5 Absolutely Useless Imperial Vehicles -- Star Wars Legends
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Today we talk about five absolutely awful Star Wars walkers, vehicles and more used by the Galactic Empire during the Galactic Civil War and beyond
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i love the rogue squadron footage... its been too long since i replayed them all, from n64 and the secret naboo fighter, to the later ones
the search for the nonnah lol... so many memorable levels
I could actually see some use for the TIE tanks and AT-TP. With the proper tactics, that is. And, to be honest, if you're fielding vehicles like this, you're probably up the creek without a paddle.
Think echelon formation. Basically a flying "V". The 3 vehicles in the center, go straight, and the other vehicles on either side alternate inboard and outboard turns to provide interlocking fields of fire. Kinda like a Thatch weave, but backward.
A lot of Scifi Nations that are "evil" have a bad habit of going all-in on the "we have an iconic thing, let's make everything have that iconic thing in it somewhere"
I sort of could buy TIE Mauler as exotic anti-personel TIE variant used occasionally, because it didn't take much space if you already have TIE infrastructure. But TIE Tank is just plain dumb.
"How about an AT-AT but it's a submarine?"
"Why not make an actual submarine?"
"BUT THEN HOW WILL THEY KNOW IT'S US?!"
This logic pattern seemed repeatedly to be followed by EU writers, and to some extent by fans even now.
@@absalomdraconisall over the eu, but these days, definitely by fans. but usually at first it seems by not particularly creative or out of the box fan fics types who get way too into the tropes. i appreciate more and more when people think through what theyre adding. luckily a lot that went into the prequels tried to consider function... nooooot the sequels though
@@michaelwerkov3438 The sequels tried to pretend the original trilogy didn't exist ignoring established rules for hyper spacing ww2 bombers in space?They must be joking you can't just drop bombs in space there is no gravity it needs to be propelled somehow changing Luke Skywalker's personality completely if they had used the original Luke Ben Solo wouldn't have turned to the dark side because Luke would never even attempt to kill someone he cared about just because he sensed the dark side in them he would first talk to them try to bring them over to the light side killing would be a completely last resort
@@rmcgowa1987 You’re confusing “prequel” with “sequel”.
@@neillindgren8992 yeah my bad typo I meant sequel I will fix it thanks for telling me
I see you used footage of the TIE MAULER from Empire at War, but neglect its true utility in that game: Running over swarms of infantry or civilian partisans with its treads. The guns are pretty much just there to fire at light buildings and rush artillery.
TIE MAULER SPAM WORKS FOR EVERYTHING!!!!
I don't think the Empire was really thinking about fighting conventional wars (like against the CIS) so didn't care about practical vehicles as long as they were aesthetically intimidating and symbolic of the empire. So using the mauler to run over enemies makes sense as opposed to actually using it to fight other tanks.
How does that even work? You'd have to intentionally run at the treads to get run over, the rest of the vehicle has enough clearance to just drop prone.
@@Orthus100 gameplay thing.
@@Gothic7876 Oh, I understand that. I was referring to the imaginary real application of the vehicle.
TIE Mauler is good
At running over Rebel missile troops.
Your pauses like this
Are very poetic
And then self destructing in the middle of the rebel formation
dunno man, when I tried to use them the rebels always blew them up in seconds. Without shields these things just don't last.
There main ability is to kamikaze,
If you don't loose at least one Mauler Squadron taking a planet your not using them properly.
In vanilla EAW and FOC Maulers are the Empires only infantry counter on assualt.
Yeah TIE Maulers are great at just running over groups of infantry. Don't even use the guns. Just drive really fast back and forth until they are all dead.
This makes me want a miniseries about an Imperial alligned defense contractor that has to build all these insane contraptions.
that sounds like it is in the nehoborhood of are you being surved, just with more building and less men's and lady's cloths.
Make it in the style of Pentagon Wars.
@@kabob0077 should still be a comedy where not much gets done and everyone tries to take credit or shift blame. Maybe with a bumbling leader at the head of it
The Office, but for Kuat Drive Yards or Sienar Fleet Systems
I always thought that JarJar became Grand Moff, and he was using Gungun military doctrine for the Empire.
