What was it Really Like to be Part of an AT-TE Crew? - How the Formidable Tank Crews of SWTCW Worked
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- Опубліковано 12 лип 2024
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I kinda wish we got a TCW episode where we get to know the crew of some armored vehicle like an ATTE or Juggernaut, kinda like Fury. We always just see the vehicle as a plot device or background fodder, as if the crew is only as important as the sum of their parts. You have to imagine those crews had quite a close relationship.
I have to agree with these other folks, though. The open “turret” of the ATTE has always been and will always be one of the dumbest design choices in Star Wars
I would have loved this
Fury's a freaking badass movie! I've always wanted to see a movie like that focused on walker crewmen!
You're right. We already got a spotlight for a submarine-like stealth ship, why not spotlights for the crew of an experimental walker, an elite gunship group, and/or a bunch of Republic slicers doing some awesome yet surprisingly realistic cyberwarfare?
@Painfulstinger the turret can be remotely controlled actually, but it appears it wasnt that much of a common practice
Also always wished this my favorite starwars vehicels are the at-te and the laat an episode around crew would be epic
Something I’ve never quite understood is why the cockpit was so exposed when the rest of the vehicle is so heavily armored
Visibility
Probably
How do they not have the camera technology to do deal with that
They could at least have put some heat ablative armor like on the at-at
i think the gun is modular. There are some versions that have AA guns instead. Maybe its like that so it can be switched out?
The cockpit was made of transparisteel, so unless you used heavy firepower, that thing would not break, however I agree than some Armor plating could be added to reduce the vulnerability while also mantaining some visibility in case the camera systems failed
I can’t be the only one who noticed the AT-TEs at geonosis didn’t have gunners
Huh
Only one? More like only clone
The gunners had stealth armour.
They all got snatched up by the Geonosians
Imagine sitting there while the drop ship avoids flak and other guns. Talk about a wild ride.
Rebel Alliance whenever they see Clone Wars-era vehicles and equipment: "It's free real estate."
I still wonder if they ever fired the rear cannons of the AT-TE throughout the war?
I've been wondering the same thing
Most likely, probably during the 2nd battle of genosis when Cody was surrounds by the separatists
On screen? I doubt the rear guns were even rigged to move. In canon? Probably so.
The one thing I never understood with the AT-TE is why they either didn't have four anti-personal canons in the rear or move the two that were there towards the middle of the rear so they could have an easier time hitting targets on the ground closer to the walker. Cause the cannons couldnt really see the ground.
It's the land dreadnought idea. Guns in every direction - but I'd expect the rear firing weapons to be used for sniping on a breakthrough mission - hitting enemies from one side, while advancing infantry hit them from the other (while the top barbette and bow ball guns target forward) .. The difference between the Vickers and Soviet versions of this concept is this thing is fast enough and maneuverable enough to be useful..and even those would have worked if decent engines had been dropped in with a drivetrain that wasn't made of Edam with delusions of grandeur.
A powerful vehicle indeed.
What if they had them mag locked on top of the Venator's hulls during space combat? Like with the asteroid ambush.
Extra firepower is always welcomed no?
Yeah, that makes sense but only when you have a compotent general/admiral onboard who can think out of the box. I dont think the admrials we see everyday can pull off such ideas. Thinking out of box is a rare feat specially when you get a real education on topic. So having concreate ideas on topics also prevents this
They use SPHA in hangar of some Venator to increase firepower - As in third movie
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That hangar SPHA is good but situational (really close and with the enemy underneath, where the Venator main weapons can't reach.)
Imagine a row of AT-TEs behind the main weapons, they could assist way better than the SPHA, (In short range as well, but better positioned)
Or just have SPHAs in the hull as well, this is star wars.
If real life ww2 admirals could easily attach regular tanks to the sides or on top of a battleship (without breaking it), hell sure they would've done it.
Though the separatertist used suicide attacks: could direct attack the walkers on the hull
Easy targets, yes?
so why exactly isnt the main gun turret fully enclosed? they couldve widend the turret ring and put the commander, sorry, "spotter" in the turret with a cupola and remote weapons station. our tanks on earth have better turrets than AT-TEs. also the main gun doesnt appear to be stabilized and since it has legs instead of tracks it cannot fire acurately on the move; real world tanks do often stop to fire, but they are MUCH smaller targets than the AT-TE, so the AT-TE could be taken out by something like a missile or artillery shot. i love the AT-TE, its one of mt favorate things in star wars, but these flaws durastically reduce its effectiveness.
