ST Sith Trooper (Red Stormtrooper) Discussion

Yeah I remember all the back and forth around the release of TLJ (and perhaps it started around TFA?not sure), but all the "Snoke is not a sith, Kylo is not a sith" and now they go "Oh look! Sith troopers who looks like FO troopers with a different coat of paint".

I hope EP9 can at least be a good SW movie but it's really hard for me to see the point in this trilogy. It really looks like they were too proud to just make a trilogy based on some existing books or comics and just HAD to come up with their own materiel, which so far has been a mix of average tribute like stuff and different but terrible content.

ps. Can anyone tell me why they hired an esteemed actor like Max Von Sydow just to kill him off after 2mins in TFA? I really would love to know.

 

This guy is, though.




The troopers are gonna be his, all said and done. If they're working for Ben for a while prior, that's going to be a smokescreen/manipulation by Sheev, lulling the guy into a false sense of security.

Kind of like how the Clones are backing the Jedi as their army, Palpatine snaps his fingers and barks an order and *boom!*.

DarthBeagle, Palpatine was behind the First Order anyway, the FO-derived armor makes sense. It'll bug me if they're supposed to have been out there since soon after RotJ though, but if it's more that they built this thing up simultanously with the FO between trilogies, it'll add up.

 

It just takes one spy guy working in the F.O. R&D to beam the blueprints to Palpatine's factories.

More and more convinced that the Sith Troopers are clones now. If the T-shirt holds any credence then 105 battalions minimum (and the crews of a few hundred SDs) will need to come from somewhere. With the support personnel and manufacturing I can't see anything less than 2 million bodies needed to operate Palpatine's faction.

 

To me, it feels like they’re laying it on thick now so that their turn is surprising to some and ironic to shirt owners later.



Like believing the clone army was firecely loyal to the heroes of the story until Sidious did this.

 

Maybe C3PO will turn Sheev's Clone Trooper army against him. Kinda like a reverse Order 66

 

Well @Aximili86 I think you know how i feel about Palpatine returning anyway, so while it might be logical in TROS for the Sith Troopers to work for Palpatine, I won’t enjoy the overall direction.

 

Doesn't matter, since most people will.

 

Better look at the Jet Trooper variant. This is so much more intimidating than the base armor imo.

 

Yeah, digging that a lot. Seems less-bulky than a regular trooper somehow, though that might be just that the art's in profile rather than portrait.

Like the helmet design, too.

So, the guys in the trailer seemed to have white armor - sounds like the jetpack guys on Pasaana are regular FO rather than these guys. Wonder how the red dudes factor into the movie?

 

I like these guys a lot. But I'm still waiting for the trooper design that beats the death troopers. Not there yet.

 

For me the Phase II Clone is the one to beat. Besides the Republic Commandos, Scout Trooper and R1 troopers, nothing comes close.

 

And the tank trooper from RO.

 

Mimban dudes for the win.

 

It seems that these guys will execute order 69 and wipe them out all of them.

 

Those guys are cool too. And the train troopers with the fur. But I think for me it's going to be hard to ever beat this:



And this:

 

One thing that always bugged me with the Death Troopers is the scrambled voice-comms stuff. Makes all the sense in the world, of course, only being able to decipher what each other are saying due to the helmet tech, but ehh, would be cool to get some lines from the guys.

That and "Death Trooper" is pretty funny. Nah, regular troopers or tank troopers or the other guys aren't there to spread death.

Always loved the helmets on those R1 tanker guys though.

 

How about Dad Troopers? They kill you with bad jokes?

Like I do

 

Yeah, but the Death Trooper helmet is unbeatable to me. It’s a perfect cross between a stormtrooper helmet, Vader’s helmet, and...a goat skull. It’s metal without being over the top. Kudos to the person who designed it.

 

My entire worldview just crumbled.

 

You're a Ryan Church.

 

Doug Chiang's would just be the normal Stormtrooper armour painted black.

 

You know you’re trolling now. That’s simply not true. Chiang designed the U-wing, which is widely regarded as a great design that’s both original and in the OT spirit.

Also, we don’t know that Church designed the Death Troopers. Chizzy was just joking. I think Chiang may have been responsible for them as well, but I don’t have the “art of RO” book to check. Anyone?

 

Just behind Ralph McQuarrie, I think Doug Chiang is the best SW designer out there. I'm also very partial to Iain McCaig, but that's more because I just love his art in general.

 

The U-Wing is awful, nearly 800 different designs and all they can come up with is a kit bash of an X and Y-Wing?