One of the strongest abilities the force gives. Unfortunately, this ability is useless when the victim is not a main character.

Teach me this technique

I always got the impression this was a real thing, after Chirrut in rogue one

You spelt plot armor wrong.

Jokes aside the forces can indeed bend both accuracy and bolts so not far from the truth

@yooem 26 Opening of the M60 video

Ah, yes. M60 intro.

Experienced soldiers won't care about your firepower if they can plainly see that you can't hit the side of a barn.

@@Xandros999 idk, I would assume we use suppressive firepower doctrines for a reason.

@Henry Nagel wrong vid, it’s the M-60

Badum tss

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The entire Imperial Army after reading this : *dies*

Or, you could say they were "ordered by their commanding officers to let them escape on a tracked ship" to miss

The Stormtroopers have target aiming assist software in their helmets display systems that can link up to the scopes on most of their blaster weapons.

@@EnclaveRemnantFanboy-118 same with clones i guess just white armor guys in general

@@EnclaveRemnantFanboy-118 so they basically have a cross hair in their HUDs

@@ntfoperative9432 yes basically, they can see where they’re aiming even if the gun is at hip level.

@@EnclaveRemnantFanboy-118 so basically stormtroopers are console gamers lmfao

@Pasha Staravoitau That's something the real life US government experimented with but they haven't worked on it in a while. Also if that's the case I'm not sure why the Stormtroopers don't have a better understanding of room clearing and cover.

@@ericolsen5592 yea its been tested for a sniper though it worked

@@ericolsen5592 One real thing special forces regularly use is an IR laser and goggles. Humans can't see IR but cameras can. (Take out your tv remote and point it at your phone camera, you'll see it glow. Same principle.) So basically they have invisible laser sighs that only they can see. Pretty awesome.

Attention Span Labs I heard that the stormtroopers are really accurate but the force is what protects the main characters and that’s why they aim bad

So you're saying they had *plot armor piercing blasters*

And when they finally connect, Han is just like "ow, that stung a little":

@@apa123APA Exactly.

Or if you are one of the cast of rogue one. Your plot armor vanishes when plot demands it.

wouldnt that be TL;DW? since we didnt read anything since this is a video

@@fluviusgaming1125 sssh ssh

Yeah, I know. Can't make your ship look good with out decorators. *decorated* nimrod - go back to school.

My guess is all the decorators survived the 1st Death Star, but probably meet their demise on the 2nd one.

@@JB-yb4wn my bad

@@JB-yb4wn jesus calm down you nazi

I cannot possibly imagine the rebels surviving the 501st, even Luke would get his ass handed to him

That actually made a interesting movie to watch

If he wants them to be seen as competant

@@TheCompleteMental at least make them hit like shoulders or legs or make them look like they're trying to suppress them

@@amirhaikal8304 Exactly, or make the heroes move around a lot, use cover, the enviornment in general Edit: I still agree with my sentiment here, but do acknowledge that it wouldnt, and shouldnt, be modern action movie style. I dont think that was my origin intention anyway. Just that some scenes of people just shooting at each other would benefit by getting to the point in a more decisive way. I get that the longer cuts were to get across the danger better, but obviously if you create the idea that nobody can aim, you overstayed your welcome.

Set the blasters to stun

Hax 😆

Jedi:fallen order too,especially In the hardest mode

Even on Battlefeont 2 omg them bots be going crazy

@@nyarlathotep-thecrawlingch6335 dude totally. Fallen Order is freaking hard especially the baton folks on master

Exactly

Makes me think of an unending empire

They had targetting Huds in there helmets

Str8camo isn't that just scout trooper and more elite troops?

@@wlsscom1155 no, all stormtroopers have a targeting hud

Str8camo damn, didn't know that, thanks for the info

Should point out that on Endor, the Empire was winning the fight till Chewie stole an AT-ST. If not for that, the battle would have ended in Imperial Victory.

@@BGTom Yeah, exactly. The Ewoks got the jump on them and took out a few troopers and two walkers, but once the imperial troops regrouped, they started stomping over the Ewoks until Chewie took their walker, gaining them a decisive advantage by them not knowing who was their ally anymore.

Why were they even shooting? Just wrestle them if you're not gonna actually shoot them.

@@seankrkovich2869 because they might shoot you if you try to wrestle them, so naturally the stormtroopers didn’t fire back for the sake of just scaring the rebels away

@@UmbaranMilitia They might shoot you if you start shooting at them.

@@seankrkovich2869 You're a little slow dude. Would you rather have a gun against someone shooting you or just your fists? not to mention you can still wrestle even if you're bringing a gun. You're acting like a gunshot will 100% kill the person if they're hit by it.

@@thedon6079 I mean, they clearly aren't intending on injuring them in any way. The gun is kinda useless if you don't plan on landing any shots

I guess it’s just their range with the other plot armor

@@acidgoon i dont think range has anything to do with it

Fuck, not even main characters, Disney has given even the nameless grunts immunity. Way to ruin any sense of danger.

