Dreadnaught-class Heavy Cruiser COMPLETE Breakdown (Star Wars Ships)

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  • @SasoriZert
    @SasoriZert 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +175

    This is still by far my favorite smaller styled warship ever made thing is so simple yet is the embodiment to "hold my beer" punching in above it's weight class

    • @generaljimmies3429
      @generaljimmies3429 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      You know, if you put a hangar pod on each side of a Dreadnaught you basically have a mini Battlestar

    • @UGNAvalon
      @UGNAvalon 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      While X-Wings might be too wide to fit numerous launch tubes along the side, imagine a wing of Y-Wings or TIEs getting deployed by these things! 😆

    • @merafirewing6591
      @merafirewing6591 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      ​@@UGNAvalon make them a little wider than you'll get your X-wings.

    • @18videowatcher41
      @18videowatcher41 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I agree, and I’d love to see what these bad boys could do with a proper refit. Smaller crew-requirements and better computer systems, modern weapons systems with a balanced loadout, improved shields, engines, and armor. Hell, add in a small hangar bay to fit a squadron or two of reliable snub-fighters. Even without the hangar bay, partner this ship with a squadron each of hyperspace-capable snubfighters, interceptors, and bombers. I’m thinking something along the lines of X-Wings, A-Wings, and Y-Wings.

    • @generaljimmies3429
      @generaljimmies3429 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@18videowatcher41 The Rebels thought of this, and the result was the Twin-Blade Frigate(seen in The Force Unleashed II) and the Assault Frigate Mark-I

  • @OptimusMaximusNero
    @OptimusMaximusNero 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +116

    This ship is a magnificent example of how well EU/ Legends works were connected with each other by the continuity. The Dreadnought was introduced in the Thrawn Trilogy in the 1990s, being mentioned as ancient ships used during the then unexplored Clone Wars. What happened when the Clone Wars were finally shown in the prequels yearsv ater? That the "Republic" comics show Dreadnought in service of the Old Republic against the Separatists.
    Simply 😘👌

    • @Vardyversity
      @Vardyversity 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      Actually, the Dreadnought was created for the West End Games Star Wars RPG. To be more precise, it was made for the Imperial sourcebook together with several other ship designs.
      When Timothy Zahn wrote his Star Wars book trilogy, he had first planned to create a ship of his own. Then he discovered the sourcebook and realised West End Games had already made a ship he could use.
      The rest is, as they say, history.

    • @kennethferland5579
      @kennethferland5579 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Actually they predate the Thrawn Trilogy, Zahn was instructed to use existing WEG ships and after initially being miffed about it then fell in love with these ships and used them extensivly. But saying they originated their is just wrong. Another error in this video.

  • @zephyr8072
    @zephyr8072 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +39

    Dreadnought: “I’m a dreadnought!”
    Star Destroyer: “You are like little baby.”

    • @tristanbentz224
      @tristanbentz224 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      3 more dreadnoughts jump in “ and your outgunned “

    • @Dino_man387
      @Dino_man387 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      1 star destroyers jump in

    • @mrzirak792
      @mrzirak792 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@Dino_man387 iirc in Dark Force Rising, 3 of Garm Bel Iblis' Dreadnoughts overwhelmed 2 Thrawn's ISDs

    • @DavisJ-ln6fw
      @DavisJ-ln6fw 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Dino_man387 5 dreadnoughts jump in “ and your outgunned again “

    • @clintelkins9630
      @clintelkins9630 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@DavisJ-ln6fw5 more ISDs jump in "OK let's not get too hasty"

  • @GlamorousTitanic21
    @GlamorousTitanic21 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +77

    The design of the Dreadnaught always reminded me of a battlestar without the flight pods.

    • @generaljimmies3429
      @generaljimmies3429 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      It basically is

    • @mill2712
      @mill2712 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Or "the holy wall of flak".

    • @theturquoisedream9244
      @theturquoisedream9244 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yes.

    • @snarkymoosesshack8793
      @snarkymoosesshack8793 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It looks like a Flight Pod with it's own drives and a "Fuck Off" level of guns😂

  • @andreykuzmin4317
    @andreykuzmin4317 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    I love, how Providence-class started as a Dreadnought retrofit and improvement, meaning, that MC80 has Dreadnought "genes"! It's very visible, when you look at MC80 gun blisters and organic "curve" of Dreadnought.

