The Acclamator in ‘03 clone wars launched an accurate amount of LAAT gunships to invade a planet instead of just 4

Palpatine's plan seems to rely heavily on that everyone is incompetent. If there was a competent naval officer, they probably start asking basic questions to realize something was off. "The C.I.S. completely out guns us, has more advance tech that should be easy to produce with their industry and has a brilliant strategy, why does it seem like they are holding back?" "Why are there so many calls going out and from to C.I.S. planets from the Chancellor's office?"

"Master Sifo-Dyas requested the most powerful army in the galaxy. We have worked with only the best shipbuilders to fulfill that request." - Lama Su about the Acclamator-class ships for the Grand Army of the Republic

Im glad the Acclamator is getting some love, its definitely my favorite large ship from the Clone Wars. It's not flashy, but it gets the job done

I think the writers had to limit Anakin’s tactical prowess. I mean, the man is a walking war crime, could you imagine if he had more than three brain cells?

Okay, I wanna see the Kaminoans' first reactions to the Acclamator, because clinical as they are, even *they* must have been overjoyed at what Geetsly called their "dream ship"

While the Acclamator's were good ships they lacked the sensors and command and control capabilities of the Venator's. So while the ratio of numbers of each built should of been tweaked, the Venator still has an important job to do.

It is a shame that the Acclamators weren't shown that much in Star Wars The Clone Wars seasons. Hopefully Bad Batch Season 2 would rectify it as the Empire would have to use the Clone Wars-era ships and should not transition to current Imperial ones that quickly like they did with the Clone Troopers and Kamino.

the crew count of the Fighter Based Acclamator would probably go up cuz fighters need work teams and they would probably be categorized as ships crew, though being smaller and faster would make them a better carrier. id go with an Acclamator and some destroyer based ships, kinda like how we do it in real life.

I like the "Gunship" variant in Republic at War. It replaces the hangar and troop storage with a bunch of missile tubes.

having acclamators and venetors mixed together in a fleet of empire at war is fun to see also with arquinten ship support

Sovereign-class Reaper: "Our numbers shall darken the skies." Kuat of Kuat: "Hey, Bobby! Make more of them Acclimator things, then dunk on that over-sized cuttlefish."

I loved the level on that acclamator ship in republic commando!

Want you to know I never give a shit about the Star Wars vehicle breakdowns, or really anything that isn't character stories, but I still click and play it to give you views because you are one of the more genuine and accurate Star Wars channels on KZfaq. Keep it up and always do what makes ya happy

One of the cooler aspects of the Acclamator, which was shown in the 2003 animated series (and maybe the newer show too can’t remember) was that it was designed to float on the surface of the ocean. Makes sense when you think about who commissioned them but it’s still pretty cool :)

It was underused because of the cost and issues that came with it the empire used these for a bit until there new star destroyers arrived painted in empire colours then scrapped some maintained Republic colours as these where slowly phased out during the early rise of the empire.

Acclamators and Venators are both great ships. The Venator was extremely well designed just not used in the proper role.

I imagine there would be at least one Republic admiral who rolled around with something like 150 of these things specced into various fleet roles and the Flagship vessel being surrounded by 4-8 other Acclamators which were modified to have extra shield generators and point defense.

Sounds like the Acclamator is a better deal than the Venator to be honest fast, intense, and versatile in its own way and didn't need much crew members awesome detail on the Acclamator Geetsly keep up the good work dude 10/10.

For some perspective the largest non super volcanic eruption was mt.tambora at a vei of 7 and it was estimated to be only 2-3 gigatons were the famous krakatoa was 200 magatons.the turbolasers on the ship are truly amazing

I've always had a dream-regiment that i'd develop if i was a Jedi general, and the acclamator would always be my choice of ship for that regiment.

The Acclamator and the Munificent where the best ships of their respective factions. Highly versatile and incredibly flexible, they where able to use their strenghts to overome their weaknesess! They are my two favorite starships in Star Wars!

The acclamator was probably one of if not the most adaptable ship in the clone wars, the empire wasted them as by using them to transport slaves. The republic didn't use all their ships properly, also i think hera syndulla had one of these to.

The Fotr Acclamator 1, carrier class, is overpowered with its fighter support, its useful as long as it is not targeted, which it usually is.

I wish they remade Star War Empire at War but added a Clone Wars Era. That would be sweet

Don't forget that the Prosecutor, an Acclamator that had gone dark but was quickly repaired by the Clone Commando's of Delta Squad, and the Arrestor, which had come to assist after answering an SOS call managed to cripple and then destroy a Lucrehulk class droid control ship in the Corbantis system. Strong little ships.

