stormtroopers

[Johnny_BoomBoom]

and don't forget, all the material and radiation from the death star raining down on the planet probably killed off the owoks shortly thereafter anyway, but i digest, you were talking about the meat served at the party.- one wonders how many stormtroopers were precooked from reentry- if their armor is ablative that is...

LMAO!!!:rofl:


I was always unsure of the armour type....ablative did seem possibly, but eventually, we figured that it would be combat armour, or possibly some enhanced type of Combat Environment Suit.

The blaster type weapons do seem to be more akin to plasma or fusion weapons - which of you used the CT combat tables.....would still result in a fairly regular hit rate at medium range to someone with a -1 or -2 skill level......there are also a lot of missies from the star Wars heroes......


As for the Ewoks......I personally think that ranks up there as George Lucas biggest gaff....even greater than making Greedo shoot first in the remastered films.....


I mean the Emperor mentions it's a crack legion of Stormtroopers on the moon......in white armour - to blend in obvsiously....- that get a decisiove kicking from primitive teddy bears with no loin cloths or genitalia......:rofl:

 

[Valarian]

Of course, dramatic license is a huge factor in Star Wars, so blasters shot by the main characters can drop Stormtroopers in one shot, while the Stormtroopers rarely if ever hit the main characters.

More telling is when you watch the sequences of Stormtroopers fighting rebels (non-main characters or Ewoks) on Hoth or on Princess Leia's ship - they rip the Rebels apart both times, taking far less casualties than the rebels who are defending.

Are you suggesting that the GM is fudging his rolls to favour the PCs?

 

[R_Chance]

Are you suggesting that the GM is fudging his rolls to favour the PCs?

If he isn't, I will! However, you'd think he wouldn't be quite so obvious about it... couldn't they have killed off at least one major rebel PC, er character? Maybe one of the more annoying ones... no damn it, Jar Jar isn't around to get shot by stormtroopers. Well, we'll just have to let the clones do it. We need a quick video edit for Episode III involving the incredibly messy death by a thousand blaster bolts of the most annoying alien in Star Wars, kind of like the "Han shot first / second bit". Nobody will complain about this one though, honest!

 

[Captain Seto]

Does someone get wounded by one ? Don't recall, but for the most part, 1-shot+hit = death. Princess Leia and her uber-pistol confirms this.

In SWep6: RotJ, while covering for Han, Leia got hit; her arm didn't explode from boiled-off bodily fluids.

What I really liked were the 2-legged-walkers that mashed those [Endor] tree-trunks with their cannons. Nice effect...

I agree.

 

[G. Fieendish]

In SWep6: RotJ, while covering for Han, Leia got hit; her arm didn't explode from boiled-off bodily fluids.



I agree.

They "fudged" this by stating in some of the Star Wars reference works, that the E-11 blaster rifle, used by Imperial "blaster fodder", had variable power levels/settings ranging from "Stun", to "Vaporised Ewok"....