Monroville said:
I guess that would kind of make sense, being that it is the Avenger chasing the Falcon... or is it?!?!

I would think that the SDs hit with the ion cannon would take a little while to recover. But can't we just say it was Needa? You know, because everything just went his way...

Next up: Captain Needa's best seller - "How to go from starship captain to corpse in less than 24 hours"

Monroville, It's certainly Captain Needa's 'Avenger' that chases the Falcon after it has blasted off from Hoth.

In the the final shot of the (middle) 'chasing Stardestroyer' nearly colliding / (actually scraping!?) with one of the 2 'oncoming' ones , we see it noticably 'dip' downwards. This ties-in with the previous 'interior' shot that tilts downwards when it takes 'evasive action', showing Captain Needa being thrown off-balance. The 'Avenger' continued after the Falcon, and caught up with it again, later on.

I quite liked an earlier suggestion that the ION Cannon might take a little while to 'power-up' up again, between shots, throughout the AT-AT battle, after it's initial couple of bursts....although we'll never know for sure, just how many more times it fired at other Stardestroyers during the evacuation....

But whether there would have been a 'delay' between it firing or not....while it seems that the (foremost?) 'Tyrant' Stardestroyer was hit, we know that the 'Executor', the 'Avenger' and a couple of other 'standard' Stardestroyers don't seem to have been targeted out of the remaining Stardestroyers left. (Unless ships are only disabled very temporarily , which is not a theory I really like) I've always thought that there needed to have been other, UNSEEN Stardestroyers as part of the 'Fleet', for the scenario to work that there could be a few ships aimed at during the AT-AT battle, while STILL leaving us with the ones we know stayed intact.... This will seem more likely now, since Adywan has confirmed he plans to add a couple more Stardestroyers to the 'Fleet approaching Hoth Planet' shot. These extra ones that will be SEEN now, could be the ones which actually ended up as ION Cannon fodder....