Why the CIS was SO DESPERATE to Buy Droidekas

[@ABattleDroid]

They are so powerful that they were often used as a plot device to make main characters retreat, get captured, surrender, or show how competent they are by defeating one.

[@knicks5426]

Yeah. They’re also badass, especially when paired with a competent commander

[@hornetc5585]

The most disgusting part of that truth is revealed when you realize Jar Jar has a rolly kill under his belt.

[@notoriousgamer3976]

Roger roger

[@TouringWolf42]

@@hornetc5585 He didn't even break a sweat. Darth Jar Jar confirmed even more?

[@ABattleDroid]

@@hornetc5585 It wasn’t Jar Jar, it was the battle droid torso that pulled the trigger and got the kill.

[@clonecoric4140]

Trade Fedaration: We'll give you anything credits, weapons, ships. Colocoids: M E A T.

[@nothernstar2576]

they just love food

[@ABattleDroid]

Kinky

[@geetslys]

I'd take bacon as payment but KZbin only works with this weird "money" stuff.

[@stalin1701]

@@geetslys get this man some bacon

[@hornetc5585]

@@geetslys What an arcane method. KZbin ignores bacon's superiority; it never suffers from inflation no matter how much is made! That being said...it may not be the best for me: not matter how much I make, I ALWAYS end up going broke.

[@innerpower4421]

A droid with the closest thing to machine guns for blasters and with a a virtually unstoppable shield to blaster fire. Honestly the droid is a genius of a design with the only downside being the cost.

[@nothernstar2576]

another downside was a bad maneuverability

[@matthiuskoenig3378]

the CIS use things closer to machine guns in the clone wars series, literally tri-pod mounted rapid fireing weapons.

[@knicks5426]

You don’t need many of them so the high cost will be worth it

[@eddapultstab2078]

You get what you pay for, they are probably the only mass production unit that is worth salvaging and repairing. Damaged b1s and even b2s are so expendable that they wouldn't care

[@hornetc5585]

@@matthiuskoenig3378 You even see them being used in RotS on Utapou.

[@earthyring4393]

Clone Wars Starts Nobody: Colocoids: MEAT IS BACK ON THE MENU BOYS!!

[@emberfist8347]

They had meat on the menu since before the Battle of Naboo. The Trade Federation where the guys that gave them the meat and they got a license to make their own droidekas from the deal.

[@codeysnow2980]

I love crossover jokes

[@LordWyatt]

CIS: What do we do with all the clone corpses we come acro- Colocids: Yo you gonna eat those?

[@Ikcatcher]

Imagine getting a discount on highly deadly droid weapons just by giving them hamburgers

[@hornetc5585]

To be fair, it was rare and exotic meats, so it was more like top quality stake, an offer no self respecting American would turn down!

[@pedrokantor3997]

@@hornetc5585 It's more like top quality Pangolin, that ends up spreading RakGhoul throughout the Galaxy.

[@solsunman383]

For some reason, I had the dark thought that the CIS was harvesting rare sentients and serving the remains of people in return for shiny new droids :o

[@thegreatjedi309]

@@solsunman383 Wookie perhaps?

[@JeanLucCaptain]

Good thing that Macdonald doesn't have Droidekas then!

[@hunterkiller1440]

"Remember that annoying childhood friend who always yells shield when you tag them?"

[@eustacebagge5873]

I never actually heard of that lol

[@themelon_1785]

yea and we just told him that our tag was armour piercing and he replied that his shield was anti armou- *i think we all know how it goes*

[@geetslys]

Oh man, the memories.

[@EdaugEthanbYT]

I never had anyone say shield. It was always that thin air was a safezone

[@midgetydeath]

In lower school, we actually sometimes made that part of the game, so you had to use stealth or conspire with other would-be victims so they would pretend to be it so you could get close unsuspected.

[@Kirifuki]

Because they were the only droids that could make Jedi retreat, or surrender. And they weren’t slow like Dark troopers who seem to just walk into a lightsaber.

[@pedrokantor3997]

@SonofEyeaboveall Effoff Well I can't imagine Moff Gideon has the same access to resources that the Empire had.

