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the AT-ST makes slightly more sense but it is also a dumb design
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I like the scene in Rebels where the Empire lands a couple of AT-ATs to kill some renegade clones and the clones are just admiring hkw sick it is.
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Jan 30, 2020 01:28
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They’re cool actually. Topic Locked.
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Jan 30, 2020 01:29
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“_______ are dumb and don’t make sense” is basically starwars.txt
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Jan 30, 2020 01:34
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enjoy your reassignment to tatooine, trooper
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Jan 30, 2020 01:35
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Kaysette posted:“_______ are dumb and don’t make sense” is basically starwars.txt
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Jan 30, 2020 02:07
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Star Wars is dumb. My favorite scifi franchise doesn't have any dumb things.
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Jan 30, 2020 02:25
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The empire is all about force multiplication through fear and terrorizing the populace, which the lumbering laser faced metal dinosaurs accomplish very well
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Jan 30, 2020 02:50
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Being really tall makes sense when your laser guns are direct-fire only.
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Jan 30, 2020 02:53
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The only sensible vehicle is that clone tank that had 10 wheels. Because it was the only thing in the galaxy with wheels
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Jan 30, 2020 02:58
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El Burbo posted:The only sensible vehicle is that clone tank that had 10 wheels. Because it was the only thing in the galaxy with wheels
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Jan 30, 2020 06:23
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AT-AT is the Bradley infantry fighting vehicle of the Empire. Feature-creeped boondoggle that results in a passable if ludicrous vehicle. Plus, you never really see it carrying infantry dudes. It's an Armored Transport so the boxy center section should be full of pissed off riflemen ready to jump out and instantly start killing people. Too bad it's a sheer drop of like 30 meters to the ground. Good system for letting your troops out, idiots. Pros: - The lasers seem pretty good but why not just put the head on some wheels or an airspeeder levitation engine (repulsor-lift?) and call it a day. oh wait I think those are called snow speeders and exist on Hoth - Could conceivably do some good stompin' damage but I can't recall any moments where this was used to good effect, mostly just crunching vegetation - It could, maybe, walk through a lake or other water-zone without getting completely submerged, if the depth was exactly right. This was the most enjoyable 5 minutes of the Jedi: Fallen Order game e: as a young adult I remember reading a short story about an Imperial AT-AT pilot who developed the unorthodox tactic of kneeling down with his AT-AT when taking incoming fire, to minimize damage to the legs and increase stability. He got fired from his job because pointing out flaws is verboten in the imperial forces. Asimov fucked around with this message at 08:48 on Jan 30, 2020 |
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Jan 30, 2020 08:42
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El Burbo posted:The only sensible vehicle is that clone tank that had 10 wheels. Because it was the only thing in the galaxy with wheels Sandcrawlers have wheels and general greevious vehicle is literally a giant tire
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Jan 30, 2020 09:30
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Jan 30, 2020 09:51
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They used the AT-ATs on Hoth to get past the shield which presumably only heavily grounded vehicles could or something, plus their height enables them to blast at things from 17.28 km away. This was before lasers arced so they could not blast things below the horizon.
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Jan 30, 2020 10:58
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AT-ATs make perfect sense as a sign of the corruption rampant within imperial military procurement, they're a terrible design and very impractical but probably some Grand Moff somewhere has a buddy who manufactures them so there you go. See also Stormtrooper weapons and armour, which do nothing to stop incoming fire and are extremely inaccurate, yet are mass-produced in enormous quantities, again probably because the parts are made on so many different worlds and so many people are grifting their way into getting rich off them.
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Jan 30, 2020 17:49
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I think the idea is that in the world of Star Wars where everyone has access to hover-vehicles, nobody builds roads and flattens terrain for easy use, so if you're gonna have something too heavy for hover technology, then wheels or treads aren't going to work in a lot of areas. Of course, I feel like the six-legged things the clone army had were better, but then the AT-AT was clearly made with the idea in mind that its armor was good enough to deal with any air threat and then being physically high off the ground would make it immune to infantry assault, so there's no way anything in the middle could come at it. It's probably cheaper to produce or something like that as well.