According to Empire at War the Acclamator remained in front-line service with the Imperial Navy as a support craft well after the Venerator was retired. And I love that.

"So much better than the venator" Meanwhile in TCW: Gets one shot by a ground proton cannon

The Acclamator class Cruiser is one of my favorite ships in Star Wars. I always loved the design and how tough and reliable it was. It definitely needed more love in my opinion. If there were more Acclamators in alot of the battles in the Clone Wars, they definitely would have gone different. But that's just my opinion.

A note on turbolasers: not all turbolasers are equal. The dual turbo lasers mounted on the Venator were far more powerful than the quad turbolasers on the Acclimator. Think of it like the WWII warships: the 8-10" guns mounted on cruiser versus the 16" guns of a main line battleship.

I love both the Acclamator-class and Venator-class warships! Both are my favorite in the Republic. Though the Acclamator does deserve more attention.

I miss the clone wars era before revenge of the Sith came out. I love seeing all the phase 1 clones and acclimator ships were my childhood

i love your videos geetsly! your videos cover all the things i wanted to know and i love the references/comparisons to other ships you make so it makes it easier to understand. thanks for the vids and keep making these awesome videos!

Great video, thanks for the presentation. I had a question, that part where you say "proved a match for Lucrehulk-class Core ships, though they struggled against some of the larger Separatist vessals" ? I was under the impression Lucrehulk's were larger than everything Separatist's had bar the Malevolence. Just wondering what larger ships you were referring to.

I really like the acclamator. It is definitely a great Assault ship. It's probably my favorite one for sure. I remember playing republic commando and exploring the variant that was designed for that specific game.

if the Republic has its own Tactical Droids, they will immediately spotted this flaw and asked for more Acclamator-class warships to be deployed. Of course, Palpatine can just given them false promise until the Outer Rim Sieges started because he needed to secure all possible routes to make the Republic came out on top.

I always loved the Acclamator, but I believe they should have use it in conjunction with the Venator more often, the former being the main anti-capital ship brawler while the Venator fulfill it's Carrier role while also providing fire support with it's powerful heavy turbolasers

8:48 lmaoo that line made my day

I appreciate that you did not mention the Acclamator II's crew requirements. I have discovered a discrepancy in the Acc II's crew requirements on wookeepedia. The -pedia claims that the Acc I requires 700, referencing the cross-section, while the Acc II requires 20141, referencing the SWSaga d20. Both Accs require the same number of crew in the d20 at 20141 crew each. Since both Accs have the same number of crew in the d20, then it can be assumed that the cross-section crew of 700 would apply to both Accs. Though the Acc II would possibly have an additional 50-150 crew to man the additional weapons (my opinion on that). As for the 16000 troops carried, it breaks down to 9,000 fighting troops and 6,000 HQ and support troops. Those support troops would include field medic, mechanics, drivers and pilots for all the vehicles in the bay. Accs were mobile homes for these troopers after all. As for why the Republic opted to deploy Venators over Accs for space battles, was that the Ven's 8 dual heavy turbolasers (which had much better firing angles and outputs than the Acc's quad light Turbolasers), They had medium turbolaser and more than doubled the Heavy Laser Cannons that the Accs had, along with an extensive fighter complement made them better equipped for taking on the larger ships that the CIS had in ship to ship battle and more roles. The Jedi also took a liking to the ships design and size, often making them their flagships. This is why the Venator is also referred to as the Jedi Cruiser (called cruisers by the CIS as they did not use the same ship classification system). Of course, the Jedi were supposed to be peacekeepers, not warriors in command of troops, so they had to learn much in the heat of battle on how to lead armies. This is why they often had poor judgement in combat tactics (could be seen as a similar learning curve that American officers during the American Civil War had to go through). it does makes for good and fun storytelling, though. Going forwards to the Empire. They had at least 3 reasons for removing the Accs and Vens (at least out of frontpage news) and replacing them with the ISD. 1st, the Republic ships symbolized Democracy and the Jedi Order to many worlds that saw them in action. So, phasing out the Republic's and Jedi's presence was an important part of the emperor's plans. 2nd, the ISD was a larger and more intimidating vessel than the Accs and Vens, though the ISD was essentially an Acc and Ven combined, as it took features from both (Troop/cargo capacity and HQ/control capabilities from the Acc, Weapons and fighter capabilities from the Ven). Lastly, to fill the ISD's crew (37k-47k crew + 9k troopers), they'd need to indoctrinate massive numbers from the planets under their control. This made many of them diehard loyalists to the emperor, (them and their planets). That means less likely of an uprising, on the planets they controlled. In closing I love both the Accs and Vens greatly. The Clone Wars is probably my favorite era. (Though, for sentimental reasons I like the Original Trilogy best).

