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It's ironic that the Empire went out of It's way to make it's starfighters as cheap and expendable as possible yet neglected to deploy them when it would have mattered.
The fact that they had expensively-trained pilots in such relatively-fragile fighters might actually be a conributing factor to their reluctance to deploy them.
Look at their overall attitude. They believed in huge ships and super weapons, not in starfighters or small ships. They only had any small ships because it would be completely tactically stupid to not have them. The starfighter corps and smaller ships were considered shameful assignments for the most part. It was meant to be a juxtaposition against the rebel alliance that had few large ships, but was able to do so much with smaller ships and pilots that were more capable than the ones that the empire employed.
Their whole starfighter doctrine was flawed. The TIEs were supposed to operate as the point defense system for larger ships, Imperial officers ignored that. The Death Star didn't have enough TIE fighters to defend itself, especially if they were operating in a zone defense.
Using the Death Star was biggest mistake. The threat of a superweapon is effective at keeping the opposition controlled. Once it is used, it is do or die, it turns a passive resistance into fighters with nothing left to fear.
I guess they fell victim to a fallacy typical for fascist movements: that everyone in the universe is as miserable as they are and just pretend to be decent (human or not) beings. The imperials probably thought their enemies would value the lives of innocents as less as they do and therefore the rebels would need at least one thriving planet destroyed to "learn their lesson".
I played Rebellion back in the day and the Death Star is the best conventional weapon ever! Could batter any planet shield down with turbolasers and it stored so many troops I could pacify an entire sector without going back for supply. That super laser was the most stupid thing they could put on it. Dead planets don't pay taxes. Plus the loyalty hit you got from using it was never ever worth it. Morale and moral credibility are worth their weight in gold.
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Krennic is not a civilian, he is a senior intelligence officer. The Military Department of Advanced Weapons Research is a division of Imperial Intelligence, which, is structured beneath the Imperial Military. Before Krennic was Director, he held naval and intelligence ranks of Lieutenant Commander and Commander.
It's started from the top. By the time of Yavin, Palpatine was being consumed by his addiction to the Dark Side. He left the running of the Empire to underlings and he made sure they weren't competent.
Having a rigid chain of command which doesn't allow its officers to have initiative and requires them all to consult the highest commander before acting is typical of militaries that serve a dictatorship. A perfect contrast between such a military and one that encourages initiative is shown by the Allied and Axis responses during the D-Day Normandy invasion in World War 2. When the Allies attacked on that day, the reinforcements for the German army were largely paralyzed by their requirement to not move without orders from above. When the commanders on the scene called to report the attack and ask for orders, they were informed that Hitler had gone to bed for the night and had left strict orders not to be disturbed until he awoke. Unwilling to infuriate their volatile leader, the generals left Hitler to his sleep and the reinforcements were forced to sit idle while the Allies established a beachhead in Normandy. In contrast, the Allied officers could move on their own initiative. During the landings, the navy destroyers tasked with targeting shore batteries had orders to not risk enemy fire and the possibility of running aground by remaining safely out of range until navy spotters who landed with the troops radioed in with accurate targeting information. However, most of these spotters were lost in the landing. Left without spotters, the allied destroyer captains saw the German gun emplacements taking a toll on the landing troops. Against their orders, and without risking delay by taking time to report to and get orders from higher command, they moved their destroyers closer to shore, risking their ships to shell any German guns they could reach. Some credit the destroyer captains with saving the invasion - and no action was taken against these captains for disobeying orders because they had the latitude to independently act on their own initiative in response to the developing situation.
There were many exploitable flaws in the Empire’s military technology and doctrine, but most flaws can be compensated, if not fixed. It was this flaw that killed the Empire: overconfidence. Overconfidence is blind to its own weakness and its enemies’ strength, and unlike other flaws, overconfidence actively resists correction.
the even the thought of the death star going around without fighters patrolling around or a fleet to protect it, yet even people on earth knows to accompany battleships and carriers with fleets to protect them from harm
Palpatine didn't want really want order and security. He wanted the populace of his Empire to wallow in fear, hate and despair. All that dark side energy that was created gave him a taste of the unlimited power he always craved.
Reminds me of the MCRN Donnager from "The Expanse". If Captain Yao had deployed her destroyers and corvettes hangered inside the battleship she likely could have defeated the Protogen Stealth Corvettes, of six the battleship destroyed four, the destroyers likely would have accounted for the other two. But as Captain Yao stated before she blow up the Donnager: I didn't think we could lose."
@@kdusel1991 Thrawn was about efficiency. If he was in command of the Death Star rather than Tarkin, it could have survived. But Thrawn was one of those in Imperial Command that thought that the Death Star was a waste of resources that could have been put to better use.
One theme that popped up again and again in the empire was that most of their top officers did not get there by being smart, but rather they were rich kids that were promoted based on political alliances and monetary contributions. That's why someone like Thrawn rose quickly through the command ranks because he actually understood strategy and tactics, as well as had solid battlefield experience. At best, most of the Imperial officers spent more time trying to backstab each other to gain favor or position, rather than worrying about how to win a battle. Without that knowledge of how to deploy resources effectively and how to properly manage a battle, they were destined to lose against more battle-experienced people like the rebels, who mostly gained their positions through hard work and combat experience.
Palpatines paranoia (or his just not giving a poodo) about individual pinprick attacks by disparate insurgent groups while he was busy messing around with Dark Side hobbies also contributed. He seems to have deliberately kept different parts of his Imperial forces and administration uniformed about events that "didnt concern them", or more precisely, might affect their morale or sow doubts about his complete authority. As Putin's Russia is showing now, when the left hand doesn't know how bad the right hand is screwing up, the big guy on top can keep running his bluffs on everyone.
8:51 Let's also remember that Vader's order only resulted in the deployment of his own personal squadron and perhaps a handful of patrol fighters, not widespread deployment.
@tk-6967 I would honestly say it is more evidence of how the tie fighter program was mismanaged. The pilots were seen as a significantly greater investment that the ties being the death trap they were made the asset too valuable to use/lose.
I don't know how I didn't pick up on this earlier, but that last point is incredibly valid. Vader killing Ozzel was originally (I guess) foolish as he just murdered the highest ranked officer in the fleet (I don't think Vader held an official military rank, just he was 2nd only to Palpatine) and promoted the Flagships Captain to Fleet Admiral. This is an incredible leap as Piett will then have to learn a ton of tasks, understand ship formations and tactics and the very privileges that come with his new rank. That is already hard off a battlefield, but to be tasked with this BEFORE a major battle is about to commence is absolutely insane. He had hours, maybe a few days, to catch up on what normally could take a few weeks.
