The BEST STARFIGHTER of Every Era (Pt. 1) | Star Wars Legends
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- Опубликовано: 5 сен 2024
- We examine the best Star Fighters for every era of Star Wars Legends on today's Lore video! This is part 1, like and share for part 2!
From the X-Wing, to the Tie Defender, to the droid tri-fighter; from the Clone Wars, to the Galactic Civil War, to the Yuuzhan Vong War and beyond - Starfighters have often been the most important aspect of Star Wars Space Combat. We look at the best of the best on today's Star Wars Legends Lore video!
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so the empire created a starfighter to protect assets from another starfighter... that they created. I need a minute.
Well in Legends the guy who invented the Defender decided he wanted to overthrow the Emperor.
What's to stop the rebels from stealing _that_ one? Will they make something that can destroy that one? Where does it end? Building a Starkiller Base to destroy stolen Death Stars? XD
Actually it was the TIE Avenger which was in the hands of the forces of a renegade Imperial Admiral. The TIE Defender was deployed to eliminate them, but that experience lead to the Empire deciding that they needed a strike craft which could eliminate Defenders just in case history repeated itself. In one of the missions in the TIE Fighter Defender of the Empire expansion the player takes on Avengers and an Imperial class Star Destroyer in a Defender - with Darth Vader as your wingman! The briefing specifically advises you not to try to give the Dark Lord orders!
Jacob Clark The New Republic acquired about 6-8 Defenders in Isard's Revenge when Rogue Squadron infiltrated Prince Admiral Krennal's forces.
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Chicken wing: 👌
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What if the X-Wing is just a Drumstick with for Chicken Wings attached it?
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I am offended!
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The TIE Defender would have screwed up the Rebels if the Emperor didn't choose Tarkin Space Dark ball with it's big *Pew Pew* cannon, but Thrawn idea, to make the perfect fighter...
That guy is a genius.
Well I could see an argument that the rebels could have stolen the plans for the defender (or stolen the ships themselves en-masse).
Can't really steal a TIE-fighter (no hyperdrive to get away)
Maybe Thrawn should've suggested something a bit less "Everything in on package" starfighter (But obviously a vast improvement on the standard TIE.
An Interceptor with Shields and Missiles would've likely sufficed. Cheap-ish to deploy in numbers but still a vast improvement over what they had
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spoilers ahead. in Thrawn Alliances, Thrawn gave Vader full command of his Chimeras Tie Defender wing. after pushing it to its limits in every aspect, Vader told Thrawn that he would support the Defender project and even talk to the Emperor about using it more. only requests Vader had were that it be made faster, more armor and less complicated controls so that pilots could better use it.
Personally I would have invested in improving anti fighter corvettes, like highly modifying the Lancer to have even more anti-fighter laser cannons and and upgrade to the engines.
Producing a large quantity of them could help fill out the weak points the imperial fleet had. You could still produce the cheap tie fighters and tie interceptors because at the point they there to harass the rebel fighters while they dodge the hailstorm of lasers from the lancers. Tie defenders are nice but single fighters are easier to steal, a lancer could prove much harder to take.
Just my two cents.
I would go as far as to say that the Tri-Fighter is the best starfighter in all of Star Wars. I think you shouls have talked a bit more about the missile launcher , because this is the weapon that gives the ship a amssive degree of flexbility. Load it up with Buzz-Droid missiles, and a squadron of them can effectively deny the enemy starfighters massive swathes of space, which can be used to keep the enemy bombers way from your capital ships. Or give it some Concussion missiles, and in swarms those babies can even become a threat to heavy enemy units.
On a per-unit basis, yes.
But how many Tris are you are getting for a single Defender?
Individually I'd have to agree. The Colicoids could certainly build 'em. However, if we're factoring in cost, deployment numbers, etc as well, I would argue, for a bunch of reasons that are too long for a RUclips comment, that the Vulture Droid is the most effective, successful and influential starfighter in Star Wars history. Individually weak, but nevertheless so potent in the way it was used that latter Republic designs were built around trying to counter it and yet STILL couldn't gain control of the starfighter theatre. TIE Fighters are the Empire trying, and failing, to copy its success.
Outclassed by the Tri-Droid one-on-one and massively outnumbered by the Vulture Droid, like everything else, in true battle. The TIE Interceptor was also only cheaper than the Advanced TIE and "formidable" compared to the TIE Fighter. It was nothing like as cheap as the Vulture Droid, nor powerful like the Tri, especially without any missile launchers. In its own era, it was already outclassed by the Rebels.
but the question...can the human reflexes of the TIE Defender beat the AI?
