Why does Mace's capital ship so much faster than the other ships?

I run Ackbar's ship and can take first nightly with no refreshes. Mace gave me fits before my ships were fully developed, but now the only time I lose is to a tarkin ship when I fail to defeat him before the Tie storm one shots my entire fleet.

Woah I see a lot of tarkin smack talk. He can own just as good as anybody at high level fleet arena. I can't remember the last time I dropped out of the top 10. Running fotp tfp slave sun fac and Biggs under him.

"Mazurka;c-1045092" wrote:
Woah I see a lot of tarkin smack talk. He can own just as good as anybody at high level fleet arena. I can't remember the last time I dropped out of the top 10. Running fotp tfp slave sun fac and Biggs under him.

Credit then. I guess there is enough variation that the leader-boards are different. All I know is Tarkin is just meat to grind for me, maybe I just need to meet up with a real leveled comp. Akbar requires minor strategy - 90% of the people use him on my leaderboard and 90% of them have the same config - with Darth vader showing up to be annoying on the comp. The few Windu's with me are easily skippable, I don't even chance it - but when I get the Tie Advanced up -- that 5's should be able to clean our a mace comp too.

no tarkin is pretty much useless in my opinion unless you solely focus on him
his expose pretty much gets resisted most of the time and is even more detrimental if opponents have rex(resisting heals protection)
his executive order is awesome but it starts on cooldown so again by the time its usable some of you good and high dps ships are dead
his aoe ability block attack is the best 2nd special attack in the game and the only thing that comes remotely close is mace red dots but even then tarkin shines here
his imperial assault is also quite good, only drawback is that if you dodge it all 12 attacks are dodged and stun does not stick
so tarkin is a good ship in its own right but its not good enough to compete with ackbar and mace
if his 1st special did not start on cooldown and his ultimate attack attacked 12 times instead of damaging 12 times he would be able to compete quite well in arena