[@Kirifuki]

@SonofEyeaboveall Effoff I used to think legends Dark troopers were sonic OC levels of overpowered, but after seeing the joke that was the canon Dark trooper, I prefer the old ones. They were like B1/B2 battle droids with less personality in canon.

[@toby1061]

Magnaguards and Commando Droids were also effective against Jedi.

[@TankHunter678]

@SonofEyeaboveall Effoff Beskar is lightsaber resistant thanks to its incredibly high melting point and generally being good at cooling off fairly quickly, but the more you alloy the Beskar the less pure it gets and the lower its melting point becomes making it more vulnerable to lightsabers. This is why you saw the Beskar Spear start glowing from all the blows it was taking from the Dark Saber, it was accruing more heat then it could disperse. The Dark Troopers likely use an alloy armor that incorporates Beskar, but the lack of available material meant that if they wanted to make a larger number of Dark Troopers they were going to have to sacrifice a lot of purity. So you wind up with a decent sized force that was blaster proof and heat resistant making them able to easily overpower the main protagonist and his friends but lacking the lightsaber resistant trait because of how impure the armor was. The reason why Legends Dark Troopers were so powerful was because of the difference in available resources, Palpatine had tremendous resources and planet stripping world destroyers he could draw upon while Moff Gideon was simply a single sector governor on the run only able to obtain what he could easily snatch up.

[@emberfist8347]

@@Kirifuki No they are stronger than B1s or B2 Neither model would have given Mando such a hard time. They are closer to Commando Droids which are annoyances to Jedi but a menace to everyone else.

[@randomguywholikesstuff6536]

They basically are immune to enemies on the high ground, and basically are just armored anti infantry turrets

[@pedrokantor3997]

Droidekas: highly mobile and well protected MG nest on the spot.

[@hornetc5585]

@@pedrokantor3997 They were broken AF in BF 2004. I could take down a Gunship given enough time. Much quicker for snub fighters.

[@pedrokantor3997]

@@hornetc5585 But there isn't really any map for BF2005 that has both Droidekas and Gunships. The aircraft primarily is for space battles with the exception of Hoth. Unless you're talking about BF2004 or custom maps.

[@spacetacos7574]

They’re like mini tanks that can enter a sped mode Imagine if they used droidekas as flankers like flanking calvery

[@hornetc5585]

@@pedrokantor3997 Yeah, I mixed up the dates.

[@UGNAvalon]

I love how droidekas & B1s were basically the terminators of their respective species.

[@mechengr1731]

I think the bug people win

[@pancakes8670]

That was one detail I loved about CIS droids. They mimic their alien creators in design like how us humans build robots that look like ourselves

[@EdaugEthanbYT]

They wanted the Droidekas because Obi Wan couldn’t get the high ground against them

[@geetslys]

I think he did it the series though...

[@KirasGreenWorld]

@@geetslys he did

[@EdaugEthanbYT]

@@geetslys probably

[@battlesheep2552]

"see, these droids are made of this metal that looks like bronze, but it's called bronzium and is scifi" -George Lucas

[@emberfist8347]

It doesn't look like bronze at all. It is darker than bronze.

[@void335]

“And stormtrooper armor is made of this plastic, but it’s called plastoid and is scifi” - George Lucas

[@rejvaik00]

@@void335 "and the storm trooper and droidekas had an intense gay shexual relationship" - Joanne Rowling

[@accountreality1988]

@@void335 starwars is soft sci fi, explanation of the in universe stuff does not really matter.

[@hornetc5585]

The dislikes are from the troopers told to watch those wrist rockets only to lose their CPs to mecha-rolly pollies of death. Where's that jet trooper when ya' him?

[@geetslys]

Well said!

[@hornetc5585]

@@geetslys Unfortunately for me, the answer I get from my mom or sister is "Sorry, was reloading." or "At the gonk.".

[@michaelandreipalon359]

@@hornetc5585 Did they play multiplayer with you?

[@hornetc5585]

@@michaelandreipalon359 Splitscreen.

[@michaelandreipalon359]

@@hornetc5585 Awesome!

