On today's episode of star wars battle breakdown we take a closer look at the resistance evacuation of Dakar
Hey guys, this is Eckhart slaughter hello and welcome to another episode of Star Wars battle breakdown a couple of things
first of all
I've had a lot of people say that I must hate cannon because I focus on legends especially in my battle breakdown series
That's really not the case at all. I'm just much more familiar with the old expanded universe
I haven't read everything that's come out for Canon and other channels like Star Wars explained I think
Cover the new stuff a lot better than I could
I hope this video convinces some of you of that fact
and don't forget my first ever battle breakdown
was for the Battle of scarif
second I just want to announce again that I've started a brand new Thrawn's revenge series on my second channel x-2
I'll put a link in the upper right-hand corner and also as a pin to comment, but let's get started
And as I said today, we'll be analyzing the mistakes made by the first order
during the resistances evacuation of Dakar
Let's first cover
What actually happened for those who don't remember
the first order fleet comprised of one mandator 4 class siege dreadnought and three
Resurgent class battle cruisers exits hyperspace over the resistance base of Dakar as the dreadnought primes its orbital
autocannon resistance pilot poe dameron successfully strafes the vessel
Destroying all surface based point defense cannons the first order much delayed scrambles their TIE fighters
But it's too late. The path is opened for resistance bombers
the resistance moves in with a flotilla
comprised of several of these heavy bombers as well as an escort wing of A wings and X wings
Although most bombers are lost one survives long enough to drop its payload before being destroyed
Although the mandator 4 is successfully able to target the resistance base on dakar
it does not have time to
Target the resistance dreadnought which escapes this isn't the worst thing ever because the first order has access to new hyperspace tracking
Technology, but is a serious setback
Especially when they could have stamped out the resistance
there has been a lot of talk about what the first order should have done differently
I'd like to put forward my battle strategy
So we're going to imagine that everything except for first-order tactics remains the same from resistance strategy to the to fleet
Compositions, etc, etc
So as my fleet exits hyperspace, I think it's important to talk about the mandator 4 it's an interesting capital ship
It's huge at over seven kilometers. It seems to be meant primarily for orbital bombardment
It's not quite a super weapon, but it has a lot of firepower, but it's also a gigantic target besides for fighters
it really only seems to have
26 dorsal point defence cannons
this means that star fighters like Poe can easily make attack runs at the ship and that's say
Nothing about actual attacks to the ventral side. I do think it is a fairly useful asset
I mean its weapons are incredibly powerful
We see that it decimates the entire resistance base in a couple of shots
Something that would admittedly take a traditional turbo laser
orbital barrage a bit more time when sieging a planet
I would use the auto cannons to stress the planetary shield take out key targets precisely
Etc. But it would also be very useful and ship-to-ship combat
My point here is that the mandator 4 is highly flawed, but also a useful asset the asset
First of all needs to be protected those three resurgent star destroyers, which escorted the dreadnought really did absolutely nothing
They're basically in the worst place possible. I would have moved them between the resistance fleet and the dreadnought
They would have helped intercept any incoming fighters and also would have attacked the raddice directly
I mean conventionally the Radice was outgunned here. Yes, we know that
It's a fairly impressive ship but the resurgent well probably not as durable is almost as large
and almost certainly as well armed that gives you a couple of strategies attack the resistance fleet while the mandator handles the ground forces or
Just try to protect your dreadnought. I think either would actually work quite well
The resurgent is actually the perfect vessel for Starfighter screening
We see in the force awakens that it has an advanced point defense system and carries a whole load of TIE fighters
Maybe a single ship like Poe's x-wing
Could have slipped through but I don't see any way those resistance heavy bombers make it past a defensive line if you do go
Defensive. I think it's obvious that the mandator should first target the Raddice
It's not like a planet can hyperspace jump away. The resistance shuttles were fleeing to the capital ship
If you destroy that first
They've got nowhere to go and your TIE fighters can easily pick them off that would have ended the resistance all at once I do
Give the first-order some benefit of the doubt. They probably didn't realize that the evacuation was already taking place
but in that case
There's no excuse not to move the resurgence into position and then aggressively move on the resistance
Also if there's enemies why not launch your Tie's right away. It's like the first order wasn't expecting a fight here
Despite the fact that the cruiser and its escort ships were clearly in position
So get your fighters out
If you're gonna target the cruiser with the mandator form a defensive screen
or if you want to take out both targets at the same time have your other capital ships move on the cruiser which may actually
Jump away then mop up any remaining forces
Either way what they did in this battle was basically the worst thing possible, but that's just my take on everything
What do you think if you were the first-order commander here? What would you have done?
Which target would you have prioritized would you have used one of my two strategies or something else?
Let me know all of that as well as any future video ideas
You'd like to see made down in the comments again
I've done that Empire at war video a lot of you guys were asking for it if you're interested
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This has been eckharts ladder. May the force be with you