Today's video features some new music by the artist Unfound. I'd like to make music more prominent in my videos, but I still consider myself new at video making, so I don't want to mix the audio with the music being too loud. It's louder in this video, and could probably be even louder. Let me know your thoughts. Links to the included music, and Unfound's Bandcamp: Unfound -- Without: www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqOlh... Unfound -- Heaven: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBIsi... Unfound -- Home: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWYkh... Unfound's bandcamp: unfoundmusic.bandcamp.com/

How to fix Imperial fleets in 30 seconds or less. "Tarkin, you're fired. Thrawn, you're in charge now."

New playlist idea “Eck fixes everything”

1) Field TIE Defenders. 2) Field TIE Defenders. 3) Field TIE Defenders. 4) Field TIE Defenders. 5) Just blasted field TIE Defenders instead of wasting credits on a death ball.

"Let's talk about Corvettes" Star Wars Empire At War: *TARTAN PATROL CRUISER REPORTING*

How to troll your enemies: 1: take some Nebulon Bs 2: put all the armour and shields on the middle bit 3: watch the enemy fail at destroying them while you blow them up

Imperials: We have the perfect anti-starfighter ship, the Lancer class! Now we’ll only use it like twice and eventually throw it out!

Scenario: You are the admiral of an Imperial fleet assigned to conquer the heavily fortified Mon Cala system, you must break through the rebel defenses and protect a planetary invasion force. Your fleet cannot be larger than Death Squadron at Endor, but you have your pick if whatever ships the Empire had outside of the Eclipse class. What ships would you choose and how would you use them? (Third attempt) #AskEck

Empire: So guys looks like were facing a rebel insurgency Tarkin: How about we invest trillions into ridiculously large ships and a death laser in space that can be destroyed by a single starfighter? Empire: Sir...... Your a genius

Every time I see that Force Unleashed cutscene I can't see anything other than the ISD bridge missing the shield/sensor globes

So glad you used some clone wars ships even if in small numbers . They are my personal favourites.

Somehow this heavily reminds me of japanese lack of destroyers and antisub means during WWII which made US subs so successful...

Excellent choice to add the Venator, nicely thought through, Admiral.

#AskEck Did the Rebel Alliance ever use Battle Droids?

I actually really like what you did here Eck - You superiority fleets actually FEEL superior (and not just against capital ship threats, or as 'power projection', but across the board). The Escort fleets, while fleshed out far less, also sound pretty good. But I have one last 'fleet type' I'd like to bring up - The 'Imperial Deep Space Expeditionary Force' (IDSEF) fleet. The purpose of such fleets would be for colonisation, large-scale escort, long-range recon, and clearing & patrolling 'uninhabited' sectors (sectors with no planets, asteroid fields, sectors that are only used as multi-jump transit points, etc). Their primary 'threats' would be pirate groups, smugglers, and smaller Rebel 'cells'. They'd need to be fast, have long range, and exceptional sensor and communications capabilities, and would probably have an unusually high ratio of hyperspace capable fighter-craft. A single 'large cruiser' would be the core 'command ship' of such formations, and my own 'head-canon' puts EC Henry's recent "Incursor Class" in the role of such a command ship, supported by Nebulon B1/B2 frigates (maybe a couple of lancers specifically for close support of the HQ ship, but it has 'point defense' capacity of its own), and a large number of corvettes (I went with the CR-91a "Assassin Class" - But the "Raider Class" works too). ~JD

