Say you were head of Imperial R&D, What would you design for use against jedi?

[GiantToenail]

How would you equip troopers of the Galactic Empire against Jedi?

I was thinking about one of the better COD's (Infinite Warfare) and remembered it had the coolest doo-hickey you could slap on a cyber-shotgun, A reflex sight that would analyze an enemy and alter the trajectory of each pellet that it would every major joint/body-area resulting in a one-shot; Kicker was it was slow compared to the speed of combat, But is was still a slick sci-fi concept!

I want to know: what weapon/gizmo comes to your head when it comes to dispatching/capturing those glow-stick wielders? It doesn't have to be a resource intensive super weapon either but those are also welcome! It could be better tactics for normal troopers on the battlefield to utilize to gear they already have, unorthodox usage of the environment around them to use to their advantage or using improvised weapons that have a greater effect on jedi rather than conventional laser-arms or maybe a gizmo/weapon that's more economical but still an improvement to those troopers that have them.

I posted this thinking throwing a wrench in the works for my Jedi players would shift them out of the limelight and have the soldiers/hotshots of the group use their tactics and superior laser-weaponry to win the day instead of "Hokey religions and ancient weapons". Not to say hamstringing the Jedi players is good, I'm doing this because I had a more sith-centric warehouse raid already play out in the earlier sessions where the soldiers/hotshots played more of a support/sideline role in combat.

I've attached the image of the Cyber-DooHickey I mentioned.

What I'm thinking would equal the odds against those robe-wearing spinning tops!

Thinking about it more I thought that reflex could be a natural jedi killer if the empire ever implemented it; seeing as it's targeting all the main centers of movement for a jedi all at the same time, even one hit could take a jedi out of fighting-shape since agility is one of their main defenses against blaster bolts.

I didn't forget about deflecting either, As I see it jedi's deflecting blaster bolts is the same as a kid hopped up on his mother's bath salts whacking away wiffle-balls his buddies are tossing at him and thinking he's "Fucking Invincible!!!" with the flimsy wiffle-bat he thinks is his own personal hand of god.

It's not about if the jedi can hear/see it coming and hit it; it's about what he's expecting and what he'll get. So I'm thinking instead of having more kids toss wiffle balls at him and end up with more kiddoes getting knocked out with wiffle-balls at the end of the day how about I find the son of the professional pitcher of the cul-de-sac and 1 or two of his buddies and give them 5 proper bean-bags to pelt at the munchkin/brat/half-pint at a time while he's distracted hitting all the wiffle balls. He won't see/hear it coming or be prepared for the force of the bean-bags, even if he's dealt with them before he'll have have to keep dodging up until he retreats out of the area. Either way a win for the tupperware wiffle-ball kids!

So I'm thinking the empire send a small team of specialists with Slugthrowers with cortosis-coated buckshot with the biggest pellets reasonably possible (regular firearms as opposed to laser weapons since they hit with more force and are harder to see, and cortosis coating adding to that force) in with a regular array of troopers that're expected to come up against jedi. The cortosis balls could be heavily padded or rubberized too, in the case of Darth Vader wanting the heroes taken back to him alive like in the trilogy.

But then again sourcing the specialist operatives, manufacturing the specialist ammunition, and developing the high-tech reflex sight would be expensive material-wise, manpower-wise, and research-wise so this'd be in an extraordinary situation or commissioned by a higher command or something. Maybe I'll make a fan-comic about it, seems like a neat plot.

I've attached an illustration of the Wiffle-Maniac just in case he comes to your neighborhood, So you'll know what to expect.

[anvil242]

I always thought that grenades that explode on impact would be useful

[Bifford]

I always thought that grenades that explode on impact would be useful

Molatov.

[Grandpa]

A blaster that operated like a shot gun. Impossible to block all with a light saber at one time. Heck even a shotgun could do it.

[maximus]

I'd give the stormtroopers better armor. Theirs' never seems to protect against anything.

[Ancalagon]

I'd refuse to give Disney my money.

[Grandpa]

Shotguns