But it looks kewl bruv
Because not everything is made well by story writers. The tactics ( atleast on shows) fight so retarded. U dont f go cowboy and stand in the open and shoot. Instead all hide behind cover and fight smart. Or u can sneak or fight into a senator building whitout it go heavy alert the second the guards get shot. No cameras? Or link trough voice or whatever its the future man. XD . Or that every world towns look small and live like cavemen but have technology? Tech homes but use swords etc? Or other way arround. Alot makes not much sense to me
Maybe like the episodes with Ezra aboard on the ATTE of Rex, the computer can be disrupted and the main disable, with the manual operation at least you know what is the problem
Real world tanks aren't ALL terrain. You can basically put an AT-TE on any planet, and it would be okay. It can walk up the side of the cliff. Or go into open space and act as anti-spacecraft.
I would say it's better line of sight to fire so that even in bad weather that computers and cameras cant fire in a trooper can aim it like really big iron sights
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I think the exposed gunner might be a reason why the empire stopped using it. In a tank battle spotting the enemy first is crucial so an exposed gunner makes sense. Against insurgents you don't need big guns and the exposed gunner is an easy target for sharpshooters.
Well, exposed gunner is actually a design flaw that can be fixed pretty easy. The two real problem with AT-TE and other republic era war machines for empire
1- empire wants republic gone and forgotten. So they dont want to use anything that is left from republic specially in active action zones. Thats one of the main reasons most of the venators or gunships are gone.
2- tarkin doctrin. They are effective war machines, but they are not scary. They dont crush hopes and plant seeds of fear. Empire didnt want its army to be effective, they wanted it to be look scary enough to make people not even try to oppose it.
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The AT-TE was heavily armored but a low stance meant ground based explosives like mines (which tend to be a favorite of guerilla fighters) could damage the undercarriage.
The Republic also fielded ATATs in the later stage of the war
It's strange because the empire's hovering vehicles often had exposed gunner positions
Captain: Gunner you see the AAT over there?
Gunner: Yes sir.
Captain: No you don't.
Gunner: Yes sir. (Boom)
Will the one about the crews in the Jaggernauts be next? Or was that already been covered?
I hope the next video is about Juggernaut crews
Sounds like some of these woulda been hand for the Rebellion during the next great war in the franchise. If they can crush starships with massive salvos an mow down enemy infantry by the unit a few companies of these woulda been great for trouble spots like Hoth, Tatooine an the like just for example. They never seemed to have anything much like this. An while we know Rebel infantry must've had their share of mobile an armor units even at points or even eventually from the games, books an comics we hardly or never saw anything much on screen come to think of it
Funny enough. In a star wars mobile game, if you chose to play as the Rebels, you could use AT-TEs as a vehicle unit
@@dj11o9er I'm sure the Stormtroopers woulda all been hesitant to charge any additional times had they tried it against a company of these AT-TEs even once.. literally about the only thing that could try an live sounds like is a wing of TIE Fighters... Though if they can blast enemy frigates an cruisers apart they ought to be able to ALSO shoot down TIEs of all kinds an maybe even threaten small to good sized Star Destroyers too so maybe not. Which is ALSO why their way bigger an younger AT-AT relatives an clumsy AT-AT relatives shouldn't pose too much a threat to some AT-TE crews that know what they're doing right. Definitely not if Elite Clones are crewing them would think then. These things apparently are built to handle the majority of ground based threats
@@dj11o9er that AT-TE was significantly different being it's cockpit is now more protected and it's gun got beefier
@@robertagu5533 TIEs could dodge, but yes, one hit and a TIE is going down or exploding.
AT-TE: can climb up walls
AT-AT: will fall down and explode when climbing up walls
Least it's not the AT-ST: comically tripped by the ancient LOW tech trap of rolling logs... Or a well placed, sufficiently tight rope cable
AT-AT: Imagine having an exposed crew.
How do you know the AT-AT can’t climb walls.
@@CarterWills1 it's not even capable of climbing walls because of the weight and height of the AT-AT
@@tristynbishop6158 don’t be so judgemental.
Do you have a specific detailed video like this on the Juggernaut and/or Laat/i? Cool video. AT-TE is by far my favorite republic vehicle
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@@JediSentinal thanks man
The AT TE is a awesome tank.
If I were a crew member of an AT-TE, I'd want to be one of the rear gunners.
