Why didn't the Empire use Battle Droids? >Does not require

>Follows any order without hesitation
So do the millions of clones (that were brainwashed when they were bred) and the few troopers on a paycheck.
In Episode 2 they say clones are better because they think creatively. Apparently they are superior although we really can't know for sure since Sheev was manipulating both sides during the war and maybe otherwise the droids would have won.
I don't watch the clone wars series, maybe they explain new stuff there?

>>85259950
They are not as reliable and probably still expensive. They still require maintenance, not as competent and independent-thinking as humans, and can be easily deactivated en masse once the enemy finds out where and how to do it. If the Empire is going to waste money on better troops, might as well use Jango Fett clones again.

>>85259950
they did in the old EU, look up Darktroopers

why didn't they just make loads of those droideka things

they seem to be invincible

>>85260100
That was a failed project though, right? Did they just abandon it because Kyle got in the way of their plans or something? Can't remember.
>>85260102
They must get stuck in sand or something, other droids are more all-terrain. Maybe the shields were expensive too?

>>85260143
>build three deathstars
>cost is fine
>build an army of invincible robots
>too expensive

>>85260143
Droidekas are essentially wheels, which is baring flying the best way to get around.

>>85259950
too many anti droid and anti clone weapons spread all over the galaxy because of the clone war.s

>>85259950
they also have a better track record than Stormtroopers

>won against the gungans army, only lost because of deactivations
>the empire's best troops couldn't even win againt ewoks

>killed multiple jedi
>stated they were going to win the war if they weren't deactivated after the events of Revenge of the Sith

>>85259950
George hadn't come up with the idea of droids/clones until he made the PT

>>85260185
Well I guess they spent it all on the Death Stars, which are kind of a better option if they just planned to threaten entire planets with them.
>>85260204
Yeah... you are right, I wonder why they didn't have droidekas after Episode 1, they made perfect sense.
Maybe they can't go up stairs? I can't think of any other major cons for them.

>>85260294
I wonder what the "original" idea for the clone wars was. Maybe it was exactly what we saw in the prequels? or did he ever talk about it?

>>85260300
>>85260143
your logic and reasoning is so terrible i assume you are actually george lucas

>>85260326
It was just a throw away line to set up a backstory for why Leia went to Obi Wan.

>>85260336
I'm not George Lucas but I usually appreciate the most stupid parts of Star Wars, especially the EU, so that probably shaped my mind into making the stupidest head canon and anti-logic.

>>85259950
Real answer - because they didn't have CGI for it back in the 70s

>>85260369
okay george

I assumed it was because the republic became the empire, not the separatists. As far as the general galactic population was aware the republic won the war and then morphed into the empire, rather than sheev playing both sides into more or less stalemate up until dooku's death and then closing up shop with the separatists side so that he could stage his powergrab. Therefore it'd look a bit odd if you suddenly discarded all the technology you used to win the war in favor or the technology of the losers.

Later on he used not just clones but regular humans, and only humans, to keep tensions between aliens and humans high as part of his divide and conquer rule. I doubt he actually hated aliens though, just a useful way to hold onto his power.

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>>85259950
>Why didn't the Empire use Battle Droids?

Too much negative sentiment lingering from the Clone War, too expensive and too stupid unless you want to dish out extra for good programming.

Stormtroopers were the middle ground between Clones and Battle Droids. The adaptability of Clones and the swarming numbers of Battle Droids.

>>85259950
the factories got blown up
duh

the clone wars were suppose to be a stretched out, galaxy-wide battle between regular jedi fighting cloned darksiders that were all under control of a single sith lord who kept himself immortal via cloning tech.

at least, thats how my childlike-read-all-the-star-wars-EU-up-till-the-prequels mind envisioned the clone wars.

one of the most popular original star wars EU novels, Heir to the Empire by Timothy Zahn, had a cloned darksider guarding a secret military outpost fro Palpatine who also made a clone of Luke.

the Dark Empire comics also had cloning. shortly after Return of the Jedi it is revealed that Palpatine had a secret personal cloning facility set up in case he died.

in other comics, Black Sun and the Hutts were using cloning technology to kidnap and replace politicians with subservient clones.
all were better star wars than the disney shit now -.-

>>85259950
You forgot
>lost the war

>>85259950
They weren't cheap

>>85261070
The war was rigged.

The Clone Wars was orchestrated entirely by Palpatine. It was deliberately bloated to be a galactic wide conflict so that the Jedi leaders could be isolated and annihilated, as they were.

After the war, there wasn't any big armies anymore because they weren't needed in anymore. The Jedi were mostly wiped out and the Empire had no major enemies, the scene in ANH when the officers were small talking before Tarkin came into the meeting room suggests that the Empire didn't take the Rebellion seriously enough, the entire Rebel fleet consisted of like maybe a dozen or so calamari ships and about 50 smaller ships, a mere fraction of the 25,000 strong fleet. The Rebel fought using Guerilla tactics anyway, a gigantic field army would be far more ineffective than a smaller specialised task force consisting of a couple of hundred stormtroopers and walkers.

TL;DR They didn't use battle droids because mass produced armies are pointless and wasteful in tiny skirmishes

>>85260073
umm hello, Star Wars - The Force Awakens begs to differ!

hahahaha

>>85262111
I thought we were talking about the Empire not the First Order.
In the force awakens they had guys that were brainwashed as kids, who the fuck thought that was a good idea?

>>85260073
Individual clones were far superior to pretty much any individual droid, but their sheer numbers gave them the advantage. In an episode of Rebels they find an old Separatist base with some droids still active and a tactical droid says that the Separatists would have won the war if they hadn't been betrayed.

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Why didn't the Empire just build a billion of these?

>>85262148
english grandpa

>>85261307
Good post, unfortunately it is wasted on /tv/ which only cares about memes.

>>85260326
Splinter in the mind's eye actually touched upon this subject, and the gimmick was that before the Empire there was never change of power in the galaxy because whether a king/leader died he was replaced by his clone with conciousness transferred. Empire was a result of an uprising to bring democracy to the galaxy, but the democracy gone wrong and turned into tyranny.