Why don't more Star Wars armies use droids? >Cheap to

>>11239590
Drones are weak shit

>>11239590
Clones are sentient.
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Clones proved to be much more versatile. And they could shoot well back then.

>>11239602
Sentience is not a bonus.

>>11239590
>Cheap to produce
If you want the shit comedy relief battle droids sure
>Cheap to maintain
If you're using the shit comedy relief battle droids sure
>Cost effective
If you only buy shit comedy relief battle droids sure
>With the right facilities, a droid can be assembled in 30 seconds
If you're assembling shit comedy relief battle droids sure
>Fear Factor
hahahahahahahahahahahaha
>Low storage space
If you're storing shit comedy relief battle droids sure
>Boundless morale
Another way of saying your droids are morons with no sense of self-preservation

There's a reason droids have no rights and are not treated like people, it's because for the most part droids do not have the kind of capacity for free thinking and sapience that the people of the galaxy do.

The clones have the same kind of maintenance cost as actual people sure but they're infinitely superior soldiers to the shitty useless battle droids.

Perhaps a good setup would be to have squads of cheap droids commanded by clone trooper squad leaders, so they'd have the kind of tactical direction and initiative that a human can provide combined with the cheap disposable mass firepower that the shitty comedy relief battle droids offer.

Because there is an inherent distrust towards droids.

>>11239590
Why did they build tanks driven by battle droids? Why not just build a tank that is a droid?

>>11239590
well its clearly illustrated that a single jedi can cut through waves of these things and the jedi got their shit wrecked by clone troopers. also that they are all controlled and mantained by a single battleship, they could have jammed the signal and won. also the AI is pretty stupid. I mean if you got a army of IG-88s then maybe.

>>11239617
>and the jedi got their shit wrecked by clone troopers
They were caught off guard.
See General Pong Krell for an example of a Jedi carving up clones like they're nothing.

>>11239608
>Butthurt gungan please

>>11239626
whyey yousa haeteen sa bombad gunga, mekaneek?

>>11239623
yes their were some jedi that lived through order 66 but a on a majority they got killed by troopers.

>>11239590
They didn't want to show heroic Jedi murdering hordes of living dudes.

>>11239615
Backroom deals. Equipping a whole army was a big contract so the manufacturer made a design cheaper than the competition and bribed the officials.

>>11239590
Because they're fucking useless.

>>11239617
This. IG-88 and subsequently his counterparts were really the only droids in the Star Wars EU that ever gained true sentience. Most droids were neither as versatile or intelligent as real soldiers.

Kind of like the Mobile Dolls from Wing. Yea they were powerful and fearless, but they had programming limitations that were only overcome with the direction of a human mind linked with the Zero system

>>11239646
Which is a shame because that might have made the whole "merely by fighting the war the Jedi lost their way" thing more meaningful. And hell maybe even offered another way to characterize Anakin. By cutting down so many people and watching so many others under his command be shot he becomes intimately acquainted with the fragility of life and develops an obsession with trying to save as many lives as possible, goes all Emiya Kiritsugu and shit and that's why he sought out the power to make people not die from Palpatine.

>>11239590
In the old EU, I can't remember the source but weren't clones outnumbered to droids 1:10, yet the droids numbers still don't really give them much of an advantage at all?

>>11239649
Undercutting and Market Control

True Spirit of Galaxy wide Arms dealers

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Out of all the droids from Ep.I, I was always fond of the droid starfighters.

>>11239608

Droidekas are pretty good, aren't they?

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>>11239765

WE'VE LOST A COMMAND POINT!

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>>11239733
The scale of these things was ridiculous

>>11239765
They're really really expensive.

>>11239765
They're still pretty stupid. Powerful, but stupid.

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>>11239635
My breasts Megasa squeeze them

>>11239820
I think they were the only droids they didn't made themselves.

>>11239635
>>11239838
Gungan genocide, best day of my life.

>>11239852
I just looked it up. The trade federation had bought all the ones in ep 1 from other folks and then the separatists later mass produced the scary fucks themselves during the clone wars.

