¿Imperial Army or Stormtroopers?

[Ray]

Army is shakey. Stormies are shoot 'til your dead.

Army is send in hundreds (If not thousands) of guys until the other side runs away in terror or dies.

Navy is orbital bombardment. "Oh, we need subtle? Send in the Tie Bombers and blow up only certain bulidings."

[Darth_Kjeran]

Chello!

And don't forget the Stormies' MFTAS bonus for moving targets!



Tony
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[garhkal]

[Darth_Kjeran]

Chello again!

Never! I am such an Imp groupie!!! lol

Tony
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“A Royal Guardsman never seeks special privileges. Ever. His entire goal in life is to serve the Emperor, and the New Order he created. His goal in life, and his desire in death.”
Major Tierce, Star Wars: Specter of the Past

[Darius]

theres a q+a section at the back of the gm handbook second edition that explains that the stats for the stormies are low because the heroes in the movies got to blow em away left n right, so the game designers wanted player characters to be able to do the same thing.
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[Pel]

There's a similar section about how to make Stormtroopers more lethal. MFTAS, smoke grenades, combined fire, and artillery or orbital support are only a few of the options available.
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Aha!

[Krayt]

One way of making stormies more lethal is their tactical abilities. Stormies are used as front line shock troops, while army are guards and support. Stormtrooper platoons are usually tansported by fast, well armed, and armored dropships. Once at the target, they can fast-rope or jump onto the LZ.

Army, on the otherhand, have strength in numbers and... numbers. There are hundereds of army for every stormie. I use them as fron-line cannon fodder when stormies wouldn't fit into the situation. Army arrive in APCs or on foot, spread out, and charge!
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[Jedi Skyler]

Yeah, but part of that thinking might not be simply wanting to let the PCs have their way.

Because, if the stormies have it and use it, and they get killed by the PCs who then take their armor and don it, then the PCs have it as well. The GM might simply not want to give them that kind of advantage in a game, so rather than say, "Well, no, your character CAN'T in fact figure out how to use all that cool gadgetry stuffed inside that helmet," he might just be circumventing the issue by refraining from bringing it in the game.

Or, like most will think, the GM's just making it WAY too easy on the PCs...

[Krayt]

Yeah, kill the stormcommandos, grab the armor, repeaters, and blaster cannons. Lather, rinse, repeat.

Although, my players rarley remember to grab stuff from dead enemies. They can drop the best guns and gear, and the PCs totally forget about it! Therefor, I have no proble with sending the best weapons at them, without un-balancing the game!
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[Jedi Skyler]

Yours is then the most unique group I've ever seen.

ANY time I'm in a game, I'm ALWAYS scrounging for gear- even if it's stock gear I can take to have modified for my personal use, or to use in trade for modded gear...

[Krayt]

Yes, they leave every bit of gear, jump INTO fans, and piss off wookies. They dont really think about things like that.
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[Soniv]

I think, in general, once a trooper is killed by conventional means, by D6 rules, the armor is destroyed.

Now, one could make a set of armor by using called shots, unless it was power armor or similar. For instance, one man gets shot in the head, another in the chest. Between the two, you have one workable set of armor.

However, since power armor uses the entire suit as one working entity, that's a bit more difficult to piece together than say, Stormtrooper armor.

[Jedi Skyler]

Well, even by conventional means, say a stormtrooper is killed by a blast to the chest. In a battle, unless you're calling shots and MAKING every called shot, you're not going to have all the shots hitting in the same place. I'm used to my characters having to scrounge a battlefield, taking pieces from two or three different troopers to make a full set that can be used.

The rest sometimes might be salvageable in the sense that the damaged pieces could be taken to an armorer who could maybe recycle the material to make a completely new item.

[garhkal]

[Jedi Skyler]

[quote="garhkal"]Well sonny boy, it seems the helmet has a DNA scanner tied into the trooper you just killed. Without the matching DNA, it is an inert helmet, the comlink and MFAS does nothing. Oh and you have to get a master code, from the bases armory most likely, to reset it...quote]

Yeah, that's one way of handling it... but doubtful that'll be the case on many of the worlds the Empire inhabits.

Besides, it's the work of a second with a vibroblade to get that DNA you need...