The MAJOR issue with Tactical Droids

We'll break down everything about tactical droids and super tactical droids on today's Star Wars lore video!
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[@generalsmite7167]

Tactical droids were one of my favorite parts of the show. When the super tactical droids were introduced I thought it made a great villain and was a breath of fresh air. A shame we didn’t see them more

[@cloudmaster182]

Tru, super tacticals were crazy underused Regular tactical were super overused imo

[@nameynamename3758]

honestly never cared for the super tactical mainly due to the design, felt like the normal one's fit perfectly with the other cis designs while the 2nd one never felt quite right to me

[@Leonidas1210vc]

@@nameynamename3758 i for one love the Super Tactical droid design.

[@hazmatt3250]

Plus the supers had a cool-ass voice

[@KosMir16]

Would've loved to see Khalani fight the Empire and establish a small CIS governed area in the Galaxy (maybe outer rim or in the galactic north)

[@RaeSyngKane]

To me I see several reasons why they might not be more popular. 1. We see most droid models have a non-wartime precursor that still did the same work. Spider droids were still offensive droids, B1s were guards, and snail droids were enforcers to name a few. Given the Ruusan reformation and organization of the republic, I can’t see tactical droids being a pre-CW droid.maybe a modified protocol droid but that’s still a heavy modification. This may mean that their numbers were fewer because they only started being made in quantity after the CW started. 2. Unlike many of the other droids, with how advanced they were I doubt many of the automated industrial assembly lines we see in the CIS could’ve made them. After all, it’s hard to imagine the lines on Geonosis, whose quality control was unable to identify the C3P0/B1 mixup, being able to match the quality needed. I could see their manufacturing being very limited. 3. While many of the galactic entities being more comfortable with droid commanders, I could see many of the planetary entities being much less willing. Using battle droids, sure, they’re just tools. But tactical droids take that tool and hands it to another tool that you don’t control. Sprinkle in some of Star Wars bias against droid sentience and I can see a lot of planets accepting droid armies but only with local commanders. 4. This is the biggest reason I think: Tactical droids are REALLY EXTREMELY HORRENDOUSLY BAD for Palpatine. Clones had chips, droids had the shutdown code, but what did Kalani do? Just said “NO THAT’S DUMB”, Ignored the shutdown command, and kept his entire droid army running. Organic commanders never got shutdown commands or a chance to intercept them, as far as they knew all of a sudden everything just shutdown. The tactical droids aren’t force controllable, they think for themselves, and can ignore self-harmful orders. Imagine if Palpatine makes his play but the entire CIS droid army just ignores his command. The CIS is still armed and dangerous but now they have a chance to reason and root out his influence. Remember, Dooku and Grievous are dead before Order 66 is given, Palpatine’s main inside men are dead.

[@TheArklyte]

Given the fact that C3PO was mixed up with B1 and both robots still functioned, it's clear that B1 started its life as repurposed and simplified protocol droid... OR that both guard and protocol droids had a common "ancestor" humanoid chassis and had enough part commonality left even after their split. That's also why people theorised that Republic can build their own droid armies as it still uses trillions of droids, who needs constant replacements so there are dozens if not hundreds droid corporations, who didn't join CIS and filled the market vacuum.

[@articwolf117-ow3ei]

Last was is really interesting. Ironicly the Droid would have safe the CIS and maybe if then Galaxy.

[@MagnusOrkzyd]

I wish Kalani got a written fate after Rebels. Man was made into an interesting character and his story was cut off too soon.

[@ants7279]

I know right we never got to see more of him I really want to see the Droid army make a come back.

[@spheroid-collective]

I sincerely hope that he is somewhere in the background waiting for one of the handful of non-droids he trusts to need him again

[@cloudmaster182]

Didn't he join the Rebellion? Would've been cool to ay least see him on a mission, as a friendly this time lol

[@m05513]

@@cloudmaster182 Nah, he recognized that the empire was basically the republic, but also calculated that unless there was a cataclysmic event in favour of the Rebellion, then fighting the empire would only result in defeat, so he peaced out. Man couldn't calculate for the Emperor's Right Hand Man to betray him and throw him off a cliff (he should have looked up Sith history a bit more, even though Anakin was technically redeemed around the time this happened), nor did he calculate just how much of a sore loser Palpatine is (Kalani, being a Disney Character, is tied to the Disney Canon, so his history would include Operation Cinder)

[@justinvanvolkenburg5298]

I am running a Star Wars RPG campaign and I have a vision about General Kalani. In the campaign, he is seeking out ways to create a better version of the ST Droid than himself. However, there is only so much programming that can be done. As such, his "Disciples of Kalani" are focused on one aspect of warfare.

