The Obscure Droids that the Separatists HATED Deploying

Theory: they didn't deploy them because they didn't say roger roger
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[@justasnacc545]

Honestly I feel like droids were truly the most efficient army, they were mass producible which made them expendable unlike the clones

[@ravenhunter1355]

Also they don't need as much material goods to upkeep and even better don't need pressurized space craft( assuming no organics onboard) thus greatly increasing battle field endurance in space battles

[@geetslys]

Many would say that the clones were expendable...

[@justasnacc545]

@@geetslys “Actions speak louder than words” Than every jedi ever said that other than like Anakin, Obi-Wan, and Plo Koon

[@ravenhunter1355]

@@geetslys Not to me.

[@3B-]

@@ravenhunter1355 beat me to it!!

[@hunterkiller1440]

Perhaps they could have suicide bomb droids disguised as Astromechs instead.

[@gladiatorproductions2852]

That's what I was thinking

[@EnvyInspired]

Diffrent models would help so that they can’t easily be detected

[@georgefeser6483]

Remember. No binary

[@elevation9123]

Possibly at the Start of the war but would they get smart to droid infiltration?

[@kamikazekyre6101]

That's a War crime.

[@generalkenobi7148]

*"Hello There My Friends! The Force will be with you always!"*

[@geetslys]

And you!

[@pepster3864]

General Kenobi! You are a bold one.

[@ravenhunter1355]

Kenobi!!!

[@razorionxvii638]

CT-2224

[@elix901]

Hmmm

[@genericname8252]

Imagine the CIS army power bill

[@geetslys]

Oof, almost as much as crypto mining 😤.

[@alejandroelluxray5298]

And they say clones are expensive

[@spider-spectre]

Power Bill = 1 Star

[@evanlephrog7337]

red go flash flash

[@evanlephrog7337]

aka lightsaber

[@toby1061]

Honestly, the droid army should have been utilized by many more factions, they’re ere so effective and yet are seen as one of the worst armies, when just the droid holdouts were enough to keep the entire Empire busy for years.

[@razorionxvii638]

The Crab Droid, the Spider droid from satine’s ship, and the Commando Droids will always have the spot as the coolest droid rig designs of the whole series in my opinion

[@Le-eu4bf]

The industrial output needed is hard. Imagine trying got quietly make a droid factory big enough for war production

[@sheepystopmotion7713]

Because the holdouts were rogue so palpatain could not control them and the army was told what to do and when to do it

[@johnathanthomas9291]

Ncr ranger picture nice

[@pnyhmsmx]

Problem is droid armies were products of entrepreneurs and paid for with taxes. You can't make em if you don't have the knowledge and resources to do so

[@thelonewolf9866]

I remember the Protodeka very well from "Star Wars the Clone Wars" -2002 video game. Felt like I was a mere human fighting hand to hand with a Terminator.

[@johnj.spurgin7037]

I remember that game, yeah. The protodeka felt like a floating fortress.

[@gbladewarrior6884]

How about making a battle droid cost to kill ratio. It would be interesting to know which droids killed the most clones compared to their cost to build.

[@nerdyspinosaurid]

Pretty sure we are missing info to make that comparison accurate, but guessing could still be interesting

[@DwarfyDoodad]

We don't have a cost to build that I am aware of, and I imagine a "lethality" rating would probably only be in an RPG and thus subjective. For Example: If 4-6 1st level heroes can take out a group of goblins why are they such a threat? PCs/Heroes having better stats is the answer and it makes any "kill ratio" pointless because no basic CSI droid would ever kill a character in an RPG, even if they might kill multiple troopers before being destroyed in combat. tl;dr A cost to kill ratio literally doesn't work for many different reasons. The closest you will have to one is looking at FFG's Star Wars skirmish game.

[@guyfieri148]

In all honesty, IG 100'S and commando droids were probably the best cost/kill ratio, although their effectiveness paled in comparison to some types of clones like commandos and ARCs

[@957543]

To many variables depending on environmental, the commander, and the make up of the enemies

[@brettsymons604]

While an interesting question, at some point you need a standing army. If you don't have the boots on the ground but rely on elite units and air power you can take, but not hold, territory.

[@theaveragegamer7221]

I love and hated the Protodekka in the Clone War game. Such a unique boss yet so infuriating.

[@lucioordo3647]

It took so long for me to beat it

[@Adam-vu5sy]

All boss fights in that game require like two plays and then you can beat it, it’s just that there’s no other strategy in them other than pacing yourself and moving constantly as fast as you can.