Because the heroes are more skilled. That's what makes them heroes. Not pLoT aRmOr or whatever bullshit you cooked up in your barely functional brain.

@B3L0W Z3R0 I'm sorry but the title of best soldiers of the galaxy goes to the clone troopers

*Laughs In Clone Trooper*

Clone troopers are the best soldiers. There’s no contest. Especially with clones like Rex leading them.

And the force was protecting them also.

@@npc6817 He meant at their time.

Despite Tarkin literally asking Vader if the tracking device is on board the Millenium Falcon and telling Vader that they’re taking an awful risk letting them get away

@@keef920 exactly and I thought that was smart

That is until you can get rid of the plot armor as much as you can which is important

And they are stated as being phased out by Stormies, because the Army was majorly incompetent; Mimban is a great example, where Solo's entire regiment wasn't gaining any ground and took serious casualties. After the Stormies started being deployed, Mimbanese resistance finally started to crumble. So Stormtroopers are becoming the grunts of the Empire. Palpatine is fine with throwing lives away, but he hates inefficient enforcers, so he replaced the Imperial Army like he replaced planetary defense forces, with Stormtroopers.

He meant grunt as in anyone that's not a main or side character, basically all the unnamed people. Interesting fact though, I never considered that.

The things you see in Solo arent in the same universe as actual star wars.

@@stapuft why?/how do you know?

@@stapuft They are in the same universe...

Please don't underestimate the agony of being shot by a bolt of ionized plasma. The rebel's probably no death, just writhing.

She took the hit in a non-critical area

@@ValentineC137 I'll show you how to do that next time.

Its that damn plot-armor

I mean same goes to stormtroopers, but that’s because the armor more or less saves them but they get knocked out from the shock.

wow, that is an amazing reference! i got a good laugh hahaha! and to those who don't know the reference: General John Sedgwick was a Union General in the American Civil war. He died at the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House and among his last words was this iconic saying: "Why are you dodging [bullets] like this? They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance" Legend has it he was shot and mortally wounded before he finished this sentence or moments after. May he rest in peace.

@@thomasebersole8640 how the hell a american knew about a beast is only living on africa and asia.?

@@rapatacush3 . . . Please tell me you're joking.

@@cjt354 at that time i mean

@@rapatacush3 Yes, even then. Ever since the first educated European colonist arrived in America, there have been Americans that knew of elephants. It's not like everywhere was entirely isolated from everywhere else before the invention of telecommunications.

If I remember correctly stormtrooper armour dispels the shots and only incapacitates them, so they can take a hit and be out of the fight but back in the next one.

“I have never seen stormtrooper armor protect anyone from anything." So we can just ignore this quote from the Rebels show?

​@@garrettsattem4799 in that same show most of the troopers stand up after being shot

@@69thclonebattalion89 Not to mention to, in the Battlefront 2 book Iden versio, a literal special forces soldier made sure to double tap a stormtrooper to make sure that they wouldn't get back up later and stop her. Stormtrooper armor is amazing

​@@garrettsattem4799 I'd ignore it. Any quotes like that from Rebels are an example of Filoni's crappy writing regarding the Empire's troops. There's several instances of him trying to imply that everything the empire made was shittier, yet they would've had better tech at that time.

I kinda agree but honestly at that point I think the clones from the 501st would certainly be dead from accelerated growth, they'd just be elites from Vader's Fist.

The ones on the death star are told to let like etc escape. They let them go so they could track them to the rebel base. Why does everyone forget that?

@@fantasticmootastic3956 Nobody here is forgetting that, it's just an explanation for the less intelligent actions we see from the Death Star troopers C-list soldiers (glorified security guarding a WMD that's incredibly unlikely to be attacked) as opposed to Vader's Fist being S tier strike force soldiers.

Mike Huesgen That isn't meaningful data, as it's a retcon from decades later. It doesn't really have bearing on scenes shot before that.

Most people on the death star were highly ranked officers,pilots, and even stormtroopers

1cetea this comment should be higher

Id say he's actually a rebal trying to make his cause seem like an actual struggle. You guys still aren't getting anymore funding, I saw what you did with that "hammerhead" spaceship...

Good good let the hate flow through you

1cetea this needs more likes

Not a race but ok

Because after Empire Strikes Back the meme of Stormtroopers being bad shots firmly took hold in society so that made them have shitty aim everywhere else from then on.

@@matthewgagnon9426 even in Empire strikes back, they were ungodly accurate, look at Hoth. The only reason they missed in cloud city is because literally all of them were main Characters, they couldn't exactly be killed off

​@ntfoperative9432 Vader didn't want them to kill Luke in cloud city either.

What about the scenes on Bespin where they still can't hit anyone even though they _weren't_ ordered to let them escape?

@@Idazmi7 they just wanted to capture them

@@leosl6876 Then set blasters on stun and capture them! 😒

yeah then we just had several more movies and tv series all made after the OT where stormtroopers still cant hit anything, on god saying storm troopers can shoot is copium, combined theyve maybe managed to hit 4 things total.