Part of the reason Tarkin didn’t leave the Death Star was arrogance, but part of it was also that he was worried how it would look if he was recorded fleeing from the Death Star in the midst of battle. It’s the sort of thing he would’ve used against other officers to take over their projects.
To be fair, launching the Death Star's Tie Fighters would have cost a lot. The fewer resources you use in war, the more you can keep for later (and potentially get a promotion for not costing your side unnecessary resources)
I think Vader launched all the TIE fighters , technically he had the authority to over rule Tarkin under certain circumstances. The problem is when you consider The size of the Death Star in the location of all the hangers. If they were using the TIE fighters as intended,to act as the point defense system, they would be pretty spread out.
Why waste credits deploying T.I.E. Fighters, when you can shoot large, cheap bolts of energy from stupidly large, heavily shielded capital ships and space stations? Why use the insanely expensive training of your fighter pilots when you can just trust ol' Jeb. with his couple hours training and no real experience, on the Death Star in Turbo Laser 1,268 out of 5,000 with downing those pesky Rebel snub fighters and bombers? Between the arrogance and penny pinching in the wrong areas, the Empire reminds me a lot of current issues in the world right now.
Even worse was the fact that the rebels wouldn't have had the Lightmaker, the hammerhead corvette that rams the Star Destroyer into the shield, if it weren't for the arrogance of Admiral Konstantine during the Battle of Atollon. Had he not arrogantly went for the kill on Commander Sato, nobody would've escaped the battle and the Lightmaker would've been captured by the Empire that day.
Excellent points. Don't forget the fact that a legion of Imperial ground troops were defeated on Endor by, what... a 10-15 person Rebel strike force and a tribe of primitive mini-wookies with hand weapons and knowledge of the terrain. Lack of proper leadership and preparedness.
As for the Cantwell case... One reason CAP may not be up is chronic undermanning. Two swuadrons on paper, only one deployed, with half the contingent of pilots without actual space flight experience. Impossible to keep a constant meaningful CAP in such conditions.
I think the thing with the Cantwell was no one was expecting for THAT to happen. Yannow, that the tractor-ed ship could fight back that way? Like, iirc my tech well, you're not supposed to be able to do much of anything when you're in the grip of a Star Wars tractor beam. Part of the whole thing was it renders the captured ship more or less unable to fly or fight. Normally. What Luthen did there was similar to a trick Luke pulled on the Chimera's tractor beam when it caught the Jedi Grandmaster in his X-Wing. Luke fed the tractor beam holding him a little present in the form of a proton torp. I forgot how he and Artoo were able to arm that bloody thing but kaboom and one rapidly running Jedi. And I think Luke and Artoo did something more that fried his engines? But Luthen's little trick is even BETTER. Feed the tractor projector a bunch of fast-moving flechettes. So, in a way, totally off left field. And we know how well the Imperials could deal with such surprises. But I'm with you with the non-deployment of TIEs. I mean... WHY?!
Shoutout to Jude Edivon for actually being competent and going above and beyond her job and looking into the situationw without any orders and therefor finding out about the rebels having stolen the plans. If that competence had extended towards her superiors up to the highest position as well, a lot of imperial lives would have been saved.
They made them cheap and expendable because the empire thought they didn’t matter. Worse was just how stupid the empire reminded, they saw time and time again that their large platforms were disproportionately vulnerable to smaller craft. And palpatine solution was more and bigger platforms.
9:08 - the thing is? Tarkin was dead any way you slice it. If he stayed and the rebels made the shot, he dies at his post. If he abandons his station and the rebels make the shot, he has to face Palpatine about the loss of the station. If he abandons his station and the rebels don't make the shot, he looks weak in front of his men. The only way for him to not die physically or politically, was to win the day.
Another thing about the battle of Yavin 4, why wouldnt they just use the death star lazer on Yavin itself? the gravitational forces and destabilization of its atmosphere would have killed most if not all of the rebels on Yavin 4.
A better question would be why didn't they just close the distance using hyperspace. I'm not sure on how long it takes for the DS1 to fully power up its hyperdrive and jump somewhere, or how long it might need to cool down between jumps, but I'm fairly confident that if they just jumped forward like a lightyear, turned the station on its axis, and jumped back into orbit of Yavin to where they had a clear line of light on the moon, it would have taken less time.
Your videos on the Military Academy of the Star-war series made me happier. Authoritarian governments usually end up eating themselves, don't they? When 'Great Man Politics' becomes more important then a Government's Function....
On a side note, can we please stop referring to Stormtroopers as "elite"? Desert Troopers, Snow Troopers, Shore Troopers, Range Troopers, troopers assigned to Scarif...they all attended the same stormtrooper training. They just put on gear appropriate for the environment or luck of the draw stationed on a tropical paradise. The only troopers that could be could be classified as "elite" are death troopers. But they are ISB security agents basically, not stormtroopers (anymore). Everyone wants to throw the term "elite" out there to describe every trooper variant, yet the outcome is always the same.
The biggest blunder on Scarif was Tarkin's petty pique - destroying the base. He could have Krennic shot. Or eaten by piranha beetles, but... He was super petty. So he actually destroyed any evidence of what set of plans Rebels actually took and (sunsequently) where there may be a problem. What if the prisoners lied and they took not Death Star but any other project? Necromancer / Tantiss cloning? The bioweapons?...
Alan my dude Here's my outlook on that background It's so awesome that the background noise when you speak is 100% cool with that setup you have, like what I hear is totally fine with the video You do good at what you do Like I enioy the auditory experience of your background along with the visual it's so badass lol
I know you did a video on how the Empire could've lasted but I always wondered how you Alan would have governed and run a galactic Empire. Short of not starting one. How would you have set up the sectors, reformed or run the Senate, what military or civil security would you have set up. Where would local and galactic juristiction have ended. What ships/fleets would you have used and what would an Alan run army have looked like? Sorry know its a lot of questions but love your content and an Empire according to Alan vid just sounded like a cool idea. For a normal dude not an evil space wizard. Keep up the great work sir and all the best from blighty.
As for Hoth, a sudden change of fleet command may be the issue here. Plus whatever Vader's orders were - to be fair Ozzel's plan made more sense than Vader's as it reduced Rebel reaction time.
Something I noticed in the OT is that Vader is the only Imp that seems to understand the importance of deploying CAP Fighters, because on Hoth and Endor, he’s indisposed he can’t order commands from where he is in those two battles.
OK can someone explain what Ozzel did wrong? It's been over 40 years and I still don't understand. The nearest I have seen is that he came out too close to the planet so was detected and so the shield was raised, so he should have come out further away and observed? But Ozzel knew Alliance tactics, which was to retreat from the Empire as soon as they were detected and the probe droid had been detected. Had Ozzel emerged on the other side of the system he could have watched the Alliance load it's shields, planetary defence weapons and personnel onto transports and then hyperspace away, meaning the Empire had to begin searching for them all over again. Had it been pirates or smugglers it would have been a slightly embarrassing display of overkill, but still would have caught them all.