The AT-TE was awesome as a ground walker and space support unit
@Enrique Amara same
It's great untill your jedi general sends you to the front with 20 hailfire droids staring you down.
Bot, and incorrect
More like five and they were expensive to make and arm
@@gmailquinn it was a joke.
Imagine if the main gunner had a built in Droid gunner or at least a Droid either way.
Even extending the controls down to the spotter would be great
Imagine if the Republic and CIS create the mobile suits as the new evolution of walkers during the Clone Wars.
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Working on this machine can be a nightmare. When these things hit the battlefield, they are the first things the droids will target. Because they know just how much damage they can dish out.
That is, if the walker doesn't blow them up first
The only one who'd suffer is the very exposed main gunner. For everyone else, it's pretty much a joyride for 2 reasons. One, unlike real life where we have man-portable antitank weaponry so effective to that tanks could be crippled & the crew killed in as little as 2 shots, SW universe doesn't have that kinda thing, thus making being inside the AT-TE very much safe. Two, the AT-TE has 6 anti-personnel guns. Anything, droid or not, stupid or crazy enough to take on the vehicle would be mostly gunned down before they get to do much damage.
Armoring the front, adding a shield emitter, and turning the smaller guns into the equivalent of an area defense system with toggling controls (auto and manual) plus broadening the turret traversal rate.
The ATTE would also be massively improved with an enclosed protected turret canopy for the main gunner.
Having infantry within seems superfluous as smaller versions of the Turbo Tank can easily fit the role of APC or IFV.
That's becuz you're defining the AT-TE as just a tank, when the truth is, it's actually tank, artillery & troop transport rolled into a single package.
AT-TE is my favourite vehicle in the whole setting
and I would for sure be the dedicated driver/pilot
I saw the the title, and got SSSSOOOO HYPED!!!!! This is the exact content I subscribe for from Geets
I bet if earth was in the war during the war, the clones would have better music when they walk towards the enemy.
Imagine your a droid and a AT-TE walks up
Meanwhile inside the walker
Driver listening to either dragula or fortunate son
DIG THROUGH THE DITCHES AND BURN THROUGH THE WITCHES
I SLAM IN THE BACK OF MY
AT-TE
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Oh they would LOVE it
Watching this video makes me wonder how you could build a minifig scale walker, sounds like an exciting challenge
By far the worst part of the at te is the exposed gunner on the mass driver cannon. I dont see why the designers would leave that seat exposed. Other than that, the at te is awesome
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Yusss glad u explore the more in-depth aspects of a clones life
With the gunner of the main gun sitting on top of the vehicle and out in the open he is a prime target for snipers, vulnerable to strafing runs from the air, vulnerable to pressure and shrapnel from nearby explosions, stray shots and so on ... and of course such thing with such firepower will draw a lot of enemy fire.
The only real threat to the main gunner alone would be snipers. Staffing from above would take out the entire vehicle anyway, making it pointless to cover the guy to begin with. Explosions, shockwave & shrapnel flying happen like 12 feet beneath the guy. Coupled with the fact of being armored himself in the first place, meant that those things are of no threat to him. Stray shots fired from the ground don't usually go that high as well, making it a non-issue.
everyone talks about how strong these things are but in the show all you ever see them do is blow up
AT-TE Crew: WE ARE INVINCIBLE
Hailfire Droid: *bonjour*
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I want to be part of of every inch in that walker if is drive or guner I still love that Scrapping thing
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Great vid on such a loved piece of machinery, but definitely do a video on the juggernaut next it’s underrated I think.
Watching the shows or even playing the (PS/Xbox/PC) video games, I always jumped into one of these when possible. Why? Because it's iconic and I always in vision myself (in real life) being in one.
60kpm? That's a gallop. Could you imagine those things doing a full calvary charge, or just get hundreds in a full herd stampede through enemy lines?
“hard to kill” the 1 rocket that always hits the driver and it’s instantly destroyed
I'd be one of the interior turret gunners, I'd get to mow down clankers and not be sniped like the main turret gunner, why they wouldn't put an armoured bubble around that position I don't know.
probably visibility issues but Id think keeping your gunner on your biggest cannon alive is more important
but then youd have to consider the clones as people instead of expendable resources to consider that I reckon
Everyone's gangsta until the At-TEs roll up.
Best Walker design in concept, a few flaws that should not exist, and all the firepower a crew needs.
AT-XT still my favorite, but this us clear 2nd.
