Imperial Small Craft Organization
The smallest unit that Imperial TOE/smallcraft carries is the Element. It is expected to fight as one craft, regaurdless of the number of craft actually in it.
- Element = 2 fighters (usually TIEs)
- 1 drop ship
- 1 shuttle (except TIE deritives)
- 1 Blastboat
- 2 space capable probe droids
The smallest unit considered for a deployment by the Navy is a Flight.
- Flight = 2 Elements
- 1 Landing Barge
- 1 Light or Medium Transport
- 1 Customs or System Patrol Craft
The smallest unit that is preferred for deployment by the Navy is a
Squadron. Note that an Army Squadron and Navy Squadron are different
units.
Navy Squadron= 3 Flights
- 1 Bulk Transport
Squadron types (Navy):
- Fighter = 12 fighters, usually TIE/ln
- Interceptor = 12 interceptor fighters, usually TIE Interceptors, but
sometimes TIE/ad, TIE/ln+, or other low production craft.
In older wings made of TIE's, the TIE/ln is considered an
interceptor.
- Bomber = 12 light bombers, usually TIE/gt's, /ae's or TIE Bombers.
- Recon = 4 TIE/rc's
- 8 TIE/ln's (often an element of /ln's is replaced with /rc's)
- Scout = 4 TIE/fc's,
- 8 TIE/ln's (often an element of /ln's is replaced
with /fc's)
- Hunter = 2 TIE/fc's,
- 2 TIE/rc's,
- 8 TIE/ln's (often augemented with
TIE/gt's)
- Transport Squadron = 3 light to medium transports,
- 1 transport
often replaced with 2 cargo shuttles
- Strategic Transport = 1 bulk transport
- Support Squadron = 2 transport flights,
- 100 ground personnel,
- 20 security troops.
- Intended to support remote operations.
- Shuttle Squadron = 6 shuttles, usually mixed types
- Drop Squadron = 6 drop ships. Intended to quickly place troops on
the ground.
- Landing Squadron = 3 landing barges. Intended to place large
numbers of troops on he ground with their armour and
artillery support.
Army Squadron = 5 Elements (usually TIEs)
The smallest unit assigned to a ship if the Navy had it's wishes is the
Group. Groups are usually only assigned to escort ships acting alone. If
they are working in a team, 2 Groups for a Short Wing, while three Groups
with three mother ships is the preferred. The Army does not use Groups.
- Group = 2 Squadrons
Group Types:
- Escort Group: 1 fighter squadron
- 1 composite squadron (2 TIE/fc's, 0-2 /rc's, 0-2 /gt's,
the remainder /ln's
- Assault Group: 1 drop squadron
- 1 bomber squadron (usually with graft TIE/rc's)
The largest unit of small craft usually considered is a Wing. A wing is the
standard book keeping unit of small craft, and varies in size between Army
and Navy. Wings are of mixed Squadron types.
- Navy Wing = 6 Squadrons = 3 Groups
Wing types (navy):
- Fleet Wing: The typical wing assigned to an ISD or an escort line
- 3 fighter squadrons
- 1 interceptor squadron or fighter squadron
- 1 bomber squadron
- 1 scout, recon or hunter squadron
- Assault Wing: Used for hard ground suppression missions.
- 2 fighter squadrons
- 1 interceptor or fighter squadron
- 1 scout or hunter squadron
- 2 bomber squadrons
- Interceptor Wing: Used to secure flag ships and key facilities.
- 3 fighter squadrons (to be replaced with interceptors based
off availability)
- 2 interceptor squadrons
- 1 hunter or recon squadron
- Recon Wing: Used for reconnaissance purposes where there is not
air parity or worse.
- 2 fighter squadrons
- 3 recon squadrons
- 1 scout squadron
- Scout Wing: Used to provide forward observation support,
usually to Naval Bombard Squadrons.
- 2 fighter squadrons
- 3 scout squadrons (1 sometimes replaced with a hunter
squadron)
- 1 bomber squadron
- Hunter Wing: A multi-role support wing to provide recon and
targeting data, and exploit that data by itself if
needed.
- 3 hunter squadrons
- 2 fighter squadrons
- 1 bomber squadron
- Strategic Recon Wing: Used only under special circumstances
- 5 recon squadrons
- 1 interceptor squadron
- Drop Wing: Intended as a self contained beachhead unit.
- 2 fighter squadrons
- 1 bomber squadron
- 2 drop squadrons
- 1 landing squadron
- Fleet Transport Wing: Fleet lifting capabilities, often augmented.
- 2 shuttle squadrons
- 2 drop squadrons
- 2 landing squadrons
- Transport Wing: Heavy lifting capabilities.
- 6 shuttle, transport and strategic transport squadrons in any
mix.
- Army Wing = 4 Army Squadrons
More theoretical than anything else, a Formation is the largest official unit
of Naval smallcraft. They are usually of mixed Wing types. This is the is
the size of the force carried by the new Executor-class Star Destroyers.
- Formation = 3 Wings + command ship
Augmenting Small Craft Units
The smallest augmentable unit is the squadron, with no more than 2
Elements grafted on. These are often specialist craft attached for tactical
reasons (such as TIE/fc's assigned to a Bomber Squadron).
In units larger than a Group, the augmented elements are formed
into separate squadrons. A fully augmented wing has 46 Elements (92
TIEs)
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