TIE Defenders

[Brother-Captain Gaius]

Bleah, frickkin "starfighters are the most effective combat platform" brainbug. Going by the lowest HTL figures(200gigatons), and the highest reasonable Proton Torpedo figures(10 gigatons), it takes something like 3000+ Proton torpedos to take down the shields of one ISD. This would require at least a thousand starfighters firing simultaneously with perfect accuracy to accomplish.

Assuming that proton torpedos are their heaviest fighter based weapon, and that proton torpedos are actually an anti-cap ship weapon and not the anti-starfighter weapon that they obviously are.

Well according to fluff, fighters can also mount heavy rockets and space bombs, which are true anti-cap ship weapons; whereas the proton torps are best suited for taking out ships larger than fighters but smaller than Corvettes. The WotC RPG coined the term "Space Transports".