The Stormtroopers' cheap ammo, combined with their low-quality imperial weaponry, is the best explanation for all their missed blaster shots and likely played a big part in the Empire's downfall.
Stormtroopers are seen as standard soldiers with basic weapons and training. Clone troopers have a more advanced combat training program which gives them an edge in battle. They are considered premium-grade warriors.
The explanation is that the helmets are really hard to see out of, resulting in bad aim for the heroes. But no matter what, Star Wars characters are always going to be shot at by stormtroopers, and the stormtroopers can't always hit the main characters.
Their poor aim and lack of resilience hardly made them the elite soldiers of the galaxy-spanning Empire, and they seemed to easily fall to any and every enemy they were deployed against. Despite this, they still struck fear into the hearts of citizens of every planet.
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Why do stormtroopers have poor aim?
Their military prioritized cheap assembly-line products over everything else. And due to cheap training, armor and weaponry, the Empire was able to maintain a massive army that was good at overwhelming but not surviving. Out of all the theories, cheap weaponry seems like the most likely cause for the poor aim.
Why do stormtroopers wear armor if it doesn't work?
Aside from the obvious physical advantages in combat, stormtrooper armor acted as a form of psychological warfare: The armor was without distinctions, to ensure that foes and citizens alike saw only a united and implacable force, lowering enemy morale during combat operations.
Stormtroopers were one of the bases of the New Order during Palpatine's reign, and thus their ranks were exclusively reserved for Human clones and recruits. An exception to this policy were the T'Syriél stormtroopers, Imperial soldiers recruited from among the alien T'Syriél by General Sk'ar.
"My favorite fun fact about the stormtroopers is that we typically see them holding their blasters left handed like this because the actors in the suits found it more comfortable doing so because if they held their rifles right handed, the sideways protruding magazine of their E-11 (based on the real world Sterling SMG ...
But why? There have been various reasons for this very briefly touched on in expanded universe offerings. One reason being that the clones were too expensive to produce and raise. Another being that getting citizens to sign up to fight for the Empire made those same citizens and their families more loyal to the Empire.
Order 69(AKA "clean up") was the idea to kill the entire clone army in one sitting, leaving the Jedi defenseless and exposed by the sudden departure. Palpatine knows the Jedi's weakness is empathy and most will try to help the clones and now it should be easy to either drive the Jedi into hiding or have them killed.
Some clones disobeyed the infamous order than decimated the Jedi order, and refused to execute it. SOME of these Clones include; Captain Rex: Captain Rex, as most know removed his chip that would later be the way that Palpatine would execute order 66. Wolffe: As with Captain Rex Wolffe removed his bio chip.
Why did Palpatine want stormtroopers instead of clones?
With the clone army, Palpatine could convince the Senate that the Republic was capable of fighting a war and doing it without endangering citizens on the front lines. However, with the Empire in place, Palpatine needed enforcers who would encourage patriotic fanaticism more than he needed perfect soldiers.
In most canonically documented cases, Stormtroopers also received regular pay in Imperial credits. However, due to the nature of the Empire's conscription program, much of that pay didn't stay with the soldiers themselves. That's because many recruits sent their pay directly back to their families on their homeworlds.
Stormtrooper helmets are particularly singled out in many Star Wars stories, with dialogue from Luke in the first movie (an accidental ad-lib from Mark Hamill) and complaints from veteran clone officer Captain Rex in Star Wars Rebels noting that they obstruct their vision.
In general, most *CLONE* Troopers had similar accents, owing to the fact that they were literal clones of Jango Fett. They got their accent from him. They didn't necessarily have *exactly* the same accent, possibly due to regional differences in where they were stationed.
Flametroopers and incinerator troopers carried deadly flamethrower weaponry, burning entire villages to the ground in a matter of minutes. They were regarded as one of the most devastating stormtrooper variants, making them the greatest threat of all the stormtroopers who specialized in specific heavy weaponry.
For other uses, see Stormtrooper (disambiguation). Stormtroopers (STs)—also known as Imperial stormtroopers and colloquially referred to as "bucketheads"—were the elite shock troops of the Galactic Empire, and were part of the Stormtrooper Corps, an independent military branch operating under the Imperial Army.
Yes. They have been explicitly confirmed in the new canon. Even way back in the day, Lucas himself said that there were female storm troopers, though none were stationed on the Death Star (which suggests that they were exceptionally rare, only in certain units, or both.
According to Ultimate Star Wars, New Edition from the current canon, stormtrooper armor is impervious to projectile weapons and most melee attacks. The armor also protects the trooper from blaster bolts by dispersing the heat from the bolt, often leaving them incapacitated (but alive) or entirely unimpeded.
Spacetroopers are stormtroopers trained to operate in Zero-G environments. They resemble the standard stormtroopers, but are outfitted with a rebreather pack to survive the harsh conditions of space. Two spacetroopers can be seen outside the Death Star in Star Wars (1977).
