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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lobo Lurker" data-source="post: 1992438" data-attributes="member: 25172">Archimedes frowns at Sri's words, but senses the underlying truth. The man's attitude is flippant, but he knows that those in Sri's specialty are frequently on thier own. If his capacity to perform his duty stemmed from self-reliance instead of faith in the Emperor, then so be it. Either way, he was still useful."The innate  problem with fielding a large number of storm troopers is that the commander has no way of directing each of thier individual targets. Humans, as a rule, tend to 'follow the leader'. Thefore if one independently minded trooper gets it in his head to shoot the most strongly armored portion of a target, it's likely all the troopers will do the same. Not terribly effective, but we're shock & terror troops... not commandos per se.""The optimal function, therefore, of a Storm Trooper company is to place us in front of another army and let us crush it into oblivion. Our companies are useful, if a commander knows how to use them." It seems as if he'd say more, but you get the impression that he's too disiplined to talk bad about his commanders.</blockquote>