You know damn well that you have so little to defend your point. Also what are doing at night, fighting everyone on stormtrooper aim quarrels. Get a life.

Lol and suddenly they become jar jar

What is this black rod with a red flashy pew pew?

@@uthopia27 jar jar is a legendary fighter so what you said doesn't make any sence

Pieta Junior your’e not wrong just look at how Manny battle droids he takes down in Phantom manace

probably shock, as main characters are well known individuals who are known to kill them.

The droids would have critical rebel data stored. The troopers might actually be trained to not hit non-combat enemy droids.

We were ordered to find those plans so yes you are correct, we were going to go back to get those droids. Little did we know that they left in an escape pod.

@@StormtrooperTK--ic8pb Thank you for your report soldier. You can go back to your troop.

If anything it shows how accurate they are, being able to shoot at the enemy without hitting the apparently civilian obstacles in the middle.

@Alvi Syahri nope, not at all. Most of Original Trilogy details were written at the last minute.

Ya, Stormtroopers are elite shock troopers, hence the name

@@JonathanRodriguez-nz9nw Yeah it's annoying to see them depicted defending so much when they are supposed to be shock forces.

@@Flamingbannas You're referring to many of their depictions outside of the OT.

Honestly, the Imperial Army Trooper reminded me more of engineer's and the people who were always working in ships. Storm trooper as a guard/grunt and the death trooper as the "elite shock trooper" just play battlefront 2 for hours lol

Have those guys ever actually been canon? They’ve been depicted in no official media outside of the role playing games. It’s clear by now that stormtroopers are just the generic army trooper of the empire. They do everything from guarding prisoners on backwater planets to boarding parties on starships.

It’s important that the stormtroopers still be felt as threatening. Yes, the heroes could probably take on a few, but there’s a good number of stormtroopers and they’re established as being quite competent. It’s so scenes like Luke and Ben having to cross the checkpoint have gravitas and tension; if the troopers were treated as useless goons, there’d be no tension since, if they discover the droids, the heroes aren’t in any danger and obi wan wouldn’t even need subtlety or the mind trick. The stormtroopers need to feel like a threat, so that the strengths and triumphs of the heroes feel meaningful

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Yeah and it only uses one battle in the very first opening scene as a rationalization combined with a presumptive explanation for the stormtroopers being ordered not to harm/kill the heroes. Not only is there no evidence for this in ANH but it cheapens the heroes survival and narrow escapes.

@@christiancividino455 It's literally stated outright, by both Tarkin and Leia, that they let them go in order to track them to the rebel base.

Curtis Gilbert Seriously. Vader is known for Force-choking officers who screw up. Tarkin is known for telling Vader to cut his shit. Do not screw with the guy who bosses an invincible wizard knight around.

@@AgentNintaku so darth Vader is a level 20 wizard that uses a stronger version of a invisible mage hand?

@@space_fox12 Nah, he's a level 16 Scout/Jedi/Jedi Knight/Sith Apprentice/Sith Lord with Force Choke. I mean, if you wanna stick to D20 systems, he works way better in Star Wars ones. :P

@@AgentNintaku true

The dude is also in charge of a space laser. He knows what planet you live on

I think that is something people always forget.

So they are like an elite personal guard?

@@ArturoLopez-ly2pn basically, it's more that they are a cut above the rest .

@@ArturoLopez-ly2pn No, more like just elite troops. The best of the best.

Arturo Lopez they are mostly the remaining clones because vader preferred clones over regular recruits.

Lord Palpatine's work?

@@JanetStarChild Lord *Sidious* Emperor Sheev is the public face of the sith lord.

True they are victims of annoying plot armour heroes

Nah, dude there were people who made those star wars but Everytime someone fires a blaster it speeds up memes a while back, when they went through the entire trilogy

Thank you somebody who knows the truth

well, you can very clearly see the Stormtroopers who boarded Tantive IV were of different heights, so they can't be clones

But they aged, and also not all are ex-clones, but many were

but they would all age the same, still staying the same height, plus it was shown that many of them were of different heights too, so maybe 1 or 2 clones but the rest were normal

Clones age twice as fast as the normal human. They would have been over 60 years by that point.

@@FMK03 whattt do they reallyy

To be fair, Han did shoot Vader in the hand....twice.

@@pickeljarsforhillary102 Yeah, but it didn't even scratch him. ;)

@@pickeljarsforhillary102 he has a point! also han is a guy with plot armor too so it doesnt count!

R2-D2 also got taken out on Endor.

@@LordVader1094 And the Battle of Yavin.

Did you watch the full vid? He said that..

Also they took over the Hoth base incredibly quickly.

i'd say the 501st are accurate but your general human stormtroopers are not.

@@sheilaolfieway1885 well stormtroopers are supposed to be the cream of the crop. Their the marines of the imperial navy.

