Imperial Star Destroyer vs.Trade Federation Battleship

Say there was a battle. No fighters. Which would win?

 

star destroyer. The weapons were the upgraded "modern" variety, the shields were the upgraded "modern" variety. Both of which were more advanced than what they had 30 years before.

 

makes since to me. thanks

 

Are we talking about the spacestation's or the drop ships?

 

Fighters do count. That's like saying, how would a WWII battleship do against a modern carrier if it didn't have fighters? It's part of its role and capabilities.

 

the kind that Anakin destroyed in Episode 1

 

Federation craft are all the same thing.
They simply chose not to drop at Naboo.
Also, notice that the dropped centers are all the ship from ET.....


Anyway, a Victory Star Destroyer could take out a Federation ship.
Anything higher than a Vic would be utter overkill.
(but to the empire, overkill is a good thing)

Federation ships are just too weak by design.

 

It really wouldn't be a contest. The federation ship would have no chance.

Unless a really incompetant and disater prone commander such as Admiral Daala was in command of the Star Destroyer.

 

Perhaps I shall elaborate on 'weak'.

Everything is completely shielded but the Front Door. Where key mechanical components are housed......

What's the point?

I can accept that the Death Star had one two-meter exhaust port. Didn't expect anyone to actually get close enough to it and drop torps in, what with all the cannons and everything.

But when the Federation has a GREAT shield system and leaves it deactivated over a hangar (HUGE HOLE IN THE SHIP) that is pure stupidity.

Plus Fed. ships are too spread out, whereas Star Destrroyers are compacted down.

 

Star Destroyer. TF battleship has lots of spots where it's guns can't hit anything. And a TIE would tear the crud out of a droid starfighter, IMO.

 

I did a thread on this a while back. Simply upgrades. It might have a fighting chance against a vic though.

 

No chance against even a Vic (which has far better/more weapons and shields/armor) then the TF "Battleship" despite being a third its length and far less massive. TF "Battleships" are extremely slow, ungainly, modular, mobile space stations with a token number of guns attached and an inferior and highly space inefficient storage operation. It's not even a decent carrier/troopship, which is all its remotely good for. It's abominablely disigned for combat, with huge blind spots for its guns and to few of them, as well as shield phasing problems that allowed Anakin's entry. I'd rather have a Dreadnaught Heavy Cruiser then a TF Battleship.

 

The only way it could beat a VSD would be to have some bizarre tactics with Thrawn in command.

The only way to beat an ISD is to ram it, or crash the entire fighter complement and some landing craft into it.

 

In the spirit of this thread I would like to ask, which would win, an Imperial Star Destroyer or a Hapan Battle Dragon?

 

Imperial Star Destroyer, hands down.


Well, if you have a capable captain that is....

If you have a stupid commander, it is possible for a single TIE Fighter to kill a Star Destroyer...

 

A trade federation would win hands down...well...err...

So i like to be different

As for a hapan battle dragon...it might have a fighting chance considering how fast they can get there turbo lasers off.

 

Okay, so they dropped the shield to let more droid fighters out.
There were no fighters near it nor in it when Anakin went in!
They opened it, let the fighters out, and didn't close it back--during the middle of a space battle.

Pretty stupid.

 

But when the Federation has a GREAT shield system and leaves it deactivated over a hangar (HUGE HOLE IN THE SHIP) that is pure stupidity.

Probaly dropped for to release more fighters.

The rebel pilot on VQ used the same tactic.

They opened it, let the fighters out, and didn't close it back--during the middle of a space battle.

Dunno bout that. Just cause they weren't immediately apparent doesn't mean they weren't coming. Of course, any launch was probaly interrupted by Anakin's sudden arival.

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"Probaly dropped for to release more fighters."

As I recall either, Battle for Naboo, or Starfighter explained it as such.

 

Well, we may see a hint of this if the Acclamators take on the Trade Fed ships in EP.
Unless of course the Acclamators are replaced right away in which case we should see the next generation of Republic Cruisers anyway.
I know many EUers are praying for Victories, we shall see.

 

According to the new issue of Insider, the Acclamator- Class ship is better suited for planetary bombardment than ship to ship combat.


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That's what it said in saxton's book as well, IIRC.

 

I love how Val prefaces it by saying it was Saxton's book.

 

Well it was his book, it's quicker to say Saxton's book instead of "Attack of the clones incredible cross-sections", .

Beyond that just because I mentioned saxton's name doesn't mean I'm a big fan of his book, because there are quite a few rather stupid things he created in the book, that are just way too technobabblely, and lame for star wars.

Now if saxton actually wrote another star wars book(perish the thought, , ugh), I would be forced to call each book by their individual names to keep from any confusion. I just hope he never gets to write for star wars again. The previous incredible cross-sections were much better than his...