When the rebels discovered the probe droid they knew the Empire would come for them, but not *when*, the would stil be a high chance to catch them very unprepared for the evacuation. when the Executor hyperspaced to the Hoth system and got picked by rebel scanners they hurried the hell up and evaded death squadron using the ion cannon. Had the squadron arrived farther away from Hoth, they could have blockaded the planet from afar and even deploy the army without the rebels noticing
Ozzel prevented the Imperial Fleet from surprising the rebels. The planet Hoth had many meteors hitting the surface and the system had a lot of planetary debris making it difficult to detect enemy ships as was mentioned at the beginning of the movie. So they could have sneaked in pretending to be space debris. The Star Destroyers showing up just on top of the planet left no room for surprise.
It would be a nice detail if they added a reason why deploying tie fighters wasn't SOP. Like the rebels had been baiting out tie fighters and then destroying them with blockade runner or something. Or they had problems with tie fighter pilots defecting the moment they got close to rebel forces. Or the tie fighters required excessive amounts of maintenance after combat, so the empire avoided using them.
I guess for perspective, US aircraft carriers can hold like 130 fighters in theory, but in practice it's more like 70 fighters, and of those only a handful can be quickly scrambled for a threat.
Was the shield over Scarif generated from the gate, or the planet? Because after the gate was destroyed, it looked like the shield was still there, just disrupted enough for the transmission to get through.
Wow. I'm early. P.S. This is largely an arrogance problem when it comes to the Empire, especially since they fail to learn from precedence, but the fact of not responding in force is not inherently bad. It's the whole principle of escalation thing, you might not want to tip your own hand. That being said, it doesn't really apply to your examples.
You can make the same argument while critiquing the empire's equipment. The AT-ST was a neat little scout/fighter type walker. But, the AT-AT, while terrifying from the front, was basically defenseless from all other points. Plus, it held troops, uhm.. how were they supposed to get down? Repel? While under fire? It all falls under the Tarkin doctrine which was to instill fear. The problem with that is once the weak spots are discovered and exploited, the fear goes away.
This video makes me wonder if the Empire had some kind of standing order, logistics problem, or systemic corruption that left most TIE fighters sitting in the hangars unfuelled.
@@lostbutfreesoul-- It would explain a lot of things all at once. Especially why Imperial ships don't have their combat air patrol deployed at all times. A Star Destroyer isn't going to keep all 72 of it's TIE fighters fueled at all times when it doesn't expect imminent combat. It's just not practical for a whole bunch of reasons. Plus, pilots need flight time to stay in practice and Star Destroyers have around 200 pilots. Having 4-5 fighters out on patrol at all times adds up to tens of thousands of flight hours per year. Cut each of your pilots back by just one hour of flight time and you save 200 hours of fuel, maintenance, spares, etc. that you can use to pad your efficiency reports or simply pocket for your eventual retirement. Paradoxically, the Imperial officers who *did* keep their ships in a high state of readiness would positively *burn* through their supplies and potentially find themsevles unable to muster their full wing of fighters toward the tail end of a long deployment because of the actions of flag officers who *expect* a certain amount of cheating on reports.
I’d wonder what the rebellions reaction would be if more noble imperials were in charge. Like a proper police force instead of the isb and the military sticking to bases instead of acting as military and police…
Day 4 of asking why some lightsabers are designed in such a way that looks cool but is totally impractical. It looks cool to have spikes on my hilt, but it will totally hurt when duelling. So actually the best lightsabers would have a completely flat hilt with nothing sticking out of it. The ignition switch would be embedded into the hilt. And the hilt would have a thin layer of grip tape. This seems the most logical. So why does for example anakins lightsaber have those black protruding rails that hurt his hands when swinging his lightsaber?!?
Just a theory: There is a degree of Force Manipulation that goes into the correct use of a Lightsaber. If these weapons are designed to be held in both 'the hand' and 'the mind,' then it is going to require a force user just to be wielded correctly. Even then, other Force users would have a problem with someone else's light saber, having gotten used to how they have to 'feel' when holding their own. This would ensure the Jedi's only weapons can not be easily turned against the user, because the weights and shape of it are just unwieldly for someone not trained with that specific weapon.
@@lostbutfreesoul that's honestly a good point I haven't thought about. Maybe they can numb the pain of use if there are any sharp edges or things like that so that they themselves but not any enemies can use their lightsabers. I also heard that if you hold 1 to 1 replicas of the movies, they mostly feel very good in the hand as they are machined with smooth edges, but I still feel that having a big bar as an ignition wouldnt be the most comfortable or smartest
@@swatforce3309to add to the above point we already do know that individual users connect to a lightsaber and it makes it lighter and easier to manipulate. See Din Djarin and Sabine Wren learning to use the dark saber. Both know well how to use swords but what matter more for both of them was their ability to connect to the blade. Spikes make sense when you consider a user can get acclimated through the force to the lightsaber and perhaps the force protects the users hands because they're already so used to the shape.
I think the Death Star was the largest mistake . Once used it only would naturally rally the resistance military until a warrior frenzy of rage with nothing left to lose
It may be interesting for a series of videos reimagining Star Wars with competent villains and think about how the stories would be different, and how the heroes would overcome the competance.
I get the feeling that Orson Krennic read Sun Tzu's (or at least Star Wars version him) thesis, "The Art of War," and yes I know Sun Tzu didn't exist at the time.
The Galactic Empire was a combination of a potential Post WWII German military, and the British Empire I think. I also think that comparisons to NATO, Russia, and North Korean military forces that are not ready for a real war after too long a peace period comes to mind. Maybe it was just Plot Armor ,you know.
sith makes rule of 2 to prevent all the infighting from holding them back sith new big plan make galatic empire makes empire a big system of infighting ruled by the same marits as old sith empire
To be fair, most officers in the empire likely had little knowledge of rebel activities, so from there view their arrogance was justified as who could ever face off against the empire?
I'd like to suggest a possible explanation for the empire's consistently narrow thinking: most people capable of cleverness and critical thinking were driven by that critical thinking to recognize the empire as evil and side with the rebellion. Not to get political, but I also believe the modern American political scene parallels this.
