I Redesigned The Century Tank

I was always under the impression that it was supposed to be stupid. That it came from a colossal mad house of desperation with people cobbling things together to fight.

You know you're shit when the TIE Mauler looks at your design and says "Wow. You suck."

This thing makes 40k designs look reasonable

I think the premise of designing an assault vehicle with a huge front facing window section is inherently problematic, but fun designs nonetheless.

Imagine being a New Republic serviceman who transferred from being a pilot to fighting on the ground and feeling happy that you don't have to see the countless identical TIE fighters that you've come to really hate anymore and then you get intel that an Imperial remnant force is approaching your position and when they roll into view it's these

I'm going to imagine these as a bunch of Imperial last ditch designs made late into the war out of various parts they had on hand.

My personal favorite is the first redesign as it's basically a tank destroyer with that non-turreted turbolaser. Plus, the new brace on the back opens up a wide degree of customization, allowing it to be easily outfitted for multiple roles. I imagine variants including a portable med bay, cargo, rocket pods [similar to the hailfire droid] and probably much more.

That little upside down cockpit turret tank is genius! Maybe if it were a repulsor vehicle it could fit a bit more into the star wars aesthetic

The hoverboard design evokes the hailfire droid alot actually

That tiny fast walker would give the pilot extreme motion sickness I love it!

I love how the wheel Tie has an actual Tie silhouette. Imagine being a rebel soldier, fighting in a trench for some reason. The ground starts to shake, and you see the shadow of the infamous Tie Fighter fall over you. You glance over expecting to see a Starfighter, and instead are greeted with the sight of this giant wheeled vehicle leap over your trench, sending a flurry of blaster fire at other squads, and squashing one of your comrades in arms when it lands on the other side. That is traumatic in a way that suits Star Wars perfectly. You cooked so much more than you had any right to.

"A tank needs a turret" Strv 103 : "Heard you were talking shit"

8:27 “Lord Vader I think we may have given the engineers to much coffee.”

My favorite is the wheely-tie tank. Another advantage is that it repurposes the body of a tie fighter with minimal modifications, allowing a standardized control/weapons platform to be used in a new role (just detach pylons, add treads, give motivating imperial speech and watch your units become scrap metal). That makes a lot of sense for the tie tank concept as the more the hull changes the more the question arises "why not build an original dedicated tank?" Answer: you can build a hell of a lot more of these and dump them under an enemy's air defenses. Imperial tie-swarm doctrine, bludgeoning its way past a problem that fighters can't solve themselves. The improvised AA capacity is also likely to please some daft admiral out there obsessed with winning air superiority by any means. I also really dig the first design as an infantry-supported tank destroyer (very fun concept for Star Wars), but if we're being sensible I'd add armor plates over the cockpit glass (giving the pilot only narrow slits to look out of. +1 for survivability and +1 for intimidation factor even if -5 for perception).

The way this fluctuates between "Super cool concept" and "Utter abomination" is beautiful in a horrific kind of way

The transition from well designed tanks to the Angry Caterpillar and the AT-RT with back problems was amazing. Please do more of these

So we have a self propelled field gun, a proper TIE based light tank, german interwar tank, hailfire but downgrade, goofy ah hah tank, TIE/AT-ST field mod, and baby zombie with gun. Of those the open top field gun style does feel the most Star Wars, and I could totally see an imperial remnant faction swapping out a damaged AT-ST cockpit for a retrofitted TIE cockpit.

It's a shame the Empire never though of the application of TIE cockpits as wheels.

Kugelblitz tie is not something I thought I needed until this moment. Still as is reflected by the rest of the comments, the first two as essentially being a command and standard variant of the century and the best redesigns in the video is my thoughts on this experiment.

so your first itteration made it a Tank Hunter, your second one we get a light tank armed with a battle ship cannon, the Very angry caterpillar ends up being a Tankette, then you just get wired LOVE IT!