Bruh that Tie Mauler saved my Imperial ass so many times by running over those waves of Rebel infantry then exploding in the name of the Emperor.
My favorite comment ever...
Honestly the better use for leftover tie cockpits would be a literal ball turret. Just allow the thing to rotate maybe stick on another gun and you've got a super cheap turret or drop in from Gozanti and you have quick deploy fire support
Super expensive turret more like, comes with sublight engines
Well I figure you rip that out and put in a sick music system
Or use that cockpit to build a Striker. Even if they’re carrying dumb bombs, they’ll probably do better than the tank.
Nah that is the best use as it reduces the cost of the vehicle.
Yeah, i can see it, Rip out the reactor and Ion engines and use that as the attachment point, and attach some cannons where the wings would be, and you have a solid ball turrett. Maybe if you put about a dozen of those per Imperial II, they might not get blasted by rebel fighters quite so often.
The AT-PT is something in a niche between the AT-RT and the AT-DP and largely redundant in its role, it's completely understandable why it would be on this list as it's really not filling a role that can't be taken by another vehicle.
I can't help but think it would still be a decent replacement for the AT-RT. It's a lot shorter and possibly has an extra weapon or two. Not to mention the cockpit isn't open, compare that to the AT-RT which was basically giving a free kill to snipers.
I feel like it could work in an Urban setting, at least more than it's more open-topped cousin.
@@woofwoof6419 Except it doesn't have the maneuverability of the AT-RT and it doesn't give the pilot a big enough field of vision for them to properly look around. Not to mention the cockpit looks like a sideways fridge making its silhouette stand out THAT much more against the background on top of the possiblity of it being easily outmaneuvered by Infantry in an urban setting if the streets are tight enough.
@@kabob0077 from what I understood, the AT-PT was used in the dark force fleet. So I think it was intended for on ship use and CnC ground support.
@@kabob0077 Being exposed is a huge weakness not just because of snipers but shrapnel increased agility is not a bonus. Also using your own eyes or binoculars in a AT-RT should be vastly inferior to the AT-PT's sensors and optics from an enclosed cockpit for detecting the enemy.
The AT-PT is supposed to have a point defense system it protects other vehicles from missiles,rockets and proton torpedos it also assists against infantry fire the problem is though in empire at war and aotr that point defense system doesn't last that long so they lose a lot of their usefulness
Eckhart and his hate of the at-pt 😂 that rogue squadron mission sticks with you
In star wars commander it was somewhat effective and was good against most type of fortifications
@@michaelandreipalon359 Nah, just fly low and be patient. Now on the at-pt mission it's completely luck-based, since your allies are dumb
@@bloq6758 I'm pretty sure SWC used the at-DP instead of PT
Of all of the levels on Rogue Squadron, especially first playthrough, Fest just loves to hand-out PTSD and Depression.
It really does......to this day it's the only one I have trouble getting a gold medal on.
At first I got angry when you talked about the AT-PT, but it’s only because I misheard the name. I thought you were trying to talk smack about the AT-DP
The AT-DP is the chad version of the AT-PT
And the AT-AP is the gigachad version of the AT-DP
The AT-XT puts all of the 2 legged walkers to shame.
AT-DP feels like a similar concept to the AT-PT, but with a turreted body, and used in an urban police environment where small arms fire, anti infantry weapons, and small size for a walker would be far more useful.
A dedicated gaming phone? Okay, there's just one feature I'd like it to add. A 17" display so that I can see what I'm doing without squinting, and my fingers don't cover three buttons at a time.
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@@slowazzd2165 Exactly the point, I believe.
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I have a LG Wing and it would be amazing for gaming Its almost like a DS
It needs a cup holder on the back, so I can drink my mountain dew without having take my fingers off the buttons.
