Yes and it has one of the best sounds in star wars. I love this gunship

The Work horse of Star wars

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It’s hard to argue with your assessment

I would also nominate the TX-130, A6 Juggernaut, both the X-Wing and U-Wing, and the Y-Wing.

"Conventionnal forces are terribly expensive, much cheaper just to push a button" Sir Humphrey Appleby

Palpatine to Imperial engineers: *INVEST!*

@@arthurbriand2175 would've been better if he invested in some "independence day" style Lazer ships that just scorched the surface of a planet like operation Cinder, that way if one goes down, there are still more to obliterate the planets surface.

@@charlesharwood5705 Just a single reactor ignition in Rogue one is shown to be plenty, honestly he could have made several small WMD's the size of the Supremacy or something and spread his risk. I was just quoting the excellent tv series Yes Prime Minister, it was a joke, I agree with you.

Would put it in most in the Navy, and Stormtrooper corp

Good point

@@GenerationTech agree

@@GenerationTech indeed, still needs better armor in my opinion, speed and weapons are fine

The LAAT has too many weapons system, it's a weapon of intensive war and is not adapted to the new low intensity conflict the empire was fighting. The empire went back to some of the heavyily armed weapons of the clone wars during the galactic civil war. They get better weaponry between ANH and RoS, and you can even see the result of a new war doctrine in the weapons introduced by the Mandalorian. But the LAAT was overkill for the time. It had as you said four mini death stars.

Only reason the Clone Wars on the Gamecube was any fun was using those lasers. So much fun blasting things with them.

I came to appreciate the gun after comparing the isb agent to the arc trooper

You aren’t alone.

I love it, has to be my favourite.

Heavy gang 4 life!!

For real

It’s basically the glock of Star Wars. Not the prettiest to look at, but damn reliable.

@@theskullboy8700 Atleast they don't fall apart quite litterally, unlike some of the blasters the CIS were using, also you may want to curb your enthusiasm, glock quality control has really gone down recently

@@theskullboy8700 The DC-17's pretty bulky and carries some significant firepower, though. I'd put it as being closer to a magnum... a very reliable one.

I think the atte is good. Not for ledge operations, but open battlefields.(ledge meaning narrow pass

And worse fxxxs everything up

@@pyeitme508 I just wonder how the Galactic Empire didn’t go bankrupt given to the loss of the first Death Star?

@@isaackim7675 plot armor 😂

@@pyeitme508 good one

@@isaackim7675 because they control all the wealth and money remember during the Clone Wars Palpatine took direct control of the Intergalactic Banking Clan

Who is the alliance?

Where do we see rebellion LAATs? That sounds awesome.

@SCORPIO right sorry never heard them just called the alliance

@@gregbalisong4203, you've never heard them referred to as something like, I don't know, the "Rebel Alliance" or the "Alliance to Restore the Republic" or something like that? Because they mention it on this channel all the time.

Arthur BRIAND it’s in the Jedi Fallen Order game

If only a psychotic Sith Lord didn't puppet the war and become a Galactic Emperer.

The empire made desisions based primerally on politics

V-wing is just lame version of TIE

@@goodmind4940 okay, I'm waiting for the punchline

@@hk1371 He is edgelord. He think he is serious. And yes. Empire should develop V-Wing and Z-95 (X-Wing) alongside TIE. TIE was excellent post-Clone Wars. But focusing on its gimmicky modular design, locked Empire without alternatives, when flaws of TIE become more clear (I still would use it on small escort carriers, but not the SD's). It take Empire some time to redevelop TIE in line comparable to Rebels. But due to resource shortages, it didn't happen until after the Endor. If Empire would have TIE Punisher, TIE Aggressor, TIE Interceptor, TIE Advance and TIE Defender earlier. Rebellion would be dead.

I always had v-wings left at the end of the battle in Republic at War, never had any of Tarkin's or Vader's TIEs left at the end of any battle.

"We don't serve their kind here. Your droids! We don't want them here. They'll have to wait outside!"

What’s really sad is that clones who got too old in the age of the empire were turned into cyborgs as their organic parts stopped working, clones however were trained to hate droids from a very young age and unfortunately got turned into one

also cuz the senate outlawed battle droids and until a new hope Palpatine had to 'obey' the senate's laws and not mass deploy them to appease the senate, but of course it's Palpatine so he had research done in secret.

I think there's more to it than that... sweeping away the droids and clones of the war to train ordinary recruits as military personnel was as much about instilling military levels of obedience into the existing population as it was about creating an effective fighting force- so conscripting civilians into the new stormtrooper corps was a key part of asserting the dominance of the newly formed empire

Also, as a fascist state, in order to get the people invested and believe in the government, you actually encourage recruitment to the military. To give people who joined a sense of pride and patriotism for their government, and for those who don’t have at least a family member in the military so they have some investment in it

Attention to detail is always appreciated.

