Hey Eta! You asked about the Droid Army using a manned Tank in the form of the AAT. It should be noted that the CIS did have several completely autonomous droid tanks, such as the Snail Tank The NR-N99 Persuader, as well as several heavy walkers and even autonomous artillery droids in the form of the J-1. The reason that the AAT is a manned vehicle rather than being autonomous is it was designed to be operable by the sentient species forces of the CIS and originally Trade Federation. Though the CIS was primarily a droid force, there were several auxiliary and conglomerate forces that assisted in the combat efforts, the most obvious being the Umbarans from the Umbara arc in the Clone Wars TV series. Thus, the AAT allows for all CIS operators to utilize. And yes, B1's really are expendable enough to be able to man ships, vehicles, fighter craft etc.
Also, the B1 droids are used originally as shipbourne and port security forces, not combat units. The Trade Federation had no need for tanks before the invasion of Naboo, so makes sense theyr decision of buying available materials, such as AAT, that were manufactured in mass and sold to be used by security forces all around the galaxy. Just reprograming the droids to pilot them and they have a tank force. Only after the preparations for the Clone Wars begun they started to produce autonomous tanks. The automomous figthers were already used because of piracy. They had an utility for protection of TF's assets.
Fun fact, the main gun on the top of the AT-TE is a mass driver, basically a giant rail gun with multiple ammo types and all of them seemingly surrounded in plasma!
@@robertharris6092I assume you mean the AT-AT shrugging it off, and that’s explained by the Star Wars magic of shielding, hence why an ion cannon would be better for taking out the walker
About concussion grenades: The question would be if they are "stun grenades", something perhaps more aking to a flashbang, or HE grenades, that rely on the explosive force and conussion to kill instead of fragmentation (also called offensive grenades as they are much safer to throw for infantry that's not in cover, with the German Stick Grenade being the most famous example)
@@Laz_Lu That's right. The Empire ensures the safety and health of all of its citizens. The appliance of force (non-lethal) is only used when necessary. The Empire protects all!
I do love the AT-ST concussion grenades being really, really lethal. It fits the Empire so damn well to just do that stuff. A dead person can technically be considered concussed.
Concusssion weapons in star wars are generaly supposed to be really dangerous. seems like they just call any sort of explosive "concussion" when they dont have any more specific idea for it.
@@robertharris6092 That makes it even funnier to me. Not only lacking any care to be more specific in lore but also lacking a comprehension of what concussion is supposed to mean, which you could actually decently well lore away, after all, when was there ever time in star wars to just concus? if folks are fighting, it almost always ends up being lethal from both ends, and there never really was a proper peace till the Republic of the movies, which I dont have to mention is thousands of years after constant conflicts and war. In lore ya can see it, out of lore you can see its just folks not comprehending the terms meaning. both are hilarious.
@@padascos what are you talking about war? The republic is like. 10000+ years old. And there were no wars involving the republic for atleast 100s of years by the time of episode 1. Maybe just worded confusingly?
@@robertharris6092 We arnt talking Disney "literally nothing exists outside of that 1000 year timeframe before the movies" canon. In legends, there is yes, those tens of thousands of years of lore and existence pre movies, times of strife, war and conflict which would obviously shape perspective, change usage of terms and twist ideals. A single word changing meaning can absolutely occur and then never change back. on such a time scale? thats easy. After all, what is a meme? a wizard? terms aggressively change meaning often, despite their effective and simple existence already.
@@padascos In this context, concussion refers to a sharp impact or shock rather than a type of head injury. Presumably concussion weapons use some form of explosives to create a concussive shock-wave, which is why you have also have concussion missiles which are intended for use against vehicles and starships
on the topic of concussion grenades, Concussion in star wars typically refers to non-energy munitions like the Proton Torpedo. Things like the Victory Class star destroyer are equipped with a large reserve of Concussion Missiles which are conventional guided missiles.
I think the big problem with most walkers is that they are designed with only two legs. Balancing on two legs is difficult after all and requires insane programing and engineering just to keep from tipping over. Not only that but we humans, despite our efforts, fall over sometimes and cannot catch our fall without our arms. I think the most plausible type of mech we would see is something like the *Stalker* from the Resistance Series. It has four legs allowing it to balance much easier as well as distributing its weight a lot better. Plus, it is less likely to tip over since a four-legged bug like configuration basically makes the legs also act as arms when the vehicle loses balance. I highly suggest looking up the Stalker from Resistance: Fall of Man as you will see what I mean better that way.
Yeah no. Ground pressure is also a huge issue with walkers. Putting all that weight on little needle feet would not bode well on most if not all terrain. I absolutely love mechs but they are insanely impractical in just about any realistic aspect.
Ion blasters are an emp weapon mainly used for disabling vehicles and droids without killing the crew. Some good examples are the star destroyer from the first movie it disables the ship to recapture the stolen plans or in the clone wars the princess uses a ion blaster to fight droids.
We see a command at-te with the cannon during the ryloth ark when the hyena bombers are attacking the city, it's the episode of where mace teams up with local freedom fighters and they take the capitol across the light bridge.