  • @stockrbot73
    @stockrbot73 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +31

    16,000 personnel is OUTRAGEOUS. I mean, that's silly even for Star Wars standards

    • @mill2712
      @mill2712 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      How many do you think it should have?

    • @mikefischer8576
      @mikefischer8576 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Remember this thing had dozen of back up systems,all weapons are manned,and had to have at least two shifts

    • @stockrbot73
      @stockrbot73 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@mikefischer8576 Yeah, but the space needed to house all those people still doesn't make sense. There isn't enough physical space for them, even if they shared beds between shifts (one shift off, one shift on). Considering the Dreadnaught is only double the size of some aircraft carriers that already struggle for space, I just don't see any way how a ship of that size could accommodate that amount of people. A more realistic but still nutty amount of people would be something like 10,000.

    • @mikefischer8576
      @mikefischer8576 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@stockrbot73 your making an assumption crew comfort is an important factor. Carriers could have much more crew if rec rooms,separate messes,ect where stripped out

    • @stockrbot73
      @stockrbot73 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@mikefischer8576 Oh good point😭😭 I didn't think about what would happen if you just treated the crew members like actual trash. Thinking about it now, the conditions on the Dreadnaught are supposed to be, you know, dreadful. 16,000 is starting to make more and more sense. Still hard to get around, though.

  • @fakenuke7487
    @fakenuke7487 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    The toyota pickup trucks of the galaxy sturdy, durable amd reliable, everyone uses it and it never lets you down. Though I still don't get why they required so much personnel.
    Great vid as always

  • @petrpinc7695
    @petrpinc7695 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    Haunted ships aside I have never noticed presence of Dreadnoughs in Lothal blockade fleet. This makes them Disney-era canon ship. YES, Filoni's crew was hiding ships in plain sight.

    • @sumukhvmrsat6347
      @sumukhvmrsat6347 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      You can see it in the Rebels tv show

    • @petrpinc7695
      @petrpinc7695 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@sumukhvmrsat6347 I didn't notice those ships until this video and I have seen The Rebels twice back and forth.

  • @cianmannion1752
    @cianmannion1752 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Dreadnought is legit “go ahead try it” without having to do much to prove a point

  • @Wedgekree
    @Wedgekree 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    Surprised no mention of the Ruusan Reformations with it! 600 meters long was the maximum size allowed for any capital ship to be made. And the reason they lasted for so long wasn't necessarily as they were a great ship, but because there were so many of them as they had been made for well over a century. So they were reasonably simple to get and you'd lose a large number of potential capital ships if you didn't utilize them.

    • @johnlavery3433
      @johnlavery3433 หลายเดือนก่อน

      To make a comparison with real life, they could be compared to the Oliver Hazard Perry class frigate. Not exceptional, but a solid, long lasting design

  • @old-worldghost3451
    @old-worldghost3451 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    The Dreadnought is my favorite ship in Star Wars. It looks like it could fit in just about any sci-fi universe.

    • @hyneksmid3293
      @hyneksmid3293 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Its look like Battlestar :D

  • @alejandroelluxray5298
    @alejandroelluxray5298 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    My most favorite heavy cruiser of the saga, this truly is one of the best ships of the saga. I have made a special squad of Dreadnought heavy cruisers for my fleet called "Aiwha Squadron," and it is comprised of 5 of these cruisers that have upgraded systems and arsenal to better combat CIS capital ships (mainly to cover up the lack of capital ships at the beginning of the war) and while 1 of these ships can beat down even a Munificent frigate on it's own, the whole squadron can take down even a Providence carrier/destroyer or an ISD (as my fleet would join the Rebels later on)

  • @motis35
    @motis35 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    You also forgot to talk about how the assault frigates for the rebels were modified dreadnoughts

    • @MetaNerdzLore
      @MetaNerdzLore  5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I do toward the end

  • @alxphx
    @alxphx 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Nice use of Empire at War footage. I’ve always been able to fit the dreadnought into my fleets either as auxiliary damage dealers or just meat shields for my bigger ships. This thing is amazing

  • @majesticmsfc
    @majesticmsfc 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    You missed the Assault Cruise Mk 1 which was a rebuild Dreadnaught class fielded by the Rebels to reduce the crew requirements of the Dreadnaught.

  • @bsmnt23
    @bsmnt23 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    I was always perplexed by the gun placement on the Dreadnaught. It looks to have no real thought to firing arcs or even line of sight. The gun emplacements are also weirdly organic-looking on an otherwise pretty austerely-designed ship.

