The Most Tactically Innovative Space Battle of the Clone Wars

[@inductivegrunt94]

Anakin put tanks on asteroids to fire on the CIS ships. Dude was crazy, a crazy genius, but crazy nonetheless. And it worked gloriously and was my favorite part of that battle.

[@Soundwave142]

Even when I was little I understood how brilliant that was.

[@Jurassiccanonking]

The question was whether he was crazy brilliant or just crazy.

[@benderthepirate]

It’s crazy how many of Anakin’s plans are basically: “Put a tank in it.”

[@Fiddlefiddle5000-qv1ly]

Anakin: " alright guys this plan will blow your mind' Rex: " it envolves tanks sir?" Anakin: " YOU READ MY MIND REX"

[@masteroftheassassins]

Clone: Droid ships! Staggered line! General! They outnumber us three-to-one! Anakin: Then it is an even fight.

[@inductivegrunt94]

Anakin: All Walkers fire at will. Burn their mechanical hides.

[@richardched6085]

​@@inductivegrunt94​ *Octuparra explodes* Not bad Jedi, I saw that explosion from orbit!

[@HectorCotto97]

Halo reference aside, that sounds like something that Anakin would TOTALLY say during a battle. He's just that kinda guy y'know?

[@zerophantomyt433]

​@@HectorCotto97maybe in less of a deep badass voice tho, maybe more of a cheeky "we'll still pull a victory out of a helmet"

[@zexalbrony4799]

Mace: Grevious is advancing fast and we're losing territory fast. We have to stop him. Obi-Wan: We have very few resources to spare to fight in this sector. Yoda: Beat Grevious in a direct fight, we cannot. Need someone to come up with a plan so crazy it just might work, we do. Obi-Wan: I know who to call.

[@mariusconstantin6057]

Anakin: Show time

[@BroadcastNumber1]

​@@mariusconstantin6057Missed oppertunity; "This is where the fun begins.."

[@fritzgerardgayta3397]

It was so crazy anakin used his tanks to his advantage instead of letting them stand around his ship and used them for capital ship combat

[@blakeetter280]

Skywalker, the only man who can say he has a multi cruiser kill count in a star fighter with only blasters XD

[@Tessicaria]

At his peak, I personally believe he could break a small fleet on his own.

[@dominikreinhart3457]

​@@Tessicarianow i imagine a fleet shooting each other in friendly fire at the equivalent of a fly and all you hear is "Where is he!?", "There! Fire!" or "F*ck! Our Bridge is hit! Target him not us!" and you hear the cackling of Anakin and R2. And then they show the fleet of Venators lead by Obi-Wan, Admiral Yularen, Ahsoka, Captain Rex and Commander Cody who simply LOOK at the absolute MADNESS. Obi-Wan: *simple headshaking* Yularen: *resigned acceptance* Ahsoka: *shaking from barely controlled laughter* Cody: *looks at Rex with stoic face* "Is he always like that?" Rex: *chuckles* and replies "Yes. And it's why we love to serve under him." Suddenly there is munching heard and everyone looks at the side and see Five and Echo sitting in some camping chairs, eating popcorn and drinking soda. Everyone: *looks at them in varying degrees of disbelief* Fives: *confused* "What? This is going on for 2 hours. I wanted some snacks and drinks." Echo: *bored* "This has been the most interesting thing happening today. And trust me, i already checked the Holonet for something better." If anyone wants to continue, they ate welcome to do so😊

[@Arlind_34]

Anakin heard all terrain and wanted to put it to the test. Up a 90 degree cliff side, on asteroids and directly dropping them onto cis ships he wanted to make sure the republic was getting exactly what they paid for

[@inquisitorgarza312]

I’m more surprised that AT-TE was able to punch through the weak energy shields and armor of the Frigates, though I’m not surprised that Anakin had a hairball scheme to actually win the battle.

[@merafirewing6591]

Strapping SPHA cannons on the underside of the Venators, we all know he would do a scheme of using AT-TEs to become anti-ship weapons would work.

