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Message: <blockquote data-quote="thewok" data-source="post: 6153167" data-attributes="member: 60907">Actually, if you watch A New Hope, in the scene where the stormtroopers board the Tantive IV, there are a few times where stormtrooper armor deflects blaster bolts.  The WotC games also included DR on armor (lightsabers would then ignore that DR).  Remember that Stormtroopers are the Empire's elite.  They look like mooks in the movies because  they're fighting the heroes.  Those heroes have destinies that must be fulfilled.  In other words, they have Plot Armor and Plot Armor-Penetration.  Stormtroopers miss because they have to, and the heroes hit because they're the heroes. In regards to the FFG game itself, soak is mostly a function of the character's innate Brawn characteristic--not armor.  Armor adds to it, but it's mostly Brawn.  That simulates the ability to shrug off attacks to non-vital areas or just put the pain aside until combat is over.  Laminate (stormtrooper) armor specifically adds 2 to the Soak value of a character.  A typical stormtrooper has a wound threshold of 5 and a soak value of 5.  A blaster rifle or carbine does a minimum of 10 damage on a hit.  A single hit by a blaster rifle or carbine will kill a stormtrooper.  Han's DL-44 does a minimum of 8 damage on a hit.  But, Han's a skilled shot, and he's probably going to get more than the single net success on that test, so he can probably kill that stormtrooper in one shot, too.  When fleeing to the Millennium Falcon on the Death Star, Luke has an E-11 (a blaster Carbine), and his witnessing the death of his mentor grants him the use of a Boost die.  He can easily kill stormtroopers with one shot.  He might even be using Destiny points to upgrade his most likely low-skill (or unskilled) attacks.  He got a Triumph on his shot to close the blast door so Vader and his reinforcements couldn't get to the hangar.The Soak value is the same for both.  They have a soak value of 5; they get 3 from Brawn and 2 from their laminate armor.</blockquote>

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