@@joshuarubenstein2298 my 501st theory would make sense though since it is canon that the 501st were the ones who shot up the jawa sandcrawler and were likely on the death star as well we could simply stay that since the 501st who are under darth vader are the best of the best that the 501st are super accurate but your common stormtrooper is not as accurate.

Here is another thing though CQC is waaaaaaaaaaaaay harder because all side have advantages of choke point so the pressure is on in CQC compared to sitting in the very back popping off shots hoping you hit them If you need proof play battlefield one then play rainbow six siege you’ll see

In short, this should have been an overwhelming victory for the rebels. Yet they were wiped out in seconds. Therefore, if this fight is any indication, the stormtroopers are a legitimate force to be reckoned with.

You may have some argument there. Stormtroopers are the primary marine units and assault troops, and engaging in CQC is basically what they're trained for.

Also in open combat, most shots aren't even fired at a precise target. Loads is just "there's a squad taking shots at us somewhere over there, hit it". Suppressive fire to keep the enemies' heads down. And in case of the Civil war: Most soldiers were using smoothbore muskets, very inaccurate weapons. Anyways, that hallway scene doesn't make too much sense in how it played out anyways. In reality, the moment the door opened both sides would've been chucking grenades. The rebels all bunched up in that corridor would've been blasted. I also doubt the storm troopers would've gone for semi-automatic fire at that range.

@@bavarianpotato not to mention that musket balls were notorious for losing velocity at roughly 50(?) or so meters, if memory serves.

*The OG Battlefront 2 players Rebels: RETREAT!!!!

Taste my max rank star cards bitch

Gotta spin and roll around trying to avoid any damage at all but dies one way or another

Flank em, blast em with a cr

_By the time we landed on Yavin, whatever shock we'd felt at the destruction of the Death Star had been replaced by anger. For months we'd treated the Rebellion like a disobedient child, only to be repaid for our tolerance with treachery on an unimaginable scale. Frankly, I don't remember much of the fighting. I guess we won._

Agile? Do you mean accurate or did you forget a timestamp or something

@@defensivekobra3873 i mean they rushed Out of a choke point, that's basically dodging blasters

@@killian9314 Fair point, but *HOW* when the armor is so clunky

@@defensivekobra3873 It's basically plastic but with the defensive qualities of steel. In fact, I believe the material used for the armor is named for this very fact; plasteel.

@@cptTK421 yes, i dont Think you got it quite right but something along those lines. Plastoid? Also while light, just design wise the armor should be hard to manuver in. Perhaps not for a trained soldier tho

Can't tell if you mean "spray and pray" or "spray and parry"...

@@keulron2290 Sometimes terrorists come at you with swords. Those parrying skills can come in handy

@@keulron2290 both work xD

do you mean militairy or air force??

@@Cairo40000 When you said that i was imagining a U.S soldier bare handed parrying a sword swing from a terrorist, and the Bloodborne parry sound effect triggers.😂😂😂😂😂😂

That actually makes a lot of sense and can be seen in their equipment (no camo, limited supplies, compact blasters for CQB, all their heavy weapons are mounted on walkers). It's ideal for offensive operations but ill-suited to static defensive positions. Rebels unfortunately reinforced the "every Imperial soldier is a Stormtrooper" myth, but guard duty was supposed to be left to standard Imperial Army / Imperial Navy units. Probably the only reason Stormtroopers were responsible for defending the Endor bunker was because it was a top secret project and they were desired more for their loyalty than their skill.

Alternatively, the relative training and effectiveness of Stormtroopers vary wildly throughout the Empire. Vader's personal troops were some of the best with years of training and combat experience, and the ones set on the important tasks of conquering land for the Empire are better than most, but the ones we see in stationed to play guard duty on backwater planets are barely trained conscripts. The Empire has tens of thousands of planets it needs to garrison and trillions of citizens to keep under their oppressive boots. The Emperor wanted to rule via fear without needing a Senate. It needs troops, an unimaginable amount of them, so it just hands out a suit and blaster to anyone who proves loyal enough.

The movies and tv shows should have focused more on the basic imperial soldier and not just on the stormtrooper

The issue is that the movies somewhat uses Stormtroopers where it should be using the Imperial Army. Stormtroopers are numerous, however they're not grunts. They'd be considered the special forces of the Imperial Army, but inside of the Stormtrooper Corps, there's a special forces for the special forces (Death Troopers, Nova troopers, Shadow Troopers, Scout Troopers, Storm Commando's, the list goes on.)

In "Rebels", I assumed that the Stormtroopers on Lothal and other locations were 2nd rate Stormtroopers used for garrison duties and/or for security on ships while the ones that seized the Tantive IV were elite stormtroopers and they were. Besides, the Rebels on Lothal tended to fight unconventionally with hit and run attacks and ambushes which the stormtroopers there weren't expecting as it was something not covered in their training.

Magwell grip is a thing....

