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Unbridled9 posted...

It's not an issue so long as there is a reason for it.

And there is - keep in mind the Resistance Bombers were not really true starfighters simply by dint of their size; they were more like small freighters. As such, they had more functions and more crew to man them (a pilot, two gunners to man the point-defence guns, an engineer, and a bombardier to oversee the bomb drop). Yes, you can fly with a smaller crew at the cost of functions, same as anything else (the Y-wing, for instance, couldn't use its turret without the second person serving as a gunner).

Unbridled9 posted...

They were using them because they had no other ships.

You just brought up Rogue One, where a good chunk of their fleet managed to flee to hyperspace before the Devastator showed up to ruin the party.

They absolutely had more ships than that (what do you think they evacuated to Hoth in?), but those ships were useless for that assault, as General Dodonna himself references in the briefing to attack the Death Star when he points out its defences were designed around a large-scale assault, not starfighters.
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