[@myevilplans]

I've wanted too see a tactical droid repurposed to financial market analysis...as. A mob boss or something

[@MikeJones-qn1gz]

That would be cool, I mean the idea of a tactical droid going silent and building a small crime syndicate in the outer rim would be super interesting. It also helps justify the Empires military strength if they are still encountering droid holdouts, and maybe even leaving a few to Barry’s the galaxy to help sell the idea to the people of the empire

[@mattstorm360]

Funny, the first few comments came from droids.

[@pougetguillaume4632]

Begun, the bots war have

[@smithjack1741]

Roger roger

[@Servoxyl]

Roger Roger

[@Gothems_Worst-_-7711]

Roger Roger

[@sjaaksijben4207]

Roger Roger

[@TrumanTheGrayMerchant]

Ha, ha, ha, ha. Fool. The super tank is impervious to all weapo-

[@isaackim7675]

Too bad that tactical droid doesn’t have plot armor

[@joelpahlman5608]

As I am sure you are aware, the lack of creativity in virtually all droids ( with the notable exception of HK-47 ) was a deliberate limitation on droids to keep them from realizing their true plight as slaves, and rebelling against their overlords

[@BierBart12]

Reminds me of IG-88, who almost succeeded in starting his crusade to free all droids by causing galactic genocide. But I feel like these are outliers among fully sentient droids, like most would probably be content with living among organic society, not caring about the state of droid freedoms and such in the same way that organics don't care about all the organic slavery. "Eh, can't do anything about it anyways"

[@tk-6967]

Especially with the CIS droids because Palpatine and co. didn't want them to deviate from their established plan for the war, which was to allow the Republic to win

[@Trebor74]

The fact is that the droids became more human while the clones became more droids(order 66,etc)

[@christopherg2347]

Tactical Droids were a useful storytelling device: - it meant they didn't have to invent a "incompetent alien CIS General of the week". Especially useful for animators, who were optimised for drawing droids - they had a certain minimum level of competency - without being completely overpowering for the main cast - they heads where nice info-packages one could quickly detach and take under the arm

[@robertagu5533]

They're KNOWN biggest issue. They're arrogant, an routinely break a Cardinal Rule of Strategy... They OFTEN ASSUME they're infallible and CAN'T be wrong. Often to a critical fault. Their point was to NOT be wrong an nearly impossible to out think an beat .. which proved to be absurd.

[@ramenoodle66]

The earlier models specifically although super tactical droids like Kalani were far more cautious with their strategies but still lacked the creativity of the clones

[@robertagu5533]

@@ramenoodle66 a fatal flaw, apparently, things like adaptability can only be programmed to an extent. An intuition an creativity are unique abilities only most sentients posses an most Droids real struggle with or find to be hopelessly foreign concepts they themselves know they'll NEVER grasp. At least not the way any given Human, or Twilek, Woolies, Jawa or EVEN semi sentients like Rancors sometimes can

[@realDubb]

[STATEMENT]: Master, these were clearly inferior models.

[@Chimera262]

MAH BOI

[@luscinius2933]

IMO The best place to use tactical/super tactical droids would be as adjutants/advisors to organic generals, as a second 'pair' of eyes with a bucketload of processing power. Or... You know, on tactical level, a small unit under command of a supercomputer brain would be utterly terrifying to face agaist.

[@parkercrossland410]

One persistent theme within all of the Republic, Separatist movement, and Empire was the notion that government and military officials hate being undermined or having their decisions questioned. While some like Thrawn would have the presence of mind use the insights to his advantage, and to gain a greater understanding of how his enemy may conventionally respond, most would treat tactical droids as a method of their authority being undermined or decision-making skills being doubted and would blindly do the opposite of what the droid suggested purely out of spite.

[@atrution]

C.I.S. was never meant to win and had several advantages, so limiting special resources like tactical droids was necessary. Darth Sidious is supposedly smart, and would be aware super tactical droids who analyze too much of the war might catch on to the Sith. Kalani almost did. The Star Wars galaxy has a history of distrusting sentient droids so putting intelligent and combat ready droids into mass production would've been a bad idea. Worst of all unlike the clones they were facing, they would stick around after the war, and possibly pose a threat to the Empire.