Attention to detail makes or breaks everything.

Yeah and the laat had no hsperspace engine thingy

@@geiernder Which made it way less useful once the Venator was retired.

​@@arthurbriand2175 Yeah ISD's don't have the same hangar space as Republic had with Venators. So they had to choose between keeping fighter squadrons or keeping assault transports. Venators are also capable of planet landings which ISD lacked and needed most. Because later in the civil war they couldn't deploy troops as quick and much as they needed to be. "the same cargo carrying ability of the imperial shuttle" ISD pretty much covers that also. LAAT provides air superiority as well which Empire didn't need up until Civil War so hypothetically it was a right decision to phase out LAAT. LAAT can carry AT-RT or LAAT/c can deploy AT-TE to the front speaking of which AT-TE was also retired in favor of AT-AT but we don't know either LAAT or AT-TE retired first. But they complete each other. So LAAT/c incapable of carrying AT-AT thus making it obsolete. So they came up with Y-85 Titan dropship which does exactly what LAAT did while carrying 4 AT-ST (AT-RT replacement) and 4 AT-AT (AT-TE replacement) to the planet. As well as Y-45 armored transport hauler but both were slow and vulnerable compared to LAAT. Again LAAT is for mobile warfare blitzkrieg tactics and Imperial crafts are about establishing fear, terror, doing propoganda as well as enforcing order. ISD is about sustaining for longer periods of time without resupply, securing routes and planets. So I doubt they ever considered quick and mass deployment.

I know that a lot of designs are usually cut for budget (logic wise) but whenever I hear something that got decommissioned due to extensive costs, they built 2 death stars. Since both death stars weren't that big compared to a planet/moon, I'm pretty sure they could've kept them, the only reason anything gets decommissioned is because A) It resembles something/someone we(the Empire/Emperor) don't like B) Doesn't fit the doctrine C) Empire like big stuff not small stuff Another thing, clone troopers are still very much so more deadly than stormtroopers, but the Empire preferred icon over efficiency. And yes I know I typed earlier that if they can build 2 death stars, they probably have enough money, but they may have been trying to save as much as possible to get the death star built as fast as possible (I'm not sure if the second the Empire was founded, that the emperor was planning for the death star, but this is what I would say is the most lore-logic reason I can think off.)

​@@berryhops We recently learnt that inhibitor chips reduce the efficiency, proficiency or whatever the clones have. And as much as we know that order 66 is a permanent effect. I think that is mainly because a good portion of the clones would object or rather regret their decisions and could possibly desert the G.A.R. afterwards. We probably are about to see many such occasions with the new clones to be introduced in the next episode. Probably each time Rex removes an inhibitor chip those clones will never be able to serve the Empire again. Be it sorrow, be it regret, be it feeling empty whatever you name it. So phasing out clones is a much better idea whose loyalty lies either in Kamino or in Republic or in both but not in Palpatine of course without inhibitor chips. Even then with inhibitor chips, I am pretty sure that Kaminoans did not leave it to the chance and placed an emergency override to guarantee themselves by making clones only loyal to them in case anyone would try to make clones turn against their very own creators. One thing we know is that they love cash but do not trust Palpatine, not even a bit. Correct me if I am wrong but If I am not mistaken, 99% of the workforce for the deathstars came from Geonosians. They exterminated the entire population, probably worked to death. So little to no money, no witnesses. Geonosis population = 100 billion in case you want to know how quickly they can build Death Stars without any payment.

Also, other sites have pointed out that the galaxy was terrified of Droid rebellions. Droids in Star Wars are fully sentient and given programming restrictions to limit their scope, but these restrictions break down when there is a " contradiction" between their restrictions and the best way of achieving their orders. A war between droids was recognized as a case where droids would break their programming and go rogue. I can't remember the exact reasons for this in detail, but it has something to do with the conflicts between following orders, minimizing casualties, winning the war, and winning the war quickly. With droids on both sides, the tactics on both sides will change in such a way that the droids can break their programming and turn on their masters.

That’s fine, use humanoid droids and throw on some fake faces.

@@papaofthejohns5882 Again, the problem is related to the tactics droids can use, not what they look like.

Using Han Solo's attitude as an indicator, I always assumed ALL droids had some prejudiced against them. Combat droids especially.

