Can we talk about how irredeemably stupid of a strategy this is? Literally all you have to do is stop walking

Can we talk about how irredeemably stupid of a strategy this is? Literally all you have to do is stop walking.

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>Big boy took a poo all by himself

Mommy is so proud of her little general.

back the f*ck off

At At's have a dogshit design anyway. Feeble looking legs are hardly good for difficult terrain. Why not make them hover?

delete this

The "All Terrain Armored Transport" (AT-AT) can handle any terrain and carry a lot of troops and shit. The AT-AT also has some really big guns. Much more of a punch than any of those faggy hovering vehicles used by the trade federation. Also remember those shit manlet replubic walkers? No good.

Part of what makes the AT-AT so effective, is the psychological terror it causes on enemy ground forces. Makes all the rebel scum fucking run. They can never penetrate the armor, which is so thick I doubt any faggy hover craft could compete.

Yeah and tanks just have to stop moving.

Ever head of a sitting duck?

>The "All Terrain Armored Transport" (AT-AT) can handle any terrain and carry a lot of troops and shit.
It can handle any terrain yet is felled by a 10 lb test fishing line

They're not sitting ducks since nothing the Rebels have can penetrate their armor.

Well even when they fall down after being tripped up the snowspeeders just seem to come by and blow them up.

Which makes me wonder why they didn't just shoot them in the first place if they can do that.

This is a movie made for children, and you have already given it more thought than they did when they made it. Watch something that isn't culturally infantilizing

there's a reason why up to this day there's no gundam or quadpedal machinery by the military. tanks are much more superior in every way than these slow moving pieces of metal

>implying monomyths are for children

Once the ATAT was down, it couldn't return fire. So Wedge could fly directly toward it and fire full powered shots.

If the thing was still up it would have shot him out of the sky. You see this later in the movie.

The "neck" area behind the cockpit "head" is unarmored so that it can swivel, and which is what the snowspeeders fire at in Empire to blow it up. Tripping the walker just makes it an easier target. One speeder in Empire actually goes for a neck shot on a walking AT-AT and gets shot down.

This is all headcanon.

It's really hard to do. I could rarely pull off the manoeuvre in Battlefront II.

>my mind exploded
srs

Blind spot.

Also it's just a live-action anime from sixty years ago, stop throwing an autism tantrum, kid.

It's okay they'll retcon it in Rogue Two. Turns out the AT-ATs take a few minutes to stop.

>Literally all you have to do is stop walking.
>stopping the enemy from advancing isn't hugely beneficial

The AT AT doesn't make any sense at all. Think about it.

>fragile legs
>slow
>legs positioned in a manner that makes turning near impossible
>blind spots all over
>poor field of vision
>only front facing guns
>a large tall target

However it is really cool and has indestructible armour so it can be forgiven.

Now how would we improve the AT AT design? Replace legs with tracks or antigrav. Move the head to the top as a turret on a 360 pivot. Add side and rear gunners/blaster turrets and a troop hatch at the back or front. But then really we've just made a tank.

I don't imagine it takes long in the universe of Star Wars to cut through some cable.

These things are creepy as fuck. Imagine speeding around Endor and you bike dies, only to run into one of these hiding in some foliage.

In one of the games you have to face an AT-ST in a small hangar area, with nothing but a blaster rifle I think. I noped the fuck out real quick.

Someone make a pro-imperial version of that wehraboo pasta on this

I know what you're talking about, The Shadows of the Empire, that happens right after the first level on Hoth I think. I could never get passed that part as a kid because it was too fucking scary. Basically all I did in that game was play the first mission over and over again until my older brother beat that mission for me.

Why don't they put rotating blasters on the belly that can shoot the cables off?

The US military expressed significant interest in the robots being built by Boston Dynamics.

The reason we haven't seen a gundam or other sort of robotic machinery is their unreliability, but they're coming. I believe Russia actually used a military robot in the Ukraine or the Middle East.

nope. creating one is fucking stupid. Threads have much more reliability, turning power and speed. creating bipedals or quadpedals is a mistake

And tanks with treads are supposed to get around boulders and any terrain on any alien planet?

This. No point in creating robots, our current strategy is probably the most efficient way to invade foreign lands. Bomb the shit out of cities with super fast jets, send in artillery and bomb them even more. Then send in the army to hold the position. Very few deaths for our side. Special Ops for stealthy things. Bipedal robots is fantasy bullshit for weeaboos.

