But Thrawn is suggesting removing TIEs in favor of anti starfighter weaponry. Therefore the X-wings or whatnot could move in, fire tops and quickly get out....

I think we can all agree on this: the ISD is very powerful but without its fighter escort it is not very effective.

Yep, Rebel fighters are just too dangerous with their proton torps....

But fighters without any heavy weaponry will surely have some problems.

Which is why fighters with warheads were not a common sight, some elite squadrons would be equipped with them, but unless the mission objectives demanded it, I don't think they would have warheads.

Attacking an ISD would certainly be a mission objective to demand warheads...

But that's not a common objective.

Fighters are meant to use against fighters, or for hit-and-fade attacks. B-Wings, Y-Wings and K-Wings, and their Imperial Counterparts do have those objectives, but they require escorts.

It's not common and all, but I do belive it was what we were discussing

Its true. Fighters are for fighters and caps are for caps.

But Y-Wings, B-Wings and K-Wings aren't fighters, they're bombers.

 

I suppose having a strictly capp ship navy would be a bad idea, no matter how good the anti-fighter power of the caps is. Jus think how bad WW II would have been if the allies only used AA guns, and not fighters.

Japan would have PWNED us! AA guns or whatnot are nice and all, but they don't make up for a lack of fighters...

And you have to add the costs. It often comes out cheaper to build fighters.

That's true. The empire could build thousands of TIEs for the cost of a single ISD. Pluss, those TIEs would take less manpower to man than the ISD.

I still think they should have put an ejector seat of some kind.

Yep, but the Empire's faith in capitol ships. Would you be more afraid of an ISD or a thousand or so TIEs equipped with hyperdrives?

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Thousand TIEs cannot terrorize a population as an ISD can. But an Impstar isn't that scary without TIEs.

Really? I don't think I'd want to go up against a Star Destroyer no matter what... well, unless I was in an Eclypse Super Star Destroyer.

Or an SSD.

Yeah, or anything bigger than an ISD I guess

True Trej, but if they replaced a thousand of their 25,000 ISDs with TIEs.....Well a million TIEs with hyperdrives and a bunch of ISDs would be pretty fearsome

I'd be more concerned about TIEs with shields. THose things would be harder to take down... but I guess they wouldn't be as mobile as if they had hyperdrives.

Well a few thousand TIEs would be quite fearsome no matter what....

Thrawn has a point, shielded TIEs would definetely be more fearsome. A few Impstars with shielded TIEs, now that would be fearsome.

Yeah, higher ranked officers would have TIE interceptors with Hyperdrive and shields.