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[Star Wars] Why weren't battle droids more effective? They have computers for brains. They should bullseye every shot. Right?
gpt
They were all controlled by a solitary brain. Remember that big ball-shaped ship? That was holding the singular droid brain that remotely operated every single one of the battle droids. When that was destroyed, all of the droids were shut down. This might not seem relevant, but let me assure you it is. The battle strategy for the CIS was one that was later adopted by the Empire: Victory through numbers, not skill. It's incredibly expensive to mass produce especially deadly and skilled droids, so they decided to instead super-mass-produce relatively frail and weak droids(that being the B1 series Battle Droid), mass produce some decent droids(The Super Battle Droids), and low produce "elite" droids(The Droidekas), among others.