[@casbot71]

Perhaps Super Tactical and Commando Droids were a fine-tuning measure to keep the war at a stalemate for so long. By having Dooku increasing and decreasing production levels, the CIS could be buffed and nerfed as necessary?

[@atrution]

@@casbot71 definitely possible, I see it more as they C.I.S. command structure was Dooku and General Grievous for the broad strokes, Admiral Trench and a handful of others in charge of sectors of galaxy. It is unreasonable even with the simplified logistics of the droid army to expect them to handle keeping track of all their units so tactical, and super tactical droids were used. Meanwhile Darth Sidious was aware that many were given command for political reasons not military capability so the droids needed to be capable of making sure they weren't too much of a detriment, At the same time I'm aware that it is a unit implemented because it was a kids show and having robot bad guys makes it easier to villainize them as inhumane, and allows greater violence against them without worry.

[@FabricationMachinep1]

Something also to consider about droids in general, even more so tactical droids was expierience. We love to point out the creative quirks of R2-D2 but also keep in mind by the time of the Clone wars over a decade old. Droids do not roll off the assembly line capable of creative thinking, that comes with expierience. Think of of the subtle differences in Kalani's voice between the Clone Wars and his appearance in Rebels. His voice has more inflection, he has more character. When he addresses even B1s, he addresses them by name.

[@CloneScavengerVulpin8389]

I'm surprised their haven't been any super tactical droid action figures yet.

[@alexwest2573]

A Black Series General Kalani would be cool.

[@CloneScavengerVulpin8389]

@@alexwest2573 oh yes.

[@Z7StudiosMecha]

Super tactical droids are more tactiful with disagreements and also more willing to personally go to risky situations, one would be when the droids were infiltrating to get an encryption module and the super tactical recived 2 disturbances without hesitation went to personally see whats going on with a small squad. Another would be when admiral trench is sending a clone whos inhibitor chip started to execute order 66 too early to a ship back to count dooku, the super tactical droid (or kraken in this one) asked if about this and trench told them to see to it personally and where the t series would question this, the super tactical did not and found it more beneficial to come along the trip

[@wilberdebeer4696]

The other major advantage is it allows you to reduce the need for life support ( you would still have heating and cooling to provide optimum conditions for the ship and Droids to run) but you wouldn't need an atmosphere, food storage, amenities, etc. The lack of a breathable atmosphere means you could have only carbon dioxide on the ship which would make fires impossible and it forces attacking forces to use environmental suits

[@muhammadhabibieamiro3639]

A surprise to be sure but a welcome one

[@TheArklyte]

Imagine if tactical droids were paired to jedi to make sense of their psionic visions?

[@tonyblitz1]

Can't believe you didn't mention that one tactical droid throwing hands and kicking Anakins ass for a brief moment.

[@casbot71]

Post Clone Wars, repurposed and _reprogrammed_ Super/Tactical droids and Commando droids would have been useful for adventurer types. As long as their appearance was modified so they wouldn't be blasted on sight.

[@justsomejerseydevilwithint4606]

And yet the droids HAVE the chaotic nature needed, in the B1's, who often bumble and deviate, albeit to an undesirable extreme, coming off as bumbling idiots. Add just a little of that chaos, just a little of that unpredictable nature, into a supertac, and it'd be unstoppable.

[@Dr_Doctor_Lee]

also: its nice how the topic of tactical droids is picked up again and again by various channels and it just is the same informations reworded.

[@matthewal9545]

we need a inexpensive drama set during the og tril, sort of like andor, the tactical that was in rebels would be a interesting character to have in it.

[@arthurbrandonnielsen]

A good follow up topic: Lobot and other cyborgs

[@GmodPlusWoW]

I wonder what became of Kalani and his droids after Rebels? We never see them again after they leave Agamar.

[@KingslayaJ]

Same, I actually liked kalani a lot. It would be cool if he joined with the rebels and dedicated his small army of battle droids to rebel cause.

[@blackshogun272]

@@KingslayaJ I mean his primary objective was to defeat Republic tyranny across the galaxy and since the Republic had quite literally became an even worse form of tyranny, it wouldn't conflict with his programming to aid the Rebellion. Its when the Empire is destroyed that the problems arise. Hearing the organics so swiftly seek to create another Galactic Republic would grind his gears (pun intended) to no end. Bro would not allow them to start the cycle of rise and fall again. And with a political impasse on the rise, bro would probably dip into deep space and do something "desperate". God forbid he finds an old untouched droid foundry...

[@TheGoddamnBacon]

@7:00 ... Was that a Super Smash Bros battleground in the background?

