Why the CIS was SO DESPERATE to Buy Droidekas 

They are so powerful that they were often used as a plot device to make main characters retreat, get captured, surrender, or show how competent they are by defeating one.

Trade Fedaration: We'll give you anything credits, weapons, ships. Colocoids: M E A T.

"Remember that annoying childhood friend who always yells shield when you tag them?"

Imagine getting a discount on highly deadly droid weapons just by giving them hamburgers

Clone Wars Starts Nobody: Colocoids: MEAT IS BACK ON THE MENU BOYS!!

A droid with the closest thing to machine guns for blasters and with a a virtually unstoppable shield to blaster fire. Honestly the droid is a genius of a design with the only downside being the cost.

Because they were the only droids that could make Jedi retreat, or surrender. And they weren’t slow like Dark troopers who seem to just walk into a lightsaber.

I love how droidekas & B1s were basically the terminators of their respective species.

They basically are immune to enemies on the high ground, and basically are just armored anti infantry turrets

They wanted the Droidekas because Obi Wan couldn’t get the high ground against them

"see, these droids are made of this metal that looks like bronze, but it's called bronzium and is scifi" -George Lucas

The dislikes are from the troopers told to watch those wrist rockets only to lose their CPs to mecha-rolly pollies of death. Where's that jet trooper when ya' him?

“The loyalists learned to fear them” *flashbacks of the Horus Heresy*

So basically almost everything that the cis has that is good at killing things and good quality is made by them

“Ah, the Droideka. The Premier anti-personnel droid. Later models could be outfitted with sniper rifles or anti-material weapons and once they enter the battlefield, everybody would drop everything they’re doing and try to melt it down in a hurry. When raw fire power is hard to come by, often, the environment is more dangerous to those things than your weapons.” -CS/CT-8711-12 “Cheng”, Captain and Scout of the 442nd Siege Battalion

They were so effective that even in starwarbattlefrot2 players had a difficult time killing them. especially all the clone class did stand a chance but won't last long if the player know what they were doing

Love these new pro-CIS videos.

Don't forget the best thing about these rollie bois: the sound design! Damn

"Even jedi strugled to best these fearsome units" Me: thinks of obi wan playing with them during the fight with grevius

CIS oh no we’re gonna go broke buying these things they cost so much. Wait they want meat? Well damn why didn’t u say so give me another hundred!

Because they see me rollin’ They hatin’

I swear geetsly makes the best thumbnails every post I littraly tap on the vid cause if it

They wanted MEAT? I don’t know, sounds kind of KINKY to me.

Remember how in Star Wars battlefront 1 when the AI would pick droidekas on that map with the island and they’d kill themselves in the water?

My friends and I always called them "Rollers" when we played OG Battlefront

They don't call that Separatist leader "Shu Mai" for NOTHING! 😸

Because they are *efficient* for battle that CIS already loosing

I'm surprised you haven't done a dedicated video about the commando droids. Could you make one pls., theire epicnes deserves it :).

Tbh i think the reason they are so effective is they are design by aliens and most jedi are human/humanoid and are only use to fight human like droids and not alien like droids.

Droid Creators in Clone Wars be like: Hmm yes time to make this droid look like my species

I’m hoping we get more battle droids in Mando season 3, it’d be cool if the mandalorians reactivated battle droids in order to fight against the empire and retake mandalore

They're high speed, heavily armed, and they have built in shield generators. It's pretty obvious even before you get into the more obscure details.

Colocoids, high as shit: “Let’s turn a fuckin A-10 Warthog into a beach ball lmao” CIS, breaking through a window: *”G I M M E”*

buckets of nunna legs, wookie steak, ewok bacon.... they got it all

Federation must have played Stellaris and knew the value of trading food with other empires when you have a mostly robot population.

It kinda makes me wonder, what would have happened to the rebels if the empire had decided to use old CIS droidekas in mass?

When you realize the shields are polarized to light meaning you can't see through them (even one-way because no light gets in). It's just the glowing bulbs of their sensors in a black (and blue?) sphere of blasters... Horrific Wait wait... You're telling me this heavy infantry costs more than 3 AT-TE heavy tanks and 4 AAT heavy tanks? Heck this. Get 4 tanks!!!

When playing Battlefront I like being these guys and doing Hit and Run Tactics. Circle Behind Enemy Lines and hit them from the back. Roll up and take off before anyone knows what hit them.