To add on, the interiors were modular, also in that same arc mace windu’s at-te has the command module in the front and a vehicle bay in the back that deploys tow at-rts or barc speeders
The ATST is very similar to a FSCV (fire support combat vehicle) in regards to its armaments and purposes, infact the standard dual heavy blaster and side mounted rocket pods is very remenicint of the russian BMPT terminator (Even though the terminator didn't exist until 2011, years after the ATST appeared on screen, you get my idea) A decently well armoured fighting vehicle more orientated towards fighting infantry, but also still packing an anti armour functionality Edit: also regarding the statement about no current experimentation with walking vehicle tech check out the nasa ATHLETE system, or the method 2 from 2019, that shits straight out of avatar
20:48 I imagine that it’s not just a button that directly fires, but similar to Angle of Attack limiter switches that enable a plane to freely use their horizontal stabilizers no matter their speed or conditions, where it gets rid of the firing limiter that prevents overheating.
Also wanna add. For Ion weapons, you are somewhat correct in the Anti-Armor role. It would be more accurate to describe ion weapons as anti-shield role, which is nearly the same thing? And the reason that those same weapons are more effective against droids is the EMP like effect that Ion weapons have on electronics. You can see this best in the Clone Wars Episode "Cat And Mouse" Season 2 Ep 16. Where the Dreadnought "Invincible" uses a massive Ion Cannon to disable other ships.
Before that even- the ion-weapons-as-EMPs was first seen in the jawa disabling R2 scene ll the way in A New Hope, and reinforced in ESB by the planetary ion cannon disabling the ISDs in orbit
I'm not much of a star wars guy (despite my dads best attempts), but anything's a good reason to hear you yapping about tanks. Speaking of yapping about tanks though, CoH2 is on sale again
Post scriptum just had a huge update that added over 40 vehicles to the game if you run out of ideas you should go back and take a look at some of them!
When you talked about height and pros and cons of it I remembered how in Rebels three clone trooper how reacted when they first saw the AT-AT (they instantly critisized how tall and skinny its legs are and how it not falls over). They used the AT-TE for 3 years and since order 66 they lived in one. I am also on team All Terrain Tactical Enforcer 31:20 yes, it was a Mass driver cannon. It cocoons the kinetic projectiles in plasma but, if another ammo is chosen, can be used as a heavy or fast-firing lasercannon (which is technically shoots plasma like most laser weapons in Star Wars)
24:04 The reason why the AAT has a crew is that this tank and most of the Trade Federation's stuff has been driven by the humanoid crew. Before the Clone War, all of their planes, tanks, and spaceships had been operated by the live crew. Even their infantry units consisted of living humanoids. Also, in the war period, they still had some live crews and stuff, but they were much less common. That's why this tank still has room for a crew. And stuffing several cheap robots with tank crew protocols into a tank is much cheaper and easier than almost completely automating a combat vehicle.
In the case of the TX-130 and AAT tanks it’s important to note that Clones were expensive and took longer to train unlike a B1 where tons can be made while one clone is busy having lunch. The CIS had more droids it ever needed, they were also expendable and a whole army could be made in less than a month. Because there was always a surplus of them is made perfect sense to have an large variety of droids doing different tasks. An AAT with a large crew was over anything too fancy was just because the CIS Army was made and maintained by a corporation that wanted to save money and be cheap. Otherwise the Commando Droid would’ve been standard issue. The Republic meanwhile was at times forced to train ground troops as pilots because they just didn’t have the numbers. So a TX-130 having only needing a crew of 1 makes perfect sense.
The cool thing about the AT-RT too is that in a lot of its canon appearances is its extreme mobility, there’s a scene where they can even jump a pretty good distance!
I hope you do a second episode about this topic sometime in the future, I would be interested in your opinion on some anime but mostly "86" walkers how realistic they are, and so on.
The TX-130 has a few particularly lethal tactics that I learned while playing. They almost all involved blitzing up to an objective. One particular strategy that I was fond of: you begin to load a full barrage of missiles as the tank moves up to the objective at full speed. Then fire the multi-laser ability as a suppression weapon. Once you reach the objective or a spot overlooking it, you unleash the barrage of missiles. If you time it perfectly you fire 8 missiles in just under 2 seconds. Match this attack with infantry and the tank can move into a defensive role to keep the momentum of the infantry. Very effective unless they have a droid tank, in that case you should focus the barrage on that target instead.
I know almost nothing about Star Wars but for the AAT I like to imagine everything is “the old fashioned way” *because* it was designed to fight pirates, like the real world A-10 was designed to be cheap and fight insurgents so it lacks advanced targeting and whatnot (I think so anyway)
The star Wars game Force Commander also had two tanks on the rebel side; one tracked heavy tank and one scout tank with AA capabilities and it had an antigrav propulsion...
Yes. Its a cheap piece of junk meant to be produced en mass with little regard for their crews. The TX-130 is pretty much the opposite. And fills an actually role other vehicles cant.
19:33 on the topic of repulsor tech in star wars, they actually hover by pushing against the gravity of the planet it's on. So it doesn't actually push air or fuel out from the bottom of it like modern jets. Because of that, repulsors only work in a gravitational field
If im not mistaken the AT-RTis capable of being stowed on the underbelly cargo elevator on the AT-TE, in pairs of 2 or 4. Allowing the heavy and slow AT-TE to deploy the AT-RT's for close defense, reconnaissance, and other things. One example of this is in the clone wars TV series where they were deployed from a convoy that was pinned down, in order to neutralize the enemy armor that was keeping the AT-TE's pinned.
I remember in some episodes of TCW the walkers fire the mass driver without anyone sitting on the turret, so I wonder if it has some kind of limited remote control by the commander.
