I Redesigned The Century Tank 

I was always under the impression that it was supposed to be stupid. That it came from a colossal mad house of desperation with people cobbling things together to fight.

I think the premise of designing an assault vehicle with a huge front facing window section is inherently problematic, but fun designs nonetheless.

Imagine being a New Republic serviceman who transferred from being a pilot to fighting on the ground and feeling happy that you don't have to see the countless identical TIE fighters that you've come to really hate anymore and then you get intel that an Imperial remnant force is approaching your position and when they roll into view it's these

This thing makes 40k designs look reasonable

You know you're shit when the TIE Mauler looks at your design and says "Wow. You suck."

My personal favorite is the first redesign as it's basically a tank destroyer with that non-turreted turbolaser. Plus, the new brace on the back opens up a wide degree of customization, allowing it to be easily outfitted for multiple roles. I imagine variants including a portable med bay, cargo, rocket pods [similar to the hailfire droid] and probably much more.

That little upside down cockpit turret tank is genius! Maybe if it were a repulsor vehicle it could fit a bit more into the star wars aesthetic

"A tank needs a turret" *Strv 103* : "Heard you were talking shit"

I'm going to imagine these as a bunch of Imperial last ditch designs made late into the war out of various parts they had on hand.

The hoverboard design evokes the hailfire droid alot actually

That tiny fast walker would give the pilot extreme motion sickness I love it!

The way this fluctuates between "Super cool concept" and "Utter abomination" is beautiful in a horrific kind of way

My favorite is the wheely-tie tank. Another advantage is that it repurposes the body of a tie fighter with minimal modifications, allowing a standardized control/weapons platform to be used in a new role (just detach pylons, add treads, give motivating imperial speech and watch your units become scrap metal). That makes a lot of sense for the tie tank concept as the more the hull changes the more the question arises "why not build an original dedicated tank?" Answer: you can build a hell of a lot more of these and dump them under an enemy's air defenses. Imperial tie-swarm doctrine, bludgeoning its way past a problem that fighters can't solve themselves. The improvised AA capacity is also likely to please some daft admiral out there obsessed with winning air superiority by any means. I also really dig the first design as an infantry-supported tank destroyer (very fun concept for Star Wars), but if we're being sensible I'd add armor plates over the cockpit glass (giving the pilot only narrow slits to look out of. +1 for survivability and +1 for intimidation factor even if -5 for perception).

I love how the wheel Tie has an actual Tie silhouette. Imagine being a rebel soldier, fighting in a trench for some reason. The ground starts to shake, and you see the shadow of the infamous Tie Fighter fall over you. You glance over expecting to see a Starfighter, and instead are greeted with the sight of this giant wheeled vehicle leap over your trench, sending a flurry of blaster fire at other squads, and squashing one of your comrades in arms when it lands on the other side. That is traumatic in a way that suits Star Wars perfectly. You cooked so much more than you had any right to.

8:27 “Lord Vader I think we may have given the engineers to much coffee.”

The transition from well designed tanks to the Angry Caterpillar and the AT-RT with back problems was amazing. Please do more of these

Kugelblitz tie is not something I thought I needed until this moment. Still as is reflected by the rest of the comments, the first two as essentially being a command and standard variant of the century and the best redesigns in the video is my thoughts on this experiment.

Design 1 looks like a Tank Destroyer like those in WWII, low armor, but high firepower Design 2 looks like a self propelled artillery role, low armor, but heavy gun for indirect fire support options Wonderful work! Much more realistic Now we need a Star Wars movie with an Imperial Proving ground to see all the odd prototypes in use

It's a shame the Empire never though of the application of TIE cockpits as wheels.

putting storm troopers ontop the "tread support brace" with light battlements made my brain happy. thank you.

I’m a big fan of the first design. It’s like a mix between an M113 and a WW2 British infantry tank. Very utilitarian and looks easily convertible for other jobs. Swap the turbo for a second platform and you get a neat Tie truck or a couple more chairs and something to cover the passengers to get a decent infantry transport. Add a probe droid mount and some missile pods or the telescoping laser from the SPMA-T and you have an artillery platform. A pair of Tie cockpits or even a pair of old LAAT bubble turrets, turn them upward, and you’ve got an AA vehicle that can multitask. Mobile shield gen, sensors, comms, artillery, AA, logistics, infantry transport, you could do a little bit of everything with this thing.

