They are great, we should push for them ASAP
The only other droid that is better is the IG-100 MagnaGuard, but they only came out at the end of the war
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The only other droid that is better is the IG-100 MagnaGuard, but they only came out at the end of the war
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But yeah, so far we want for research to get tri-fighter droids early, improved B-1's, variants of the Droideka and the updated buzz droid. Is this good so far? Because commado droids will come pretty soonish, and they're great at base, so I don't see any real need to improve a already great design. I personally see a lot of potential in B-2 droids, especially the ones with jetpacks and wrist rockets. They'd fit pretty well with mobile AAT detachments and elite formations, I'd say.
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Well, we are a DROID. In theory, could we re-purpose ourselves as a droid producer? We're not organic and we don't need years of study to learn how to produce the right products efficiently (actually learning how to hyperjump instead of shutting down to conserve energy is far more efficient than what was in canon) and still do it in a way that organics can't get to that production. Just by making it impossible.
Although I wonder if it's possible for us to do propaganda and public relations to increase our popularity as the story progresses?
It's just that if you look at it with an open mind, the Republic does have a bunch of problems with corruption and they've been piling up for 1000+ years. So it's logical that we shouldn't have any trouble getting someone's support. And fanatical support because even in canon there were those who sincerely hated the Republic as it was and not for nothing.
In fact, I would like to see not only fighting, but also revealing various dirty secrets of the Senator and the Republic, playing on the contrasts and other things that are dear to my heart. That is, to conduct an information war with them, pitting them against each other. We didn't just get the information hacker, did we?
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before getting any sort of Fortress world, I'll be pushing for the creation of our own factory ships, since the ability to actually pick up and move our production capabilities with our fleet is HUGE.
I say we leave that up to the leadership in the CIS senate, since we don't have any sort of authority outside of our military purpose. We gotta remember that Grievous will be ordering us to our objectives, and we'll be very busy with the war. There's also the fact that I want to focus on battling and stuff, instead of politics and propaganda. It just won't be as interesting otherwise I feel.
I say we leave that up to the leadership in the CIS senate, since we don't have any sort of authority outside of our military purpose. We gotta remember that Grievous will be ordering us to our objectives, and we'll be very busy with the war. There's also the fact that I want to focus on battling and stuff, instead of politics and propaganda. It just won't be as interesting otherwise I feel.
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Well, that's just my opinion, but sometimes it's worth diluting these very battles with something like this. To stir up confusion in the ranks of our enemies and do our dirty work under the cover of that confusion. All according to the precepts of the dark side of power.
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Eh, i'm fine playing mind games, but not outside the battlefield. I don't want to play an Evil bastard, but rather someone similar in attitude to Thrawn, if I had to say.
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Well on the Commando droids, we could get them better armor, expanded equipment package like giving them deployable drones, we got a few options to improve them
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Eh, better armour would likely weigh them down, and their greatest strength besides their brain is their agility. As for better weapon packages, outfitting them with rocket launchers and explosives as guerilla demolition/sabotage groups would work out. That doesn't require 'research' thankfully. What we need to do is shore up our weaker units.
Well, Thrawn was also involved in politics to get reinforcements and new weapons. It's not like he was building and inventing all this himself. And at least he was doing propaganda on his fleet.
We don't need to do it, since we're Droids, but we can do it to smear an already dirty Republic that's almost choking on its own filth. It doesn't take much intelligence there. Just to expose and spread what is out in the open as it is.
For example legalized slavery, using other worlds as fodder for the central worlds, using artificially created slaves for war that will be thrown out at the end of this war. About their rapid aging and nothing to say. All in all, it's a matter of will, and it won't be hard to smear the Republic in filth.
Anyway, I hope to end up with a saboteur and assassin with warlord skills. The equivalent of a cyber Jedi, yeah.
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The thing is, we're not going to be an assasin or saboteur (Personally).We're a commander, and we'll likely be on campaigns in the mid-rim as ordered by grievous. We're going to be commanding hundreds of thousands of droids and a whole ass fleet, so we aren't going to be discrete. An assasin would have fit better as a sith acolyte at the start of the vote, but we're here now, and that makes little sense, no offense. We are, as stated by the quest 'One of the only competent Strategists to pass General Grievouses rigorous standards of command and doctrine'. That said, using saboteur tactics to destroy planetary defenses with our fleet in orbit? That's certainly in the books, I'd say.
