I don't even remember what the dog fights looked like. That was something I was really looking forward to with these movies and thought the spaceship action was pretty much a letdown.
Why were there no A-Wings or B-Wings in this movie? Those were more advanced fighters than the X-Wings and Y-Wings in the OT. I thought it would have been cool to see some older model X-Wings with new ones and some A-Wings and B-Wings. Having no Y-Wings made sense to me. They were old as dirt by the time Yavin occurred. Or at least.... That used to be true. But who knows anything about any of that anymore with them throwing out the EU. Surely they have retained SOME of it. I don't remember the Falcon being identified as a YT-1300 Corellian Freighter in the OT but didn't they name drop that in this one?