/SWG/ - Imminent Barrage Edition

Fucker went went off in the Emperors Death Star and got it blown up.

>You've been drafted into the Stormtrooper Corps in the war against the Rebellion. Which specialization do you aim to qualify for?
>aim
>Stormtrooper Corps
Special Forces but because I'm a Stormtrooper I'll probably miss and end up as a janitor or something.

Any scout trooper that isn't dead by age 30 is a layabout.

>instantaneous
user organic material explodes upon contact with magma, and then the super-heated remains, because of the Leidenfrost effect, remain for a VERY short period of time before the also super-heated steam evaporates. Then the process repeats until something vital goes. It won't be a slow death, but you WILL feel it and it WILL be fucking horrible for the few seconds that you last.

Here's a test with some organic waste. You want this?
youtube.com/watch?v=kq7DDk8eLs8

I attempt to qualify for whatever Ilnias needs so I can live out the comfiest damn life in the Empire I can.

why does liquid rock do dumb things?

Wh0a, ep1c contribution DUDE! (or dudette, ;))

Enjoy the reddit g0ld™ comin your way bud!

Maybe the eruption will fuck over the rebels, so....maybe?

or written by Timothy Zhan

Oh...

Anything that doesn't involve boarding actions, those are fucking lethal

Imperial combat driver so me and my copilot can have our heads comically bumped together to knock us out.

I apply for a transfer to a Flight Unit.

If that doesn't work, Tank corps.

I read this in a yandere loli voice and keked heartily

To be fair, a few seconds of horrifying pain isn't exactly the worst way to go.
Sure there are definitely better,
but also a whole lot much, much, worse.
The nasty bit would probably be the boiling as you fall towards the lava, as the damned stuff is pretty hot.

... What the fuck does user's joke have to do with Reddit? Are you actually retarded?

I'll take a blaster shot through the brain please

the "stormtroopers are bad shots meme"

holy shit

You really wanna entrust the stormtrooper corps
with your firing squad? I'm just saying, if you want it quick n' painless I'd do it myself.

>... What the fuck does user's joke have to do with Reddit? Are you actually retarded?
d00d liek t0tally, stromtr00prs cant aim lolz0rz

li3k and share if u agree :)

>li3k and share if u agree
That's not even reddit!

If the AAC-1 speeder tank or the V-25 combat speeder never makes an appearance in Legion, I'll shoot myself.

In Legion they have the Precise keyword.

Reddit reactionism has ruined Veeky Forums.

Never expected to be raided by an AOLchatroom from 2003

Do what I do, don't engage or take part in it.

Yet I've still got to read the autism.

A sad fact of modern browsing

You know what the worst thing about the sequels is? It's that some fucking faggot-ass shit bird decided that the folding stock on the e-11 series should only be a grip. Even in Rogue One, a movie I otherwise enjoy, they've done it. I wish I could find whoever made that decision and beat them to death with their own spine.

>Reddit reactionism has ruined Veeky Forums.

Okay so I'm happy to admit that I know next to shit about gun design. But what does the guy hold when the stocks unfolded? Since the place his non-trigger hand normally goes is right on top of the heat vents.

Is it me or are Rebel troopers better, despite being a point cheaper?

Shooting harder seems like it would be better/worth the difference the extra die reroll would give you, and that gives them flexibility to take other actions and use their Agile.

Dunno. I don't think the stock has ever been unfolded in the movies.

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Rebel Troopers are glass cannons. They do really hit harder, but unless you make sure to give them their dodge token, they're also fragile as fuk.

Stormies, in cover, with the ability to aim (such as if buffed by Veers) should have noticeable longevity. And the HH-12 is the best anti-armor upgrade we know of, I think, though the DLT is also really good.

What's the difference between them and stories again? I havent kept up with Legion releases.

They have better blasters, sure. But they make armour rolls on white, which is awful. Stormies roll on red for armour. If Rebs don't use Agile, they are toast. If they do use Agile, it marginally increases their survivability. Stormies get generally better weapon upgrades too.
Rebs get the Z-6 which gives you six white dice at 1-3 range.
Stormies get the DLT-19 which gives you two red dice which has Impact 1, and you can use the Precise keyword on it instead of your regular blasters.
Rebs get the MPL-57 which gives you two red dice at 1-3 range with Impact 1, but is better used at shutting down vehicles with its Ion shots.
Stormies get the HH-12 which gives you THREE black dice at 2-4 range with Impact 3, but is cumbersome.