[@oskiewoskie5]

They were so effective that even in starwarbattlefrot2 players had a difficult time killing them. especially all the clone class did stand a chance but won't last long if the player know what they were doing

[@RJALEXANDER777]

The trick was to line up a shot where you could outmanoeuvre them. Especially if you could put some terrain between you and them.

[@formerhunter2]

@@RJALEXANDER777 or to have a few players play dedicated sniper on wide areas like Geonosis or Kamino. If they can't survive the roll to the front lines, they can't do much, and two shots kill them. If you can't kill before they deploy, get behind cover and wait until they lower their shield. Sound cues help a lot there.

[@griffinsanders7933]

@@formerhunter2 the only time my shields went down is when it took to much damage and when i was rolling.

[@formerhunter2]

@@griffinsanders7933 bruh, then one of two things happened. Either you didn't play that much SWBF2 (2005, not EA's piece of SHIT), or you were playing against easy bots the entire time.

[@griffinsanders7933]

@@formerhunter2 I like and play both of them when I was a droidica my shield rarely went down.

[@gavinvick3592]

“The loyalists learned to fear them” *flashbacks of the Horus Heresy*

[@noisemarine561]

My my how heretical

[@talaahahmed8410]

Lol star wars resembles 40k so much

[@akumaking1]

@@talaahahmed8410 or is it the other way around?

[@thesenate5770]

Love these new pro-CIS videos.

[@geetslys]

Heck yah!

[@comradekenobi6908]

For the Confederacy! - General Lee

[@TouringWolf42]

The confederacy were the good guys, change my mind

[@TheHorsemanOfTheApocalypse]

@@TouringWolf42 there's no good guys in war

[@TouringWolf42]

@@TheHorsemanOfTheApocalypse The outer rim had a justified reason to leave the republic. Imagine being forced to pay taxes and not be represented at all in the senate or even considered in anything? The sith highjacked it obviously, but the goal was ultimately something that the republic could have easily let happen. Like there's anything especial in the few territories that seceded.

[@thimovijfschaft3271]

Don't forget the best thing about these rollie bois: the sound design! Damn

[@mrmaxmondays]

Recently rewatched the prequels and the sound design was the only redeeming factor😂

[@badideagenerator2315]

The lego star wars droidieka sound design tho

[@MACE_HINDU]

So basically almost everything that the cis has that is good at killing things and good quality is made by them

[@emberfist8347]

Not all of it. The Colicoids didn't Occutupora droids or Crab Droids or Commando Droids or Rogue Class Starfighters or Providence-class carriers/destroyers

[@masterplokoon8803]

The Geonosians also designed a lot of good weapons. Like those super heavy tanks and the freaking Death Star.

[@judasromo9407]

@@masterplokoon8803 death star had the dumbest weakness tho

[@masterplokoon8803]

@@judasromo9407 the weakness was an inside job by an Imperial scientist who was secretly a rebel. It was not the Geonosian's fault

[@judasromo9407]

@@masterplokoon8803 you smell of imperial favoritism

[@brianf2093]

"Even jedi strugled to best these fearsome units" Me: thinks of obi wan playing with them during the fight with grevius

[@emberfist8347]

They didn't have the time to activate their shields.

[@deaththekid3998]

At that point he had experience. The first time we saw him fighting a droideka, he was very distressed.

[@chengzhou8711]

“Ah, the Droideka. The Premier anti-personnel droid. Later models could be outfitted with sniper rifles or anti-material weapons and once they enter the battlefield, everybody would drop everything they’re doing and try to melt it down in a hurry. When raw fire power is hard to come by, often, the environment is more dangerous to those things than your weapons.” -CS/CT-8711-12 “Cheng”, Captain and Scout of the 442nd Siege Battalion

[@michaelandreipalon359]

As much as what you're saying is just your words, I'm still impressed by all your efforts in the comments. Keep at it, buddy.

[@chengzhou8711]

@@michaelandreipalon359 thanks man

[@NareshSinghOctagon]

Having watched the evolution of Halo Hunters,I bring the same sentiment of "they would be even cooler if they had more loadout options" to Droidekas. Especially rocket pods.

