"How do we take out that mega star destroyer? " "Just fly our only capital ship into it at lightspeed without telling anyone the plan until they all leave the ship after an unsuccessful mutiny." "Screw it, that'll work, go for it."
I always love how in Specter of the Past by Timothy Zahn Admiral Pellaeon uses the Bel Iblis A-Wing Slash tactic against a fleet of pirates, though using fighters to cover the devastating firepower of his star destroyer. This seems to be both a brilliant update of an outstanding attack strategy as well as a very interesting sign of respect by one Imperial commander for a legendary New Republic general.
Lore in Star wars is kinda jacked up. Some novels i read said X-wings were faster than Tie interceptors, while others said that Intercepters were faster than A-Wings (which are faster than X-wings) Also how fast Y-Wings has changed over time. The movies should be the first source of Lore rather some book.
Also we don't know that the A-wing crash into Executor was a Kamikaze attack- the movie makes it look like it was not intentional. He has his eyes closed while he is spinning out of control if you are going to intentionally ram a ship you want ot keep your eyes on it. Its pretty clear he had his stabilizers shot out and was out of control.
Mr. Hand Both Canon and Legends Imperial I have 60 heavy turbolaser batteries, 60 ion cannons, 6 dual heavy turbolaser turrets, 2 dual heavy ion cannon turrets, 2 quad heavy turbolasers, 3 triple medium turbolasers, 2 medium turbolasers, and 10 tractor beam projectors. Legends Imperial II has 50 heavy turbolaser batteries, 50 turbolaser batteries, 26+ additional turbolaser batteries, 20 heavy ion batteries, 8 octuple barbette turbolasers or ion cannons, and 10 tractor beam projectors. Canon Imperial II has 60 turbolaser batteries, 60 heavy ion cannon implacements, and 10 tractor beam projectors. Turbolasers are capital ship weapons, ion cannons were used to subdue and disable enemy vessels, and tractor beams are used to capture targets. Unless I'm mistaken, none of those are point-defense.
The old Republic (Clone Wars era) vs the new Republic (Legends). The Covenant vs the Yuuzhan Vong. The Eternal Empire vs the Infinite Empire. The Xenomorphs (Aliens) vs the Flood. The Restored Empire vs the First Order. The Necrons (WH40k) vs the Yuuzhan Vong. The Tau Empire vs the Eternal Empire. The Banished (Halo) vs the Alliance to Restore the Republic. Thrawns fleet at Atollon vs the Separatists fleet at Christophsis. The UNSC Infinity with escort fleet vs the Empires fleet at Hoth (legends). The Empires and Rebels fleets at Endor (legends and no Death Star) vs the Covenants Fleet of Particular Justice (60 ships). The Separatists fleet at Kamino vs Thrawns blockade of Lothal.
Imperial I-class Star Destroyer vs CPV-class Heavy Destroyer.
"Today, we are looking at the TIE Taco, an obscure Imperial starfighter named for its resemblance to a rare food item from an otherwise unimportant and uninteresting Mid Rim planet."
Has there been any case of a starfighter (not a capital ship) using their hyperdrive and use their ship as a hyper accelerated missile in star wars lore?
Nope, they just decided to break the universe in TLJ either a) because lazy writing, or b) because fuck the contributions of other creatives to Star Wars over its 40+ years of existence. Neither are great excuses.
Idea: do an episode where you describe your “perfect fleet”, with access to ships from Star Wars, Halo, Mass Effect, and/or other sci-if universes. (5th try)
Eck! I check TH-cam like 5 times a day for an update on your channel! Your battle analysis and updates are the best! I’ll be supporting the Patreon vary soon!!!!!!!!!
Think you can do a comparison video? Who's the more effective soldier 'A Pilot and there TITAN' from the TITANFALL series or 'A Spartan II with an AI' from the Halo series
Him not doing it yet is HERESY!!! Also who do you think would win and why? And do you mean ALL of the Replicators just suddenly plopped down into the Star Wars Universe, or any specific amount?
I know this would be difficult, but can you breakdown what is by far the largest space battle in the whole franchise? *The* *Battle* *of* *Yuuzhan'tar!* I have made this request: seventeen times.
