Why the Stupidly Overpowered B3 Battle Droid Never Truly Made it onto the Battlefield 

If only the Jedi had learned Master Arca’s droid disruption ability. A simple tug in the force is all that’s needed to short-circuit any droid, no matter the armor

Droids that actually threatened Palpatine without ever fighting him. Now that's a triumph of technology.

Only one thing can survive an encounter with a B3 Ultra Battle Droid: A Jedi with Plot Armor

It would have been a good horror mission, for clone commandos, imagine seeing a horror short film, about 4 commandos hunted by one of those droids.

“ The B3’s weren’t fielded in organized numbers, but later on were used in support roles in the armored units. They had equipment to be anti-infantry, anti-armor, and anti-air, and their armor and combat modules made them very difficult to take down. Even when they are unsupported, they are very dangerous to multiple targets. I almost personally lost an entire squad and my life to one of the stray things in a forest outside the capital on Cato Neimoidia. One of the best strategies that we had for them was to attack the sensory components and to focus on the other weak points in the arms, legs, Power supply, weapons, and magazines. A well-placed anti-armor round, artillery or mass drivers, or air support can expedite this. Hopefully, I will never have to repeat these exact strategies again.” CS/CT-8711-12 “Cheng”, former Captain and Scout of the 442nd Siege Battalion

There was the b3-a battle droids which was the combination of the b3 and cb3 cortosis armour and all. The droid also had a more advanced brain allowing it to adapt in combat. You could make a video about them

One of the powerful droids in the separatist army Super battle droids are so interesting wish we seen different types of them

The more I learn about droids, the more I realize that HK-47 was right. If droids got in control of their own production, they'd become unstoppable in no time. I mean if a bunch of bankers and engineers can make droids that are nearly perfect jedi killers, think what a few generations of droids could do?

Have the CIS had more time to plan their strategy and perfect their droids (without Palpatine's manipulating both sides) I think that the Republic would stand no chance. Those B3 are surely scary 😂😂😂

I would never have been able to beat Republic Commando if that droid made it out onto the battlefield

If I were on the production team for the Ultra Battle Droid and saw that it had such a crippling weakness, I would've just removed that weakness from the beginning and not try to fix it.

The EG-5 Jedi Hunter droid is an interesting one

the techno union took notes from the brotherhood of nod's avatars and purifiers when they build the B3 avatar 7.

The Senate wanted to give the CIS a challenge.

whenever the writers make an OP maguffin in the prequel era that they need to explain not being used more: "PALPATINE CANT WI"

You know you're doing something right when Sidious believes you to be a threat to his grand plan

When I saw the title I had hoped it would be a video on that Droid Model Gizor Delso came up with during the Battle of Mustafar, that the 501st destroyed the blueprints for back in the old OG Battlefront 2 Campaign. O well, this was still a good, fun, and very informative video, but I expect no less from the great Geetsly.

I can only imagine this being par with todays' DOOM music memes.

Let’s just imagine if they didn’t have that technical flaw when first released. That would be just another situation that The Clone Wars would have ended a lot differently. I bet you 10 Credits old palpy had something to do with it

When you make a Jedi killing droid so well that it makes the sith lord shit himself

Simple answer, Palpy didn’t want them to kill all the Jedi, he wanted the Jedi to die at the hands of their own troops. So much more hilarious than death by walking tank. I mean sad, totally not hilarious at all.

It's relevant to say I detect another Ork Player : " more dakka". Feels good, thanks for your videos you help me explore more of the star wars lore, specially on the republic. Keep up and continue the great work

Mace Windu creaking his Knuckles with a smirk.

Hopefully in mando season 3 or boba or even obiwan, we see some more clone wars flashbacks When we saw the b2 battle droids in flashbacks in mando it was awesome.

Geetsly's what is your favorite Star Wars alien species?

I once came up with a b3 battle droid with no idea how the actual b3's looked like and just built one out of lego. I CALLED HOW B3 ULTRA BATTLE DROIDS LOOKED LIKE

good video , so it was good droid just had 2 problems . 1 part of design they tried to fix but never found a way to fix it . 2 just too DAMN EXPENSIVE

Actually, in a comic the senate of course not being truly its own had “found” plans for them and a factory about a planet. So therefore in the comic they blew up the factory and the B3 battle droids.

I'd like to see a short comic of a super battle droid gaining sentience after the war and doing whatever it pleases, just like that other droid but in a less brutal way, somewhat of a gentle giant

I’ve always like seasoned Jedi, Preferably with Paprika 😂😂😂

Watch those wrist rockets!

It’s always nice to see the B3 Ultra Battle Droid and Cortosis Battle Droid get the recognition they deserve. Also, I’d love to see you do a video covering the Colicoid Scorpenek Annihilator Droid.

This video was an incredible response to droids ever successfully take down a Jedi. It got my attention the thought, but learning that there were droids designed specifically for killing Jedi is glorious. Not sure if this is a response to the video suggestion I made last week or not. Either it answers the questions. Good work mate, keep it up.

I don't think IRL a military would recall the B3s, just deactivate the gravity device. Soldiers do this all the time, discarding equipment that they deem problematic. The strategy droids would take this into account and order the devices deactivated. Such a powerful weapon would be a waste if it was taken from the field because of a single defective component.

The gravity thingies sound like the definition of a "win more" button and that's hilarious considering that the B3 Ultras were already the definition of overkill. I see the value, but considering how glitchy that component was when they were already such effective and cheaper replacements for droidekas, if they'd thought to remove the gravity thingies sooner Palps might've had to leak the location of the B3 Ultra factory too.