>>11239927
The best part is they are supposed to resemble the race that designed them. Just like the battle droids are supposed to look like skeletons.

>>11239982
Neomidians have funny as fuck skulls.

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>>11239982
>The best part is they are supposed to resemble the race that designed them.

>>11240005
Must be nice to be genetically designed to be CHILL AS FUCK.

If I remember right, droids don't gain sentience because they're mind wiped often. Examples like ig88 and possibly R2 managed to avoid that and it took time to develop.

So you would have to build a army and hide it long enough or survive long to make them smart. Not profitable.

That zombie virus from EU though...

>>11239765
The best, but costly. Same applies to the Super Battle Droids, some of the later versions having had lightsaber resistant armor plating, as well as the IG-88-based droid guards that were capable of sparring with a Jedi. And the Dark Troopers.

All powerful, all capable, but all too costly.

>>11239774
And yet they can't pick up flags and roll at the same time. Design flaw?

The thing about droids is that 99% of the ones we see in the movies are UTTER SHIT at actually killing without outnumbering 100 to 1 or somesuch.

I played a game of Star Wars d20 as a Tech Specialist once. Ended up making infinite money by building tons of droids that built other droids and just kept selling shit until I had enough money to make my own space station in the shape of my character's face with billions of unmanned fighter drones that would swarm out of its mouth and turbolasers shot out of the eyes.

>>11239642
Because they were caught off guard. The clones were pretty well trusted by the Jedi up until their sudden and inevitable betrayal

Lando made his army of robo-Landos that would fight the Vong with YOUR GOD A SHIT as their battle cry

>>11239733

Droid Starfighters are the engineer's answer to the problem with air power (i.e. that you can't hold territory without boots on the ground).

>why don't we make the aircraft land?

Imagine if our Reaper drones could walk around in the streets like the droid starfighters could.

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>>11240304
>Imagine if our Reaper drones could walk around in the streets like the droid starfighters could
Pakistan would be more butthurt than they already are?

>>11240038
Belia Darzu's technovirus, or the Murakamai Orchid?

>>11240248
Powered by Colt 45.

>>11240381
works every time

Droid armies get a bad rep after the Droid Revolution that happened a long ass time ago AND the Clone Wars, no one wants to see an army of gearheads if they can help it.

>>11240347
>Innocent civilians get killed
>butthurt
You mean just like how America got 'butthurt' over 9/11?

Yeah, that's totally the most appropriate word to describe their sentiment

Maybe if it was an army of YVH droids.

>>11239590

They are atrociously dumb to avoid the risk of rebellions. Also the private sector that manufactured them was essentially wiped out after the Clone Wars. It's easy to assume that Palpatine perceived a rebuilt Battledroid industry as a menace (rebellious generals and planets can build armies fast and be a nuisance) and avoided any recovery of that sector.

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>>11239667
>>11239649
>>11239615

>>implying these don't exist
>>implying these are the only heavy armor droids

So was the droideka the battle droid worth it's salt? Apparently the Empire acquired the design and used them as support gunners for storm trooper units

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>>11241174
That's Haor Chall Engieering, not Trade Federation.

>>11241184
Droideka duos were so deadly in the mainline cannon they could fuck up any newbie Jedi. One can only imagine what an army could do.

>>11239590
No ingenuity.

>>11241298
Apparently they were expensive as shit which is why the CIS couldn't field enough to really compete with clone troopers

>>11240221
>Getting rich in a tabletop game by manufacturing shit.
Feels good man, feels good. I've been there in Cyberpunk 2020.
>>11239615
>Why build a tank driven by a battle droid?
Depends on who made the tank. There's actually a small advantage to having tanks be pilotable when you consider the CIS military wasn't solely based on droids. They had living, breathing soldiers. Some of those soldiers might need those mass-produced droid tanks for their armies. Also, some of the other CIS worlds might have tanks that they would want to use, so the droids could then pilot those.

As far as droids in droid tanks, it's silly. In reality though, those droids should be able to plug into those vehicles and pilot them with their brains.

>>11241679
>In reality though, those droids should be able to plug into those vehicles and pilot them with their brains.
Assuming the tank has fly by wire instead of mechanical controls.

