What WOULD be fair would be an AT-ST vs a Strider. My pick? At-ST for sure. AT-ST has superior armor, and is inorganic. A strider has little armor (which we saw by being able to wreck it with a MAX of 8 small RPG’s, which are NOT full on rockets. AT-ST’s require a large coordinated effort to take down in Star Wars Battlegrounds 2, the latest game to show how powerful these things are.

So let’s look at firepower…the strider has 2 weapons, a chin mounted pulse gun, the same that the Resistance smuggled and gave Freeman for his little hoverboat. It’s a powerful gun against organic skins, but against heavy armor?? No go. The warp cannon, though, THAT’s a big gun. It left craters wherever it was shot. But the gun wasn’t fired that much, meaning it probably takes TONS of energy for the Strider to use. Also, it had limited range, just like the pulse gun it had.

The AT-ST has 2 weapons as well, two standard light vehicle blasters and 2 light turbo lasers. I don’t know if you are aware of turbo lasers, but they are the guns that capital ships have. NOt even an X-Wing has turbo lasers. It doesn’t fire as quickly as the blasters, but once fired, they are HUGE range and do massive damage to anything it hits, armored or unarmored. Not to mention the Striders little mele attack would be useless against metal foes.

Winner on weapons, I’d go with the AT-ST for it’s long range abialities.

Movement…both are tight, though the AT-ST has a faster all-out movement rate. But the Strider has better maneauvorability(sp). In urban warfare the Strider would pwn, but in a wider setting, the AT-ST would own. So it would majorly depend on that. But, the AT-ST could swivel 360 degrees on it’s legs, so it wouldn’t need super movement in urban warfare.

Winner on movement, I’d go with AT-ST again for it’s faster top speed and mech-like movement of the head and legs.

Lastely, armor. The Strider’s armor was enough to make it impervious to anything short of RPG’s. The AT-ST can withstand even rockets for a short time as well. I’d say otherall they are close to being similar here, but since the Strider is organic, it will fold quickly to heavy laser fire from an AT-ST. The AT-ST’s armor will deflect much of the pulse gun’s fire from the Strider, and since it can zone the Strider out with longer gun range, the warp gun is all but useless.

Winner on armor, AT-ST.

So for Tronsta, the AT-ST would totally squat the Strider. Maybe I should make an animated GIF celebratin this event…

Well, that answers that!