The crawler and mauler must be for failed pilots, they already invested the money in the training give them a slower one on ground that they can use, may get a few kills instead if killing Friendly's out of ineptitude
Being a tie pilot is not much of a promotion you are unshielded your basically flying your own coffin even the lowest ranking x wing pilot can destroy you
@@rmcgowa1987 Not really, sure it's still a flying coffin but a good TIE pilot can scrap a low ranking X-Wing pilot. Going a bit into the EU Wedge himself even admits to getting a bit to reliant on his shields and wonders if that's making him a worse pilot (I think it's Wedge anyway) But while the TIE fighter is a death trap it's also at the same time a crucible. If you live, if you get good at flying a TIE fighter you might just find yourself in an Interceptor or commanding your own ship. In their perverse resource wasting way the Empire was trying to find the best of the best.
It's been awhile since I read it, but I think the Essential Guide to Vehicles and Vessels (the one Eck is grabbing a TIE Crawler picture from) describes that the Empire was in fact using TIE Fighter washouts to drive TIE Crawlers.
@@DracoStarcloud Yes, it did. Was looking for someone to have said it already, if not then do it myself.
No they were made as a cost-cutting measure for the latter and the former was when the Empire and the manufacturer were low resources and funds.
That dislike is from the Sienar Fleet Systems CEO just trying to make some money to feed his family by throwing random things onto a TIE cockpit.
Well you'll want to reconsider recounting the dislike ratio.
your comment had me laughing
Well the TIE Crawler and TIE Mauler weren't by SFS but Santhe/Sinear Technologies their parent company.
I actually like the wave skimmer, I feel like it serves the purpose of a fast, easy to maintain scout on planets where the highest ranking Imperial Officer doesn't have the materials or manpower requisition for the more sought after equipment. They have to make due with B and C tier equipment and poor supply lines, so lower tech machinery would make more sense. I really wish they would go more into the Imperial Maritime Division. They apparently also have aircraft carriers. First time I believe I had ever seen a Maritime craft in Star Wars was probably the landing craft in Rogue Squadron during Defection at Corellia where they drop stormtroopers on the beach to invade the city. Always thought it was really cool.
Plus the Waveskimmer was made in the lore because there was a garrison on an ocean world that didn't have proper submarines so they had to modify the craft the Empire gave them to fill the roll.
The problem is instead of using it for coastal or river based patrol they use it out in deep seas where it just can’t handle the choppy waters out there. It would be the equivalent of the US using PBRs to fight a Russian Fleet in the Atlantic
@@bigroaststyrone8135 I mean, my money might be on the US PBR at this point lol
@@andrewbloom7694 yea u rite lmao
The Engineer who made the Tie-tank
Designer: “okay you see those unused Tie fighter cockpits?”
Engineer: “Yes.”
Designer: “Put a turret on the bottom of it.”
Engineer: “That actually sounds lik-“
Designer: “Then instead of wings put treads on both sides.”
Engineer: “………..how much have you had to drink today?”
He didn't have anything it is a sound design.
Nah the Engineer be like: You on death sticks again?
It's pretty insane that a universe that uses repulser tech in literally everything would consider a mech and all the complications that are inherent in that design to be more reliable than something that is so common it is used in kids toys.
Reliable is WHEELS not legged mechs. Besides being mechanically simple for this advanced universe they would be infinitely more reliable to run and work on than legged mechs.
Repulsors have massive weaknesses to theater shields and specialized jammers.
In addition to what everyone else said, I vaguely recall that there were mines that specifically targeted repulsor tech.
In essence, walkers were less an alternative to repulsor vehicles, and more a rough-terrain equivalent to wheeled vehicles. Hence the use of AT-ATs on Hoth: you don't need to take out or chase down the entire enemy force, you just need to get close enough that you can take out their shields/anti-aircraft guns, so that you can land the repulsorlift vehicles somewhere too big to mine.
"the walker advantages include [...] reliability"
every engineer in the entire galaxy: "you have heard of wheels right?"
@@DIEGhostfish That has nothing to do with my point about the "reliability of walking mechs"
Nothing you point out was in my comment. My comment is CLEARLY about just the complicated nature of vehicles with legs would make them less reliable than something with repulsors.