[@Normalguy1690]

CIS oh no we’re gonna go broke buying these things they cost so much. Wait they want meat? Well damn why didn’t u say so give me another hundred!

[@eddapultstab2078]

.....Thousand

[@matthiuskoenig3378]

@18 Nicholas 李卓銘 1.2 Biiiilliooon

[@emberfist8347]

The CIS didn't even have to pay in meat because the Trade Federation's original deal got them a license to make their won which they gave to their Baktoid plants.

[@starsilverinfinity]

Because they see me rollin’ They hatin’

[@geetslys]

They patrollin'...

[@starsilverinfinity]

@@geetslys tryin' to catch me rollin dirty

[@themanED]

You troll me with the read more

[@unknowngamer6796]

I swear geetsly makes the best thumbnails every post I littraly tap on the vid cause if it

[@jakestark2483]

Yes that is how you build a channel

[@Legendgary916]

The Ashoka ones..

[@captainrex3320]

And it’s never click bait.

[@ABattleDroid]

They wanted MEAT? I don’t know, sounds kind of KINKY to me.

[@hornetc5585]

Only if they swallowed the meat whole.

[@andrewaftontheandroidhedge2780]

if its the meat your thinking of there should of bin a lot more in the clone wars active

[@michaelknudson4006]

My friends and I always called them "Rollers" when we played OG Battlefront

[@hornetc5585]

You must have laughed when you realized the clones actually call them something very similar.

[@BozheTsaryaKhrani]

I called them bakugons

[@AaronDarkus]

@@BozheTsaryaKhrani I see what you did there.jpg

[@siriusa4404]

I'm surprised you haven't done a dedicated video about the commando droids. Could you make one pls., theire epicnes deserves it :).

[@sithtriumvirate2.027]

Yes please. They are so cool

[@racenturtlez]

Remember how in Star Wars battlefront 1 when the AI would pick droidekas on that map with the island and they’d kill themselves in the water?

[@hornetc5585]

Polis Massa had a similar issue in BF II when AI would wander out into space without a vehicle.

[@michaelandreipalon359]

@@hornetc5585 And the droids are immune because they don't even need to breathe! Basically, Polis Massa is unfair, what with its pro-CIS/Rebel bias.

[@-CrimsoN-]

Yeah lol

[@hornetc5585]

@@michaelandreipalon359 I didn't remember that the droids were immune.

[@thedoruk6324]

Because they are *efficient* for battle that CIS already loosing

[@geetslys]

Oh no, they were LOOSING???

[@thedoruk6324]

@@geetslys I mean we are talking about the decadent republic whose more than happy to use megastructural weapons of intergalactic destruction I even interpret they would go for the Mass EMP weapons as well anti inserts species name here bioweapons if the cannonfodder clones werent available

[@bthsr7113]

They're high speed, heavily armed, and they have built in shield generators. It's pretty obvious even before you get into the more obscure details.

[@LaLloronaVT]

I’m hoping we get more battle droids in Mando season 3, it’d be cool if the mandalorians reactivated battle droids in order to fight against the empire and retake mandalore

[@scottakanumba1heathen379]

They don't call that Separatist leader "Shu Mai" for NOTHING! 😸

[@geetslys]

Lol, clever.

[@michaelandreipalon359]

Named after a favorite Japanese side dish... figures.

[@scottakanumba1heathen379]

@@michaelandreipalon359 Yep! And her assistant "Cat Miin".

[@chuahseongteik4488]

Tbh i think the reason they are so effective is they are design by aliens and most jedi are human/humanoid and are only use to fight human like droids and not alien like droids.

[@oliverp3545]

I think it may be because their force fields were literally like a person in full plate steel fighting a village of hungry peasants.

[@emberfist8347]

@@oliverp3545 Well you also have to give that knight twin Squad Automatic Weapons

[@oliverp3545]

@@emberfist8347 well output needs a degree of protection because it doesn't matter how powerful a weapon you got, if you go down in a few seconds it doesn't really matter. That's why the Jedi were so deadly, especially with certain defensive styles, because the droids just couldn't hurt them due to their ability to not be hit, because otherwise their power isn't that great.

