Stormtrooper unit composition

[andrewgpaul]

Well, I've been suckered in to buying a load of WotC's Star Wars Miniatures packs, and have a respectable number of Stormtroopers. Rather than go with the rather irritating, "pick a force because it's good in the rules", where you end up with Tarkin, 3 Jawas, an Ewok and a Wampa, or whatever, I'd like to work out some 'proper' Stormtrooper squads.

For what it's worth, the Gallery shows all the minis - the Elite and Officer stormtroopers have a different gun than the regulars, but I don't know what they are.

Is there an online resource somewhere, that has a TO&E for Stormtroopers?

[Vympel]

Funky minis- the rifle the Elite and Officer stormtroopers are holding looks like the DLT-20A Heavy Blaster Rifle- you don't see it being used in the films by Stormtroopers, but you do see IG-88 holding one in TESB and it is listed as Stormtrooper equipment in the original DK Visual Dictionary.

[Typhonis 1]

Why didnt they try to make a game like Warhammer 40,000 for Star wars...or reprint the old Star Wars miniature rules??? The new mini game feels like well a trading card game to me.

[Robert Treder]

The "elite" ones are indeed carrying DLT-20As (this weapon's analogue is unclear, though some suggest it may be a marksman's rifle), the "heavy" one is carrying a T-21 light repeating blaster (which is made out of lmg parts, although it seems to be intended to fire from the hip or shoulder as easily as from a bipod - an analogue could be the BAR), and the officer is simply holding an E-11 with a large scope.

[Robert Treder]

Incidentally, some basic information about Stormtrooper and IA squad composition can be found in WEG's Imperial sourcebook (which I think Shep still has online). Or you could model your squads after real life Marine squads, American or otherwise.

[andrewgpaul]

Actually, given the models I have, I'm going with 2 squads, each with an officer, 3 Troopers, an Elite and a Heavy.

Thanks for the advice, BTW.