I think it’s the case that most shields had little to no metal.
This appears to be the case in both the Bronze Age and Iron Age.
Metal was extremely expensive, and heavy. A shield made entirely of metal would have cost far more than a sword, which was often equivalent to a nice home in value, and would have weighed down any regular soldier severely.
Spartan shields were wood with a thin bronze face and still weighed nearly 30lbs. If made of solid bronze, they would be unusably heavy.
Xerxes’ storm troopers, the immortals, his best trained and equipped, had only leather armor and wicker shields well into the Bronze Age.

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I truly believe D&D rehearsed their future Star Wars project techniques for Disney while finishing Season 8 - Story be damned!

What we got is medieval storm trooper fights and minimalist conversation full of non-sequitur in what once was a wonderful tapestry of political backstabbing and intrigue.

God damn it!

"And these blast points, too accurate for sand people. Only imperial storm troopers are so precise"

Well I haven't seen Ghostbusters yet, but remember when everyone was pissed off because the new Star Wars had a woman and a black storm trooper as the lead characters?

Do you also remember when the film succeeded on its own merits and no one gave a shit any more because the film was actually good?

Releasing a film where the four principle characters are 3 intelligent white scientists and a streetwise sassy black woman is hardly a fucking exercise in equality anyway. And we're talking about a remake of a comedy that was popular and successful in the 80s - it's not like they're taking big risks and giving the women a chance to shine on their own, is it? How about an all-woman written and directed original film, or can't they spare the money? Because they seem to find enough cash for Seth Rogen or one of the other comedy clones to vomit out another catastrophe every year. Or maybe the people with the money are all men and prefer jokes about farts and masturbation.

That's the worst thing that seems to get ignored - this is Hollywood's lazy way of brushing a few crumbs from the table and saying 'See? Women have just as much power and prominence in the movies! By the way, do you know any girl who's turned 18? We need the new love interest for a 50 year old in the latest action flick. We need someone who looks just good enough that we can photoshop a huge pair of tits on her. We're going to take it in turns to take her to dinner and try to bed her before filming starts.' Hello people? There is enough sexism to deal with in Hollywood without worrying what IMDB rating Ghostbusters got and why.. Treat the disease, not the symptoms.

Ironic that this time, the people shooting AT the storm trooper can't hit shit...

The red/white neo-Empire storm-trooper rally shot evokes some pretty blatant Nazis imagery.

Also on a (mildly spoiler-ific) note the lack of Mark Hamill (Luke) in the trailers has fueled some speculation on what role he might play in the movie, won't mention it here.

The storm trooper giving the finger was a nice touch.

Loosing my head every time someone says, "What, a black guy? What happened to the clones?"
The production of clones stopped after Order 66. The clones died off rapidly with their accelerated aging. Once the Empire took over, Storm Troopers were made up of people from concurred planets. All Troopers were human because of the Emperor's distrust of Alien races.

There were no living clones left in Episodes 4-6

Keep going little guy. You're going to need all that cardio when the storm troopers arrive.

The shirt also has little storm trooper faces on it

It's a storm troopers in the Justice League of Denmark.

Oh, but we're too fast for the criminally insane-Are you angry at my apparent disdain for police?
I do not believe that you come out of the police force with the same morality, empathy, or humanity when you joined the academy. At some point as a United States policeman, you will be expected to compromise ethics and humanity, you will be tainted by the very nature of what the profession has become.
Then again, a large majority of hind-brained, low-intellect control-freak fucks join the force, and for that there should be more public inquiry and standards established for who is allowed to become a storm trooper....because, that's where this country is headed, along with private security everywhere-Douchbags running the show.

Who knows, maybe I'll get mashed between an interior wall and a SOFA the next time the house is driven into by someone on nitrous
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>> ^00Scud00:

>> ^deedub81:
You realize Mexican Storm Troopers make sopes that are out of this world, right? >> ^skinnydaddy1:
>> ^deedub81:
You realize that there is no such thing as a Tie Fighter in real life, right?>> ^skinnydaddy1:
>> ^00Scud00:
Nice, but the Ties all need a bumper sticker reminding them that their craft was built by the lowest bidder, seriously, you can blow up a Tie by just staring daggers at it.

The roomy cockpit is to make up for the lack of shields on the Tie Fighter. It allowed the pilot to have enough room to kiss his ass goodby.


You Realize my avatar is a Mexican storm trooper?


You all realize I'm a goddamn hedgehog right?


Well, we all have to put up with a little prick every once and awhile. We won't hold it against you.

Storm troopers are not clones, no. One of a few bad presumptions in Red Letter Media's reviews.