Artistic Forces/Storm Trooper

"I serve for ze Empire!"

- Storm Trooper The Storm Trooper is a basic infantry unit of the Totalitarian Empire. He is planned to be voiced by Robin Atkin Downes.

Tactical analysis

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Background
Taking their title from the specialist soldiers of the Imperial German Army during the First World War, the Storm Troopers are the vast shock troops, serving as the backbone of the Totalitarian Imperial Army, together with the paramilitary Protekta Skadro, including Armita-PS and Ŝtorma Taĉmento. Like most Totalitarian Imperial Armed Forces, commonly known as the Defendoforto, these soldiers are fanatically loyal to the dictator and share their deep dislike of their enemies that interfere their plans, including globalists, anarchists, separatists/secessionists, insurrectionists, and even internationalists. They equipped with East German Wieger StG-940 (mainly the StG-941 variant and rarely the StG-942 and StG-943 variants) assault rifles, which are a commonly and mainly used service rifle, loosely based on the Soviet/Russian AK-74, bayonets, underslung grenade launchers, and DM41 hand grenades.

Appearance
The the appearance of the Storm Trooper is based on the fusion between East German soldier of the Landstreitkräfte, the main ground force of the National People's Army as the official armed forces of East Germany, and the backbone of the German Army (Heer), the ground branch of the Nazi German Wehrmacht. For the military clothing of this basic infantry, the Storm Trooper wears a combination of the German M44/M45 uniform and the Soldat uniform of the NPA known as Dienstuniform or Felddienstuniform in Leibermuster camouflage pattern, consisting of East German M56 (M1956) Stahlhelm (with or without protective military goggles or even a netting), which is not adopted by the Wehrmacht and later used by the NPA, on his head, a field tunic, black leather suspenders with four pouches and a Y-shaped strap attached to a belt, black combat gloves, greenish gray trousers, and a pair of black jackboots. Some of them also wear field gray greatcoats for rainy and winter seasons, and M56 Stahlhelm with 2 decals of the Totalitarian Empire in both sides, and their airborne versions have East German paratrooper helmets with liner chin straps, and a camouflage pattern, based on Leibermuster, but with rainy lines. Instead of wearing a field gray uniform, the Storm Troopers wore completely different military uniform in both desert and snowy/winter terrains. In desert terrains, they wore monochromatic tan military uniform like what the Nazi Germans wore as Erwin Rommel's famous Afrika Korps in northern African regions during WWII. And in snowy terrains, just like what the Nazi Germans did in the Eastern Front, they wore monochromatic white uniform to match the winter terrains. For the Armita-PS variant of this basic infantry, he wears a uniform with Flächentarn pattern and Schutzstaffel-influenced features similar to those worn by both the Waffen-SS and the East German NPA, and M56 Stahlhelm with 2 PS insignias at both sides. For the Militadefendoforto variant, his headgear and uniform, except his black gloves and jackboots, now have a camouflaged pattern based on Blumentarn. With the Storm Gas Masks upgrade, the Storm Trooper additionally wears a gas mask for protection against hazardous gases, such as the toxic ones, to really look like a German stormtrooper from the First World War.

Idle animations

 * A Storm Trooper will reload his rifle (even if the rifle has not been fired yet).
 * A Storm Trooper horizontally views from left to right once.
 * A Storm Trooper looks around the surroundings from left to right.
 * A Storm Trooper inspects his rifle.
 * A Storm Trooper checks through the sights of his rifle.
 * A Storm Trooper will drink from a canteen.
 * A Storm Trooper stands and performs a Totalitarian Salute by extending both arms from the shoulders into the air with a straightened hand.

Strategy
Like most basic infantry, the Storm Troopers are very effective enough against most types of infantry. Also, their assault rifles can be upgraded with underslung 40 mm grenade launchers, which are used for blasting enemies in a targeted area, and bayonets, which are used for close-range combat, when the Storm Rifle Attachments upgrade is successfully purchased at the Storm Armory. They remain ineffective against most anti-infantry units like the Immolators and Contaminators, thus these can easily kill them in process.

Trained

 * "I serve for ze Empire!"
 * "Glory to ze Kaiserreich!"
 * "My life for ze Empire!"

Selected

 * "Jes? Kio?"
 * "Jes, sinjoro?"
 * "Storm Trooper here."
 * "Command me!"
 * "I am your servant."
 * "I vait for your orders."
 * "Bonan tagon!"
 * "Preta por ago."
 * "Do you require a plan?"
 * "Vhat do you need?"
 * "Kio okazas?"
 * "Atentu!"
 * "Saluton, sinjoro!"
 * "Your orders?"

Moving

 * "Jes."
 * "Jes, sinjoro!"
 * "Ni iru!"
 * "Kompreneble!"
 * "Orders granted."
 * "Marŝu!"
 * "Mi komprenas!"
 * "I go viz haste!"
 * "Viz obedience!"
 * "For honor."
 * "On my vay!"
 * "Viz pleasure."
 * "As you command."
 * "Iru, iru, iru!"
 * "Right avay."

