Hey Guys, so I bought the Base Game today and and immediately got to building. While doing that I already thought about new additions to the Imperials. I both love the Snowtroopers as well as the upcoming Shoretroopers and would like to have both eventually.

Now I like to have armies in tabletop games fit together lore-wise. And I love bringing a bit of narrative into the models trough painting and especially basing.

I thought of doing the bases in the style of Crait, the salt planet from the last Jedi. That would explain Snowtroopers, but Shoretroopers and Speeder Bikes don't really fit in there.

Could there be an explanation for Snowtroopers to be deployed on Endor? It has got huge lakes that could fit Shoretroopers, Bikes obviously fit there, I could even paint up and converse some mud troopers, so no problem there. Only the Snowtroopers don't seem to fit in.

Would be glad for someone more immersed in the lore than me to help me out. A planet where all of those would fit, or a good explanation for them to be on for example Endor would be great.

Don't see them as Snowtroopers. They are elite Stormtroopers specialised in sub 0°C combat. And elite units get deployed everywhere. Simple as that.

I painted mine like Galactic Marines from the Clone Wars (you see them with Ki-Adi Mundi in Rots) and treat them as old Veterans that didn't got phased out yet.

Rename shoretroopers slushtroopers?

hotspring Troopers?

Canada Troopers - Here in Ontario we can have several seasons in a week, sometime day, even.

Environmental Collapse Stormtroopers?

I've been using mine as hostile environment troopers.

Since they have a flame thrower, maybe their armor is more fire resistant? Maybe HQ needs *that* patch of forest burned away, so they send in the flame resistant troops?

Think of every battle as the rebels happened upon an imperial armor factory and the imps are just putting on whatever armor they can find to fight with.

I'm now amused by the idea that the snow troopers landed into battle and went "crap, we were supposed to wear the regular armor!"

8 minutes ago, That Blasted Samophlange said:

Rename shoretroopers slushtroopers?

hotspring Troopers?

Canada Troopers - Here in Ontario we can have several seasons in a week, sometime day, even.

Environmental Collapse Stormtroopers?

yes I HAD RAIN TODAY AND NOW SNOW SO I CAN SEE THAT I LIKE SPRING TO COME

26 minutes ago, That Blasted Samophlange said:

Rename shoretroopers slushtroopers?

hotspring Troopers?

Canada Troopers - Here in Ontario we can have several seasons in a week, sometime day, even.

Environmental Collapse Stormtroopers?

Like this weekend, beautiful Saturday... and then today it is Snowing and raining again !!!

@Ragnar_the_Blue I think the biggest issue comes from the mouse. In their description it states they are trained and equiped for tropical environments, however their name is Coastal Defender trooper. Now not all coasts are sandy beaches as we know in tropical environments. Honestly you could probably paint them as white to match snow troopers.

Who is to say the tropical environment doesn't get snow during winter seasons? It is star wars. Anything is possible.

I personally like to stay as canonical as possible but, it isn't very well explored so... take some artistic and head canon liberties!

I haven’t painted my snowtroopers as snow troopers. One squad is just regular greys and white with a slight blue shade as per the rest of my army. The other squad started as a mechaniucs inspired paint scheme and turned into galactic marines with gold trim by accident (long story). If and when I get shore troopers I’ll probably just paint them whites and greys and dark blues to fit the rest

I have my snowtroopers as "swamptroopers." I painted the white canvas parts in camo green. I left all the metal armor parts white of course.

Suspension of Disbelief, they're plastic army men

1 minute ago, MasterShake2 said:

Suspension of Disbelief, they're plastic army men

Well that isn’t fun.

You could look at them as environmental troopers and paint them to fit with what ever army you are going for. I believe in TFA the flame troopers were actually snow troopers with the thermal padding pulled out of their armor, and if the FO did it, I’m sure the empire did as well.

Northern continents have shores to. You would think the shoretrooper armor would be robust enough to withstand Atlantic coast winter conditions in addition to Jamaica stations.

Honestly your speeder bikes fit anywhere. Bikes can be used in basically any environment and they are ridden by a scout trooper. Scouts would be deployed literally anywhere.

Snow troopers are tricky to fit lore wise as they are essentially storm troopers in warmer clothes. Maybe you have them on a planet that gets very cold at night?

Don't think of them as snow troopers. Think of them as hostile environment troopers. Doesn't matter that they are all white. So are Storm Troopers

Here's 3 ways to thematically put Shoretroopers on Crait:

1) There's a ton salt on Crait, so there must bea large body of water on the planet somewhere. Therefore, the Shoretroopers were meant to be deployed there, but were rerouted to the current battle.

2) The empire are using Shoretroopers as make-shift Mountain Infantry as their armour is suitable for climbing steep hills.

3) A shuttle/escape pod carrying Shoretroopers crash-landed nearby and the surviving occupants joined in the nearby fight.

There's 1 easy way for Bikes to thematically be on Crait:

1) Crait is mostly large flat salt plains, and the Bikes would be at home on a large, flat open area.

There's 2 ways to thematically have Snowtroopers on Endor:

1) They were called in from one of Endor's Mountain Ranges and haven't had time to change equipment.

2) A shuttle/escape pod carrying Snowtroopers crash-landed nearby and the surviving occupants joined in the nearby fight.

I painted my Snowtroopers as Imperial Army troops, matching Veer's uniform. Problem solved.

I always thought of it that maybe they were all winter, but the planet hit spring and some are rocking gear for more temperate weather; regular stormtrooper are is rated for short stints in hard vacuum, which is pretty cold.

50 minutes ago, GunNut said:

I painted my Snowtroopers as Imperial Army troops, matching Veer's uniform. Problem solved.

Pics or it didn't happen.

The 501st are a great source of info for stuff like this. As Vode mentioned, the Galactic Marines are (IIRC) a bit of a stretch but work visually to bring snowtroopers and shoretroopers together.

https://www.501st.com/members/costumeroster.php?catagoryID=25

https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Galactic_Marines/Legends

In a comic book that is canon ( Star Wars 38 if I remember correctly) we see Snowtroopers operating on Jedha. So they are not exclusive to snow planets.

All we need now is some sort of Mist Trooper and the circle will be complete.

Paint all Snowtroopers red as "Vader's Security Force" guys from Super Star Wars ESB

Just put umlauts over all of the o's in their names and say that they're pining for the fjords.