[@Fleechin]

They probably got rid of the cleaning droids after one too many Neimoidians mistook them for an actual droid

[@vader1883]

The separatists could’ve won the war if they made more units like me

[@leandersearle5094]

Boys, boys, there's plenty of E-11s to go around. No need to fight.

[@alpha-1730]

I mean prolly not really because all the Republic would have to do to win every single battle is just blow up the droid control ship in each system.

[@Noah-zz8uw]

@@leandersearle5094 E-5s*

[@leandersearle5094]

@@Noah-zz8uw Oops. I guess I should submit my application to the Stormtrooper corps with a miss like that.

[@Eastwood007x]

@@alpha-1730 just need giant swarms of vulture droids

[@fanusobscurus4309]

Honestly, the infiltrator droids could have been reused. Make them modular, with interchangeable parts and designs. Seems pretty silly that they all had to look the same, just with a different color.

[@sebastiangibson9671]

Yeah

[@thomasnolastname8734]

With you on that

[@jacksone5856]

That feeling when the bug creature you despised from ToR ends up advancing to the point of making a doom tank.... *rustling of ancient sith jimmies*

[@johnj.spurgin7037]

wait, when did you meet colicoids in ToR?

[@psychic882]

@@johnj.spurgin7037 Late af but you encounter them when you travel to Balmorra and do the Heroic mission "Project Hexapod."

[@mckenzie-grayeevans5876]

*.Suggestion: Go through all of the CIS’s organic units ( Nemoidian Gunnery Soliders, Koorivar Fusiliers, Umbaran militia, etc). Could also do lesser known Republic units.🙃

[@deadmanwalking971]

I second the Republic unit idea.

[@rtl_sho9005]

anakin : gets several limbs cut off and gets burned alive, and survives Padme : is sad, dies

[@WisdomThumbs]

Sadly, people can die of extreme grief. It causes heart damage, sometimes immediately. But Padme, being fictional, died because of the Force.

[@johnj.spurgin7037]

@@WisdomThumbs I like your explanation more than "muh force"

[@Bobdd0]

It's almost as if the writers couldn't come up with a good end for her

[@Yorha_Unit_2B_]

7:14 now that brings me back. Star Wars The Clone Wars (the game) deserved a sequel so much. It was a better version of Halo Wars but for Star Wars.

[@NitNitx]

Same that game was so amazing I wish it would get a sequel 😔

[@EdaugEthanbYT]

I guess even Darth Sidious hates the obscure. But then again that’s probably why Vader killed him. You can’t have Unlimited Poweeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!!!!! if you don’t know all the obscure art forms

[@AverageAwesomeDude]

True he never mastered the stay away from edges and long falls Force power, or the pragmatic interior design force power

[@syntheticsamurai]

Can you really call a self-detonating droid designed to do so a "suicide mission"? Would be like calling any guided missiles kamikaze pilots.

[@BierBart12]

I always wondered why those droid tanks never appeared anywhere but in my favourite childhood Gamecube Clone Wars game. The ONLY other place I've seen them was in a 2005 battlefront 2 mod that added a concept map, which also featured an AT-XT(Same deal, it only really appeared in that Clone Wars game) Those tanks just seemed to be a perfect match for the Republic's TX-130s in that game, despite being more fragile That said, Protodeka also came from that game. It was the sixth boss(as seen in the vid, holy shit that's nostalgic)

[@CosmoKraemer]

There’s one droid that’s quite the opposite of an obscure droid that no one wanted to deploy when OOM9 got deployed there was rejoice among the droid ranks but then he had a very tragic end .rip OOM9 32bby -32bby it just isn’t fair

[@TheCreatorOfStarWars]

Did you ever hear the tragedy of OOM9 the wise. I thought not it’s not a story I would usually tell you it’s a Star Wars legend OOM9 was a B1 battle droid who was so powerful and so wise he proved that he wasn’t just a normal droid he was a tactical genus and quite the lady’s man. You might be wondering what happened to him he became so powerful that it left little anakin no choice but to blow up the central control ship to stop this rain of terror

[@CosmoKraemer]

@@TheCreatorOfStarWars shit man that was really beautiful I’m crying

[@vader1883]

Thank you for the kind words I’m actually not dead I’ve just been hanging out with my bitches

[@Barrobroadcastmaster]

"The same trick would never work again" unless the plot needed it to.

[@dmcepeda]

Ahhh the Protodeka.. I remember those boss fights in the Starwars Clones Wars game as a kid. Good times

[@AndreaMMc]

Could you do a video about obscure clone battalions?

