The Shocking Military Evolution Of The Confederacy Of Independent Systems

So many people forget how much of a military genius grievous was. (To be fair it wasn't showcased in any movies or shows, if they were I'd be happy to know which ones)

It's funny, Palpatine made the CIS hold back ALOT. He even leaked a certain droid'a factory's location because it was too good at it's job.

it's one of those things people forget. The Clone Wars wasn't just GAR vs Separatists but dozens of conflicts caused by the two factions or that became proxy conflicts because it furthered their own interests. Like the Dac civil war. Both species were already less than friendly and the war made it actively worse but CIS stoked that pre-existing hostility to full out succession to gain access to Quarrian engineering and shipbuilding.

Dooku is quite the relatable character in regards to trying to be faithful to his spirituality, but not to the degree of being complacent to corruption which guises itself as virtue.

Hego Damask was the man with a plan

Grievous in whatever : genius tactician, martial powerhouse, terrifying presence Grievous in movie : cocky asthmatic piece of garbage

I want a live action movie of Star Wars Battlefront game, The Clone Wars where it's all military only, just Clone and Droid only, not a Jedi vs. Sith battle. Random Jedi appear to help, and only mention Anakin and Obi Wan, without appearing. Full action sequences from beginning to end of the movie, a 3 hour movie.

It would be cool if a game like Battlefront had levels where you actually played as the local allied/loyal militia outside of the main military, with their own unique trooper variants. This could include militias outside of the droid/trooper armies like this, as well as proxy armies, and the guns for hire factions, like Mercenaries, Pirates(or Privateers), Slavers etc. An example would be Trandoshan Slavers who worked with both the CIS Separatist Alliance as well as Palpatine's First Galactic Empire. It would spice things up.

I miss the old Clone Wars. The Jabiimi Civil War is the single best arc of the story.

Never forget that one storm trooper that seen general grieves? And just decided right away he was gonna shoot him point blank from the inside of an elevator with an rpg and everyone just "let this man cook"

Jabiim was Crazy

I'd love to see more human and organic CIS militias in star wars. Grew up being a Clone Trooper fan but no longer.

One thing I didnt like is how they portrayed the Clone Wars as mostly being clones against droids. There were private armies and militias on both sides Umbara being one example but we barely got to see any of that.

Filoni: "Nah dude it's just droids all the way down"

The CIS was right

The CIS was made up of all the major corporations that were allowed to have standing militarized forces for trade defense collections and other legitimate business practices. Battle droids aka enforcer droids were also not regulated the same way standing armies and navies were so the trade federation and banking clans and techno union were able to work together to create massive droid armies in very little time.

General grievous is like top 3 military leaders the fact that he got dozens of rival corporations and hundreds of different militias to work as one is extremely difficult he got them to put there differences aside and work together under his command

I always loved the nimbus troops from jabim

Umbaran and Zygerrian separatists were badass with their own militias

For all of his ruthlessness, General Grievous' mistake was trying to bring the war to the Galactic Republic. If they were trying to split off from the Republic, it would have made more sense to hunker down, fortify defenses within Separatist territory, and wage a war of attrition; wear down the resources of the army trying to invade you, you weaken them enough to where they admit defeat. But by trying to invade Republic territory, you waste your own resources and manpower, thus weakening your own army and leaving it open to attacks by the enemy. This is the exact same mistake that Robert E. Lee made in both the Battle of Antietam and the Battle of Gettysburg. By trying to invade the North (allegedly with the goal of dealing a blow to Northern morale), he wasted precious resources that would have been better used wearing down Union forces had he stayed south of the Potomac. Both battles ended in a Confederate defeat (Gettysburg was especially a disaster for them), and Lee even blamed himself for the defeat at Gettysburg. Of course, the big difference is that the entire Clone Wars was being manipulated by Palpatine to take absolute power in the galaxy as Emperor. It would have been interesting to see what he would have done if he had known that Palpatine and Sidious were the same person and controlled the entire outcome of the war from the shadows.