Dang, a stormtrooper shot Leia from far away while barely aiming AND only using one hand, that guy deserves a promotion, if he survived the battle of Endor
I’m glad they brought back the E-10 in _Andor_ episode 6 for use by Imperial Army troopers, AND that it was updated from the iron-sights we see in _Solo_ to an “electroscope” like the E-11 has.
@@1065chris I don't think it is. Their armor is designed to dissipate energy from blaster bolts, but it's still made of a plastic type material which probably wouldn't stop bullets. They actually use bullets in SW, they're called slugs and the guns are called slug throwers. I think those would go right through their armor.
Weeeeeell, you're not completely wrong, buuuut... The folding stock is usually a compromise to reduce the lenght of the weapon when not in use. If you ask real soldiers (or softgunners, just anyone that has held a real or fake firearm for at least one day) most of them will agree that a folding stock is not as comfy as a collapsible or even a fixed stock. But wait, you might ask, why did they leave the folding stock on the gun in star wars? To keep the fingers away from the heated barrel, as the folding stock doesn't touch it. You can still still argue why didn't they just replace the stock with a compatible metal bar, my answer for that is: "It's ok, Star Wars hasn't been known for gun porn as its main attraction, also props-modelling time cuts"
@@bluecaptainIT also to add take a look a stormtrooper and scout trooper armor, for stormtrooper armor i wouldn't say it would be comfortable or efficient to use, but scout troopers have it better
@@bluecaptainIT The Death Troopers’ E-11D’s had a glow rod mounted between the folding stock and barrel, besides the glow rod on the right side of the gun (most likely to help with searching in the dark, and also to keep the black gloves away from the hot barrel.
@@bluecaptainIT I figured keeping the the folding stock on as a forward grip was exactly why they kept it. Why not just make a new grip? My guess is it's probably easier to make an attachable aftermarket accessory stock for existing weapons rather than redesign and update the assembly line for future models. Also, we need more star wars gun porn. It's like steampunk but actually good.
"So our guys are missing a lot, perhaps we should improve their training-" "No! We shall increase the fire rate!" "But it already got good rate of fire-" "More shots in the air means more probability of hit! Case closed!"
Bf 109 gunpod overload in a nutshell He, Kapitän Müller, our pilots are unnefective against ze britz and americans, should ve try to make ze fighters more nimble? Nein, put more guns. Uhmmm...vouldn't zat decrees accuracy? MORE GUNNNS!!!!
@@OspreyKnight Hi, 4 years late So, on the Sterling SMG, which is the real-life weapon used to make the OG E-11 props, the minute you bring down the buttplate on the folding stock you've essentially unlocked it. While you could try to use the buttplate as a makeshift foregrip, the actual stock is going to keep trying to fall down on you. Might as well keep it folded or deploy it and leave it that way
I love how some of the most iconic guns in Star Wars are literally just old World War 1 and 2 weapons with random bits bolted onto the side. The E11 is literally just a British Sterling with a smaller magazine, a scope, and “fins” in its barrel shroud.
Jason Mimiaga Mostly because people think it’s a forward grip. I honestly thought that until I did some research on the Sterling and got a pretty good E-11 replica for my cosplay.
@@casbot71 In The Clone Wars we see Ashoka not deflect but dissipate stun blasts. They can't be deflected back with lightsabers but they can be blocked basically.
Lighsabres cannot deflect the stun setting of a blaster to the best of my knowledge. The stun setting always seems to fire in a large ring like blast which seems to be intended to hit a full body instead of a single point like a blaster. The only way to avoid it is to be out of its area of affect.
Love this video. Especially the moments you said "Electroscope". In my headcanon the E-11 was introduced in 16 BBY (around the same time as Stormtrooper Armor and the standardization of Imperial Naval Design) the E-10 was a contemporary Cheaper variant that cut down on "Unnecessary" parts like the Electroscope and was typically issued to Imperial Army Soldiers while the more advanced and Powerful E-11 was issued to Stormtroopers. By 0 BBY the E-10 had largely disappeared from general service due to it's cheap reputation (In a deleted scene Han's E-10 jammed in the middle of the Battle and he called it "Cheap Imperial crap!!!" Before discarding the useless firearm) I love the E-10 and the AT-DT Walker as they show that the Imperial Military actually improved over time instead of stagnating and starting out with the same equipment we see in the original trilogy. I could see the Imperial Army being the main Infantry Service for non-clone recruits from 19 BBY to 8 BBY after which the Stormtrooper Corps became the main service branch of the Imperial Army.