Tanks literally don't work in places like Southeast Asia and equatorial Africa. Maybe legged, unmanned vehicles with a tank gun, ATGM's or an autocannon would work out there.

air superiority is king nigga

see tanks come in much later after air superiority is established

>creating one is fucking stupid
The US marine corps, DARPA, and the Russian military clearly disagree.

The machines designed so far are pretty quick and can carry decent amounts of weight too. They're becoming more reliable all the time. Robotic machinery will be the face of warfare in the future.

They are impractical as hell, but I really them. Their purpose is actually very Land raider like too, just get in the enemy lines and dump troops.

Aren't they developing "mule" like robots that can move with a unit and carry equipment for them, rather than straight up fantasy terminators?

Not that guy, but yes. They aren't relying just on wheels but on legs. But the robot mules were too noisy for the battlefield.

They're doing both actually. Boston Dynamics works hand-in-hand with the US military and has developed both bipedal and quadpedal robots.

Here's 'AlphaDog':
youtube.com/watch?v=cr-wBpYpSfE

And here's 'Atlas':
youtube.com/watch?v=rVlhMGQgDkY

Here's the US military's statement on 'Atlas':
paleofuture.gizmodo.com/atlas-the-robot-can-enlist-in-the-us-military-anytime-h-1761330935

Even Russia has experimented with a humanoid military robot:
news.vice.com/article/ivan-the-terminator-russia-is-showing-off-its-new-robot-soldier

>Pro Strat: Hide on the left side of the door with just your blaster hand sticking out. You can use the Z-Aiming to kill the AT-ST with a 99.9% chance of not being hit at all.

>This also works on Gal Spaceport by hiding behind the girder of the inner hanger door.

>Literally all you have to do is become a sitting duck.
FIFY. Great strategy bro.

yes, make it a spider tank.

>10 lb test fishing line
Are you this retarded for real?

You should re-think what you said.

Huge hover vehicles are very slow (like the droid MTT )

>handle any terrain
>what is the Battle of Jabiim ib4 not canon

>shit manlet republic walkers
Don't talk shit about AT-TEs m8

Heard Google is selling Boston Dynamics because they're too pussy to be associated with a company with military ties or something.

i don't expect they'd ever use anime-style or video game style "mechs" as actual replacements for tanks. but i can definitely see them using power-armor and stuff like that for dealing with insurgents and rioters in urban settings.

i'd imagine getting sniped by akm using insurgents from rooftops is a bit of a problem for occupying forces, so i'd imagine being protected by a suit of completely bullet proof armor would help that. a tank can't raid houses or talk to civilians, and is awful without infantry support. the same does not apply to powered armor or a remote controlled robot.

im not a smart man though

>that size
>carries 40 (forty) soldiers

pretty shit desu senpai

>They can never penetrate the armor

Luke literally cut through it with his lightsaber.

>why not just stop the infantry transport?
the fuck are they supposed to do, disembark and get shot down by the turrets?

is this your fetish?

1. You don't deploy AT-ATs alone. You give them an escort of AT-ST to cover any blindspots
2. They have their guns at 22 meters. That means they can probably shoot anything before it shoots at them.
3. You don't need to turn an AT-AT. You land it, point it at the position of the rebel base and then it starts walking. It's not there to hunt little rebels, it's there to blow up buildings and defenses. Small stuff like infantry and vehicles can be handled by the AT-STs and the stormtroopers inside the AT-AT.

>dogshit design

it is the same empire which keeps coming up with the death stars

fuck you spinning is a good trick.

any walker ever is a retarded concept
tracked vehicles are always better

It was a service hatch, dummy. Were you watching it on a B&W TV with rabbit ears?

Oh? And what if the alien planet looks like this, but the boulders are even bigger?

You don't deploy the walkers and use fighters and hover tanks instead?

The AT TE was a much better design anyway, opting for a 6 legged bug design, along with it's huge central cannon. The HAVw A6 Juggernaut is also a better design, with it basically being a low to the ground, wheeled AT AT

>30 meters tall
>Low to the ground

>stop walking
>my boy finishes the job

It's much lower than the giraffe like legs of an AT-AT. Also, your measurement of 30 meters tall is bullshit. An At-At is about 20 meters tall (slightly taller than a Gundam). The AT TE and HAVw A6 Juggernaut don't even reach to knees of the AT AT, thus my low to the ground statement.

