[CaptainCrunch]

So this is in fact either an indication of Hux's incompetence, or First Order arrogance.


At the start of TLJ we see three of the Resurgance Class Star Destroyers jumping into the system


Each Star Destroyer according to the Star Wars Source books has 2 complete wings of fighters, each wing has 72 ships. One wing is of the Standard Tie Class, the other the two seat SF class. So each ship carries 144 and there are three ships. That's a total of 432 fighters. The Resurgence class is suppossed to have 1500 turbo lasers, point defense turrets and Ion Cannons, though that goes against the first movie when Poe and Finn blasted very few.


The Dreadnought that we saw is a Mandator IV, it has a wing of 72 tie fighters, so that takes you up to slightly more then 500. It has 26 point defense turrets, and 6 overlapping deflector shields.


The Resistance was caught with their pants down, they had one cruiser that carried a squadron of A wings and a squadron of X wings, that's a total compliment of 24 fighters, it also only had 18 turbo lasers and a dozen point defense turrets. They also had a medical frigate and a couple of other support ships.



The Resistance Star Fortress bomber which I think they had 9 of each carries 1048 proton bombs, only one bomber made it through.



So here's the funny. Hux had a 25 to 1 fighter advantage. One fighter managed to take out probably a dozen point defense weapons on the Dreadnaught and the Resistance still managed to blow up a heavily armored and shielded and armed dreadnought with basically one fighter and one bomber.


It doesn't get more incompetent then that.


Then to compound it, Hux calls Ren back after he's blown up the Raddus' hanger destroying any fighter cover because he's worried that he can't cover fighters, when he has 500 tie fighters against a ship with less point defense turrets then the dreadnought.


So either Hux is incompetent, he's a coward, the first order is staffed by boobs, or secretly Hux was in love with Princess Leia and wanted her to get away while he pretends to look like he's doing something.


This battle should have ended within 10 minutes of the First Order jumping in.



Of course I understand that this is a movie and they need to have the plucky resistance escaping overwhelming odds, its in the lets write a movie guide book.


But it just goes back to the problem that every step of the way the First Orders look like they're commanded by Laurel and Hardy and staffed by soldiers who's brains have been replaced with cabbage.


At least have the resistance getting away and Leia looking at Holdo and saying, if these guys weren't such boobs we'd be dead now.


oh and having a remote control that's not tied to anything used to drop the bomb just seems like its a problem waiting to happen


"Bombs away!!"


"Sorry Sir Johnson dropped it down the well and out of the ship"