At least as Republic, you can take out Thrawn, Jorus and Ferrier in just 9 cycles without much of a fight. And I'm on Admiral difficulty too. Seems like it's left to player discretion not to expand in *that* direction, but then an important planet and 3 important Rebel heroes are just left stranded.

have a lot of starting forces. I wonder if the do too, but the AI just doesn't use them...feels that way.

Anyone else played this campaign?