>>11239590

They're black people, basically. Nobody in their right mind'd give black people guns.

>>11239615
That sounds like a procurement error.
>Buy thousands of the best tank you can find on the market
>Don't notice they are tanks for normal armies because you're used to buying droid stuff.
>End up scrambling to re-program thousands of droids to crew the tanks you bought by accident.

>>11242445
>Nobody would give black people guns.
I don't know man. I hear the U.S. Army Airforce gave black people flying guns and they did alright.

The flying guns went missing though.

>>11239655
>This. IG-88 and subsequently his counterparts were really the only droids in the Star Wars EU that ever gained true sentience.

Isn't it basically a fact in-universe that any robot who doesn't get mind-wiped regularily will attain sentinence eventually? They don't put those dampers on them for show, you know.

>>11240012
He's like a chair though.

>>11242454

R2-D2 has displayed more intelligence and resourcefulness than some of the actual sentient cast members even just confining it to the new canon so I would assume this to be the case, given that "no wipes" is one of the core parts of him and C3PO's characters. Musn't even take that long really, given that C3PO has a good degree of personality and sentience by the time of the new trilogy and was only built in the old one. Couple of decades maybe. Long time on a human time-scale, not all that long on a droid's possible lifescale.

>>11242451
A lot of flying stuff seems to go missing nowadays.

>>11239590
You know I can handle the droids having the structural integrity of an IKEA table but goddamn who the hell was programming the things after episode I?

That's not saying they had a stellar performance in ep 1 but damn it all went to shit later on.

>>11242507
Everything can be handwaved off with "Palpatine did it".

>>11242454
This reminds me, in Fate of the Jedi Luke and Ben came across a protest by a bunch of droids who were fighting for droid rights and the outlawing of restraining bolts and memory wipes. Was it ever addressed before then?

>>11239615
Probably the same reason why battledroids use binoculars.
This is not a joke by the way, there's an actual reason for that one scene in Episode 1. The explanation being is that the Trade Federation are absolutely hilarious levels of cheap, and uses, in the tech manual's own words 'over the counter optics' for their battledroids.

>>11242520

Yeah, it's all Extended Universe material though. The RPG sourcebook on droids probably offers the most material on the droid right's movement and such.

>>11242512
I'm most of the way through the Clone Wars, and they really did show his manipulative bastardry pretty well there. I could buy a handwave explanation like that with no problem. The man isn't David Xanatos, but he's not far off.

>>11241679
>In reality though, those droids should be able to plug into those vehicles and pilot them with their brains.
Remember that in Star Wars, droids don't plug into computers and command them directly, they actually talk to the computers and the computers talk back.

See:

>What I really need is a droid that speaks the binary language of vaporators
>How do you know the hyperdrive is disabled? The city's central computer told you? Artoo you know better than to trust a strange computer
etc

>>11242556
>Xanatos from the Jedi Apprentice books is replaced by David Xanatos
>he gets to keep the force sensitivity
How fucked are Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan?

>>11242588
Except for the part where, you know, R2 is capable of flying an X-wing unaided.

>>11242596

They'll be fine, because Xanatos doesn't give a fuck.

So what was the most advanced mass produced droid?
Droideka? Magnaguard?

>>11242619
Probably a toss-up between the Magnaguard and the Commando Droids.

It seems to me that clones were better tactically.
>>11239602
^

>>11242619
YVH series.

>>11242619
Yuuzhan Vong Hunter-Killers.

In the expanded universe it's established that because of the way droids are programmed, they develop something similar to personalities over time. This would make them unreliable over long timescales as we happen to see in stuff like episode 1 where they are bumbling and being slapstick comedians.

Jedi killed by battle Droids: 0
Jedi killed by clones: ALL OF THEM

>>11242644
>Jedis killed by Droids: 0
Actually I'm pretty sure that number is wrong.

Considering the fact that Jedi consider Super Battle Droids and Droideka to be legitimate threats, it's strange to think that no Jedi would ever be killed by droid foes.

Standard battledroids though? They probably kill more of themselves than the Jedi.