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Jan 30, 2020 19:06
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Hey guys if you had to pick one sci fi movie battle as the most recognizable and famous battle scene of all time, what would you pick
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Jan 30, 2020 19:39
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Hnng... Metal Gear?
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Jan 30, 2020 19:50
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Don't be fatuous Jeffery
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Jan 30, 2020 19:51
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zoux posted:Hey guys if you had to pick one sci fi movie battle as the most recognizable and famous battle scene of all time, what would you pick The future scene from terminator 2
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Jan 31, 2020 03:24
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Also AT ATs are vulnerable to more advanced/ higher power fighters like x wings and poo poo? I seem to remember shooting lots of them in rogue squadron games, if only the rebels used their fleet of fighters to shoot them before escorting the transports out.
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Jan 31, 2020 03:26
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zoux posted:Hey guys if you had to pick one sci fi movie battle as the most recognizable and famous battle scene of all time, what would you pick FLY MY HAWKMEN
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Jan 31, 2020 03:40
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Part of why AT-ATs are awesome is that they're War Elephants with lasers. The whole point of Star Wars is taking things from other settings and making them lasertastic. Pod-Racing? Chariot Racing with lasers. Hoth? War Elephants with lasers attacking WW1 with lasers. The Millennium Falcon? A custom muscle car with lasers. The Cantina? A Wild West saloon with lasers. Lightsabers? Swords with lasers. Death Star? The Hidden Fortress with lasers.
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Jan 31, 2020 05:43
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zoux posted:Hey guys if you had to pick one sci fi movie battle as the most recognizable and famous battle scene of all time, what would you pick https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cN7OdT1lQQ0
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Jan 31, 2020 14:42
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Starship Troopers has the best soundtrack too imo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xk4U8BembHM
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Jan 31, 2020 15:04
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more like SHAT-SHATs
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Jan 31, 2020 15:22
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zoux posted:The empire is all about force multiplication through fear and terrorizing the populace, which the lumbering laser faced metal dinosaurs accomplish very well They can be destroyed with some string.
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Jan 31, 2020 15:53
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Who would win a 500 megatonne laser dairy cow or one stringy boi
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Jan 31, 2020 16:16
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zoux posted:Who would win a 500 megatonne laser dairy cow or one stringy boi You know the Snowspeeder is just a converted cargo handling craft. So essentially the Rebels sent out a handful of weaponized space-forklifts out against these behemoth war machines and the forklifts kicked their asses. Imagine like 6 forklifts completely clowning on an M1 Abrams and that's basically what happened.
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Jan 31, 2020 16:36
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How many video games have a fly-a-snowspeeder-around-the-walker-legs sequence. more than 20?
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Jan 31, 2020 16:40
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I'M A SNOWSPEEDER OPERATOR I PLAY HARD I WORK MY rear end OFF I LOVE MY WOOKIEE WIFE AND WE HONOR THE FORCE EVERY DAY MAYBE IT HURTS YOUR FEELINGS BUT GUESS WHAT I TAKE DOWN AT-AT WALKERS WITH TOW CABLES MAYBE THAT MAKES ME SEEM CRAZY but that's OK, I'm a Pisces
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Jan 31, 2020 16:47
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Squizzle posted:I'M A I was really hoping someone would do this when I posted that, thank you
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Jan 31, 2020 16:48
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@-@
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Jan 31, 2020 20:40
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Squizzle posted:I'M A I kinda want this hoodie now.
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Jan 31, 2020 21:05
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Squizzle posted:I'M A lmao
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Feb 1, 2020 04:53
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AT-ATs are smart and make a ton of sense
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Feb 1, 2020 06:12
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PinheadSlim posted:You know the Snowspeeder is just a converted cargo handling craft. So essentially the Rebels sent out a handful of weaponized space-forklifts out against these behemoth war machines and the forklifts kicked their asses. They need a movie which explains just how the gently caress those things are cargo carriers. Like they're tiny 2 person craft with lasers on the front and a spear on the back. Do they fire the speargun at cargo boxes and just pull them along at speed?
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Feb 1, 2020 06:20
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theyre like tractor trailers and they tow the cargo behind them. loving DUH
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Maybe Hoth had an Icewhale problem.
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