In the book there were 9 or 10 smaller imperial ships , gunships, ect , oh kreenic is not a civilian, he was military intelligence, and he has the rank equivalent of an admiral,
especially in the Battle of Hoth The AT-ATs alone were enough to defeat the grounds forces of echo base with their support. Maybe only 1 isd worth of Tie fighters could help with ground assault not so much from an offensive stand point but screening the ground forces from any potential air threats like snow speaders, x-wings or y-wings. I but I suspect most air threats would be the snow speeders or even a small garrison of Y-wings being used as most x-wings probably would have been dedicated to evacuating transports. like a single air group 80 tie fighters would have been enough to support the ground operations. Well Other several hundred or even a 1000s or more depending how many darth vaders SSD had in reserve to. it would still be the absurd odds the rebels couldn't escape from like fleeing several nests of angry killer bees you might kill a few but the sheer numbers would over whelm and sting you until you die.
Star wars isn't a hard sci-fi but looks more science then others the ships the alien design. Even the force before minichloriana it seemed like some biological radiation. Space itself is has so many inaccuracies
Would it have helped - either side - if, instead of swinging around the planet Yavin, Tarkin had fired the Death Star AT the planet? or firing and only then going around it?
I don't want to take away from this video; there are many times when the Empire is criminally ignorant, or negligent, when dealing with foes it had no business losing to, but as a person who has spent a fair amount of time at leastvtrying to write, and DMing several RPG games, I sometimes need to wonder how much of it was simply easy/convenient writing to give the heroes their chance to win, as in these works, the wnd goal is obviously to write axstory where good prevails over evil? Obviously, real life is also filled with examples, and it could be hard to argue someone was "scripted" to win a war, regardless of being the underdog, but those can be more fun to actually see what went into their ineptitude. The Empire sometimes feels like silly writing, where we KNOW the Emperor is a literal genius, and expert manipulator, but then once he is in power, he conveniently makes many of thecsame mistakes his old foes made, and maintaining his reign just seemed less fun for him than claiming it had. Still, this is fun. I personally enjoy watching videos where fans do everythibg they can to hype up, amdvillustrate the actual qualities of TIE fighter variants, one because it is fun, but two, because it all the more shows how stupidly the Empire viewed its own fighter craft. Im completely willing to give credit to the "superior" craft, and skilled pilots, of the Rebellion, but at least a portion of their success was purely the Empire undervaluing its own resources; its own ace pilots, atvthexsticks of small craft the elites didn't even want to need, in favor of ever-bigger, harder-hitting resource sincs, like Star Destroyers. Part always feels like making sure the plucky Rebels actually get an avenue of victory, as real life shows they don't always really get to win, by default, but another part always smacks of not wanting to let individuals outshine hordes, or smaller surpass bigger, because Palpatine was all about the clasic Orc philosophy "he's the biggest! He's the strongest! He's the BEST!!!", and sometimes it painfully shows, when TIEs are left cheap, underpowered, and dependent upon their motherships, and because that is an INTENDED design "flaw", no one actually uses them to their utmost, even when they actually can be quality. And that's true for soldiers, and officers, too, as they are as much for indoctrination of people as for actually fighting other people, of whom the massive Empire rarely has those to fight. Better to keep everyone arrogant, and at each other's throats, so none can rise too high, and threaten the top.
Did the empire or republic ever had attack that came out of the unknown region or another galaxy? We know Admiral Thrawn came from another galaxy with the help.
The Empirial Military reminds me a bit of the Red Army and to some extent the french in ww2. The rank and file soldiers were good, but were undermined bylow quallity mass produced equipment (stuff like cheaply produced T34s/Tie Fighters)and horrible leadership at the top with extreme rigid command structure and commanding by fear, and the waste of ressources in megalomanic construction projects (maginot line, which was rather useless due to arrogance of leadership/DS1 and 2)
Actually, it was not a mistake. The TIEs were mopping the floor with the Rebels, and the only reason Luke hit ths targwt was due to the Force, something the Empire thought they dealt with during Order 66.
Usually, I just listen to your videos while I’m driving, but I got out of the car and the first thing I noticed was that sock over the microphone which threw me off a little bit!! But on topic, I mean, that’s why the empire fell because of nonsense arrogance plus the emperor was just an idiot
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It's ironic that the Empire went out of It's way to make it's starfighters as cheap and expendable as possible yet neglected to deploy them when it would have mattered.
The fact that they had expensively-trained pilots in such relatively-fragile fighters might actually be a conributing factor to their reluctance to deploy them.
Look at their overall attitude.
They believed in huge ships and super weapons, not in starfighters or small ships. They only had any small ships because it would be completely tactically stupid to not have them. The starfighter corps and smaller ships were considered shameful assignments for the most part.
It was meant to be a juxtaposition against the rebel alliance that had few large ships, but was able to do so much with smaller ships and pilots that were more capable than the ones that the empire employed.
I know why they didn't, but the Empire would've been better served with swarms of millions of Droid starfighters.
@@vic5015 I blame Palpatine. He was trying to stick to the rule of two
Their whole starfighter doctrine was flawed.
The TIEs were supposed to operate as the point defense system for larger ships, Imperial officers ignored that.
The Death Star didn't have enough TIE fighters to defend itself, especially if they were operating in a zone defense.
Using the Death Star was biggest mistake.
The threat of a superweapon is effective at keeping the opposition controlled.
Once it is used, it is do or die, it turns a passive resistance into fighters with nothing left to fear.
It does give the same energy as nuclear weapons. The threat they pose is a potent weapon in of itself.
I guess they fell victim to a fallacy typical for fascist movements: that everyone in the universe is as miserable as they are and just pretend to be decent (human or not) beings. The imperials probably thought their enemies would value the lives of innocents as less as they do and therefore the rebels would need at least one thriving planet destroyed to "learn their lesson".
I played Rebellion back in the day and the Death Star is the best conventional weapon ever!
Could batter any planet shield down with turbolasers and it stored so many troops I could pacify an entire sector without going back for supply.
That super laser was the most stupid thing they could put on it. Dead planets don't pay taxes. Plus the loyalty hit you got from using it was never ever worth it.
Morale and moral credibility are worth their weight in gold.
Alternative suggestion: OLD MAN from the Perry Rhodan-Universe. Literally could've done the DS's job in multiple sectors at the same time. With just about, uhm.......
0 Crew.
If they did use it, they should’ve used it on an uninhabited planet.
Krennic managed the logistics of the DS construction masterfully, that needs to be commended.
Krennic is not a civilian, he is a senior intelligence officer.
The Military Department of Advanced Weapons Research is a division of Imperial Intelligence, which, is structured beneath the Imperial Military.
Before Krennic was Director, he held naval and intelligence ranks of Lieutenant Commander and Commander.
He wouldn't have been wearing the uniform he is wearing for most of that movie if he were not connected in some way to the military chain of command.
The Empire specializes in arrogant misstakes.