This went from really good redesigns to “good lord what have you done” really quick and I love it

so your first itteration made it a Tank Hunter, your second one we get a light tank armed with a battle ship cannon, the Very angry caterpillar ends up being a Tankette, then you just get wired LOVE IT!

The second and third Tie designs are truly impressive and seem to blend seamlessly into the Star Wars universe. The fifth one resembles an Imperial adaptation of the CIS Hellfire Droid. What stands out most in the video are the satisfying explosions and the fluid animations.

I honestly love the first redesign. Its janky and dumb but theres something about the open platform for troopers to shoot from and the giant clunky gun that makes it feel right for star wars.

Also, the Angry Caterpillar is BRILLIANT. When the body raises, I noticed the lower half of the windshield is covered. That would give the pilot much needed protection. Well done! Keep it up! All of your designs are great.

The "Very Angry Caterpillar" design gives off heavy Tick Tank vibes from Command and Conquer with the way it sets up a defensive position.

Right, so, for the "earth based" tie tank, while the design itself is definitely good, it does lack the star wars image to. But, if you wanted to fix it, I suggest using the tie interceptor or bomber "wings" for the tracks. While the tracks would be bigger, you could then move the ball cockpit/turret up, making it look something like a tie brute of sorts. This is just an idea of course, and frankly what you have show already is pretty damn amazing.

So we have a self propelled field gun, a proper TIE based light tank, german interwar tank, hailfire but downgrade, goofy ah hah tank, TIE/AT-ST field mod, and baby zombie with gun. Of those the open top field gun style does feel the most Star Wars, and I could totally see an imperial remnant faction swapping out a damaged AT-ST cockpit for a retrofitted TIE cockpit.

The infantry assault version really feels like something that would be in a movie. Almost a Higgins Boat on tracks.

The two first redesigns you did that remained within the confines of the original Tie Tank frame honestly works really well to get rid of how flimsy it looks. I would classify those as Light for the version with infantry/cannon loadout and Heavy with the extended main hull and center turret

I had the lego set, and even that improved the design in some ways not shown in the official guide to vehicles; first, the connection to the cockpit to the tread wells were hinged so it would move across terrain like the Scorpion tank from Halo does and could aim its blasters up and down instead of just straight ahead. Second, it had hidden missile racks embedded in the tread wells. I think combining your circular treaded design with some missile racks and making what is essentially an Imperial piloted version of the hailfire droid would be pretty cool.

I liked the tank looking one, but I thought the first two fit the best. The Tie AT-ST looks absolutely absurd and it’s awesome for that!

The cockpit with legs on the side feels like something someone with either too much money or too much access to a scrap yard would make I love it Its skrunkly

I think a mix of the First and Second would look great, Move the cockpit to the right (a la Tie bomber), But the Turret gun in the center back, keep the crew to the right side, and BAM you have a killer attack vehicle with Troops and a pretty beefy laser.

I imagine some head of department showing of these designs to other higher ups pointing at one of the crazier designs and being like “And as you can see here, the designer was either high of death sticks or going insane”

Personally, I like the first and second iterations--especially the first. It sort of gives me vibes of a "half track" transport from WW2 when I look at it-it can fight, but can also transport a squad of troopers who perform double duty of defense.

I really like the last design, because it's just straight up a worse Tie-Fighter, which totally sounds like something the empire would make

the firstwo redesigns are my favs. that first one's a solid command vehicle variant, but it should've had modular weapons and combine it with the second design so the base tank is a troop platform with two fwd static blasters, but the modularity allows; single light turbolaser on the back, twin missile/torp battery on the platforms, 2 quad lasers on the platforms, 2 front, 2 rear facing ewebs for IFV functionality, just keep going. one design flaw for the light turbo turret version: the barrel can block the hatch and I think the turret ON the ball would look better. with two hatches on either side on the middle portion. if the hatch IS placed on the front (potentially under a barrel) it should be a bivalve or rear sliding. this vid was fantastic. i didn't think this was worth trying to save

8:25 Imagine yourself, in a trench, seeing this thing coming towards you through binoculars. You don't know whether to die laughing, or prepare to fight...

