MarkB
Legend
The Raddus isn't a medium class ship. It's the largest capital ship we've ever seen in Rebel / Resistance hands, with extremely tough shields that can withstand sustained bombardment, and it took out a handful of ships that were very tightly grouped. This tactic is not a fleet killer.If your point is that the rebellion could never hope to match the first order fleet in combat…that’s a given. Ultimately the rebellion’s first order of business should always be evade and retreat.
But sometimes that’s not possible and you have to stand your ground. And in those scenarios it’s a hell of a lot more effective to sacrifice one medium class ship with the holdo maneuver to take out a fleet than to fight conventionally.
And, again, it's not unique either. In practically every major conflict we've seen in Star Wars, the rebels use much smaller ships to take out very big ones. Sometimes they're sacrificed in the process, sometimes they survive just fine. Having one more extremely situational, very costly tactic that achieves the same or less than all those other tactics is not a game-changer.