Just ask palpatine! 😂😂
It's started from the top. By the time of Yavin, Palpatine was being consumed by his addiction to the Dark Side. He left the running of the Empire to underlings and he made sure they weren't competent.
Having a rigid chain of command which doesn't allow its officers to have initiative and requires them all to consult the highest commander before acting is typical of militaries that serve a dictatorship. A perfect contrast between such a military and one that encourages initiative is shown by the Allied and Axis responses during the D-Day Normandy invasion in World War 2.
When the Allies attacked on that day, the reinforcements for the German army were largely paralyzed by their requirement to not move without orders from above. When the commanders on the scene called to report the attack and ask for orders, they were informed that Hitler had gone to bed for the night and had left strict orders not to be disturbed until he awoke. Unwilling to infuriate their volatile leader, the generals left Hitler to his sleep and the reinforcements were forced to sit idle while the Allies established a beachhead in Normandy.
In contrast, the Allied officers could move on their own initiative. During the landings, the navy destroyers tasked with targeting shore batteries had orders to not risk enemy fire and the possibility of running aground by remaining safely out of range until navy spotters who landed with the troops radioed in with accurate targeting information. However, most of these spotters were lost in the landing. Left without spotters, the allied destroyer captains saw the German gun emplacements taking a toll on the landing troops. Against their orders, and without risking delay by taking time to report to and get orders from higher command, they moved their destroyers closer to shore, risking their ships to shell any German guns they could reach. Some credit the destroyer captains with saving the invasion - and no action was taken against these captains for disobeying orders because they had the latitude to independently act on their own initiative in response to the developing situation.
There were many exploitable flaws in the Empire’s military technology and doctrine, but most flaws can be compensated, if not fixed.
It was this flaw that killed the Empire: overconfidence. Overconfidence is blind to its own weakness and its enemies’ strength, and unlike other flaws, overconfidence actively resists correction.
the even the thought of the death star going around without fighters patrolling around or a fleet to protect it, yet even people on earth knows to accompany battleships and carriers with fleets to protect them from harm
Palpatine didn't want really want order and security. He wanted the populace of his Empire to wallow in fear, hate and despair. All that dark side energy that was created gave him a taste of the unlimited power he always craved.
Reminds me of the MCRN Donnager from "The Expanse". If Captain Yao had deployed her destroyers and corvettes hangered inside the battleship she likely could have defeated the Protogen Stealth Corvettes, of six the battleship destroyed four, the destroyers likely would have accounted for the other two. But as Captain Yao stated before she blow up the Donnager: I didn't think we could lose."
This is why Thrawn should've been brought into the empire right when it started to take form. Less stupid officers would be in charge!
Would Palpatine have allowed him to alter the culture in imperial officer schools when he instated it to look like Sith doctrine on purpose?
Thrawn was a part of the Empire from the beginning.
@@Cloud354 if Thrawn was there maybe the death star wouldn't have been destroyed
@@kdusel1991 Thrawn was about efficiency. If he was in command of the Death Star rather than Tarkin, it could have survived. But Thrawn was one of those in Imperial Command that thought that the Death Star was a waste of resources that could have been put to better use.
@@Cloud354 True. Hopefully when Ahsoka season 2 comes out we'll get to see more of Thrawn being a tactician, that's how he was in Rebels and Legends
One theme that popped up again and again in the empire was that most of their top officers did not get there by being smart, but rather they were rich kids that were promoted based on political alliances and monetary contributions. That's why someone like Thrawn rose quickly through the command ranks because he actually understood strategy and tactics, as well as had solid battlefield experience. At best, most of the Imperial officers spent more time trying to backstab each other to gain favor or position, rather than worrying about how to win a battle. Without that knowledge of how to deploy resources effectively and how to properly manage a battle, they were destined to lose against more battle-experienced people like the rebels, who mostly gained their positions through hard work and combat experience.
Palpatines paranoia (or his just not giving a poodo) about individual pinprick attacks by disparate insurgent groups while he was busy messing around with Dark Side hobbies also contributed.
He seems to have deliberately kept different parts of his Imperial forces and administration uniformed about events that "didnt concern them", or more precisely, might affect their morale or sow doubts about his complete authority.
As Putin's Russia is showing now, when the left hand doesn't know how bad the right hand is screwing up, the big guy on top can keep running his bluffs on everyone.
You'd think the empire would follow "overkill is underrated" but they mostly just posture their position.
8:51 Let's also remember that Vader's order only resulted in the deployment of his own personal squadron and perhaps a handful of patrol fighters, not widespread deployment.
And he still nearly salvaged the situation.
@RFDN0 Shows just how easily the Rebels could have been repelled.
@tk-6967 I would honestly say it is more evidence of how the tie fighter program was mismanaged. The pilots were seen as a significantly greater investment that the ties being the death trap they were made the asset too valuable to use/lose.
@@RFDN0 That too, absolutely. The Imperial TIE pilots were super elite but TIE/LNs are total crap
I don't know how I didn't pick up on this earlier, but that last point is incredibly valid.
Vader killing Ozzel was originally (I guess) foolish as he just murdered the highest ranked officer in the fleet (I don't think Vader held an official military rank, just he was 2nd only to Palpatine) and promoted the Flagships Captain to Fleet Admiral. This is an incredible leap as Piett will then have to learn a ton of tasks, understand ship formations and tactics and the very privileges that come with his new rank. That is already hard off a battlefield, but to be tasked with this BEFORE a major battle is about to commence is absolutely insane.
He had hours, maybe a few days, to catch up on what normally could take a few weeks.
What’s up, Alan?! Keep up the great work!
Alan putting out peak content
Part of the reason Tarkin didn’t leave the Death Star was arrogance, but part of it was also that he was worried how it would look if he was recorded fleeing from the Death Star in the midst of battle.
It’s the sort of thing he would’ve used against other officers to take over their projects.
Palpatine would have killed Tarkin if he survived and I think he knew this.
To be fair, launching the Death Star's Tie Fighters would have cost a lot. The fewer resources you use in war, the more you can keep for later (and potentially get a promotion for not costing your side unnecessary resources)
I think Vader launched all the TIE fighters , technically he had the authority to over rule Tarkin under certain circumstances.
The problem is when you consider The size of the Death Star in the location of all the hangers. If they were using the TIE fighters as intended,to act as the point defense system, they would be pretty spread out.
Why waste credits deploying T.I.E. Fighters, when you can shoot large, cheap bolts of energy from stupidly large, heavily shielded capital ships and space stations? Why use the insanely expensive training of your fighter pilots when you can just trust ol' Jeb. with his couple hours training and no real experience, on the Death Star in Turbo Laser 1,268 out of 5,000 with downing those pesky Rebel snub fighters and bombers? Between the arrogance and penny pinching in the wrong areas, the Empire reminds me a lot of current issues in the world right now.