The class 0.6 hyperdrive with its 250,000 light-year range is insane.

My belief is that the Acclamator was superior in terms of utility, however the larger size and reputation of the Venator was symbolically important. Given the ships didn't initially have hangar bays, it would be a massive oversight to have your primary command be positioned in a ship that wasn't specialized for naval combat so much as troop transport and overwatch. The separatist fleets knew to focus Venators because of the threat their presence posed above ground. Troop transports were likely targeted more so by orbital defenses rather than fleets which explains the massive firepower the Acclamators possessed. They weren't meant to draw attention. They cut through the skies and obliterated anything that would threaten the landing process for the GAR. They were uncompromising in their roles and were likely far more abundant than shown. Since the shows and movies focus around the main characters, troop transports are less of a priority.

Not to mention, the Acclamator is simply badass.

I'd rather be a captain of an Acclamator over the Venator.

The most amount of hype i got when playing as the zaan consortioum in empire at war is when i unlock this bad boy through imperial Black market. The fighters it carries, the torpedos and laser cannons it bears. It May snap in half if a big ship focuses on it but man, it gets The job done.

This is good to know as I always viewed the acclimator as a troop carrier good for only that, and being fat targets for the CIS

Dang, I've been completely underestimating the Acclamtors seen in Episode 2 and the first season or so of The Clone Wars. These ships are awesome. I still like the Venators, but these ships are easily now my number 2 favorite and I'd put them in my fleet right alongside the Ventors.

Yeah the term "turbolaser" contains a wide spread of weapons, it's basically what we call cannons. The Turbolasers of Aclamators aren't visible, wich would suggest that they are fairly small. While on a Venator you have large visible turrets with big cannons. It's probably compareable with that Aclamators TLs have a smaller caliber like say 20-30mm while Venators have 120-150mm. The damage difference are worlds apart

I think it's very interesting but probably not as realistic as you make it. First the raw materials for that number of Acclamators would be difficult to get. Also like a single shot from an artillery piece in the ryloth saga brought on of those ships down. I find it hard to believe they could battle it out with a capital ship for a while.

I'm a little confused on the cost of the Acclamator vs the Venator. Even in the new canon sources Rise of the Separatists & Collapse of the Republic, the Venator cost was 59,000,000 credits while the Acclamator was 110,000,000 credits. From those costs, an Acclamator would be nearly twice as expensive as a Venator. Were there cheaper variants or am I missing something? Also another missed opportunity in the New Republic era. If I was a senator with clout, I would've had CEC analyse the schematics and create a new modular, efficient, & cost-effective successor to the Acclamator. Any weaknesses could be covered by fielding new variants and repair issues would be solved with shared parts commonality (or ingenuity from older Rebel veterans).

This is literally my FAVORITE Star Wars ship. Built so many in EAW

Hmm...I wonder if this video will source the book that claims the Accamator's turbolaser has a 200Gigaton power output per shot.

depends if the crew was more expensive then the metals to craft it they had a lot of disposable clones

My idea for my Repúblic fleet: 4 Acclamator class for land invasión 3 Venator class for charging the neccesary equipment and ships to protect a planet or doing an invasión 4 Victory class for get reiforcement

Honestly, my ideal Clone Wars era Republic fleet would feature Acclamators as the backbone of the fleet, supported by Venators in a dedicated carrier role, and supported by Arquitens-class light cruisers and Carrack cruisers as support-screening ships. Ideally I’d also be able to field Victory Star Destroyers along with Imperial-I Star Destroyers, Secutor-class Star Destroyers, Mandator II-class Star Dreadnoughts, and Praetor-class Battlecruisers.

The Acclamator is hands down my favourite ship. So versatile, well-armed, and good looking.

I always loved the Acclamator. It is extremely adaptable to almost all combat situations, capable of taking on opponents, that the Venator would not be able to even hold a candle to. Granted, Venator never was supposed to go into combat directly but given how it was used, Acclamators would have been better choice instead on the front line, with Venators providing support from way behind.

