Originally posted by NewGuy01
No, it's canonically stated that an IG-100 is more than a match for most Jedi Knights.
Maybe in skill, which I could buy, but they have inferior weapons, which don't take down/kill as easily as a lightsaber. Better reach and the ability to block lightsabers, sure, but a saber is still the more dangerous.
Originally posted by PTforthewin
So if Grievous raised an army of magnaguards that match the jedi numbers, the guards would comepletely annihilate the jedi order? That's stupid, the jedi if not PIS would easily destroy a guard with the force.
The Magnaguard can *only* duel, the Jedi have a large number of other advantages. TK can be used for indirect attacks, precog allows one to know where other forces are and prepared, and similar. Plus, Jedi level up to a higher extent than magnaguard can.
If there were an equal number and each side lined up in straitforward duels, the casualties will be extremely nasty. But the non-droid mind allows for a lot of lateral solutions on how to deal with a melee-only force that's not too creative.
Basically Magnaguard utilize the pinnacle of droid technology to compete with Jedi in one and only one area.