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Ray
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In WEG, COMPNOR was pretty much the German SS. In the movies, where we don't see them, the Stormtroopers take that role.
Courageous, yes. Charge through battle, sure. Hit no-name characters like it was going out of style (*Cough*Hoth*Cough*), a bit, yeah.
Otherwise, Elite only in that they got fancy uniforms. Max Payne had something to say about that in the third game. |
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MrNexx
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I have pretty much come to the conclusion that Stormtroopers are the equivalent of the US Marines... shock troops, usually assigned to ships as security. They've got a lot of esprit de corps, and loyalty to the Empire... a real oorah attitude... but aren't terribly different from army troopers, except maybe a bit more CQB training, no matter what they tell you.
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Ray
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| Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2020 10:33 pm Post subject: |
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| Sounds, and demonstrated in The Mandalorian, about right. |
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MrNexx
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More importantly, I can't think of anywhere that it's contradicted.
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Dredwulf60
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| Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2020 12:30 am Post subject: |
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| TauntaunScout wrote: |
Yeah and WEG gave way too much of a penalty for wearing armor. -1D to Blaster isn't realistic. -1D to Stamina, on the other hand, I'd find believable.
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My guess is that when WEG was building their RPG, the most popular RPG out there was D&D. In D&D everyone wore the best armor they could get, unless the rules specifically said you couldn't.
I imagine they looked at the Star Wars movies...saw that armor was 'a thing' but that most characters didn't wear any. The penalties are game-mechanic to encourage players NOT to wear armor in order to better simulate the source material.
It was a stick...because there's no real 'carrot' benefit to forgoing armor. |
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| Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2021 2:05 pm Post subject: Re: My conflicted feelings about the sourcebooks |
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| Yora wrote: |
How do you feel they are fitting in with Star Wars as a whole? |
I think they fit good with it but it's an RPG. RPG's are made to customize. And even the authors encouraged the reader to make changes as needed. Change it up! I say the only way to play RPG's wrong is, if you (and your friends) aren't having fun.
| Whill wrote: | | Well according to Timothy Zahn in Star Wars: Allegiance, a group of five stormtroopers consciously of their own free will deserted the Empire the very first time they were asked to do something evil. |
If I felt the need to resolve a conflict (during a gaming session) between a WEG book and a novel, I'd choose WEG. I think they're the closest thing we fans ever got to an objective approach to the SWU. |
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