Editing All Terrain Soup (section)

==AT-AT==
[[land_raider|"All Terrain-Armored Transport".]] These are the big, '''BIG''' bastards amongst the All-Terrain Walkers; enormous quadrupedal armored transports who look almost like giant robot camels, but who aren't so funny when you realize they can shrug off heavy artillery like it was nothing. Slow as molasses, but they ''will'' get to where they're going, and the head-like cockpit's twin heavy lasers can dish out a fair bit of pain along the way. Slow is something of a misnomer, whilst the movements are far from swift long legs can cover a lot of ground, allowing the walker to make nearly 40mph (or 66kph). Not quite speedy but more than enough to cover a lot of ground to deposit it's complement of troops without taking too much fire. The enormous legs are one of the vehicles defining features, and seem like weak points the truth is a bit more complicated. Ion (EMP) rockets and missiles large enough to threaten AT-ATs are rare and mostly built by Imperial manufacturers, mines large enough to do the same are not. The necessary sections of the legs are all mechanical, there are sensors and other things that are nice to have, but if a leg takes an EMP the walkers motive systems are unaffected.

The AT-AT doesn't have a good parallel in modern armored fighting vehicles.  It has fairly powerful weapons, but only in a narrow arc.  It has capacity for a couple squads of passengers, but to disembark they must use jump packs or drop ropes.  Its principle virtue is simply its absurdly heavy armor, such that it is effectively impervious to the scale of energy weapons that it could reasonably expect to face on the battlefield.  In the face of massed blaster fire, the AT-AT simply plods along, smashing through resistance by virtue of being little more beyond a gigantic walking slab of metal.  It's essentially a battering ram; a combination of assault gun and heavily armored APC for when you have to face a defensive line that would impress the French in order to bring down a high priority obstacle (like a shield generator).

Though it is worth remembering in Star Wars setups like Echo base are not uncommon. Unrestricted by size and power, ground based cannons and shields are vastly superior to their space mobile counterparts. After the Naboo attacks a lot of planets started self fortifying, and even more got scary stuff from either the GAR or CIS. The AT-AT is a [[Land_Raider|super heavy IFV]] for cracking these sorts of defenses. Poor Commanders (and writers) use them as MBTs but they aren't. The former exists because the Empire focused more on loyalty then skill in training and the latter because money is more important than accuracy( and because some legitimately good writers just are not well versed in military strategy.)

During the battle of [[Valhalla|Ho]][[Fenris|th]] Rogue Squadron's predecessor Rogue Group, equipped with modified T-47 Airspeeders, were able to destroy several walkers. The T-47 is based on a ship yard tug, refitted for cold weather combat. They kept the harpoon launcher from the default model.  The harpoons were capable of adhering to the armor of walker using [[bullshit|specially designed magnets]], the cable had the tensile strength to haul around multi-ton ships mid construction, so with several loops were able to trip the walkers.  However they suffered heavy losses during the battle and were unable to stop Blizzard Squadron from destroying the shield generator and overrunning Echo Base.

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[[File:D20ATAT.jpeg |300px|thumb|right|Told you that you could play an entire game on its base.]]
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====AT-ACT====
[[File:Star-Wars-Rogue-One-Concept-Art-Matt-Allsopp-07-Scarif-AT-ACT.jpg|thumb|300px|right|Sure go ahead and laugh. I will still eat your Infantry.]]
The armored Space Truck of the Empire, possibly made from the repurposed hulls of the old model AT-AT seen in [[Star_Wars:Rebels|Rebels]]. They haul important things from one place to the next, and got their big debut in Rogue One. Very fragile compared to a proper AT-AT, as common X-Wings and other Rebel starfighters have been shown to blow them to bits without much trouble.
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