  • @katarn999
    @katarn999 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Yeah, the 16‘000 crew requirement... that was a screw up of higher proportions. If I remember correctly, it stems from the Thrawn trilogy from Timothy Zahn.
    It was a plot twist on how Thrawn would man the Katana fleet once he had captured it (using clones in the end if I remember correctly). Great twist for the book, but a completely wrong scale of crew members for a 600 meter long heavy cruiser...

  • @Obiwan7100
    @Obiwan7100 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +44

    Technology has evolved a lot in the last 100 years in Star Wars.
    When the Dreadnought Cruiser can reach up to 13 MGLT
    The Resurgent-class Star Destroyer can reach more than 130 MGLT, surpassing the speed of an RZ-1 A-wing Interceptor

    • @sgt_s4und3r54
      @sgt_s4und3r54 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      The reality is only certain things evolved and not everything. In many places the tech only changed in size and not in potency. Even during the Empire there was technological decline due to how the Empire handled technology to control the masses. The Dreadnaught is still superior in many other functions than their modern contemporaries. Even some cases the private sector upgraded their hyperdrives in legends....not cheaply though.

    • @dwlang001
      @dwlang001 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Is that a Disney ship?

    • @papapalps2415
      @papapalps2415 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@sgt_s4und3r54"...The Dreadnought is still superior in many other functions..."
      Lmfao what?

    • @sgt_s4und3r54
      @sgt_s4und3r54 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@papapalps2415 Well if you ever read about these ship in the Zhan trilogy or any other books she was heavily armed and performed better than things like Nebulon Bs and Victory class Star Destroyers. She had more useful fighter bays for things that weren't Tie Fighters. Lancers and the such were also out classed. 3 dreads could still take on a single ISD as well in BBY. Its why in legends it was popular with the Rebellion as well as many defense forces.
      Taking all that in, she's cheaper to build than an ISD or Home One, You can more easily build many more of them than either of the other 2. As I said before, old tech isn't always outdated by functioning standards, its sometimes outdated by weight and size which makes it difficult to fully outfit a ship with other modern equipment.
      She is superior to a lot of other ships in that way as only ISDs or ships of that scale or capability are her only real threats. Making her far more useful in specific circumstances that would destroy other ships in her size class. Even then, improvements can be made.
      It's kinda like a B52, A10, AC130, F15, F16, F18 and C130. No matter how you rearm them, they still remain tactically functional despite all the other new aircraft around them. Iowa class battleships were in service way longer than intended because much like the F15, when you have a winner, it's hard to replace them(and they are fully retired now with no coming back this time due to missile warfare which reshaped naval doctrine but Dreadnaughts still use Turbo lasers and the such just like her contemporaries). In the Star Wars universe, there are few that can go toe to toe against dreadnaught and come out on top with very little lost.

  • @generaljimmies3429
    @generaljimmies3429 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    You know, if you put a hangar pod on each side of a Dreadnaught you basically have a mini Battlestar

    • @UGNAvalon
      @UGNAvalon 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      While X-Wings might be too wide to fit numerous launch tubes along the side, imagine a wing of Y-Wings or TIEs getting deployed by these things! 😆

    • @UGNAvalon
      @UGNAvalon 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Great, now I’m imagining a Katana Fleet worth of automated Dreadnoughts getting hacked/disabled by CIS droids, and a lone pre-upgrade Dreadnought going on a one-ship crusade against its sector’s CIS fleets, gathering isolated allies along the way & cannibalizing parts from enemy ships it disables with its ion cannons.
      Would serve well as the inspiration for the Lady Lothal of the New Republic (from Templin Institute’s reimagined Sequel Timeline). 😆
      So say we all!

    • @generaljimmies3429
      @generaljimmies3429 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@UGNAvalon You could put T-Wings which are basically Star Wars Vipers

    • @UGNAvalon
      @UGNAvalon 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@generaljimmies3429 omg YES! I just looked them up and they're PERFECT! Thank you for introducing this image to me! 😆

  • @inductivegrunt94
    @inductivegrunt94 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    A magnificent and beautiful piece of engineering. Such a venerable warship with the ability to punch way above its weight class from a century before the Battle of Yavin to years after the Battle of Endor. My absolute favorite Heavy Cruiser class vessel in all of Star Wars.