@@ISAFSoldiertrue

some EU material explains that stormtrooper armor is designed to disperse the enregy of blaster bolts making potentially lethal shots merely incapacitating, its likely that those downed troopers in ANH are only unconscious, and this would definitely increase the confidence of the average trooper,.

The armor doesn't look like it does much in terms of protection during the movies.

@@cearfarseer9725 well like the comment above you saidy they are not confirmed dead, the rebels are Like we don't see wounds on the stormtroopers just simple marks And since most army's in Star Wars Dont have any armor it's more likely that it's like real-life armor It dosnt safe you from injury but it does safe you from death in most cases Like why would there be a need for clone medics if the armor didn't protect them? We even see Captain Rex shot with a Sniper rifle and yet he is not killed just severely injured (yes he wore more armor then the average clone and clone armor is slightly better then stormtroopers but still)

There's a reason why they all wear the same armor and rush forward when one man is downed. They're like the Persian Immortals. Persian Immortals were called Immortals because when one of their men in the front lines were killed, they were pulled back into the ranks and another man would take the fallen man's place, making it seem like they were fighting the same enemy. They also all wore the same masks and armor and in the chaos of combat, it really did seem like they were immortal.

I think that is based of the blitzkrieg (ww2 german tactic)

That could be a high possibility, especially since force users use the force without knowing before they know they can use it. Darth Bane even killed his own father way before he knew he had force powers.

In every scene where stormtroopers keep missing there is a force sensitive person present. When they shot at Han in docking bay 94 Luke and Obi Wan were nearby. Leia was present at Cloud City and Endor.

Akray Bothorda that is actually a very fair point

How come i never thought of that. That is canon in my head now

PurpleLightning6was9 That is the most absurd theory to explain away plot armor I have ever heard... It's a movie, nerds :D

I also grew up as a walking Star Wars encyclopedia! And after all the memes and the newer shows making them REALLY incompetent I was so happy to find this video!

Compared to stormtroopers? Clones are gods. Trained from birth and very disciplined clone troopers are the very inbodiment of competent soldiers

The clones are stupid good! Like down right broken! If the stormtroopers are e-sport pro's, the clones are cheaters with aim bot!

@@ararepotato1420 ……are you like talking about in the lore? Or in the show?

@@superfire6463 Both.

@@ararepotato1420 the animated clone wars show? On Disney +? Taking place after the second prequels movie and before the third?

Plot armour is a helluva drug

That Mandalorian armor, tho.

Exactly. Storm troopers ARE precise.

@@willeh1947 Except fsr they keep shooting Mando in the one place he has armor, aka the shoulder?

@@ezla1663 Aim for his head and you'll get a concussive hit AT BEST (which we could see happening multiple times) The most vulnerable part of his armour are the gaps on his chestplate. Hence, they aim for it which isn't easy at all. Hitting the moving mandalorian on the shoulder repeatedly in an unstable ship falling from the sky should be considered a feat.

Christian Faux until the battle of Endor where the 'best' legion of stormtroopers (according to palpatine) were beaten by teddy bears

I LiKe PiGeoNs *vietnam flashbacks*

You need to watch EC's video on why Ewoks should be taken as a serious threat.

I LiKe PiGeoNs Honestly did anyone expect vicious miniature autonomous teddy bears to attack?

@@ilikepigeons6101 you mean insanely strong and devious man eaters? They weren't playing with storm trooper helmets for no reason at the end, they probably ate the contents first.

Some times happened in OG battlefront 2

I know, best of all they feel like they belong in universe for Star Wars. A+ on the Motion Graphics EC Henry

Bruuhhh we have the same name

Aby Idea how he did those?

@@HaustierYui if I'd have to guess how he did it ... Probably After Effects If I'd have to replicate them ... Animate a bunch of geometric lines with constant interpolation (so they "blink" from one frame to another) and some pixelizing mask or something like that on top, in the conpositor

The new graphics at the end rock.

Stormtroopers can hit anything as long as it’s not a main character. Plot armor at its finest. Also, anyone who has read the lore knows that stormtroopers have extremely good accuracy, they are the best troops in the galaxy.

@@gameshock3897 best in the galaxy at the time. if i remember all my lore correctly, from best to worst it goes: Clone Troopers, First Order troopers then Imperial Troopers

I friendly fired my mom with and airsoft while trying to kill a bug

@@devildavin Fuck the first order.

@@gameshock3897 - And a legion of the best of them lose to stone-age teddy bears; they are the best troops in the galaxy!

Tiny little brown targets surrounded by trees. Also don't forget, the rebels lost to the Ewoks too.

Ewoks were originally Wokiees. So instead of thinking of them as teddy bears, think of them as mini canniballistic Wookies which are fighting against vastly underprepared Imperial forces, alongside the Rebellion's greatest veterans.

I mean, the US lost in Vietnam. And the Middle East. It's kind of like native guerrilla fighters have an advantage in their home terrain.