Mr. Hand the X-wing is miles ahead of most tie fighters. Tie’s are cheap and poorly made and don’t have Shields unlike the X-Wings and Y-Wings. One of the reason the rebel alliance and later the new Republic were able to win the galactic civil war was due to their amazing star fighters.
Awesome video dude, I would love to see a similar breakdown of space combat tactics in Halo, particularly high-risk high-reward strategies like the Keys loop.
My favorite starfighter tactic is the drift counter-attack maneuver. it is as it sounds, flip within your drift maintaining your speed and heading, maximize forward shields and shot your pressure in mid-drift and returning to you heading as if nothing happened. However, this has only been done in Wing Commander with mostly the Excaliber fighters.
Good review and it always did puzzle me why it wasn't until The Last Jedi that the tactic of using a ship as a form of a bomb wasn't used before. I'd like to see a compare and contrast video between Rebel/New Republic tactics and Imperial/First Order tactics. Keep up the good and innovative work brother.
Ecks is easily the best fucking youtube channel on this whole platform. Anyone who disagrees is blind, deaf, and just stupid because I've never seen anyone that can compare to Ecks besides maybe Philip Defranco. Eckhartsladder literally pours his heart into his videos and you can see that.
From one corgi owner to another.... Interesting idea for a series (I like it!), but I would enjoy seeing some more detailed analysis as to why these techniques work, and how and why the Rebels (and the Empire?) exploit the various attributes of their ships and crews to employ these measures.
The Hypest what do you mean by entitled? I've lost track on how many trikes I've suggested it. All I know is it's been about a year and it's been widely supported
It says trillionth attempt because i've requested it a trillion times, i've lost count, so I made a number. Calm your tits. Also work on your grammar before posting all over the internet
I would love to see how the rebel flagships strategize, and their tactics. I would assume since the rebel fleet won by hit and runs, and most their ships deal with speed.
This is the good stuff! If you could do the same thing for other media, like what the UNSC would do against the Covenant, that would be really cool! Talking about the different elements of fictional militaries really comes to life when you show how they were used in action.
I really enjoyed this video and all others in this series. One thing that you did not cover about the Bel Iblis Maneuver was the reason it was so genius. As the X-Wings formed a tight screen in front/ around the A-Wings, the drive trails of the A-Wings were hidden by those of the X-Wings. The X-Wing drive trails also prevented enemy sensors from detecting the A-Wings. In some cases, this maneuver was developed for purposes more related to the Nova Flair, having torpedoes launched behind the X-Wings, allowing the drive trails of the torpedoes to be hidden by those of the X-Wings.
Yea, I'd like to see more of these, but don't just limit these tactic videos to Star Wars. I'd like to see you cover Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek, Stargate, and Halo along with other franchises I can't seam to think of right now. Always love your videos Eck, Keep it up.
i like this, one interesting addition is when you discuss a tactic you might briefly mention how the opposing side could counter this tactic, would make an interesting contrast
I've used most of those on X3 and for roughly the same reasons the rebels used them. Please release the capital ship vid Great vids.not ashamed to say I watch the battle breakdowns out of interest first. Then rewatch so I can adapt it to strategy games or X3 when I need too.
A long time ago I use to play a lot of X Wing Vs TIE Fighter with my housemates. One thing we found was US WWII fighter tactics worked well for the rebels. Don't get in a turning war with a TIE fighter or interceptor (unless in an A Wing). Instead make sure you you stay near your wingman and if a TiE ends up on your tail turn towards him (and set you shields to the rear). He can set his shields to the front and take the TIE out head on as anything less than a TIE advanced is unlike to survive that.
I like #1 nova flare. If I remember correctly in the X-Wing flight sim games (90s) you had to take down the shields 100% before targeting subsystems like weapon emplacements/etc. I really like the idea of a concentrated barrage taking out the shields in a local area.