[@sleeplesshollow4216]

Federation must have played Stellaris and knew the value of trading food with other empires when you have a mostly robot population.

[@WeazelGamingHI]

It kinda makes me wonder, what would have happened to the rebels if the empire had decided to use old CIS droidekas in mass?

[@CollinMcLean]

More people would've probably joined the rebels... post-clone wars galaxy hated droids because of the memory of the CIS... For former Republic systems it reminded them of a massive enemy that marched across their planets causing massacres... And for plenty of former CIS worlds it would've likely reminded them of the CIS's broken promises...

[@calebbarnhouse496]

It wouldn't be that big a deal tbh, outside of heavily defended shipments they'd be no diffrent then a blaster turrent, while in heavily defended shipments would either be going high speed, so they can't deploy and shoot, or they'd have to stay deployed and slow the shipment down to a crawl, but a tracked version that works a lot like the rolling terminator would be effective

[@robertagren9360]

The empire is a joined arms against droids and reason why humans are used and why their warmachines aren't droids.C3PO mentioned that Han Solo's ship has a rough personality, later on in Solo revealed to be a prodroid-life activist. Vader's helmet is as much a mask to his identity to the secret that he's robotic enhanced that some would call it unnatural. The empire pilots are killing the droids on spaceships as it's common for the droid to pilot the spaceship and because there's a war against droids. The droids in the empire is periodically clean wiped of all memory in fear that they'll take over the galaxy. This is how the only known droid jedi have been Sith like general grievous and remember that the most common force power of sith is electricity.

[@chaotixthefox]

@@robertagren9360 Definitely can't give any weight to the opinion of a man who believes Grievous is a droid and a Sith.

[@robertagren9360]

@@chaotixthefox Prove Vader isn't an android.

[@rar8532]

When playing Battlefront I like being these guys and doing Hit and Run Tactics. Circle Behind Enemy Lines and hit them from the back. Roll up and take off before anyone knows what hit them.

[@wieprzdiukdetruffe5863]

Droid Creators in Clone Wars be like: Hmm yes time to make this droid look like my species

[@Dante.D.B.]

Droidekas are just *AWESOME!* Literally you haven't seen anything that fear inspiring since AT-AT's. They're also super fun in Battlefront 2.

[@rOvertJustice]

I remember playing Republic Commando and just standing right in front of them and stabbing them cause they couldn’t hit me reliably.

[@-CrimsoN-]

Yep lol Republic Commando. The only Star Wars media where super battle droids are tougher than droidekas. Lol

[@sarahsayshello9726]

Oh man that was tough, I certainly hope we don't see more of them......

[@nicholaspratt8473]

When you realize the shields are polarized to light meaning you can't see through them (even one-way because no light gets in). It's just the glowing bulbs of their sensors in a black (and blue?) sphere of blasters... Horrific Wait wait... You're telling me this heavy infantry costs more than 3 AT-TE heavy tanks and 4 AAT heavy tanks? Heck this. Get 4 tanks!!!

[@cannasnagler]

10 000-20 000 black market price after the war - in the lore.

[@tennoskoom2233]

I used to play RC on potato graphics, and a grey orb with lasers shooting out of it was exactly what I saw. As for tanks, tanks can't clear urban cover without removing it, don't reposition as easily, and can't operate with infantry, so the cost is probably still justifiable

[@pancakes8670]

Droidekas are anti-jedi droids, so like... might be more useful than tanks where you're enemy is the Jedi

[@calebbarnhouse496]

@@pancakes8670 no, not even close, only in terrain that is to this for a tank, but somehow able to be navigated by the droideka would this be possible, a single hellfire droid would be better suited to send against jedi, and they would cost less then an AAT, the only downside being that resupply are expensive, but a resupply for the price of a dead jedi is worth it

[@chaotixthefox]

At-TEs are artillery pieces that got shredded in the tank role, and AATs can be defeated by walking up the middle and dropping a grenade in. At least a Droideka will shoot at someone rolling a grenade towards it.

[@michaelandreipalon359]

Those things are so reliable they're used by the Zann Consortium and the Vagaari in 4 ABY and 20 ABY respectively. One wonders if they hurt the Yuuzhan Vong war effort...