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Nice screenshots
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@@tom_hopeless4800 It's not a film though?
@@salmonocz2944 I have done a few animations but they take a lot longer and you can't post videos on Deviantart lmao
It seems like for an AT-TE to actually be effective it needs a driver, an assistant driver who controls the forward anti-personal guns, a commander/spotter inside the front cabin, two loaders in the front cabin to load the mass driver cannon, one of them to replace the gunner when they die, the sacrif- I mean, the gunner, someone to man the rear anti-personnel guns, and at least one guy running around fixing things.
So, at least 8 guys to crew it. So really you’d be able to haul around a single squad per ATTE. Cause I doubt that more than ten guys will fit in there without being in the way of the crew.
@@PodreyJenkin138 driving an ATTE is gonna be difficult, so whoever the driver is their gonna be giving that task their full attention. Their not gonna have time to man the front guns.
The Assistant is there to do that, but their primary job would be helping the driver know where’s safe to walk and where it’s not, and they’d be scanning the area in front of the tank for mines.
The Commander is the spotter by default, no sense putting a spotter outside of the tank. Their job is to command the tank, tell it where to go, and what to shoot at, ergo, he’s the guy who’s gonna spot targets.
Then it’s gonna take at least one guy to load the gun, but since the gunner is in a really bad position, best to bring along a backup who normally works as an assistant loader.
Then you need someone to man the guns in the back, the assistant driver could feasibility do it, but it’s just a lot easier if someone was back there manning those guns to keep an eye on the back.
Then there’s the mechanic who’ll fix things when something eventually breaks. ATTE’s are complex machines of war who are constantly getting shot at. Something’s gonna break or malfunction on every deployment. And everyone else has already got a job to do, best bring along a specialist who, in an emergency, could fill in as a driver or loader.
And last there’s the poor sap who’s gotta man the main gun. I’d prefer that it was an autonomous system that the commander could have controlled, which would cut down two crewmen.
8 is the ideal number of crewmen to operate an ATTE, 6 is the bare minimum. That covers the Driver, assistant, commander, gunner, a loader, and a mechanic. The rear gunner will have to be filled by one of the passengers. But ideally you’d what that position filled when the tank is deployed, passengers or no passengers.
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it would be pretty cool to see a short about an AT-TE crew in the style of the movie "Fury" with Brad Pitt
Medical AT-TE: Convert the two big bays into a medical station with emergency droids and two field surgeons. Keep all of the weapons, because the seps don't differentiate between combatants and wounded. And have the crew all trained medics to assist the doctors when not engaged in combat or self defence.
Boom. Forward medical treatment center.
My favourite Star Wars vehicule after the LAAT gunship
If the main cannon was the most powerful and the most vulnerabel, why not add like a chasis or even durable glass or hell some Transparisteel casing over the gunner seat to protect the gunner? Seems like a silly design flaw and unnessary waste of men that could have been easily remedied.
I would want to be either the driver or spotter. I think those would be positions that would be cool to fill
7:33-7:39: And despite how many AT-TE's we saw in Star Wars The Clone Wars, we never saw any IM-6's until Season 6 for some strange reason. Also, first the Gunships(as explained in a previous video) and now the Walkers, how many Republic vehicles carried Medical Droids like the IM-6s with them?
8:44-8:52: And they served as Command Post you could spawn from in the OG Battlefront game during the Battle of Geonosis level, even if you lost all your other Command Posts.
I remember the droid type. Weren't they available during the first months of the Clone Wars as seen in Galactic Battlegrounds: Clone Campaigns?
(If so, then I will counter it with Venators showing up a bit too early in TCW 2008, when they're implied to be unleashed later on in the war, as shown from the CWMMP works.)
Problematic, though, if all two are destroyed while your own CPs are either captured or, in the case of the command center for BF I's Geonosis: Spire, also destroyed.
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@@michaelandreipalon359 Oh yeah, they could be destroyed a lot easier than those Techno Union Transport Ships that also could be used as Respond Posts for the Droids. So that gave them another advantage, besides having the Geonosians to boost their fighting force. It always took me forever to destroy those Techno Union Ships, even with an AT-TE.
The AT-TE is definitely my favorite walker tank.
As a kid i use to have AT-TE wind-up toy.
I still want that Phase 2 Cody Figure
Would love to see this done to the juggernaut, unless there isn’t enough information on it to make a video.