Droidekas are just *AWESOME!* Literally you haven't seen anything that fear inspiring since AT-AT's. They're also super fun in Battlefront 2.

Those things are so reliable they're used by the Zann Consortium and the Vagaari in 4 ABY and 20 ABY respectively. One wonders if they hurt the Yuuzhan Vong war effort...

The confederacy of independent systems, the most interesting faction in Star Wars

Alien cultures have different currencies for their economies.

I remember playing Republic Commando and just standing right in front of them and stabbing them cause they couldn’t hit me reliably.

Droidekas were like Homing Spider Droids; deadly enemies with that creepy looking design and a lot of firepower

Care to take a look into the legends droideka? More specifically the ones used by the Zann Consortium? Also, their best moments were indoors, sure they were tanks with those shields, but in most circumstances, finding cover and arranging to to suppressive fire while artillery lined up was a good bet to taking them out, as well as surrounding it with cover and dwindling their shields with constant fire. Indoor however, they couldn’t be surrounded, while forming a shield wall and slowly creeping up on the enemy while they constantly gave them hell

the empire could easily have made deals with the bugs to keep droidekas in the stormtrooper corps. either that or subjugated and forced them to make droidekas or simply just taken their blueprints and made them on their own.

1:46 Thats right, all for the "Do the locomotion" action, thats why we are here.

How do they build their products? They don’t seem to have hands or fingers

Colicoids are creepy flesh eating bugs but I love their tech.

Loved when Zahn brought them into his book survivor's quest.

CIS, "We've got the MEATS!"

That Collicoid design looks very familiar to another speies in another franchise I like. The Chrysalids. Droidekas were my favorite droids. I'd have loved to see more of them and loved playing them back in the day on Battlefront 2, and don't forget the Mk II ones in Empire at War.

Anyone who has played the original Battlefront knows how op these guys are.

You could basically pay these guys solely in bacon, and they'd see no problem with that. Though honestly, who would? Bacon is awesome.

The Droidekas in The Phantom Menace were cool because they made the invincible jedi flee. Later they were not so effective as their vulnerabilities were being exploited often.. I played them in Star Wars Battlefront 1 & 2 and I hated them. In blaster mode they were slow, would overheat their guns, & their shields were finite. They were unarmed in wheel mode and transforming took time that would be exploited.

The Separatist are my favorite faction out of the entire Star Wars universe

Think you might be able to do a video on the Zabrak? Maybe even a follow up on the Dathomirian Zabrak like Maul? Also... that rimshot... perfect...

would love to hear more about IG-86 and other IG droids that don't get enouph coverage

If i could have a rolling, machine gun metal ball that generates its own shield and attacks what you say, youd best believe im gonna get me one.

A real threat to Jedi, unlike the canon Dark troopers.

Honestly the droideka is my favorite droid

We'll "Ridin'" by Chamillionaire started playing in my head.

One thing I would like to clear up in your information, Geetsly, unless this was something that was retconned or changed post P-Series. The reason that we see the Destroyer Droids shift their shoulders and blasters back and forth is because they did have to shoot outside of their own shield. Which is actually represented in Episode one quite clearly in their first appearance in the movie. Mind you I'm also speaking for the true visual representation of them, not the stylized variations we see in TCW, original shorts or full series (which heaving used the original's aesthetic much to my dismay.) Canonically movie wise we don't get to see this in action again because DD's are only present twice in the ROTS and only one close up is done when they pop up around the shield trapped Anikin and Obiwan.

Colacoids: I receive: Big Macs You recieve: hamster droid.

Colocoids : What's for dinner? Trade Federation: Roger, Roger.

The Colicoids were consistently the most effective designers for battle droids in the clone wars. Even in Legends, repossessed droidekas were used well into the Galactic Civil War era.

These droids were the biggest threats in Lego Star Wars 3: The Clone Wars to me. So I know how powerful they are from firsthand experience.

Remember when grievous just straight up threw one and destroyed it cause of Kenobi, that was a waste of a crate of meat.

“Meat. I’ll send you a nice box of life day meat, best I can do, get out of here. Send me more droidekas” - J. Jonah Gunray

Okay, that badum tish was the tipping point. Subscribing.

Clone Commandoes, or perhaps do several videos regarding Super Battle Droids and the different varients of them.