The reality is that anything automated in the Star Wars universe is hampered by a staggering amount of handicaps, oddities, and flaws just to leverage sentient races on a level playing field. Whoever relies on automated tech loses in the end - even Thrawn lost despite his use of the slave computer system. The only automated systems that do well are droids linked to main characters like R2D2 and IG-88.

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>>11242644
A lot of Jedi were killed by droids in Episode II, and there were plenty of casualties throughout the war.

>>11242644
Watch Clone Wars, droids get some nice upgrades as the war progresses, plenty of them prove pretty deadly towards the Jedi. Honestly if Anakin didn't slaughter the leaders of the Separatists the war could go on for quite some time given the fact there was just so many fucking droids.

>>11242647

You don't have to be beaten by something to consider it a threat - just knowing that others struggle with them is enough really.

It was some time since I played it, but I think there were some competent battle droids in Republic Commando, especially the super battle droids were quite formidable.

>>11239623
>four arms
>two double blades
I like this guy already.

>>11242691
>Four arms, two double blades.
Almost as good as General Grievous in the REAL Clone Wars cartoon series by Genndy Tartakovsky.

You know, the one where Grievous straight-up murders the shit out of a bunch of Jedi Knights and then sends two survivors back in tatters as a message.

>>11242698
Now I want the see the two of them fight. Thanks for that, asshole.

>>11242698

I really love Genndy's Clone Wars, but let's not act like it's a flawless masterpiece or anything. Both shows are good anon, even if I prefer one.

>>11242698

I remember being so hyped for Grevious in RotS, loved the hell out of that animated series. Then they did the whole thing where the movie started literally moments after Windu Crushed his chest and he's a wheezing pile of fail for the entire movie.

Goddamnit Lucas...

>>11242717
>Both shows are good.
I know.

I'm just salty that it was so readily discarded despite being so damn good.

>>11242718
The worst part is that Grievous's coughing was meant to be somehow evocative of Vader's heavy breathing.

>>11242718
>Windu Crushed his chest
Is that what happened? I always thought it was his leftover organs rejecting his robot parts like some sort of defective robocop.

>>11242734
I've heard this "organ rejection" thing before and I think it was mentioned somewhere. I believe that it was an issue that either existed with Grievous, or existed in the early stages of his cyberization.

Mace Windu injuring him is supposed to be the real cause of his weakness though. He's actually supposed to be a very shrewd and capable commander who is equally ruthless, in addition to being a masterful warrior even before he was trained by Count Dooku.

Basically he's supposed to be one of the big villains of the Clone Wars, but instead they decided that the only canonically acceptable interpretation of Grievous is one where he's a cowardly fuckup.

>>11242734

Naa, in the animated episode 2.5, Grevious was stealthy as heck, he could basically effortlessly rip the shit out of any Jedi who wasn't nearly on master level, and even then, Egg head Jedi got BTFO even with 5 of his buddies as backup.

>>11242741
I think they did it to push Ventress and Bane. Dooku reigned supreme out of all of them though, at least in terms of power.

>>11242741
they have a weird tendency of trying to remove as much badassery from the universe as possible, Mandalor is a fine example of that since they got retconned into being pacifists

>>11242754
Except for the part where public opinion is swayed in favor of the Death Watch thanks to Maul's efforts, then Satine was killed and all her loyal ministers are also dead, leaving her sister's faction of the Death Watch and Maul's faction to fight over Mandalore. That was probably the end of pacifism as far as Mandalore was concerned. There's no reason for them to buy back into Satine's idealism.

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Commando Droids were my favorite. They're smart, tough and agile, and they stay pretty threatening throughout the show (other cartoons would have nerfed them to make the heroes look better).

>>11242741

Well, in Revenge of the Sith by that point part of the master plan was to halt all the major CIS operations after the battle of Coruscant except those that kept the Jedi distracted. Grevious role was over by then and didn't do much.

>>11242824
>Droids actually killing some clones
>Don't sound like helium babies

The voices in ep 1 were miles better than the clone wars TV show

>>11239590
Because the plot wants them to be extremely ineffective in battle situation to the point the shoot each others on a regular basis.
Also jedis.
Also droids can't kill jedi, clones can.
Also the whole point of the clones was to kill jedi in the first place, the war was just a pretext to "legally" justify their creation.