@@AZDfox guerrilla with actual firearms like the ak wich is way better than the m16 the usa used not stick and stones besides vietnam had the urss suplying then with weapons.

the vietnams werent tiny teddy bears that swarm your position in thick forest, also they had to deal with the rebels and the ewoks

That's how they're supposed to be perceived. They're terrifying shock troopers, the marines of the empire. I get annoyed at the, "tHeY cAn'T aIm" line, too.

@@notyou2353 I'm not a fan or an expert of starwars lore but when you get played like a fool by some alien monkey with primitive tools it's hard to take them seriously. But it's kinda movie problem in general.

You would think that they would have blown open the door and chucked some grenades in, that's what us primitives would have done.

to be fair they fought there ship crew with pistols still empire did win most fights

@@goctexas1444 They didn’t though. They turned the tides on them. It just didn’t matter when the Death Star’s shields went down. The Ewoks only got the jump on them through surprise.

Hmm.. I can relate

I mean how do you not differ between clone troopers and stormtroopers?

I agree with the statement about clone troopers and storm troopers

I hate when people affiliate me with clones too man.

@@StormtrooperTK--ic8pb the clones are 1000 times better than you

Never noticed lol super funny

Woww never noticed

Seriously, you guys never noticed ? That's like the most recognizable gags in all of Star Wars. George Lucas even had someone adding a * bunk * for the special edition.

@@moemuxhagi I'm not into Star wars that much & I only recently watched all Star wars movies so....

@@rravitejamavr6650 Oh, well, that would explain a lot.

Some of them were standing in doorways going sideways to other room or taking some advantage of the bulges in the walls or the turn in the hallway. They have SOME cover, not much but some. All the stormtroopers have are other stormtroopers.

Just being the defender of a chokepoint gives you an advantage

Ever played xcom?

@@thepope2412 yes! freakin love that game. Looking at that shot in A New Hope again, I was just thinking (some of these soldiers have "partial cover", most have no cover no one has "full cover"

Lol

We never understood how sarcastic Kenobi could be.

For precision fire on the Battlefront (or any live shootout) 75% is very good (but it can not account for any suppression fire, and is probably derived from smaller-scale skirmishes as opposed to the larger battlefield). It's about twice as good as what is achieved by real-world armed cops in actual firefight scenarios on the street.

That line from Han Solo's mission in the campaign?

@@ilikepigeons6101 yeah from the data analyst.

I would have had the guy say "Contrary to popular belief. Stormtrooper Accuracy is only 25%!" This would account for all the missed shots (typically less than 4) against any main character before getting blasted themselves. Obi-Wan Kenobi could also have been referring to the Clone Troopers of his Era as he wouldn't know anything about Modern Stormtroopers. But since the damage is there... the Stormtroopers obviously have comparable aim.

That's incredibly high

yeah you guys have better reason for this

You just missed those pew pews

The Emperor will be pleased to hear this

Long live the Empire!

The Empire did nothing wrong

"Only EA video games are so precise."

I take it to reflect the fact that Kal is weak as fuck. Also, they're actually not 100% hit rate. You can dodge them just by running around, but the bolts are somewhat "realistically" fast.

Anase Skyrider Cal isn’t weak though for someone who only got training through till like 12-13 he fought and defeated two inquisitors and a Jedi knight that fell to the dark side. He also managed to escape not one but two engagements with Darth Vader which in my book means you’re either lucky as hell or you have some fighting skills

@@alecratterree9576 That's true, like, Ani was 9 years old and that was too far in age, so he's actually a good Jedi.

@@alecratterree9576 or both

That's a good point. Unfortunately, we really can't study the effectiveness of individual stormtroopers. But they've been known to get good hits in.

This was mainly meant as a goof, however if you wish to take it a tad seriously. To train a large group of grunts to fire together and adequately falls right into the more worse tactics that created the TIE fighters. They get the job done so who cares? That's how I see it at least.

@@ECHenry I also like to assume even as a young child that there some HUD or targeting system in the helmets that helps with that accuracy.

I know a different definition: precision - how close individual shots (by one or many shooters) are to each other; accuracy - how close individual shots are to intended target.

There are a few on-screen cases where single Stormies are pretty accurate. In ESB, one (assumed) Stormie hits C-3PO. In RotJ, one hits R2-D2 and another hits Leia on her arm.

What I found interesting is that Mayfield says he was a sharpshooter wjose are scout troopers and we can see in the mandalorian how bad scout troopers aim is, so the show contradicts itself.

@@attilafekete7892 Not all scout troopers are trained as sharpshooters.

@@InventorZahran It is still weird.

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@@flare9757 you didnt get what he meant by credit did you?

Watch the guy in the hall of tantive4 firing into the ceiling spastically. Bob please observe trigger safety

That probably takes more credit for their “dumb” reputation than poor aim does

@@ordikaskirita5234 do you have a time stamp?