This was a fun video! Destroyers were neat, and rather iconic; fun to watch even Jedi struggle with them, though I sometimes wonder why Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan didn't just Force push them into walls/off their "feet", and hopefully disrupt the shields. Still, they were cool. I remember playing Kotor games, and something that reminded me of the Destroyers were the occasional Sentinel series (I think) combat droids you could occasionally find. They looked more humanoid than most of the units the later Colicoids would create, but they were a little alike. Like the B1s, they were bipedal, and could be slaved together into an operating system, instead of each being an individual. They used guns Luke the other troops, and so didn't need to have the extra power systems the Droidekas did, but they did sport energy shields. Back when I eas playing Star Wars RPG stuff, one of my concepts for a Kotor era character was a simple Sentinel; either a model that had already been given a processor, or a convenient body to place one in later. It could level up in most classes I would want, if I wasn't playing a Jedi, and being a droid meant it could sport the same shield generator, which had some cool exploits throughout the system. They are nowhere near as cool as the Destroyers, but I definitely got similar vibes every time I played, and found an area where a properly techy character could reactivate some Sentinels, raise their shields, and let them wear down a threat before I had to go in, and fight. A shame they weren't more important to anything, as even by Kotor, they were sort of obsolete remnants of even older battles.

They were so good that the Empire kept using them alongside stormtroopers, in Legends. Droideka >>> E-Web

The best class to play in bf2 when boarding the republic star destroyers.

The battlefront 1 loading screen intro brings back memories 😩

Man, Geetsly's has gone a few weeks without using DARK in the title! Proud of you :P

It should also be mentioned that Tyber Zann acquired Driodekas via the Hypori factories. More specifically, it was a unique variant of the droideka with ion cannon rounds.

The Clone Wars would have ended a lot quicker if Droideka if they where more common than they where. Just imagine the battle of *insert Clone Wars battle here* but replace all the B1s and B2s with Droidekas, let’s just be glad they couldn’t be mass produced like the other droid models otherwise I doubt everyone would have survived as long as they did

They see me rollin', they dyin', just another day as a Droideka~

There was also a type of droidika that acted like snipers they showed up in I think one episode of clone wars where instead of force fields they had a large face shield and a single long ranger blaster that stuck out from a gap in the center of it

Hmmm I find it interesting that from what I’ve seen almost all droid models made by the CIS were based on insectoid species.

Imagine a HUGE T4 variant made of beskar and that had the inteligence of a tactical droid , adfitional limbs with blasters and lightning staffs like Grievous,and the conversion skills/humor of a B1 battledroid. I say "shut up and take my money"

My man, that pun secured this video a like

Can you make a video about the different types of Sith in the reconstituted Sith empire

I have an idea for a potential video, if you haven't already made it, perhaps you could do a history of ambara and why it was so dark, because I watched the video recently and you said there was a Sith academy there.

I wonder if there were devices to stun their radiation sensors, since they were unable to be stunned like those with photo-receptors.. Maybe some sort of radiation emitting device, or special radiation absorbing armor 🤷‍♂️

I would love to hear about vulture droids and other flying droids like hyena and tri droids

I'd love to see an Empire Droideka configuration!

Imagine some Yuuzhang Vong warriors stumple on this things in Coruscant deactivated. Only for them to be activated and start their clone war objective.

MORE LIKE THIS PLEASE !

Honestly these guys are why in BFI and II I often opted to serve my team as a vehicle driver/pilot. I either use a tank to take them out or bail my family members out with a quick strafing run. Damn bastards aren't so tough once I'm in the cockpit of an LAAT/Delta-7 or point a walker's mass driver cannon at them.

Daaamn they are BADASS AS HELL! best special unit in the og BF2 hands down, coolest and most creative design, most awesome vlaster sound, sooo coool!

_"Where are those droidekas?!"_

Exchange rate: 1 droidekai for 20 hot dogs

Droidekas are quite the pain in the ass. Their biggest flaw is that they have an hard time turning when deployed. Also, they had a blind spot if you got as close as possible at melee (republic commando. If you manage to get at melee with a droideka, and get yourself right between the guns, it can't hit you, and you can stab it continuously to save ammo)

Meanwhile, in other worlds: "So, how much are those Super Battle Droids worth?"

These things used to scare the shit out of me in the '99 phantom menace game as a kid.

who knew insects could be such good engineers!

I would like you to take a look at the Dwarf Spider Droid

god i love these lil rollypollies. I would want one as a pet