Juggernauts

[Enkidoh]

The Juggernauts were more common in version 1.0, where they seemed to serve as the Garlean Empire's main fighter/mobile weapon system. Plenty were seen in the original 1.0 opening movie during the Battle of Silvertear Skies (where one crashed onto the malboro Derplander was fighting, only to inadvertenly scoop him up and fly off with him, and during the battle the dragons were one-shotting them!), and they were also shown later in the game storming the Black Shroud in a cutscene during the main story quest Together, We Stand as part of a Garlean operation targeting the sylphs - which was the beginning of a deterioration in sylvaan relations with the 'spoken races' that led to the eventual summoning of Ramuh.

And during the final Tanaka-era story quest Future's Perfect the player actually encounters one in battle along with a Imperial Centurion and two grunts - alas the Juggernaut is untargetable and cannot be destroyed, instead the trick was to lure the soldiers into the Juggernaut's targeting AoE field, so that they would be caught by the Juggernaut's powerful magitek cannon. Of course if you were too slow or lag screwed things up, it would one shot you instead.

But as the Battle of Carteneau didn't seem to show any being used, it appears the Juggernaut has been supplanted by the Reaver (FFVI style magitek armour) as the Empire's main ground weapon. And as Myahele said, they're often shot down by the citystates - the marooned ex Garlean fighter pilot Drest the player encounters in Eastern La Noscea was one such casualty.

I'll go through my 1.0 screenshots and post the relevant scenes here.