Hey Eckhart, I’ve been watching your versus series for a while, and I really enjoy your videos! You’ve said many times that any suggestions would be great, so I wanted to suggest my own idea. As for others reading this, there are spoilers for Issac Asimov’s Foundation below. I read the Foundation series a while ago and one of my favorite villains of all time was in the second book. He is called the Mule. He’s a mutant with the power to control people’s emotions and their minds, and he was misunderstood as a kid for his physical deformities, so he wanted revenge on the Galaxy. I thought this was similar to Palpatine’s goals, but different too. It would make sense to me that there was some inspiration from the Mule’s character in there, but that’s just theory. What impressed me about this character was that he disguised himself as the Mule’s clown/slave who had been broken by the Mule’s mental powers, when in reality, he himself was the Mule. When a bad guy makes you think he’s just broken and sad, and in reality is pulling strings behind everyone’s back, that’s one scary bad guy. His main weakness at the end of the second book is having compassion for the one person who has ever cared about him, a woman named Bayta who is one of the protagonists of the story. So how about the Mule vs Palpatine? I think that would be a pretty neat comparison. If one character dominates the other too much, you could even improvise with extra characters if you needed too. Perhaps you could back up the Mule with psychohistorians from the book or Palpatine with Count Dooku and other Sith. Or you could even do a fight between the psychohistorians and the Jedi Knights. To conclude, I love your content, and keep up the good work! :)
Thats remindes me of the times when i played the x-wing game series, good old time. I defnitly looking forward to see mor of these videos from you Eckhard!
Hey there, this is a kinda of random suggestion, but something you can maybe modify a bit to try out. How about taking battles that have happened in the various movies and series where there was a distinct disadvantage on one side, and talking about how it was overcome, the tactics used, and/or setting up scenarios where one side is distinctly out classed, etc. and talking about what they can do to pull ahead.
oh yeah, that nova flair, read about it. think it was corran horn, ordered 2 wings of Y-wings to fire double torpedoes and have them track him. he then bobbed and weaved thru the enemy fighter screen until he was close to the target, then suddenly made a sharp turn, which lead to all but two missiles to hit the target
In any star wars battle the thing you need the most above good piloting, communication, coordination, or even better ships or numbers is the scenarist on your side.
Well if I am not mistaken Captain (later General) Eldo Davip once described himself as the pilot of "the single most deadly one manned starfighter in the Galaxy" it was the very Lusankya during "Operation Emperor´s Spear"
Best Transforming fighter: VF-11 thunderbolt from Macross plus vs the Union Flag from Gundam 00 vs the Viking from StarCraft vs the Mecha Tengu from Command and Conquer vs the Legioss from Genesis Climber mospeda.
Would you make any legends battle tactics video like this one? Many battles from legends deserve some credit. The ones in my mind are many battles that were fought in the Rogue squadron novels, like the battle at Borleias, or the battle of aldeeran debris field.
Also a nice manouver to get a fighter off your back (tho this isnt starfighter but rather atmospheric fighter ore fighter jets) But its called the "cobra" where if a fighter has a enemy fighter behind him he will delibratly stall himself out by pointing the nose of the craft up and moderate speed to make it look like its hovering but by the time the enemy craft has idea waht its doing the other is already behind him
The Feint and Backstab is like half of the Thatch Weave invented in WW2, but requires that there isn't another set of enemy fighters ready to do the same thing in turn. X-wings, being more protected than TiEs, would be a good case for using the Weave straight-out.
I realize that time constraints limit the number of tactics that can be listed, but I, and the Star Wars geeks I call friends, would really appreciate more tactics being discussed.
Could you do a video about ships like corvettes, (that aren‘t quite fighters but aren‘t really capitol ships) and how they‘d be used in space combat in conjunction with other units
I believe there's one other Rebel Starfighter classic called the Ackbar Slash. I forget where it's referenced but it was typically preformed by fighters (I think the case in the books used B-Wings) which would slash in at high speed between two enemy capital ships and unleash their ordinance while on that pass, the other effect being to hopefully draw the enemy capital ships into accidentally committing friendly fire if they missed.
Make this a Galactic Versus episode: STAR WARS 2M Saber tank vs. HALO M820Skorpion tank vs. COMMAND AND CONQUER GDI Mammoth MK III I'd love to see which of theese tanks comes out on top.
Keep this going, every change you've made on your channel has led to some great videos and great possibilities. My advice: famillairize yourself with a few more franchises (when you can of course.)