I don't think those issues are, uh, particularly modern.
@@EGRJ They are modern issues, they have just been issues for a very long time.
@@robertnelson9599 That's what I was implying, yes.
I love your satirical take on this.
Even worse was the fact that the rebels wouldn't have had the Lightmaker, the hammerhead corvette that rams the Star Destroyer into the shield, if it weren't for the arrogance of Admiral Konstantine during the Battle of Atollon. Had he not arrogantly went for the kill on Commander Sato, nobody would've escaped the battle and the Lightmaker would've been captured by the Empire that day.
Excellent points. Don't forget the fact that a legion of Imperial ground troops were defeated on Endor by, what... a 10-15 person Rebel strike force and a tribe of primitive mini-wookies with hand weapons and knowledge of the terrain. Lack of proper leadership and preparedness.
As for the Cantwell case... One reason CAP may not be up is chronic undermanning. Two swuadrons on paper, only one deployed, with half the contingent of pilots without actual space flight experience. Impossible to keep a constant meaningful CAP in such conditions.
I think the thing with the Cantwell was no one was expecting for THAT to happen. Yannow, that the tractor-ed ship could fight back that way?
Like, iirc my tech well, you're not supposed to be able to do much of anything when you're in the grip of a Star Wars tractor beam. Part of the whole thing was it renders the captured ship more or less unable to fly or fight.
Normally.
What Luthen did there was similar to a trick Luke pulled on the Chimera's tractor beam when it caught the Jedi Grandmaster in his X-Wing. Luke fed the tractor beam holding him a little present in the form of a proton torp. I forgot how he and Artoo were able to arm that bloody thing but kaboom and one rapidly running Jedi. And I think Luke and Artoo did something more that fried his engines?
But Luthen's little trick is even BETTER. Feed the tractor projector a bunch of fast-moving flechettes.
So, in a way, totally off left field. And we know how well the Imperials could deal with such surprises.
But I'm with you with the non-deployment of TIEs. I mean... WHY?!
Rebel on Hoth sees tie fight in the sky * “ they fly now 🫨”!!!😅😂
They fly now! 😂😂
Shoutout to Jude Edivon for actually being competent and going above and beyond her job and looking into the situationw without any orders and therefor finding out about the rebels having stolen the plans. If that competence had extended towards her superiors up to the highest position as well, a lot of imperial lives would have been saved.
They made them cheap and expendable because the empire thought they didn’t matter. Worse was just how stupid the empire reminded, they saw time and time again that their large platforms were disproportionately vulnerable to smaller craft. And palpatine solution was more and bigger platforms.
The new republic seems to be even worse tho...
9:08 - the thing is? Tarkin was dead any way you slice it. If he stayed and the rebels made the shot, he dies at his post. If he abandons his station and the rebels make the shot, he has to face Palpatine about the loss of the station. If he abandons his station and the rebels don't make the shot, he looks weak in front of his men.
The only way for him to not die physically or politically, was to win the day.
Another thing about the battle of Yavin 4, why wouldnt they just use the death star lazer on Yavin itself? the gravitational forces and destabilization of its atmosphere would have killed most if not all of the rebels on Yavin 4.
They blew up Alderaan as a message to not fuck with them
May not be effective on gas giants.
@@endy9059 Not to mention, there's a chance that Yavin's gases could react violently and destroy the Death Star. That may have been overkill.
I think they were counting down when luke was in his x wing.
A better question would be why didn't they just close the distance using hyperspace. I'm not sure on how long it takes for the DS1 to fully power up its hyperdrive and jump somewhere, or how long it might need to cool down between jumps, but I'm fairly confident that if they just jumped forward like a lightyear, turned the station on its axis, and jumped back into orbit of Yavin to where they had a clear line of light on the moon, it would have taken less time.
Captain Canady on the finest points of Imperial naval tradition: "We need to scramble our fighters, five bloody minutes ago!"
Your videos on the Military Academy of the Star-war series made me happier.
Authoritarian governments usually end up eating themselves, don't they?
When 'Great Man Politics' becomes more important then a Government's Function....
On a side note, can we please stop referring to Stormtroopers as "elite"? Desert Troopers, Snow Troopers, Shore Troopers, Range Troopers, troopers assigned to Scarif...they all attended the same stormtrooper training. They just put on gear appropriate for the environment or luck of the draw stationed on a tropical paradise.
The only troopers that could be could be classified as "elite" are death troopers. But they are ISB security agents basically, not stormtroopers (anymore).
Everyone wants to throw the term "elite" out there to describe every trooper variant, yet the outcome is always the same.
The biggest blunder on Scarif was Tarkin's petty pique - destroying the base.
He could have Krennic shot. Or eaten by piranha beetles, but... He was super petty. So he actually destroyed any evidence of what set of plans Rebels actually took and (sunsequently) where there may be a problem. What if the prisoners lied and they took not Death Star but any other project? Necromancer / Tantiss cloning? The bioweapons?...
Alan my dude
Here's my outlook on that background
It's so awesome that the background noise when you speak is 100% cool with that setup you have, like what I hear is totally fine with the video
You do good at what you do
Like I enioy the auditory experience of your background along with the visual it's so badass lol
I know you did a video on how the Empire could've lasted but I always wondered how you Alan would have governed and run a galactic Empire. Short of not starting one. How would you have set up the sectors, reformed or run the Senate, what military or civil security would you have set up. Where would local and galactic juristiction have ended. What ships/fleets would you have used and what would an Alan run army have looked like? Sorry know its a lot of questions but love your content and an Empire according to Alan vid just sounded like a cool idea. For a normal dude not an evil space wizard. Keep up the great work sir and all the best from blighty.
As for Hoth, a sudden change of fleet command may be the issue here. Plus whatever Vader's orders were - to be fair Ozzel's plan made more sense than Vader's as it reduced Rebel reaction time.
I'm worried about Alan's dreams being affected.
Clearly, the Jedi are upset about his lightsaber business.
Hopefully they don't come for him!
Something I noticed in the OT is that Vader is the only Imp that seems to understand the importance of deploying CAP Fighters, because on Hoth and Endor, he’s indisposed he can’t order commands from where he is in those two battles.
OK can someone explain what Ozzel did wrong? It's been over 40 years and I still don't understand.
The nearest I have seen is that he came out too close to the planet so was detected and so the shield was raised, so he should have come out further away and observed? But Ozzel knew Alliance tactics, which was to retreat from the Empire as soon as they were detected and the probe droid had been detected. Had Ozzel emerged on the other side of the system he could have watched the Alliance load it's shields, planetary defence weapons and personnel onto transports and then hyperspace away, meaning the Empire had to begin searching for them all over again.
