Basically, trying to answer the question "What does a typical Imperial/Rebel task force look like?" Here's my stab at it, please interject with what you use in your campaign!

On the Imperial side, I would expect

1+ Imperial Star Destroyers, serving as flagship. More may be involved if it's a matter of huge importance or opposition is expected to be large.

1-3 Victory Star Destroyers. In the Outer Rim or less-supported sector fleets, some of these may be supplanted by aging Dreadnoughts.

0-1 Interdictors. Depending on the mission of the fleet, one of these may be necessary. Again, less supplied fleets may have to do without.

1-2 Escort carriers with a full complement of TIEs

4-8 misc craft: Nebulon B frigates, lancers, Carrack and Strike cruisers, etc. There would probably be no more than 7 total of these, no more than 2 repeats.

Fighters would be a full complement of TIEs. Craft capable of carrying a full wing will include TIE/in and bombers. Depending on era, you may see some gunboats or TIE Advanced in the mix.

For the Rebels, we have

1 Mon Cal MC80a star cruiser, acting flagship. Unlikely to have more given Rebel resources, unless it's a major attack or you're running a setting where the Rebels have more fleet strength available to them.

1-2 Mon Cal MC40a light star cruisers. If no MC80 is available, one of these will likely be serving as flagship.

0-2 Alliance retro-fitted Dreadnoughts

0-3 Bulk Cruisers (depending how underfunded this particular task force is)

1-2 Nebulon B frigates

2-4 corvettes and gunships of Corellian make

Fighters would be primarily Y-wings and X-wings with some A-Wing support. Z-95s may be kept on hand for low-profile missions, posing as mercenary craft. B-wings will be included in larger task forces.

A small task force could either not have any MC ships and more Frigate and smaller craft or maybe a copule of MC80s but only a copule of smaller ships.

Yours looks like a decent midsized task force though I think another copule of Nebs or similar craft wouldn't hurt and ones for special missions might have slightly different layouts. Interdictor groups would trade a frigate or Dreadnaught for the Interdictor. Carrier groups would probably lose the MC80s and MC40s for their carriers and the Dreadnaughts for more escorts, or maybe some Starbolts or Escort carriers for more fighter capacity. Troop transports forces would be much the same as carrier groups but with troop transports taking the place of carriers and any Starbolts being used as mix carriers and assault ships.

I think the overall size of the task force would be determined by the task at hand. I can picture 2-3 Star Destroyers being deemed a task force if the task were small. So I think the biggest question to be asked is what are the goals.

On Kael. A "task force" is by definition a force assembled to accomplish a task. So it would vary wildly by mission, available resources, and commanders tactics and prejudices.

So a task force for a Blockade operation could be a half dozen Carracks and a dozen corvettes, or a Star Destroyer and a pair of escort carriers, or a pair of corvettes and enough sensor bouys that a man could walk from low orbit to the moon using mag boots.

Of course if you're talking an equivalent of a carrier strike group... Galth is probably on track more or less...

Yeah it looks to me like the TC is using Task Force to mean a Squadron or a small Line level force.

I suppose what was going through my head was less "Task Force" and more "Typical Space Superiority fleet." Something the Imperials would deploy to lock down a system or the rebels would deploy to harry an Imperial system.

A standard Imperial sector group would be much, much larger then that. Standard Imp order of battle calls for a sector group to have 24 Star Destroyers and around 1,600 smaller warships plus around 800 support ships. What you listed would be around the strength of force deployed to lock down a single system rather then a sector.

Rebel Sector Forces varied a lot more of course. Some had no spacecraft at all or only a handful of transports, others just had transports and a few fighter units but some basically had their own navies with Battlegroups which were typically two to four naval squadrons.

My fault, "system" would be more in line with what I was thinking, edited to reflect that.

The old WEG system had a bit on this, mirrored in Wookieepedia.

Lock down a system: http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Force_superiority

More likely they would send a Battle Squadron: http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Battle_squadron

Your original post is pretty on the nose.