[@bogustoast22none25]

Care to take a look into the legends droideka? More specifically the ones used by the Zann Consortium? Also, their best moments were indoors, sure they were tanks with those shields, but in most circumstances, finding cover and arranging to to suppressive fire while artillery lined up was a good bet to taking them out, as well as surrounding it with cover and dwindling their shields with constant fire. Indoor however, they couldn’t be surrounded, while forming a shield wall and slowly creeping up on the enemy while they constantly gave them hell

[@joemwas1]

buckets of nunna legs, wookie steak, ewok bacon.... they got it all

[@Bamsi-tl4nk]

Droidekas were like Homing Spider Droids; deadly enemies with that creepy looking design and a lot of firepower

[@silverfoxdelta290]

the empire could easily have made deals with the bugs to keep droidekas in the stormtrooper corps. either that or subjugated and forced them to make droidekas or simply just taken their blueprints and made them on their own.

[@cyberswiper6317]

The confederacy of independent systems, the most interesting faction in Star Wars

[@themaninabucket8365]

Colocoids, high as shit: “Let’s turn a fuckin A-10 Warthog into a beach ball lmao” CIS, breaking through a window: *”G I M M E”*

[@dgdaner]

Loved when Zahn brought them into his book survivor's quest.

[@inquisitorgarza312]

Alien cultures have different currencies for their economies.

[@morgant.dulaman8733]

I suppose, though by the point it's "robots for meat" I have to wonder if it's currency, or just bartering? Also, didn't I meat you at Splatterface?

[@michaelandreipalon359]

@@morgant.dulaman8733 What's Splatterface?

[@Matze96DAK]

1:46 Thats right, all for the "Do the locomotion" action, thats why we are here.

[@slicerneons3300]

Colicoids are creepy flesh eating bugs but I love their tech.

[@hidebehind3565]

These droids were the biggest threats in Lego Star Wars 3: The Clone Wars to me. So I know how powerful they are from firsthand experience.

[@maxxor-overworldhero6730]

You could basically pay these guys solely in bacon, and they'd see no problem with that. Though honestly, who would? Bacon is awesome.

[@brentboswell1294]

Pay 'em with head cheese 🤣

[@Memehoardercatwoofdogmeow]

If i could have a rolling, machine gun metal ball that generates its own shield and attacks what you say, youd best believe im gonna get me one.

[@Steve-em4tb]

They were so good that the Empire kept using them alongside stormtroopers, in Legends. Droideka >>> E-Web

[@sovetskyskaiyastrigon1750]

The Separatist are my favorite faction out of the entire Star Wars universe

[@condedooku9750]

Agree

[@Meravokas]

One thing I would like to clear up in your information, Geetsly, unless this was something that was retconned or changed post P-Series. The reason that we see the Destroyer Droids shift their shoulders and blasters back and forth is because they did have to shoot outside of their own shield. Which is actually represented in Episode one quite clearly in their first appearance in the movie. Mind you I'm also speaking for the true visual representation of them, not the stylized variations we see in TCW, original shorts or full series (which heaving used the original's aesthetic much to my dismay.) Canonically movie wise we don't get to see this in action again because DD's are only present twice in the ROTS and only one close up is done when they pop up around the shield trapped Anikin and Obiwan.

[@sG_Paradise]

How do they build their products? They don’t seem to have hands or fingers

[@TheBadDesperado]

7:11

[@ChaosTicket]

The Droidekas in The Phantom Menace were cool because they made the invincible jedi flee. Later they were not so effective as their vulnerabilities were being exploited often.. I played them in Star Wars Battlefront 1 & 2 and I hated them. In blaster mode they were slow, would overheat their guns, & their shields were finite. They were unarmed in wheel mode and transforming took time that would be exploited.

[@ArgentWolf95]

That Collicoid design looks very familiar to another speies in another franchise I like. The Chrysalids. Droidekas were my favorite droids. I'd have loved to see more of them and loved playing them back in the day on Battlefront 2, and don't forget the Mk II ones in Empire at War.