38:27 there was a cargo version of the at-te, it was the at-ot, all terrain open transport, that had 8 legs and an open top to carry heavy and oversized cargo, it was a rear echelon vehicle so it had the two rear ball turrets but upfront had two medium autocannon, it was especially a Vietnam style armored truck
I would like to clarify something about the concussion grenades of the AT-ST, or rather concussion weaponry as a whole in Star Wars. The name may indicate they are non lethal but they very much are highly lethal and their name should definitely not be taken at face value. An example of this is the concussion missile, which ranges from a small caliber air-to-air missile mounted on fighters to massive anti-ship missiles, such as those on the Victory 1 star destroyer. They can have uses similar to SAPHE ammunition, and some can even be set to airburst, killing with the shockwave generated by the explosion. Which means the "concussion" in "concussion missile/grenade" is pretty much powerful enough to kill someone more effectively than fragmentation or conventional HE weapons
The AATs were originally built pre-war to be used with organic humanoid crew. And early war it was sepreatists humanoids on outer rim worlds that fought other republic humanoid security forces before the clone army was created, really extremely interesting if you look into it how things slowly ramped up and how plannets were the center of conflict for the duration of the entire war
To add to your comment of B-1 expendability, they were literally made in the quintillions. Tens if not hundreds of quintillions. Yeah, id say they were expendable. If they weren't all but programed to loose the war, we'd all be speaking Geonotian.
At least in Empire at war, the TX-130 had removed the two sponson guns and replaced it with an actual turret. Also in the game its more a anti tank tank than its earlier predecessor. What about the Juggernaut A6/A5 Mobile, I don't know fortress?? There are so many Legends and background vehicles which are so cool in Star wars
Aight. I gotta admit, your knowledge is SIGNIFICANTLY better than I was admittedly expecting. Some points though: ATST’s operated by the First Order and Empire are different, with the First Order being more armored and stable than the Imperial variant. Think more of a Bradley but can’t carry infantry. They were also designed as scouts. Second, repulser technology more pushes the craft directly against the gravitational field, rather than air or force downward. Third, the AAT was originally designed as a sold weapons systems. That’s why it has a crew rather than a droid. The NR-N99 is a fully autonomous droid tank with a massive tread through the center. A few things as well to note is several things from Battlefront 2 are changed or added or removed for game balance reasons. But man I loved this video, great for my specific brand of autism.
Funny thing about the at-te the thing you pounted out about it happened a lot to it mines and sabatoures sticking explosives to its belly sent it up in flames its why they moved to the at-at. Also a fun fact about the gun up top it doubles as an artillery cannon. And for the droid army there's multiple droid tanks that were droids like the snail tank, hailfire droid, dwarf spider droid, homing spider droid, and the otoptara tri-droid. you also lump the vulture droid here too because of its walker mode it was used as a lav if quick support was needed
In terms of terrain legged vehicles would be bad in hills are not one of them. Us military studdies on quadrapedal and bipedal robots found them to work better than wheels or tracks on slopes.
idk if you remember my beard related comment, but with that joung stalin comparation, I should say that many people, including my mom n dad, have told me I look like a funky Che Guevara, Castro or young bin ladden 💀
you actually want concussion grenades for infantry attack because they have a smaller effective radius, thus they won't effect you - considering you're attacking and getting closer aka you could cause friendly fire with frag.
Hey Eta, Cursed Tank Simulator just got a major update and a fire control system revamp, hope you'll give the game another look soon! You could ask the devs for a press account if you'd like a more complete inventory...
I'm sure you've gotten this suggestion before, but you should look at some 40k vehicles some time for this series. Some of them are pretty interesting, especially since most people only talk about like a couple of them (namely the Baneblade and Leman Russ), but there are tons of really weird and interesting options, like the new(ish) Rogal Dorn tank or the Eldar tanks
A walker video WITHOUT THE AT-AT??? HOW DARE YOU?!?! Jokes aside man, great vid as always. I do have 2 things to say here that are actually serious/not jokes. First, yes please do check out Empire at War, that RTS needs more love here on youtube, and with it I would like to ask if you can also review starships and fighters if you can. I know its a bit out of your comfort zone but I think it would be fun. Besides that, I came here to explain about the Ion Weapons. So Ion weapons are meant to take down electronic devices and tamper with projected shields. Star wars has 2 types of shields: Ray shields that are meant to stop physical objects, and energy shields to stop blasters and stuff. Ion weapons are meant to take those down. So for example, the Droideka you shot. It has an energy shield around it to protect the very fragile droid, so the ion weapon overloads that shield, making it drop, so you can effectively take down the droid. Same concept applies to shields on ships and other things (of course, adjusted to the scale of the target. Ion cannons on ships are comparable to Turbolasers), the only exception being planetary shields. Those are too strong to be taken down by simple Ion weapons, you would need a Commando team on the ground to deactivate it.
So Ion is not really the true "Armor Piercing" ammo you talked about, its meant to take down shields. Heavier blasters and dedicated AP ammo is what will punch through armor plating itself, like what we see in Rogue one with a rocket launcher being used against the AT-ACTs in Scariff
Eta fyi the vehicle on Star Wars has Shield generator build in on the vehicle which can deflect or even absorb which explains why they have pseudo "health"
Talking about the TX-130. All plasma based weapons (all blasters are plasma. Not lasers) can adjust the rate of fire and power per blast preporitonal to one another. IE the DC-15. The main, long rifle of the clones could be used as a machinegun. Or it could be made to fire slowly with bolts powerrul enough to put a 1.5m wide hole in ferro-concrete.
Honestly! If you could find a video (Rather than gaming in general) but find a video and react to the actual specifics of the tanks in star wars, like a marathon or something, that would be so good.