I think the exclusion of Venetors is one of the greatest flaws in Imperial fleet makeups. The Quasar seems like a cheaper alternative to what at one point was classified as a capital-ship class vessel but honestly, an Imperial fleet made up of two Venetors for every ISD would much more succinctly question even large Rebel fleets, due to star fighter numbers alone. Another issue that would supremely fix Imperial superiority and escort fleets is a complete revamp of their star fighters. The entire dogma of “bigger is better” is the reason Imperial fleets are so inferior to even a comparable CIS fleet. Tactical ommand capabilities asside, I’d much rather have a Lucrehulk with a small CIS support fleet over any standard Imperial fleet exlusively for the fighter superiority. The ARC-170s were big and bulky but a multi-purpose ship like that seems right up the Imperial alley. Light bombing, anti-dog fighting (rear mounted cannons), highly specialised recon, and the capability to traverse hyper-space make them one of the objectively best fighters in my opinion. I also think the strange lack of corvettes and other smaller ships is important. Your inclusion of Raiders is an idea I’ve always wondered about since BF2. With (small) hangars and the absolutely disgusting amount of anti-fighter weapons seems like the perfect make up of a lightning strike ship. Having an entire superiority fleet pop up will stop anything from moving forward and the ability ot launch a large squadron of anti-fighter ships close to the enemy would make Thrawn-like maneuvers easy for any Imperial officer.

Wonderful video as always! I still wish the Empire kept the Venator, my favourite ship, but I do understand why they didn’t (both in and out of universe). The Empire is such an amazing force, and I really wish that they were done justice in the universe!

Wait, no GR-75's? How can you ha a fleet, without GR-75's? Clearly you've doomed your crews, with this obvious omission and tactical flaw.

Just wanna share the standard Imperial fleet I always had in my mind, fairly cheap but flexible enough imo 1 Star Destroyer as the flagship 2-4 Arquitens Cruisers as the main support ships because they have a balanced mix between turbo lasers and point defense cannons while also carrying 3-10 star fighters along with torpedo tubes depending on the variant Around 4-6 Raider II Corvettes because they're great corvettes and served their role well 1 Gladiator as the main carrier. The official stats says that it can only carry around 24 fighters but this is most likely an uneducated guess considering it's literally 600 meters long and 126 meters high. Also the fact that it's inside is nearly 99% hangar it makes the official count of 24 starfighter seem like a typo, maybe it was meant to be 240? Metanerdz Lore has done a breakdown on how many starfighter it can actually carry so I'll take his guess of around 220 starfighters(not considering the ceiling mounted TIE-Fighter racks which could easily double or triple this number) a much more acceptable amount of fighter compliment 1 Interdictor Class Star Destroyer for obvious reasons I tried to make it as small as possible since we see most of the time that Star Destroyers often travel alone or just in groups of 3 so I hope this would explain why I used so few ships If I have to go even smaller then I'll go with 1 Star Destroyer as the flagship 3 Arquitens cruisers as anti-everything but capital ships. This will be pushing the capabilities of my cruisers but hey, they have 8 point defense cannons, 8 light turbo lasers, 4 missile tubes and 3-10 starfighter you can't go more cheap and versatile than that especially for a light cruiser 2 Raider II corvettes, I feel like I'm stretching it by adding this two corvettes but if I can this will definitely be great ships to have in my fleet

*There's no Imperial fleet without good old star destroyers*

I would replace the CR-92s and 2 of the Raider corvettes with Tartan-class patrol cruisers and the 2 Nebulon-b frigates with a couple of Arquetins light cruisers.

#askeck Could you do a series on this with every fleet please? Love your videos and keep up the good work!

You propose the Enforcer, I bring up the Procursator. It's a medium-sized star destroyer, slightly larger than a Victory, that with its powerful frontal batteries can provide more than half of the ISD II's firepower, and can contend with the Star Destroyer's main Octuple batteries in terms of range. That of course does mean that you would have to sacrifice the Enforcer's interdiction technology, So I personally wouldn't include it in fleets designed to hunt rebels groups, rather those designed to defend vulnerable targets against strikes from faster rebel support ships.

9:28 How dare you! I accuse you of treason against the grand army of the republic.

I feel that the Victory/Victoria-class SDs and the Venadors are criminally under-rated.