Joaco 21O I’ve seen that, but that can’t be the case. In the Clone Wars we’ve seen a few take down a Venator. I think his opinion on this would be great.
Aaron W I think that depends if Ven have released fighters before entering Munificents firing range. IMO if yes - CIS forces can have a problem - Munificents are rather fragile even compared to Venator and as I know most of them have no fighter compliment
In the A-Wing slash, wouldn't it be better for the A-Wings to engage since they are interceptors, and allow the X-Wings to use their proton torpedoes on Capital Ships?
Can the UNSC and the Covenant survive and beat the Angel Zeruel from Evangelion on Earth when the Covenant first attacked? Zeruel appears out of nowhere in this and is laying waste to everything and everyone that it sees and gets in it's way while trying to look for Lilith on this version of Earth to start the next Impact
"How are we supposed to take out that super star destroyer?"
"Fly an A-wing into its bridge?"
"Sounds like a plan!"
Captain Cutter yes that’s expected from any one
I've always loved that scene, for me as a kid it embodied the defiant, almost zelous rebellion fighting spirit near the end of the war
Poor Arvel Crynyd never got much backstory, in Legends OR in Canon. didn't even appear in Shattered Empire.
He did get an ISD named after him though.
"How do we take out that mega star destroyer? "
"Just fly our only capital ship into it at lightspeed without telling anyone the plan until they all leave the ship after an unsuccessful mutiny."
"Screw it, that'll work, go for it."
Im watching a dog with a hat on talk to me about rebel star fighter tactics. I think i have no other choice than to give this video a like
welcome to the internet!
lol
The internet in a nutshell
hmm sounds legit
He's a smart boy
I always love how in Specter of the Past by Timothy Zahn Admiral Pellaeon uses the Bel Iblis A-Wing Slash tactic against a fleet of pirates, though using fighters to cover the devastating firepower of his star destroyer. This seems to be both a brilliant update of an outstanding attack strategy as well as a very interesting sign of respect by one Imperial commander for a legendary New Republic general.
And well - a practical proof to make sure its NOT Garm Bel Ibliz refusing his peace offer.
Your battle background are great and awesome video. Rebel star fighters were always my favorite. Also please keep doing this.
Gerardo Reyes background?
Mr. Hand Lol only Imperial ones had point defense, not the twos, and point defense in general was pretty much overlooked within the empire
Lore in Star wars is kinda jacked up. Some novels i read said X-wings were faster than Tie interceptors, while others said that Intercepters were faster than A-Wings (which are faster than X-wings) Also how fast Y-Wings has changed over time.
The movies should be the first source of Lore rather some book.
Also we don't know that the A-wing crash into Executor was a Kamikaze attack- the movie makes it look like it was not intentional. He has his eyes closed while he is spinning out of control if you are going to intentionally ram a ship you want ot keep your eyes on it. Its pretty clear he had his stabilizers shot out and was out of control.
Mr. Hand
Both Canon and Legends Imperial I have 60 heavy turbolaser batteries, 60 ion cannons, 6 dual heavy turbolaser turrets, 2 dual heavy ion cannon turrets, 2 quad heavy turbolasers, 3 triple medium turbolasers, 2 medium turbolasers, and 10 tractor beam projectors.
Legends Imperial II has 50 heavy turbolaser batteries, 50 turbolaser batteries, 26+ additional turbolaser batteries, 20 heavy ion batteries, 8 octuple barbette turbolasers or ion cannons, and 10 tractor beam projectors.
Canon Imperial II has 60 turbolaser batteries, 60 heavy ion cannon implacements, and 10 tractor beam projectors.
Turbolasers are capital ship weapons, ion cannons were used to subdue and disable enemy vessels, and tractor beams are used to capture targets. Unless I'm mistaken, none of those are point-defense.
The old Republic (Clone Wars era) vs the new Republic (Legends).
The Covenant vs the Yuuzhan Vong.
The Eternal Empire vs the Infinite Empire.
The Xenomorphs (Aliens) vs the Flood.
The Restored Empire vs the First Order.
The Necrons (WH40k) vs the Yuuzhan Vong.
The Tau Empire vs the Eternal Empire.
The Banished (Halo) vs the Alliance to Restore the Republic.
