Originally posted by NewGuy01
Lmfao. Empire stomps the living shit out of us.Our bullets can't penetrate Stormtrooper plastoid armor. Their blaster bolts can conversely blast right through any defenses we have.
Our nukes don't have the energy output to even take out the shields of an average Imperial Star Destroyer, even if we fired several warheads at a single ISD.
They outnumber us a thousand to one.
We just don't stand a chance at all, whatsoever. One of Palpatine's inquisitors goes to a peace talk and mind-tricks all of our leaders into nuking one another, the end.
Plastiods are their versions of 'Hard Plastics' rebel soldiers sometimes often called Stromtroopers "Plastic boys". Bullets can penetrate plastics right?
yeah send the Inquisitor to mind trick the leaders. that's one way to put it.
Originally posted by The Merchant
I never said a .50 cal was weak. I said the wall that was used to fire the .50 cal was specifically made to be as weak as possible so we could see the most damage a .50 cal can do without externally as well as internally.
I see but the .50 cal can still do damage to Stromtrooper armor. the are plastiods anyway, their version of Hard Plastics. and bullets made holes on plastics.
Originally posted by The Merchant
Depends on the sources. Tech manuals for the most part say Blaster Bolts move at Lightspeeds. In one of the Fate of the Jedi Novels a Blaster Bolt was described as moving a hundred meters in a Nanosecond. If we go just by visuals from the films I might be recalling this wrong but in Attack of the Clones I could have sworn the Blaster Bolts being fired from Padme where actually moving faster than Dooku's ship, which was able to get to orbit in a few seconds.
well blasters are lasers and lasers are light so they are moving on the speed of light. but if made a comparison on the movies, they just making the blaster bolts move slow so the viewers can see it flying. but in reality. your dead the moment their guns made a muzzle flash maybe faster than that.
Not debating that Stormtrooper armor can withstand a .50 caliber, at least not the Phase-I type which is what we see in the movies. Phase-III armor can probably withstand it since it can take a direct hit from a Blaster Bolt. I'm saying that their infantry weaponry is better than ours. There's also how Stromtrooper blasters where able to turn Aunt Beru and Uncle Owen to smoldering skeletons and even blasted apart their small hut apart. And in the Death Star scenes a Stromtrooper blasted a blast-door apart with one-shot too.
Originally posted by The Merchant
Not debating that Stormtrooper armor can withstand a .50 caliber, at least not the Phase-I type which is what we see in the movies. Phase-III armor can probably withstand it since it can take a direct hit from a Blaster Bolt. I'm saying that their infantry weaponry is better than ours. There's also how Stromtrooper blasters where able to turn Aunt Beru and Uncle Owen to smoldering skeletons and even blasted apart their small hut apart. And in the Death Star scenes a Stromtrooper blasted a blast-door apart with one-shot too.
no doubt that Stromtrooper Blaster is superior to us. yeah, depending on the armor phases they are wearing they can withstand bullet damage.
however
if you know where to shoot, bullets can still penetrate their armor (e.g their helmets). if you're a real crackshot, aim for their eye visors, I'm sure those are made of glass
Originally posted by The Merchant
Yeah in Tatooine's Ghost Tusken Raiders where able to kill a couple of Troopers by shooting their visors. However for the most part they aimed at their armor and all it did was knock the Troopers off their feat and they got back up like no problem.
yeah a head shot always kills. the Tusken Raiders probably carrying low calibre rifles so they not able to kill the troopers. regarding out weapons, they can still kill assuming they hit the arms, legs, and the head. these parts are the some of thinnest in an armor set.