[@JokeofAllButts]

I really like star wars droids :D The most neat one being the imperial dwarf probe droid :D

[@zerrierslizer1]

the greatest infiltration droid of all time? *Astro mechs*

[@yoanbouchard4013]

A video covering the whole hutts empire would be really nice , btw keep up the good work!

[@richardlew3667]

*me turning around while running to see a protocol droid chasing after me Military C-3PO: "I'm coming for you bitch!" *starts running faster

[@guyfieri148]

"I am fluent in 6 million forms of kicking your ass"

[@mikd157]

I remember playing against the stupid hover tanks in the GameCube clone wars game

[@kabob0077]

That game was fun on the Xbox...

[@justinschreiber2074]

Always making work so much better!! Much love ❤️

[@geetslys]

Thank you so much!

[@empireofitalypsstimfromano5025]

Yeah But... Comments Aren't For Compliments They are For Saying Some Actual Stuff Ex: A Suggestion

[@AngelDust6969]

The Infiltration/Demolitions droids really give me Transformers vibes. What I find interesting is how most of these droid units weren't used often due to them costing more than they were worth. I'm not sure if that was the Confederacy not having money, or it's leadership just being greedy.

[@itsnathan3361]

These droids look really cool

[@AYEcorolla]

The CIS valuing quantity over quality often times seems to be forgotten with some of these.

[@MrDibara]

Title: "The Obscure Droids that the Separatists HATED Deploying" Me: _>sees thumbnail

[@shanenolan8252]

Loved the infiltrator droid. Well I spotted one in the season 4 death watch episode

[@PikaJayMason]

My favorite of these rare droid models is the BL-series Battle Legionnaire. They're pretty formidable and I wish we could see more of them.

[@bradwolf07]

Hello there... anyway, I would love a second part to this. I find all these different and unique droids fascinating. I would also love a video (or part of a video) on that R-unit Goldie Anakin and Ashoka used when R2 was lost/captured

[@jeffagain7516]

Considering the supposed excellent quality of the "stealth generators" used for the "Chameleon Droids", I'm actually quite surprised these SGs were not used more frequently in service of other, more valuable Droids, such as the Advanced Tactical Droids, the Commando Droids, the HK-series and a few other models. They could have proven scarily efficient in that service ! Thanks again Folks! Great vid! :)

[@omegakyle_fgc]

A Geetsly AND an Eckharts video within 20 min of each other?? 🧐

[@DrMutran]

I actually came up with my own droid army by quantifying the number of droids used in the battle of geonosis into credits and then looked through every book and webpage for superior droids for my army. It was fun😁.

[@zacharygerken4387]

Hmmmm, sounds fun and interesting.

[@Espartanica]

Cost isn't everything. The geonosian army was so big because it was the epicenter of the factories producing them, and a home base and meeting place for many different groups that made up the CIS. You gotta factor in all the different things like sourcing materials, the factories too, trade deals, etc

[@jasonwolfe4205]

I'm pretty sure that had the whole war not been a pantomime excuse for the Sith to seize power, the most effective strategy for the CIS would have been to simply buy or steal a crap ton of 3PO and R2 units, retrofit them with scanners, covert weapons and infiltration, combat and assassination protocols and seed them into Republic distribution lines. The jedi and senate would either have to throw all their staff droids away or risk being recorded or shot in the back every time they walked past one.

[@BendakOGStarkiller]

Exclamation: All Of those droids are no match for My fellow HK units. Fierce and very effective.

[@HazopGaze]

My own headcanon revolving around the Protodeka is not unlike that of the Lich from the Halo series. Those things annihilated anything in their way, with the exception of the jedi who piloted the TX-130s in the two fights we see them in. (Obi-Wan Kenobi and Mace Windu, if I remember right) It stands to reason that, like the Lich, almost all encounters with a Protodeka left no survivors, making it seem like a rarer unit not only because of their fewer numbers, but also the lack of confirmed sightings, due to no one living to tell the tale.

[@profsrlojohn635]

Survivor bias basically, similar to some of uparmoring programs on WW2 bombers?

[@bpdmf2798]

The C3PO looking droid that hangs out with Darth Vader and Doctor Aphra in the comics is such a maniac. He gets off on killing and torturing and he's written like a psycho.

[@astralFox]

I definitely would love to see more. It's nice hearing about some of the first Star Wars games I ever played talked about!

[@michaelandreipalon359]

9:28: Yep, a Part Two of this would be nice, and so does the Quinlan Vos video.