Thrawns fleet at Atollon vs the Separatists fleet at Christophsis.
The UNSC Infinity with escort fleet vs the Empires fleet at Hoth (legends).
The Empires and Rebels fleets at Endor (legends and no Death Star) vs the Covenants Fleet of Particular Justice (60 ships).
The Separatists fleet at Kamino vs Thrawns blockade of Lothal.
Imperial I-class Star Destroyer vs CPV-class Heavy Destroyer.
Bruce Jedi Lee holy crud that's like a years worth of recording lol
Lol! He wouldn't have to do all at once if he were to make all of these into videos
Dude you could probably do a video breakdown on a taco and I'd watch
Taco video please
Yes please do that Eck!
"Today, we are looking at the TIE Taco, an obscure Imperial starfighter named for its resemblance to a rare food item from an otherwise unimportant and uninteresting Mid Rim planet."
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Has there been any case of a starfighter (not a capital ship) using their hyperdrive and use their ship as a hyper accelerated missile in star wars lore?
Nope.
Justin Y. I dont know
One was mentioned in passing as happening during the clone wars where a capital ship hit a planet.. heresay though.
Justin Y. The galaxy gun kinda does this
Nope, they just decided to break the universe in TLJ either a) because lazy writing, or b) because fuck the contributions of other creatives to Star Wars over its 40+ years of existence. Neither are great excuses.
Idea: do an episode where you describe your “perfect fleet”, with access to ships from Star Wars, Halo, Mass Effect, and/or other sci-if universes.
(5th try)
Nah that’s stupid because those universes are completely different, and some of them are just way more powerful so some universes would be obsolete.
@@SupaSillyThyme Yep, they should instead build their perfect fleet for various factions.
@@hanzzel6086 makes sense
@@hanzzel6086 although I think they already did something like that
@@SupaSillyThyme They did for the Galactic Empire. But I think that's it.
These layouts are AWESOME. Seriously, this sort of work goes above and beyond other lore channels.
Wow eck your channel has grown so much i remember when You were a small channel
I also remember that lol
I know I remember seeing his sub count at 3k only a year ago maybe
Eck! I check TH-cam like 5 times a day for an update on your channel! Your battle analysis and updates are the best! I’ll be supporting the Patreon vary soon!!!!!!!!!
Think you can do a comparison video?
Who's the more effective soldier 'A Pilot and there TITAN' from the TITANFALL series or 'A Spartan II with an AI' from the Halo series
Masso 2010 I love this
their titan*
Pilot with their Titan for life boi
Replicators vs a Unified Star Wars universe (239th try now, *_I._** WILL NEEEEVER EEEVER GIVE UP!!!)*
Him not doing it yet is HERESY!!!
Also who do you think would win and why?
And do you mean ALL of the Replicators just suddenly plopped down into the Star Wars Universe, or any specific amount?
we cant give up!
Eckhart SEE THIS. WE WANT IT
coming up on infra-red don't give up!
The fact Eckhart did Blacklight Virus vs The Flood in 140 tries but hasn't done this in almost double that is heresy
I know this would be difficult, but can you breakdown what is by far the largest space battle in the whole franchise? *The* *Battle* *of* *Yuuzhan'tar!*
I have made this request: seventeen times.
Love u eck keep up the battle breakdowns mate👍🏻
Mr. Hand the rebel alliance is miles ahead of the empire in starfighters
Mr. Hand the X-wing is miles ahead of most tie fighters. Tie’s are cheap and poorly made and don’t have Shields unlike the X-Wings and Y-Wings. One of the reason the rebel alliance and later the new Republic were able to win the galactic civil war was due to their amazing star fighters.
Do more of this new spin off series.
Awesome video dude, I would love to see a similar breakdown of space combat tactics in Halo, particularly high-risk high-reward strategies like the Keys loop.
My favorite starfighter tactic is the drift counter-attack maneuver. it is as it sounds, flip within your drift maintaining your speed and heading, maximize forward shields and shot your pressure in mid-drift and returning to you heading as if nothing happened. However, this has only been done in Wing Commander with mostly the Excaliber fighters.