Attacking with rifle or bayonet

 * "Por la imperio!"
 * "Vivu la Imperio!"
 * "Venka!"
 * "It is my destiny!"
 * "Zey must be eliminated!"
 * "AAAAAAAAAAAATAKO!"
 * "Let us slay zem out!"
 * "Destroy our enemies!"
 * "Make zem pay!"
 * "Leave none survive!"
 * "None shall be alive!"
 * "Rapide! Rapide!"
 * "Zey vill die!"
 * "Ze Empire vill prevail!"
 * "Zey vill die!"
 * "Ze Empire vill prevail!"

Attacking with hand grenade or grenade launcher

 * "Prenu ĉi tion!"
 * "Blast zem out!"
 * "Here you go! Take zis!"
 * "Get zis!"
 * "Granato!"
 * "Bombs ahead!"

Garrisoning building

 * "You zere! Get inside!"
 * "Let's occupy zat structure"
 * "Come inside! Rapide!"
 * "Entering ze building."
 * "Are zere enemies inside?"
 * "Vhat's inside zis building?"
 * "Into ze building!"

Clearing garrisoned building

 * "Take zem out!"
 * "Expel ze enemy occupants!"
 * "Drive zem out of ze building!"
 * "Remove zem from ze structure!"
 * "Let's get zem avay!"
 * "Clear zat enemy-occupied building"

Move to attack

 * "Faru ĝin rapide!"
 * "Rapide! Movu, movu, movu!"
 * "Iru! Rapide!"
 * "Interferers!"
 * "Zey stand in our vay!"
 * "En gardo!"
 * "Into our purpose!"
 * "Por venka!"
 * "Our Empire vill conquer!"
 * "Our conquest for ze Empire continues!"
 * "Daŭrigu!"

Retreating

 * "Zis is bad! Ve must retreat!"
 * "Retiriĝu!"
 * "Damne! Let's get avay from here!"
 * "Rapide! Ekstere, ekstere!"
 * "Go avay. Go avay!"
 * "Ve must head back!"
 * "Run for ze safety zone! Rapide!"
 * "Get to safety over zere! Follow it!"

Under fire

 * "Damne!"
 * "Aj!"
 * "Zat hurts!"
 * "I need courage!"
 * "Help save me!"
 * "I shall hold zem off!"
 * "At least ve die for honor!"
 * "Neniel!"
 * "It is my purpose..."
 * "Ne! Ne! NE!"
 * "Panjo!"

Capturing neutral or enemy building

 * "Ve shall claim zat for our Empire!"
 * "Levu la Flagon!"
 * "Zat vill be for us!"
 * "Ve vill prepare to capture it!"
 * "Let's take control of zis for our Empire!"
 * "Imperial expansion is ready to capture zat building!"

After capturing building

 * "Zat building is ours now!"
 * "Ze Empire can now use zis building!"
 * "Ze Empire has been expanded!"
 * "Ve have ze building for our Empire!"
 * "Building capture complete, sinjoro!"
 * "Ze control of zat building is done!"

Base under attack

 * "Help defend our base, sinjoro!"
 * "Our base is being destroyed!"
 * "Ze enemy is trying to besiege our base!"
 * "Zey're attacking our Imperial base!"

Unit under attack

 * "Helpu!"
 * "Ze enemy is attacking us!"
 * "Ve are under attack!"

After an enemy capturing the building

 * "Damne! Ze enemy has taken control of our building!"
 * "Zey have taken our building from us!"
 * "Ho ne! Zey've got our building!"
 * "Ne! Our building has been captured by an enemy!"
 * "Zey have taken one of our buildings for ze Empire!"
 * "Zey got zat for ze enemy territory!"

Using rifle

 * "Assault rifle is ready!"
 * "Getting ze assault rifle!"
 * "Locked and loaded!"
 * "Got ze assault rifle and ready!"

Using hand grenade or grenade launcher

 * "Grabbing frag grenades!"
 * "Bringing up ze hand grenades!"
 * "Hand grenades are here!"
 * "Arming viz hand grenades!"
 * "Armed and ready viz ze grenade launcher!"
 * "Getting ze grenade launcher ready!!"

Using the bayonet

 * "Melee veapon is ready!"
 * "Attaching a knife to zis rifle!"
 * "Let's stab zem viz bayonets!"
 * "Getting ready viz zese bayonets!"

Using Bayonet Rush

 * "ŜAAAAAARGU!"
 * "POR LA IMPERIO!!"
 * "AAATTAAAAAAKOOOOOO!!"
 * "MOOORTUUU!!"
 * "VIVU LA IMPERIO!!"
 * "PRENU ĈI ĈI!!"

In combat

 * "Have at you!"
 * "For ze glory of our empire!"
 * "Deaz to our enemies!"
 * "Bow to us!"
 * "Face defeat!"
 * "Prepare to die!"
 * "Fight viz honor!"
 * "Prenu tion!"

Kill

 * "Mortu!"
 * "Vi malsaĝulo!"
 * "Ze Empire strikes again!"
 * "Enemy down!"
 * "Feel ze Imperial auzority!"
 * "Zere you have it, fool!"
 * "How is zis?"
 * "Stay dead!"

Healed

 * "Ho!"
 * "Dankon!"
 * "Ah! I'm better!"