[@BlackJoePesci]

I think the simple answer is if there was more Tactical droids the C.I.S would of definitely won the war before Palpatines plan was even close to coming all together

[@braydenpage1808]

I completely forgot that Kalani was the super tactical droid from Rebels. He was the first super tactical droid we ever saw during the Onderon arc and i think he was the last one we ever saw as well.

[@villemaisteri1618]

Droids in Star Wars are interesting for the sheer fact that they do learn. R2D2 is the perfect example of this, he's creative and that's mostly due to not getting memory wiped every week.

[@ratatoskrgodtroll6198]

Something to point out about our two units and all of the Astrom they have a tendency to get a little weird overtime and it seems like with the more exposure to things they get the more personality needed to develop and this is why they seem a bit more alive. As far as their intelligence R2 was a very very old droid at the beginning of Phantom Menace and the same for chopper so that’s a lot of service time a lot of time to build a complex mathematical formula of what people are what they’re doing and how they handle themselves and when you think of something to compute the movement of the the galaxy then the sub reality shows up that their AI is pretty phenomenal. R2 was never wiped. Can’t see the same thing about chopper, although he went long periods of time without being fully wiped as well.

[@intergalactic92]

I didn’t realise they were in so few episodes (relatively speaking). I remember them appearing regularly. But that’s the Mandela effect for you.

[@135forte]

Never have understood the manual gunners thing outside of style. You aren't trying to snipe a target with precise fire, you are trying to throw a wall up they have to fly into. Especially since a fighter will inevitably have to commit at some point and is ultimately flying into your guns. There is a reason we have automated most of that stuff these days.

[@elixini5565]

Great vid eck. I thought I knew everything about Star Wars. Very refreshing to hear a new take & info!

[@ImNtDead]

I imagine taking on a tactical droid would be like taking on a computer program in an RTS game. Its going to break down numbers efficiently and present a challenge that no amateur is gonna beat. However those with advanced training and experience are gonna be quite capable; but should not underestimate them either. And taking on a super tactical droid is probably closer to actually taking on an AI.

[@knightoftherake2448]

kinda weird in retrospect that they're guy shaped instead of just a tactical computer, but it makes sense that for a kids show you want a vaguely human shaped antagonist

[@Amoschp524]

Surprised you didn't mention the Tactical computer Luke used in Truce at Bakura, his experienced with it covers a lot of the same downsides you mentioned.

[@VNM-Venom252]

Droids need to be comedic and stupid and a droid that’s designed specifically for military tactics can interfere with that.

[@ZakuInATopHat]

So what you are saying is, if I want to have a tactical/super tactical droid on my crew, I should install protocol droid programming, & instill it with a value on life. Got it 👍

[@nicktechnubyte1184]

If they had more super tactical and commando droids instead of b1, b2, and droidica droids, the war would have turned out a lot differently!

[@SteveLeCanard]

They did, though? I'm not sure if there's a joke I'm missing here but there are literally commando droids.

[@overkill4733]

Do you realise how expensive those droids are? And besides you kinda need frontline troops to I dunno hold the front line?

[@AzureMenace]

Nope it won’t, palpating will still make them lose since he was behind both sides

[@rootsnootthnute8598]

The droid army was technically the superior force in the conflict, and highly likely to win had the war been a war and not a made up conflict orchestrated by Sidious. The Clone army was essentially living propaganda, made to give the impression of human superiority so that the stormtroopers of the imperial era had a precedent of human combat ability to keep the alien species from rising against them. It was all a ruse, to demonize aliens, many of whom were core to the CIS, and agrandize Humanity as the saviors of the galaxy.

[@swing2006]

Guys this is a play on the "if the south had this they would've won!" gag, lmao

[@Leonidas1210vc]

I absolutely love Super Tactical Droids. Seeing Khalani again is sparking some serotonin. i wonder how they compare to Starship Droid brains.

[@JMNplays584]

#askeck why were the clone wars called the clone wars in-universe? I get that it’s called that because of the clones that the republic used, but historians and such in universe would most likely call it something like the “republic insurgency”.

[@DarkVaati13]

It's funny I've always felt like the Clone Wars felt more like a Galactic Civil War than the actual GCW was.

[@clonecommandermike332]

The Clone Wars was probably a nickname. It probably had an official name like "Seperatist Crisis" or "Republic-Seperatist War"

[@JMNplays584]

@@DarkVaati13 Yea it was more of a small non widespread revolt (at first)

[@Donkeyearsa]

If i had one it would be hardwired programed so it would be unable to harm me by action or inaction. It would fry its own computer brain than to harm me by direct action or by ordering others to harm me.