[@marcosbravo9645]

I think they had no shields on the back, Grievous ordered "all power to the forward shields".

[@jeremysolano398]

The main gun on an AT-TE was a mass driver cannon. It was a physical shell with plasma putter layer. It could punch through some shields by kinetic energy then hit via inertia to the hull like a HESH round

[@richardched6085]

​@@jeremysolano398And yet somehow it does absolutely nothing to AT-AT Armor Plating...

[@zeratul____1228]

@@jeremysolano398 Yeah shields in the Star Wars Universe are primarily designed to absorb thermal and energy attacks but don't really do anything for physical force. We have seen numerous ships crash into eachother and tear the other apart and the shields do nothing. So really the AT-TE's Mass Driver is practically a guaranteed damage on hit of a target.

[@michaelandreipalon359]

Word of advice to Legends revivalists, this better be recanonized for Clone Wars Multimedia Project standards. Hell, this could even be explained as the turning point against Operation Durge's Lance, for Force's sakes!

[@merafirewing6591]

I'm all for reintegrating the rest of Legends into Canon, but that one is going to be a challenge. But the only thing I want for to become Canon is the Victory class and Imperator class. Like it be awesome to see what the earliest iteration of the Imperial I would look like.

[@theevildrummingsithlord1492]

@@merafirewing6591Don't forget the Tector, unless that's already canon!

[@merafirewing6591]

@@theevildrummingsithlord1492 yeah, and the Maelstrom Battlecruiser and for the love of God, make the Mandator I, II, and III as Canon.

[@majesticmsfc]

This was clearly the start of "The Hero with No fear" reputation and showed up the other Jedi by so many times thinking outside the box.

[@Its_Analyze]

Anakin sent these walkers up cliffs and put them on floating space rocks, what's he going to do next sent them walking on a Star ship?

[@josheverett7887]

Anakin was a genus. Crazy and reckless but a genus

[@wightboy12345]

You could even say he was in a CLASS all his own. …. I’ll see myself out.

[@wilerd]

⁠​⁠​⁠it’s too bad he left the jedi ORDER

[@wilerd]

his genus likely runs in the FAMILY

[@wightboy12345]

@@wilerd Hopefully he gets his own KINGDOM in the new empire.

[@royalbluegaming7763]

I love the replies to this comment. I hope nobody intrudes on this DOMAIN

[@iainballas]

This battle really reminded me of, I think it was Salerno in WW2. There were tanks on a cliff, firing at ships passing by the port. I mean, I guess you use what artillery you have, not the artillery you want. 88mm guns did not fare well against US navy ships.

[@carlosdgutierrez6570]

It would be wildly different in modern times, tanks with 120/125mm guns and 155/152mm hotwitzers would wreck any modern frigate or destroyer in less than a minute if they managed to land a dozen well placed shots or so. Even a modern super carrier could see its flight deck savage mangled with a few well placed shells in ballistic trayectory, actually I don't think the flight deck could stop a 155/152 shell from penetrating to the deck below. If you were able to get the gun within range of the ship of course.

[@pascalsch14]

Good old times where warships were still respectable

[@IBW_3000]

Crazy and genius almost always go hand-in-hand

[@irondoggo8572]

This whole battle reminds me of the sinking of the battle of Drobak in WW2, where WW1 costal guns sank a German heavy cruiser

[@royalbluegaming7763]

You're right. It does seem very similar. I think the cruiser was the Blücher

[@gabrielgaitan4856]

Yes the cruiser that was sunk during the Battle of Drøbak Sound was the Blücher.

[@gabrielgaitan4856]

Yes the cruiser that was sunk during the Battle of Drøbak Sound was the Blücher.

[@royalbluegaming7763]

@gabrielgaitan4856 hell yeah, TVTropes WW2 coming in clutch

[@juangabrielcabardo21]

Anakin’s strategy: if droids go clank, then asteroids will have tank

[@CC--jk6cr]

Anakin did certainly have moments of tactical genius. See guys it wasn’t all luck.

