Battle of Dantooine ( Clone Wars ) / Legends The Battle of Dantooine took place during the Clone Wars , four months after the First Battle of Geonosis . Fought on the grassy plains of Dantooine , it pitted a small unit of the Grand Army of the Republic against a massive number of battle droids . Prelude . The Battle of Dantooine began immediately before the Battle of Muunilinst . During said battle , the Confederacy of Independent Systems used Dantooine as a staging point to launch an attack against the assault ship blockade around the InterGalactic Banking Clan headquarters . However , Jedi Master Mace Windu learned of the Confederate presence on Dantooine , and left with a force of clone troopers to halt the progress of the Separatists . Count Dooku was also hoping to uncover Rakata n artifacts on the planet . The Battle . The battle erupted on Dantooine as clones and B2 super battle droids clashed in a vast , open plain . Clones used PLX - 1 portable missile launcher to destroy scores of droids , whereas the droids used their own missile launchers to shoot down many gunships and overwhelming numbers to cause many casualties in the clone ranks . However , with Master Windu at their side , the clones slowly gained the upper hand , despite being outnumbered nearly four to one by Confederate super battle droids . However , the battle was suddenly turned upside down with the arrival of a large siege weapon — the seismic tank . This tank used its seismic driver — used for mining operations in peaceful days — to cut a swath through the clone trooper ranks , either crushing them outright or sending soldiers flying from the shockwave , along with taking out a contingent of their own forces . In the confusion , Windu lost his lightsaber , and was forced to fight a number of droids unarmed . The ability with the Force that he showed in that battle has since become legendary : During the fight , he eluded and obliterated droids by multiple Force moves as the Force push , Force speed , Force punch and Force Wave , a technique so powerful it incapacitated droids within a 50 - meter radius , and in one particular fight , Windu disassembled a super battle droid and used its pieces to destroy the other remaining droids . Retrieving his lightsaber amid another seismic shockwave , Windu flew towards the seismic tank . Windu cut his way in , disabled the seismic driver , destroyed the tank ' s droid crew by pushing the crew out the window , and knocked out the controls . Flying clear , Windu watched on as the seismic tank smashed into the ground and exploded . After he landed , a small boy gave him a bottle of water . The battle was won . Attack on the failed Jedi students . A taskforce of droids was dispatched during the battle to attack a farm that was run by failed Jedi students . With the help of their Force powers and their banthas , the former Jedi were able to defeat their attackers , despite their lack of weapons . Afterward , they fled the planet in their airship and decided to fly it to Coruscant . Later assault . Windu ' s remaining troops required medical supplies , leading Jedi Padawans Barriss Offee and Ahsoka Tano to take a medical frigate to collect the supplies from a medical station near Ord Cestus . However , their ship was overrun by a batch of Geonosian brain worms before they could complete the supply run . Behind the scenes . The Battle of Dantooine was created for the " " television micro - series . It later received a mention in " Brain Invaders , " an episode of the . confirmed that both conflicts were the same .