Black pauldron sandtrooper corporal inspired by the movie

Stormtroopers trained and equipped to survive in the most grueling desert environments. Sandtroopers also known as desert sands troopers wear temperature controlled body suits beneath their armor. Advanced cooling system in both their helmets and armor give this soldiers further relief from the heat, while sealed joints and filtered breath masks protect them from sandstorms. Sandtroopers wear colored pauldrons as the designation of rank and they are equipped with extra water supplies, portable shelters and durable commlinks.

Assignment to a desert world is possibly the worst fate a stormtrooper can suffer. Aside from the constant heat and sudden sandstorms desert world usually have very little to offer. On Tatooine stormtroopers are further challenged by such dangers as krayt dragons and tusken raiders. To survive sandtroopers wear standard stormtrooper armor with a heat reflective coating, and advanced temperature controlled body glove. The helmet includes a filtered breathing mask for use during sandstorms, polarized lenses and a built in commlink. Sandtroopers carry a long range commlink in their utility belts for emergency use. Along with the standard issue  BlasTech E-11 blaster sandtroopers utilize a wide range of weapons including  conclusion grenade launchers and repeating blasters. Due to their special desert training, they are able to control and ride local animals, such as dewbacks, and they are able to drive local desert-based vehicles, such as a sail barge.

Led by Captain Terrik, Zeta squadron was assigned to find the escape pod and recapture its contents. The Zeta squad consisted of two highly trained sandtrooper squads known as Alvien and Drax. Sandtrooper Davin Felth, a member of the squad later became a rebel informant after witnessing the deaths of Aunt Beru and Uncle Owen. Davin Felth had a short role in the game Force Commander, where he was serving under Brenn Tantor during the tutorial levels.

In the Battlefront series sandtroopers got different roles, then usual. In Battlefront 1 sandtroopers are heavy troopers, also called shock troopers, however in a different meaning then I have already introduced Thire and his shocktroopers earlier in this section. This time they have a heavy rocket launcher, they are the most dangerous enemies of the enemy vehicles. You can even use them on the Dune Sea of Tatooine as a basic stormtrooper class, no special desert bonus, or anything. They got even further from their initial role in BF2, when they can be selected as a special air dessant type, called imperial marine, which service is a stronger version of the normal tie fighter pilots, they are especially good for infiltrating enemy ships.

In the game Jedi knight, Jedi Academy, and Knights of the Force sandtroopers are not desert corps, but a different stormtrooper military service in the Imperial Army. They do not have the 4 color pauldrons in the game, only the orange pauldron sandtroopers got their part in the game as a stronger version of the basic strormtroopers. They are often armed with a heavy repeater gun, or a Merr Sohn rocket launcher, so their are a dangerous foe. Our faithful reader Roland, alias Darth Styker created a cool screenshot for us, illustrating some sandtroopers after they attacked the jawa sandcrawler in search of the missing droids and the stolen data.

We could see a black pauldron sandtrooper corporal only a few times in the movies, all were in the New Hope.

The first appearance of the black pauldron sandtrooper corporal was in a Tatooine scene, while they were landing in the desert to investigate the missing escape pod and the secret plans. Two black pauldron sandtrooper corporals are searching the droids and the escape pod. Nobody knows however, why and how their armor got muddy. The mud is from sand and from water, and water is the thing that you will be short of in the deserts. The solution might be in the background. The landing shuttle transports the troopers, the AT-PTs, the mobil artilleries, and the dewbacks, too. So it may happened, that a dewback pood while exiting the shuttle, and these sandtroopers slipped in it on the ramp, falling into it. Otherwise how else could their armors got muddy after a few seconds they had arrived?

Here they are again. They were halting Luke Skywalker and the elder Ben Kenobi in Tatooine. Their landspeeder is in sandtrooper circle, they were in danger, but Kenobi mind tricked the sandtrooper squad leader to gain permission advance further. Some black pauldron sandtroopers stand behind the landspeeder.

The third scene is interesting, because this was the first time we could see that small scout droid, which later came with a white pauldron sandtrooper sergeant figure in the Power of the Force line some years or rather decade ago. That is a Mark IV type probe droid, which doesn't have built-in weaponry, but it was a great observer and intercepting monitoring unit, which was able to detect even the illegal radio signals, too. You can see a white, a black, and an orange pauldron soldier in this scene, as they hurry towards the hangar. The black is in the focus.

They arrive in the hangar in the fourth picture, but who knows why... We cannot see the evidence for the elder Kenobi's words, when he claimed the imperial stormtroopers as a precise shooting army, showing their shots on the side of the jawa sandcrawler. Now a squad of "elite" sandtrooper were not able to hit Han Solo, they target him, and shoot him around in a ten meter radius, while Han easily took out some orange, black, and white pauldron sandtroopers, the remaining desperately ran into some kind of cover, and fired back with some really pathetic shots.

The Millenium Falcon escapes, and heads to Alderaan. On top the hangar some black pauldron sandtroopers watching the corellian ship helpless, they cannot do anything to prevent it. Although they quickly inform the imperial stardestroyers orbiting over Tatooine to stop the pirate ship at once.

When I planned to hand make a  white pauldron sandtrooper sergeant years ago, there was ONLY a POTF version, which was really a POWER version, I could not see any steroid sandtroopers in the movie, but this guy is really muscular. There were not any other sandtroopers to buy, but recently there is a better selection for the fans. The new white pauldron sandtrooper sergeant has a nice card design, a lot better torso, great accessories, and cool articulation. But I had to repaint a "steroid" orange POTF sandtrooper, painting his pauldron white, and giving him a bit dirty look on the body armor while creating my custom white pauldron sandtrooper sergeant figure.