Rebels are cheaper, shoot better and operate well in Heavy Cover. But Stormtroopers shoot alright, have better armour and will kick your teeth down your throat with upgrades if you let them.

Later user, I got to get to work. Keep up the Legion interest.

Here's the rebel trooper unit card, you can see the stormie one up here

I guess. I thought that the projectiles fired by the E11 would generate more heat than conventional bullets. But then lightsabers.

Yeah I could have sworn I remembered some old EU book saying that the underside of an E-11 was dangerously hot to hold with the stock unfolded but I asked Pablo and he could not remember anything like that in any guide or sourcebook.

It may have been something I read on like, stardestroyer.net as an impressionable youngster.

>Which specialization do you aim to qualify for?
The too old to bother with is a good specialisation

The E-5's used by the CIS where known to be hot little bastards on repeated firings, which doesn't bother droids but probably awful for anyone else. They where basically a bodgengineered to a budget copy of an old Blastech design in the first place which also doesn't exactly inspire confidence in anyone capable of thought

Storm Commando

>The E-5's used by the CIS where known to be hot little bastards on repeated firings, which doesn't bother droids but probably awful for anyone else.
Which is weird because they've got a big ass block between your foregrip hand and the barrel.
-I liked their unique armor in Rebel Strike better.

Other than the exposed or just peach colored chin.

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Kitchentrooper.

I'm now imagining a scenario where some gangsters or mercs manage to rush an imperial outpost while most of the guys are off duty - they're just smashing their way through until they hit the mess and find a small team of fully kitted out "Kitchentroopers" complete with sharpened E-tool spatulas, vibro-cleavers and that one guy who insists you can only properly broil with an actual flamethrower.

>The head "Storm Chef" just has "OBEY THE COOK" emblazoned in aurebesh on his armor.

Mad kitchen-check Stormchef squad when?
They're all fully kitted out in Stormtrooper armour, except they've got aprons and chefs hats.
>"LOOKS LIKE MEATS BACK ON THE MENU, BOYS!" said the Storm chef, raising her cleaver high and leading the charge against the terrified pirates.

Your stormtrooper brigade has crushed the rebels after weeks of getting your arseholes handed to you, the front lines are down and now its time to mix it up in the back to get-er done.
>Also you've spent the last 4 weeks living on protein pills, some vaguely milkshake drinks and its all fucking horrible
>Which makes you hate everything living, just that little bit more
>And that cunt who's responsible for making them, fuck that guy

The CO said push through to the rear lines
You have, now you've found the cauldrons of sausages that would have been feeding the rebels.
>OBJECTIVE COMPLETE!
>SEIZE THE SAUSAGE TROOPER!
Being in the Imperial military, you're no stranger to a mouthful of sausage once in a while, not as much as your CO, that's why he's the CO.

>KEEP GOING TROOPERS!
>Fuck him, he can get his own sausage...

>The pirates try to shoot back, but one of the troopers deflects it with his tactical skillet
>"DEPLOY SPICE GRENADES"
>Pirates reduced to crying, coughing mess from the space-capsicum
>All except the lone assassin droid
>"I do not taste. Your tactical cooking has no effect on me!"
>We'll see about that, they think to themselves.
>Grab a data spike and shove it into the droid, uploading the cooking scene from the Holiday Special on loop to it's memory
>"STIR WHIP, MOTHERKRIFFER"
>The droid, realizing he shall never enter flavortown, immediately suicides

>They string up the pirate captain, preparing to torture them for information
>"Well, Chief Chef, it seems only appropriate you do the honours."
>The Chef nods, and produces a canister, giving it a few experimental twists of the head. A grinding sound is heard, and a sprinkling of something falls out the bottom. The chef looks the pirate dead in the eye.
>"This is full of a combination of the galaxy's most hot spices, taken from the peppers of Kashyyyk. Wookies put it on their dish when they want a challenge to their toughest tongues. What do you think it's going to do to your pathetic tastebuds?"

>Now let's get this out onto a tray.

>You will never use a microwave oven as a detonator to kill all the terrorists

Why even live?

>Hey, you ever wonder what happens when you microwave a thermal detonator? Well, I'm gonna find out!

given the lack of handrails and presence of bottomless pits
i would assume thermal detonators have the "no safety standards" treatment and would indeed explode with great force if left out on a sunny day
how powerful are thermal detonators anyway?
ep6 implied that the tiny bomb would have turned the entire room into a cinder
but every video game ever treats them like a normal grenade

It seems to vary source-to-source. Like you say, a lot of video games treat them like space-frags, but sometimes things like FFG treat them like the sort of thing that would level the building your in and half it's neighbours, let alone you and have actual frag grenades also be things.