    • @generaljimmies3429
      @generaljimmies3429 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You know, if you put a hangar pod on each side of a Dreadnaught you basically have a mini Battlestar

  • @chadl3031
    @chadl3031 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Many dreadnoughts were in the Centrality's Navy as well.

  • @-spook-2992
    @-spook-2992 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I'm fairly sure nobody took the 16,000 crew requirement seriously. What is it, steam powered? Gotta stoke the reactors manually? Good video, though. Love me some Dreadnaught

  • @isaackim7675
    @isaackim7675 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    Despite the Dreadnaught’s systems issues, I would so have that as part of my fleet, along with a Raider class corvette, TIE Reaper and a Quaesar class carrier as a flagship and a light cruiser

    • @angelic_disappointment7889
      @angelic_disappointment7889 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      A quasar as a capital ship, what kinda fleet are you fighting that’s very weak

  • @warhawk4494
    @warhawk4494 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    I've always loved this ship. As a kid in my star head canon,I was a Space pirate who crew found a Lome katana fleet Dreadnaught drifting in space with a destroyed external comm system. We took it over repaired it enough to get a pirate hideout/shipyard in outer rim. Got it fixed up by calling in some favors,sold some of the weapons on it to get better ones. I.e. more ion cannons and some capital ship grade proton torpedo/concussion missile launcher on the stern and bow. But I turn her small hanger bays into fighter launch bays. Each could hold 8 clutches and 4 shuttles/gunboats. By the time I was done she was a good pirate ship. Plenty of ion canons,enough turbo lasers,and half a dozen coreillan quad laser cannons,plus the muntion launchers. And later I was able to get a bunch of pilot druids to help run the ship.

  • @ObiClon
    @ObiClon 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    I always liked the design of these capital-class ships. Moreso after reading about the legendary Katana Fleet from Legends

  • @grandmoffscott143
    @grandmoffscott143 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    So happy to see a breakdown of this ship. I have been fascinated by it ever since I read dark force rising.

  • @RobertP-zk8vh
    @RobertP-zk8vh 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    rendili also made the bulk cruiser, the bulk cruiser was my fav non lore ship that never appears anywhere but its in rebel alliance source book you forgot the assault frigate mark 1

  • @Sparroh
    @Sparroh 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    It’s like my Star Wars encyclopedia is reading to me, this is great!

  • @yarnickgoovaerts
    @yarnickgoovaerts 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    One of the most ironically named ships

    • @dogloversrule8476
      @dogloversrule8476 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      How so?

    • @JABN97
      @JABN97 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@dogloversrule8476The real life Dreadnought was the first ‘real’ modern Battleship. So revolutionary that ever after, people spoke of the pre-Dreadnought era and the Dreadnought era, when discussing navies. And battleships, of course, we’re the biggest, heaviest and most armed & armoured ships of the seas.
      So its ironic that a relative light class in SW is named Dreadnought, when in our life she was the equivalent of the Executer SSD.

    • @dogloversrule8476
      @dogloversrule8476 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@JABN97 very true, though the HMS Dreadnought started a new era in warship construction. It could be argued that the Dreadnought class heavy cruiser did likewise due to how adaptable it is.

  • @Mateo-sc7lm
    @Mateo-sc7lm 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Did I see an Avorion build screen in the intro lol
    Great game more ppl should play it

  • @macwelch8599
    @macwelch8599 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I love this ship

  • @dogsbody416
    @dogsbody416 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    dont forget, it was also turned into the Assault Frigate Mk1 by NR Engineers, not just the Mk2

  • @joelker41
    @joelker41 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I don't understand the comically over saturated crew requirements of star wars. I know their AI and general automation isn't that high compared to most universes but there is just no way a ship that small could sustain 16000 people. How does a ship half the size of an ISD require more than 3x the crew? It's insane.

    • @russianbear0027
      @russianbear0027 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Take a look at the crew sizes of ships in and before WWII. The Iowa class battleships had a crew of around 2800 and are about half the length of this craft. Star wars ships are generally a lot wider and taller than IRL ships so if we estimate 6 to 8 battleships fit in this 16000 crew members is pretty reasonable. Its about 3 fully loaded Nimitz aircraft carriers if we include the air crews.

  • @Finlandball39
    @Finlandball39 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    I would love to see a lore video on haunted Star Wars ships. Who’s with me?

