I just love that the MTT looks like a robotic Brain Bug from Starship Troopers to me. The droid army is actually pretty terrifying when presented as such.

Finally! Someone who recognizes the might of the Droid Army.

Star Wars designs, for a movie franchise that started in 1970s, are absolute timeless bangers

The MTT has always been underrated, I think it would be very difficult for a small group of clones to destroy without proper equipment like TX-130 or AT-TE.

It's amazing how the AAT and MTT look so Star Wars even though they're a complete departure from the OT design aesthetic. Almost everything in the OT was pointy and angular while these are round and smooth.

Weirdly enough, that Episode 1 tie-in game was the best introduction for how terrifying the droid army could actually be. There was one specific sequence where just a single AAT was sitting in a section of the Theed square holding off the entire Royal Guard detachment with the bodies of those unfortunate enough to attack it strewn about. Yeah, once they fought something with the strength of the clone army they were much more vulnerable, but when the droid army was used as a weapon of terror per their original intention, they would be a nightmare to behold.

One vehicle I’ve always felt that is so prominent yet is super underrated at the same time is the C-9979 Landing Ship used by the CIS, we always see it yet we don’t get to know much abt it, I’d love to see it covered in a future vid

The biggest thing that never made sense to me is deploying the droids in front. It's designed to take a lot of direct fire in the front, so it can deploy its droids right into the battle field. If that's the case, why deploy your droids between the enemy and your armor? Deploying them from behind would give the droids much more protection as they boot up.

Its always a good day when Eck sings praises towards CIS vehicle or ship design.

The MTT especially in BF2 always seemed like an unstoppable force to me

I always loved the hailfire tanks used by the confederacy of independent systems in the first battle of geonosis. They have such a cool design but apart from that battle they doesn’t get a lot of attention. In my eyes they are perfect glass cannons to pair with mtts and atts seeing how well it counters the republic heavy armor tanks. I don’t know why isn’t it used more. Maybe I’m wrong and if so I’d love if you’d made a video about.. Love your channel and keep up with the amazing work.

I grew fond of these in the RTS game Star Wars Battlegrounds. Very tough, pretty good long range blasters and the perfect place to stash wounded troops and those important but delicate repair bots. Classic game btw, I got past the dated graphics and I was hooked.

The droid army if it was ran properly and Sidious wasn’t playing puppet master, could have been one of the most powerful forces the galaxy had ever known

The MTT-Chassis version of the HAG from Star Wars: Starfighter was really cool. Even compared to thr HAG in Pandemic Clone Wars.

The SPHA (Self Propelled Heavy Artillery) would be a nice subject. Yes, I know, MetaNerdz Lore just released their video on it. I think it could be converted into an /awesome/ recreational vehicle, especially if you add repulsorlift engines to turn it into an air speeder or land speeder for better terrain handling.

Glad to see you talk about CIS Hardware, my all time favorite faction. Would love to see this trend continue, I hope you cover some other vehicles like the GAT or AAT

Take a look at the Lego version of the MTT. Look at how flexible the design happens to be as a transport.

I’d love to see a video detailing all the uses of an SPHA-T

It’d be cool to see a breakdown of the Umbaran vehicles and also why the CIS didn’t use them more often. Seemed pretty devastating in the show.

All the vehicles in the prequels were pretty good. One of my favourites, which also debuted in the Phantom Menace was the STAP - This is honestly one of my favourite designs for a speeder-bike type vehicle. I wish we saw more of them.

"Anti repulsor lift technology" *shows image of Wrecker just pushing them*

Love that your doing more Sepratist content. Such an underrated fraction.

Nicely done, thank you! The front of the MTT with its bulbous and strange threatening protrusions always reminded me of the Harkonnen Frigate seen in Dune (1984). Thank You.

I just got a huge nostalgia burst when you showed that page from one of the Star Wars vehicle books. I absolutely adored those things when I was younger 😊

The MTT was modelled after elephants so its large complement of droids make sense. It was originally 64 but changed to over a 100. Its massive design allows it to bulldoze as seen in Naboo, and the twin turrets are dangerous. An impressive piece of Tech from Baktoid. It could benefit from an ATTE style top turret and an LAAT rear turret to give it more defensive and offensive capabilities.