Surrendered

 * "Ho ne!"
 * "I-I surrender! Don't hurt me!"
 * "Hold your fire! I give up!"

Capture Building upgrade complete

 * "Building capture is ready, sinjoro!"
 * "Now ve can capture buildings!"
 * "Ve may capture ze buildings for ze Empire!"
 * "Capturing buildings is now expandable to our Empire!"

Grenade launcher upgrade complete

 * "Grenade launchers are now attachable to our rifles!"
 * "Many grenade launchers for us! Jes!"
 * "Attaching our guns viz underslung grenade launchers!"
 * "Now ve are armed viz our grenade launchers!"

Bayonet upgrade complete

 * "Our rifles are now viz bayonets like spears!"
 * "Now ve have bayonets for our rifles!"
 * "Our rifles have bayonets now!"
 * "Ve can now use bayonets to stab our enemies!"

Storm Gas Masks upgrade complete

 * "Ve are now protected viz ze Storm Gas Masks!"
 * "Zese gas masks vill get rid off ze foul gases!"
 * "Storm Gas Masks are now equipped to protect us from harm!"
 * "Ve have ze protective gas masks now!"

On death

 * *Rebel Infantry death sound effect from Metal Slug A*
 * *Rebel Infantry death sound effect from Metal Slug B*
 * *Rebel Infantry death sound effect from Metal Slug C*
 * *Rebel Infantry death sound effect from Metal Slug D*
 * *Guard death sound effect from Wolfenstein 3D A*
 * *Guard death sound effect from Wolfenstein 3D B*
 * *Guard death sound effect from Wolfenstein 3D C*
 * *Guard death sound effect from Wolfenstein 3D D*
 * *Guard death sound effect from Wolfenstein 3D E*
 * *Guard death sound effect from Wolfenstein 3D F*
 * *Guard death sound effect from Wolfenstein 3D G*
 * *Guard death sound effect from Wolfenstein 3D H*
 * *Guard death sound effect from Wolfenstein 3D I*

Repeatedly selected

 * "Annuit coeptis."
 * "Novus ordo seclorum."
 * "Li konsentis pri sijaj klopodoj. Nova ordo de la epokoj."
 * "Have you seen ze Eye of Providence? Vell..."
 * "Make up your mind, fool!"
 * "Are you still poking me?"
 * "Don't you have an empire to run? Heh?"
 * "Vhy are you doing zis to me, sinjoro?"
 * "I have a lot of tasks to do for our dictator."
 * "Ze Dictator vants you!"
 * "Sieg Heil-I mean, Venko salutas!"
 * "Ignoring ze komandanto! He appears to be ze victim of some sort of enemy nerve gas!"
 * "Clickety-click. Clickety FRENEZE CLICK! Freneze merdo!"
 * "Try stop poking me, pugo!"
 * "Ze Gvidanto is vatching us!"
 * "Ze New Vorld Order avaits."

Trivia

 * The Totalitarian Imperial Army's service rifle, the Wieger StG-940, carried by most Totalitarian Imperial Storm Troopers, is a family of East German assault rifles, loosely based off the Soviet/Russian AK-74, and intended for export. The name Wieger is a combination of two words: Wiesa (a German town where they manufactured this rifle) and Germany.
 * The influence of the Storm Troopers, wielding the Wieger StG-940, is reminiscent to Wehrmacht soldiers who were wielding the StG 44s that last from 1943 to 1945 instead of Karabiner 98k during World War II. The StG 44 is also used by East German National People's Army or NPA as one of military service rifles from 1949 to 1962 during Cold War, and inspired the Soviet Kalashnikov AK-47, which had been introduced during postwar era, along with the SKS rifle. In recent years, the AK-47 is eventually replaced by the AKM and later the AK-74 in Soviet service as a standard-issue rifle of the Soviet Union.
 * The name of this basic unit is a translation that shares with a German word Sturmtruppen, which is given to special troops of the Imperial German Army who were tasked in ferociously mounting fierce infantry assaults on Allied trenches in an attempt to break off the stalemate on the Western Front during the final year of WW1.
 * The uniform color of the Storm Trooper, except his Armita-PS counterpart, known by the German word Feldgrau is more reminiscent to the iconography of the standard infantry of the Imperial German Army and later the German Army (Heer) of both the Weimar Republic's Reichswehr and the Nazi Germany's Wehrmacht.
 * The Militadefendoforto variant of this basic infantry unit wore the entirely camouflaged military uniform, including his covered M56 Stahlhelm and excluding his gloves and jackboots, to look like those worn by the Waffen-SS paramilitary personnel in between 1944 and 1945 during the final stages of World War II.
 * The art design for the Totalitarian Imperial variant box art of Artistic Forces has a closeup portrait of the Storm Trooper, shown with tan background at the back in both sides of the Totalitarian Imperial flag at the top, and the background with an army of Storm Troopers, Storm Riflemen, PE Soldiers, Leopardo Tanks, Kampfmeister Tanks, and Kriegspanzer Tigros, the Shargauto, and a squadron of Chashundos, Falkos, Plobos, and Sabros, located at the bottom.