  • @alexhusseysmith
    @alexhusseysmith 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I just watched both of you Grievous life story videos, and they are genuinely the best yt content that I have consumed in my life. Well written, and amazingly put together. Keep up the fantastic work!! ❤❤

  • @kaneo1
    @kaneo1 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    16k crew... _Star Wars_ has always had insane crew requirements. What are all those people doing, loading guns by hand per shot? This isn't The Imperium of Man.

  • @vetarlittorf1807
    @vetarlittorf1807 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I remember a level in Jedi Academy where you fight with Kyle Katarn on a dreadnought.

  • @onlysems
    @onlysems 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I loved this shipped the second I saw it in Jedi Outcast

  • @rmartinson19
    @rmartinson19 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    It's crew requirements actually aren't that bad by IRL standards. If we compare it to a Nimitz-class Aircraft carrier - with a standard crew complement of over 5,000 - we see that the Dreadnought-class is 8 - 10 times the overall size/volume of a Nimitz, but only requires 3x the crew to operate. For reference, if a Nimitz-class had the same proportional crew requirement, it would only need 1600-2000 crew instead of the 5000+ it actually needs, making it some 60-70% more crew efficient.
    Because of this, I think the supposed difficulties of keeping such ships supplied and manned have been badly overstated. Considering that the average, reasonably well-developed planet in the Star Wars Galaxy has access to vastly more wealth and population than the U.S. Navy does, and the U.S. Navy has little trouble keeping its fleet of Nimitz-class Carriers supplied and crewed, I think only the most backwater worlds would actually have trouble maintaining a small force of Dreadnoughts. For bigger, wealthier worlds like Alderaan, Axum, Coruscant or Eriadu? They could crew and support whole armadas of Dreadnoughts easily.

    • @kennethferland5579
      @kennethferland5579 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      True, but given how the crew density of other enen larger ships plummets into the range of 1 crewmmember per million cubic meters it seems out of line. Obviously thouse other ships have absurdly low crew counts canonically, because people don't understand cubic growth when they throw out enormous ship sizes.

    • @kennethferland5579
      @kennethferland5579 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      And for your information the cost to crew a Nimitz IS a crushing burden on the Navy and they do have a lot of trouble doing it, thats why reducing the crew size for the Ford class was such a huge goal, the cost of crew every few years is enough to build a new carrier from scratch.

    • @krispalermo8133
      @krispalermo8133 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Nice post.
      Thought mind experiment using pre-algebra. Early 1990's high school freshman year of math. WEG west end games d6 dice pool system Star Wars.
      So my gaming/ math class group looking at WEG and put together an imperial star destroyer.
      Base the largest current know aircraft carrier with the number of aircraft they could carry. Then we added Saturn 5 rocket engines to it.
      Then look at other support craft that surround a carrier till you have a triangle shape and mass area shape arrowhead.
      So now we have a base build time, cost in US$ along with volume of area and hull/ structure braces in tonnage.
      Since WEG and WotC 3e to 4e Saga Edition, orbit travel time from a planet to its nearest moon list for a stander light cargo transporter is 30minutes. Otherwise 2ls/hr. two light seconds per hour.
      It took Nasa rocket two days to reach the moon. So now we have travel speed vs ship structural integrity.
      Math starts to get really deep here. 48hours down to one hour. .. so .. 12km/s times ? what ?
      Kinetic energy of impacting space dust creates how much friction thermal heat?
      Navigation deflectors energy output to push a side incoming dust in the craft flight path ?
      2.) WotC 3e D&D/ Star Wars. 2000
      3e D&D hard material hardness or DR damage reduce measured in inches.
      3e Star Wars material hardness or DR damage reduction is measured in .. cm.
      My first gaming shop at 20 during 1997, was near a campus town, lots of nerds that love word math problems.
      The book states the dmg a light/heavy steel door can take then roll 3d8 to dmg a given surface with a storm trooper blaster. One blast could just remove the lock or just punch multiple holes through said door base on story telling dramatic effect.
      As for crews, living population education and any androids will determine the makeup of a given fleet.
      I can easily see a colony mining ship traveling with earth solar system outer Ork field and growing into a mile long imperial destroy over a few decades just to past the time. Ship builds construction mining droids, and the droids bring raw resources back to the ship to turn into more hull plating, structural support beams, and create more droids .