I could be wrong about this but I remember the Acclamator being unarmed in Canon

Gtreat art . Nice spacedock.i remember that image.

I always figured the acclimators were TOO good for palatine's plan...they made the battle lean TOO far in the republic's favor as he wanted it to drag out and be close, while giving himself time to groom anakin

Not to mention the fact that two Acclamator, one fully crewed and one operated by a Republic Commando Squad took down a Lucrehulk with relative ease. And the Lucrehulk had the advantage of damaging the Commando Acclamator well before the fully crewed one arrived.

Multiple variants could be made of such a vessel. Troop transport, fighter carrier, anti-capital ship just loaded with guns and missile batteries, even mobile hospitals. Near endless possabilities

I remember this ship from Republic Commando, my favourite mission.

The solution is almost never just "Bring more of x" The reason the Venator is in the role it's in is because space battles during the clone wars mostly played out like battle during the War in the Pacific. Running a bunch of cruiser's down mid won't do you any good when the enemy has wave after wave of fighters and bombers. Whatever ships do end up reaching the enemy will then just get their teeth kicked in by the enemies battle line because they didn't just suicide charge and hope for the best. The Acclamator is very good for the role it is in but there is more to battle than just the ship's stat sheet.

Great job 👏🏻

7:44 I've gotta wonder why Fluttershy and Scout from TF2 are just casually standing there...

This is a video I can get behind!

I've always loved the Acclamator. Such a great looking ship

@geetslys great vid! Did you happened to stumble upon ANY kind of recent (ie last 15 years) visuals of an acclamators actually having a heavy weaponry? Cause i can't remember seen them actually firing with anything rather than AA point defense, let alone being a line battleship ahead of less armored venators...

Anyone who ever played Republic Commando knows exactly how huge those torpedo tubes really were.

The problem is, the Venator was the 'aircraft carrier' of the time, whilst as stated, the Acclamator was more akin to a heavy cruiser. The problem is, aircraft carriers should never be deployed as 'frontline vessels', but the Republic (and the Jedi) were quite happy with that. When the Malevolence was discovered, and eventually found attempting to attack a medical station, three Venators were sent after it.... the problem is, they didn't have the firepower to inflict anything more than minor damage. If 5 Acclamators were assigned to that role, with a couple of Venators for fighter support, the Malevolence would not have survived that engagement.

I always thought of the acclamator as a cute but durable venator cousin. I loved the republic commando mission on that one acclamator class too hehe

It’s basically a one man army crack open the orbital defences and then stage a large scale planetary invasion with one ship

Acclamators have always been my favorite ship from the Clone Wars.

The Acclamator is so underrated. Such an efficient ship, low crew requirements and huge capacity for troops and vehicles and FAST.

It's largely reasonable to expect the Gigaton number to actually be gigajoule... ending up in the *many* megaton range, exactly what you'd need repeatable firepower enough to Base Delta Zero a planet over a day or so. Both reasonable, and in line with what we see the ship being able to do in recorded lore. If a mere Acclaimator could fire multiple 300 gigaton shots, then the SWG could vaporize WH 40k Spacehulks in minutes. I doubt we'd scale Star Wars capital ships to such a tier.

When I saw that thing land on the water and deploy hundreds of troops I got chills

The best option is a mix of Venator and Acclamator. Venator it a great carrier tonit at the center with Acclamators escorting it is a win

Although slow, I still think my favorite was the victory. 12 quad turbos, 40 double turbos, and 80 concussion missile launchers. I imagine if anyone was on a planet seeing this appear in the air, all you could do is pee your pants and cry.

The two ships were made to act as a system. The Venator was a carrier (though poorly used in that role). The Acclimator was a heavy frigate/multirole ship.

Arquitens III for patrol. ... Eh, we'll get there. May The Force Be With You.

Yea, and the Imperial 2 supposedly had 60 turbo-laser banks, but we’ve only ever seen them firing from like 8 dorsal deck turrets. The stats have never actually lined up with the on-screen abilities of Star Wars ships.

I decided I would buy one that was about to be scraped and refitted it into a proper warship. I removed most of the cargo space, gave it 4 octople turbolasers (2 dorsal 2 ventral), added some ion cannons, and gave it some tie defenders. Im using imperial tech because that's when I bought it.