[@matthiuskoenig3378]

Except this is an example of luck. If the CIS navy had aproached along a slightly different route through the astroids his tactic would have failed AND doomed all those GAR tanks and men to be abandoned by any retreating venators.

[@CC--jk6cr]

@@matthiuskoenig3378 No, it was tactically sound. If the CIS didn’t go through the asteroid field then they would have to attack from above or below. If they attacked from above they would be at the mercy of the Venators turbo lasers. If they attacked from below then they would be attacking the armored underbelly of the Venators and would be picked apart by fighters.

[@chaotixthefox]

@@CC--jk6cr Well, the missing factor in both Anakin and Grievous' thinking is that the Muneficents could have just faced their fronts to the Venators' top/bottoms, approaching them head on from above/below.

[@zacharysedlar7307]

Just a random thought. As much as I absolutely love them both, the one thing I really wish the prequels or the Clone Wars could have spent more time on was giving us background for OT planets. Like show us Alderaan, Dantooine, Yavin 4, Bespin, etc. during the Clone Wars. Or at least reference things happening with them hear or there. Was there no Bespin representative in the senate? Things like that could have been mentioned.

[@ninjamasterbuilder8675]

Hopefully the next Battle explained video will be about the republic rescuing R2-D2 and destroying the CIS listening post

[@matthiuskoenig3378]

Anakin got lucky, if the CIS approach was just slightly off (relative to the number of potential approaches through the ring) his walkers would have been unable to contribute. And he would have lost, but now the ground forces would be abandoned by any surviving venators in retreat.

[@generalsodapop3530]

The craziest thing to me is that droid rights remained unchanged for most of galactic history even though they have been around a LONG time. Droids that truly had freedom were the exception, not the norm, which is why IG-88s attempted revolution (although not right) was understandable.

[@indianajones4321]

This defense was so awesome to see

[@marshalllatta2073]

i love the battle of bothawui l l really enjoyed these two episodes wish we seen the the planet and the bothan species

[@mikloscsuvar6097]

Bothans have a distinct outlook and are known to spy. Therefore a bothan spy make no sense.

[@KyloStimpy]

right? they can't blend in. just don't let them near anything

[@Fibirdnacci-sequence]

I get why the Bothans chose to remain neutral. If a merchant refuses to sell to a customer because they feel slighted, they tend to run out of businesses in short order. Especially if that merchant is half of your customer base. If anything, the invasion gave them justification to raise prices and grab further concessions at no personal cost

[@shanenolan5625]

I remember in the clone wars novel wild spare . Kenobi has a vision of this battle .

[@aceofhearts573]

Imagine if General Grievous had gone to the right or left of Anakin's fleet. Anakin placed the walkers in the asteroids in front of his fleet meaning if Grievous had taken a different route Anakin's fleet would have been destroyed

[@adarkwind4712]

They made more money with neutrality than picking a side. And they get the republics protection either way why bother joining if you don't have a specific reason and believe you'll remain safe enough.

[@ronjon7942]

Bothans are smarmy, slithery, supercilious…

[@manuelgrothe608]

Can Phase One Clone Armor and Helmets breathe in Space before Phase Two?

[@richardched6085]

For a limited time. Unlike Phase II, Phase I couldn't attach a rebreather and could only rely on what limited supply of oxygen the armor could provide.

[@lerneanlion]

Between the Crazy and the Genius, which should be Anakin's nickname? And why do I have a feeling that it is going to be both?

[@SalinaMoonfall]

Good for the Bothans staying neutral, they probably already smelled that something was up with the whole war even at the beginning.

[@zeratul____1228]

According to old Star Wars Lore, shields were primarily designed to absorb thermal energy, so they would be vaulnerable to the rounds of Mass Driver regardless if they hadn't lowered the shields. However the galactic races likely don't use physical ammunition due to how if you miss those rounds would just go flinging into the darkness of space and could hit a planet or an unlucky starship just passing by. The energy blasts by comparison would lose power eventually. So yeah Anakin did another crime potentially by having the mass drivers fire in space and likely having a few rounds just zoom into space and now have to pray they don't hit anyone.

