Let’s stop kidding ourselves. They made it simply because they wanted to make some new crap for the marketing purpose (despite being logically redundant).
Well, you could make that same argument for a lot of the OT Stormtrooper variants.
I mean if a regular Stormtrooper with a few add-ons could function in the desert, then why did we get a completely new type of trooper for forests?
It’s a lot easier to sell one of these rather than just changing the regular Stormtrooper a little bit like they did in the first movie before they knew it would sell ridiculously well.Well you cut off the part of the post where I pointed out justifications for scout trooper. It is not a “type of trooper for forests”. When it comes to scout trooper it is not about the environment, it is about different type of unit. It not an infantry unit, it is a speeder unit. It operates alongside infantry (storm troopers).
Fair enough, they are after all bike troopers. But what about the Snow-troopers? If the regular Stormtrooper armor works in the desert, not to mention the vacuum of space (with a few add-ons of course), then why did there need to be a specialized armor for cold environments?
Well, ESB had the budget for more variations, and Kenner toys were selling really well.
Also, we don’t really know what the Shore troopers are yet. Maybe they do have some type of vehicle. I mean we even got AT-AT drivers with their own helmet ad armor design. Why does vehicles need specialized armor, but certain environments do, while other doesn’t?. I’m not really complaining about any of this, I like the varied designs and their production histories, I just don’t see why a “Shore trooper” is so crazy, when we’ve had “Snow troopers” and “Scout troopers”, etc.
Well with snow troopers you have a point. It was unnecessary. Less unnecessary than shore trooper, but still essentially unnecessary compared to storm trooper.
When it comes to AT-AT and TIE pilots, it is logical that their outfits are different from infantry (storm troopers) because they don’t need an armour plates, etc. And I already explained why scout troopers were also reasonable.