The Galactic Empire

[James Gryphon]

An escape pod could take one out.

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The Resistance lives!

[Vilu Daskar]

Star Destroyers really aren't very good. An X-Wing can easily take it out.

Yaaaa, No it can't.

The ISD's turbo lasers move too slowly to hit an X-Wing. If it is going fast enough neither can the smaller ones. It's friends take out the TIEs and the X-Wing attacks the ISD. It takes out the two shield generators bringing the ISD's shields down to zero and making it unable to regain any shields. If it happens to be carrying Ion warheads it can disable the ISD and then take it out. If not it just shoots it until it is destroyed. Or it could just ram the bridge.

[Hickory]

Ion warheads are usually supplied to Y-Wings. The rebel Death Star attack force was left at three fighters after the attack, taken down by stationary turrets and TIE fighters. At any rate, the Empire will always outnumber you.

[Vilu Daskar]

Ion Guns are on Y-Wings, Ion Warheads can be carried by any ship. TIE fighters are inferior to any Rebel fighter.

[James Gryphon]

The rebel Death Star attack force was left at three fighters after the attack, taken down by stationary turrets and TIE fighters.

Note how they avoid the obvious point here. However much the Rebel force was depleted, the Imperials were much more so, being down one Death Star (and with it, all of the thousands of fighters and other military equipment that were foolishly left in their hangars by incompetent and overconfident commanders).

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The Resistance lives!

[Izeroth]

Ion Guns are on Y-Wings, Ion Warheads can be carried by any ship. TIE fighters are inferior to any Rebel fighter.

Inferior in strength, perhaps, but certainly not inferior in practicality. TIE fighters can be mass-produced, while Rebel fighters cannot.

[Vilu Daskar]

Rebels have no need for mass production, their loses are insignificant compared to that of the Empire.

[Hickory]

The Incom T-65 X-Wing is not a mass-production fighter. In fact, it was by luck that the Rebels discovered the plans for it. Also, ion warheads are not permanent. The power system will come back on eventually.

[Izeroth]

Rebels have no need for mass production, their loses are insignificant compared to that of the Empire.

Clearly, you have no idea of how starship production works. If the Rebels lose one fighter, it's near-impossible for them to replace it. If the Empire loses 100 fighters, it can easily build and deploy 100 more. Thus, every destroyed fighter is far more costly to the Rebels than to the Empire.

[Vilu Daskar]

I left out part of a sentence.

Rebels have no need for mass production, their loses are insignificant compared to that of the Empire.

Clearly, you have no idea of how starship production works. If the Rebels lose one fighter, it's near-impossible for them to replace it. If the Empire loses 100 fighters, it can easily build and deploy 100 more. Thus, every destroyed fighter is far more costly to the Rebels than to the Empire.

I don't I just know about fighting. Yet the Rebels win anyway.

[LT Sandpaw]

In reality the Rebels win only with a mix luck and determination, while the Empire looses because of laziness and overconfidence.

If the Empire had some competent commanders it would have obliterated the Rebel Alliance.

[Vilu Daskar]

If the Empire had competent Commanders there would be no Empire to Rule. They'd blow up every plant eventually.

[Hickory]

In reality the Rebels win only with a mix luck and determination, while the Empire looses because of laziness and overconfidence.

If the Empire had some competent commanders it would have obliterated the Rebel Alliance.

It did have some competent commanders - General Veers, Admiral Piett. Piett was only killed because of a suicide A-Wing.

[Vilu Daskar]

I don't think suicide, I think the A-Wing was going down anyway.

[Hickory]

It was, but the pilot made the conscious choice of crashing it into the Executor's bridge when it would've been easy to crash on Endor.