@@claymclaren5788 You’re right. Just like how the United States Marine corps is under the department of the U.S. navy. The stormtrooper corps is naval infantry tasked with boarding ships and spearheading assaults.
I like the ANH E-11 look the best, frankly. For as much as the artstyle could be incredibly goofy looking, I'm glad the E-11's in Star Wars: Rebels were based upon the ANH aesthetic versus the ESB or ROTJ versions.
A280-CFE (I call it the A260 for simplicity, it's sniper and assault rifle configurations are identical, ICWS) A310 (Long Barreled A260 Variant, Probably not ICWS) A300 (Short Barrelled A260 Variant, Probably not ICWS) A280 (Standard Planetary Defense Force Assault Rifle, Not ICWS) A295/A280C (more powerful/accurate version of A280, not ICWS) A180 (Lighter version of A260, ICWS) A175 (A280 legends video game Variant, used by Kota's Militia, Royal Naboo Guards, Rebel Soldiers etc. Not ICWS)
Great video! For an episode in the same vein (although much shorter), the DL-44 and certainly its carbine configuration (since there is still no clear model of it outside of "Solo") would be cool.
I just watched the movie for the 4th time and finally noticed that the DL-44 was originally a Carbine (That or the DL-44 has multiple configurations with the most popular being the Pistol variant)
Something struck me as odd about stormtrooper guns for a long time, it wasn't until I learned more about real guns that I finally worked it out. The standard E-11 looks way too small. The stock is a wire-frame at best and it's always folded away (presumably because blasters don't have a lot of recoil and spaceships are CQB so you want a shorter gun?) but the stormtroopers clutch them like rifles. Basically, it's a bunch of people holding what amounts to SMGs as though they were real rifles.
When the stock is down, the gun bears striking resemblance to early German Storm Trooper SMG's used in WWI (German's had special forces called Storm Troopers who utilized special arms such as flamethrowers and SMG's (in the day of bolt action rifles) to storm enemy trenches instead of playing stalemate like other forces).
The E-11 is to me a visible indication that Stormtroopers were technological more enhances than their clone predecessors which mostly compensates their lack of training.
Really enjoyed this breakdown, can honestly say as even a long time fan of the series I didn't realize so many variations existed, I simply thought they were personal mods or refits (in the case of the First Order). I think an interesting idea for another similar video could be Lightsabers, although you'd really have to stick to universal changes like the Proto-Saber, curved handles, dual bladed, things like that given how personal each individual blade normally is, still think it could make for quite the fascinating vid. Also I'd just love to see your take on things like the Proto-Saber which I haven't seen a 3D model for!
F for the one handed, no scope trooper that shot Leia in Endor. Got a hole in his chest by Han, poor little guy. Your efforts will not be forgotten, most accurate trooper of the Empire.
You could have added how in just A New Hope alone there were variations between the props used. Some had the longer scope and some with the shorter scope. Some had no counter on the side and others did. The prop weapons were rented so the modifications to make them Star Warsy meant the add-ons had to be superficial. This is likely why when Luke is holding an E-11 in his stormtrooper disguise you see where the counter had been glued on the side. By the time they got to ESB they began making more foam and rubber versions of the E-11 for stunt work. This is when random parts were being added to the prop and it began drifting away from the look it had in ANH. When ROTJ came around the E-11 looked very different but this was because the props were based on Japanese replicas of the Canadian licensed Sterling SMG. The Canadian version looked a good bit different from the original versions. Of course this is all concerning the props themselves and NOT the version in the universe. Earlier attempts at explaining these differences in the pre-Disney Canon was by saying the E-11 had variants like the E-11B (those used late in the Galactic Civil War) or E-11 carbine (A scopeless, folding stockless version). This made sense like we have ever evolving variants or our real world main battle rifles. One thing that pisses me off to this day is the prop makers adding a collapsible stock on a weapon that already has a folding stock. Cool video!
i actually prefer the power-cell on the left side instead of the right i feel it's less awkward to change in a hurry cause don't have either remove my trigger hand or reach over/under with the supporting hand
I love the E-11. Not only is it iconic, but it's accurate, powerful, and reliable, enough to be used by the military of multiple factions. It earned it's fame.
"You get a stock! And you get a stock! And *you* get a stock! (but using them requires special training where you also learn to hit things)" - StormTrooper trainer. Fun video. Always nice to see the variants explained.
If you think about it, the DC-15S blaster carbine is the in-universe/timeline predecessor to the E-11 blaster rifle. It was used heavily by the Republic clone military and saw some use in the early years of the galactic Empire.