[@GetPucked]

there was a game where you could play as the GAT droid tank thing in the multiplayer, its also the game where the protodeka footage came from. it was a pretty fun game

[@Aqueox]

I had an action figure of that A-series Assassin droid used on Jabiim, as well as the ARC Trooper that was with Obi-Wan and Anakin there.

[@researcherchameleon4602]

4:00 *GASP* IT'S CREEPEO

[@pmchad]

the 3rd is is literally the droid embodiment of "i am fluent in 6 million ways of kicking your ass"

[@nicocatalano5807]

Props to going back to your roots bro that's why I started watching you in the first place

[@NitNitx]

At 8:23 those droids gave me hell on Star Wars the clone wars game for the original Xbox 😂

[@simplycinclair8979]

Truly one of the best Star Wars channels I know of, keep up the good work!

[@MikMoen]

8:50 Ohhhh the nostalgia.

[@SuperPRguru]

9:00 it was hell to fight this thing one on one in the game. I that thought it was some sort of star ship but a tank?

[@SuperPRguru]

If you played the game you know what I mean

[@mememan301]

The last time I was this early the empire was still the republic

[@geetslys]

Prettty early.

[@mememan301]

@@geetslys yah like 32 BBY to 19 BBY early

[@sobanmirza2717]

keep up your amazing work i know ur channel is gonna get super popular and you’ll be really successful so keep at it

[@DIEGhostfish]

8:20 What specified that the crab droid and Tri Droid replaced the GAT? The GAT has a pretty different role.

[@mr.tomasiorubinshtein]

The second obscure droid presented looks like an Earthbound enemy lmao.

[@kingcookie9777]

The 2nd one in the thumbnail reminded me of the tank from the incredible video game

[@doomwhiz]

The Protodeka seems like something that would fit into the Descent series as a boss robot, both in its looks and its heavy armament.

[@jeremiahcastellano1964]

bruh the bf1 map sounds at the start made my jaw drop..... you my friend have a loyal sub

[@Tegawe]

Droid armies and clone armies both were good ideas. Although inhumane to a sense using the clones. Both have their downsides.... you destroy the factories and incubators, then they can't be produced anymore.

[@mediademon90]

Funny is that the Separatist would have won if it wasnt for Palpatine. They could quickly build an army compare to the clones that would take many years to create even with the birth acceleration.

[@TheManBehindTheSlaughter6669]

fighting the protodeka bosses in the clone wars game was a nightmare, one of the hardest bosses I've ever fought.

[@michaelandreipalon359]

My theory on why all of these weren't used is because they're a bit too expensive. The CIS is full of cheapskates, you know.

[@martinstallard2742]

Definitely do a part 2

[@rexiudecem280]

You should do a video covering droid models that were abject failures

[@petervanheerden2133]

Would love to see a part 2. Would've loved to have seen a protodeka in the clone wars series.

[@deph5183]

Evil C-3PO? You must mean Triple 0. Both he and BT would make a lovely video.

[@hambourje]

You can play the GAT in the clone wars game on PS2 that's very awesome to see some information on it... And the protodeka with gameplay as well that's some nostalgia right there

[@HOOVYSsandvich]

Oh I didn’t realize this video is new, I’m just watching to much of your great content

[@Mike89369]

I enjoyed this video definitely would like to see a follow-up

[@yeetyeet5079]

The i/d droid still had a use as it was formidable in combat mode so they could have been used as battle droids

[@princefoxv]

Here's a rare droid machine, now it wasn't a droid, but it was controlled by them: The giant crusher ship from the 2003 animated series

[@ARC--Fives]

Can you do a video on the less well known species that remained neutral during the war? And maybe talk about what happened to them when the Empire took over?

[@michaelandreipalon359]

5:48: Stop. Mentioning. That. HELLHOLE!!! Still, love the A-series design.

[@diet_dr.demoncore]

I recently discovered the protodeka through the Galactic Contention mod for SQUAD, funny to see it here.

[@johnlynch2011]

This Channel deserves more subscribers

[@maxwellweaver8723]

9:06 Daaaaaaamn I remember that fight!!

[@zexalbrony4799]

Would Droid models in production, but never being finished to be used before the war ends count as obscure? Because if so then there are those schematics for those new Droid models Genzor Delso was planning to make until Vader's Fist stopped him the OG Battlefront 2.

[@randallpetroelje3913]

C3p0 with an attitude. I’m loving it. The IG series is another favorite of mine.

[@yuligamein5502]

that prodo decker is pretty damn big..im not shocked that it cost a lot..

