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What stormtrooper do you fear the most and why?
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Jedi AlanRocks
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 12:53 pm    Post subject: What stormtrooper do you fear the most and why? Reply with quote

I wanted to make this a poll, but there are way too many variants! They are as bad as TIE fighters.... hey maybe I should start a TIE fighter thread.

But first, I would like to know what the board thinks about stormtroopers. Who is the one you run from?
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 1:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

No contest here. Storm Commandos take the cake and slit the baker's throat without anyone noticing.

It's been a long standing tradition in the games of my group, if you need to up the ante and instill the fear of GM into your players, you drop a couple of Men in Black into the fray. In the beginning we simply used them as powerful Stormies, but in time we learned to use them properly as stealthy, cunning commandos. I think the best battles we've had in our long years of gaming have been against those versatile shadow troopers. Setting up explosives, monofilament wire traps, wielding garrotes from darkened corners, or powerful carbines from across a corridor. Hiding in the shadows and sneaking around you. Gotta love them.

Their inclusion alone makes Fragments from the Rim one of mu favourite books.
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 11:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's a tie.

Imperial Storm Commands, cause as Gry said, cake stealing and throat slitting.

The only thing matching them in fear factor is: The Imperial Royal Guard.
These guys are insane... and after reading the Crimson Empire series. (2 TPBs) The intensity of their training regiment is just insane. The stats in the books reflect only the bare bare minimum of their butt kickery.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 5:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yes, Royal Guards are badass. The problem is that it's terribly unlikely your group will ever face them.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 12:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

If you read through Rules of Engagement, the IRG are rotated into the various stormtrooper divisions to keep their skills sharp. So, if the GM decided, the PCs could be facing down some terribly badass stormtroopers wearing the normal stormtrooper armor. And the PCs might not realize it til after they either kill the guard, or do some investigating.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 1:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Very true. The whole "rotating elite troopers" thing was one of WEG's sneakier moves.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 6:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'd most fear stormtroopers run by PCs. And I know they're out there.
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 13, 2009 12:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've had a player play one once. It was a lot of fun... he was a scary man...
Seventeen is what he was called.
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 13, 2009 7:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Raven Redstar wrote:
I've had a player play one once. It was a lot of fun... he was a scary man...
Seventeen is what he was called.

I've played ex-stormtrooper mercs. Fun stuff.
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 14, 2009 6:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Raven Redstar wrote:
If you read through Rules of Engagement, the IRG are rotated into the various stormtrooper divisions to keep their skills sharp. So, if the GM decided, the PCs could be facing down some terribly badass stormtroopers wearing the normal stormtrooper armor. And the PCs might not realize it til after they either kill the guard, or do some investigating.


And who is to say the emperor has not dispatched them to do his bidding?
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 15, 2009 1:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Also, a viable option.
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 15, 2009 12:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

These stormtroopers are pretty creepy if you ask me:


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PostPosted: Sat Aug 15, 2009 4:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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No contest here. Storm Commandos take the cake and slit the baker's throat

Anybody who cuts the Baker's throat after taking the cake is one scary dude! I would agree that they are probably not the dudes I would wanna run into.
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The only thing matching them in fear factor is: The Imperial Royal Guard. These guys are insane... and after reading the Crimson Empire series...


Yeah Crimson Empire was really good, I never got around to reading the second one. I always thought the Crimson Guard were the coolest, I remember being so pround of my Red Robed action figure when I was a kid. I always thought it was lame we never got to see them in action. I actually did use them once, and Carnor Jax. They crashed a party some of my PC's were at. He wasn't after them, but they did try to stop him. Again, it was one of those times when the Universe seemed out to get them.
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ex-stormtrooper mercs

WINNER! without a military command structure to keep their basest insticts in check, with years of experience, training and contacts across the Galaxy- definately the LAST group I would wanna stumble across. What's worst of all though is I can imagine a group of PC's getting someone imporant mad at them and having ANY of the above coming after them.

Of course, not all stormtroopers are scary. Like the LingerieTrooper. Anybody wanna venture a guess about the stats of this particular servant of the Empire?

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PostPosted: Sat Oct 03, 2009 12:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Raven Redstar wrote:
It's a tie.

Imperial Storm Commands, cause as Gry said, cake stealing and throat slitting.

The only thing matching them in fear factor is: The Imperial Royal Guard.
These guys are insane...stats in the books reflect only the bare bare minimum of their butt kickery.

Space Troopers. The above cannot be down played in their devilish scariness and their brutal efficiency. However, if you're in a ship, these guys are a terror. Once they get to your ship., they can crack it open and crawl in side. And if the decompression and vacuum does kill you, this things weapon systems and enhanced strength will. Few have what is required to deal with space trooper once it gets inside.

Now, if they just didn't look so stupid...
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 03, 2009 3:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hit them with an ion cannon.. Then they are not so scary!
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