One of my favorite sci-fi weapons. Dark Forces, JK, JK:JO, JK:A, the Battlefront games and Rogue Squadron: Revel Strike really make you appreciate it lol
You are missing the E-11 variants present on ESB and ROTJ, and those are quite different from ANH version, especially the ROTJ. In ROTJ Lucasfilm decided to use a Model Gun Corporation (MGC) Japan metal replica that is similar to modern airsoft instead of a real Sterling SMG. The greeblies and parts on it are also different. On ESB they used the classic Sterling but with different greeblies and no more mag cylinders or Hengstler counter on the side. Screen used ROTJ Stormtrooper blaster: i.postimg.cc/kXw4XWWv/ROTJ-Stormtrooper-blaster-screen-used-01.jpg
"Glow rods" Star Wars finally went tacti-cool, it seems. Behind-the-scenes I think the props for the E-11's in Rogue One had a small piece of MIL-STD-1913 rail on the right side, then the light mounted to that. Certainly caught me by surprise when I saw it.
Love your models, could you do the different Battle Droid variants found during the clone wars? Droids were just treated as extensions of their weapons so they made a good amount of specialized droids.
Technically no, the Republic never issued the E-11 to its troops, but they did use the DC-15S which is very similar to the E-11 but lacks the scope and processing unit on the side. The DC-15S was the grandfather of the E-11 and while exceptional in its size and performance for it’s time, BlasTech took the lessons they learned from the DC-15 series blasters for the basis of the E series blasters.
Just a fun fact the E-11 stock could be used as a Vertical forward grip as well. So with a collapsible stock attached you would have better control. On the real weapon it was a feature we seldom used, I did use it if in a vehicle cab for added ease of stability when fired. I do plan on having a few added feature's on the E-11 3D model I am going to build. I have idea's to have it all interchangeable from the standard E-11.
That E-22 variant is crazy looking. Just imagine what the recoil would feel like from a full auto over under fire arm. I wonder if the recoil from each barrel firing in sequence would somewhat cancel out recoil from the previous shot... Or if it would just make it worse lol??
I noticed that too. I remember reading the folding stock under the barrel could be partially deployed and used as a fore grip. Maybe the adjustable stock attached to the butt wasn't always issued (a lot of the E-11's don't have it), but the folding stock was standard, so when they did actually get an adjustable stock, they just kept the standard folding stock on to use as a fore grip?.. an unnecessarily heavy-yet-sparse fore grip.. Or maybe Star Wars gun designers know very little about real, practical gun designs and go for rule of cool while also trying to stay visually reminiscent of the original E-11 that was just a Stirling SMG with some "sci-fi" bits thrown on? hah
@@HNTRKLLR Aaron Kuhman I had also heard it was used a fore grip especially on Phasma's gun, but i see in this video it looks exactly the same. But most likely the props designers don't know much about real guns, as the mag is on the most difficult side to reload unless your left handed
@@relston646 fore SMGs with side mounted magazines it's much more comfortable to have them on the left side. Hold the gun on it's grip with your right hand and reload with the left. Pretty simple and you can easily hold the gun
The you’re looking at the wrong blaster, the E-11 is an evolution of the Separatist’s E-5. This is an even better connection, a new world power using an evolution of their fallen rival’s main weapon, similar to how the USSR used the AK which is an evolution of the German STG-44.
The E-series of blaster rifles seems like the space version of an AK or AR-15. There's just something about how pragmatic the design is with no frills or fancy coverings.
Probably depends on what blaster mechanics you assume are actually cannon. If you assume it's taking discreet units of gas, ionizing it into plasma and then magnetically accelerated as a condensed bolt held together by it's accelerating magnetic field, then I could see how you could get anything from feed issues to having moisture or foreign material cause issues or blockages with the magnetic rails or coils. I'd also imagine that if something also interfered with it's ability to move heat into it's heat sink, the gun wouldn't fire as that could also screw with magnetic properties of accelerating rails or cause them to fail and basically have a whole bunch of plasma blow up in your face. Thats my mental gymnastics at least to make sense of Star Wars!
Considering that the Blaster Bolts fired from E-11s barely graze shoulders and requires head or chest shots to kill. I bet it wouldn't need that much power.
@@richardched6085 Well they can pierce a Stormtrooper's armour and blast through locks so the power needed would still be pretty high. Granted they fall well short of being able to vapourize someone like the Star Trek phaser can do (now for that you really would have to drag a power station along with you) I would guess that some sort of supercapacitor might hold enough power for short bursts or a battery with many times the density of ones produced with our current technology. Perhaps in 50 - 80 years time?