    • @rmartinson19
      @rmartinson19 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@kennethferland5579 It does seem out of line with the rest, but then it is always compared unfavorably in this matter to other Star Wars ships. In-universe, it is horrendously crew-intensive, but compared to the real world it's actually really light on crew.
      As for the Nimitz-class' crew requirements, it can't be THAT crushing of a burden if we've maintained 10 of them in continuous operation for decades. Not to mention the other 289 combat vessels the Navy maintains in service simultaneously. Reduced crew requirements will always be a priority with any competent navy because of the resources it frees up for other things. Pushing for more crew-efficient designs doesn't mean they are struggling, it just means they have good sense.

  • @CheckmateFixit
    @CheckmateFixit 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Looks like a Battlestar without landing bays

  • @stars9084
    @stars9084 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Love your ship breakdowns

  • @willerwin3201
    @willerwin3201 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    "Take the Battlestar Galactica, remove the pontoons, and give it tumors."
    -*Art Direction for the Dreadnaught.*

  • @shanenolan5625
    @shanenolan5625 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    You had me with the title

  • @dmann5938
    @dmann5938 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Ayyyy Empire at War mod footage

    • @SupremeRTS
      @SupremeRTS 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Awakening of the rebellion mainly. Great mod

  • @stevelenox152
    @stevelenox152 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I really enjoy these complete breakdown I was just wondering if you could do a breakdown of the Mandalorian Keldabe Class Battleship

  • @benperez6454
    @benperez6454 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    So glad I just got a file to print the dreadnought class cause man I do love it's Design

  • @andrewd5894
    @andrewd5894 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Listening to this a idea hit me what was thrawn rush for clone crew for 184 dreadnoughts when all he need was the crew from around 25-26 normal unmodded dreadnought that 16000(stranded crew)x25= 400,000 crew members to fill the 2200(modded crew size)x184= 404,800 that around 8x time force multiplier. He could reverse engineer the katana fleet slave rigging and mod the all unmodded and freeing up a lot more manpower to rebuild the empire.

  • @killingragethrowback
    @killingragethrowback 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The problem with the Dreadnaught is two fold. One, it's a very slow warship. It may have been used for patrols, but that's a liability. 2nd, and far more damning, it's ridiculously crew intensive. The Katana variant tried to solve this, but it had it's own problems, and even then, it was still a LOT of crew after that modification.

  • @JeanLucCaptain
    @JeanLucCaptain 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    my favorite part about the Dreadnought-CLASS is THEY CAN'T BELIEVE THEIR EYES BELIEVE HER SIZE FOR THE DREADNOUGHTS DREAD NOTHING AT ALL!
    in all serious tho my actual favorite thing is you can see a lot of the same lines on the OG Battlestar Galactica because both ships were designed by the same person.

  • @flyingninjafish1558
    @flyingninjafish1558 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    Would be amazing to own a modified version of this ship with tech updated throughout the years.

    • @generaljimmies3429
      @generaljimmies3429 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      You know, if you put a hangar pod on each side of a Dreadnaught you basically have a mini Battlestar

    • @omega13whitelucario95
      @omega13whitelucario95 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I mean That's technically what the Alliance Assault Friagte MK 1s were for the Rebels
      As well as a means to reduce the crew requirement to more
      Reasonable levels for them
      Which these ships were seen as so good they were one of few Rebel Ships stolen by the Empire to use later on
      The downside is it did lose out on the hanger bay and had some other issues initially

    • @aurelian2668
      @aurelian2668 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@omega13whitelucario95 The hangar space is alright, its not a carrier anyway so its good.

    • @omega13whitelucario95
      @omega13whitelucario95 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @aurelian2668 true but again it's a bit of a bad thing in some ways

    • @omega13whitelucario95
      @omega13whitelucario95 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@aurelian2668 tbh imo having a hanger vs not is better imo for most ships just to have a place for fighters to be or for friendlies to land or numerous reasons

  • @Finlandball39
    @Finlandball39 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    If I was a commander or criminal leader, I would chose this as my ship of choice. I’d include the ion and missile modifications and modify the hyperdrive to be at least Class 3. That would be the perfect warship. Plus, I would upgrade the power output as well.

    • @generaljimmies3429
      @generaljimmies3429 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      You know, if you put a hangar pod on each side of a Dreadnaught you basically have a mini Battlestar

  • @xKeraix
    @xKeraix 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    If we consider iowa as reference, at best tie she had around 3000 crew being liqud fuel (no coal) and size 260x33. You can "put" around 8 iowas inaide dreadnought bulk so 16000 can be imaginable, not 60000. Naming assume its role from "rought" era warships who still live in modern times. You cant directly compare it to ISD, its like compare Iowa and modern warships.