@Alexander Perkins Has nothing to do with my point on "reliability of walking mechs"
None of your points have anything to do with my comment which was CLEARLY only about how the complicated nature of a walking mech would be less mechanically reliable than a repulsor.
I'm pretty sure the massive tracks aren't going to impact the field of view that the TIE pilot gets considering they can't see out to their sides anyways both due to the solar panels the cockpit normally would have and the lack of a window anywhere but front
Sensors, scanners and advanced optics should give a fine field of view.
Look at the modern tank the field of view of the driver is just a letterbox sized window directly in-front while the commander gets a periscope called an Independent Thermal Viewer.
@@Ushio01 the thing with Imperial Ties is there isn't a commander.
Curious enough, a bunch of " every X vehicle" videos were recommended to me like an hour ago. But it's still impresive.
to be fair to the AT-PT its twin blaster cannon is on a ball mount so it can take precision shots anywhere in its front arc and potentially hit low flighting air targets
And it tackles slopes better than an AT-ST.
The thing about the AT-PT is that it doesn't seem to be a frontline fighting vehicle. I think it's better suited as a light patrol or police/riot control vehicle. It's what you give to the units that aren't facing enough resistance to qualify issuing AT-STs.
Yah I see the AT-PT is more your back water everyday kind of policing vehicle that is the area for the empire. That may not always be in use or in combat but on stand by kind of deal. maybe not as well suited as an AT -ST for doing with full on rebel/ terrorist threats. But maybe to ensure that civil un rest just stays to peaceful protest demonstrations and don't turn into rioting and looting.
Or any crazed sports fans getting too excited by their teams victory or outage due their team losing the play offs or something of popular sport in star wars. so I am thinking AT-PT pilots don't get to do a whole lot lol and may even be part time operators as well.
It might be a little more interesting to be an AT-ST and AT-DP crew but I suspect they require a bit more experience to operate than an AT-PT so probably an AT- PT could be seen as starter vehicle for Empires mechanized forces or at least one of several options possible. As I have heard that AT-ATs require highly skilled members from the Storm Trooper core to operate or storm troopers that make up the mechanized branch of the imperial military. Even though it is one of the largest and slowest of the Empires Walkers it is considered a coveted position or Its like being apart of an elite tank crew or battalion that going to dominate the enemy on the battlefield at least propaganda wise.
Where as AT -PT might be considered something lowly imperial conscripts would operate. I am not saying one is better than other at least not every aspect. But AT-PTs kind of come across just your normal ever day imperial walker for policing duties. Like Imperial citizens might look out their windows and be like I guess they had to call in the AT-PT or PT's again to sub do the local gang fights at such and such district 3rd time this week. Where as AT-STs and AT -DPs get involved ands it like okay this seem be escalating rather quickly right now or well that escalated quickly.
AT-ATs show up and its like someone done fucked up and pissed off the Empire Royally looks like shits about about to get real ugly fast. lol XD.
The AT-PT was actually built specifically more for scouting than anything else. It wasn't meant for frontline combat.
Is the AT-PT the thing that Han, Luke and Lando fight on the Katana dreadnaught in Dark Force Rising?
I think all of these make complete sense within the context of the Tarkin Doctrine. The are instantly recognizable as Imperial war machines, and support the goal of using fear to suppress dissent.
The proplem with that is the moment they are proven ineffective they are useless as fear making tools.
@@OrDuneStudios for sure most fear comes from effectiveness not just visable intimidation.
Tarkin Doctrine sucks ass.
Having completely ineffective weapons will not intimidate your enemies for long, it will make you a joke and thus have the exact opposite effect.
The Tarkin Doctrine by itself makes sense, but to intimidate your weapons, ships and vehicles must still be at least reasonable effective in combat while looking intidimating. If they don't, it's not going to work.
The way you apply that idea here is simply an attempt to retroactively justify bad vehicle desgin by the writers because you don't want anything in SW to be bad. Classic fanboy move.
You mean Tarkin ordered ineffective vehicles for the Imperial military on purpose becauss he was a dirty traitor? Yeah, makes sence. The evidence is overwhelming if you think about it.