The A-wing (in Legends) was faster, shielded and had missile launchers.
The best one out of all of them in every era would obviously be the tie experimental!
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Vader's ship? Its called Tie avenger I believe.
@@egoalter1276 Vader's tie was the Tie/x1, the Tie Avenger is similar in some aspects to the Tie/x1 but was ultimately the successor of it.
Yeah, Vader was flying a prototype and it didn't have an official name.
@@sethb3090 wasn't it called Tie Advanced?
@@shinkiro403. tie advanced X1 is its name
I've always loved the TIE Defender, ever since it first appeared in the TIE Fighter: Defenders of the Empire PC game (which is also the source of the Missile Boat and others). Flying it was a freaking dream. Those three PC Star Wars flight games (X-wing and X-wing vs TIE fighter were the 1st and 3rd) introduced a great variety of spacecraft to Star Wars.
Legacy Era, I don't agree. Remember that the Twin-Tail is actually considered obsolete by the Galactic Alliance - the Crossfire is it's replacement, which is why the Jedi were able to get them for use on the cheap. It is more manouverable than the Crossfire, but given the Predator is even moreso, going with a less manouverable but better shielded and armed Crossfire does seem to me the better bet.
I seem to also remember a Sith star fighter Krayt introduced with his cyborg Sith Troopers that was obscenely powerful. I think it was called the Annihilator class
Yes, the Annihilator was obscene. It could only be piloted by cyborg Sith plugged in, and had weapons that pierced shields.
You should do the best star fighter pilots of different eras
Yes! This! I so want to see that video!
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Someone here thinks Luke Skywalker was the best fighter pilot of the Galactic Civil War? Much to learn, you have! This video is on the Legends timeline - look up how Wedge Antilles (Red 2 at Yavin IV) did when took over running Rogue Squadron (spoilers - only pilot with 2 Death Star kill markings on his fighter, TIE fighter kill markings done in different colours to represent entire 12 ship squadrons or 72 ship wings because otherwise they couldn’t fit them all on his X-wing, only pilot with Yavin, Hoth, Endor, Bakura and Coruscant Battle ribbons, the list goes on and on!). Or his greatest adversary, Baron Soontir Fel of the 181st Imperial Fighter group, the fighter pilot Darth Vader was rumoured to be so worried about facing in training missions that he had his fighter modified to give him an extra edge against the Baron.
@@blueburger4938 Anikan and Luke only make it because of the Force. But, Poe? He's ok, but Legends Wedge Antillies would fly circles around Poe. Wedge has the single highest Kill count in the entire Galaxy (he has to paint silhouettes in gross lots, one silhouette being 144 kills), and has TWO HALF DEATH STARS on his record. He outflew an entire Yuuzhan Vong coralskipper squadron in a crippled X-Wing, decimated Kuat Drive Yards TIE Fighters while flying a Squint (TIE Interceptor) with a toy Ewok strapped to his chest. He survived the Galactic Civil War, the Yuuzahn Vong invasion, and the Second Galactic Civil War. Compared to Wedge Antillies, no pilot even comes close
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Love the battlefront footage! I feel like that should be shown a little more often.
That's not battlefront... That's pay to win star wars game #2. I'd much rather see real star wars battlefront 2 footage!!! The good one from the mid 2000's!
as bad as EA and their business practices are (and they are bad, and I'm not just talking about microtransactions; I'm still very annoyed w/ how they dropped support/stopped fixing Dragon Age 2 and Mass Effect Andromeda, along w/ the years of destroying studios like Bullfrog and Westwood), you can't deny that the quality of their games' visuals are great. They're very pretty. Almost tempting to buy them for the visuals alone.
Almost. :)
Would've probably gotten EA's Battlefront 2 if the story weren't 'meh' (I enjoyed the 'Inferno Squad' book+audiobook...then just watched a playthrough of the game on youtube. Even then, had it been good, I'd probably have gotten it...I guess, in a way, it was a good thing that it wasn't good /shrugs)
dollface Rosenberg yeah, tell me when it doesn’t look bad graphically, and when you can play as the resistance and first order.
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oPaF Splitz I play on console though, can you mod a console game?
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They simply look BEYOND awesome.