For the second tank think of how mag-lift trains work basically you did that to a tank but it's using the magnetic field of the planet is the opposite pole that is pushing against
If you do a part two, give the T4-B heavy tank of the alliance and the T1 and T3 series vehicles. They're pretty "tank" like vehicles just on a hoving mount, fully rotating turret on a hull. Nothing too fancy but they're probably the best designed from an earth perspective.
And before cam they actually tried making they tried making a single person Walker with two legs that stood at around 30 or so feet high there's actually a guy who goes over it but the project never got too far off the ground I mean I got decently far but not got far enough to where it actually into production
I feel like the stability of the AT-ST is more impressive than you (or the films for that matter) let on. The legs actually connect at the back, and there's a dog-leg that connects to the hip at the front of the actual leg. The joints at both ends of the dog-legs rotate as well as pivot up and down. This can allow the leg to lift up and step around large debris it couldn't climb over. The only ways that an AT-ST was felled on screen were by A.) Attacking it from the sides with a cascade of logs, likely jarring the controls and otherwise due to the weight of the logs prevented the driver from regaining control and B.) Falling into a concealed trap, which could potentially befall any vehicle, even some repulsorcraft.
Hey Eta, interesting video. Always did enjoy these types of videos were someone who is knowledgeable on a subject applies that to fictional settings. If you ever get the chance, maybe you can check out the tanks in Valkyria Chronicles, it's one of my favorite JRPGs and would be neat seeing you tackle that series.
Feel like most people have a slightly different way of defining what a tank actually is. For me, if it has tracks, a gun, it’s a tank, just has different classes like IFV, or a drone, etc. What map has the AT-TE and how do I get in it!? I need to know please! I’ve been wanting to use it forever and I haven’t ever found it! Also, BF4 next?
A couple weeks ago to about a month or so I saw in CZcams short about Mac that was from an anime it wasn't one of those that's like a fake diagram or it's like mock-up it was fully working all it was missing was the military grade armour and weaponry it had perfectly working AI it was actually movable everything else worked on it
If you do empire at war, I highly recommend you play the Awakening of the Rebellion mod for it (it's on the steam workshop). It adds a ton of new things and makes ground combat actually fun
@eta320 it's such a good mod. Y- wing remains my favorite ship, but Aotr made me love some of ships I had no idea about (such as the invincible cruiser (a 1000 year old PoS) and the Hutt battleship) Supposedly there is going to be a large update to the Independencies sub-mod for AoTR, so I'm looking forward to conquering the galaxy as the Corporate Sector Authority
🤓 “Um, ackshually, the best armored vehicle in Star Wars is the AT-AP.” I’m kidding. We all know it’s actually the Juggernaut. The Juggernaut is like if the P.1000 Ratte was actually built and worked as intended. And also if it ran on wheels instead of tracks and could go highway speeds.
No by your word and it sounds more like the for the third tank they had no way to make it automated on its own meaning it had to be crude not that it didn't have rangefinders didn't have any of that it did it's just it couldn't be made automated
AT-TE is a bad tank. It's big and slow and lightly armoured. We are shown light anti-perosonal missiles (episode 2)are easily able to kill it aswell as light cannons on DSD-1 dwarf spider droids.
Hey Eta! You asked about the Droid Army using a manned Tank in the form of the AAT. It should be noted that the CIS did have several completely autonomous droid tanks, such as the Snail Tank The NR-N99 Persuader, as well as several heavy walkers and even autonomous artillery droids in the form of the J-1. The reason that the AAT is a manned vehicle rather than being autonomous is it was designed to be operable by the sentient species forces of the CIS and originally Trade Federation. Though the CIS was primarily a droid force, there were several auxiliary and conglomerate forces that assisted in the combat efforts, the most obvious being the Umbarans from the Umbara arc in the Clone Wars TV series. Thus, the AAT allows for all CIS operators to utilize. And yes, B1's really are expendable enough to be able to man ships, vehicles, fighter craft etc.
Not to mention the Snail tank was one of the main popular examples of tracks being present on something I'm pretty sure.
Also, the B1 droids are used originally as shipbourne and port security forces, not combat units.
The Trade Federation had no need for tanks before the invasion of Naboo, so makes sense theyr decision of buying available materials, such as AAT, that were manufactured in mass and sold to be used by security forces all around the galaxy. Just reprograming the droids to pilot them and they have a tank force.
Only after the preparations for the Clone Wars begun they started to produce autonomous tanks.
The automomous figthers were already used because of piracy. They had an utility for protection of TF's assets.
@@Laz_Luthe snail follows me everywhere :(
Fun fact, the main gun on the top of the AT-TE is a mass driver, basically a giant rail gun with multiple ammo types and all of them seemingly surrounded in plasma!
Damn! I'm a clone fanboy, but I didn't know the AT-TE was nice like that!
Yup. Which is why i hate when rebels made the AT-TE just shrug off a blast from it like its nothing.
@@robertharris6092I assume you mean the AT-AT shrugging it off, and that’s explained by the Star Wars magic of shielding, hence why an ion cannon would be better for taking out the walker
About concussion grenades: The question would be if they are "stun grenades", something perhaps more aking to a flashbang, or HE grenades, that rely on the explosive force and conussion to kill instead of fragmentation (also called offensive grenades as they are much safer to throw for infantry that's not in cover, with the German Stick Grenade being the most famous example)
I'm pretty sure the AT-ST was used in peace keeping operations for the Empire, so the use of a non-lethal grenade would make sense.