Good review and it always did puzzle me why it wasn't until The Last Jedi that the tactic of using a ship as a form of a bomb wasn't used before. I'd like to see a compare and contrast video between Rebel/New Republic tactics and Imperial/First Order tactics. Keep up the good and innovative work brother.
We have seen it before In the Clone wars TV show, also in Rebels (Hyperspacing through a hanger to destroy it, but the ship wasn't destroyed)
Always awesome to catch these vids early. Would love a similar video on capital ships and maybe one on imperial doctrine too!
More please this is the best channel on TH-cam keep up the great work
You had to put in the kamikaze
Who else is watching this to prepare for Star Wars Squadrons?
Ecks is easily the best fucking youtube channel on this whole platform. Anyone who disagrees is blind, deaf, and just stupid because I've never seen anyone that can compare to Ecks besides maybe Philip Defranco. Eckhartsladder literally pours his heart into his videos and you can see that.
Hell yeah my boy ecks pinned me.
From one corgi owner to another....
Interesting idea for a series (I like it!), but I would enjoy seeing some more detailed analysis as to why these techniques work, and how and why the Rebels (and the Empire?) exploit the various attributes of their ships and crews to employ these measures.
really loving this as well as battle breakdowns please keep them coming
I have arrived Lord Eck.
Dark Helmet Vs Darth Vader (500 trillionth attempt)
Spartan Abrams don't be so entitled, he probably has to sift through hundreds of request comments
The Hypest what do you mean by entitled? I've lost track on how many trikes I've suggested it. All I know is it's been about a year and it's been widely supported
It says trillionth attempt because i've requested it a trillion times, i've lost count, so I made a number. Calm your tits. Also work on your grammar before posting all over the internet
Creations No, you do. You clearly can’t recognise basic sarcasm, and get hurt over the smallest things.
I love TH-cam comment threads
"Hey, keep doing this"
-Eck
I love these battle breakdown videos! Keep them coming!
I like the idea of a tactics spin-off; I love your Battle Breakdowns series!
#yeahtheoldintroisback
I would love to see how the rebel flagships strategize, and their tactics. I would assume since the rebel fleet won by hit and runs, and most their ships deal with speed.
I loved it, please keep them coming, I'd love some on ground combat as well, all factions.
This is the good stuff! If you could do the same thing for other media, like what the UNSC would do against the Covenant, that would be really cool! Talking about the different elements of fictional militaries really comes to life when you show how they were used in action.
I really enjoyed this video and all others in this series. One thing that you did not cover about the Bel Iblis Maneuver was the reason it was so genius. As the X-Wings formed a tight screen in front/ around the A-Wings, the drive trails of the A-Wings were hidden by those of the X-Wings. The X-Wing drive trails also prevented enemy sensors from detecting the A-Wings. In some cases, this maneuver was developed for purposes more related to the Nova Flair, having torpedoes launched behind the X-Wings, allowing the drive trails of the torpedoes to be hidden by those of the X-Wings.
Hey! make more of this ;-)
i love those videos they help me getting better at empire at war
Yea, I'd like to see more of these, but don't just limit these tactic videos to Star Wars. I'd like to see you cover Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek, Stargate, and Halo along with other franchises I can't seam to think of right now.
Always love your videos Eck, Keep it up.
Dude your stuff is start my day please keep this up
Dude he deserves more subs his content is fantastic
i like this, one interesting addition is when you discuss a tactic you might briefly mention how the opposing side could counter this tactic, would make an interesting contrast
I've used most of those on X3 and for roughly the same reasons the rebels used them. Please release the capital ship vid
Great vids.not ashamed to say I watch the battle breakdowns out of interest first. Then rewatch so I can adapt it to strategy games or X3 when I need too.
A long time ago I use to play a lot of X Wing Vs TIE Fighter with my housemates. One thing we found was US WWII fighter tactics worked well for the rebels. Don't get in a turning war with a TIE fighter or interceptor (unless in an A Wing). Instead make sure you you stay near your wingman and if a TiE ends up on your tail turn towards him (and set you shields to the rear). He can set his shields to the front and take the TIE out head on as anything less than a TIE advanced is unlike to survive that.