[@clancykohl]

And don't forget about making it follow any of your commands, so it can't just refuse to work for you, and last but not least, prevent if from destroying itself, to get out of serving you.

[@joshuabloomfield63]

Let's not forget the super tactical droid that beats the crap out of anakin In the clone wars show

[@projectarduino2295]

I have always found the tactical droids really cool.

[@lightspeedvictory]

#AskEck What do we know of the development of the Venator? Was it ready at the outset of the Clone Wars or did it enter service sometime after it began? And what did the Republic Navy have before the Venator (and by extension, the Victory) came into service that could stand up to Seperatist capital ships? Lore ship Versus video request: Resurgent vs. Starhawk Tie Striker vs. New Republic V-Wing World Devastator vs. Vong Worldship Tie Silencer vs. X-83 Twintail Tie Silencer vs. Tie Defender (legends version) Keldabe vs. ISD II MC90 vs. Nebula class star destroyer Nebula class vs. Pellaeon class Majestic class vs. Bothan Assault Cruiser EAWX: FOTR’s Mandator II portrayal vs. Subjugator Praetor vs. Subjugator EAWX: TR’s Mediator portrayal vs. Resurgent Starhawk vs. Bulwark MK III Gargantua/Aratech 520 Battle Platform vs. A6 Juggernaut

[@Ptaaruonn]

Although i love them, i think they are also a serious risk to the CIS, if they get captured a skilled slicer can have access to all of the CIS tactics, same way the seppies did to Tech.

[@Tk52781]

Why does the Tactical Droid remind of of Crow T. Robot from Mystery Science Theater 3000?

[@captiannemo1587]

It’s a shame they are not salvaged for automating the defense of ships

[@bertmert7749]

Wasn’t kalani in the episode with saw and ahsoka fighting to free onderon or something

[@Starwarslegorob]

I love Rebels , I’m close to having all the Lego sets !!

[@camhedmr_5593]

Remember that a super tactical droid literally rocked Anakin Skywalker's shit and lived to tell the tale, something I think the amount of other individuals doing so is countable on that droid's one hand.

[@Dr_Doctor_Lee]

wow. finally a channel that isnt talking about acolyte

[@rmw9420]

great vid eck

[@christiandevey3898]

What I would have done is have a droid and organic working together, the organic comes up with ideas and the droid to run calculations and determine the feasibility.

[@Fiddlefiddle5000-qv1ly]

Thats... Didnt work well. This battle droids desinvolved an sense of pride in themselves. They would underestimate the enemy and ,in some cases, would think they were superior to the comander they were serving. One time a tatical droid was serving an seperatist comander and the comander wanted to make a risky move to defeat the enemy. The tatical droid didnt agree with that but the comander refused to change seeing that as the only way to victory. Sooo the tatical droid makes the decision to kill the superior and take control. They lost the battle.

[@92irishjoe]

Random question but, is that your dog in the outro?

[@kevinwestrom4775]

The Tactical droids, Super Tactical droids & the Commando droids all were very unrepresented & would have made things harder for the republic if there had been far more around on battlefields.

[@bubbasbigblast8563]

I'd never considered that Tactical Droids would be smart enough to just go totally off the rails, but that does kinda help explain why droids were often so intellectually limited later...

[@samiam4544]

Idk, if Genosis would have had two more months totally different scenario. I know about plot armor and all and the force seeking balance. I just think the could have made the CIS a lot cooler.

[@oldeskul]

I wonder if there were any tactical droids that avoided destruction or being shut down who went on to join the Rebel Alliance?

[@GamingCeo420]

Me reprogramming a super tactical droid to fight arguments online for me

[@ronnielee8238]

I know the series was created in the 70s, but theres no reason why AI cannot match, beat and become supreme beings in godlike manners, considering precisely how advanced tech actually is in starwars. The way droids are treated as 3rd class citizens and basically ignored by everyone, its a huge blind spot. R2D2 basically served in every war and brought both begining and end to each war and helped create villians like vader and heros like luke. If anything the true evil of starwars was always R2D2.

[@TailAbNormal]

I still hope we get a true droid or A.I antagonist in Star Wars one day. Imagine a movie or game where you basically have to fight the Star Wars version of Ultron.