[@richardched6085]

Then an AT-TE's Mass Driver is unable to so much as dent or even scratch an AT-AT.... How is an unshielded Munificent less durable? It's a nearly 850 meter long warship. Yet a few dozen Mass Driver blasts are able to obliterate it.

[@carlosdgutierrez6570]

It was a glass cannon with barely any actual armor, completely dependent upon its deflector shields to protect itself from damage, had Grievous not given the order to reinforce the forward shields at the expense of the back ones the masa drivers would have done shit to the ships.

[@LoganMartin-u2f]

It flanking move blow me away when I first saw it.

[@BaxterAndLunala]

As usual, Grievous escaped in the Spineless One when the battle didn't go his way.

[@brokenbridge6316]

The Bothans were driven by how profitable their information gathering was. That's why they stayed neutral during the Clone Wars. It would've hurt their bottom line if they took a side.

[@lazymansload520]

Called genius now but people HATED it when this episode aired

[@LoganMartin-u2f]

Season 2 when he used the AT-TE for boarding actions.

[@blakeetter280]

One of the most entertaining battles of the show* fixed it for you XD

[@mariusconstantin6057]

The very definution of ambush

[@Double_D__]

Rex was right, saying experience outranks everything, but as Anakin proves, creativity outdoes any advantage.

[@designationc6042]

The bothens wanted to remain neutral cause they know they could benefit from playing both sides, they could get info from one side and sell it to the other and vice versa they knew if they chose a side the other wouldn’t deal with them so they played both for double profit. After all the ones who make the money in the gold rush arnt the miners it’s the men who make the shovels

[@shanenolan5625]

The resolutes first battle. She was judt out of the shipyard

[@terencepatrickmcelhinney2832]

I recently rematches this episode and noticed the lips aren’t synced that explains the differences

[@avarycepierce6296]

It's videos like this that really show me that I am indeed not hard to please because I liked Clone Wars all the way through: first season included. Glad I never chose to be someone who critiques as a career 😅

[@MrSHADOWANGEL999]

Anakin begin a mad lad is always a win, doubly so when it works

[@TheRealDarthRevan]

I've always been curious why he didn't put a few SPHAs on the asteroids. Those could do far more damage to a capital ship

[@johnhorton4436]

So Grevious Took The Bait

[@Ally5141]

This entire scenario makes little sense but it's still cool, we really didn't get enough AT-TE action in the show.

[@goddessomai9177]

Anakin is the only reason why the CIS didn't ruin Sidious master plan right away. The Jedi were horrible at protecting and leading a army....

[@alexanderrobrecht6452]

Funny Thing is: If the CIS had actually won the war, Sidious would have won as well. Most Jedi dead in the war, himself still controling Dooku, and if he had to, he could still have Anakin try to assassinate Dooku, as Dooku "captured" Sidious by the end. Sidious really did play both sides.

[@ph89787]

In some ways. This battle is similar to the Battle of Midway.

[@matthiuskoenig3378]

Not really, like not even close

[@ryandunham1047]

This is why the ATTE is superior to the ATAT. ;)

[@JohnG44]

I mean look at star wars rebels an old ATTE VS ATTA and it manage to hold them of they are superior by far.

[@ryandunham1047]

@@JohnG44 That and small speeders tripped the AT AT’s at Hoth. The ATTE is low to the ground, giving it a smaller target profile.

[@JohnG44]

​@ryandunham1047 lol I forgot about that atat are huge but more weakness but atte are just beauty of tanks all terrain.

[@DarthVages]

👍

[@goldeagle6431]

The Senate is the most innovative.

[@mrjostar1518]

maleina is hot : )

[@Baller_Music14]

W

[@user-egghead098]

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