I was very scared of the MTT scene when I first saw it. The eerie way they pop up from behind the hill and the oddly realistic battle droids all coming to life.

An MTT is basically the final boss in one of the early Jedi Quest books. It took 4 padawans including Anakin and Ferus Olin to take one down. First time I ever thought of how scary the MTT really is.

I'm with you! I remember sitting in the movie theater when the trailer started. Seeing those tanks come up over that hill was epic!!!

It would be awesome if you could cover all weapon types again as a video remake

A series going over the vehicles of starwars galactic battlegrounds would be cool

A upload in the morning what is this ? Glad to see a upload

I had the exact same response! Saw the trailer at the movies at about 9 years old, saw the grass field and thought… “OMG this is Star Wars” I have a feeling it was the sound effects initially or something that made me think immediately of Star Wars…

“I’d be so proud of where I am today.” Fuck yeah, bro. Like no joke, being someone your child self would look up to and be proud of is the ultimate test of manhood. Hell yeah man, keep at it 👏🏻 Even better since I’m not super involved with much social stuffs but I’ve watched and been a subscriber (whether this account or others) of yours since this was just a hobby channel back when you were a single lad, so it’s been hella cool to see you grow.

You may have already looked at it but I think the Recusent Destroyer is very interesting

What about the tax collector of the droid army which are the futuristic versions of the Katyusha rocket vehicle but it has two giant wheels and is impractical as heck lol

Definitely would love to see you cover more Droid and CIS hardware, havent gotten to watch much Clone Wars yet so had no idea that the Dropships operated by just hanging the droids underneath the back.

Very nice! Maybe a Rebel Tanks video? Some of them in the video games are pretty cool.

I remember a line from the phantom mencae which said “theres a thousand terrible things coming this way” which really made me feel the terror of these things

Repulsors still need energy, if you hit the power generator or power coupler, the power lines or energy storage, you can take the repulsors out without them itself failing. But given that those parts all all well hidden inside the MTT it´s probably easier to attack the repulsors directly, unless you have a proton torpedo-equipped fighter at hand.

Never thought about it until now, but the MTT reminds me quite a bit of the 40k Space Marine Mastadon transport. Both are heavily armored and designed for frontal assaults (though the Mastadon does have an anti air turret on top as a plus) and make for terrific siege tanks (the Mastadon has a massive front hatch that opens up as well as one in the back, which makes it real useful for breaching since it will usually drive through a wall and act as a access point for friendly troops).

My LEGO set of this troop transport is a pride and joy of mine, sits at the front of a big shelf, I love the way the front opens up

When Phantom Menace came out, I got the MTT Lego set. It came with B1 droids, a cool mechanism to open the front door, and a sliding system for the troop rack. The rear was hollow so you could load up the s,maller rack transport. I always wondered why the smaller vehicle was included until I rewatched the films and noticed the same vehicle in the forest of Naboo. Still one of the coolest sets I owned growing up

The ‘Spider Walker’ would be a nice video idea

I remember having the lego MTT when I was younger and the best part of it was that it came with so many droid minifigs to use when playing with the sets.

You'd think that the Republic would've used anti-repulsorlift jamming all the time, they already relied on walker's so they could've blanket jammed every battlefield with it and not be affected at all

One of the things I noticed when the Battle of Naboo first hit the screens, you don’t see a Gungan ever get shot or killed. Plenty of droids die, but the scene is so one sided and toned down that you don’t see hardly any dead Gungans. Even at the end when they win you barely see any gungan bodies. It always struck me as Lucas catering to kids too much, and I felt the movie suffered from it.

The tendency to make overly tall ground vehicles is a part of Star Wars' aesthetic that i really like. They feel more sci-fi and alien than just some efficiently designed earth-like vehicles. If i were to offer an upgrade, though, it would be more anti-personnel turrets/firing positions on the tops, for shooting saboteurs; that would also help add to the image of the forces looking down on you.

I think seeing that giant armoured column marching across the plains and hills towards Theed is awesome!

Heck yeah! So happy to see some positive Star Wars content. Thanks Ecks!

I am always a fan of hearing more about Legends Clone Wars information and stories. :D

I have to say, the trade federation and early CIS themed droid army where things were still mostly brown and tan themed is still my favorite era of the droid army.

Would love a video on the CIS “snail tank” !

Interesting to see more things from cross-section books.