Almost all of these, except the mini walker, look like something pirates would have put together. Think the starships made by them out of random parts were called Uglies? Can imagine some pirates scavenging a battlefield or abandoned base and putting all of these together to intimidate locals.
"We have a fun lighthearted video today", Justin says as a clip from The Empire Strikes Back is played of the Rebels being slaughtered is played
Man's out here disrespecting my TIE Tank lol. Great video, as always!
Veers's hover wheelchair has more tactical applications than a TIE Tank.
No the TIE Crawler has a very good application. send them in large numbers to overwhelm the enemy.
I used to call the AT-PT the AT-TP, because it was about as strong as wet toilet paper in that mission in Rogue Squadron. I haaaaaaaaaaaaated that mission.
8:17 Those are called Hydrofoils, they're a thing in real life. And they can work even if repulsor unfriendly areas. also repulsors are hard to build and maybe the World Devastators couldn't make too many just using what they sucked up.
But these imperial version are WAY to tall. Hit a wave wrong and the thing slams its face into the water at high speed. That'll leave a mark.
@@MonkeyJedi99 : Too short and it _still_ smacks a wave face-first, waves can sometimes get 25 ft tall.
Maybe if the Tie tank was a mortar tank than it would be more effective.
Like the Wraith in Halo?
@@twotailedavenger yeah kinda.
Yeah, extend a platform behind the ball and put some high angle missiles or a mortar there. That mean the lasers are self defense weapons.
@@VorpalDerringer is there any mortar style tanks in Star Wars?
@@rascoehunter3608 artillery does exist but mortars tend to be man-portable version only iirc
As I recall from SW lore,
...the TIE tank was to employ the "legions" of TIE pilot trainees that washed out. IE, create a vehicle that these failed trainees can pilot with the training already invested....
The AT-PT was supposedly a hold over from the GAR/Republic AND an armored transport for a unit commander. The AT-PT was doctrinally not to be issued to troops for normal combat as commanders do not normally participate in combat, but rather direct combat.
9:51 Don't forget, guns on the sides like a Homeworld ship because I feel only top and bottom would be too limited in their range and targeting.
Or take a note from Somtaaw and use missiles (or in this case torpedoes) to fire in every direction and actively chase enemies rather than miss or be dodged and forgotten.
Why do the TIE Crawlers and Maulers exist? Who THOUGHT those were good designs? Sammy may have been right about why they exist but why the hell didn't someone above the designers stop them from making one of the stupidest tank designs ever?
Why the illustrator and author visualize the abominations instead of an futuristic vehicles ahead of it's time...they should have taken notes from the year 1943-1945...👓😶
@@siegel947 touché
Dark Empire was not a good era for design
Ok but in action for EAW. The enemy would lose so many infantry units and so many light tanks due to mauler swarm
@@manticorephoenix you're saying this, but we got Eclipse, Sovereign and other great capital ships out of it
I think the AT-IC would be better if it could actually rotate the turret a full 360
Yeah... its basically the archer tank destroyer.
At the end of the day, the empire had to save on credits somewhere. Even if they where infinity rich, it was much easier to just reuse some things I guess.
But it's a hell of a lot cheaper just to make repulsor technology than to buy the extra materials and high torque motors, not to mention a lot more useful.
@@NG-lq8lc : There are anti-repulsor technologies in the EU/Legends, which are also the only place that several of these exist.
They saved money by making cheap technology and saving ammo.
The TIE Crawler wasn't supposed to be good, it was supposed to be cheap.
But even if it is supposed to be cheap, it can do much better. Like, even a techie would be better at its job than the AT-PT
3:57 TIEs and other ships fire their weapons off-axis all the time in space battles, they don't need to aim the whole vehicle like a real world fixed hull machinegun.
Loving these lore videos recently. Keep up the great work Eck! #askeck = Aside from the U-Wing and other well known gunships,was there any Rebel vehicle that was used for military transport/troop insertions? Something along the lines of a real-world C130J or A400M Atlas?
I think the GR-75 Medium Transport fits that bill.