3:01 Crab droids, tri droids and dwarf spider droids aren't vehicles though xD
foot pedals... as opposed to hand handles. That's important to distinguish!
powerful main gun which can be used against a battleship, 360 defense, comfy and stable ride unlike any other, 3 week emergency oxygen, can climb 90 degrees up the side of a mountain like a skyrim horse, 6 ball turrets for extra defense, can run 60 kph. What more could you ask for?
I want a bomber crew style game where you crew an AT-TE or AT-AT
if I was in an AT TE I would be an infantry trooper chilling in the cabin, before I got picked off by a sniper when it was my turn for the gunner seat.
Imagine a star wars AT TE movie
"lets make a very well armored movile and all Terrain walker a transport too and put his main gun the most expose and unproctected position of the entire tank >:D"
Imagine if ATTE windows and main gunner had umbaran sheilds
It socked bad. These wet tissue paper origami on legs with its 6 dummy laser cannons for show were the coffins of many brave clones who never had a chance.
I wonder how if a squad of AT-TEs would face off against our main battle tanks?
Was there any combat kitchens, where clones could eat true meals in combat, to drive motivation in really long battles?
60kph? I'll believe that when I see it.
Why could they not just put armor around the main gunner? I'd be so pissed if I was a clone assigned to that position.
Can you do a video like this on the AT-AT?
I maintain a fully functional ATTE&it's LAAT carrier would easily smack the shit out of an ATAT. Unlike the one in the cartoon, which wasn't in good condition, didn't have its LAAT and was using low grade munitions they scrounge off the black market, instead of their clone war mil-spec munitions.
Will will you do this sort style of video with the Juggernaut tank or the At-ot
I always wondered how many clones it took to operate a atte and how the weapons work can you make a video on how the clone hover tanks work(dont really know their offical name)
The total crew consists of 7 people in total
It's hard to imagine the AT-TE bolting at 60kmph, It's joints and leg positions aren't optimized to run that that speed....
I'd probably want to main gun, lots of reasons but especially since I believe that there is no good reason to fight unless you are going to kill or die trying.
Its really weird that the gunner was exposed. However, Star Wars: Commander (A mobile game that is canon, but shut down in 2020) confirms that the Rebel Alliance did use AT-TEs, and even modified some to become Elite AT-TEs, an improved version witha more powerful cannon that did not need an external gunner (who i presume sits inside), a much better protected cockpit and overall strong armor.
However, this version does remove the anti-personnel blasters, but I think it also reduced the crew number.
Metanerd lore made a good video about the AT-TE after the clone wars
Wait. That game is canon?
@@dj11o9er Yes
They could have put light armor around the main gunner to at least protect him from infantry
Cover the Juggernaut next
It was the tiger tank of Star wars
damn
Why didn't they have a fire station inside or have a armored ball around the main gunner? They have space travel for Christ sake! Hell we have internal gunners on our tanks.
Always find stupid for the gunner to be outside the vehicle when other weapon were controlled by inside, at least they should have putted some armor arround him to protect it
Question can you do what the new republic military look like and what happened to them??????
Still waiting to get my hands on the new Lego set of this thing
I am getting the newest version of the Lego AT-TE because I want to get to increase my clone forces against my droid forces because my droid forces have a gunship.
You forgot the rebels configuration.
Oh ok
Did the Republic Navy ever use AT-TEs as a means to compensate for the lack of forward facing guns on Venators?
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If the mass driver could penetrate battleship armour, why did it struggle against the AT-AT? Did technology really advance that much?
I would be the top gunner. If I die, I die.
I love this walker. It’s my favourite and would love to drive it!
They prolly PMCS it on motorpool Mondays
I would want to be the main gunner
Nice
Why no music at the end of the video?
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Now do the juggernaut
Could you operate the Main canon from the inside? Cause if Not, i just dont get why this vehicle even existed. It doesnt make sense to leave the only person who can operate the strongest weapon so vaulneaurable.
or atleast like give that open air seat a little armoured cabin
@@CaptainPrincess yeah that would be intelligent too. And would look awesome
That and the massively exposed cockpit. Why you'd protect your tank driver from small arms but not dedicated AT is beyond me.
@@jonathanallen3688 the Thing is, the cockpit isnt too exposed since the Material the Thing is made of is extraordinarily strong. What confuses me tho is that there is no emergency exit for most of the Crew, since we see in the Zille beast Episode that the falling at te's drivers cant escape the cockpit. Massive security issues.
Kinda wonder why the mass driver wasnt a remotely operated