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Would you believe me if I told you this was old? Standby

//Update 24 Aug 2018//

Alright, so now to dish out an explanation for this piece.

This concept was mainly motivated by how my co-author and I are frustrated with TCW's use of tanks and their respective vehicle crews. What we aspire to do in the series (much like the pilots) is have their vehicles heavily modified with a tactical purpose. Here, you can see that the main front guns have been replaced with more anti-personnel weaponry, because face it- if a hostile comes real close and they aim their cannons lower they'll just damage their walker or break the seal in the cockpit cabin. Also, the main cannon's operator is always exposed, take for example during the battles of Teth and Geonosis- those gunners are taken out fast and you've an unmanned cannon and a vulnerable tank crew. So much like how the modern military has adapted to that by up-armoring our Humvee's and MRAP's, the 77th will also do that, with an enclosed seat with numerous cameras and viewports to better protect the gunner. The missile/rocket launcher was mainly added because there was nothing in that spot and I felt that the AT-TE is much akin to WW2 Sherman tanks with what all can be added to them.

Finally, the tank commander in the forefront- of course he needs to be in his vehicle but we wanted to showcase the design of the commander to differentiate from the standard crewman. Additionally, he is holding a device that can manually activate certain weapons systems, in this case the launcher that just received a lock. We have yet to name this commander, but when we do I will update this description. The paint scheme is also a reference to how Hasbro made the Speeder Bike Recon/AT-TE Assault Squad battle pack where all the clones were adorned in a gray paint scheme. We wanted to keep this element but also have the 77th colors emblazoned- I hope you share in my sentiment that it fits fairly well! You'll also notice that there are some Security Forces clones waiting for the charge order, equipped with the modified DC-15 one can remember from the 2003 Clone Wars series, basically the M4/M16 with M203 attachment of the Star Wars universe.

Thanks for waiting on this update, and I hope you enjoy this concept!

Description
Would you believe me if I told you this was old? Standby

//Update 24 Aug 2018//

Alright, so now to dish out an explanation for this piece.

This concept was mainly motivated by how my co-author and I are frustrated with TCW's use of tanks and their respective vehicle crews. What we aspire to do in the series (much like the pilots) is have their vehicles heavily modified with a tactical purpose. Here, you can see that the main front guns have been replaced with more anti-personnel weaponry, because face it- if a hostile comes real close and they aim their cannons lower they'll just damage their walker or break the seal in the cockpit cabin. Also, the main cannon's operator is always exposed, take for example during the battles of Teth and Geonosis- those gunners are taken out fast and you've an unmanned cannon and a vulnerable tank crew. So much like how the modern military has adapted to that by up-armoring our Humvee's and MRAP's, the 77th will also do that, with an enclosed seat with numerous cameras and viewports to better protect the gunner. The missile/rocket launcher was mainly added because there was nothing in that spot and I felt that the AT-TE is much akin to WW2 Sherman tanks with what all can be added to them.

Finally, the tank commander in the forefront- of course he needs to be in his vehicle but we wanted to showcase the design of the commander to differentiate from the standard crewman. Additionally, he is holding a device that can manually activate certain weapons systems, in this case the launcher that just received a lock. We have yet to name this commander, but when we do I will update this description. The paint scheme is also a reference to how Hasbro made the Speeder Bike Recon/AT-TE Assault Squad battle pack where all the clones were adorned in a gray paint scheme. We wanted to keep this element but also have the 77th colors emblazoned- I hope you share in my sentiment that it fits fairly well! You'll also notice that there are some Security Forces clones waiting for the charge order, equipped with the modified DC-15 one can remember from the 2003 Clone Wars series, basically the M4/M16 with M203 attachment of the Star Wars universe.

Thanks for waiting on this update, and I hope you enjoy this concept!