I think the overall size of the task force would be determined by the task at hand.

On Kael. A "task force" is by definition a force assembled to accomplish a task. So it would vary wildly by mission, available resources, and commanders tactics and prejudices.

These are spot on: A task force will vary widely based on the "task" the force was assembled to resolve.

On the Imperial side, it could be as small as a pair of Armored transports with their flights of TIE fighters, or it could consist of the Executor plus a dozen ISDs and hundreds, if not thousands, of support ships.

The rebels... well the rebels don't have standard anything. They'd throw whatever they could spare at the mission.

Task force deals with more than just Ship assets. A more accurate label I would assign to your search is "Group"

For example:

-Rebel Task Force Aurek might consist of

-Ships from the Outer Rim Group 2

-Troops from the Rebel Army Division 1

-Logistics and Intelligence from whatever the intel group is

A task force is a command designed to merge assets from two wildly different types of commands in order to more effectively wage war without the bravado of "WELL I AM A COMMANDER IN THE REBEL NAVY OBVIOUSLY I KNOW MORE THAN YOU MAJOR" crap.

Task force deals with more than just Ship assets. A more accurate label I would assign to your search is "Group"

For example:

-Rebel Task Force Aurek might consist of

-Ships from the Outer Rim Group 2

-Troops from the Rebel Army Division 1

-Logistics and Intelligence from whatever the intel group is

A task force is a command designed to merge assets from two wildly different types of commands in order to more effectively wage war without the bravado of "WELL I AM A COMMANDER IN THE REBEL NAVY OBVIOUSLY I KNOW MORE THAN YOU MAJOR" crap.

Ahh the last part of your post bring back fond memories of when my Alliance Navy captain who was commodore of the naval detachment in a major task force got into an argument with the head of the task force's intell team over what authority the Intel leader had on his flagship.

Don't forget that a lot of ships in a alliance fleet will be retrofitted freighters. For example the alliance carrier fleet is made of retrofitted bulk freighters.

Actually it seems like they favor Bulk Cruiser conversions for carriers over Bulk Freighter conversions when possible probably because the Bulk Cruisers are usually larger and basically always better armed. I'm still surprised that FFG hasn't had the Neutron Star carrier conversion appear yet.

I was referencing the Quasar Fire class Escort Carrier from Stay On Target. It says that the alliance bought a large number of Quasar class bulk freighters and converted them into carriers.

Ahh most sources I know of call the Quaser Fire a bulk cruiser rather then a bulk freighter and I must have missed the change in Stay On Target

Task force deals with more than just Ship assets. A more accurate label I would assign to your search is "Group"

For example:

-Rebel Task Force Aurek might consist of

-Ships from the Outer Rim Group 2

-Troops from the Rebel Army Division 1

-Logistics and Intelligence from whatever the intel group is

A task force is a command designed to merge assets from two wildly different types of commands in order to more effectively wage war without the bravado of "WELL I AM A COMMANDER IN THE REBEL NAVY OBVIOUSLY I KNOW MORE THAN YOU MAJOR" crap.

Ahh the last part of your post bring back fond memories of when my Alliance Navy captain who was commodore of the naval detachment in a major task force got into an argument with the head of the task force's intell team over what authority the Intel leader had on his flagship.

Excellent! Glad I could evoke that memory.

If you can, get a copy of the Imperial Handbook:

It has a lot of good info on the Imperial Navy's fleet organization and other departments in the Imperial military machine.

http://www.amazon.com/Imperial-Handbook-Commanders-Guide-Chronicle/dp/1452145288

It's also a good source for GM's and players alike for EotE, AoR and FaD games.

If you can, get a copy of the Imperial Handbook:

It has a lot of good info on the Imperial Navy's fleet organization and other departments in the Imperial military machine.

http://www.amazon.com/Imperial-Handbook-Commanders-Guide-Chronicle/dp/1452145288

It's also a good source for GM's and players alike for EotE, AoR and FaD games.

You get post of the day. Good talk