How does it make sense for the clone army to be superior to battle droids?

How does it even make sense that droid armies predate human armies? Humans feel pain, droids don't, (for example look at the super battle droid who knocks the normal battle droid aside in order to keep on killing). Droids are relentless, they don't panic, etc etc. Plus, droids are produced faster than clones are grown.

How could it be that a clone army is superior to a droid army?

 

The Clones can "think on there feet" & make decisions for themselves based on there surroundings & situation, whilst the droids are being controlled by a ship in space.

Clones are also trained from birth to be warriors; no amount of programming can give a droid that.

 

Heck, the clones also don't give a damn about casualties, don't panic, and are relentless. Plus they're more flexible thinking-wise. The entire droid army counterattack seemed to be very poorly coordinated and planned, particularly after the destruction of the wheel-droids.

Plus: The clones have superior supporting arms (gunships, AT-TEs, SPHA-Ts, Acclamator-class cruisers) and seem to be able to shift priorities more quickly. The clone army is exactly the opposite of what people expect it to be (a vast, rigid, unthinking group of morons) and appears to be highly flexible, utterly relentless and fluid, and far more effective than even a droid army that had them outnumbered five to one.

 

We can not forget the rule of sci-fi design. The cooler the armor or prop design, the more powerful it is. As much as I like the design for the droids, the clones look much cooler.

 

There have been some good answer. But I will just say a little of what has been said. Clones can think on there feet. Where as droids can't really do that.

 

As the Prime Minister of Kamino said, "Clones can think creatively." Battle droids can only do what they're programmed to do. Clones are not limited by such constraint.

 

If you watch the battle on Geonosis, it makes it obvious.

The droids just charge at the clones. They don't have any tactics, they don't try and hit weak spots, they just charge and fire their weapons. You even see some battle droids being knocked over and crunched by their own tanks. They don't even have the brains to move out of the way.

The Clones Attack strategicly. The single out specific targets like ships and tanks then take them out. They are just altogether smarter.

 

Plus, the Clone Trooper's blasters shoot blue bolts

 

Exactly. Blue bolts are much, much better!

Funny, though, that it is the Jedi who come up with the weak spots, not the creatively thinking clones.
It's Anakin who tells them to aim right above the fuel cells and it's Yoda who instructs them to concentrate all their fire power on the nearest starship. Heck, Mace even had to tell them to land in that assembly area

 

Maybe the clone troopers were just above saying: "Well Duh Anakin".

And if Mace didn't tell them to land in the Assembly area, how would they know where he wants to go?

 

Well, maybe they were going to do that anyway...and decided it would be a bit rude to yell "I was about to, baldy!" at a superior officer...

 

Well they still tke orders. It's how they act out the orders that makes them superior.
You tell a droid to attack, and it has a set number of programms it can follow to carry out the order. It's movements are also more limited. A clone can take an order and can have any number of different ways of carrying it out. Like, they're not just limited to attack, defend, escort, and 'shoot them'.

 

The robots have two fat fingers an a thumb and probably wouldnt be good at piloting ships. They had entire robot ships which probably proved inferior to a ship flown by a living thinking pilot.

Oh wait a minute. The robots can think. Any machine that can react to danger with a response of "UH-OH" must have a complex thinking process that rival the clones. Oh well, excuse my post. Bye.

 

I don't believe that the droids are as stupid as you guys make them out to be...

I mean, look at this day and age. The military is starting to develop droids to do the work for them. Sure, so far we've only got small vehicles with a gun mount who can take out some people if programmed to, but imagine where that will lead. So we're going from human armies to droid armies, slowly. In star wars it's the other way around.

 

Bah, saying we're developing droids than can do my job (11-b, light infantry, basically the same as the clones but not as cool) is a serious stretch. Everything we've developed is controlled by a human at a terminal. We're a loong ways from T-800s roaming around.

OK, if they can say things like "uh-oh", why don't we see them react flexibly. The droids don't even react terribly efficiently when Amidala bypasses them onto the level above.

 

Bypass what level? Im not sure of the scene you speak of. But if they were inefficient thats simply beause they are so humanistic that like people have different descision levels and wits. They were probably not as sharp as some. But we can not ignore the fact that the droids have more personality and brains than the mutated clones. In TPM, a droid approached sidiuos hologram and remarked "These underwater village will not remain hidden for long" He displayed personal indulgence and reveled in his evil doings. What droid does that?

 

You talked about Droids having no fear well thats a load of BS.

Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon ignite their Lightsabers which are visible despite the smoke in TPM,a cowardly Battle Droid says Uh Oh!Blast Them!

Obi-Wan is fighting Battle Droids in AOTC and they get scared and run away when they see the Nexu coming up behind him getting ready to attack,even though they could just Shoot/Blast the Nexu and then quickly attack Obi-Wan again after its dead.

Sounds like the Moron Trade Federation doesnt have perfect droid soldiers now doesnt it?its a shame they cant be fearless and just walk forward shooting at everything without getting scared by certain things,its almost as though the personality of the builders rubbed off on the Droids.

 

Uh Oh!Blast Them!

It's the comedic loop in thier programming.

 

"Uh-oh!" may not have been a reaction of fear, but of "surprise." In their programming, these droids did not expect the Jedi to be alive; also, they may have been unfamiliar with lightsabers.

 

The droids may also be programmed for minimal self-preservation. After all, a battle droid who showed reckless disregard for his own safety would not be much use.

 

"The clone army is exactly the opposite of what people expect it to be (a vast, rigid, unthinking group of morons)"


Yeah, that doesn't happen until they have to start attacking the good guys.

 

Yup. And even then, they still annihilate everyone around the good guys.