In legends they created compact thermonuclear spheres that would utterly vaporize everything in its blast radius

>but sometimes things like FFG treat them like the sort of thing that would level the building your in and half it's neighbours, let alone you and have actual frag grenades also be things.
I can't blame them, when we see one pulled in Jabba's palace everyone in the flipped-out, arguably way more than if it was just a "space-grenade".

Maybe it's not a stock in new cannon?

what about fleet troopers?
i have a love for them to the point of having a helmet made

do they stack up well against the endor troopers?

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I swear every time you post this it gets longer.
I'm certainly not complaining though.

Just watched Rogue One for the first time since I saw it in theaters and liked it a lot more this time around. Characters are still kinda flat, but it's entertaining. Generally an Impfag (but not exclusively, I generally like all factions in Star Wars except the First Order and Resistance), however Rogue One really gets my inner Rebel pumping.

Also, the U-Wing gives me a hard-on still. Seems like it'd be fun ship to swoop around the galaxy in with a buddy/waifu.

I'd like to collect some choice Star Wars artwork, official or otherwise. Dumps don't necessarily have to be this artstyle, but I am looking for more pictures like it. Thanks in advance user.

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Hence I think some WEG stuff and espescially Shadows of the Empire treating them like mini nukes.

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Crowd control on a jetpack.

Nice reference
Do stormtroopers have hussars equivalents? Speeder Bike Assault Force, maybe?

In kotor they were fucking terrifying (and rare) compared to regular grenades. Three times the damage output of a frag grenade, twice that of a plasma grenade, and knockdown on top of that.
It was basically a throwable IED, as potent as the biggest mines in the games.

Hopefully there is more.

Yeah I think it's the only game that ever really made thermal dets as scary as they're supposed to be.

What is The Phantom Menace official movie game?

That Podracing one?

I think those are the same turbolasers used on Venators.

sea trooper

It would probably be awful but I've always thought Phase Zeroes were the most badass.

No

I hope I get deployed on Ilnias to do absolutely nothing and not risk my life

Don't be ridiculous, you won't be doing nothing.
Do you not remember the great "Shirts vs Skins" skirmish last summer? Every trooper was required to either fight or support. Fought the Rebs for the swimming pool position by constantly hitting "grenades" back and forth over their net of cover from dawn 'till dusk!

Ilnias is such a tranquil and unimportant place that reduces even the most fanatic to apathy. Maybe it's something in the air.

What are some good ideas for NPC special abilities in the FFG system?

Oh no, you're on Ilnias with the Imperial Navy when they want to bring the Star Destroyer "Minimal Effort" on a Rebel hunting task force. How do you dip out of this one?

>Make Asogian merchant npc starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Asogian
>Name him Fonhom (phome home)
>Profit as your AOR players get the refference

Rebels hit 1/8 more often, and regain spent dodge tokens.

Stormtroopers make their armor saves 1/6 more often, and reroll an additional dice when spending an aim token.

In a direct firefight they're fairly comparable, but the Stormtrooper ability buffs their DLT and HH-12 shots while the Rebel ability does nothing to help their heavy weapons. And the Stormtrooper heavy weapons seem better, in general.

Stormtroopers seem inclined to take expensive heavy weapons and throw damage downfield while Rebels seem inclined to take more raw bodies and scatter around from cover to cover.

Yeah.

I think they're next to worthless against Ray Shields, which must be strong than actual warship shields.

youtube.com/watch?v=10qal0ya_2o

One takeaway I've gotten from watching the beasts of war Legion content is that it seems like a game that will work best with way more terrain than games like 40k or Warmachine. More like an Infinity level of terrain, almost.

Given the range on guns, the movement rules, all the terrain interaction abilities (Luke, speeder bikes/t47, AT-RT, grappling hooks), and the three foot table length, I think the "open board sit and shoot" way BoW played it was basically wrong. Alex Davey sounded in interviews like he has a huge boner for cool tables full of terrain, too.

So what's the table size, if I wanted to make a table?

Meant for

3'x6'. Most people will probably use a 4x6, because that's the standard size for other wargames and because it leaves you space on either edge for cards and such; and then put a 3x6 mat on top of it.

Take one or two relevant pc abilities to flesh them out.

Oh and never forget a rank or two of nobody's fool