@@Laz_Lu the empire famously avoided killing civilians often
@@Laz_Lu That's right. The Empire ensures the safety and health of all of its citizens. The appliance of force (non-lethal) is only used when necessary. The Empire protects all!
@@Laz_Luthere's a specialized model of the AT-RT ( not ST ) for riot control
I do love the AT-ST concussion grenades being really, really lethal. It fits the Empire so damn well to just do that stuff.
A dead person can technically be considered concussed.
Concusssion weapons in star wars are generaly supposed to be really dangerous. seems like they just call any sort of explosive "concussion" when they dont have any more specific idea for it.
@@robertharris6092 That makes it even funnier to me. Not only lacking any care to be more specific in lore but also lacking a comprehension of what concussion is supposed to mean, which you could actually decently well lore away, after all, when was there ever time in star wars to just concus? if folks are fighting, it almost always ends up being lethal from both ends, and there never really was a proper peace till the Republic of the movies, which I dont have to mention is thousands of years after constant conflicts and war.
In lore ya can see it, out of lore you can see its just folks not comprehending the terms meaning. both are hilarious.
@@padascos what are you talking about war? The republic is like. 10000+ years old. And there were no wars involving the republic for atleast 100s of years by the time of episode 1. Maybe just worded confusingly?
@@robertharris6092 We arnt talking Disney "literally nothing exists outside of that 1000 year timeframe before the movies" canon. In legends, there is yes, those tens of thousands of years of lore and existence pre movies, times of strife, war and conflict which would obviously shape perspective, change usage of terms and twist ideals.
A single word changing meaning can absolutely occur and then never change back. on such a time scale? thats easy.
After all, what is a meme? a wizard? terms aggressively change meaning often, despite their effective and simple existence already.
@@padascos In this context, concussion refers to a sharp impact or shock rather than a type of head injury. Presumably concussion weapons use some form of explosives to create a concussive shock-wave, which is why you have also have concussion missiles which are intended for use against vehicles and starships
on the topic of concussion grenades, Concussion in star wars typically refers to non-energy munitions like the Proton Torpedo. Things like the Victory Class star destroyer are equipped with a large reserve of Concussion Missiles which are conventional guided missiles.
I think the big problem with most walkers is that they are designed with only two legs. Balancing on two legs is difficult after all and requires insane programing and engineering just to keep from tipping over. Not only that but we humans, despite our efforts, fall over sometimes and cannot catch our fall without our arms.
I think the most plausible type of mech we would see is something like the *Stalker* from the Resistance Series. It has four legs allowing it to balance much easier as well as distributing its weight a lot better. Plus, it is less likely to tip over since a four-legged bug like configuration basically makes the legs also act as arms when the vehicle loses balance.
I highly suggest looking up the Stalker from Resistance: Fall of Man as you will see what I mean better that way.
Yeah no. Ground pressure is also a huge issue with walkers. Putting all that weight on little needle feet would not bode well on most if not all terrain. I absolutely love mechs but they are insanely impractical in just about any realistic aspect.
@@haircake6102how about the AT-RT tho, six short, stubby, "large" leg ?
Ion blasters are an emp weapon mainly used for disabling vehicles and droids without killing the crew. Some good examples are the star destroyer from the first movie it disables the ship to recapture the stolen plans or in the clone wars the princess uses a ion blaster to fight droids.
We see a command at-te with the cannon during the ryloth ark when the hyena bombers are attacking the city, it's the episode of where mace teams up with local freedom fighters and they take the capitol across the light bridge.
To add on, the interiors were modular, also in that same arc mace windu’s at-te has the command module in the front and a vehicle bay in the back that deploys tow at-rts or barc speeders
I’ve been looking forward to this. - Count Dooku
that fly’s gonna be famous
Oh my its the guy who Had REALLY UNFORTUNATE TIMING with his upload this time : )
I'm not so big of a Star Wars guy, but you sure make these vehicles sound interesting!
They are interesting😊. I recommend checking them out. The context doesn't really matter
The ATST is very similar to a FSCV (fire support combat vehicle) in regards to its armaments and purposes, infact the standard dual heavy blaster and side mounted rocket pods is very remenicint of the russian BMPT terminator
(Even though the terminator didn't exist until 2011, years after the ATST appeared on screen, you get my idea)
A decently well armoured fighting vehicle more orientated towards fighting infantry, but also still packing an anti armour functionality
Edit: also regarding the statement about no current experimentation with walking vehicle tech check out the nasa ATHLETE system, or the method 2 from 2019, that shits straight out of avatar
20:48 I imagine that it’s not just a button that directly fires, but similar to Angle of Attack limiter switches that enable a plane to freely use their horizontal stabilizers no matter their speed or conditions, where it gets rid of the firing limiter that prevents overheating.
more and also in clone wars series in one episode at-te used magnetic legs to seige churh on high slope hill
Also wanna add. For Ion weapons, you are somewhat correct in the Anti-Armor role. It would be more accurate to describe ion weapons as anti-shield role, which is nearly the same thing? And the reason that those same weapons are more effective against droids is the EMP like effect that Ion weapons have on electronics. You can see this best in the Clone Wars Episode "Cat And Mouse" Season 2 Ep 16. Where the Dreadnought "Invincible" uses a massive Ion Cannon to disable other ships.
Minor point of order, the ion cannon-carrying ship was the Malevolence from the season 1 Rise of Malevolence arc.
Before that even- the ion-weapons-as-EMPs was first seen in the jawa disabling R2 scene ll the way in A New Hope, and reinforced in ESB by the planetary ion cannon disabling the ISDs in orbit
I'm not much of a star wars guy (despite my dads best attempts), but anything's a good reason to hear you yapping about tanks.