I gotta admit the little mobile security tower turret has potential I can easily see it being used to hold city checkpoints or far out installations or dig sites as a cheap as balls security solution. A pennypinching Admiral would probably love it. The little walker modification has potential as well considering I read that tie factories could produce as many as 1000 of those pods a day it would make sense to stick it in whatever situation you can.

The Tarkin Doctrine is all about intimidating the enemy with the overwhelming presence of Imperial vehicles. The Lunchquest Doctrine is all about making the enemy laugh so hard they can't fight back with those AT-STs (AT-STIEs?). But seriously, this was such a cool design exploration. I love how well the first approach, with the fixed cannon, works, it really feels hefty and like the kind of thing we could see from the Empire. Mounting the turret behind the cockpit I think did the best job with being both a tank and a TIE fighter. The swivel cockpit is a little too Earth-like, like you said, but I think it wouldn't take much to make it fit. The one on the giant circular treads 1000% feels like a background design for a playset or Star Wars game that people would eventually remember fondly and force back into cannon. The compact assault vehicle looks a little silly (I think because of how skinny it is), but I think it's a cool idea; a small squad would be devastating. The TIE walkers are just good old fun, and I love you admitting that the last one is just fast with nothing else really going for it. These were some great designs; you've got me inspired.

I love how two of the designs here reflect real world vehicles like the Kugelblitz and the Universal Carrier Praying Mantis.

I like the runner models. It gives the vehicles a feel of being desperately slapped together by Imperials from whatever available on the battlefield, instead being created by a mad engineer or devious businessman. You got legs from a destroyed ATST and a cockpit from a downed TIE fighter slapped and overcharged, with a quad turboblaster and heat dissipators, you get a TIE Runner, which is fast and good at firepower. Other armored vehicles will probably have armored blinds slapped on the cockpit, when they have to be lasersponges.

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These all really make me think of weird stuff that the imperial remnant would make i love them That being said I'm going to give them all names. 1st redesign: Century tank heavy assault. Overhauled version of the century tank for difficult worlds to subdue deployed for planets where walkers would be ineffective. 2nd redesign: Tie Breaker. Single manned Tank deployed to take out enemy armor and turret implements 3rd redesign: Tie harasser. Made for urban combat, designed to dart in and around city streets and tight corridors to fight against guerrillas 4th redesign: Tie Wheeler. Using data from the Cis Hailfire droid in creating a manned attack craft for fighting in desert environments. 5th redesign: Tie recon: a small Nimble tank designed for resonance. 6th redesign(not really): TTST. A field modification to an ATST of simply mounting the main hull of a Tie fighter on the leg unit of an ATST. 7th redesign(still not): Tie Sprinter: A cheaper method of giving a Tie hull legs through mounting ATST legs directly to the hull with this modification dubbed the "Tie Sprinter" the walker can reach speeds comparable to most speeder bikes, the only drawbacks are loss of turning speed and stability if trying to take turns to quickly.

The second redesign is my favorite as far as vehicles go, though there's something charming about the last TIE walker design.

8:17 And here we see the Tiurkey in it’s natural habitat, running in perpetual fear of everything

The century tank by default looks like someone found a partially intact tie fighter and slapped some treads on it. The redesign looks like someone found that and had some more engineering experience.

5:34 As someone who lives and breathes 'hoverboard of doom', I greatly appreciate your sentiment here

That Caterpillar design was a bit funny but when the idea it could go turret style was shown, that was sick.

I love the idea of the trooper supported one, make a small unit of 3, the first, the second, and one with the same base, but give it an AA turret to protect the group from airspeeders and boom, a okay functioning mass production unit

the first one with the APC invokes the british Bren carrier, so we're off to a decent start already, it says "we have a surplus of turbolaser cannons and we're bringing everything that has automobilityy to bring them to the front and start blasting." respectable attitude. Now the TIE Bigwheel, that looks like the best thing you can do if you're stuck with some no longer manufactured hailfire droids and a surplus of TIE bodies. a suitably skilled pilot can render support fire (starfighter grade blasters pick apart most non-tank ground defenses for a reason) AA help, and if he is using the speed boosting capacities (and the probably not removed repulsor that TIEs use to render gunship support) he probably has the most agile heavy weapons platform on the ground. Tie Caterpillar: the little monster finds you blinds you explodes two of your tanks and your infantry has the "evil eye of the empire" blasting them. TIE walker: TIE is all about fast and blast, so i can see a small horde of these just hauling through the first trenchline, and picking apart Rebel AA emplacements, ammo stacks and fuel stores.