[@GeraltofRivia22]

Anyone who has played the original Battlefront knows how op these guys are.

[@ablacktemplar1971]

Remember when grievous just straight up threw one and destroyed it cause of Kenobi, that was a waste of a crate of meat.

[@ogdodo9614]

The battlefront 1 loading screen intro brings back memories 😩

[@Kirifuki]

A real threat to Jedi, unlike the canon Dark troopers.

[@geetslys]

DANG, you didn't just say that.

[@michaelandreipalon359]

@SonofEyeaboveall Effoff You mean Kyle "Forcedamned" Katarn?

[@Reoh0z]

CIS, "We've got the MEATS!"

[@samblakeley6968]

Honestly the droideka is my favorite droid

[@andrewkim8349]

Same, except I also like commandos

[@ghastlybespoke9541]

same i love the way they roll around

[@samblakeley6968]

@@andrewkim8349 yeah commandos are pretty cool too

[@kingofmonsters2063]

Same and my favorite character to play in bf2

[@JRX988]

B1's FOREVER

[@kenknerr7226]

Colocoids : What's for dinner? Trade Federation: Roger, Roger.

[@Halobeast10000000000]

Hmmm I find it interesting that from what I’ve seen almost all droid models made by the CIS were based on insectoid species.

[@hornetc5585]

Because insectiod bodies lend themselves well to mechanical design.

[@ShurikenSean]

would love to hear more about IG-86 and other IG droids that don't get enouph coverage

[@CollinMcLean]

Think you might be able to do a video on the Zabrak? Maybe even a follow up on the Dathomirian Zabrak like Maul? Also... that rimshot... perfect...

[@teoteous]

We'll "Ridin'" by Chamillionaire started playing in my head.

[@alexanderkaizer1095]

Clone Commandoes, or perhaps do several videos regarding Super Battle Droids and the different varients of them.

[@bungwater1052]

Colacoids: I receive: Big Macs You recieve: hamster droid.

[@yellowkid846]

“Meat. I’ll send you a nice box of life day meat, best I can do, get out of here. Send me more droidekas” - J. Jonah Gunray

[@michaelandreipalon359]

Meanwhile, in other worlds: "So, how much are those Super Battle Droids worth?"

[@emberfist8347]

200 times the price of a B1. Droidekas are 20,000 times the cost of a B1.

[@michaelandreipalon359]

@@emberfist8347 Apart from the fact that I'm referencing the SBDs from the Republic Commando video game, you're still correct here.

[@dariustiapula]

Imagine some Yuuzhang Vong warriors stumple on this things in Coruscant deactivated. Only for them to be activated and start their clone war objective.

[@legoferrari14]

The Colicoids were consistently the most effective designers for battle droids in the clone wars. Even in Legends, repossessed droidekas were used well into the Galactic Civil War era.

[@GODCONVOYPRIME]

The best class to play in bf2 when boarding the republic star destroyers.

[@anuksunamun101]

Imagine a HUGE T4 variant made of beskar and that had the inteligence of a tactical droid , adfitional limbs with blasters and lightning staffs like Grievous,and the conversion skills/humor of a B1 battledroid. I say "shut up and take my money"

[@hornetc5585]

Honestly these guys are why in BFI and II I often opted to serve my team as a vehicle driver/pilot. I either use a tank to take them out or bail my family members out with a quick strafing run. Damn bastards aren't so tough once I'm in the cockpit of an LAAT/Delta-7 or point a walker's mass driver cannon at them.

[@MrMustang1945]

When I can get the Droideka in Battlefront 2 (2006) "I have become death, the destroyer of worlds."

[@scotts918]

They see me rollin', they dyin', just another day as a Droideka~

[@MatthewChenault]

It should also be mentioned that Tyber Zann acquired Driodekas via the Hypori factories. More specifically, it was a unique variant of the droideka with ion cannon rounds.

[@stTrooper-nf9dh]

Droideka? That's a wierd way to say Murder Bakugan.