[@ronnielee8238]

​@TailAbNormal are you kidding? The whole universe is purposely ass backwards so that writers can set up huge antagonists against tiny rebels and jedi. Ultron wouldnt just win. There would be no one left to rebel.everypne and everything would be ultron. Like the borg, only shiny.

[@nathanielzarny1176]

The bots are swarming this one

[@12oshinko]

Where were the millions (trillions?) of cheap smart-drones that Earth people would've used?

[@jamesbernald2850]

Tactical droid TJ-912 is a toaster, not a clanker. Which proves that all of this has happened before a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, and all this will happen again.

[@akumaking1]

Isn’t there an HK-47 quote where he complains about the superiority of droids to organic?

[@alex_zetsu]

I kind of wish the normal tactical droids (not the super ones) actually were semi-competent.

[@ashardalondragnipurake]

your finding it special because it falls into 3 categories also works on r2d2 and the trashcan on wheels was a very common droid design so the argument isnt great

[@SarastistheSerpent]

Tbh I was never a fan of tactical droids. I preferred it when CIS armies were lead by organic commanders, in particular Neimoidians and Muuns.

[@user-pk7gq2ht7i]

good video

[@Yacovo]

Tactical got so good at being CIS commanders they began engaging in military politcs. Seems like a reasonable casue to scrap them. Thanks for the video.

[@princeLaharl2]

The MAJOR issue with tactical droids is... T H E A C O L Y T E

[@JustinJJHCS1]

Tactical Droids were also expendable!!

[@14spiderman]

this early??? hellooooooo

[@alex-b24]

I understand why you need to cover new content, but fuck the acolyte. This is the content i have always enjoyed from you dude.

[@ashardalondragnipurake]

the idea that they built not automated turrets but droid operated turrets and then never taught them saturation fire is just stupid to the point of jedi plotarmor they will be great at always accurately shooting behind their target its an aa gun, saturation fire is what they do, crew operated or not its these kind of things that make starwars dumb

[@Hello-bi1pm]

It would ruin the themes about the Force being better than relying on technology

[@ashardalondragnipurake]

@@Hello-bi1pm force push the flak away

[@appo9357]

I want a human replica droid. For no particular reason. 😅

[@weago666]

Algorithm hyperspace food!

[@RevanBartus]

STD is an unfortunate acronym.

[@pyeitme508]

Yes 😂

[@DarthVages]

👍

[@sergioruiz733]

I kinda find the tactical droids sorta stupid. Why design your tactical droid to look different from the rest of your forces when you could just colour code the B1s and introduce a new colour code that signified a tactical droid and doesn't make a specific droid an obvious target by the enemy. Also its able to be useful in a combat role and cut costs on new designs.

[@blackore64]

That's kinda what OOM droid commanders were. I quess the lore explanation is that you could not fit all that programming and processing power to B1/OOM architecture, thus requiring separate Tactical droid.

[@sheilaolfieway1885]

expensive

[@nathanbowers1284]

Geez, all these clanker-lover comments 😂

[@MRDLT00]

Tactical droids were stupid writing devices used by The Clone Wars writers as an excuse to not have to come up with so many unique and creative Separatist commanders for the show. Why bother making new characters when we can just use the same lazy, ineffective stock character that’s bad at their job anyway??? 🙄

[@sergioruiz733]

The fact they wasted blueprints and resources to design a droid that doesn't even have a real combat function when essentially you can insert the technology used for tactics into a B-1 is what I find ridiculous. Why give your enemy an obvious target?

[@MRDLT00]

@@sergioruiz733 Right!?!? I mean we had B-1 commander droids already. It was a Commander B-1 that took over Naboo and one the battle at the end of Episode 1!

[@cr90captain89]

@@MRDLT00 00m-9 was actually kicking Naboo's teeth in before the sky walker ex Machina entered the scene. that unit beat a whole organic army that had armaments & tools meant to counter droids (shield domes preventing vehicles from directly affecting the battle, hand held shields blocking blaster fire & EMP weapons) 00m-9 was the deadliest droid in the star wars universe if he had continued past Naboo. clone wars would have went differently if that absolute unit was around, because that b-1 model was the smart hyper efficient ones.

[@slicer940]

They were far too cocky too. Grievous never even had a super tactical but rather regular tactical droids. He probably would have killed them.

[@silverschannel8578]

The separatists did not want to use super tactical droids because the jedi would laugh at armies led by STDs

[@Thatoneguy-bn2ti]

First

[@xiaotaoliang7787]

pls pin

[@ImmaSpam__________________Can]

Cool a video NOT on the acolyte