Star Wars: AT-AT Walker (Canon) - Spacedock Planetside 

Spacedock PLANTSIDE EHHHH

Very well done :) Looking forward to more of this series!

Can you do a video about the Federation spacedock in Star Trek?

Can you make a new versus?

Do the martian tripod from war of the worlds next

4. Send more AT-AT when convenient (send even more when inconvenient)

5. In case of snowspeeder attacks, deploy more AT-ATs to deal with the flying pests.

Max Mustermann with the unit cap of 9, I always deployed 6 ATAT walkers and 3 ATAA. My squads consisted of 2 walkers with a single AA

6. Laugh maniacally while watching your AT-AT´s stomping on every Rebel Soldier in its way.

No, no, you forgot one important thing: 4: Always bring Veers :D

I got that reference :D

robot chicken

It should be noted that the storm trooper was at the time, reading a copy of Naboobies

"Shove it up your ass, Imperial scumbag!" :-D

That was in one of the Robot Chicken Star Wars Special’s.

Akios Eres ignoring the fact that it was invented afterwards by writers, you're right, the AT-TE was a much more effective vehicle. However the AT-AT fits into the Empire's mantra, the Tarkin Doctrine, incredibly well. Tall and towering, with a very distinct sound, it's meant to strike fear into the scum who dare oppose the Imperial rule.

Alex Gellel Agreed. I do like the Republic's Clone Wars vehicles better than most of the Empires, but beating the AT-ATs iconic place is Star Wars is difficult to say the least.

Agree as well. AT-AT was a walking(I feel no shame)example of how NOT to design a ground assault mech. But still can't beat it's reputation and image.

+Darwin Xavier Actually reinforce the neck and spread the legs a bit and you have the example on HOW to design a ground assault mech/ mobile command center with the firepower of a battleship. They did it in legends and from what I can remember was all but impenetrable only falling to a ludicrous amount of concentrated fire

Eh...no. It has minimal weapon traverse and all it's weapons are on the front. The AT-AT would be utterly screwed if you built a tank with the same weapons and the same power plant and the same armor, but on lower-profile tracks and with all the weapons mounted on a 360 degree turret. The fact that the newest version requires B-17 styled *Ball Turret Gunners* speaks to it's impracticality. The "Spread of the legs" is particularly egregious: The AT-AT puts it's weight on 75% of its standing surface area when moving, but a Tank keeps its weight balanced on all 100% of its sitting surface area when on the move. This thing could take one step in any direction and find that the ground, fine with its ground pressure at a standstill, couldn't deal with its ground pressure on the move. To say nothing of the fact that armor spent on the legs would be better put to use covering treads, neck, and underbelly were a different approach taken to the design. The Tarkin approach is one thing, but insisting this design is practical to open warfare with an unintimidated enemy is almost laughable.

Sulphurous I was about to say that .w.

Sulphurous more like the Pzkpfw 8 maus

PZKPF *7* maus

No I think it is more like the T95 Gun Motor Carriage as its design makes it look like a siege assault vehicle. Yet the Empire being the herp derping retards they are over infatuated with its fear imposing size and shoehorn into the main heavy armoured fighting vehicle instead of upgrading the more tactically flexible AT-TE

Adam Baker see also: building not one, but TWO Death Stars AND Executor instead of a larger, balanced, FAR more tactically flexible fleet of advanced fighters and capital ships.

Jeff Anderson the AT-AT felt oddly efficient in IMPS. IMPS pretty much made everything about the Imperial Military realistic. Variation in designs depending on the unit. And real military like behavior. I think IMPS was also the first production to mention Saw Gerrera's Partisans and it didn't even know it. Just watch the conversation between the Snowtrooper rookie and Snowtrooper Veteran.

DrearyPlane8 The ATAT would be too heavy to topple with a car or truck, mabe a tank...

Thank you for the Stargate quote that is my favorite show of all time.

Mutantzed it DOES fit the overall psychology of despotic regimes like the Empire and it's obvious inspiration, the Nazis, though. Hitler was NOTORIOUSLY increasingly obsessed with pie-in-the-sky SUPER expensive terror weapons, a number of which (Hello, intercontinental "America bomber"!) were UTTERLY beyond ANYONE'S technological capabities at the time (sufficiently powerful for their weight rocket and jet fuels simply did NOT exist then).

