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PostPosted: Wed Nov 18, 2020 8:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Wed Nov 18, 2020 9:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Wed Nov 18, 2020 10:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sounds, and demonstrated in The Mandalorian, about right.
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 18, 2020 11:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

More importantly, I can't think of anywhere that it's contradicted.
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 19, 2020 12:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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.



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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PostPosted: Fri Jan 08, 2021 2:05 pm    Post subject: Re: My conflicted feelings about the sourcebooks Reply with quote

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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