Speaking of yapping about tanks though, CoH2 is on sale again
Actually Star Wars is historical. A long time ago in a galaxy far far away
Post scriptum just had a huge update that added over 40 vehicles to the game if you run out of ideas you should go back and take a look at some of them!
Is the game good?
When you talked about height and pros and cons of it I remembered how in Rebels three clone trooper how reacted when they first saw the AT-AT (they instantly critisized how tall and skinny its legs are and how it not falls over). They used the AT-TE for 3 years and since order 66 they lived in one.
I am also on team All Terrain Tactical Enforcer
31:20 yes, it was a Mass driver cannon. It cocoons the kinetic projectiles in plasma but, if another ammo is chosen, can be used as a heavy or fast-firing lasercannon (which is technically shoots plasma like most laser weapons in Star Wars)
You mean rex, cody, and greggor?
Gah daym! He's in SW now!
Before you go out disingin any Walker, remember that engeniaring vehicles exist
24:04 The reason why the AAT has a crew is that this tank and most of the Trade Federation's stuff has been driven by the humanoid crew. Before the Clone War, all of their planes, tanks, and spaceships had been operated by the live crew. Even their infantry units consisted of living humanoids.
Also, in the war period, they still had some live crews and stuff, but they were much less common.
That's why this tank still has room for a crew. And stuffing several cheap robots with tank crew protocols into a tank is much cheaper and easier than almost completely automating a combat vehicle.
This famous walking truck riminds me pacific rim for the control method. Ok now we can go to B.O.T. battle of titans and war robots.
In the case of the TX-130 and AAT tanks it’s important to note that Clones were expensive and took longer to train unlike a B1 where tons can be made while one clone is busy having lunch.
The CIS had more droids it ever needed, they were also expendable and a whole army could be made in less than a month. Because there was always a surplus of them is made perfect sense to have an large variety of droids doing different tasks. An AAT with a large crew was over anything too fancy was just because the CIS Army was made and maintained by a corporation that wanted to save money and be cheap. Otherwise the Commando Droid would’ve been standard issue.
The Republic meanwhile was at times forced to train ground troops as pilots because they just didn’t have the numbers. So a TX-130 having only needing a crew of 1 makes perfect sense.
the AT-RT is basically a recon motorcycle
The cool thing about the AT-RT too is that in a lot of its canon appearances is its extreme mobility, there’s a scene where they can even jump a pretty good distance!
I hope you do a second episode about this topic sometime in the future, I would be interested in your opinion on some anime but mostly "86" walkers how realistic they are, and so on.
The TX-130 has a few particularly lethal tactics that I learned while playing. They almost all involved blitzing up to an objective.
One particular strategy that I was fond of: you begin to load a full barrage of missiles as the tank moves up to the objective at full speed. Then fire the multi-laser ability as a suppression weapon. Once you reach the objective or a spot overlooking it, you unleash the barrage of missiles. If you time it perfectly you fire 8 missiles in just under 2 seconds. Match this attack with infantry and the tank can move into a defensive role to keep the momentum of the infantry. Very effective unless they have a droid tank, in that case you should focus the barrage on that target instead.
Star Wars Ion is Anti-shield /Energy
Basically its the Fictional "EMP" that shuts down stuff, but it also breaks shields.
I know almost nothing about Star Wars but for the AAT I like to imagine everything is “the old fashioned way” *because* it was designed to fight pirates, like the real world A-10 was designed to be cheap and fight insurgents so it lacks advanced targeting and whatnot (I think so anyway)
The star Wars game Force Commander also had two tanks on the rebel side; one tracked heavy tank and one scout tank with AA capabilities and it had an antigrav propulsion...
ETA320: The TX-130 is what I think of when I think SW tank
AAT: Am I a fckn joke to you?
Yes. Its a cheap piece of junk meant to be produced en mass with little regard for their crews. The TX-130 is pretty much the opposite. And fills an actually role other vehicles cant.
Ngl now i wonder what would you say about C&C tanks
That Bonaple logo in backgroung... I swear i need one too
1:05 ngl i kinda see it
19:33 on the topic of repulsor tech in star wars, they actually hover by pushing against the gravity of the planet it's on. So it doesn't actually push air or fuel out from the bottom of it like modern jets. Because of that, repulsors only work in a gravitational field
40:20 the AT-RT could also jump and leap large distances. A lot of people refer to it as the frog walker
There are actually excavators, especially used in forrestry thats use legs, not tracks as it can stabilize the vehicle more
There was a missed opportunity to talk about object 760 a real functional hover tank. Although it was pretty bad at hovering.
So the a AT-TE is a sturmgeschütz?damn germans really were two steps forward
If im not mistaken the AT-RTis capable of being stowed on the underbelly cargo elevator on the AT-TE, in pairs of 2 or 4. Allowing the heavy and slow AT-TE to deploy the AT-RT's for close defense, reconnaissance, and other things. One example of this is in the clone wars TV series where they were deployed from a convoy that was pinned down, in order to neutralize the enemy armor that was keeping the AT-TE's pinned.
Now I just wanna see him bully the funni designs of 40K Imperial walkers and vehicles lol. Imperator Class Titan my beloved
I remember in some episodes of TCW the walkers fire the mass driver without anyone sitting on the turret, so I wonder if it has some kind of limited remote control by the commander.