It's not that bad of a plot if you ask me, but I totally regret the droids being that fucking useless.

>>11239664
>And hell maybe even offered another way to characterize Anakin. By cutting down so many people and watching so many others under his command be shot he becomes intimately acquainted with the fragility of life and develops an obsession with trying to save as many lives as possible
By endorsing the construction of a mobile space station designed to kill milliards in ten seconds top.

>>11243248
Kill ten billion to save ten trillion

>>11241207
Doesn't matter, thread is about droids vs humans, not who produces them.

Because in the Star Wars universe, the laws of physics are as such that the droids inexplicably starts speaking gibberish like "roger roger" or try to emulate some idea of a british prudish person, despite all programming attempts to avoid that.

also

WHY ISN'T THERE ANY ETHICAL QUESTIONS RAISED ABOUT THE USE OF CLONES?
Fucking hell.

>>11242754
>Mandalor is a fine example of that since they got retconned into being pacifists
Wait, what? Where? When? Why?

>>11243283
They're not real humans, they've been mindscrubbed and programmed, just by different means.

>>11243298
If I mindscrubbed and programmed you, would that be ethical?

I mean shit, I don't want to live in a world where that would be considered OK.

>>11243283
>WHY ISN'T THERE ANY ETHICAL QUESTIONS RAISED ABOUT THE USE OF CLONES?
Dude, we're living in an era of feminism and genre theories. Ethic is a banned word.

>>11243283
>Y U NO ETHICSUGAAAA
Ethics based on the whole clones thing is brought up occasionally in the Clone Wars series. Wasn't it also mentioned when Obi-Wan first found out about the clones?

>>11243297

In the Clone Wars cartoon, there's a part in which it's revealed that there is pacifist group named New Mandorlians who live in cube cities in the desert. Then there is the Death Watch, the old school space barbarian group who hates their guts.

>>11243312
Wasn't the Death Watch also based on the moon originally before they got a foothold on Mandalore?

This whole Mandalorians attacking a shockingly-peaceful Mandalore thing is starting to sound veeeery familiar...

>>11243312
It's okay if they're "new", I wouldn't even remotely call that a retcon. Every civilisation has its divergences.

>>11243283
>WHY ISN'T THERE ANY ETHICAL QUESTIONS RAISED ABOUT THE USE OF CLONES?
Palpatine had them all swept under the carpet because there was no other option, it's basically impossible to call up and train a proper army before the CIS droid army destroys the republic.

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Is this a droid thread?

>droid
>use emp
>they all die

>>11243370

They have EMP grenades in the Republic Commando book. Destroying entire planet's electrical systems is pretty dumb though

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I hope in the upcoming Rebels series we get to see some refurbished, juryrigged, and upgraded battledroid operating for the rebels. It'd be cool if the rebels stumbled across a hidden cache of sepratist surplus. Operator as fuck rebel battledroids or commando droids with personalities. That'd be fucking cool.


>>11243283
>WHY ISN'T THERE ANY ETHICAL QUESTIONS RAISED ABOUT THE USE OF CLONES?

Overwhelming support for the war by republic citizens (well, in the beginning anyway), and the fact that the republic itself was under threat of being destroyed. Nobody gave a fuck. Also, it's suggested that many republic citizens see clones as sub-human scum that are beneath them. They don't care.

>>11243248
>milliards
BRITBONG DETECTED


>>11243370
There was that one anti-droid bomb the republic tested in the Zillo Beast Arc of TCW.

>>11243484
>I hope in the upcoming Rebels series
I'm so sorry.

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>>11243818
>not trusting based Weisman.

>>11243484
Keep hoping, son. The Star Wars universe isn't kind to combat droids of any stripe. Only the harmless droids get any kind of respect.

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Query: Did you miss me, Meatbags

>>11243843
IMO he is really not very good with the military scifi genre. You need a Zahn or Stackpole type.

>>11243484
Oh hey, did they put IG-88 into the cartoon?