An Empire set in galaxy with hundreds of billions of stars would be impossible to control or defend since it would be impossible to find and destroy any rebellion, especially if there is so much place to hide and you only have a few hundred thousand ships at your disposal.

#AskEck Would it be reasonable to refit the Venator Star Destroyer with octuple barbet turbolasers instead of just dual turbolasers, multiplying its potential firepower by 4 times. Edit: added askeck tag

I fully agree with your fleet. Though I might occasionally replace the Carracks with either Strike class or Dreadnaught class cruisers. Or most likely varying between the three, Carracks being the more common of the three but I feel the other two could from time to time take its place

HEY! I just used your superiority Imperial fleet design in the Empire at War Remake Mod, and I was able to DECIMATE a rebel fleet within 2 minutes as compared to 10 minutes. :)

Dont forget to give the Venator a mid life upgrade like most ships undergo, along with increased automation, increase shields, better reactor add more turbo lasers to its dorsal side for coverage (just more in general) and lower the bridges cause damn they are tall

Designer: "So, how do you want the basic design?" Emperor: "It could definitively use a stupidly big bridge with no other support systems". Warlords: "Great idea, we should also make the point defense systems non existent and also the Starfighters should resemble one use suicide crafts". Emperor: "Yes, yes, Dark side aprroves." Designer: Poker face. 😐

I feel like the venator's turbo lasers are underrated as its turbo lasers are classified as heavy turbo lasers and they can draw power directly from the reactor to just keep on firing endless volleys of turbo laser fire. But that's just one man's opinion

The acclemator isn't that ugly, it's just the bridge that ruins the look. It looks like that sentient Pixar Light

Me looking at this video's way to fix the navy: _this is brilliant_ but I prefer this. Take your favorite blue boy with a 300IQ count, clone it, spread it and Voila! (sure it those not "fix" the navy in term of ship but I feel like most ship are fine it's just how they're used in a wrong way.)

Vs matchup Sgt. Johnson(Halo) vs Captain Rex(Star Wars)

I’d love to see an equivalent of this for the Rebels, Republic and CIS. Great vid.

I quite like the acclamator. Outside of that I like this fleet comp for sure. I also can see 2 Venators escorting a ISD. Also since the empire used droids, guarding key planets they could have kept the lukrahulks to be essentially planet guarding mobile space stations.

Step 1,... REMOVE PLOT ARMOR!!!

Love going back through these older videos for the Eck doctrine.

Great vid Eck, I always enjoy Star Wars KZfaqrs that make sense!

Love your content eck keep it up

Personally i think the Empire would require an entirely different approach to capship design. Their fleet seems geared towards fighting an enemy with equal capship focus, which the Rebellion just isn´t. Or any other faction left after the Clone Wars. None are a viable threat requiring such a layout for a main capital ship like the IMPSTAR.

Dunno if you had done this but would love to see a sort of series of fixing fleets for every faction since, other than the rebels, almost all the time factions composed their fleets poorly. (Republic with their "3 Venators for all", CIS munificent spam, Empire ISD spam, etc). It also helps to give a better understanding of how to build fleets for EaW.

I know I'm extra late to this, but any fleet that involves one or more Venators is good enough for me. They might not be the best ship, but I think they're very underrated and are very useful when placed with other ships. Plus, like you said, they are a carrier too, I doubt you could fit any AT-ATs within them, but once again, as you mentioned, this job would likely be given to the ISD instead and would allow the Venator to carry fighters instead and a lot of them at that, plus with a seemingly easy to access hangar, they'd be easy to deploy and easy to land into incase they needed to retreat. Though their defence capability isn't as good as the ISD, I feel it would still give any opponent a good fight.

It would be nice if there was an Imperial remodeled/upgraded Venator. In other words, something that looks more imperial.

This is fantastic. Also, could you direct a SW film battle? yes.

I want to see an updated Essential Guide to Warfare that has Canon stats for everything.