38:27 there was a cargo version of the at-te, it was the at-ot, all terrain open transport, that had 8 legs and an open top to carry heavy and oversized cargo, it was a rear echelon vehicle so it had the two rear ball turrets but upfront had two medium autocannon, it was especially a Vietnam style armored truck
I would like to clarify something about the concussion grenades of the AT-ST, or rather concussion weaponry as a whole in Star Wars. The name may indicate they are non lethal but they very much are highly lethal and their name should definitely not be taken at face value. An example of this is the concussion missile, which ranges from a small caliber air-to-air missile mounted on fighters to massive anti-ship missiles, such as those on the Victory 1 star destroyer. They can have uses similar to SAPHE ammunition, and some can even be set to airburst, killing with the shockwave generated by the explosion. Which means the "concussion" in "concussion missile/grenade" is pretty much powerful enough to kill someone more effectively than fragmentation or conventional HE weapons
The AATs were originally built pre-war to be used with organic humanoid crew. And early war it was sepreatists humanoids on outer rim worlds that fought other republic humanoid security forces before the clone army was created, really extremely interesting if you look into it how things slowly ramped up and how plannets were the center of conflict for the duration of the entire war
24:02 The CIS also had the Recusant class ships that were also semi self sufficient due to it having a brain.
o god the Battleblock Theater music gave me so much nostalgia.
Don't tell him that the AT-TE went vertically up a cliff 👀
To add to your comment of B-1 expendability, they were literally made in the quintillions. Tens if not hundreds of quintillions. Yeah, id say they were expendable. If they weren't all but programed to loose the war, we'd all be speaking Geonotian.
At least in Empire at war, the TX-130 had removed the two sponson guns and replaced it with an actual turret. Also in the game its more a anti tank tank than its earlier predecessor. What about the Juggernaut A6/A5 Mobile, I don't know fortress?? There are so many Legends and background vehicles which are so cool in Star wars
Aight. I gotta admit, your knowledge is SIGNIFICANTLY better than I was admittedly expecting. Some points though: ATST’s operated by the First Order and Empire are different, with the First Order being more armored and stable than the Imperial variant. Think more of a Bradley but can’t carry infantry. They were also designed as scouts. Second, repulser technology more pushes the craft directly against the gravitational field, rather than air or force downward. Third, the AAT was originally designed as a sold weapons systems. That’s why it has a crew rather than a droid. The NR-N99 is a fully autonomous droid tank with a massive tread through the center. A few things as well to note is several things from Battlefront 2 are changed or added or removed for game balance reasons. But man I loved this video, great for my specific brand of autism.
Funny thing about the at-te the thing you pounted out about it happened a lot to it mines and sabatoures sticking explosives to its belly sent it up in flames its why they moved to the at-at. Also a fun fact about the gun up top it doubles as an artillery cannon. And for the droid army there's multiple droid tanks that were droids like the snail tank, hailfire droid, dwarf spider droid, homing spider droid, and the otoptara tri-droid. you also lump the vulture droid here too because of its walker mode it was used as a lav if quick support was needed
The rebel and resistance sniper (specialist) made me act up. 🥴
In terms of terrain legged vehicles would be bad in hills are not one of them. Us military studdies on quadrapedal and bipedal robots found them to work better than wheels or tracks on slopes.
idk if you remember my beard related comment, but with that joung stalin comparation, I should say that many people, including my mom n dad, have told me I look like a funky Che Guevara, Castro or young bin ladden 💀
Mans diet is that of communion
you actually want concussion grenades for infantry attack because they have a smaller effective radius, thus they won't effect you - considering you're attacking and getting closer aka you could cause friendly fire with frag.
Hey Eta, Cursed Tank Simulator just got a major update and a fire control system revamp, hope you'll give the game another look soon! You could ask the devs for a press account if you'd like a more complete inventory...
I'm sure you've gotten this suggestion before, but you should look at some 40k vehicles some time for this series. Some of them are pretty interesting, especially since most people only talk about like a couple of them (namely the Baneblade and Leman Russ), but there are tons of really weird and interesting options, like the new(ish) Rogal Dorn tank or the Eldar tanks
A walker video WITHOUT THE AT-AT??? HOW DARE YOU?!?!
Jokes aside man, great vid as always. I do have 2 things to say here that are actually serious/not jokes.
First, yes please do check out Empire at War, that RTS needs more love here on youtube, and with it I would like to ask if you can also review starships and fighters if you can. I know its a bit out of your comfort zone but I think it would be fun.
Besides that, I came here to explain about the Ion Weapons. So Ion weapons are meant to take down electronic devices and tamper with projected shields. Star wars has 2 types of shields: Ray shields that are meant to stop physical objects, and energy shields to stop blasters and stuff. Ion weapons are meant to take those down. So for example, the Droideka you shot. It has an energy shield around it to protect the very fragile droid, so the ion weapon overloads that shield, making it drop, so you can effectively take down the droid. Same concept applies to shields on ships and other things (of course, adjusted to the scale of the target. Ion cannons on ships are comparable to Turbolasers), the only exception being planetary shields. Those are too strong to be taken down by simple Ion weapons, you would need a Commando team on the ground to deactivate it.
So Ion is not really the true "Armor Piercing" ammo you talked about, its meant to take down shields. Heavier blasters and dedicated AP ammo is what will punch through armor plating itself, like what we see in Rogue one with a rocket launcher being used against the AT-ACTs in Scariff
Eta fyi the vehicle on Star Wars has Shield generator build in on the vehicle which can deflect or even absorb which explains why they have pseudo "health"
Tank.
