@jwwprod: Sorry for the late reply Jw, I have been really busy. I still have to do Killers, and I haven't had time to do much of anything lately.
Oh lords. You had to bring in Clone War ships? That always brews the crap storm.
The largest problem with Star Wars ships is that we have variable yields. If we use Movies and TCW, their yields are going to be very low because their ships are not only engaging in 'knife fighting' range, but the real kicker is we see them fighting in sub-orbit where larger yields would be... well... it would be fairly obvious to see. Six AT-TE tanks put down a CIS Frigate... so yea, cardboard armor for the win! That said, BC have never shown me amazing durability either.
EU has some instances of higher yields, I can't find much on Acclamators and Venators, but I do have a lot on ISDs like it taking hundreds of missiles to put one down, Vaders tanking three cruisers coming out of hyperspace and crashing right on top of them. Venators had the guns to match the later ISD-1, but I will not use ISD durability and say Venators share it because they shouldn't. We can 'scale down' and try to figure it out from there, but that takes time and energy I don't really want to use as I have been tied down lately and don't really have the time to dedicate to sit down and hash out the 'rough calcs'.
ICS puts the Acclamator at 200 Gigatons. While its point defense turrets are putting out MT. If we use ICS, Acclamator, alone, devastates everything. Given its shields has to tank multiple near 200 gigaton shots as, if the Acclamator is that then the equivalent CIS ships have to be close, and it can solo small (This is me being conservative) fleets of BC without difficulty.
So, in essence, it goes Movies/Cartoons << EU <<<<<<<<<<< ICS
Depends on which one you want to use. People tend to forget that the Venator is also a Carrier carrying a very large number of spacecraft fighters. I mean large amount like... Really? Large as in take a ISD II and multiple its 72 fighters by three then some.
So Movies/TCW: BC would be roughly equal to Acclamators
EU and scaling down from ISD-1: Acclamator, Venators > BC
ICS: Star Wars Ships >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> BC
I assume for sake of balance we are using Movies/TCW? In which case, the fight in space is now irrelevant as they are going to be shooting at each other while trying to keep the other from giving the other ground support.
As for Mandalorians, they are better then Clone Troopers vastly so. Mandalorian Supercommandos, don't let the name fool you, they are mandalorians with just different views then the Death Watch were the spear tip and greatest force of the CIS... and there was only 200 of them. They were that good that they were sent at the hardest Republic hotspots, and they would dominate the battlefield. So, no, Mandalorians are not the same as Clone Troopers and using the Death Watch's pitiful showing in TCW to set the bar for Mandalorians is low-balling them a great deal.
However, that said, Terrain Marines do dominate this. Their C-14 rifles are accurate at 1,000 meters due to auto-targeting, yes, major plot hole I know. "Why don't they just aim around the corner and let the gun do the work?" Because Blizzard isn't very smart. Their rifles fire 30 rounds a second of 8mm tungsten spikes. Ouch. Given the force of said spikes, even if Clone Trooper armor stopped it, their bodies aren't going to be in the best shape. Their armor is not bad. Yes, it gets pierced often, but the stuff that pierces it tend to be able to go through multiple cms of steel easily. Funny enough, if you look at an after shot of where Raynor is standing with Kerrigan, you can see the exit hole from where his shoulder was shot by the rifle, so it did penetrate.
Yes, blasters do have some feats, some more outlandish then others, but taking high and low end, the C-14 is better then the bog standard DC-15 blaster.
I refuse to touch the Ghost Vs Jedi debate. Yes, some Ghost have shown amazing powers like Kerrigan and Nova, but most Ghost are not on their level. Saying all Ghost can do what they do is like saying all mook Jedi Knights are Yoda and Anakin level. I refuse to get into the 'Jedi would sense them, na huh, Ghost would mask their presence! Jedi can get shot so Ghost can snipe them! Na huh, Jedi have Pre-cog making it very difficult to achieve that!' <---- Not dealing with that argument.
I would say that the Terrains take the ground battle. Without looking at it or going in-depth, I would say Star Wars takes the air, while depending on calcs used, Space Battle will take a long time, but ultimately, I favor Star Wars in space.
So, Terrains win the 'battle', but Star Wars would win the war as they would still have their space assets while Terrains would not.
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