I’d like to know more about the AT-AP or AV-7 Cannon, maybe the UT-AT too! The MTT was a favorite of mine, always looked cool and I loved the way the troops were deployed.

Love your stuff

Do you think the Separatists GAT(Ground Armored Tank) was better than most people gave it credit for? I mean it didn’t have the array of weapons and armor that they AAT had, but it was fast, it’s weapons were perfect for urban environments, and it couldn’t be commandeered due to its droid brain.

When I first saw the MTT in theaters i instantly fell in love with the Droid army.

Shows it can do more then just deploying droids.

I really would like a more in depth video on the at-te model variants.

A video on the turbo tank better known as the juggernaught of the GAR would be great to see.

love the video, what was the RTS looking game you showed there?

I want the original Droid gunship that's in the background of your last clip. There's like NO LORE about those at all

I think what would’ve made the MTT even more terrifying is if they had a compartment to deploy at least two or three droidekas

Literally my favorite Star Wars ground vehicle when I was a child.

I'd enjoy seeing the evolution of battle droids throughout the timeline, from old Republic to post-imperial era, from the HK model to whatever terminator abomination the New Republic made against the Vong.

The Droid army and the Trade Federation in general was a very cool concept. I wish we had some more time with the TF but I don’t want Disney to touch old canon. They will surly ruin it.

Why the headless first order ATST is actually terrifying

Awesome & Educational video as always, thanks! Who/where is that scene of a hooded character blasting a few droids b4 jumping on the AAT & throwing thermo detonators inside? I can’t seem to put my finger on it…..

I'd love to see you covering some of the Vehicles from the Clone Wars Game like the AT-XT (:

it's a crime we never got a lego MTT ultimate collector's series set, but there were some real bangers in playsets. If they ever make an UCS one however- I'm gonna get you one

If you haven't already the Sabre Tank and it's variants would be cool

I thought it would make a great versatile vehicle that could carry any number of heavy equipment in the front bay that it could carry into combat and keep protected until it needed to be deployed quickly. Stuff like mortars, turrets, fortifications, etc. It reminds me of Thunderbird 2, as the big bulk carrier with specialized equipment

I recall the tanks rolling over the hill as the first trailer too

Big fab of these, very cool design though I agree the top could have been a tank turret. Something that rests relatively flush with the hull with snub nose barrels to avoid messing up the profile

What would be great for the MTT is if they put on an auto turret similar to the one on the Millennium Falcon in ESB on top. Or it could be a remote controlled turret by a co-pilot in the top portion in the MTT as shown in the cross-section. Duel purpose would be nice as the co-pilot could switch on the auto turret when they have to direct their attention elsewhere. It would be good for an anti-personnel role, light vehicles, and slower aircraft like the LAAT.

🤔 . . . Maybe compare the different troop transport vehicles & see which one is #1 & such…

Just to think if they didn’t have a control ship for droids they would of won

please do the clones turbo tank if you haven't, this was a really cool video

The Trade Federation/CIS have some awesome vehicle designs. Even if the B1s are often used for comic relief, the droid army overall is pretty intimidating.

That shot of the Trade Federation army marching on Theed is one of the best shots of the Prequel Trilogy imo, and the battle against the Gungans later is just so good. Shame the rest of the movie couldn't match it.

​@EckhartsLadder Ive played Arma 3 Clone wars mod as a Zeus and I will say the MTT holds an impressive amount of troops. Using it along with some small arms alongside it made my players actually struggle against it. I would drive it up to the clones front lines, the canons would blast away at the cover and troops causing disarray as the droids are deployed.

Oh the CIS, they were designed for victory, but fated for defeat.

This was super cool as for starwars mashine to cover next. It older dont know if it been done already but the cloen troppers impreiel rover varients we see in other parts in the franchise also maybe the jawa's crawler. Halo how about the covent ships or that robotic bettel. Also i reconized the battel front game. But what games was that real life strategy game looking. I looked in the more info but it only stated one game. So what was the other ones? Also loved the content.