When a Tie Fighter and a ditch digger love each other very much... Favorite one was the ball turret sidetrack. Maybe as a hover vehicle with half panels froma Tie Interceptor on the side it'd look more Star Wars

the whole "T.I.E" ground vehicle concept is flawed and just as bonkers as the "Flying AT-ST head", the INT-4 Interceptor. doesn't matter if it's the TIE crawler, or the TIE Mauler, they're flawed in that they: A) Have most of their firepower slung beneath the cockpit, making ground clearance an issue B) are made out of spacecraft components, which have to compromise durability over weight and are better used to make starfighters. And probably the most egregious sin committed; C) are incredibly easy to score an Op-kill or Operational Kill against, as each tank has a single crewman who is the driver, gunner and commander, and has a big, wide, easily visible "shoot me here to decrew me" window, that any pleb who's a half decent shot could nail at decent range, vaporizing the poor SOB assigned to drive these terrible, terrible vehicles. Aircraft, and by extension, spacecraft, do not make good ground vehicles, just as how ground vehicles, do not make good aircraft. completely different requirements, needs and design principles for both. and whilst an admirable attempt to fix the issue has been made on your part, as the old saying goes, a well polished turd, is still, inevitably, a turd.

Man, I love that you went all out with these redesigns and weren't afraid to go goofy with some of them! Also the presentation is excellent!

Props for the compact assault tank being so considerate of actual conditions and being absolutely feature-packed. I also love the added detail that the maglev support structure acts as an armored shield for the cockpit and it's more stationary configuration as it would be taking on more direct fire, likely from infantry and thus likely From Below. The only thing I could see adapting would be nestling the chassis between the treads, which would bring it more akin to the original design while using the Treads as cover. This would further lower the profile of the tank, something it's raised configuration isn't concerned with

That first redesign looks like an unholy combination of a Hetzer and a Hanomag. I love it

This is amazing! Finally someone tackling this incredibly niche question to an odd little detail from Dark Empire!

While the idea of using a TIE cockpit in any ground based vehicle is ridiculous, these designs are so goofy and adorable that you have to love them.

Having a space for infantry on the top is genius

instant sub. this was entirely unique. looking forward to literally any other content at this styke of humor or visuals.

Can I make a suggestion? Could you take the little ball turret design and draw some inspiration from the Rebel T2B Repulsor Tank? I think with some of the imperial angular design it could fit quite reasonably.

"But it doesn't really fit in Star Wars I think, it looks too Earth-like." I love that you actually took this into consideration. If I was to redesign that thing, first thing I would do is either take that turret off the bottom and put it on the top or put another of the same turret type on the top and say the bottom one is there in case the tank has to fire from an elevated area (such as a cliff) so it can hit lower targets more easily. My least liked is the most real tank-like one simply because it doesn't fit as a realistic tank or in Star Wars. My favourite is honestly just the one you ended up having for you design with the hoverboard of doom being second.

Hubris curve on this is great to see. I think my favorite might be that first one; asymmetrical designs don't always do it for me but I like it here. Love the incorporation of the probe droid as well and was pleasantly surprised by the caterpillar's assault mode. Great work!

Literally the first redesign with the stormtrooper squad. BUT NOT WITH A TIE COCKPIT. But an AT-ST chassis instead, so the pilot isn't a bold circled target with anything as small as a blaster rifle. "Captain, why isn't the driver moving us out?" "Well you see... about that...." *gestures over the front to window.* [There's a still smoking cauterized hole in the windshield where a bolt passed through, the pilot's helmet slumped forward against the controls just barely visible from this angle].

About 15 years ago at the primary school's playground my best friend and I would imagine star wars episode 7 and play pretend the scenarios. One of them involved a TIE factory that produced AT-ST with TIE bubble-turret. I'm shocked to see a 3D design of one of my finest childhood piece of imagination. Cheers !

The second redesign has one interesting tactical possibility: setting up in a concealed position with the rear of the tank towards the enemy in a “hull down” orientation. The large gun fires, takes out one or more enemy vehicles, then is already in position to race away and set up again in another location. Excellent for hit and run warfare, harassing enemy supply lines and logistics, as well as facilitating a rolling retreat. This is the same concept as the Swedish Stridsvagn 103 which had a drivers seat at each end and a very low profile body. Two soldiers could fire and move before the enemy could even tell where the shot came from. With the tie version, one individual could aim, fire, and move again and again.

