Thread by @garius

Fun fact: For the price of an X-Wing you can buy 2.5 TIE fighters.

And that's even before we get to maintenance overhead.

An A-Wing is about 3 TIEs.

Even a B-Wing (twenty year old tech at the time of New Hope) is equivalent to 2.2 TIE fighters.

And the reliability/maintenance overhead on those is HUGE.

This is before we get into working in astromech costs and pilot training costs.

Essentially, your logistics overhead on the Rebel fighter programme is fucking huge.

It's Tigers vs T34s.

Also, at some point we need to acknowledge that the Decisive Battle Doctrine of the Empire pretty much fucking worked twice against the rebellion.

The Rebellion went Jeune École and it was a bad choice. Junior Emo Space Wizard and friends saved them. Twice.

And sorry, but you can't plan your entire naval doctrinal strategy, complete with logistics chain, around the possibility that sad jedi boi is going to pull off a shot that target computers can't.

Or that a bunch of fucking teddy-bears will do over the Imperial Army.

At Yavin the Empire got space wizarded at their moment of triumph. At Hoth they kicked the shit out of the Rebellion. At Endor they successfully forced the inferior Rebel fleet to engage them, on their own terms.

And then the Imperial army got whupped by carebears and ruined it.