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Nothing prevents us from being both? Grievous is a competent warrior and military commander, and we could take our place beside him as a mass saboteur strategist. I see no reason why one precludes the other. Yes, it would not be a highly specialized assembly, but I like it better.
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I was taking it as you wanting us personally going out and infiltrating places like a knock-off Skywalker, which, to be perfectly, honest sounds BORING when you consider a lot of the Clone Wars series was basically just sneaking around and sabotage.
Uh, not really. More like a sort of vanguard that infiltrates enemy territory and opens the way for future offensive forces, and after that joins as a field commander.
That is: Infiltration - sabotage - first strike and diversion until Grvus arrives with the main forces - jointly finishing off the enemies or coordinated planning.
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I see. Well, whatever floats your boat. Personally, i want the sabotage stuff to be like a third priority for us, basically just a means to facilitate victory for ourselves, since we'll probably be operating as our own task force on the frontlines. I want big fleet/droid battles, rather than small unit operations.
To take this talk somwhere related to us, super tactical droids will eventually be rolled out as a upgrade to the T-series and it would be a good upgrade bur do we really want to go super? Since we are liable to have jedi on our ass I'd say requesting a spare ig-100 chassis or one from the eg series would be a good call, especially if we can layer ourselves in phriik or cortosis.
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Yes, we DO want to go super tactical droid. I think you're getting way over your head when it comes to making ourselves a peak fighter. I've accepted the initial combat upgrade, since we'll be able to get the other stuff later, but I blatantly refuse to try to make a knockoff Grievous in combat. The Super tactical was an amazing improvement over the initial T-series droid, and we WANT that.
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Theres actually already a droid for that
V2-series commando droid
The V2 commando droid was an advanced battle droid used during the Clone Wars. The V2 was designed to be used in surgical strikes and was not generally deployed as a front-line combatant. They often worked in small four unit groups and were very adept at using explosives to accomplish their...
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One, I'm not trying to become a mini grevious, I'm just trying to be more defensive in mind, eg series and ig-100 droids are built and rated for combat with better ergonomics to decrease damage taken. And two, Like it or not we are probable to come under fire directly one way or the other, we might have to deploy planetside alongside our droid underlings for one reason or another, I'd prefer if we had. Body that can take a hit better then a glorified super computer on legs no matter how snazzy we would be looking.
And there's the little known colicoid assassin droid that looks like a skinny droideka with blades for arms. There quite a few sneaky droid models.Theres actually already a droid for that
V2-series commando droid
The V2 commando droid was an advanced battle droid used during the Clone Wars. The V2 was designed to be used in surgical strikes and was not generally deployed as a front-line combatant. They often worked in small four unit groups and were very adept at using explosives to accomplish their...
Also Erratic, small question, what colour is our chassis and tone of our vocabulator, those are the real questions.
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…did you not see what upgrades ended up winning? We will NOT be in the line of fire anyways, unless you were planning for us to charge their frontline? We've already got upgrades to both our body and weaponry. The paranoia is unreal. We'll have a base camp, that's for certain, and bodyguards. Anything further is just overkill.
I did in fact see what plan won but it never Hurts to be more prepared, war is inherently chaotic and we might find ourselves in a ugly spot more quickly then we would like.
And more subjectively I just way more like the look of the ig-100s and eg-series, especially the eg-series with their darth bane style heads.
Well it's a droid, droids are logically going to be stronger then organics, I just doubt that a super tactical body would be the most durable of upgrades, I just prefer the contours and redundancies of the ig-100 as well as the intimidation factor they provide.
I'd at least want us to get a backup body if our primary one gets damaged, I want us to not be caught withoue ovotic pants down.
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The current plan I want to go is have droid army being fully networked, a grand web with nunerous nodes of various sizes. You have the centeral nodes like main command centers and centeral computers, followed by smaller smaller command center, comamnd units, command post, and down level it goes till you hit B1's and other infantry. Their is no centeral node that if destroyed will wipe army, with various points fall back on to supplement their capabilities, and while it would make us a bit more vulnerable against E-WAR as we have everything networked, just means we have to work on cybersecurity, which I'm pretty sure is already on the docket