There's no disputing the power of the tri-fighter. Happy to see the praise of the Clone Wars era since IMHO that's where the best ships, fighters, vehicles, and tactics lie
There were little to no intelligent tactics used during the clone wars. Even in the comics and books the tactics could be inconsistent, in the movies and 2D/3D shows they’re absolutely atrocious. Using Napoleon era tactics when you have automatic firearms and aircraft/spacecraft. A lot of things in Star Wars can be explained but the abysmal tactics just can’t.
Hey, I'm just happy that the Missile Boat got some attention. Hopefully you'll do a breakdown of how Thrawn ascended to rank of Grand Admiral in Legends & his classes with Admiral Zaarin.
Great to see the missile boat included, I always felt it was one of the powerful ships ever created.
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This is perhaps the only non-civillian comparison where you can also include WH40k without it taking the first place (and second, and third, and...), so might as well.
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Same here
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I think the later generation X wings deserve a mention too, especially the Stealth X. Needs to have a jedi pilot to make full use of it, but between the stealth features and the shadow bombs, those things could take anything from a fighter up to a corvette single handed.
You should do the old republic era and more capital ship lore from that era
Tie hunter better be here
Edit: ok listen here you fat ewok-
Tie what now?
@@AlexanderFKing TIE Hunters were made specifically to kill X-wings.
Trips (TIE Defenders) are better. Shields, concussion missiles/proton torps, tractor beam, quad lasers and ion cannons while maintaining superior speed and maneuverability than the X-Wing all make the Trip the deadliest starfighter in the GCW. Even WEDGE flew carefully around Trips
They were also the personal fighters of storm commandos, were they not.
@@HCUhardcoreUnited yes, at about a third the price of the Defender
I'm so glad the K-wing was at least mentioned. That thing is absolutely loaded with weapons
I'm always rather shy about commenting, and I have no idea of this will be seen at all, but I want to say that your videos are very helpful, interesting, and all around enjoyable. I consider myself a huge fan of Star Wars, having been a fan since the age of 2 (with myself being 19 now), but I've never given too much thought to the ships. With your videos on ships, ship types, ship versus, and other ship battles, it's now made me look at each Star Wars movie in a different light, especially scenes with space battles and such. I'm a new subscriber, but I already look forward to your videos every day, and I've been binge watching them to catch up, so in short I just wished to say thank you for being a good content provider.
You should do a video on the best pilots of each era.
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Ever since I saw the Tri fighter with that large cannon on its cockpit roll into the space battle over coruscant I knew that thing was amazing
I love the K-wing, it looks absolutely clunky and ridiculous but I love its weapon loadout, and love reminding my star wars fan friends that the thing somehow packed a quad turbolaser according to some sources.
Who here would love to see a series where Eckhart designs his own, unique ships. There'd be limits based on function, era specific technology, cost per ship, ect. Plus, it's Eckhartsladder, the best Star Wars channel, you know it'd be amazing.
Thanks for mentioning the k wing. I couldn’t help but fall in love with the design when I first saw it a while back
I have finally seen u use tie defender in not one but 2 videos (and they pretty much won)! So happy all is right in universe now
The dog outro always makes me smile.
The Tie Defender is truly op.
I really like how your doggo goes into overdrive at the end of your videos
I know you'll get to this in the finale of the Vong sub-series. Won't stop me from going through the motions though. Anyways:
Can you breakdown what is by far the largest space battle in the entire franchise? *The* *Battle* *of* *Yuuzhan'tar!* I have made this request: Seventy-one times.
Almost at 300k! Back when I subscribed, I don't think you even had 10k subscribers yet. Now you're well known in the Stars Wars RUclips community and regularly collaborate with other sizable RUclipsrs. My, how time flies.
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Could you do a video about post post endor space combat? (Legends) I once heard that huge dreadnoughts and battleships became replaced solely by small fighters. Is that true?
jonas.205 i believe the new republics started to favor cruisers and awesome starfighters do to heavy demilitarization after the empire(basically trying very hard to look very different from the empire) but theu did still have a few secret dreadnoughts though this is info i learned awhile ago
They still had a lot of capital ships, but the New Republic always had very capable starfighters with hyperdrives, so they could operate independently.
Unbelievably one of your best videos.
The Tie Defender is the best, plus it is cool looking. Love the video.