@@brianj.841 Yes, anti-droid bigotry is actually common in the Star Wars Galaxy with thousands of years of history behind it. There were numerous droid rebellions, rogue assassin droid factions, and cases where people were irritated over losing their jobs to droids; and of course there is also the irrational bigotry too. Organizations like the Pias Dias and the Empire also built up the sentiment to fuel their public support--and this is one of many reasons why the Empire rarely used battle droids. Anyway, droid manufacturers put many programming restrictions on their droids to prevent uprisings and rogue behavior, and it often failed. In some cases like the IG88 series and the HK series, the droids killed their makers and tried to take over the galaxy or rule from the shadows on numerous occasions. One Republic droid. ended up forming a criminal empire to fuel the Republic economy following the Mandolorian and Sith Wars, One of the IG88 models successfully hacked the second death star, but failed to take full control of the station--Instead it just messed with automated doors to annoy Palpatine.

Plus, after the Clone wars, the Empire fielding a droid army would be a hard sell politically after three years of the public being bombarded with propaganda about the brave GAR, battling the evil, soulless Droid Legions of the CIS

Droids would have been a better force instead of havin stormtroopers where their armors get stolen by rebels to sneak in bases.

@@zybaguisi2573 stormtroopers aren't actually that bad george based them off the "Naz*'s" and you have the rebels i.e. the allies but you can't have a "ww2" film without the propaganda/dramatization and palpatine wanted a disorganised military so they couldn't possibly betray him. (Nerdgasm)

Also what you said lol maybe with helmets that bad they couldn't see anything 1ft above eye level thats why 1st gen clone armor is so good.

You just don’t get the same Darkside power boost from having huge armies of droids or clones that have no free will. You have to convince organic beings that it’s their choice to sign up as virtual slaves in an imperial war machine.

No room for them with the mass produced Imperial tech. Plus the Empire wasn't fighting a war. It was an occupational force meant to dissuade resistance and punish disobedience.

Where you don't need hyperdrive and shielding.

It’s only useful for deploying troops.

@@stunner9005 It’s also a good ground support ship.

@@TheRezro those things can be added for a minor cut in troop cap and still, it would be a platform of utter destruction.

The grand irony is that the venator would be far more capable of dealing with rebel cells than the ISD would ever be. Actual point defense, a sizeable fighter complement, and the ability to outrun the fighters chasing you along with better force projection through hyperdrive capable scout fighters.

@@PrinceOfDolAlmroth should be kept as front guard disposable defense

I always say an ISD paired with Venator would be a very tough nut to crack. Add in escorts and you have a strong battle group ready to face any threat.

*yub yub intensifies*

Yeh, that one should stay in use alongside V-Wing. Additional bonus would be that outraged creators would not sold it (X-Wing) to Rebellion.

The Z95 was used by the Rebels, though.

@@Gamerguy826 And from where they get it?

Not to diss his own skills and those of his creative team; however, when creating a fictional military its helpful to have some sort of expert consultation.

So why not use the stun setting?

@@slammo69 There was no stun setting when the original trilogy was created.

@@robertnelson9599 they used it on leia in a new hope

Actually the order wasn't to bring them in alive it was to let them escape so they could track them to the rebel base

@@slammo69 that would be spoiler

The first time i saw it, it was in 2003 star wars animated movie. Was the most brilliant thing ever. Moving at incredible speed, manouvering silently throught countless droids,dropping it's payload of arcs then goes to stop an entire army of droids from ever reaching the destroyed acclamator. The arcs by now struggling, no losing to Grevious gets the laat to come and cover while they extract the three jedi, putting two jedi on lifesupport and making it's way out of the area by detonating explosives it had dropped earlier. Untouched and with three jedi and countless destroyed droids it takes off.

