re: #82 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

And he kept sinking resouces into crappy super weapons rather than effective infantry training and support systems.

You’d like Timothy Zhan’s Heir to the Empire books then. The Imperial leader, Grand Admiral Tharwn, deploys tricks but no super weapons and actually focuses on building up a competent military. He wins battles that Darth Vader would have needed 33% more force to win by such methods.