Had it been pirates or smugglers it would have been a slightly embarrassing display of overkill, but still would have caught them all.
When the rebels discovered the probe droid they knew the Empire would come for them, but not *when*, the would stil be a high chance to catch them very unprepared for the evacuation. when the Executor hyperspaced to the Hoth system and got picked by rebel scanners they hurried the hell up and evaded death squadron using the ion cannon. Had the squadron arrived farther away from Hoth, they could have blockaded the planet from afar and even deploy the army without the rebels noticing
Ozzel prevented the Imperial Fleet from surprising the rebels. The planet Hoth had many meteors hitting the surface and the system had a lot of planetary debris making it difficult to detect enemy ships as was mentioned at the beginning of the movie. So they could have sneaked in pretending to be space debris. The Star Destroyers showing up just on top of the planet left no room for surprise.
Thanks for the video.
It would be a nice detail if they added a reason why deploying tie fighters wasn't SOP. Like the rebels had been baiting out tie fighters and then destroying them with blockade runner or something. Or they had problems with tie fighter pilots defecting the moment they got close to rebel forces. Or the tie fighters required excessive amounts of maintenance after combat, so the empire avoided using them.
I guess for perspective, US aircraft carriers can hold like 130 fighters in theory, but in practice it's more like 70 fighters, and of those only a handful can be quickly scrambled for a threat.
Was the shield over Scarif generated from the gate, or the planet? Because after the gate was destroyed, it looked like the shield was still there, just disrupted enough for the transmission to get through.
I think it was from the planet? Haven't seen Rogue One in a while so I could be wrong
Someday you should talk about the Muur talisman and the rakghoul plague
The moment I get an ad in my dreams I'm immediately joining the revolution.
From start in StarWars people were stupid when plot needs them to be stupid
Wow. I'm early.
P.S. This is largely an arrogance problem when it comes to the Empire, especially since they fail to learn from precedence, but the fact of not responding in force is not inherently bad. It's the whole principle of escalation thing, you might not want to tip your own hand. That being said, it doesn't really apply to your examples.
You can make the same argument while critiquing the empire's equipment. The AT-ST was a neat little scout/fighter type walker. But, the AT-AT, while terrifying from the front, was basically defenseless from all other points. Plus, it held troops, uhm.. how were they supposed to get down? Repel? While under fire? It all falls under the Tarkin doctrine which was to instill fear. The problem with that is once the weak spots are discovered and exploited, the fear goes away.
This video makes me wonder if the Empire had some kind of standing order, logistics problem, or systemic corruption that left most TIE fighters sitting in the hangars unfuelled.
Ooooh, you wonder if they did themselves a Russia?
@@lostbutfreesoul-- It would explain a lot of things all at once. Especially why Imperial ships don't have their combat air patrol deployed at all times.
A Star Destroyer isn't going to keep all 72 of it's TIE fighters fueled at all times when it doesn't expect imminent combat. It's just not practical for a whole bunch of reasons.
Plus, pilots need flight time to stay in practice and Star Destroyers have around 200 pilots. Having 4-5 fighters out on patrol at all times adds up to tens of thousands of flight hours per year. Cut each of your pilots back by just one hour of flight time and you save 200 hours of fuel, maintenance, spares, etc. that you can use to pad your efficiency reports or simply pocket for your eventual retirement.
Paradoxically, the Imperial officers who *did* keep their ships in a high state of readiness would positively *burn* through their supplies and potentially find themsevles unable to muster their full wing of fighters toward the tail end of a long deployment because of the actions of flag officers who *expect* a certain amount of cheating on reports.
I’d wonder what the rebellions reaction would be if more noble imperials were in charge. Like a proper police force instead of the isb and the military sticking to bases instead of acting as military and police…
Silly emperor
He was too arrogant
Trix are for Jedi
Thanks for sharing your hard work😅
Day 4 of asking why some lightsabers are designed in such a way that looks cool but is totally impractical. It looks cool to have spikes on my hilt, but it will totally hurt when duelling. So actually the best lightsabers would have a completely flat hilt with nothing sticking out of it. The ignition switch would be embedded into the hilt. And the hilt would have a thin layer of grip tape. This seems the most logical. So why does for example anakins lightsaber have those black protruding rails that hurt his hands when swinging his lightsaber?!?
Just a theory:
There is a degree of Force Manipulation that goes into the correct use of a Lightsaber.
If these weapons are designed to be held in both 'the hand' and 'the mind,' then it is going to require a force user just to be wielded correctly. Even then, other Force users would have a problem with someone else's light saber, having gotten used to how they have to 'feel' when holding their own. This would ensure the Jedi's only weapons can not be easily turned against the user, because the weights and shape of it are just unwieldly for someone not trained with that specific weapon.
@@lostbutfreesoul that's honestly a good point I haven't thought about. Maybe they can numb the pain of use if there are any sharp edges or things like that so that they themselves but not any enemies can use their lightsabers. I also heard that if you hold 1 to 1 replicas of the movies, they mostly feel very good in the hand as they are machined with smooth edges, but I still feel that having a big bar as an ignition wouldnt be the most comfortable or smartest
@@swatforce3309to add to the above point we already do know that individual users connect to a lightsaber and it makes it lighter and easier to manipulate. See Din Djarin and Sabine Wren learning to use the dark saber. Both know well how to use swords but what matter more for both of them was their ability to connect to the blade. Spikes make sense when you consider a user can get acclimated through the force to the lightsaber and perhaps the force protects the users hands because they're already so used to the shape.
@@swatforce3309 At no point do Jedi get hurt by their lightsabers when they're swinging them. Must be a force technique or something
I think the Death Star was the largest mistake . Once used it only would naturally rally the resistance military until a warrior frenzy of rage with nothing left to lose
Please make a video on 500 FO Stormtroopers vs 500 Clone Troopers
Clone troopers would win hands down! They had better training. FO were conscripts just like the OG Empire
@@kdusel1991 Fo stormtroopers have the same training as the clones
Luthen Rael’s escape reminds me of Nick Fury’s chase scene from the Winter Soldier
Classic top down command structure. It’s the little things like individual commander discretion that win wars.
It may be interesting for a series of videos reimagining Star Wars with competent villains and think about how the stories would be different, and how the heroes would overcome the competance.
The best! 🇺🇸⚡️💪
I love how Krennic is among the most competent commanders of the Empire, yet one of the most disappointing men.
He's not in the military he was the director of a military project
He was part of the ISB
@@kdusel1991 he was in the research branch, not security.
@@appo9357 he still played a part
@@kdusel1991 of course he did. He was the director of the whole project.