Good point. THE DAY AFTER EMPIRE DAY - The Emperor sat behind his pristine desk and looked out beyond the restored glass of his luxury office at cityscape beyond. His Private Secretary Riyo Chuchi walked in with the Imperial Permanent Cabinet Secretary Grand Moff Tarkin. "Ah Tarkin, it's a good day for the Empire." "Oh indeed your Majesty. Your premiership has been a great success." "And I've been asking myself, What can I do to continue this run of success?" "Have you considered: masterly inactivity my Lord?" "No Tarkin. An Emperor must be firm!" "Indeed. How about masterly inactivity?" Tarkin opined. "You haven't told him the good idea have you Riyo?" said the Emperor. "No my Lord. I didn't want to spoil it," she replied. "Good. Tarkin, I have decided in one fell swoop to restructure our galactic defence policy and usher in a new era of prosperity for the galaxy. We will scrap the Death Star project and use the money to fund a galaxy wide system of Academies. Especially in the Outer Rim. We will raise an army of conscripted officers to command our clone forces and solve our unemployment, security and defence problems in one go. Well what do you think?" Tarkin was stunned. "Where did you get this idea your Majesty! So...so you intend to purchase Interdictors instead?" "Oh no, we've got plenty of Star Destroyers already and an entire army!" "But your Majesty, Star Destroyers are a ramshackle design! With the Death Star, we could obliterate entire systems - the whole Outer Rim for instance!" "I have no intention of obliterating entire systems in the Outer Rim Tarkin! I wanted to rule the galaxy, not destroy it." "But it's a deterrent against the old CIS worlds, the Hutts et cetera..." "Come now Tarkin, it's a bluff. And they probably know that I wouldn't use it." "Yes but even though they probably certainly know that you probably wouldn't, they don't certainly know that although you probably wouldn't, there is no probability that you certainly would!" The Emperor was facepalming in confusion. "You've lost me Tarkin." "My Emperor, it's so much simpler to push a button! If you walked into the Galactic weapon's showroom, you would buy the Death Star. It's round, elegant, as beautiful as the moons of Naboo. It is quite simply the best and surely your Galactic Empire should have the best! It is the Alderaanian suit, the Coreillian ale, the Naboo starship, Twilek female. It is the weapon that the Coruscant Opera House would sell you! What more can I say?" "And it would cost the Empire over 15 trillion credits to buy Tarkin!" "Well, you could say that about anything at the Coruscant Opera House!" Suddenly, the holo projector activated. "Your Majesty, Lord Vader is requesting to speak to you." "We will discuss this matter again later Tarkin. That will be all." Tarkin strolled outside. As Riyo exited the room, he motioned to her. "Riyo, what is the purpose of the Imperial Defence policy?" "Well, to defend the Empire surely Grand Moff." "No Riyo. It is to make the people believe the Galactic Empire is defended." "From the Separatist holdouts?" "No not the Separatists. The Separatists know it is not. Projection is everything Riyo. Take the Star Destroyer. When the enemy sees it, they do not think practically how to take it on having been stunned by its sheer size. The Death Star will take us to the next level." "But isn't the Emperor right? And besides it would create tens of millions of jobs. Spread out our forces to the Outer Rim." "No one wants to go to the Outer Rim Riyo! You can't expect officers to go to the parched Dunes of Tatooine. There's nothing to do in the Outer Rim! The officers wouldn't wear it." "But he's the Emperor!" "Indeed he is Riyo. He has his own shuttle, a luxurious palace on Coruscant, a place on Ryloth, another chateau on Naboo, endless publicity and a pension for life. No Jedi to challenge him. What more does he want?" "I think he wants to govern the galaxy." "Well stop him Riyo!" Tarkin went immediately to Admiral Yularen. "The Outer Rim? Galactic garrisons? You must stop him Tarkin! This has Vader written all over it. Common sense instead of doing what's easy. It's the thin end of the wedge. Army regiments all over the place? Next they'll be wanting Admirals on ships all over the place. Much simpler to just have one button." Yularen had just spent his last few years in the throng of the Clone Wars. He had been looking forward to banquets and the high life of the Core Worlds in his final years of service. Then perhaps retiring and serving on the Board of a galactic corporation where he and his family could enjoy the galactic tropics. "You know, I've been thinking. We ought to play the man, and not the ball." "What do you mean?" "Well, convince the Emperor that Lord Vader is plotting against him. After all, he only just defeated the Jedi coup." "But even with Vader's popularity in the army, surely only someone in an advanced state of paranoia would suspect Vader of plotting against him..." "Think about it. He goes around the galaxy. Puts down insurrections. A man of the people. Whilst the Emperor sits in an ivory tower here in the capital. If the Emperor thought he was readying a leadership challenge, trying to succeed him earlier than intended..." "Ah. Man overboard." Tarkin smiled. He pressed his communicator. "Get me the Chief Whip. Mas Amedda."

Except not. It is first time I hear about Rebels having Venator (source please)? Rebels until Yavin used primarily CIS weapons. Also Empire didn't retired Venator, still using them during Endor. They only didn't make new ones, when most constructed Venators were rushed and destroyed or heavily damaged during the war. So those were scraped, with those in operational state still being used on lesser arenas. Same goes for ARC-170 what was still used, just in intended role as reconnaissance craft (by both sides).

Ik that they had lucurhulks but not venators

@@TheRezro Depends on what lore you are following. Empire at War, actually had rebellion fleets able to obtain the Venator at some point, via pirate shipyards.

@@Zeoinx69 EaW is not canon.

@@TheRezro If that is the case, then Disney Starwars is not canon....