My guess is Palpatine held back the separatists from using them in large numbers even if they where cheap

What? B2 Super Battle Droid is evolving! ... Congratulations! Your B2 SUPER BATTLE DROID Droid evolved into B3 ULTRA BATTLE DROID!

I imagine in a (STAR WARS) cartoon show series the (B3 Battle Droids) might have a chance at appearing on it.

MORE DAKKA!!!!!!

"Well designer teams!, here is the plot twist... all are winners!, thats right, we will produce ALL TEAM'S designs >:D We only wanted all of you to compete to each other to produce superpowerful machines, at the end all of your designs are GOLD. One line of production of the antijedi B3s to fight the jedi, other line of production of the Warmachine B3s to fight entire armies of clones"

If Palpatine didn't meddle, the Separatists would've curb stomped the Republic

Beskar got nothing on Cortosis 😎

Does anyone know why Dave Filoni didn't bring in Hailfire droids and the big spider droids?

I knew this one, sad it never made it into the CGI Clone Wars.

"If gun doesn't work use more gun" the b3 ultra battle droid

Yes keep doing more videos about lesser-known Trade Federation, Separatist -droids.

Ill tell you, the b2 grapple droids from the revenge of the sith game for ps2 still got me shook

Yes I would like to see more videos about lesser known droid variants, mainly that goddamn b1 variant from Republic Commando that has dumbfounded me for years. I need answers damn it!

Looks like a war droid

keep up the good work man

See, armor lock is such a legit strategy that the CIS built a droid with it

The B3 Ultra looks like it came from anime🙂.

I was wondering in your next vid u could talk about the droids used by the Sith in their armies.

Actually, I’d like to know the designation of those commando droids…

I don't remember the name of the game that has Skywalker going to Metalorn but I own the game for my Gameboy and it's a fun game to play

the reason was: too OP and sidious didn't want the CIS to win

I've seen that picture at the <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="212">3:32</a> mark. It belongs to a guy i know whose a small youtuber himself. That comes from a Deviantart Walfas posting

Ayo, Where was this B3 Battle Droid in Battlefront? 🤔

I remember seeing one of these in the 2003 comics.. and I was like.. wow.

A played the Gameboy game wherein Anakin had to save the galaxy from the CB3s. "The New Droid Army", it was called.

The CIS would have won if the game wasn't rigged

Did I hear “more dakka?” *DAT’Z WOT I LOIK TO ‘EAR!!! DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA!!!*

I wonder if shaped charges in a rocket such as the RPG 7 could take down the B3's

We needed this droid in Battlefront 2

Imagine what a B4 battle droid would be like

Is it possible Palpatine tampered with the design and paid a top engineer off to keep the flaw long enough to not change the course of the war?

Lol we were all deceived, it is not super battle droids that we face in Star Wars Repubic Commando but B3 because if you didn't have 3 chargers of anti-armor and sniper ammunition you are doomed.

These droids sound epic. Though, not good enough to avoid being crushed by the remains of a Hailfire droids. XD Also, I honestly wonder: Given their description, design, and appearance, could Gizor Delso's blueprints for a unnamed droid model actually have been a B3, possibly with weapons/armor upgrades?

This is one reason why i am a bit grumpy about the republic not using some sort of droid or mech suits alongside the clone troopers. Clones came in many variations yes, but in the end they're still only human and with mechs or droids at their side, they could both have had a bigger army and more versatile military

“Watch those wrist rockets!”

I have to assume the main reason is that it must have been UNGODLY expensive. Cortosis isn't cheap.

After all this time, only now am I realizing the warhammer reference

I never knew you were a 40k fan. Do you also play the table top game?

Okay they could handle a seasoned Jedi but I prefer mine with only salt and pepper (medium rare.)

More importantly, most people do not know about the Super Droideka.

Oh so that’s what you fight in republic commando

Could you do a video about the Scorpenek Anmihilator Droid?? That was a awesome and powerful droid model. 👏👏

Overpowered would be an understatement.

Do one on the B2 Grapple Droid (feature in the revenge of the sith video game)

Idk about b3s but r2 took out two b2s and it's my favorite moment in star wars

This is Canon for me!

The confederacy could have replaced all tanks with b3 models, with the density projectors removed

The B3 Ultra Battle Droid: Because there's no kill like overkill

How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Sith Holocron?

Interesting. I thought these big bois were only in Legends but Wookiepedia says they appeared in canon too.

Palpatine delayed the deployment of the HMP Droid gunship, he ruined the plans for the B3, he worked to make sure the EMP bomb on Malestare was a success. I don't think fans truly understand how threatening the droid army actually was, and how easily they could have won the Clone Wars had it not been for Palpatines master puppeteering.

Watch those chest rockets

In love Star Wars, here's my one of many reasons: I get about a month's worth of people saying Roger Roger, and Roger is my name

More DAKKA, 40k reference, nice

vulture droids and buzz droids

You’d think they’d just remove the density projectors right off the bat, try to fix the problem, retrofit them back in once the problem is solved.

What media did the B3 Ultra appear in? I became aware of it only from its inclusion in the blind purchase Star Wars Miniatures game that Wizards of the Coast (under Hasbro) put out in the 2000s.

imagine confronting this in republic commandos

Regardless of their setbacks, The B3's battle performance was somewhat impressive and, problematic for the republic forces. And even for Sidious in which he secretly greenlighted an Op: Cinder against their production. 😂🔥

...Wish *_I_* had an army of battle droids...

I feel like another reason why B3s just aren’t prevalent in Star Wars is because Magna guards and commando droids already fulfill the “B3” rank pretty well.

Anakin:*breathes* Every battle droid and cis war machines:*chuckles*i in danger

I have that picture in my Deviant art favorites.

I want one.

The senate will decide your fate