[@deathshand4248]

Would love a second part to this video

[@somedudewhowatchesyoutube5705]

The GAT looks like a Scorpion Tank from the HALO games

[@aDeprivedSeal]

Im willing to see as many parts as there is droids!

[@CortanaBabe]

Loved the GAT from the clone wars game

[@accywacky2699]

If I remember the show correctly, the infiltrating cleaning droids where used for a 'false flag' operation, supposedly sent by a sub-faction of the separatists or some other group to fan the flames of conflict and generally line the pins up for getting knocked down the way Grievous (acting more or less unknowingly on behalf of sidious) wanted. Thus using them again later would have exposed the lie for what it is and, of course, the model would need to be redesigned to resemble some Other model of maintenance droid in which case, to avoid the aforementioned secret from getting exposed, you might as well pay people to make a new infiltration droid from the ground up. As for the Chameleon droids... An obvious reason for why they where rare later on is... Their cloaking did not work. Both Yoda and the other jedi in that one episode they got used in saw through the cloaking and quite successfully engaged the sneaky droids. And while sure, getting past Yoda of all jedi is a tall order, the other two jedi, one of which was a padawan, did pretty good on their own. Ergo the stealth field just isn't worth it against an enemy army being commanded by people who can literally see through the cloak and/or sense the ambush before the trap can be properly sprung.

[@Sephiroth144]

With the I/D Droids, WOULD they have been useless afterwards; the personnel at the facility seemed to think they were regular cleaning units, meaning they were likely based on a standard model. Did the Republic destroy thousands/millions of cleaning/maintenance droids because a handful infiltrated a facility, (which would cause problems as well), or were the I/Ds based on a common model? After all, if the I/Ds were based on something ubiquitous, which they seem to have been, they'd have every reason to try again.

[@anthonyjohns7384]

Love your channel bro great work

[@empireofitalypsstimfromano5025]

6:55 This Thing In SW: EaW Is OP In Some Mods. Why? Low Cost, Fastest Land Unit, Efficient Against The Republic Counterpart, If Used Correctly It Can Take On Almost Evrything Even In 1v1, Good For Early Rushing AND Mid-Battle Encounters, If You Are Attacking And Have Orbital Bormbardment Ready You Can Easily Destroy The Entire Enemy Base In 1 Blow With 1 Tank, AT Defenses Are Not a Problem Most Times Because You Are Too Fast For Them To Kill Ya. It's Perfect.

[@nightjaw2233]

could have mentioned the scorpenek annihilator droid on your list, given thats a rare type of battle droid

[@thecrimsonfuckeralucardlor5087]

Those ones that disguise themselves could just be made to look like other droids or something. Different variations or something of the same concept.

[@edwardwilliams5460]

7:00 this always puzzles me because I love this tank! On the wiki it says that the tank was out gunned. This is NOT true. The tank DID in fact have a shield and equally matched the TX, this is seen countless times in the game that the GAT was actually made for and first appeared. They deployed squadrons of TX tanks to counter flanking of GAT droids as well as Hailfire droids as well from convoys of the republic on planets. Is there a specific comic or something else that came out after 2002? Why someone would add this later to lore confuses me because they're very equal in my opinion despite of course that the TX has different variants.

[@yagdtigercommander]

well I always thought that GAT was a cool little CIS droid hover tank despite being slower and easily yeeted by the saber tank for the win. I can only imagine what the GAT would be thinking as soon as it encountered an AT-XT or AT-TE . Or being like Hellfire Tank I need your help I could royal rogered right now when in a tough situation. Hellfire Droid Tank be like I have to go resupply my missiles retreat if you can. GAT -__- lol.

[@Transit0422]

Infiltrator droids be like: Transform and roll out!

[@mithridates1005]

The CIS could use mole like droids that could did holes and flank enemy positions.

[@TheTrueMr.Chicken]

Even if not used to infiltrate again, the infiltrator still seems like a deadly droid on the battlefield. The fact they can turn into bombs and transform into a smaller form seems like they'd be a good rear guard capable of taking out clones as they took control of a village or city

[@JonnieK2006]

Chameleon droids were in the clone wars game for the xbox360!

[@thomasnolastname8734]

The I/D droids should've been used in large scale coordinated attacks on multiple targets at once, thus maximising their usefulness

[@generalkenobi3189]

Love the og battlefront intro

[@WjC00LEY]

The GAT were fun to play in Clone Wars on PS2!

[@danshakuimo]

I remember playing that on Xbox, it was included with the console. Man, the nostalgia.