History YMMV / RogueSquadron

** Y-Wing: A slow bomber craft, not worth crap for dogfighting due to its slow firing cannons, but can kill ''anything'' on the ground with its proton bombs (which regenerate in the sequels), and it can take more of a licking than the other ships. It also has the novelty of Ion Cannons, which allow a enemy target to be disabled rather than destroyed.

** Naboo Starfighter: In Rogue Squadron, it can be best described as "A-Wing Deluxe"; its faster and hits harder, but can take more of a beating.

** X-Wing: Literally described as "an almost perfect balance of speed and manuverability".
** Snowspeeder

** A-Wing

** Y-Wing: A slow bomber craft, not worth crap for dogfighting but can kill ''anything'' on the ground with its proton bombs (which regenerate in the sequels), and it can take more of a licking than the other ships.
** B-Wing (a cross between the X-Wing and the Y-Wing, designed for taking out Star Destroyers.)

** The Millennium Falcon in the first game (its maneuverability got [[{{Nerf}} Nerfed]] hard in later installments, making it a MightyGlacier instead.)

** The standard TIE Fighter in ''Rogue Leader'' and ''Rebel Strike''. Paper-thin armor, tightly-bound blasters, and no secondary weapons. Run a few missions in it and you'll see why the Empire usually flies them in packs. Contrast with the TIE Interceptor from the first game, which at least has good speed and blaster spread to make up for its other shortcomings.

** X-Wing

** V-Wing (also has a bit of MagikarpPower with regards to cluster missiles)

** Y-Wing (not worth crap for dogfighting but can kill ''anything'' on the ground)

** Naboo Starfighter (basically an improvement on the X-Wing in almost every way)

** TIE Interceptor

** Rogue Squadron's Naboo Starfighter is faster than the A-Wing, more maneuverable than the X-Wing, and carries laser cannons that carry more firepower and faster firing speed than the V-Wing's rapid-fire turrets. It makes getting gold on every level it's usable in damn near ''trivial''.

** The bog-standard TIE Fighter, as opposed to the Interceptor from the first game, which at least was as fast as an A-Wing to make up for its paper-thin armor and no secondaries.

* TheProblemWithLicensedGames: Averted with all three installments ([[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and Battle for Naboo]]).

** The Y-Wing's bombs are a partial example. If your target is ground-bound and not an [[GoddamnedBats AT-AT]], the Y-Wing's bombs can kill it. Plus, in later games, they regenerate, so you don't even have to worry about wasting them on small targets. Justified in this case, as the Y-Wing is [[MightyGlacier too slow]] for any other purpose than as a bomber, and the other ships are correspondingly lousy at air-to-ground combat.

** The Y-Wing's bombs are a partial example. If your target is ground-bound and not an [[GoddamnedBats AT-AT]], the Y-Wing's bombs can kill it. Plus, in later games, they regenerate, so you don't even have to worry about wasting them on small targets. Justified in this case, as the Y-Wing is [[MightyGlacier too slow]] to be much use for any other purpose than as a bomber, and the other ships are correspondingly lousy at air-to-ground combat.

** The Y-Wing's bombs are a partial example. If your target is ground-bound and not an [[GoddamnedBats AT-AT]], the Y-Wing's bombs can kill it. Plus, in later games, they regenerate, so you don't even have to worry about wasting them on small targets. Justified in this case, since air-to-ground combat is what the Y-Wing was designed for.

** Slave 1 in the second game starts out as a Joke Ship, but with upgrades becomes a Lethal Joke Ship. It's slower than the Y-Wing (if you can believe that), is a huge target, has lousy shields, and its bottom-mounted blasters are awkward if not impossible to aim with. So why would you ever use it? [[TwoWordsObviousTrope Three]] [[GameBreaker words:]] [[GameBreaker Homing]] [[ReverseShrapnel Cluster]] [[MacrossMissileMassacre Missiles.]]

** Slave 1 in the second game starts out as a Joke Ship. It's slower than the Y-Wing (if you can believe that), is a huge target, has lousy shields, and its bottom-mounted blasters are awkward to aim with. So why would you ever use it? [[MagikarpPower Three words:]] [[GameBreaker Homing Cluster Missiles.]]

** V-Wing (also a has a bit of MagikarpPower with regards to cluster missiles)

** The bog-standard TIE Fighter, as opposed to the Interceptor from the first game, which at least was as fast as an A-Wing to make up for its paper-thin armor.

* GoddamnedBats: Missile turrets in the first game.
** Don't forget Tank Droids, numerous, tough, hard-hitting and ACCURATE. Plus a couple TIES & TIE Interceptors actually had AI rather than flying preprogrammed paths. (Kile II, Chandrilla & Tyferra) Plus Moff Seerdons Sentinel Shuttle. AT-STs might count too, since you tend to crash into them while trying to strafe.

*** On the other hand, this kind of mission is [[BestLevelEver exactly what the B-Wing was designed for]], and if you know what you're doing, [[AwesomeMoments you can get finish with a gold in under a minute.]]

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: There's a level in ''Rogue Leader'' where you have Wedge in a B-Wing and, if you know exactly what to do, you can take out a Star Destroyer [[http://www.viddler.com/explore/ServerError404/videos/16/ in under a minute]]. ''[[OneManArmy On your own]]''.

** Also, there's a level in the third game in which you get to pilot an AT-AT. Cue this troper laughing maniacally while slaughtering everything in his path. Oddly enough, this is probably also mixed with a bit of MissedMomentOfAwesome. Imagine what it would have been like if you had been able to do this on other missions.

** The Y-Wind bombs are pretty close too, for ground attack.

** Or in REbel Strike w/ the long Destrillion tunnel followed by TIE Hunters & the SuperLaser.