Quote Originally Posted by Vanguard-01 View Post
Yep. A Corellian corvette costs a fraction of what a Star Destroyer costs. The Rebellion could've just bought a few hundred of them and decimated any Imperial fleet sent against them. Heck, a couple of corvettes in a lightspeed ram may have been enough to at least badly damage the Death Star!
this brings up another point, how shields work in Star Wars. It seems they only block energy attacks, because Poe can take out ships surface guns by getting in close. The DS 2 has a shield strong enough to block physical objects like ships, but this is clearly a planetary shield like the one type in Rogue One.

So if physical objects can get through then light speed ramming could indeed work. But there must be a reason it is almost never used.

Yeah, the easiest way to disregard it is to just say it's actually not that easy to pull off. At that kind of speed, being just a degree or two off may mean you completely miss the mark.
I wS thinking the same. However, in that case building ships like the Executor, Snoaks flagship, or a DS is obviously folly.

You'll have to talk to George Lucas about that one. We first saw bombs being dropped in Empire Strikes Back. The Star Wars Universe runs on the premise of "If it resembles World War II combat, it's A-Okay!"
The Tie Bombers, yes. But I always believed that those bombs were being propelled by something other than just gravity, and of course the asteroids we saw would have much more mass than a ship, even a very big ship. Also the Y-Wings are called bombers, but they are armed with torpedoes (either proton or ion).

Regarding the comment above about banking, that is understandable because of the g-forces pulled during combat. Also in this movie we see Poe use a pivot (like a BSG Viper) for the first time.