I’m a bit skeptical about the claims of those turbolasers tbh. From my understanding, the primary armament is listed as ‘turbolasers,’ but it’s unknown if they’re of the medium, light, or heavy variety. The Venator has eight heavy ones, and they’re incredibly large guns given the size of the rest of the ship. By comparison, the gun towers on the sides of the first Death Star trench in ANH are classified as ‘turbolasers’ too, despite their size and comparably low power level. Given how we don’t really see any guns, barbettes, or much else in the acclimator trenches, I think these turbolasers might be closer in size and power to the ones it’s supposed to have. Acclimators also seem to be too small to have a reactor system large and/or powerful enough to be cheap, incredibly fast, and provide enough power to operate turbolasers of the caliber described in the video, while *also* affording enough space onboard to carry thousands of troopers and hundreds of vehicles. Star Wars is pretty infamous for putting down numbers to sound impressive without actually thinking about them or cross-referencing if they work with other material, and I think this is an example of that issue.

In one of the star wars the clone wars episodes one aclamator got taken out by 1 shot from a grounded flack gun

You know what's incredibly interesting? You can literally bring stock acclimators, and line the tops with vulture droids which don't actually use hangers, and then have a space and air superiority compliment to target other ships and secure air superiority planetside to have a safer LAAT landing. Imagine that nightmare.

The Acclamator shared the huge weakspot in the back of the vessel with the Venator. The totally exposed engines. Notice none of the actual star destroyer class ships had engines sticking out. The Acclamator did it for cargo and crew capacity, Venator for room for the massive flight deck.

Me and the clanks just chillin at some random backwater planet until 24 fucking Acclamators pop out of hyperspace to a planet in bumbfuck no where. "Sir, what happened? They usually just deploy a couple venators!" *They hired an economist...*

I've made it a point to conquer the galaxy in Empire at War with only Acclamators. Those proton torpedoes, or missiles depending on the mod, are no joke. They are especially handy as a lot of mods allow you to build them just about anywhere so you could have dozens of them by the time you get an actual capital ship out.

Don't forget these things could float on water like massive ocean liners on water worlds like Mon Calamari (at least in legends).

Ya know, I'm surprised the Rebels didn't use the Acclamator much. Some of the only remaining Clone War Era Naval assets were left in the Outer-Rim so... why not snag a few? Basically mobile rebel bases, is what I'm thinking here. Sure, 700 people is still a lot for the early rebels to crew a ship with, but surely doable later on.

It would have served very well as a front line warship complemented by smaller cruises and corvettes as well as a fully stocked venator rather then a venator only partly filled with fighters

I would keep a some acclamators for emergency personnel transfer and emergency suppression post war but would rely on the modified Venators as an aircraft/assault carrier and for patrol post war since the empire would have gone from war to peace keeping. If necessary you could modify the acclamator design to be a cruiser or destroyer to provide defense for the Venator which giving it cost of production is a great bargain(you maybe able to keep most the assault ship capabilities if you really value it). I would say the lower crew requirement sounds great for a troop transport but anything that’s going to be used as an aircraft carrier will need a large contingency of pilots, people to maintain vehicles and manage traffic around the ship. One thing that prequels and got right was doctrine, ship designs and fleet composition. You’re still going to need some kind of battleship SSD but those are your heavy hitters so not as many. The Acclamator is underrated but in it’s original design not suited to meet the demands empires’s demands but the durability & versatility of the design would allow retrofitting to be a better cost saving measure.

The Acclamator was essentially a mini Imperial-1 Star Destroyer that could actually land on the ground and it was significantly cheaper. Largest downside to it was that it was lightly armored

If i was a pirate during the civil war, i would steal a acclamator class assault ship (the empire literally scrapped all of em)

Venator/ Star Destroyer: I am happy that I am the backbone of the Republic/ Imperial Navy. Acclamator/ Light Cruiser: Child's play, I can be deployed in massive numbers and I don't even have that much major weak spots.

3 venators or 30 Acclamators hmm yeah I'm choosing the the 30 Acclamators 10 normal version, 10 fighter carries and 10 heavily armed version that would make one dangerous fleet that the Separatists would learn to fear.

Pretty dope ship but also confirms that the republic\empire has an obsession with triangle shaped vehicles.

It’s wild that the bridge of the Acclamator looks like Jar Jar’s head.

Arquitence class light cruiser, please discuss how it would be used in a battle alongside acclamator and venerator.

Umm, For anything _'Star Wars'_ , I am just in love with the _'Venator-class'_ and everything _'Trade Federation/Federation'_ ❤️ Remained in pride of half-sized _'Venator-class'_ in a game _'Avorion'_ (due to small-gates limitation)...