@@yaboytroy357 That and the Ewoks. But every depiction of the Ewoks basically make them space Viet Cong, and wvwn then if Chewy didn't take the walker, it could've gone very differently

The moment he sais "bumbling", the Stormtrooper bumps his head

Why would they be shorter? For one thing, they figure out when leaving the death star that they are being let go, but even aside from that I don't see why it'd be shorter

Why does every one think that every single Stormtrooper on the Deathstar was given the order to miss?! I think this sounds pretty stupid. To me what Leia ment by "they let us go" is that the Empire could've send in way more troops to block the path to the Falcon and make escape impossible. Instead they only ordered a couple of squads in there to make it seem like they attempt to hinder the escape, yet in actuality they didn't want to. This explanation always seems way more realistic and plausible.

@@meganoob12 You realize your version of the plan was that Vader and Tarkin just said; "Hey, let's throw a few squads of the absolute most elite soldiers in the galaxy down the hallways at the five completely random dudes and *HOPE* that our guy's don't curb stomp the fuck out of the space pirate, princess, old man, sasquatch, and farm boy... No wait, I'll take out the old man myself. And also, don't tell our guy's we *want* the Rebels to escape." "That's a great idea, Lord Vader! I can't see how we could POSSIBLY stack the odds MORE in our favor! Those Rebels have practically already *escaped.* Corporal, send in the kill teams."

@@eidolon1426 can you stop and think realistically for a second? Who said that the guys on the Death Star were super elite?? Vader and Tarkin had the authority to restation and reschedule troops and stations right? How about we give guard duty to the absolute minimum ammount of troops and let‘s choose the absolte bottom of the barrel… the conscripted engeneergs with low morale and low will to actually be in a firefight. Not every single soldier in a huge army like this is super elite right? Thex could‘ve also send our way more fighters to intercept their flight or use the weapons of the deathstar. Another option would be that the already small crew was told that there would be a drill that day, so they might have not taken it serious… Way more realistic than telling every single trooper to not shoot to kill while at the same time willingly giving their lives away

@@meganoob12 *"ONLY* Imperial Stormtroopers are so precise." Try again.

I agree.

They even used it in the Mandalorian...

@@handcraftedgetget2918 Twice...

For real...

IKR I usually talk about the fight at the begging of a new hope when people say that

Sand people hit a moving pod racer withing a few shots in Star Wars 1 with comparatively Crude bolt action rifles.

Sandpeople have literally hunted in the desert for multiple Milleniums. They wouldn't have survived for that long if it wasn't for some kind hunting tactics.

Don't sandpeople use slug throwers not blasters

precision vs accuracy

@@andrew_yuen I'm actually unclear on the difference when it comes to firing a weapon. In drafting, precision is just the number of decimal places. 1.5432 is more precise than 1.54. Accuracy would be about how correct the number is.

Same here!!

But.. the clip he mainly compared where the accuracy and aim was, those aren't stormtroopers, their 501st clones. And clones were meant for war, and even at an old age like they are in the universe, can still hit better then any normal Stormtrooper can

@@bizu953 Bruh no. One, the 501st is a unit of the Stormtrooper Corps, there is no distinction between them. Two, the grand majority of Stormtroopers, the 501st not excepted, were by the time of Yavin enlisted natural-born humans-- most of the clones had either died in post-war pacification conflicts or been retired due to genetic deterioration. The Stormtroopers are presented as the Empire's elite in the films and the text in all three entries of the OT, and, I'd argue, Rogue One, supports this.

@@Imperial_Novatrooper When going by legends, much if the 501st were still clones. Though, of a lesser quality and not all Jango Fett clones. It is true that most were just regular people, but the 501st was still the best, just as it was during the clone wars

@@Imperial_Novatrooper no, Vader's Fist is made up of 501st clones, it's actually canon

^This

haha losers haha :)

Sweetmamaschili Well... They didnlost against Teddy bears. I mean, it’s hard to take them seriously when we’ve mostly seen them either win, but by firing an absurd amount of shots whilst in presence of Vader, or lose, against less numerous and technologically advanced enemies.

Nathan Jora the thing about that fight was it being an ambush, let’s talk about another ambush the Star Wars universe, let’s say Order 66, in that movie, we saw a fucking YOUNGLING kill about three or four Clones head on, but the Jedi council died when they were caught off guard, if the Ewoks fought them without stealth, stormtroopers would of steamrolled if we aren’t considering plot armor Edit: corrected a few things

@@thekazoogoesnoot945 shit was pretty much space Vietnam

CTFT the Rebels want to know your location

@@xSoulhunterDKx A Galaxy far far away ;)

@@SpionCTFT REPUBLIC FEDERATION! OPEN UP!

This is un ironically my head cannon. All the movies are just rebel propaganda distorting the real events.

Death Star: Never Forget!

The problem was most average soldiers weren't Stormtroopers. Almost all stormtroopers were picked because they showed more aggression towards Aliens , excelled in combat, and showed complete devotion to the Emperor. If you were just a regular soldier you'd be more likely to be a stationed on your local planetary defense force. At least that's how they were originally imagined and described as, but after the disney purchase they've been watered down and made the butt of a million overused jokes.

