Why did the Empire chose walker type vehicles? Why not use a gunship instead?

it's a homage to antiquity where war elephants must've seemed similar to those war machines appearing on the horizon in the first Star Wars movie.

you can't tie the legs of a gunship together.

Only answer.
Best answer.

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Real in lore answer? Some planets lack the magnetic fields for hover vehicles and jets and stuff take more fuel. The Empire is all-terrain baby. In books and stuff they are more versitile and practical than the movie.

Walkers have incredibly thick armor, hence the uselessness of military grade fighter mounted blasters.
Even with Vader's usual shortsightedness, failing to deploy ground forces alongside the walkers that could easily have fired on the metal lines the fighters were wrapping ( fire away, no chance of damage to the walker itself ), or shooting the annoying jedi twat before he could use his saber, one of the few weapons that doesn't need to be mounted on a capitol ship capable of penetrating walker armor.

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yep, "in lore" answers are just post-hoc reasoning to make it fit in the universe

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external engines are a weak point in the armor, allowing enemies to fire into the exhausts.
flying craft have to have intakes and outtakes the walkers didn't need at all
the walkers are nigh invulnerable by comparison
even with jedi bullshit, only two walkers were brought down, and the planet was won
LONG LIVE THE EMPIRE

He also didn't soften the target first with a good bombardment and augment the ground assault with air support. This allowed for the Rebels to have air supremacy for a majority of the invasion. Lucas wasn't a very good tactician.

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If you don't want an in-universe answer, then there is no answer, because the empire doesn't exist and doesn't choose things. Lucas wrote some bullshit about walkers and the prop guy thought these up.

Cos walkers look cool as fuck.

Assuming this is general knowledge in the Star Wars Universe, it actually becomes a solid reason to use them. Huge intimidating walkers show up on planet, and you realize the empire uses them when no one else can because thats just how far ahead of your little planet they are. Your engineers have written off walkers as complex and impractical, yet here they are in the main battle line. It basically says, until you can field a fleet of these, don't even bother.

How do you think Vader took his coffee?

And look how that turned out. The base was destroyed but the main dude’s they wanted captured got away.

On the dark side!

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dudes too cool to drink coffee like u hipster fucks. He only drinks his own urine.

Because in the 70’s that was a common thought possibility yet.

they had a localized planetary shield. that's what the walkers were there to drop

but it's an artistic choice and since Lucas is responsible for what the fictional entity "the empire" does, it can be answered by analysing or theorising about his reasoning for making that choice.

>flying craft have to have intakes and outtakes the walkers didn't need at all
because they are run by wookies in a threadmill?

They conquered a camel-planet at some point and liked what they saw, so adopted the design for their walkers.

Well after Mustafar, I wouldn't think he wouldn't like a burnt taste.

Because the Admiral took the fleet out of light speed too early and the rebels were able to initiate their defensive screens. The only option was to do a ground assault. The Admiral paid for his mistake with his life.

It not as efficient, but knowing the wookies are truly suffering makes it worth it.

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it's actually the best bart of it. fucking hate the hairy bastards

But isn't that the point? Like the whole story is about how the empire ruled through fear intimidation and what not. They were inarguably successful up to that point, and did destroy the base. The whole plot of star wars is that this sole principle of 'power through fear' is flawed. The rebels of course 'win' because their power is hope. I think the walkers (retroactively) are meant to display the empires hubris (to the audience)

Armor and the shield generator

>Thick armor
>Very strong firepower
>High visibility and huge firing arc
>Dominates against land vehicles/installations
>Air units capable of damaging them are extremely susceptible to the Empire's fighter horde and overwhelming groundfire
>Can protect troops then deploy them

iirc General Veers came up with the idea of AT-AT walkers because the AT-TE was becoming obsolete in all but a few circumstances/duties; they fit well into the Empire's aesthetic and military doctrine thus they use them as their main ground vehicle for these occasions

The Empire did still use Gunships (LAAT/i, MAAT) but used them more for insertions, retrieval and select assaults where troops need fast transport and a gunship can loiter to support them without the risk of enemy fighters
That doesn't really fit into the Battle of Hoth where the shield was up, their were rebel fighters and the gunship would have to cross potentially hundreds of AA installations to reach any suitable target
No doubt they were used to attack/secure secondary objectives in the battle

because it was a throw back to WWI trench warfare where the AT-ATs and the intimidating tanks and the troops are helpless to watch them approach. For fucks sake they were literally in trenches.

They also shameless replayed this shit in TLJ movie.

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a rebel literally said they had trouble making their speeders adapt to the cold. prolly the same reason with the empire, the planet was an ice ball

It's definitely the shield generator though because it withstood bombing runs. Lucas wanted variety from mere spacewar.

From a tactical standpoint, AT-ST made absolute sense on Endor, the forest blocked spaceships from doing anything.

just fucking torch the whole thing.

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Different weapons for different circumstances.

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Then how did the walkers get there?

Doesnt work, we tried that in veitnam.

we didn't torch the whole thing back then
>burn the whole planet to crisps
>wait some hundret years for the ash to set
>plunder recources

The empire chose walker type vehicles because it was the most heavily armored type of vehicles that could handle any planets weather conditions.

This user is correct. Intimidation was also what they went for.

Deployed from an Imperial Star Destroyer, most likely.

>most heavily armored type of vehicles that could handle any planets weather conditions
what about a simple tank?

Why could they get through the shield and not a weapon. I assume if you can travel faster than light you could just deorbit one of those stupid walkers and let it hit the ground at reentry velocity.

The real answer is it is just a popcorn flick and it is for dramatic effect

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why were the older ships in episode 1-3 nicer than the new ships in episode 4-6?

because its fucking cool, how many scifi tanks do you remember from movies that are more iconic than these bastards

>once apon a time in a land far away
>legend tells of movie producers with original ideas and aesthetic concepts free from the cancer of political and social agenda

>they had to lose
the empire won that fight
the rebels were on the run for the entire movie because their base was discovered and annihilated

Because its cool af and not some dumb marvel movie