Switch Theme:

What is Everyones Favourite Type of Star Wars Stormtrooper?  [RSS] Share on facebook Share on Twitter Submit to Reddit
»
Author Message
Advert


Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you:
  • No adverts like this in the forums anymore.
  • Times and dates in your local timezone.
  • Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance.
  • Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely.
  • Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net.
If you are already a member then feel free to login now.




Made in us
Androgynous Daemon Prince of Slaanesh





Norwalk, Connecticut

Scout troopers, hands down. If we start approaching clone armor too, then ARC trooper gets the runner up spot.

Reality is a nice place to visit, but I'd hate to live there.

Manchu wrote:I'm a Catholic. We eat our God.


Due to work, I can usually only ship any sales or trades out on Saturday morning. Please trade/purchase with this in mind.  
   
Made in us
Incorporating Wet-Blending





Houston, TX

 curran12 wrote:
Do Dark Troopers count?


I misread this at first as "Dork Troopers", which I wholeheartedly support. After all, there is only the Dork Side.

-James
 
   
Made in us
Decrepit Dakkanaut






New Orleans, LA

 jmurph wrote:
 curran12 wrote:
Do Dark Troopers count?


I misread this at first as "Dork Troopers", which I wholeheartedly support. After all, there is only the Dork Side.



rar.



DA:70S+G+M+B++I++Pw40k08+D++A++/fWD-R+T(M)DM+
 
   
Made in ca
Longtime Dakkanaut




Building a blood in water scent

The red cloak guys, who's job it is to stand there and provide a cool background to Vader's grand entrance.

We were once so close to heaven, St. Peter came out and gave us medals; declaring us "The nicest of the damned".

“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'” 
   
Made in gb
Ruthless Interrogator





The hills above Belfast

Brilliant thread. Snow Trooper, Empire Strikes Back. I love love love these guys. I remember getting one of these way back and we were inseparable. Also had the Luke one with the removable helmet but it had floppy legs and so had to stay at home

EAT - SLEEP - FARM - REPEAT  
   
Made in ie
Yellin' Yoof on a Scooter





Ireland

What about the everyday, bog standard,rank and file stormtrooper? The core of the empire, whats not to like.
   
Made in us
Battlefield Tourist




MN (Currently in WY)

I love these guys on screen.... but in screen caps they look kind of dumb.

Spoiler:




Still one of my favorites.

This message was edited 1 time. Last update was at 2017/04/19 22:58:01


Support Blood and Spectacles Publishing:
https://www.patreon.com/Bloodandspectaclespublishing 
   
Made in us
Decrepit Dakkanaut






Burtucky, Michigan

Just the plain ol Republic troopers or the First Order troopers. I really like both for different reasons but hands down those 2 by a mile
   
Made in us
Ollanius Pius - Savior of the Emperor






Gathering the Informations.

 insaniak wrote:
 AndrewGPaul wrote:
How does an orange shoulder pauldron help in a desert? .

It doesn't. It designates squad leaders...


Although I'm not sure if they ever explained why Sand Troopers have visible designators for squad leaders and commanders while regular stormtroopers don't.

Later media has the regular Stormtroopers with the same pads.

They didn't really explain it in depth, but I recall an offhand comment that the "regular" Stormtroopers we commonly see were Navy rather than Army or some silliness.



As for the topic, I always loved the Scout Trooper armour, although the Phase 1 Arc Trooper armour runs a close second.

Big fan of the Scout Trooper armor. It's why I also quite enjoyed the Shore Trooper armor.


Automatically Appended Next Post:
 Kid_Kyoto wrote:

My head cannon is it was some sort of cooling unit, and the fully armored Sand Troopers made a great contracts with the more naturalistic sand people, jawas and farmers of Tatuine.

The backpacks that the Sandtroopers had were the cooling/moisture units.
The point being I can see deserts as a place you need specialized armor, unlike say the Shore.

Ehhh...supposedly the Shore Troopers were a design cooked up by the extras from the British military who actually played a bunch of the Stormtroopers/Rebels.

The idea was that given the way Scarif was mostly beach/mangrove swamp...you would have a specialist armor variant for that kind of terrain.

The lighter boots, no thigh plates, etc is what you end up with.

This message was edited 1 time. Last update was at 2017/04/20 00:44:09


 
   
Made in us
Douglas Bader






 Kanluwen wrote:
They didn't really explain it in depth, but I recall an offhand comment that the "regular" Stormtroopers we commonly see were Navy rather than Army or some silliness.