It doesn't matter though, because the Big Tray is the best large, land based tank anyway.

>People forgetting that the AT-AT we see in Empire isn't the same as the AT-CT we see in Rogue one.

It only has the side mount blasters. No Chin gun and weaker armour.

The Kashyyk Juggernaut looks even taller than the AT-APs tho, and they are tall as fuck. The wheels alone are at least 6 meters tall.

desu that's a pretty lame excuse for it to go down as easily as it did. Sort of just felt like fanboy pandering.

>It's a neckbearded faggot loser reaches into his fat virgin ass and pulls out a ridiculous explanation for something in shit wars that is objectively retarded episode

Are you serious?
Please be joking, captain autismo

>i don't know shit about gundam or mechs but imma post anyways

The most primative Gundams were 'Balls' (highly maneuverable turrets with mechanical arms)....then Gundams were developed that could perform maitenance/repair roles on large spacecraft in addition to pick up a weapon and fight. They were originally designed for space-combat where point-to-point thrusting was much less energy intensive and having a wide range of motion with a gun was easy (due to no drag/wind resistance). If you watch something like 08th MS Team the Gundams actually get rekt by tanks in certain environments (close quarter city combat) and by air strikes.

It wasn't until later gundams when they really amped up the generator output (Gundam Wing etc) that you see some broken ass shit like weightless indestruct metals (enhanced Gundanium) and unlimited-power nuclear reactors. If you have unlimited energy>>unlimited thrusters>>unlimited mobility.

I can't believe I just typed that shit out for you. Your welcome.

>rooneyposter calls someone else a neckbearded faggot fat virgin loser

Oh, and before you
>>dur that's not the best weapon in space

In later Gundams like Stardust Memory the 'best' suits would be equipped with Armor that essentially turned the Gundam into a massive/highly maneuverable/heavily armored Gunship. The Armor negated the 'humanoid' aspects such as repair/recon/retrieval etc but made them into pure war machines.

>not just using snows speeders to pick off clusters of troops on the battlefield

Goddamn it, why was that the only map with aircrafts?

>he didn't install the mods

Do it, you won't regret it

Yeah but a Newtype in a tank is a waste, how are they meant to use their funnels?

Weren't those things made as a part of a shock and awe kind of thing?
I mean they aren't meant to be practical but to strike fear into the enemies' hearts. Kind of like the Death Star.

The big question is why no one ever thought to do that wire shit at ground level, the head can't swivel that well

Tarkin's doctrine basically.

giant robot sloths.

a bradley fighting vehicle only carries 6 troops

its just a luxury of material

afterall they have a deathstar for fucks sake

They automatically blow up if they fall down, they have thermal exhaust ports on their bellies that get plugged up with snow, causing the reactors to overeat and go critical.

Same concept as how horses die if they lie down.

but our modern tanks have plenty of terrain they can't handle

AT-ATs could walk over thick forest, wade deep in water or snow, or just stomp over the ruins of a city..

And sink into the ground 3/4 the time because they're distributing their weight across four small points rather than entirely along the bottom like a tank does.

Tanks can go through any forest? Tanks can go through 20-feet deep water? Tanks can maneuver through a giant boulder field?

>AT-CT

Isn't the AT-CT and AT-ST variant as opposed to an AT-AT?

Drawing power from the reactor to the hover jets to hold up tons of metal takes up a lot of potential power that could be going to the guns

that machine design is stupid to begin with

It's designed for traveling over all terrain. It's basically just a horse but bigger.

>Their purpose is actually very Land raider like too, just get in the enemy lines and dump troops.
Nah, they're terror weapons, slowly advancing doom.

>is a /tg/ armchair generals episode

how many horses are known for going 1 step every few seconds?

Then why are its feet barely capable of clearing the ground?

empire fuck off

>but bigger

that walking pile of shit is not a horse.

It's quadruped design is clearly inspired by a horse, or camel, or any other four-footed animal. It moves slowly because it's so big.

>camel
acceptable

this redditor doesn't know that BTFO actually means BLOWN THE FUCK OUT

ROBOT CAMELS SUCK BRO GET OVER IT

We needed to see more of these beasts in the movies

>no humps

Sorry not a camel

well i personally think they are robo sloth that come from hoth but eh.

Horses have thermal exhaust ports on the belly?

I'll be Double's Advocate and suggest that sweat glands are an analogous feature. Not specific to belly's tho