The first one looks like a fun "tank destroyer' styled vehicle

Oh this is incredible. Please make more of whatever this brand of content is because I absolutely adore it. Also the Tie ball turret one looks like an actual AA tank that could exist, it's a surprisingly grounded and very well done!

Your hoverboard of doom reminds me a lot of a hellfire droid from Attack of the Clones. slating the wheels and adding missiles would make it look sick.

Dude, these animations and models are so pretty! They add so much life to what would normally be a topic without much. The Cinematography is just *mwah* perfecto as well. You know how to angle a shot well. I love all the designs, they feel like they could all belong together in a tank division, or at least same mobile task force, like they're all from one imperial garrison that took hold of a Tie Factory after the collapse of the empire and they just had to make due with existing equipment. And then they did, so this is what is being pumped outta the factory after they stablized. Maybe the Tie-model's even become significant to the old empire remnants culturally and thats why they still pump out Tie models over building a different kind of tank; In order to survive post-collapse, they had to give up the excess and embrace modality and recycling. It even justifies the Tie AT-ST! (In that way, they might even become distinct and almost unrecognizable from the empire they were cut from, barring the Tie design moteif.) Like most, my favorite "tank" is the first, tankbuster model, but i also have a soft spot for the hoverboard-type model, since its similar to a CiS design (the Hellfire) and implies a design by clone war survivors. Kinda like how the KX-droids from rogue one were based on the CiS' Commando Droids. But i also really like the tank with the Tie cockpit turret too. I think you could make that fit better into the Star wars aesthetic by having it *appear* to be a typical ground ball-turret platform; like, if you look at it from above/far, you just see a square-ish platform in the ground holding a few of the turrets. But then a square of the platform breaks off and starts moving, and then the rest of the "platform" breaks into more squares and moving too! They reveal themselves to actually be a bunch of individual tanks, with the ability to couple together like puzzle pieces to move as a single unit, disguise as a stationary platform, tow eachother, create major walls and road locks on the fly, or bulk their armor together for survivability. I think with a sci-fi touch like that, you can make it fit into the SW universe. Maybe you can even double the number of Tie Panels for the coupling thing, and habe it be able to move around in full 360 directional movements. Also, i *adore* that roadrunner design. It looks like the kinda thing custom-built for a specific pilot/captain that was, like, jedi-level of skill when it came to piloting walkers. If this thing was in an RTS, it feels like the kinda vehicle that would have mid stats, but, like, a 350% modifier on them depending on the Pilot's skills/stats.

The little murder waddler at the end nearly made me spit out my sandwich XD

Great Work, your redesigns look like they were fun to do, they’re functional, and make sense for the universe they’re in. Would love to see other redesigns of sci-fi vehicles

There's one issue with the assault vehicle I see. The turret takes up one side of the overall space, and the carriage is on the other side. Troopers would have a difficult time defending the gun side as they would have to aim over the tread guide, making it more difficult to fire or even spot attackers on that side who get close enough. If they wanted to overcome the blind spot, they would have to crawl over the gun itself and I don't think that's very safe! Unfortunately I don't know how I would redesign it without just making an earth tank.

That last tie walker gets terrifying if you start making it sprint like a Battletech/MechWarrior Owen. These things sprinting at you at 130 kmh would be terrifying.

i like to think of the stock model as an outback patrol vessel, for outer rim and rural/wilderness imperial outposts, meant to protect patrols from dangerous elements and native wildlife, its fast, not slow, and is meant to cover lots of terrain quickly to take personnel between locations quickly and safely

Wow, those are some very interesting and well thought out designs. Incredible! It would be absolutely stunning to see new designs from you covering the Sith Meditation Sphere.

1:46 It's like the opposite of the problem of Soviet tanks, instead of having NO Gun Depression... It has no Elevation and it is also blocked by the terrain about... 80% of the time if we're being VERY generous? Yeah let's go with that.

I love your first redesign, it looks like something you could actually find in the star wars universe.

I like the first redesign the most. It reminds me of fighting vehicles like a Bradley. Meanwhile the TiE Mauler is similar to a Humvee in its intended purpose, primarily used as a reconnaissance vehicle.