Love the outro
Nice explaination, I’d love to see one about capital ships and small ships
I like #1 nova flare. If I remember correctly in the X-Wing flight sim games (90s) you had to take down the shields 100% before targeting subsystems like weapon emplacements/etc. I really like the idea of a concentrated barrage taking out the shields in a local area.
Hey Eckhart, I’ve been watching your versus series for a while, and I really enjoy your videos! You’ve said many times that any suggestions would be great, so I wanted to suggest my own idea. As for others reading this, there are spoilers for Issac Asimov’s Foundation below.
I read the Foundation series a while ago and one of my favorite villains of all time was in the second book. He is called the Mule. He’s a mutant with the power to control people’s emotions and their minds, and he was misunderstood as a kid for his physical deformities, so he wanted revenge on the Galaxy. I thought this was similar to Palpatine’s goals, but different too. It would make sense to me that there was some inspiration from the Mule’s character in there, but that’s just theory. What impressed me about this character was that he disguised himself as the Mule’s clown/slave who had been broken by the Mule’s mental powers, when in reality, he himself was the Mule. When a bad guy makes you think he’s just broken and sad, and in reality is pulling strings behind everyone’s back, that’s one scary bad guy. His main weakness at the end of the second book is having compassion for the one person who has ever cared about him, a woman named Bayta who is one of the protagonists of the story.
So how about the Mule vs Palpatine? I think that would be a pretty neat comparison. If one character dominates the other too much, you could even improvise with extra characters if you needed too. Perhaps you could back up the Mule with psychohistorians from the book or Palpatine with Count Dooku and other Sith. Or you could even do a fight between the psychohistorians and the Jedi Knights.
To conclude, I love your content, and keep up the good work! :)
I love this series the most out of anything
I really am digging this, keep doing it
Keep up with the good vids. Would love to see some ground tactics breakdown
Can you please do these battle breakdowns in empire a war
Captain Rex I would love to (but I don't have a recorder) sooo yeah dang it.......
Jedi Wolf umm r u ekkart
Captain Rex there is no need to be so rude, and Also Jedi Wolf, A software called OBS is completely free, safe and is used by many TH-camrs.
Taseric I reread what I said and am sorry it sounded that way I wasn’t sure if this was his extra account that he used or something
have you played empire at war? it's damn near impossible to get the fighters to move in one consistent direction for more than five seconds
We need more of this ekheart
Thats remindes me of the times when i played the x-wing game series, good old time.
I defnitly looking forward to see mor of these videos from you Eckhard!
Seeing ecks avatar: speaking of DOGfighting haha!
Vader: 'be careful not to choke on your aspirations'
For some reason I want you to do a series were you look at organizations in Star Wars and analyze them and say how you would improve them
EckhartsLadder what do you think about Raddus ramming Supremacy.
Love your videos man keep it up
I would very much like to see more of these.
Finaly a video i was looking for
I love how the weakness to starfighters in the Empire cap ships got named TRD (Trench Run Disease).
Hey there, this is a kinda of random suggestion, but something you can maybe modify a bit to try out. How about taking battles that have happened in the various movies and series where there was a distinct disadvantage on one side, and talking about how it was overcome, the tactics used, and/or setting up scenarios where one side is distinctly out classed, etc. and talking about what they can do to pull ahead.
oh yeah, that nova flair, read about it. think it was corran horn, ordered 2 wings of Y-wings to fire double torpedoes and have them track him. he then bobbed and weaved thru the enemy fighter screen until he was close to the target, then suddenly made a sharp turn, which lead to all but two missiles to hit the target
In any star wars battle the thing you need the most above good piloting, communication, coordination, or even better ships or numbers is the scenarist on your side.
I like this series. Please continue
Well if I am not mistaken Captain (later General) Eldo Davip once described himself as the pilot of "the single most deadly one manned starfighter in the Galaxy" it was the very Lusankya during "Operation Emperor´s Spear"
Can you do one about the doctrine behind the ARC-170? Why they chose to replace or supplement other republic star fighter classes in the clone wars?
Great video! "Hey, make more of this!" Please
All ships present at the battle of coruscant vs the byss fleet during shadow hand
Best Transforming fighter:
VF-11 thunderbolt from Macross plus vs the Union Flag from Gundam 00 vs the Viking from StarCraft vs the Mecha Tengu from Command and Conquer vs the Legioss from Genesis Climber mospeda.