  • @feralprocessor9853
    @feralprocessor9853 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Lol the space gangstas were also able to get their hands on the Heavy-cruiser

  • @ninjamasterbuilder8675
    @ninjamasterbuilder8675 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Got the guns and armor of a star destroyer but the size of a cruiser

  • @articusramos808
    @articusramos808 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I perfer mine to be on the sea and its horn. Never was able to drive it in battlefield 1 but man those turrets are fun.

  • @Riverchalice441
    @Riverchalice441 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Does anyone happen to know the name of the Video/Animation shown at 8:38?

  • @Castor586
    @Castor586 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    When tough times come knocking, deploy the battle sausages!

  • @Sparroh
    @Sparroh 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This is a great video!

  • @jeffreycarman2185
    @jeffreycarman2185 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Awesome video.

  • @Glitch_Online
    @Glitch_Online 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Love These Videos

  • @inquisitorgarza312
    @inquisitorgarza312 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    It is a tragedy that this ships has not been put into canon for it shows that the Galactic History when it comes to its ship building capabilities, and also the involvement of every conflict that it’s put in and change to face against its enemies.

    • @josesanchezrodriguez1783
      @josesanchezrodriguez1783 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      It's in Rebels

    • @phoenixx913
      @phoenixx913 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      They’re part of thrawn’s fleet on lothal in rebels and are shown in screen only for a moment so they are canon.

  • @dragonblaster-vu8wz
    @dragonblaster-vu8wz 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Im surprised Palpatine didn't want more of these cruisers for the Imperial Fleet. A 16,000 man crew, surely he'd love to tie so much of the population to his Empire once the technological issues were worked out. Heck, with the adaptability, you cpuld use the Dreadnought as the template for a modular cruiser design that will leave enemies guessing on what type of Dreadnought they're about to face off against. You could have one version lined with turbo lasers for maximum damage and planetary bombardments, another built solely for carrying large numbers of TIE fighters and its variants, one dedicated to ground assault that carries enough walkers to conquer a planet should the people resist, and even one that fulfills all of these rolls to a limited capacity. The adaptability of the Dreadnought-class Heavy Cruiser makes the possibilities virtually endless

  • @acerolobo
    @acerolobo 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    This ship reminds me of the Battlestar Galactica if it didn't have flight pods

  • @jeffreycarman2185
    @jeffreycarman2185 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    11:29 it would have been cool to see a Dreadnaught in live action, or even in one of the cartoon series. I think Rebels would have been a good show to have had them.
    15:42 A blink and you’ll miss it moment. Great catch!

  • @matthewst537
    @matthewst537 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Was the first imperial ship you get in empire at war a smaller version of this?

  • @twistedyogert
    @twistedyogert 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    So, was there any reason why some of the later versions still had problems with the computers breaking down all the time? I understand why some of the earlier versions had problems. The first few model years are always at risk of being unreliable, but when people could die when something fails, I would imagine that the manufacturer would be quite interested in addressing design flaws.

    • @omega13whitelucario95
      @omega13whitelucario95 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It could have just been one of those things were they weren't sure how to fix it cause it could simply have just been the strain of the whole ship on the system itself and all
      Or they tried and still weren't sure what was happening to cause it

  • @sumukhvmrsat6347
    @sumukhvmrsat6347 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Me designing a New Dreadnought class heavy cruiser , for my Thrawns imperial remnant as the prominent capital ship in system defense and standard purposes ,

  • @ricom7091
    @ricom7091 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Love the content.

  • @kineuhansen8629
    @kineuhansen8629 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    if i was a imperial remnant canon or legend this should be part of my fleet along side the victory 1 class

  • @caelr.8553
    @caelr.8553 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I see Battlestar Galactica would do well in the Star Wars universe.

  • @socipathicgaming5914
    @socipathicgaming5914 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    You don't see internal command bridges because one good ion barrage and the ship is effectively blind.

  • @Animalsnshit
    @Animalsnshit 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Brother put the lego star wars venator for comparison😭😭 2:06

  • @Toon_Lucario
    @Toon_Lucario 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This along with the Hammerhead are the definition of “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it”

  • @LoRdCaL
    @LoRdCaL 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    What about the Assault Frigate MK I that was shown in the X-Wing and Tie Fighter and other games of the 90s. I never liked the design of the MKII, it shares nothing of the visual design of the original.