It does actually make sense for most of the "normal" stormtroopers we see. In ANH we have a small boarding party from Vader's star destroyer, a detachment sent down from the same ship, and internal security troops aboard a Navy space station. In ESB we (presumably) see a boarding force from Vader's squadron taking over Cloud City. In all of these cases it makes sense for the troops to be marines, conventionally treated as being a branch of the navy. The only time we see a situation where Army troops would make sense is on Endor, the permanent garrison for a ground installation. But even in that case it's plausible that, because the base is a dedicated support facility for the death star, the Navy has control over it and uses its own troops for security.

Alternatively, it's possible that in a setting where space combat is probably decisive in most battles (after all, hard to win a surface fight against orbital bombardment) the relative prestige of the Army and Navy is such that elite troops are Navy by default, carried aboard Navy ships and temporarily assigned at the whim of the Navy, and the Army only gets the garrison/local security/etc forces which aren't worthy of getting stormtroopers.

There is no such thing as a hobby without politics. "Leave politics at the door" is itself a political statement, an endorsement of the status quo and an attempt to silence dissenting voices. 
   
Made in gb
Ridin' on a Snotling Pump Wagon






Of course, the coolest part of any Imperial's uniform has to be Grand Moff Tarkin's slippers.





Peter Cushing. Actor. Scholar. Gent.

This message was edited 1 time. Last update was at 2017/04/20 08:45:08


   
Made in us
5th God of Chaos! (Yea'rly!)




The Great State of Texas

 feeder wrote:
The red cloak guys, who's job it is to stand there and provide a cool background to Vader's grand entrance.


Yep. The "we're menacing but almost never actually move" trooper is pretty sweet.

Otherwise I like the original trooper. I stay with who brung me.


Automatically Appended Next Post:
 Peregrine wrote:
 Kanluwen wrote:
They didn't really explain it in depth, but I recall an offhand comment that the "regular" Stormtroopers we commonly see were Navy rather than Army or some silliness.


It does actually make sense for most of the "normal" stormtroopers we see. In ANH we have a small boarding party from Vader's star destroyer, a detachment sent down from the same ship, and internal security troops aboard a Navy space station. In ESB we (presumably) see a boarding force from Vader's squadron taking over Cloud City. In all of these cases it makes sense for the troops to be marines, conventionally treated as being a branch of the navy. The only time we see a situation where Army troops would make sense is on Endor, the permanent garrison for a ground installation. But even in that case it's plausible that, because the base is a dedicated support facility for the death star, the Navy has control over it and uses its own troops for security.

Alternatively, it's possible that in a setting where space combat is probably decisive in most battles (after all, hard to win a surface fight against orbital bombardment) the relative prestige of the Army and Navy is such that elite troops are Navy by default, carried aboard Navy ships and temporarily assigned at the whim of the Navy, and the Army only gets the garrison/local security/etc forces which aren't worthy of getting stormtroopers.


Agreed. You also saw landsers on Tatooine, and they had both heavy weapons (Bofors machine guns baby, those weigh a ton) and shoulder pauldrons or whatever you call them. Frankly those guys looked a lot more menacing than the Muppets movie troopers.

This message was edited 1 time. Last update was at 2017/04/20 10:48:26


-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
-"Don't mind Frazzled. He's just Dakka's crazy old dude locked in the attic. He's harmless. Mostly."
-TBone the Magnificent 1999-2014, Long Live the King!
 
   
Made in in
[MOD]
Otiose in a Niche






Hyderabad, India

The West End Games RPG (written before 99% of the Expanded Universe) had the Storm Troopers as elite marines of unknown origin (it was strongly suggested they were clones) while the bulk of the Imperial forces were the army, regular guys in the uniforms and helmets we saw throughout the 3 films.

Now canon seems to be that Storm Troopers were the bulk of the Imperial force and were just ordinary recruits hammered into conformity by Imperial training and vastly inferior to Clone Troopers.

Which sort of makes sense, you need a lot (A LOT) more men to have an army of occupation and control than you need to fight a war with defined fronts (especially when you control both sides ). Think of the Iraq War as an example.


Automatically Appended Next Post:
 Kanluwen wrote:

The point being I can see deserts as a place you need specialized armor, unlike say the Shore.

Ehhh...supposedly the Shore Troopers were a design cooked up by the extras from the British military who actually played a bunch of the Stormtroopers/Rebels.

The idea was that given the way Scarif was mostly beach/mangrove swamp...you would have a specialist armor variant for that kind of terrain.

The lighter boots, no thigh plates, etc is what you end up with.


Swamp Troopers would be a cool name and keep with the Storm/Sand/Snow regime.

Shore Troopers just make me think of this...