I get the feeling that Orson Krennic read Sun Tzu's (or at least Star Wars version him) thesis, "The Art of War," and yes I know Sun Tzu didn't exist at the time.
Easy to evaluate in hindsight...but as they say. Any given Sunday-
Many aquatic enemies, eh? You and me both, brother.
At Hoth, they couldn't send everything at the Rebels since Vader was down there. They could hurt him by mistake.
The Galactic Empire was a combination of a potential Post WWII German military, and the British Empire I think. I also think that comparisons to NATO, Russia, and North Korean military forces that are not ready for a real war after too long a peace period comes to mind. Maybe it was just Plot Armor ,you know.
Well, that planet was... Hawai'i.
Best job in the Empire!
Sunny beaches galore!
How would the empire have done if it acted like a shield instead of a sword?
sith makes rule of 2 to prevent all the infighting from holding them back
sith new big plan make galatic empire
makes empire a big system of infighting ruled by the same marits as old sith empire
generation peak
To be fair, most officers in the empire likely had little knowledge of rebel activities, so from there view their arrogance was justified as who could ever face off against the empire?
I'd like to suggest a possible explanation for the empire's consistently narrow thinking: most people capable of cleverness and critical thinking were driven by that critical thinking to recognize the empire as evil and side with the rebellion. Not to get political, but I also believe the modern American political scene parallels this.
Simply put Overkill is underrated. 😂
In the book there were 9 or 10 smaller imperial ships , gunships, ect , oh kreenic is not a civilian, he was military intelligence, and he has the rank equivalent of an admiral,
Never under estimate your opponent.
All the storm troopers with agood aim died on scariff. I swear it was the only Star Wars film where storm troopers actually had good aim.
Idk most of them didn't have good aim anyway. Especially in Rogue One
Kyle Katarn is responsible for obtaining the Death Star plans.
What Alan are we, Democracy? Deploy the high ground!
you see this more in Andor and Mando offices to busy filling their pockets
especially in the Battle of Hoth The AT-ATs alone were enough to defeat the grounds forces of echo base with their support. Maybe only 1 isd worth of Tie fighters could help with ground assault not so much from an offensive stand point but screening the ground forces from any potential air threats like snow speaders, x-wings or y-wings. I but I suspect most air threats would be the snow speeders or even a small garrison of Y-wings being used as most x-wings probably would have been dedicated to evacuating transports. like a single air group 80 tie fighters would have been enough to support the ground operations. Well Other several hundred or even a 1000s or more depending how many darth vaders SSD had in reserve to. it would still be the absurd odds the rebels couldn't escape from like fleeing several nests of angry killer bees you might kill a few but the sheer numbers would over whelm and sting you until you die.
Always deploy the garrison.
Good soldiers follow orders!
Star wars isn't a hard sci-fi but looks more science then others the ships the alien design. Even the force before minichloriana it seemed like some biological radiation.
Space itself is has so many inaccuracies
Would it have helped - either side - if, instead of swinging around the planet Yavin, Tarkin had fired the Death Star AT the planet? or firing and only then going around it?
Just imagine if Thrawn had been commanding these battles 🤦
These are the types of videos I live for! Seriously love your videos.
I don't want to take away from this video; there are many times when the Empire is criminally ignorant, or negligent, when dealing with foes it had no business losing to, but as a person who has spent a fair amount of time at leastvtrying to write, and DMing several RPG games, I sometimes need to wonder how much of it was simply easy/convenient writing to give the heroes their chance to win, as in these works, the wnd goal is obviously to write axstory where good prevails over evil? Obviously, real life is also filled with examples, and it could be hard to argue someone was "scripted" to win a war, regardless of being the underdog, but those can be more fun to actually see what went into their ineptitude. The Empire sometimes feels like silly writing, where we KNOW the Emperor is a literal genius, and expert manipulator, but then once he is in power, he conveniently makes many of thecsame mistakes his old foes made, and maintaining his reign just seemed less fun for him than claiming it had.
Still, this is fun. I personally enjoy watching videos where fans do everythibg they can to hype up, amdvillustrate the actual qualities of TIE fighter variants, one because it is fun, but two, because it all the more shows how stupidly the Empire viewed its own fighter craft. Im completely willing to give credit to the "superior" craft, and skilled pilots, of the Rebellion, but at least a portion of their success was purely the Empire undervaluing its own resources; its own ace pilots, atvthexsticks of small craft the elites didn't even want to need, in favor of ever-bigger, harder-hitting resource sincs, like Star Destroyers. Part always feels like making sure the plucky Rebels actually get an avenue of victory, as real life shows they don't always really get to win, by default, but another part always smacks of not wanting to let individuals outshine hordes, or smaller surpass bigger, because Palpatine was all about the clasic Orc philosophy "he's the biggest! He's the strongest! He's the BEST!!!", and sometimes it painfully shows, when TIEs are left cheap, underpowered, and dependent upon their motherships, and because that is an INTENDED design "flaw", no one actually uses them to their utmost, even when they actually can be quality. And that's true for soldiers, and officers, too, as they are as much for indoctrination of people as for actually fighting other people, of whom the massive Empire rarely has those to fight. Better to keep everyone arrogant, and at each other's throats, so none can rise too high, and threaten the top.
Did the empire or republic ever had attack that came out of the unknown region or another galaxy? We know Admiral Thrawn came from another galaxy with the help.
The Empirial Military reminds me a bit of the Red Army and to some extent the french in ww2. The rank and file soldiers were good, but were undermined bylow quallity mass produced equipment (stuff like cheaply produced T34s/Tie Fighters)and horrible leadership at the top with extreme rigid command structure and commanding by fear, and the waste of ressources in megalomanic construction projects (maginot line, which was rather useless due to arrogance of leadership/DS1 and 2)
I just wanna say I appreciate how in-depth you go with these videos. Every video is a Masterclass in Star Wars lore. 👏👏
Truly wild
Know yourself, know your enemy, know your battlefield. Sun Zsu.
The best tactic is almost always _overwhelming force_
The more you use, the less you lose.
Actually, it was not a mistake. The TIEs were mopping the floor with the Rebels, and the only reason Luke hit ths targwt was due to the Force, something the Empire thought they dealt with during Order 66.
No crap😂
What happened to the 2 Bens?
OOOH.
You're talking about the STAR WARS empire.
Right. I thought you were talking about your own empire.
Palps should've had a spy steal the script he could've won .
What's the first order?
Usually, I just listen to your videos while I’m driving, but I got out of the car and the first thing I noticed was that sock over the microphone which threw me off a little bit!!
But on topic, I mean, that’s why the empire fell because of nonsense arrogance plus the emperor was just an idiot