@@vic5015 But the reason is there, and it is effective. I'm talking about the tiger tank by the way. Although it has many downside, it is the only tank amongst the German to be able to keep its aces alive. A tiger tank was able to tank up 50 shots of a t34 and was still able to retreat back to the German's line while a panzer 4 would have gotten the entire crew killed. Correct if I'm wrong by the way.

@@Yayaloy9 the problem was it needed to. The Russians were making 25 T34s for every Tiger the Germans made. Yes, it was the superior weapon system and its crew were usually able to make it out alive, an important thing as Germany started to run out of skilled troops to fight for her cause. However, her functional survivability in one to one combat was a micro-upside and paled to the macro down-side of Germany being reliant highly advanced 'uber' systems in the face of overwhelming material advantage the allies had.

BEEEEEEEEEEEEENBLAAAAAADE

If we get into 40k vehicles where does one stop? Because if you want you caa include the daemon engines like Defilers, Brass Scorpions etc. Also it's another case of 40k just going totally OP on everything else, i.e. Imperator Titans.

Ready to unleash eleven barrels of hell.

wcresponder it's specifically layed out to resist mines

The mines are for the troopers getting out.

Easier. Just call in anything that can launch a proton torpedo.

Anzac-A1 yeah, that's what Rogue Squadron does in the books. A pack of AT-ATs? No problem. Just have X-wings modified for atmospheric flight hit them with proton torps. Viola! Problem solved. ONLY Hoth's brutal cold kept it from happening in ESB. On a WHOLLY unrelated note, you'd think that SOMEONE would find a way to use a mini proton torp battery or a mini concussion missile battery or a thermal detonator launcher as (ultra) heavy artillery for ground battles, but apparently not.

Hang on, X-Wings can deal with space temperatures, but now those of Hoth? Have you forgotten Luke flying his X-Wing out of Echo base? Also, proton torpedoes were a rare commodity for the Rebels.

Zachary Grigley magnetically attached on undersides of gozanti transports or inside imperial barges

Zachary Grigley Pablo Hidalgo confirmed that Star Destroyers can indeed land on planetary surfaces the same way an Acclamator or Venator does. However the Destroyer was rarely used in this way.

it is usually deployed from a smaller ship

MrShaneac1 They use Gozanti transports (see in Rebels) to deploy 2 of them to a surface

I'm pretty sure the most glaring weakness of a TROOP TRANSPORT, would be that IT CAN'T UNLOAD ITS TROOPS. Seriously, do the storm troopers just jump off the walker? It's 22 meters tall!

The more I think about it, the more I start to think that this was the entire point of the design. We often forget that Star Wars is ultimately a space opera, not meant to be realistic at all, and the entire design of the AT-AT can be seen as allegorical to the Empire as a whole. Massive, intimidating, but ultimately built on shaky foundations. As a metaphor for centralized, authoritarian regimes in control of a hyper-militaristic imperial power, the whole Empire, as intimidating as it was, ultimately collapsed the instant it's head of state was killed, a glaring and, in hindsight, rather obvious weakness. A realistic nation-state has lines of succession and lesser governing bodies that can take on emergency powers of government in the event that such a thing happens (yeah, you could argue that Vader could do it, but he's had no experience in civil administration, only military leadership, so I can't see him trying to balance a budget, etc.) Throughout Star Wars, the Galactic Empire has this basic motif in basically everything they build. The AT-ATs can be defeated with towing cables, a Super Star Destroyer is destroyed because of a single A-Wing, the whole Stormtrooper Corps is comprised of poorly trained and extremely demoralized soldiers, and then there's the obvious example, both of the Death Stars. The First was destroyed because the very person who was meant to design chose to build the key to it's destruction into it's very blueprints, and the second was built with a massive hole in it's side, both gaping, fundamental errors that highlight just how inherently unstable these weapons were the begin with, just like how any imperialist, authoritarian regime is ultimately made unstable by it's very nature, by the very methods it uses to create and maintain its government.

dragonweyr44 In Canon ATAT's were using during the Battle of Kuat to attack rebel ships (They were on kuats orbital yards)

dragonweyr44 I guess the greatest reason to take the AT-AT is because it looks like a big intimadating Elephant. This can have a great effect on primitive species at first contact.

I remember reading this but from 70 meters away(eh) you could still see the cable So quite hard to trip with rope SW has frequent use of repulsers so it wouldn’t be that hard for them to be installed So not as top heavy as many would thing