@@ewaf88 that sets the bar pretty low for Stormtrooper Armor. Considering that 98% of all Stormtroopers hit by a Blaster Bolt are instantly killed (The 2% who survive being almost exclusive to Star Wars Rebels). When unarmored people actually take time to die (Leia's Shoulder "It's not bad, doesn't die", Melshi's Clavicle "Takes 2 minutes to die and has enough stamina to run behind cover", Rio "Just got nicked in the shoulder I'm fine." Becket "He's not fine....') it's all over the place depending on the plot. Sometimes Blasters are abundantly more powerful than Bullets and other times they are inferior to 22 Calibre Hunting Rifles.
@@ewaf88 why not just use the highest settings possible in combat? I can see where variable yield settings would be useful in special situations but in pure unadulterated combat the objective is to kill the enemy. I'd just set my Blaster to full and waste an entire Rebel Squad with Superheated Shrapnel.
Hopefully when Scarif arrives in BF2, so will the E-11D (one modder made the gun which started the comment "If modders can do this, why not DICE?" , and F8RGE on the BF2 Reddit responded with :0 , the typical symbol used by Ben [BF2 Community Manager] when teasing new content for BF2)
is there ever an oppertune moment for your weapon to jam? Edit: could you take a look at the supped up blaster the rebel commandos use at scarrif? each one has rather unique modifications.
Dang, a stormtrooper shot Leia from far away while barely aiming AND only using one hand, that guy deserves a promotion, if he survived the battle of Endor
Han put a blaster bold through his chest.
@@Janoha17 RIP to the most accurate stormtrooper in the corps
He literally got shot
He got shot and then eaten by Ewoks.
He didn't survive lol he got killed by a teddy bear
I love the design of the Shore Trooper and Death Trooper blasters!
Yet I rather love bullets shreading enemies to pieces or death than blasters "blasting" enemies. After all guns rule!!!
If they ever have an Airsoft version, I would so buy one
@@pyeitme508 **laughs in planet melting beam**
Same
The e11 def looks like a sten and the e10 looks like a fg42
I’m glad they brought back the E-10 in _Andor_ episode 6 for use by Imperial Army troopers, AND that it was updated from the iron-sights we see in _Solo_ to an “electroscope” like the E-11 has.
According to wookiepedia, it’s called the E-10.5
Really informative. Learned a lot I didn’t know here.
Still u prefer an Earth made gun than this trash can?
@@pyeitme508 well Stormtrooper armour is probably bulletproof so... no.
Useless info but very interesting at least.
@@1065chris I don't think it is. Their armor is designed to dissipate energy from blaster bolts, but it's still made of a plastic type material which probably wouldn't stop bullets. They actually use bullets in SW, they're called slugs and the guns are called slug throwers. I think those would go right through their armor.
@@sam8404 EU says otherwise, and canon doesn't say.
EA - There is no customisation in Star Wars
EC - * rips a hole in wall * Are you sure about that?
What's EC
@@aidenlegobatman Bro this was 5 years ago I forgot
@@aidenlegobatmanIm guessing EC is for EC Henry, but I’m not sure
Gotta love all the clueless designers who don't know how the collapsible stock works and then end up adding another stock to the gun.
Weeeeeell, you're not completely wrong, buuuut... The folding stock is usually a compromise to reduce the lenght of the weapon when not in use. If you ask real soldiers (or softgunners, just anyone that has held a real or fake firearm for at least one day) most of them will agree that a folding stock is not as comfy as a collapsible or even a fixed stock.
But wait, you might ask, why did they leave the folding stock on the gun in star wars? To keep the fingers away from the heated barrel, as the folding stock doesn't touch it. You can still still argue why didn't they just replace the stock with a compatible metal bar, my answer for that is: "It's ok, Star Wars hasn't been known for gun porn as its main attraction, also props-modelling time cuts"
@@bluecaptainIT also to add take a look a stormtrooper and scout trooper armor, for stormtrooper armor i wouldn't say it would be comfortable or efficient to use, but scout troopers have it better
@@bluecaptainIT The Death Troopers’ E-11D’s had a glow rod mounted between the folding stock and barrel, besides the glow rod on the right side of the gun (most likely to help with searching in the dark, and also to keep the black gloves away from the hot barrel.
Bruh you gotta have more stocks for more tactics.
@@bluecaptainIT I figured keeping the the folding stock on as a forward grip was exactly why they kept it. Why not just make a new grip? My guess is it's probably easier to make an attachable aftermarket accessory stock for existing weapons rather than redesign and update the assembly line for future models.
Also, we need more star wars gun porn. It's like steampunk but actually good.