Good episode! Nice Imperial fleet formation. You’re strong with the Dark Side....

Might not be a bad idea to strip the turbo lasers off the Venator and replace them with more laser cannons. That way it can provide extra anti-fighter defense towards the fleets vulnerable rear.

My Fleet or Flotilla task force composition would consist of: 1 ISD, 1 Interdictor, 1 Victory class, 1 Venator, 6 Raider Corvettes

Great video Echhart! It's why I subscribed to you channle. And I really liked the music also. It was still "you" while still being mellow and relaxing.

A very extremely great video as always EckhartsLadder, and I agree with you fleet set up.

Damn, the empire should have hired this man, he seems to be an actual General!

The perfect fleet is simply the Eclipse II equipped with a plot armor jamming system :)

I would personally also add Tartan class patrol cruisers. Wookieepedia states that they were as armed and armored as a Lancer, but about as fast as a Carrack. They've only really appeared in Empire at War, so I have no idea if they're still even canon or not. Great video though, keep it up!

I think, that you could maybe even downscale it further, because the imp. Fleets always had the higher firepower until the later phase of the rebellion( and some excuses here and there). I think you could make the Victory Star Destroyer the capital Ship of the Fleet and put some ISD‘s in strategic/key locations from where they could quickly reinforce the smaller Fleets with the Victorys, because the empire always dictated capital Ship size. Also replace the Tie fighter of possible.

Great video also here are some ideas Unsc Inifinty vs Uss Enterprise Master Chief vs Samus Aran Samus Aran Vs Darth Vader

The venitor class works for the carrier and victory 1 and 2 work then the ISD 1 and 2 are heavy duty. Thank you for this!

The music in your videos is amazing 👌

Well, I'd say you pretty much nailed it. Especially giving Acclamators in to the mix. While primarily transports, these babies throw quite a punch, so you effectively have cruiser grade ships added in to the mix, while carying supplies for the rest of the fleet. One thing I would do with the Venator might actually be long ramge plasma gun, akin to to Aggressor class, if it would fit, giving the Venator aditional functionality as long range artilery support.

The Tarkin Doctine. Such an ineffective strategy. The Empire would have benefited greatly without it.

Imagine worrying about tactics or fleet composition, instead of sending 10 big space doritos to solve the problem

Love see you try to fix and design the Sith empire from Swtor. ^^

I think having the venator in the rear is a great way to cover the isd as ties didnt have hyper drives so it makes sense that ties would deploy from the venator to cover the isd as it's ties would be deployed after creating a swarm

No Arquitens ? I think they may be good support ship that could fulfil both anti capital ships and anti fighters. Put some Ion cannons and anti fighters gun, and you have a nice ship against pirates and rebells.

Refitted Dreadnought class heavy cruisers, one or two of these could greatly improve combat effectiveness vs capital ships

Like the new background music. I’ve had Unfound’s music on Spotify for ages

Yay a much needed video

Wassup eck Love your vids I have a question: What do you think is the best role in the Clone army? #AskEck

9:30 "She was built in Republic times, held together by bits of bind" "We're waiting for the day, waiting for the day! Waiting for the day that we get our pay"

Yay, new vid :v thanks for something to watch before sleep dd

Very interesting and good design of a fleet. I like it.

#ASKECK Can you do the Gray Paladins from coruscant nights? They're a Jedi faction that used blasters and other weapons one was so good that she was able to send one of her own bolts straight up an enemy's blaster barrel. They also believed in using the force as little as possible so they focused on other skills like martial arts and military tactics like guerrilla warfare, urban tactics, espionage, and infiltration.

I'm Empire at War, I'd always use the same Imperial Fleet build, 1 ISD backed up by 2 Vics and 4 Accumulators. If I had the option I'd throw in 2 Venators, superior fire power mixed with flexibility.

never get tired of that intro XD

Another great video!!!!

Why the Enforcer rather than the Vindicator?

