Why Most Droid Weapons Absolutely SUCKED in the Clone Wars - Droid Weapons Explained

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[lifevest]

“E5s are poor quality, they’re a dime a dozen.”

CIS leadership: “A dime?! Damn we got ripped off.”

[isaackim]

Seppie Commander, "Set your blasters for stun."
B1 Commander, "Uhhh...Sir? We do not have a stun setting."

[RobocopStealerOfFridges]

Literally anyone who played Republic Commando: Impossible. Perhaps the archives are incomplete.

[drewpeterson]

Clones: “Droid weapons suck. Those Clankers can’t aim and are weak”

Also Clones: “WATCH THOSE WRIST ROCKETS!!!!”

[GreatQoutes-]

So basically quantity over quality. That’s kinda of the entire model for the CIS military. Why make expensive rifles for droids that won’t even last that long.

[hunterkiller]

Sounds like the Empire took this model. There were many complaints by Stormtroopers on how their blasters are very poorly calibrated.

[scoutman]

"Why most droid weapons sucked in the Clone Wars"
That does not compute. You're under arrest

[clonesolar]

Palpatine: Does it fire?

Count Dooku: Yes.

Palpatine: Does it aim?

Count Dooku: Yes, but..

Palpatine: Do it.

Count dooku: Ok...

[chengzhou]

“All the droid equipment were made to be modular to the droids that were wielding them, and therefore they did not have to spend any money on various safety features. The carbines that the droids carried were prone to overheating the entire weapon, making it useless to our sensitive little hands, especially if you want a decent rate of fire. On top of that, most of the other weapons were tough to reverse-engineer, although it has been done. The highly modular nature of the droid template evolutions were one of its keys to success.” -CS/CT-8711-12 “Cheng”, Former Captain and Scout of the 442nd Siege Battalion

[eveningswan]

The sniper rifle going fully automatic makes perfect sense to me. If they are found in the spot and are getting flanked they swap to full auto and get put up a fight

[nunouno]

Man... Imagine how powerful and devastating the Droid Army could have been if Sidious and Dooku weren't screwing the CIS over at every opportunity.

[Meravokas]

I think that in the case of B2's with how the wrist blasters look in the movies (Over the stylization of comics, TCW, ect.) the energy pack is likely a case of being part of the built in battery system of the droid, eliminating the portion of a blaster that needs to be replaced most. The Tibana gas reserves, which for almost all blaster weapons, are the least likely thing for you to run dry on given that it was pressurized to a replicable liquid canister, tube, fixed internal container, whatever. The B2 could likely easily house reserves as large as some mounted (light) blaster emplacements, meaning that the likelihood of a B2 running out of munitions for it's primary wrist blasters during campaign/between maintenance cycles is actually quite low. This is just conjecture, but it's also what makes the most sense for a built in weapon on such a large and armored platform as the B2.

[SureSShuffle]

Ahhh yes no wonder my KD on battlefront 2 with droids is 0.0009.

[TheNorthie]

CIS sound like how the Soviets treated their tank the T-34. They looked at the T-34 and made the decision to make large numbers of them as this was how they were gonna beat the Germans. The data they collected showed no T-34 lasted more than 6-7 months in the field, so they made sure all their parts could last at least that long. No need for crew comfort as well since The tank itself didn’t last that long under combat. But that was perfectly fine as they could get that crew into a fresh tank immediately afterwards.

It was a cold and calculating decision, but it was one that won them the war

[arandomcrusader]

B1 Battle Droid:"We're droids sir We're meant to be expendable."
Clone:"That seems about right."

[Ajc-nixn]

6:04 perhaps it’s because they expected their snipers to be found, so when they did, they would lock down their entrances and take as many clones as they could with them before they were destroyed?

[casbot]

A sensible tactic if the CIS was actually playing to win, would be to salvage clone weapons left on the battlefield - a standard tactic of the attrition warfare of WW2 where captured enemy gear was often put into service.
And in Star Wars, there isn't even the issue of ammunition calibre.

[ShadowMaster]

i like how 2005 b2 had the supers reload by doing a left then right spin with their wrists

[charlessaint]

Describing the SC-14 as "nothing more than a tube with a grip", reminds me of the Sten gun from World War II. It was described as bed spring with a barrel.

[ace]

I’m going to guess the rapid fire mode on the E5s is in case the sniper was found out they could still fight at close range