About 2 mins in the ‘proper assault vehicle just needs a canopy on either side and maybe just run off some high-output diesel pickup engine/transmission and you’ve made a combat-ready ‘ripsaw’ bud this here is inspiring

6:31 literally the Saint Chamond French tank from WW1 but Star Wars-sy

I like the assault gun tank destroyer esque design you went with and a tank does not need a turret.

I love the idea of improving cool, but useless star wars vehicles

Of all your designs, I think the Hoverboard of Doom is the most Star Wars-y one. A real throwback to CIS designs. That said, I love all of them ❤

Now we need a BB-8 inspired model...

What an incredibly fun video! I went in expecting some minor redesigns to a terrible concept but instead I was delivered this absolute joy of a watch through. I nearly laughed out loud when I saw the speedy chicken walker zoom across the battlefield. I’ve gotta say though, out of all of them the earth like tank is by far the coolest. I would love to see some kind of hybrid between that one and the original serving as an AA tank with anti infantry capabilities. To be fair, the current one would look cooler, but it’d be closer to the original.

that last one is literally just mike wazowski as a vehicle

The tie panzer tank looks so cool and I cant believe you only have 1k subs this is some high quality stuff!

Star wars technical star wars technical.

The Tie-walker looked pretty menacing. Just add some red lights to the giant eye-ball to max out the horror aspect of it.

*@Seth Lunchquest* My favorite tank will be the *Tie ATAT* (ATieATie, or ATATie, if you will) almost seen (imagined) in the background at 7:54 :D

The second one has the bonus of looking like a scorpion. The empire loves their aesthetic choices

Some of those designs got a little silly again

The assault platform design showed off first is chef’s kiss imo I’d love that one to appear in a game.

The original design looks like the most repulsive, disgusting piece of garbage to ever come from a sci-fi universe.

Hi Seth, I would love more videos like this redesigning sci-fi vehicles with 3D models. I have not seen anyone else do this and you do it well. I think lots of people would be interested.

5:18 Tiepanzerkampfwagan

I like these redesigns. Some more and some less, but I think you did a very good job. The IFV is probably my favourite. It follows the original very closely and makes the greatest degree of sense military-wise. The fixed torbolaser makes it into an actual assault vehicle/tank destroyer and the added carrying capacity allows it to assault fortifications by itself. It would also make for a decent patrol vehicle. The second one is an actual tank, but it would probably not work very well for tank on tank battles, as visibility is still a problem, and the lack of armor means that even infantry support weapons should be able to deal with it relatively quickly. It's a glass cannon but someone made the glass almost completely opaque. The third design is indeed very earth-like, and a tie for my least favourite with the caterpillar. It's basically a Flakkpanzer (complete with thread skirts) with the turret exchanged for a TIE cockpit. The cockpit is also upside down, making the driver unable to get out without a crane. While you might think that an earth-based design is a strict no-no, I've seen people make decent fanon vehicles by taking an earth tank and exchanging the threads for a repulsorlift with little further modification. I think you might wanna try something similar. Remove the thread guards, add a repulsorlift unit shaped like the TIE Bomber wing. The giant wheels look really cool and remind me of the Separatist later designs. The main issue I see with this one is that it feels very unstable on rough ground. It also negates the main advantages of having threads in the first place: low ground pressure and high grip. The angry caterpillar looks very derpy, but somehow charming as well. It's definitely the most bizarre of the bunch. The extremely narrow threads make it feel unstable and more like a weird motorbike than anything else. The turret mode also has the maglev plate obscuring 50% of the view from the cockpit and interfering with its rotation due to being an obstacle for the guns. On the other hand, I like the addition of the probe droid as a scout and possible observer for missile strikes. I think this aspect should be emphasized. Putting a tie cockpit on top of AT-ST legs is definitely not something I would have expected and feels like the imps were running out of AT-ST parts. On the other hand, it does significantly improve both pilot vision and arc of fire. Out of the two walkers, I think the second one is significantly less useful though. The first one can be just a relatively simple field modification kit to salvage the walker motive systems after Ewoks are done with them. The second one though has basically no space for the drive mechanism, feels less maneuverable because sideways movement of the legs is very limitted, and makes it so you have to rotate the whole vehicle to aim.