more starcraft)

Didn't really realize this format had been left behind, but happy to see it again! I guess you had to make room for bullying ships? lol

I love the lambda shuttle but the republic attack shuttle is definitely my favorite. Maybe because I have the LEGO one and a lot of nostalgia from it

Factions compared is back! Yes!!!!!

I really like the designs of all the shuttles. They’re all underrated!

I just remember landing the imperial one in rebel ships on bf2 on Playstation and then storming it with other troopers and I remember it was slow but beefy and had missiles and a rear gunner

I loved the lambda class ever since I was a kid. It’s just a beautiful ship and the fact that it is useful too is just the cherry on top. I always wanted a model or lego kit of it.

I love the phantom to something about the fact they replaced the phantom with it just makes it’s so much cooler kinda reminds me of the Rebel One ship

Maybe do a comparison to find the best dreadnought variant/refit. You’ve got the providence, the alliance assault frigate… the carrier variant? Idk I’m trying but I love these types of videos

I think one of the reasons that the Lambda performs so well is that it's supposed to perform the role of a shuttle, but also of something like an LAAT. For future videos, I think something contrasting overall strategies/battle doctrines would be really interesting.

Love factions compared vids

On a technical level I completely agree with your ranking, but on a personal level when it comes down to aesthetics alone, the sheathipede is my favorite. Had the LEGO set as a kid and always loved the design.

The Lambda is a very nice shuttle, although my personal favourite is the Delta-class that Krennic uses in Rogue One. I just love everything about it: the unique, angular design and sleek profile; the black colour, the tri-wing shape, its heavy shielding and armament, it's incredibly fast for a shuttle (sub-hyperspace that is) and let's not forget that awesome vibratory sound its engines make. The Upsilon is my second favourite, both very cool shuttles.

Feel in love with the Lambda back in 83, screamed so cool

i love this series

I always thought if I was a bounty hunter I would use the Nu shuttle. There was a lot of them after the war, they can go long distance, and protect themselves. Also without being modified they were already pretty strong. But imagine what you could do with a heavily upgraded one.

I gotta say for looks alone the Epsilon class is my favorite, but for function, it's the Nu class at the top of my list. It just screams SpecWar Dropship to me. Even further solidified with that one scene in Clone Wars where Delta Squad meets members of the Jedi Council from one of them. Reminds me of the US Army 160th SOAR's MH-60LM Black Hawks in that way; sleek, intimidating, and packing quite a punch.

Personally I prefer not just a comparison between factions but comparisons of various ships in a class, a fav of mine is the TIE reaper.

I do like how each of these fit each faction so perfectly. The Republic shuttle was built for war and could double as a troop transport and a transport for high valued Republic officials it probably had a mid level price tag as it wasn't modular but it could still handle multiple roles while being able to defend itself, the Imperial shuttle was built to be modular some versions built for transport of imperial politicians, some for troop transport, and some for use space battles. It probably had a high price (most modular vehicles do) but it made up for it with sheer versatility and overachieving in basically every role given to it, the First Order shuttle was likely very expensive and wasn't meant for full troop transport didn't seem super versatile but it excelled at transporting high level officials and even being a mobile command center like we see in the Last Jedi, the separatist shuttle is a modified business shuttle which pretty much most of the Separatist military was made up of modified business ships, weapons, and equipment. It was likely relatively cheap too being a small vessel meant for shuttling business men around. The CIS just modified it to give it more seats, armor(shields?), And weapons to make it more battlefield capable.

I missed these faction videos

This is the kind of content I've been missing

I had some good times flying the lambda in battlefront ll.

The thing about the CIS shuttles is they weren't ever needed for troop transport purposes. Since they're all droids, you just attach them to HMP's and have gunships drop them off (Which we saw frequently in the show), so all you need for the shuttle is space for whoever the organic is and space for a few bodyguards.

The Lambda is great. I'm biased, but seeing that thing on screen for the first time way back when, it was brilliant

Would love to see you continue to compare and talk about Star Wars Combat Craft in the shuttle to 100 meter range.

The Bad Batch has really brought me around on the Nu/Rho class. Great looking ship and a lot of firepower

Suggestion for Eck: Which trooper design was the best of each era? What is the greatest (canon/non canon) Star Wars sound effect? Have a nice day.

I would like to mention that 'wings in space' makes a lot of sense for cooling purposes. You want huge surfaces for radiative cooling.

Up to season 7 of the Clone Wars I’d have said the Lambda, but when I first saw the Marauder swoop onto the landing bay on Anaxes my mind changed. That ship looks the business

The empires is my favourite it Looks amazing

Factions compared idea offer: experimental fighters. Which faction had the best fighter that never saw full production

Would love to see a factions compared on which faction had the best logistic/supply system. Would be interesting to take into account the role the faction played and different styles of combat, and how their systems worked for that

Lambda. It's so elegant and those lines are perfection

A video on redundant designs within single faction would be interesting.

The “short lambda” is iconic but the republic’s is the most useful and fills a nice role alongside the short-range LAAT.

Awesome!

Would it be too on-the-nose to have a Lambda shuttle called the Delta Flyer? Lambdas are my favourites too -- and the favourites of my protagonist in most of my Star Wars fanfics, the Chiss Empress of the Empire of the Hand, Xelarra. As your video proved, with good reason!

Yess bring back the GOAT series

comparsion suggestion - compare "main starfighter" of 4 faction, but as price/ability - like, if it is economically better to outfit galaxy-wide army with Z-95/V-wing of the republic, Vultures of CIS, TIE fighters of the Galactic Empire or X-Wings of the New Repbulic (using New Republic instead of Rebellion here, because Rebellion did mainly hit and run attacks) it would probably also require to estimate price of pilot training and include that in all fighters, except CIS.

I agree with the list mostly, but I like the Sheathapede a bit more for 3rd spot. It's small profile and maneuverability made this commercial use shuttle a great surprise, adding in just how customizable it is adds versatility.

We have 3 typical military shuttle and the upsilon which seems to be mainly used by high ranking officers of the first order. Not sure if the first order had a more common use shuttle. Maybe that one where Finn and Rose stole.

I always saw the republic shuttle as a precursor to the Lamda. They both have forward ramps, and their wings fold out almost identically. I also saw return of the Jedi and then Revenge of the sith many years later, and always associated the republic shuttle as the lamda prototype. The center fin doesn’t really exist on it, I wonder the story behind that design choice. Anyway, great content as always. Love republic-era kit generally. Hard to beat a good old venator (or 6)