Is that the Gallofree?
Yes they had several.
It’s like Eck already had these videos premade for uploading and just went with whatever people voted for Lol
Tie tank: Tie fighter, but tonk
Tie mauler: Tier fighter, but more tonk
Skimmer: Could've been better, could've been worse
ATPT: At-St, but useless
AT-AT swimmer: wha... why? Just why?
The AT-PT is actually useful he ignore that the AT-PT came first and it can tackle slopes better than AT-ST could. Plus it is a scout above all.
The AT-AT Skimmer isn't a bad design either.
The word you were looking for on the skimmer is "hydrofoil", I believe
"At-pt moving out" has been stuck in my head ever since i heard it.
"I don't see why you wouldn't just use a repulser-lift vehicle."
That goes for the walkers too.
Because Repulsors can't go through shields and some planets give trouble to repulsors like Jabim's electrical fields and planets with non-standard gravity.
The point of all the useless vehicles is that they are cheap and barely effective. The structures of the Empire were almost inteded to encourage infighting. Far better to let underlimgs slug it out with disposable weapons. Less waste and lets you weed out weak commanders.
The Tie Tank and Tie Mauler have a long design linage back to WW2.
We all remember that Sherman tank treads were strapped to the side of P-51 Mustang fuselages to create ground combat vehicles.
The AT-AT swimmer looks like what would happen if say a small rebel group station on a water planet got the wrong order and needed to make do.
I can see one benefit to the TIE Mauler, although a different design would probably be better.
They could essentially be shock troops. A tiny, cheap tank that you can field a bunch of. They're not that sturdy, but they can shrug off small arms fire and just plow over infantry. For a faction like the empire, seems like it'd have its uses, though a turret that isn't obstructed by the treads would be a big improvement.
I thought for sure the speeder bikes from rise of Skywalker would be in this video. The speeder bikes from return of the Jedi are clearly better in every way
Yea the bikes that go 310 mph (500 km/h). And require Jedi like reflexes to not crash into anything that is standing off of the ground.
@@sillerbarly4927 I feel like that is more of a top speed than the speed they are typically used at. I think they would be better for more barren environments though.
Well they aren't even speeder bikes as they don't use repulsors.
I can imagine that the TIE Tank is actually based on very first tank concepts here in our reality. If we take a look at for example the british Mark I-IV tanks or the german WW1 tanks it kinda reasembles the big sidetrakcs and the very but angles guns. moving forward in time, I can see non-turreted tank destroyers like a StuG, a Churchill Gun Carriage or the french AMX AC tanks along with the American M6 Heavy tank and the T28/T95 kinda reassembling that look
The sea skimmer thing is probably a hydrofoil, which would come in handy in some scenarios
you know. i kind of like the tie mauler and tie crawler (the tie tanks) not because they are good designs. they are pretty bad designs XD but because they show that the empire considered tracked vehicles as something worth investing in. and i love tracked vehicles for sci-fi.
I agree with this. Although I am glad we at least have the Occupier tank and it's duel medium laser cannons
Love the videos man!
I love seeing all these old clips of Rouge Squadron. Played that a lot at my friends house when I was a kid.
I remember playing the AT PT heist mission on Rogue Squadron and thinking "we're risking our lives to capture those??"
Can we get a video on what if the empire won the battle of jakku? It would be fun to see if the empire could regroup and fight back.
Good idea...
or better yet a draw both sides are so badly mauled that both retreat. Then bam a proper imperial remnant that regroups
Probably wouldn’t use the TIE tank though
The AT-PT is just a Sentinel that forgot leg day and crossfit.
Dude, the beginning of your outro is hilarious when causing a play fight with a dog like that
8:14 *hydrofoils, I guess? Though, they're possibly more like the hulls on a catamaran.
I feel like the TIE tank would be more useful than it gets credit for. Especially if the Empire had made them Modular, so you could swap the wings out for tank treds, repulsors, or even interceptor wings. I used to have a TIE fighter toy as a kid where the wings popped off, I used to think it was an actual feature of TIEs lol
AT-PT was fun in Zahn's series for serving as an anti-boarding craft in that story but certainly beyond that in the Star Wars universe that poor dated design was not much use. The TIE Tank though was a fun one to let players steal in the old WEG D6 game as it made for zany escapes.