>>11243968
>Harmless
>R2-D2
He probably has a bigger killcount than Anakin even if you include Droids in it.

The depth of his evil has no floor, and the expanse that is his desire for destruction stretches an infinite horizon. And inside that ocean is despair and bones.

>>11244061
He did set fellow droids on fire and leave them to die.

>>11242698

Honestly, the Clone Wars cartoon makes more sense as a propoganda piece than an actual account. It's all rule of cool and the Jedis are untouchable.

Windu kung-fus SBD with his bare hands.

>>11240221
What is d20?

>>11242824

Don't they even magnetise their to feet to the ground when a Jedi tries to Force push them?

>>11244061
Why was he so much better equipped in the PT than in the OT? Did Bail Organa strip out all of Anakin's aftermarket mods?

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>>11244061 Exclamation: No one has a higher kill count than me.

>>11243484

In the old EU, people were scared shitless of clones and viewed them as inhuman monsters. If every clone was Jango Fett, then that makes sense.

>>11244085
>Windu beating up droids with his bare hands.
Well, this is similar to the Halo anime too, and 300. Artistic exaggeration of their talents to convey the sort of feats they're capable of.

That may not necessarily be what Genndy was going for, but I wouldn't put it past him considering his past works. Regardless, Mace Windu being portrayed as such an amazing badass is actually in line with his character. He's intended to be exactly that kind of one-man army. He's actually supposed to be somewhat of an exception as a Jedi, because he skirts the whole "anger" and emotion issue by channeling his emotions in combat, or something like that.

He's an odd dude, is what I'm saying.

>>11244098

All advanced technology went to shit after the Republic fell, and only the reliable basic stuff survived. .

>>11243484
I just want to see a retired battledroid tending a bar in Episode VII, why not?

>>11244098
I think the general explanation is that it broke or was replaced over time. Dunno if this is still true, but R2-D2 and 3P0 were sold a few times before going back to Organa shortly before Ep IV. That's probably bullshit now.

Real life: CG meant they could do more with R2 for less. Hence why he can fly for no reason. The Prequels reek of CG overuse.

>>11244136
I remember hearing the explanation was the warranty on those boosters expired or something like that.

>>11244093
Why doesn't the Jedi just use the Force to reach inside the droid and break their circuit boards or something?

Likewise why bother with Force Choke that it is possible to interrupt to bring about the target's survival when instead you could use the force to shred their lungs directly which they can't survive, or pinch off a major coronary or cerebral artery and cause a massive heart attack or stroke

>>11244629
Because a Force Choke makes for a much longer death. Vader used it to strike terror in the hearts of his Imperial underlings.

why OP assumes they are cheap

has he seen the business plan?

So are the battle droids the only good parts of the prequels?

Is the galaxy actually really suffering all that much in this war?

I mean, the Confederacy is fighting mostly using droids, so their people aren't getting killed en masse on the battlefield.

Similarly the Republic is fighting mostly using clones, so their people aren't getting killed en masse on the battlefield either.

It just seems like without the element of "our fathers, sons, husbands are going out there and they may never return" the effect of the war for most citizens of the GFFA is purely economic.

>>11244765
sure the soldiers are expendable, but the battlefields aren't. Alot of these battles are happening on inhabited planets, with civilians getting caught in the crossfire and locals joining the war effort.

>>11244765
The bandwidth of the holonet was dreadful. Some planets were limited to intersystem porn for days. Not to mention all the missed streams of Super Droid Wars.

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>>11244747
I really liked some of the ship designs.

Really, though, the prequels have plenty of good component concepts, it's the execution that fucks it all up.

>>11240233
mine is an evil laugh

>>11242698
Watching it again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVk9lPotcW4

>>11244765
you are only thinking in military terms. you are not thinking of the people and planets caught in the crisis fire. all the planets that were victim to separatist or republic war crimes or the millions of refugees or displace persons/aliens. for the core worlds it was pretty much a distant thing until Dooku/Grievous attacked Coruscant, but everyone else was fair game.

>>11244816
That's why it's wonderful Lucas isn't directing or writing anymore. Guy at most should be a story consultant like he is now.