LOVE THE DEFENDER!😍
Here is an idea, design your own "ugly." What frankenstien's monster would you want to fly around the star wars galaxy in. I personally think it would be funny to strap some LAAT engines to an ATTE and shove it all into a hyperspace ring and make myself a little gunship.
The Defender was badass, but had a rather big targeting profile. The E-Wing remains my favorite.
Keep this series going. Gives people like me who aren't as versed in all of the lore a little more knowledge
TIE Defender definitely my pick. I know a single Missile Boat can take down a flight group of TIE Defender easily, but TIE Defender is a complete fighter. TIE Defender has formidable shields, 4 laser cannon, and .. ION CANNON. Ion Cannon comes pretty handy against big targets. I usually just disable transport, shuttle, escort shuttles, assault transports, corvettes, and destroy them later. TIE Defender can also be equipped with tractor beam, very handy when against rogue TIE Advanced.
Tie Defender is so dang awesome!! The Crimson Tie Defender is just badass looking and the Shadow X-wings are sweet too. But, I do agree with you assessment of the Tri-fighter....tough little buggers. imagine adding a shield to it?!? Just OP
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Good picks and I’m especially glad you mentioned the K-wing, that thing is a beast.
Tri fighter ftw! Finally getting some love
Love it Eck! I can’t wait to see the rest of it
“A small group of Tri fighters” excuse me but weren’t there hundreds of Vulture droids?
the tri fighter like most droid fighters had no shielding, but still is my fav
Great video all these ships are cool. My favorite is the K-wing bomber.
100% agree on the tri fighter. I feel like the interceptor role was made for droid fighters; droids are much more capable of withstanding high speeds and g-force than organics, and it frees up space to put more tech and weapons in a smaller frame.
3:49 so... basically the Star Wars equivalent of the German Elbing-Class Torpedo Boat.
T-70 X-Wing VS E-Wing!!!!
Should have more A-Wing love, but I can't fault you for loving the E and K-wings. Underrated little ships!
Hehe, The Defender - I love to do nothing more than fill my unit cap with these things when playing Star Wars - Empire at War. They are great at just about everything.
TIE Defender is a very cool, very powerful ship - but back when I played the TIE Fighter game (and add on packs), I personally preferred flying the TIE Avenger. Smaller target profile, pretty close in speed and agility, decent shields and parity with the Defender in laser and missile armament (no ion cannons).
The Tie Defender and Gunboat were great in X wing vs Tie fighter. Really wish EA would remake it.
Civil war era brought back some great memories of both those craft...
Great list eck! Personally I think the defender could beat out the e wing especially if you mounted a pair of iron cannons on the top wings, but I may be a bit biased as it is my favourite star fighter of all time.
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The Missle Boat's SLAM system wasn't mentioned. Being able to take energy from the sheilds, cannon and tractor beam and add it to the SubLight Acceleration Motor to boost the velocity of the Missle Boat to sometimes 100%+ speed boost. However. When you put it's cost and the cost of the 160 misses together, it's about 120,000 credits in missles, not including tracotor beam. Oh, and small production run means a lot of credits per ship for R&D. It's basically the XB-70 Valkery of Star Wars.
He mentioned it, if without the full explanation
The T/D and missile boat are ridiculously OP. In a universe where you can build fighters like that, EVERY other fighter should be faster, stronger, and better armed.
Awesome! A little disappointed that you didn't start chronologically with Old Republic craft, but there's a part 2 that I can look forward to.
I love the use of starfighter assault to ahow off the tri fighter
Kinda surprised you did the twintails but didn't do the sith annihilator. Now that thing was a beast.
Can you also do videos for bombers, interceptors, and gunships.
My all time favorite is the Defender line of Ties.
I always thought that the Rogue class starfighter was thoroughly underrated. The ONLY issue I have with the X-83 Twin tail is asthetic. It looks like some sort of rc model plane.
Jagged, Tahiry and Ashik used Tie defenders to evacuate Gillad Pelleaon when Daala and mostly Drikl Lacersen baraged it with baradium nukes....
even almost 50 years after inception the fighters managed to hold well against turbolasers and and whatver could be scrambled against them (although admitedly at that time imperial moffs did not have the most up to date hardware in personal arsenals... and neither did Daala - though even their forces managed to hold up against most modern ships of the line Empire of the Hand sent to help Jagged.)