Would you make any legends battle tactics video like this one? Many battles from legends deserve some credit. The ones in my mind are many battles that were fought in the Rogue squadron novels, like the battle at Borleias, or the battle of aldeeran debris field.
please make follow up, this is awesome!
I thought it was a great video and I would definitely love to see more of them
Also a nice manouver to get a fighter off your back (tho this isnt starfighter but rather atmospheric fighter ore fighter jets)
But its called the "cobra" where if a fighter has a enemy fighter behind him he will delibratly stall himself out by pointing the nose of the craft up and moderate speed to make it look like its hovering but by the time the enemy craft has idea waht its doing the other is already behind him
The Feint and Backstab is like half of the Thatch Weave invented in WW2, but requires that there isn't another set of enemy fighters ready to do the same thing in turn. X-wings, being more protected than TiEs, would be a good case for using the Weave straight-out.
Love the tactics idea
Hey Eckhart these videos are fantastic but can you do more of the older starship compares or lore videos
I realize that time constraints limit the number of tactics that can be listed, but I, and the Star Wars geeks I call friends, would really appreciate more tactics being discussed.
Could you do a video about ships like corvettes, (that aren‘t quite fighters but aren‘t really capitol ships) and how they‘d be used in space combat in conjunction with other units
I believe there's one other Rebel Starfighter classic called the Ackbar Slash. I forget where it's referenced but it was typically preformed by fighters (I think the case in the books used B-Wings) which would slash in at high speed between two enemy capital ships and unleash their ordinance while on that pass, the other effect being to hopefully draw the enemy capital ships into accidentally committing friendly fire if they missed.
I know the A-Wing taking out the Executor was like the big hype moment but sometimes when I watch it looks like it wasn't totally intended.
Make this a Galactic Versus episode:
STAR WARS 2M Saber tank
vs.
HALO M820Skorpion tank
vs.
COMMAND AND CONQUER GDI Mammoth MK III
I'd love to see which of theese tanks comes out on top.
Keep this going, every change you've made on your channel has led to some great videos and great possibilities. My advice: famillairize yourself with a few more franchises (when you can of course.)
Could you do another Versus video with a comparison of the TIE Hunter and B-Wing?
Could there be a 3x munificent vs 1x Venator ship battle? I wonder how that would turn out.
Aaron W The 3 munificent would destroy the venator really fast.
Alejo 88 No. At least 5 Munificents were needed.
Joaco 21O I’ve seen that, but that can’t be the case. In the Clone Wars we’ve seen a few take down a Venator. I think his opinion on this would be great.
Aaron W I think that depends if Ven have released fighters before entering Munificents firing range. IMO if yes - CIS forces can have a problem - Munificents are rather fragile even compared to Venator and as I know most of them have no fighter compliment
It would be close, I guess. Munificents pack quite a LOT of firepower.
yes yes yes 1000 times yes do these more. capital ship warfare and ground tactics for factions !
More please and i love that outro
Please do these for all factions, that’d be kickass
Great videos!! How about we talk about what would make the perfect star fighter or set of Star fighters.
i was hoping for some mention of roles within different starfighters such as y wings destroying capital ships
3:32 Anakin was right! Spinning is a good trick!
How about the mammoth mk2 from command and conquer vs the AT-AT for your next versus match you do?
In the A-Wing slash, wouldn't it be better for the A-Wings to engage since they are interceptors, and allow the X-Wings to use their proton torpedoes on Capital Ships?
May I suggest that you look at the battle of Astarte from Legend of the Galactic Heroes?
the best manouver is the porkin belly run (i think its called that) and also it would be great if you could make a video on how B wings were utilised.
Another good video by you.... again.
This is really great!
Please can you do how the republic won the battle of Utapau. I always wondered what the tactics were.
Can the UNSC and the Covenant survive and beat the Angel Zeruel from Evangelion on Earth when the Covenant first attacked? Zeruel appears out of nowhere in this and is laying waste to everything and everyone that it sees and gets in it's way while trying to look for Lilith on this version of Earth to start the next Impact
Definitely make more of that