My memories of the TIE tank as a 70s kid was that it was from a modular toy concept that other toy lines had - pop the panels off, pop the treads on. The Viper toys from the original Battlestar Galactica did the same thing.
Gotta say man, havent watched any of your vids in a long time, and the quality has improved immeasurably👍
that AT-AT Ion cannon could indirect fire while advancing. And it still has its forward weapons. Its kinda like the old priest assault gun from ww2.
I'm not sure about the cannonicity of _indirect fire_ with an _ion cannon._ I suspect both those and turbolasers were direct-fire only.
@@absalomdraconis idk...try standing next to where a turbolasers blast hits...EVERYTHING has some manner of splash...turbolasers were powerful and could leave pretty big craters
@@Kolonol1 that's...not how indirect fire works. An area of effect is nice and all but indirect fire really requires a ballistic curve which you by definition can't have with directed energy weapons
@@patricktinkl4996 so physics isn't real? XD it just goes into the ground and turns the ground slightly black maybe? Come on man...you gotta be smarter than that...lasers can rip holes through multiple decks of starships and sling people around...didn't you watch the opening battle in ROTS? Venators gets hot by a laser blast and clones/guns and equipment go flying...
@@Kolonol1 how destructive a weapon is doesn't determine if it fires directly or indirectly, so i'm not sure what that has to do with anything. Energy moves in a straight line. It can possibly get to a target behind a wall by punching through or some kind of splash effect but that is still direct fire.
If you do the TIE-Mauler dirty, I'm nuking you from orbit!!
I always enjoy seeing Eck analyze star wars unit designs
From what I understand the AT-PT was specifically designed for high gravity environments, planets with gravity so heigh it grounds repulsor lift craft and hampers regular walkers. The bulkier, less articulate design is probably due to that specialization
The wave skimmer, "prongs/wings" are call hydrofoils & are based on really world tech that's never really taken off
Now make a useless Disney canon vehicles video
After this, I would honestly like to see more useless vehicles from Star Wars. Period. I think it'd be cool to look at any & all of the dumb ships/vehicles from the Republic, CIS, Rebel Alliance, and other factions in star wars.
i feel like the AT-IC is one of those cases where the "is it practical?" question gets instantly thrown out the window because of how cool it looks
Starting to think the front facing laser design is purposeful to keep Imperials from using retreat tactics. If you always have to face your enemy to shoot, it makes retreating a lot less viable if you want to survive.
I'm guessing if you're trying to retreat you're not exactly worrying about firing back, you're just running the opposite way
The TIE is number one.
i really love the at/pt and its twin blasters are at least very obviously gimballed
Thanks for showing the amazing Animated Dark Empire.
I didn’t even know those phones existed
The walkers should have anti-air, engineering, and artillery roles
The AT-AT does. I know that much.
Most walkers can change there weapons. So I do know that those things are possible. Like I remember seeing a AT-TE with a AA gun on top and even one with a fully closed caben.
@@CoolMyron they can sit behind as artillery role but can build bridges as well
@@republicempire446 That is what the UT-AT is for. But it isn't a walker because walkers on bridges are a generally bad idea.
@@emberfist8347 it is unless tall enough to make into a makeshift bridge
Wasn't the AT-PT a pre-clone wars republic vehicle? So the only reason the empire used any of them was just on some backwater worlds as a force multiplier while waiting for production to ramp up. This was pre-clone wars TV show so they didn't have the info that the war would create massive amounts of better newer equipment, so this was it.
Hey, I remember having a Lego version of the Tie Tread in my childhood.
The empire were running out of ideas.... if only they had Jar Jar Binks to help out with the designs 😞
Yes, please do another vid on all type of vehicles
I have funny the image in my head of elephant roar of the twin ion engine of the TIE Tank, roaring fiercely as the treads slowly and awkwardly into battle
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It’s in the game!