  • @blackspartanbr1597
    @blackspartanbr1597 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Please man, make a Video about some other Mobile Suits from Gundam.
    You've already done from the Zaku, now do from the original RX-78-2 Gundam.
    I love your videos man.

  • @snarkymoosesshack8793
    @snarkymoosesshack8793 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This ship is essentially the question "Do you REALLY want this smoke?" in physical form.

  • @awesomeav3134
    @awesomeav3134 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    came here for funny rectangle ship and stayed for dewback carrying capacity

  • @lightspeedvictory
    @lightspeedvictory 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    You forgot to mention the assault frigate Mk I

  • @karrde5566
    @karrde5566 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    wow that hello hit me like a train i forgot this channel even existed

    • @MetaNerdzLore
      @MetaNerdzLore  5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Lol hope it was good

  • @phoenixx913
    @phoenixx913 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Dreadnought Class has always been one of my favorite ships in Star Wars heavily armored, heavily armed with a well hidden bridge and a back up bridge buried in armor.
    if you updated all the internal components with modern computers, reactors and such it’s be nearly the perfect Heavy Cruiser.

  • @AdmiralDevil
    @AdmiralDevil 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    good ship she is when she works

  • @SamwiseOutdoors
    @SamwiseOutdoors 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I loves me a Dread.

  • @DarthFrayd
    @DarthFrayd 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    When I could purchase a 3d printed model of a dreadnaught it fulfilled an over a decade long desire I had.

  • @ablibaba6423
    @ablibaba6423 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I always hated crew numbers in star wars. I mean, how the fuck you want to 16000 people in 600m long ship? But this isn't just drednaught. Most of the ships in star wars have these ridiculous numbers...

    • @mh5976
      @mh5976 16 นาทีที่ผ่านมา

      It is mainly due to the empire adding extra crew to make the galaxy more dependent on the military however this is a rare example where that’s not the case

  • @JacobDudlicek
    @JacobDudlicek 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    No way it needed a crew of any more than 200 people. 16,000 is a small city lol

  • @Danyal_aka_Amagibestfox
    @Danyal_aka_Amagibestfox 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I can’t unsee a Battlestar without its hanger pods

  • @onthefence928
    @onthefence928 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    It’s a battle star!

  • @samnelson9038
    @samnelson9038 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    When the old cruiser with a cool names comes out of nowhere and obliterates the local imperial flotilla.

  • @SH0GUn-od5rj
    @SH0GUn-od5rj 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Why was the width and height comparison venator lego

  • @TS-ju3sg
    @TS-ju3sg 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Looks like a Battlestar

  • @sundragon7703
    @sundragon7703 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What about that massive aft blindspot? Guess the game defaults to a 360-deg weapons arc.

  • @akumaking1
    @akumaking1 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Are there any official models or LEGO versions of this? Or do we have to stick with random STLs or ripping from game mods?

  • @SupremeRTS
    @SupremeRTS 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Awakening of the rebellion is the best empire at war mod hands down

  • @reginaldshort8486
    @reginaldshort8486 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    While I understand why the RA had DHCs I can’t help but think that an upgraded DHC needed 5k crew and 1 squad of SF while a EF76 needed less than 1k and carried 2 squads of SF and a Quasar Fire needed about 100 and carried 2-4 squads of SF.

  • @CATDRL2
    @CATDRL2 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Do you have any informtion on the "Separatist" ship that crashed at the beginning of Andor?

  • @jjbjjb273
    @jjbjjb273 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Can you please do a video on vader's castle

  • @ZonamaPrime
    @ZonamaPrime 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    The Dreadnaught was the flagship of my homebrewed XWA fleet.
    What game is the footage from??

    • @noblej7897
      @noblej7897 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Empire at war game. Thrawns revenge mod

  • @josephgriffin2388
    @josephgriffin2388 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    As a Nimitz class carrier vet...no surface bridge?
    Sheeiittt...I'll be in the hanger bay.

  • @sr.memesalot9434
    @sr.memesalot9434 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    What game do you have playing in the background?

  • @roboneill8402
    @roboneill8402 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Was there a Corellian ship of a similar class (size/ weaponry)? one that could be considered a "peer" of the Dreadnaught?