"how to fix imperial fleets" so I got this new idea, we kamikaze our ships against the consortium, then we initiate Operation Bullet Hell and rebuild the fleet, using all our pop cap to build broadsides and tartan patrol cruisers.

Ever considered the Tartan Patrol Craft from Legends? Also, Unfound sounds amazing! Thanks for advertising his work Eck!

Assuming I can refit the ships to have a similar hyperdrive rate and sunlight speed, I would do 1 ISD, 1 victory, and one venator as my core, a pair of interdictors as support, and a pair of quasars as support, 4 nebulon B, and fill the rest of the complement with raiders and cr90s. For small craft, the quasars would be assigned wings of gunships, the ISD would be assigned its standard endor complement as to include interceptors and bombers and the venator would be assigned a wing of arc 170s, a wing of defenders and the standard ties to fill out the rest.

Tarkin has disliked the video.

to me, adding 2 Venator's and 10 Quasar's would drastically increase their fleet capabilities a trio of Victories and Acclimator's for support and land invasion/cargo transport raider's and CR92's for anti-fighter capability along with Lancer and Carrek ship's to support and for other option's, an interdictor with Nebulon B's in escort to help my fleet if anything, I would like to upgrade any if not all of these ship's to be better suited for flexibility and combat

Strike Cruisers and Escort Carriers, the ECs were almost as fast as a Quasar but had more hanger space, and Strike Cruisers were some of the faster strike craft in the Imperial Navy and packed some serious firepower for their size.

Love this sort of theory craft

Weird you didn't include much the gladiator star destroyer... 🤔 They were designed specifically for ISD support.

Arquitens be crying in the corner 😔

congrats still on the wedding... great job man

Great video!

Easy just redesign everything to make the reasonable and terrifying.

Eck, why not consider the Tartan Partol corvette instead of the CR90? yes the CR90 is better, but the TP has a more "imperial" look to it :)

Even though I'm not an expert on all three ships, this makes sense to me. This what you do creates variety and gives more types of ships to the table. I would definitely also use Vemators as support ships. I would also use them for rebel fleets ad carriers. They have lots of space for fighters so that is an asset.

The quotes from the Essential Guide to Warfare made me very happy

I think you are asking for too much in this list. You have 7 different models of ships and three of which are very large capitol ships. The production cost for one battle group is far too large. You also have to remember that some of the ships are far too similar. Why are you using carracks and nebulons. Also why cr95s and raiders. It makes no sense. Why use the enforcer as extra firepower when the venator provides that and carries fighers.

Why wouldn't you use a DP20 over the CR90?? Especially if you were using your corvettes for anti- starfighter screening??? #askeck

Fleet’s and space tactics are the video’s I am hunting right now and I am again excited to find myself watching an Eckhart video.

What about the Imperial strike -class cruiser? It is also sometimes referred to as the imperial strike cruiser. These were meant to be both cheap and modular, while supporting at least 2 squadrons of fighters. Fast and capable of taking on most capital ships except ISDs (where you might need 2-3). The only real downside is that the ship itself looks like an elongated white poo. But poo aesthetic aside... its a good ship. And what about dreadnaughts, especially for the support fleet? They are old, but sturdy and cheap!

Random admiral: versatility is a key to victory! Fire power isn't everything! Malos Vrykan: ahem-ahem. Same admiral: on the other hand, only cucks would deny the inevitable: fire power is superior to everything.

#AskEck *Attempt 572* Can you please do the Forerunners vs Warhammer 40k factions. Just listen to the fans. We're kinda tired of lore videos.

Eckharts: Hey guys I put out a new video Audience: cool Eckharts: There’s a Venator in the thumbnail Audience: HOLY SHIT PLAY IT RIGHT NOW

I'm really happy that you included the Venator class. Also, I love the Acclamator. It's not the best looking, but it certainly beats out the Praetor mk. II for me (I find that ship hideous).