First Episode

First Episode
>Ha, we outnumber the empire they could never attack us
>oh no they're attacking us
Second Episode
>We will form a wedge and break their ranks
>oh no their ranks are breaking!

Please tell me it gets better.

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I'll be honest with you, it get worse more worse that you can think, I just say that, the first 30 episodes are the best that that show can offer, IS JUST A SPACE SOAP OPERA

The show does, but the battle logic doesn't.

its not about tactics

no I figured this was the case. I'm sure (hoping) that the focus shifts away from battle logic.

It does, even the most climatic of battles only last a few minutes at most.

But this is how battles really work, Alliance has a bad fleet deployment without unified command because each fleet commander wants the credit for victory an easy victory, Empires creates local concentration of forces to perform a breakthrough, the breakthrough runs out of momentum and the alliance launches a counterattack, both sides about even now and it falls into a battle of attrition. Since there is not territory to hold in this battle the two sides withdraw.

I couldn't tell if Yang's tactics were genuinely brilliant or if other characters were written to be stupid. Maybe it's realistic for everyone to be stupid in a long shitty war, except for the one guy who's just smart enough to see the obvious

The war between the empire and the alliance that ends around episode 40 was one of the most frustrating things I've ever seen.

The Alliance deployed their three fleets separately so that they could encircle the enemy. Empire attacks each one individually so that they get a number advantage. Up to that point it makes sense, but then the Empire does the same thing two more times. There's no way that an 8000 ship advantage means that they come out basically unscathed. Even if we accept that the Alliance fleets are spaced so far apart that two fleets can be wiped out individually before the third can reach either of them, there's no way that they should have a significant numbers advantage the second or third time around.