The MTT is cool. I would of liked to have seen it’s troop being unloaded to the rear, as it allows it’s bulk to protect them as they dismount. I agree it needed some type of dual purpose turret on top to deal with air threats and give it more general coverage

I think the reason the MTT doesn't have lots of fire power is that it is mimicking the US/Western Naval concept of having an Aircraft carrier (MTT) which allows for forward deployment but limited deployment, surrounded by smaller, high fire power destroyers (the HAG-Ms) used to protect that asset. This allows a more versatile deployment as once the droid infantry have dismounted the MTT, the MTT can be left behind without losing much weapons capabilities (as it is quite slow and large it wouldn't be useful in an urban skirmish environment).

I am running a TTRPG using the Fantasy Flight System which is currently set during the Clone Wars. And we have laerned first hand just how utterly terrifying MTTs can be. The goal of the players whenever MTTs are involved to destroy it first (unless there is a Tactical Droid nearby, that's the exception it seems) lol

I think the only things that'd make the MTT better are: 1) Have the troops deploy out the back instead of the front, minimizing the risk of being prematurely destroyed when deploying in a battle. 2) Mount the guns higher to give them better ground and cover clearance. Likewise, I could easily see them as a versatile heavy-armor platform in general. Could easily be converted into a heavy tank or artillery platform with some imagination.

Although i love you stated its ramming and breakthrough doctrine lets not forget the turrets. The two front blasters are by design meant for anti-tank roles. That is to help push the line forward in battle while taking on harder assets or fortified positions of the enemy. This means that in traditional tank divisions the infantry support the tank and the tank supports the infantry. Both are designed to compliment each other in their respective weaknesses and unfortunately both are still vulnerable to air attacks or even artillery.

The Droid army was some of the most brutal armies to face. It took a modified soldier clone army to defeat them. The Empire wouldn't stand a chance if it wasn't for that deathstar

I like the large backside that I assume can deploy a few STAP units that would be able to cover a few of the flanks and being a droid army all you need is one droid to see someone on the flank and now the entire force knows something is up

This droid unloading scene is my personal favorite moment in Star Wars. The ships look great, the soundtrack is wonderful (Battle of the Droids is my favorite part of the entire Star Wars score) and the whole moment is amazingly terrifying (my first thought was: the Gungans are toast).

Now I wondering if thr MTT is really a vehicle or is actually a droid. Some of the drawings seems to show vulture-droid like photoreceptors at the top. And it wouldn't be the first time we see a vehicle that's actually a droid in the CIS army, their gunships too are both droids and transport crafts at the same time.

Id like to see a video about the squid tanks featured in the attack of kamino and battle of mon cala

As soon as i got my lego MTT as a kid, i modified it to have a turret on the top and anti-air at the back

For some reason, this just made me think about something a bit unrelated: So, you know how people often say Star Wars is a more-or-less technologically static universe? Well, I think that may be true, kind of. I feel like in the Star Wars, everything HAS already been discovered - all the different scientific breakthroughs HAVE already occurred, somewhere. But in a way, it's not technologically stagnant because while everything is known to someone, those someones are scattered across a vast, vast universe controlled by all kinds of different beings and groups. So like, it's almost like the end stage of a big universe sandbox strategy game where all the different species have advanced their tech trees all the way to the end, some species have died out leaving behind ruins with tech for other people to find, and different factions learn and forget things as they trade tech. Like that one species had the capacity to make a universe-changing army of clones. The trade federation had countless droids. Everyone kind of has their own niche, different species have their specialties, and then as different groups and species come together to vie for power, those technologies mix and proliferate to cause the conflicts we see in the movie. Because let's be real - when there's military power in anyone's possession, and others are working to increase their own military power in response, the party with the most military power is always incentivized to use that power sooner rather than later, lest they lose their edge as their adversaries work to counteract their strategies. And because all the technologies that can exist do exist, somewhere in the star wars universe, everything is always in constant chaos as wars wage and technologies change hands.

Love Eck's Phantom Menace content

Something about this reminds me of the AT-AT. It’s like they combined the MTT and the republic troop transport. Also I think there is some serious psyc warfare with these.

the mtt is iconic and my favorites because i used to watch the phantom menace on dvds. pls do a video on the Droch-class Boarding Ship .

6:30 While it has a very small part in the movie, this craft actually has two lego sets! One in 2000, as literally just the MTT rack on a sled as was mentioned, and another, slightly modified one in 2007 of just a platform that droids stand on. Pretty neat what the set designers manage to find for reference material.

You could also put a lot of missles on the top like the hailfire droid for extra firepower