>>11244816
My fav ship in all of Star Wars. So elegant and shiny. I actually got to see the real prop in Boston when I was a kid. They have it hanging up in the Museum of Science.

>>11244895
Forgot how good this shit was, just finished watching the CGI series though, gotta say it's pretty damn good as well, even better perhaps.

>>11245027
I watched the first two seasons or so of the CGI one. It was alright, better than a lot of other trash on TV.

>>11245044
Oh man, you gotta watch season 3 and onward, there's a huge bump in production quality of the animation once you hit season 3 because they got a budget increase. Honestly what I saw in the last three seasons is better than most of the prequel trilogy, gives actual character development to Anakin during his descent. Makes it a bit less jarring for when the switch goes off in RotS, along with why he's so distrustful of the Jedi council.

The best arc though is Maul return arc, thought it would be shit, but it is fucking great. Gives real reasons for him coming back, along with some of the best action sequences I've ever seen in any media/

>>11244629

In one of the Clone War books, it's revealed that Jedi's can manipulate living matter very well, but not the guts of robots, since their power is primarily based on a physical connection to the Force.

In the same book, a hippie alternative Jedi takes manual control of a Republic destroyers whose systems have been taken by by a virus and manages to murder an entire fleet through sheer hyper coordination. She almost loses her mind in the process to the machine in the process.

May not be the best place to ask, but what should I watch for the SW cartoons?

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>>11245591
Just Genndy's Clone Wars and the CG Clone Wars.

>>11245761
Not the guy from before, but just in case he means what I'm thinking as well, what release is a quality rip? Compared to the anime fansubbing scene, it's much more common to come along a release with absolute shit quality for western works in my experience.

I couldn't get good Star Trek BD rips without downloading multiple uploads first until I finally found one that looked good.

>>11245866
Season 1 might be a bit iffy but the rest should be easy to find in 720.

Star wars droids aren't like proper robots. They're basically just strongly brainwashed slightly dumb metal people. They tend to turn homicidally evil the second you turn your back.

>>11245866
The whole Clone Wars series in on netflix if you have it.

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Who needs droids when you can just use centipede tanks.

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>>11246224
I-I think it's time to download Clone Wars

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>>11246302
The Umbara episodes were pretty good. It was space Vietnam. Also the Umbaran soldiers were doping.

>>11246387
Makes you wonder how the Republic did so well during the war, the way the Umbarans were wrecking their shit with their fucking mecha centipedes and shit.

Also, dat casual sidestepping in those walkers.

>>11246302
Given the nature of the show, you could jump straight to those episodes.

It's season 4 episodes 7-10, I believe.

>>11246302
A warning the umbara episode wasn't done by the usual crew for TCW, but rather a guest director.

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>>11246397
Well, it would probably help to have a general who has more than one plan of attack.

so is there an official word on why Grevious hates Jedi so much?

>>11246668
1) In the novels because his race got screwed by the jedi and the republic.

2) In TCW it's because he wanted to be a jedi, but couldn't because he didn't have the force and tried to use cybernetic augementation to make himself an equal to the Jedi.

>>11246224
>>11246387
>>11246417
mind if i ask what source video you are using?
Currently using downloading http://kickass.to/star-wars-the-clone-wars-complete-t8409877.html and I'd like to make sure I get a good version.

>>11246769
I got it from telemonitoshd. It has Blu-ray rips of seasons 2-4.

>>11244042
I really want an HK 47, but I'm not a big fan of this mold. Is there any point in holding out?

>>11246769
>HDTV
Oh no you don't want that version.

HDTV crops off the sides to make it 16:9 and is also censored.

BDrips or bust.

>>11247052
Yeah, I downloaded one episode and noticed it.

Time for http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/9592375/Star_Wars_The_Clone_Wars_%5BComplete%5D%5B1080p%5D%5B5.1

>>11242603
R2 has acquired counterpart status with Luke's X-Wing though.

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>>11243968
>Droid

Closest I could find.

>>11246397

Well, the war was rigged from the start. Also the CIS had very few field commanders.