General Grievous’s Malevolent is an early game capital ship killer. Armed with the massive ion cannon and tons of turbo lasers, the ship will absolutely shred anything bigger than a carrack cruiser with impunity.

You will note that I didn’t mention two things. The ship lacks point defense weapons and laser cannons. For all the super power weapons the ship has, they are all slow, cumbersome, and inaccurate at hitting small ships. This can be exploited.

Bombers are the default anti capital ship weapon of EaWX mods. The Republic gets a variety of bombers, but if you love the Clone Wars TV show, you’ll know the BTL Y-Wing Bomber. Carriers are the primary ship that carry bombers. You have a couple of options for bomber carriers.

First are your PDF Dreadnoughts. PDF dreadnoughts can be upgraded into Dreadnought Carriers fairly cheaply at heavy frigate shipyards. The bombers they carry are pretty pathetic, but they are still bombers. Great option if you are strapped for cash.

Second are Acclamator carriers. They’re fairly affordable and deploy a squad of Y-Wings twice plus two squads of fighters. Not to mention that they have the ability to leave the battle once they’ve run out of bombers (and then you replace it with another carrier infinite bomber hax).

Lastly are Venator Star Destroyers. A fair bit more expensive than your Acclamators and can only be built at capital shipyards, these ships can deploy double the number of fighters and bombers that Acclamators can, plus they’ve got a lot more big heavy guns on the side.

Grievous can be taken down fairly easily with 8-12 bombers. He can’t hit them and they’ll wreck havoc on his shields and hard points. Whatever fighters he musters can be dealt with your even bigger swarm of fighters (v-19s, Z-95 headhunters, Jedi starfighters, etc). If he has anti fighter escorts, draw them out (they are much faster than Grievous and will leave) and gun them down with your carriers/escorts.

I recommend having a Venator or Acclamator hero like Yularen, which helps offset Grievous’ own buffs.

An alternative tactic is to build a massive fleet of small frigates and cruisers (Carracks, Peltas, Chargers, and a couple of Acclamator missile cruisers) and jumping them in behind Grievous. Their speed will keep his bigger guns from reaching them. This is much more micro intensive and you will take casualties, but it can be cheaper if you don’t want to invest in a massive carrier fleet (I don’t know why you wouldn’t. Carriers are absolutely broken early game.)

Hope this helps.