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Knife wrote: Your talking over-specialization. In my personal experience, my unit was trained for desert enviroments (did training at 29Palms, my unit did time in SA ect...), we did training for temperate areas (based in San Diego), we trained for tropical enviroments (trained many a month in NTA Okinawa in Japan, Guam, ect) and trained in Mountainous enviroments (trained in Summer Mountain Warfare School and Winter Mountain Warfare School).

Basically all the basic enviroments on earth and coincidently all the enviroments shown or expected in the SW universe with the exception of extreme enviroment like radiation or Zero G. In most cases with terran type enviroments, alot of the caveats of survival and operation are suprisingly simular. It is rediculous to overspecialize to the point where you have desert troops over regular troops who have desert training.

A permenant garrison might have training above and beyond what a rapid deployment group might have or need but thats would be more to the cultural aspect or region specific information like wildlife or political concerns, not basic military and survival training for the enviroment.

If you want to argue that a permenant garrison of Stormtroopers or Imperial Army can specialize to a particular region where they are stationed, then fine but its assign to say that the Empire over trains a rapid deployment fore to such extremes as to have a desert unit onboard Naval ships and they only participate in desert operations.

'If the world is not hot, they stay in the cot.'

PainRack wrote: Bollocks. I do not disagree with you that most of the conventional environments on earth can be rapidly acclimatised to, however, it is that very fact which makes the possibility of specialised environmental troops a possibility in the Galactic Empire.

For example, sandtroopers which are outfitted for desert planets are nothing more than stormtroopers which are permantly outfitted with sandtrooper gear. At a pinch, these stormtroopers could be utilised in environments which the normal stormtroopers are expected to operate in like urban cities, normal garrison postings, jungle warfare and etc etc etc without suffering any degradation in combat ability. As such, the enhancement to combat efficiency in a specific terrain, and more importantly, the speed at which such troops can be rapidly deployed without waiting for acclimatisation and refitting does allow for an organisation as vast as the Empire to accomodate them.

Knife wrote:
Anyhoo, so if a standard stormtrooper is trained to the point where he can adaquetly operate in most habbitable enviroments but are then over specialized to operate in a specific terrain, what the hell is the special training for a specific terrain.

If all troopers are trained enough to operate in most habitable terains in a pinch, why would they go through the trouble of super uber training on shock troops. Thats way too much training and trouble than to just give the rudimentry and basic training on varible enviroments and let them go.

Yes the Empire could probably do it but it comes under the idiotic notion of a fleet of Death Stars. You can do it but it really at the end of the day it doesn't do anything for ya. All that overspecialization when the rest of the Stormtrooper Corps. has the necessary knowledge and training to operate in the same terain is only a waste of time and resources.

PainRack wrote: Its not about the rest of the stormtrooper corps having the knowledge and training, its about having a ready corps of specialised units ready to move out at a moment notice.

Reconfiguring a division to operate in desert/artic etc etc etc would be simply too much of a waste in time, resources and hinder deployment of troops, especially in a scenario where time is of the essence.

Knife wrote: Almost as much of a waste of time either waiting for approprate forces to show up to handle the situation or to have approprate forces on board but having many many more (accounting for snow troopers, regular troopers, scout troopers, swamp trooper) around four times as many, just sitting around while in this one particular instance, the desert troopers go down to deal with the problem.

Its way 'over specialization' especially when the other troops know the basics (or more) of operating in that terrain.