That monster? Can you imagine how much that thing would've cost to mass-produce?

@@jacobrobinson787 A set of tires probably cost more than a used Nebulon-B

​@GODSGENERAL I was agreeing with you via a joke

@GODSGENERAL My joke kinda sucked too

@GODSGENERAL @Andy B Guys, guys, guys. Listen. All they had to do to make the Juggernaut better than the ATAT was put snow chains on the wheels. Problem solved. God, could you imagine being stuck with that job? Standing outside for three hours, arguing with the rest of the engineer corps squad about how to get the damn chains on?

And the Enemy can hack Droids

You don't have to put the Droids in very public positions. You can use them as staff in ships, as guards in bases or as ground troops outside of the core. Most of the fight against the Rebels was fought outside of the Galactic Centre, in the Outer Rim or Mid Rim. That's were you need to cover as much ground as possible. If you use Droids to suppress former CIS planets or to guard non-inhabitat or barely inhabited worlds nobody would know. This would leave the human soldiers free for the centers or the public.

@@timmerk7363 yeah. or they could have mass-manufactured droid fighters - would've definitely helped the war effort

B1 Droids were extremely effective. There are good reasons why the CIS continued using them primarily. B1 Droids were pretty much the most important droids available

yes i know they were effective however there might be a more competent droid at the same price point or a little more. like a mix between commando droid and b1 cause if you had a droid that kills better and is harder to destroy then you can afford to have slightly lower numbers since you wont lose as many as with the b1@@lukas_ls

@@danielmatthiesen1717 that doesn't exists. b1 are so bad because they're as cheap as possible. Even though there aren't any concrete numbers, we know quiet a bit about costs. A full B1 with it's blaster is much cheaper than even just the guns the GAR used. The GAR had ridiculously overpowered guns that were more like cannons than regular blasters. Even B2 droids went down with single hits. The only droid that was able to withstand that kind of firepower were Droidikas. The B1 were so cheap, that for the cost of a single living soldier you could have deployed 100-1000 B1 Droids (when you factor in logistics, it's probably even more). As a comparison: in the battle of Naboo (TPM) we saw about 1400 B1 Droids. The whole army was hardly more expensive than a squad of clones. And that's why B1 Droids are so brilliant: they're deployed more like suppressive machine gun fire. Most won't ever kill anything but they can easily suppress and overrun the enemy. No living soldier can hold that for extended periods of time. Given that you've got the space, they were a great tool

As childish as it sounds, it should have been mounted to the belly of it. It doesn't need much of an upwards angle since it's purely a line of sight weapon. That being said an AT-AT with a giant dick gun would be very much a "why would you do that?" moment.

If I remember correctly, the actual inspiration for the LAAT was the Soviet Mil Mi-24 Hind helicopter. Even down to the double bubble cockpit. Armed to the teeth, and carried troops too.

I got that impression from the u-wing myself.

You mean the Gen 1 clone armour? While I certainly think that the helmets looked much cooler, the Gen 2 was much better suited for the clones.

@@olafgurke4699 Yeah, you may have a point. I was just thinking about Rex’s comment about Gen 1 armoiur always holds out in the Star Wars Rebels Series.

@@kevinx7015 Oh? I may not remember that quote. How does it go? Because as far as I know, the fish heads had no idea of human anatomy and so the Gen 1 armour was very uncomfortable to wear, whereas the Gen 2 was greatly improved.

@@olafgurke4699 I believe it was “I’m good. Generation 1 amour always holds up.” Star Wars Rebels, Season 3, Episode 6 “The Last Battle”.. Rex was hit once by destroyer droid fire. The fish heads did after all had not only used Jango Fett’s genome and some of his skills in his training of early clones , Gen 1 armor also had Mandalorian inspiration.

I always thought that the reason for the Republic almost exclusively used clones instead of droids wasn’t just because a clone trooper was as good as say 100 droids. The point that The Republic, and especially the Core Worlds had an overall phobia of droids which became a prejudiced POV against droids, especially powerful droids. The Clone War wasn’t just tactics and specific battles, it was also about image and sense of security. With these “human” soldiers and Chancellor Palpatine leading and supporting the war effort with the use of this ready-made human military, it would be perceived sense of assurance that there ready-made human soldiers were not like those menacing inorganic droids from these wild Outer Rim Separtists world who seek havoc with the Galatic Core and promote the eventual Empire’s so-called more safe and secure society.

Did you watch the video? He explains at the beginning why it wasn't mentioned lol.

The E-11 and most Imperial blasters were honestly complete downgrades from Clone blasters. That's why the Rebels used them without complaint if they could get their hands on them.

That's actually what they did in legends.