Hrm. I wonder how they'd look with ST helmets...

This message was edited 1 time. Last update was at 2017/04/20 10:59:30


 
   
Made in us
Ancient Venerable Black Templar Dreadnought





Where ever the Emperor needs his eyes

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
The West End Games RPG (written before 99% of the Expanded Universe) had the Storm Troopers as elite marines of unknown origin (it was strongly suggested they were clones) while the bulk of the Imperial forces were the army, regular guys in the uniforms and helmets we saw throughout the 3 films.

Now canon seems to be that Storm Troopers were the bulk of the Imperial force and were just ordinary recruits hammered into conformity by Imperial training and vastly inferior to Clone Troopers.

Which sort of makes sense, you need a lot (A LOT) more men to have an army of occupation and control than you need to fight a war with defined fronts (especially when you control both sides ). Think of the Iraq War as an example.


Automatically Appended Next Post:
 Kanluwen wrote:

The point being I can see deserts as a place you need specialized armor, unlike say the Shore.

Ehhh...supposedly the Shore Troopers were a design cooked up by the extras from the British military who actually played a bunch of the Stormtroopers/Rebels.

The idea was that given the way Scarif was mostly beach/mangrove swamp...you would have a specialist armor variant for that kind of terrain.

The lighter boots, no thigh plates, etc is what you end up with.


Swamp Troopers would be a cool name and keep with the Storm/Sand/Snow regime.

Shore Troopers just make me think of this...



Hrm. I wonder how they'd look with ST helmets...


Ya know, I wouldn't be complaining if I was a Shore Trooper on a deployment with Alexandra Daddario.
   
Made in us
Ollanius Pius - Savior of the Emperor






Gathering the Informations.

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:

The point being I can see deserts as a place you need specialized armor, unlike say the Shore.

Ehhh...supposedly the Shore Troopers were a design cooked up by the extras from the British military who actually played a bunch of the Stormtroopers/Rebels.

The idea was that given the way Scarif was mostly beach/mangrove swamp...you would have a specialist armor variant for that kind of terrain.

The lighter boots, no thigh plates, etc is what you end up with.


Swamp Troopers would be a cool name and keep with the Storm/Sand/Snow regime.

Swamp Troopers existed...it was the nickname given to "Wetland Assault Troopers".

They showed up in Jedi Outcast initially, as green colored Stormtroopers with heavy cannon.
They later got retconned to be a long term development, initially starting out as green-tinted "Kashyyk" styled troopers then eventually getting more and more specialized gear.

Shore Troopers just make me think of this...

Eh.

Like I said, the gear makes sense. Beach/coastal environments would be a situation where specialized gear is not unenviable.
   
Made in us
Ancient Venerable Black Templar Dreadnought





Where ever the Emperor needs his eyes

 Kanluwen wrote:

Eh.

Like I said, the gear makes sense. Beach/coastal environments would be a situation where specialized gear is not unenviable.


Their gear would also make sense for a team that would be out in the field longer than basic Troopers, but require more armor than the Scout Troopers.
   
Made in ca
Gargantuan Gargant






Snowtroopers for me, always loved them back in Empire Strikes Back and playing as them on Hoth for BF2.

As far as for more recent variants, I really like the helm for the tank commander stormtrooper variant from Rogue One.

This message was edited 1 time. Last update was at 2017/04/20 18:38:29


 
   
Made in in
[MOD]
Otiose in a Niche






Hyderabad, India

The pilot gear was also duly intimidating while still looking feasible.



Real kudos to the Star Wars team, little things like including Storm Trooper variants in the first film really made the universe come alive.


 
   
Made in gb
Assassin with Black Lotus Poison





Bristol

Gary is obviously the best Stormtrooper:



The Laws of Thermodynamics:
1) You cannot win. 2) You cannot break even. 3) You cannot stop playing the game.

Colonel Flagg wrote:You think you're real smart. But you're not smart; you're dumb. Very dumb. But you've met your match in me.
 
   
Made in us
Ragin' Ork Dreadnought




Monarchy of TBD

Awesome as Gary is, I still hold up this piece as the pinnacle of Stormtrooper media.


Klawz-Ramming is a subset of citrus fruit?
Gwar- "And everyone wants a bigger Spleen!"
Mercurial wrote:
I admire your aplomb and instate you as Baron of the Seas and Lord Marshall of Privateers.
Orkeosaurus wrote:Star Trek also said we'd have X-Wings by now. We all see how that prediction turned out.
Orkeosaurus, on homophobia, the nature of homosexuality, and the greatness of George Takei.
English doesn't borrow from other languages. It follows them down dark alleyways and mugs them for loose grammar.