@@psychopunk8817 Actually, Disney made this idea canon and most of these jokes were a thing LONG before Disney purchased it.

@Fedce That's just a blooper that Lucas thought was funny so they kept it in.

By that mentality, Nazis were good-bois. In Mỹ La, Vietnam, when told to kill unarmed civilians, US soldiers turned on their superior officers, and in glorious heroics, gunned them down. many obeyed orders and started killing civilians, leading the the US troops engaging each-other. The American heroes who died and killed to defend innocent "enemy" strangers were the true warriors, not just pog fobbits who mindlessly follow orders.

Fedce well...ok I’ll give you that.

That and the 501st have all personally had training time with conducted by Vader himself.

@@lukasperuzovic1429 imagine Vader as a Drill Sergeant. Lol The commander of the 501st at the time often questioned Vader's orders without getting strangled indicating that Vader valued his opinion and may have even trusted him. Vader respects those who fight on the front lines and absolutely despises incompetent officers. He actually gave Ozzel many chances for 3 years before finally killing him for incompetence. So I could see him being harsh to Stormtroopers. But fatalities would be low or non-existent.

@@richardched6085 I remember a recent Marvel Comic of Vader, Vader training a small group of Storm Troopers in hand to hand combat (they had on their version of PT gear on). Vader was going to spar with them, all one on one. Vader giving the troopers a speech about doing something unexpected to your opponent when a Random Trooper runs over and hits the off switch on Vader's Chess computer. Vader looks at him self then the trooper, turns the chess computer back on and say "What rank are you Trooper"? The Trooper replies back "Private my Lord". Vader replies " Not any more Sargent, NOW never do that again".

@@lukasperuzovic1429 damn.... I wanna see that! Lol

@@lukasperuzovic1429 Vader sure taught his troops the basics of CQC.

Rodrigo Rubio Like the ones in Solo?

High Admiral J.T. Yes

Yes they are. The Empire had standing armies on all worlds with a population of note, and routinely sent regiments of said army troops to any nearby hot-spots they needed dealing with. Stormtroopers were defending only top-line installations of note or very important worlds, otherwise they would be on ships ready to be deployed wherever required. That's why it's stormtroopers (and navy troopers, the guys in black on the DS) on the Death Star, that's why the stormtroopers of the 501st storm Hoth, that's why they do the fighting on Bespin, that's why they defend the Shield generator on Endor and so on. Rebels have a tendency to want to hit important targets, thus they run into Stormtroopers a lot more. Had they gone and started or supported a more drawn-out terrestrial war, they would have to deal with Army troopers primarily. Well, until the empire realized it was a well-organised rebel force, then the Army would get stormtrooper backup.

@Shreyas Misra Well... The Clones were a pretty damn elite force to be reckoned with. Like, if you can basically clone anyone it isn't that much more expensive to clone a professional fighter rather than just some dude. Not to forget that the clones started getting their combat training before they even got out of their diapers. Storm Troopers may not always be as capable as Clone Troopers but the Republican Clone army should not be considered even remotely average. One Clone was worth several B88's but they had to be. It still took several years to get a clone soldier ready for the battlefield whereas a droid could be manufactured in days, if not hours. Storm Troopers represent the peak of normal human performance that can be achieved by regular training and outclass the other armies of their time, however it would make sense that someone who was literally born for the job would not be able to fully understand the struggles of a regular recruit. But compared to Rebel troopers they still have better equipment, a more coherent training and represent the peak, the cream of the crop of imperial recruits. Rebel units on the other hand are mostly made up by local militia and volunteers, they receive some basic training but don't really have centralized training facilities and their gear is just about what command could get their hands on. They owe the majority of their victories to guerilla style combat tactics, trying to ambush the enemy forces and making as much use of the element of surprise as possible. If you compare the battles of Endor and Hoth the strengths of each faction become quite apparent.

@@darthplagueis13 The clones are far from elite

I mean look at rouge one the strom troopers are incredibly competent in that movie

@@mostafaahmedibrahim2541 most of the competence came from the death troopers tbh

Why do they make stormtrooper suck everywhere besides the original trilogy?

@@themolasser9110 you mean everywhere besides the opening scene of the first movie?

@@maguspie9543 And endor, the ewoks got the jump at first with the traps, but the stormtroopers were winning the battle overall.

More US marine than special forces

Here's hoping the U.S.'s best troops don't run into stone-age teddy bears anytime soon.

michaelkeha I mean Vader’s personal detachment

Dane Powless wait until you hear about Battlefront 2 campaign mode

They did in 'nam.

Its rather obvious why stormtroopers have bad aim in the Mandalorian, they've been out of combat for years and on the other hand when I watched the Mandalorian do you know how I would sum it up? A Mandalorian and his "crew" kill a bunch of stormtroopers because they have a mad amount of plot armour.

@@dimitris2936 literal plot armor