I just cant get bored of the outro
The AT-PT is actually a pretty fun weapon to use in the EAW mod Awakening of the Rebellion. It gets smoked by anti-tank weapons super easily, but if you're facing huge mobs of infantry it just mows them down with rapid fire lasers super quickly. Plus, in that mod they gave it a super fast run speed to make it more viable, so it has this funny sprinting animation that looks sort of like a sandpiper, which is cute.
According to the Essential Guide to Vehicles and Vessels, the TIE Tank (or TIE Century as it was officially named) was made after the death of Grand Admiral Thrawn, which would suggest it was thought of as a sort of Volkspanzer of the imperial remnant, the last ditch effort to defend planets against the New Republic's rising power. It was explicitly designed to be cheap and easy to mass-produce, easy to repair, and quick to train the operators for. The book mentions that most of the on-board electronics were the same as in a bog standard TIE fighter, allowing flight school cadets to operate the thing with minimum preparation.
I really like the design of the TIE Crawler, specifically because it is so in character for Imperial design philosophy; it's cheap, likely designed by a bureaucratic climber, and could easily overshadow all of its flaws by simply swarming a target (indicating 'success' despite clear drawbacks and disadvantages). It's the kind of hot mess the Empire would brute-force into effectiveness, whether it truly is or not.
Ek: "It seems like you could design anything as a better sub."
The SS Turtle, of all things in the universe: "Finally, my time has come."
As a wrestling fan and former Star wars fan I admire how this channel attempts to Kayfabe writer choices into the universe. It's genuinely entertaining.
Love the footage from Star Wars: Rogue Squadron. Escape from Fest was a fun mission.
EckhartsLadder: Tie Tank and Mauler are useless because the guns only face forward
StuG: and i took that personally
The TIE-Mauler unlike the Crawler seems to be usefull in its designed role of a fast and manuverable scout vehicle which isnt supposed to attack other vehicle and would only engage soft targets.
One explanation for all the lousy designs could be Imperial corruption and favoritism.
A Star Wars short similar to Pentagon Wars would be amazing.
10:10 other reasons the AT-IC is somewhat useful, is that its rear mounted ion canon allows it to go full speed on a retreat, however rare that might be and still fire at the enemy efectively slowing them down and preventing them from chasing u on the retreat
The AT-PT had a very modular weapons platform, capable of mounting a wide variety of direct or support weapons. Instead of needing a bunch of variants, a troop carrier can retrofit their AT-PTs for any mission profile they need
The TIE Mauler might have actually been a good tank if they had only swapped the top hatch for a turret thanks to having a field of view and looking to be agile enough that having the sides to the rear somewhat obstructed wouldn't matter much. A tank that's built with windows like that obviously isn't built for shooting outside the field of view anyway and there's a reason real life tanks have crews! Having someone both handle the driving AND the gun requires you to change tactics somewhat. A driver trying to drive forward and shoot backward at the same time is a recipe for getting stuck in a building or crashing into another tank!
I love the at PT. I even made a model out of scratch of it.
The ATPT in rogue squadron was supposed to also appear on hoth in Battlefront 2(classic) it was scrapped because the map had issues with the mechanic of a vehicle crouching. The ATSTs in that map addressed this because they where smaller size wise
In a pre-Disney Essential Guide to Vehicles and Vessels, the description section of the entry where Eck got the diagram, it said the TIE tank was actually an attempt to make use of fighter corp training washouts. If you're going to sink that much time and effort in a pilot, have to use him somewhere. Thanks @DracoStarcloud for reminding me.
I know we're talking about Legends, but the aquatic vehicles only appeared in the comics, and the writers and artists took a lot of liberties in story plots and designs.
the Tie Tank is the greatest feat of engineering in Star Wars though!
The tie mauler is fun in empire at war at running over civilians
Oh boy, the All Terrain Ion Cannon stirring up all those memories of Kenner’s The Epic Continues proposed toyline. The Epic Continues could make for a neat video (or series of videos depending on how deep you want to go on some of the things). The internet must know of Mongo Beefhead