 
   
Made in us
Decrepit Dakkanaut





 feeder wrote:
The red cloak guys, who's job it is to stand there and provide a cool background to Vader's grand entrance.


Not storm troopers.

In all canon (and now non-canon) sources I've seen, the Emperor's personal guards are the elite of the elite. They don't go through stormtrooper training basically at all, instead being in brutal training regimes from an extremely young age.



Also, since someone above mentioned them, I love the pilot outfits, and, weirdly, I love the death star main gun "troopers" They probably aren't actually storm troopers, but for some weird reason I like that underbite having elongated helmet. It's so dumb and not very useful but I just like it.

This message was edited 2 times. Last update was at 2017/04/25 14:47:06


 
   
Made in us
Ultramarine Librarian with Freaky Familiar





Southern California, USA

 Peregrine wrote:
 Kanluwen wrote:
They didn't really explain it in depth, but I recall an offhand comment that the "regular" Stormtroopers we commonly see were Navy rather than Army or some silliness.


It does actually make sense for most of the "normal" stormtroopers we see. In ANH we have a small boarding party from Vader's star destroyer, a detachment sent down from the same ship, and internal security troops aboard a Navy space station. In ESB we (presumably) see a boarding force from Vader's squadron taking over Cloud City. In all of these cases it makes sense for the troops to be marines, conventionally treated as being a branch of the navy. The only time we see a situation where Army troops would make sense is on Endor, the permanent garrison for a ground installation. But even in that case it's plausible that, because the base is a dedicated support facility for the death star, the Navy has control over it and uses its own troops for security.

Alternatively, it's possible that in a setting where space combat is probably decisive in most battles (after all, hard to win a surface fight against orbital bombardment) the relative prestige of the Army and Navy is such that elite troops are Navy by default, carried aboard Navy ships and temporarily assigned at the whim of the Navy, and the Army only gets the garrison/local security/etc forces which aren't worthy of getting stormtroopers.


The Stormtrooper Corps in Legends canon were a semi-autonomous branch of the Imperial military forces distinct from the Imperial Army. They were a lot like the W-SS of Nazi Germany fame. The Army itself had it's own grunts that were used to garrison planets. They sort of looked like AT-ST drivers with their visors down.

In new canon Stormtroopers are a part of the Imperial Army. I do not believe there is a distinction between Stormtroopers stationed on navy vessels or in ground installations. The Imperial Army still maintains an army of mooks who aren't as good as the Stormtroopers for garrison duties, though.

As for my favorite kind of "Stormtrooper"? Phase 1 clone trooper hands down. Their Mando style helmets are badass. Though, P2 Clones in 501st Livery are a very close second.

This message was edited 1 time. Last update was at 2017/04/25 16:13:43


Thought for the day: Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment.
30k Ultramarines: 2000 pts
Bolt Action Germans: ~1200 pts
AOS Stormcast: Just starting.
The Empire : ~60-70 models.
1500 pts
: My Salamanders painting blog 16 Infantry and 2 Vehicles done so far!  
   
Made in gb
Ancient Venerable Black Templar Dreadnought





Where ever the Emperor needs his eyes

 Ensis Ferrae wrote:
 feeder wrote:
The red cloak guys, who's job it is to stand there and provide a cool background to Vader's grand entrance.


Not storm troopers.

In all canon (and now non-canon) sources I've seen, the Emperor's personal guards are the elite of the elite. They don't go through stormtrooper training basically at all, instead being in brutal training regimes from an extremely young age.


There were sources that said they were selected from the best Stormtroopers as well.

This message was edited 1 time. Last update was at 2017/04/25 16:31:12


 
   
Made in in
[MOD]
Otiose in a Niche






Hyderabad, India

One Expanded Universe source had a great way of squaring that circle. That Palpatine was always creating new 'eliter' units to keep his court off guard and always wondering if there wasn't yet another unit above them

Which is a great hand wave since every video game and novel and comic wanted to create the new super uber threat.

I kind of like the... Shadow Guards was it? Crimson Guards in black with red lightsabre lances.

 
   
Made in gb
Ancient Venerable Black Templar Dreadnought





Where ever the Emperor needs his eyes

Ah yeah, the shadow guard, elite dudes who reckon were elite and padawans Vader didnt kill
   
Made in us
Oozing Plague Marine Terminator





speaking as a collector of the Hasbro line from the 90's-2000s, I always liked the Scout Trooper (and speeder), and the Snow Trooper.
   
 
Forum Index » Geek Media
Go to: