Hi there,

You know i am always complaining about the new Star Wars stuff because it does not fit into my olde OT. At the moment i am irritaded because of the new stormtroopers, the death- and the shoretrooper.

The standart stormtrooper “were the elite soldiers of the Galactic Empire (wookiepedia)”. If you let the movie thing that they can not hit something aside, an elite soldier is the best soldier you have. It is very strange to believe that it is necessary to make a design-variant of this elite trooper.

The shadow-trooper from battlefront and the EU make a lot more sense, even the design.

The elite is the spearhead of the forces. Now there are soldiers with slightly adapted to fit different environments like the lighter scouttrooper or the cold assault stormtrooper. The difference were only of practical nature never optical. If the look changes there was always practical reason to do so. But you can always see the standart sout- or stormtrooper in the design. And there are all white, grey or black. The never use camouflaging colours.

Now we have a liht brown or khaki coloured shoretrooper. To me that makes no sense. Even in green environments the empire uses white soldiers. It is because they do not hide from the enemy. The empire does use this all the same faceless black and white looking troopers to create fear.

And a beach is nearly the same as a desert. If there is a shoretrooper in RO it would be logically if there was a “woodtrooper” in ROTJ. But there is not! But the empire dos not work this way.

I do not like it and i think again that it is a disney-merchandising-problem.
I am not looking forward to see shoretroopers, woodtroopers, deathtroopers, watertroopers, sandtroopers or hover tank troopers and what so ever is about to come. I think the design of the new troopers should have been more like storm- and scouttroopers with slighly little differences not a whole new design.

The George Lucas clonetrooper fits more into Star Wars as this RO troopers.
And i hate to say that.