Ripplin said:
Monroville said:
would they have things with legs walking around a dense forest of trees? Really?

It's like people say 'why don't they just fly above the trees?' in the speeder bike scene. Doesn't always make sense. Wouldn't be nearly exciting otherwise. In the case of the walkers, I would think the AT-AT would do better than the AT-ST, but still a tad cramped in the middle of a forest. :p

Is it really an issue in a universe with lightsabres?

The AT-ATs could clear a path through a forest in a rather short space of time, especially if they had TIE Bombers burning the trees out of the way too (or if they were fitted with foot blades as I suggested a few pages back).

If you think about it the AT-AT isn't a very practical war machine in any environment (even ice-fields) it's more a techno-fantasy element than a Science Fiction one (though it would scare the crap out of me to see a number of those things crashing towards my house).