Originally posted by Fishy
We never see a real fleet battle from close up, we see a few fighters. Even in ROTJ the Star Destroyers and Super Star Destroyers just sit there... What we see the capitol ships do is nothing compared to what they could do.Those ships however are an incredibly amount more powerful then every ship in the OT. They have more weapons they are bigger faster and they are part of an army that had years to develop. It would be illogical for a fleet to become weaker, and actually everything in EU says a SSD or even a SD is far more powerful then any kind of PT ship.
Just look at the difference between a Star Destroyer
http://www.starwars.com/databank/starship/imperialstardestroyer/index.html
and a Trade federation cruiser
http://www.starwars.com/databank/starship/tradefederationcruiser/index.html
It can not compare, An SSD is even bigger then an SD, it would ravage through the Trade Federation ships... Who were on par with everything the republic had. The PT would be destroyed in naval combat. The ground weapons were also always younger versions of what the OT movies had. The OT had far superior weapons and ships. It did have weaker troops, but the PT only has 1.2 million clones to fight...
The Death Star had about a sixth of that on board of it... 1 battle station, granted a huge one had more then a sixth of that, and the Death Star sure as hell wasn't a Sixth of the imperial navy.
but in those two links you posted...take a look at the weapons category...