[@venkelos6996]

This was a fun video! Destroyers were neat, and rather iconic; fun to watch even Jedi struggle with them, though I sometimes wonder why Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan didn't just Force push them into walls/off their "feet", and hopefully disrupt the shields. Still, they were cool. I remember playing Kotor games, and something that reminded me of the Destroyers were the occasional Sentinel series (I think) combat droids you could occasionally find. They looked more humanoid than most of the units the later Colicoids would create, but they were a little alike. Like the B1s, they were bipedal, and could be slaved together into an operating system, instead of each being an individual. They used guns Luke the other troops, and so didn't need to have the extra power systems the Droidekas did, but they did sport energy shields. Back when I eas playing Star Wars RPG stuff, one of my concepts for a Kotor era character was a simple Sentinel; either a model that had already been given a processor, or a convenient body to place one in later. It could level up in most classes I would want, if I wasn't playing a Jedi, and being a droid meant it could sport the same shield generator, which had some cool exploits throughout the system. They are nowhere near as cool as the Destroyers, but I definitely got similar vibes every time I played, and found an area where a properly techy character could reactivate some Sentinels, raise their shields, and let them wear down a threat before I had to go in, and fight. A shame they weren't more important to anything, as even by Kotor, they were sort of obsolete remnants of even older battles.

[@JeanLucCaptain]

I want a Droideka that says: LOOKS LIKE MEAT'S BACK ON THE MENU BOYS!!!

[@IceBear-jb1ip]

Honestly lore wise I don’t know why the empire stopped using them, Droids altogether would be more effective then stormtroopers even B1s

[@tonystank3091]

No love for the MK2 Droideka used by the Zann Consortium? I suppose that was covered in the blanket statement about crime lords, but that was a unique model on its own.

[@helvis7336]

who knew insects could be such good engineers!

[@_trepz]

These things used to scare the shit out of me in the '99 phantom menace game as a kid.

[@გიორგიმოსაშვილი-ო3დ]

Daaamn they are BADASS AS HELL! best special unit in the og BF2 hands down, coolest and most creative design, most awesome vlaster sound, sooo coool!

[@bossdeltasquad]

Title: why the cis wanted to buy more droidekas Me: because they’re fucking droidekas

[@communismwithgiggles2515]

IIRC I knew they were powerful as soon as Obi Wan and Qui-Gon ran from them in Episode I

[@jamesleduke873]

"and most effective battle droids of all time." *laughs in YVH Series

[@TheForcesWrath]

These bugs give me good memories of Balmora in SWTOR online.

[@HerrZhukov]

I thought that said CIA at first and I was so confused.

[@geetslys]

LOL I mean they do shady deals too!

[@michaelandreipalon359]

I expected the successor system to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics since 1991.

[@zero312]

Exchange rate: 1 droidekai for 20 hot dogs

[@moonshadow1795]

god i love these lil rollypollies. I would want one as a pet

[@digishade7583]

There was also a type of droidika that acted like snipers they showed up in I think one episode of clone wars where instead of force fields they had a large face shield and a single long ranger blaster that stuck out from a gap in the center of it

[@ryaquaza3offical]

The Clone Wars would have ended a lot quicker if Droideka if they where more common than they where. Just imagine the battle of *insert Clone Wars battle here* but replace all the B1s and B2s with Droidekas, let’s just be glad they couldn’t be mass produced like the other droid models otherwise I doubt everyone would have survived as long as they did

[@CollinMcLean]

Sounds awesome at first but they're a bit too specialized to function as an effective vanguard... Virtually unprotected when they're rolling, slow moving when they're firing, and you can't use them for things like ordinance or armor since they don't have hands...

[@CollinMcLean]

Oh... and since they can only roll... You could probably just build a somewhat tall wall... Threat neutralized...

[@buck342443]

The droideka served it's role fine, if anything a replacement for the B1 as the standard infantry soldier is what was needed.

[@BozheTsaryaKhrani]

Droidekas what happens when a flat earther makes a bakugon

[@fabiocosta3830]

Droidekas are quite the pain in the ass. Their biggest flaw is that they have an hard time turning when deployed. Also, they had a blind spot if you got as close as possible at melee (republic commando. If you manage to get at melee with a droideka, and get yourself right between the guns, it can't hit you, and you can stab it continuously to save ammo)