Talking about the TX-130. All plasma based weapons (all blasters are plasma. Not lasers) can adjust the rate of fire and power per blast preporitonal to one another. IE the DC-15. The main, long rifle of the clones could be used as a machinegun. Or it could be made to fire slowly with bolts powerrul enough to put a 1.5m wide hole in ferro-concrete.
Since they're using clones i don't think crew survivability is a big concern
Honestly! If you could find a video (Rather than gaming in general) but find a video and react to the actual specifics of the tanks in star wars, like a marathon or something, that would be so good.
For the second tank think of how mag-lift trains work basically you did that to a tank but it's using the magnetic field of the planet is the opposite pole that is pushing against
If you do a part two, give the T4-B heavy tank of the alliance and the T1 and T3 series vehicles. They're pretty "tank" like vehicles just on a hoving mount, fully rotating turret on a hull. Nothing too fancy but they're probably the best designed from an earth perspective.
Empire At War is goated, would love to see it on here
And before cam they actually tried making they tried making a single person Walker with two legs that stood at around 30 or so feet high there's actually a guy who goes over it but the project never got too far off the ground I mean I got decently far but not got far enough to where it actually into production
"Here in virginia" yoo he's here too
You could have talk about the jumping tank witch is quite funny
What about the Juggernaut (Ik it's not in the game but still) it's the massive ten-wheeled tank in kashyyk
Ion weapons in star wars are more of an EMP weapon, particularly effective at disrupting shields.
I feel like the stability of the AT-ST is more impressive than you (or the films for that matter) let on. The legs actually connect at the back, and there's a dog-leg that connects to the hip at the front of the actual leg. The joints at both ends of the dog-legs rotate as well as pivot up and down. This can allow the leg to lift up and step around large debris it couldn't climb over. The only ways that an AT-ST was felled on screen were by A.) Attacking it from the sides with a cascade of logs, likely jarring the controls and otherwise due to the weight of the logs prevented the driver from regaining control and B.) Falling into a concealed trap, which could potentially befall any vehicle, even some repulsorcraft.
@eta320 you should really watch. It has some awesome battles with the at-te.
Hey Eta, interesting video. Always did enjoy these types of videos were someone who is knowledgeable on a subject applies that to fictional settings. If you ever get the chance, maybe you can check out the tanks in Valkyria Chronicles, it's one of my favorite JRPGs and would be neat seeing you tackle that series.
21:13 Enemy's with Shields
Welcome back eta320, maybe you could make the IS-7 video?!?!?
Im listening to you talk about the AAT and i swear to god your mannerisms just remind me of Ian McCollum.
I KNEW HE WAS A FELLOW VIRGINIAN I COULD SENSE IT
RVA represent
@@eta320 OMG AND HES FROM THE RVA Someone from here has finally made it
Feel like most people have a slightly different way of defining what a tank actually is. For me, if it has tracks, a gun, it’s a tank, just has different classes like IFV, or a drone, etc.
What map has the AT-TE and how do I get in it!? I need to know please! I’ve been wanting to use it forever and I haven’t ever found it!
Also, BF4 next?
Next vid: Karlach is a tank.
What about the KV7 and other prototypes of the kv family?
Any videos on the prototype German tanks or paper tanks such as panzer 3/4 or panzer 4/5 or the vk series
A couple weeks ago to about a month or so I saw in CZcams short about Mac that was from an anime it wasn't one of those that's like a fake diagram or it's like mock-up it was fully working all it was missing was the military grade armour and weaponry it had perfectly working AI it was actually movable everything else worked on it
If you do empire at war, I highly recommend you play the Awakening of the Rebellion mod for it (it's on the steam workshop). It adds a ton of new things and makes ground combat actually fun
I love AotR!! The Liberation is my favorite Star Wars ship of all time. Plus it’s voiced by Captain Shack who I’ve been a fan of for a long time
@eta320 it's such a good mod. Y- wing remains my favorite ship, but Aotr made me love some of ships I had no idea about (such as the invincible cruiser (a 1000 year old PoS) and the Hutt battleship)
Supposedly there is going to be a large update to the Independencies sub-mod for AoTR, so I'm looking forward to conquering the galaxy as the Corporate Sector Authority
🤓 “Um, ackshually, the best armored vehicle in Star Wars is the AT-AP.”
I’m kidding. We all know it’s actually the Juggernaut. The Juggernaut is like if the P.1000 Ratte was actually built and worked as intended. And also if it ran on wheels instead of tracks and could go highway speeds.
Pt 2 please 🙏
yo on a real note speaking of bi-pedal tanks, you should look into metal gears from metal gear solid.
Now do the same but with warhammer
Man i hope to see more cursed tank simulator on Roblox
Do the fortnitete tank 💀
ETA DO BRIGADOR NEXT
AND IF YOU DO, TAKE A LOOK AT WHAT THE GUY SAYS ABOUT CERTAIN LOYALIST BIG BOYS
No by your word and it sounds more like the for the third tank they had no way to make it automated on its own meaning it had to be crude not that it didn't have rangefinders didn't have any of that it did it's just it couldn't be made automated
You should look at battlefield 4s tanks. Specifically the hover tank from the final stand dlc.
Hmmm, Battletech when?
For the next tank enthusiast reacts, have you considered steel titans on roblox?
AT-TE is a bad tank. It's big and slow and lightly armoured. We are shown light anti-perosonal missiles (episode 2)are easily able to kill it aswell as light cannons on DSD-1 dwarf spider droids.
The term for the TX-130s guns is gimbled. Capable of indepdendent movement.
Warhammer 40K soon?