I would prefer the list to be chronological, showing the best star fighter from the beginning of the clone wars and then continue with the starfighter that replaced the previous one as the best. I agree on the Tri being the best fighter of the clone wars and quite enjoy such videos, so I want to see every era possible.
definitely do a part 2!
Always loved the TIE Defender, and like you, preferred it above the missile boat. The lore stated that a single Defender was worth a squadron of lesser starfighters and a full squadron was a serious threat to any capital ship. If they'd had even a single squadron of Defenders at the battle of Endor, the rebels might have only barely scraped a pyrrhic victory, at best.
@@Transilvanian90 Fair call, and the missile boat is definitely a certified heavy-duty scrap-maker, I just preferred the Defender in a dogfight.
I love the tri-fighter!
I like how the k-wing has made it into both the worst and best lists
I personally prefer the TIE Defender over the Missile Boat. Because while both are awesome and incredibly effective, the Missile Boat relies almost entirely on its payload of missiles and torpedoes, only having a single backup laser cannon. Meanwhile, despite being unable to carry as much explosive ordnance, the TIE Defender also has multiple laser cannons along with two ion cannons and is still equipped with missiles/torpedoes. Plus, the TIE Defender is more maneuverable than the Missile Boat.
Also, while I understand why you may not have included it, as we don't know much about its capabilities, I would have at least liked to hear the Sith Annihilator-class starfighter mentioned, since it's described as "Faster and more maneuverable than any existing fighter. But with the power to breach a Star Destroyer."
You have my favorite outro of all time🤩
That battlefront game looks amazing, visually.
The missile boat makes me wonder why missiles aren't a more popular choice for space superiority craft or even for defence weaponry on larger vessels.
I like the z 95 headhunter. Mostly for nostalgia reasons, but it was an effective platform, and a direct precursor for the x wing
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In spite of its comparatively slow speed to other fighters, I do quite like the B-Wing. Partially because that slower speed of its translates into smaller turning radii, allowing it to keep its weapons on faster targets that try to outmaneuver it, and also because of its durability even when its shield is brought down. Combined with its mixed weapon loadout, and the B-wing is definitely if not the best fighter of its era at least one of the best.
I would like for you to Cover the Swarm Wars era. As well as the Knights of the Old republic era. Like the Old republic Sith, and Mandalor.
I *LLOOOVVVEEEE* me a droid tri-fighter. Love the design and weapons. Also, it was one of my first CIS LEGO sets.
Nice vid ! My favourite is the defender because thrawn was involved with the elite version.
The e-wing just took it's place as my new favorite star wars ship ever...
Should do an episode breaking down all of the tie series craft.
how terrifying would a cross of the droid tri-fighter and the tie defender be
I just love how Ezra can magically fly possibly the hardest vehicle to pilot(tie/Df). Rebels in a nutshell.
I love how Anakin can fly a starfighter he never saw before.
I love how rey can pilot the millenium falcon which she only heard in stories.
I love how han solo can fly Lando's falcon when he only piloted a tie fighter before
Please do a part 2! Loved it!
Hey Ekhart, what's the best combat assault shuttle? LAAT? Sentinel? A match up between those two, including an assessment of what they could carry, might be interesting.
2:41 the cost of the Tri-fighter is perhaps the greatest testament to how the cost aversion of the CIS lost them the war. The Tri-fighter only cost 10,000 credits more than the Vulture fighter and yet so few were produced. To put that bargain of a price in perspective V-19 torrent cost, not only the price of producing, raising, and training the clone trooper pilot, but also 50% more credits than the Tri-fighter. But of course, from the onset of the war, the CIS was never supposed to win the war.
You forgot certain ships, like Xizor's Virago (yes: It is a one off fighter, but they made a class of fighters similar to it: The StarViper!) or the Phantom-Tie (sure if it is only firepower and shields? Then the Defender wins, but sneaking up close and destroying critical systems on a helpless capital ship or scouting a system while nobody can see you? Priceless!)
I love your videos! Keep up the awesome work!
You forgot the Darth Krayt's Annihilator-class starfighters. They made mincemeat of any opposition during attack on Hidden Temple in Legacy era.
Every time I see the K-Wing all I can see is that nice big dorsal engine being blown off by the ball turret on the cockpit
This will be interesting series
Vulture Droid, TIE Bomber, TIE Fighter, Q Wing.
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I love the effort you put into your videos! It’s part of the reason I subscribed
Love the crosfire
So when can we get an E wing vs tie defender video?