I would love to see the clone wars weapons be analyzed
I wouldn't
@@omarg5645 who the fuck asked u bruh
@@omarg5645 why not?
For me the E-11 is one of the most iconic & defining weapons in Star Wars, probably alongside Han's own DL-44.
"So our guys are missing a lot, perhaps we should improve their training-"
"No! We shall increase the fire rate!"
"But it already got good rate of fire-"
"More shots in the air means more probability of hit! Case closed!"
So, like Project SALVO from the '50s
Haha ecactly!
With this logic the main characters would also always miss
@@laisphinto6372 It's partly the stupidity of the plot.
Bf 109 gunpod overload in a nutshell
He, Kapitän Müller, our pilots are unnefective against ze britz and americans, should ve try to make ze fighters more nimble?
Nein, put more guns.
Uhmmm...vouldn't zat decrees accuracy?
MORE GUNNNS!!!!
I had no idea the E-11 had a stock, That's the first time I've seen it unfold! Thanks for teaching me something new about the universe.
Yeah, and you can pull the buttstock down without folding it back to make a foregrip.
@@OspreyKnight Hi, 4 years late
So, on the Sterling SMG, which is the real-life weapon used to make the OG E-11 props, the minute you bring down the buttplate on the folding stock you've essentially unlocked it. While you could try to use the buttplate as a makeshift foregrip, the actual stock is going to keep trying to fall down on you. Might as well keep it folded or deploy it and leave it that way
@@kylebrady969 I own one bastardized into a semi automatic on import to the US.
I love how no one ever uses the folding stock, especially storm troopers lacking in accuracy
Stormtroopers are known for their deadly accuracy its not their fault plot armour exists
I love how some of the most iconic guns in Star Wars are literally just old World War 1 and 2 weapons with random bits bolted onto the side. The E11 is literally just a British Sterling with a smaller magazine, a scope, and “fins” in its barrel shroud.
That’s exactly what I hate about Star Wars weapons
@@Prokerboss why? It makes them super interesting and a cool detail for gun nerds to notice
@@schoolsenpai773 no it makes them less interesting coz its really just another thing but with some mods. also its been 1 year
I never understood why the E-10 and E-11D had PDW stocks while retaining the folding stock.
Jason Mimiaga Mostly because people think it’s a forward grip. I honestly thought that until I did some research on the Sterling and got a pretty good E-11 replica for my cosplay.
@@MandalorV7 Death Troopers held the E-11d with their left hand on the folded stock (not in front of the trigger guard.)
Jacob Clark were do you get the props?
I think the folding stock was used as a monopod in the larger models.
@@linewater2690 You can even get very accurate child toy replicas of the E-11 which you can spray black.
For a future video, can you explain the mechanics of a 'stun setting'?
Could lightsabers deflect it?
Bypasses the tibana canister I think, I could be wrong though
@@casbot71 In The Clone Wars we see Ashoka not deflect but dissipate stun blasts. They can't be deflected back with lightsabers but they can be blocked basically.
@@ArmouredProductions Rebels shows stuns are blockable too.
Lighsabres cannot deflect the stun setting of a blaster to the best of my knowledge. The stun setting always seems to fire in a large ring like blast which seems to be intended to hit a full body instead of a single point like a blaster. The only way to avoid it is to be out of its area of affect.
The sound of the E-11D is great, idk why but I like it
Love this video. Especially the moments you said "Electroscope". In my headcanon the E-11 was introduced in 16 BBY (around the same time as Stormtrooper Armor and the standardization of Imperial Naval Design) the E-10 was a contemporary Cheaper variant that cut down on "Unnecessary" parts like the Electroscope and was typically issued to Imperial Army Soldiers while the more advanced and Powerful E-11 was issued to Stormtroopers. By 0 BBY the E-10 had largely disappeared from general service due to it's cheap reputation (In a deleted scene Han's E-10 jammed in the middle of the Battle and he called it "Cheap Imperial crap!!!" Before discarding the useless firearm) I love the E-10 and the AT-DT Walker as they show that the Imperial Military actually improved over time instead of stagnating and starting out with the same equipment we see in the original trilogy. I could see the Imperial Army being the main Infantry Service for non-clone recruits from 19 BBY to 8 BBY after which the Stormtrooper Corps became the main service branch of the Imperial Army.
Could be wrong but I believe the Stormtroopers are a branch of the Imperial Navy.
@@claymclaren5788
You’re right. Just like how the United States Marine corps is under the department of the U.S. navy. The stormtrooper corps is naval infantry tasked with boarding ships and spearheading assaults.
Could you do a similar video on the DC-15/17?
What about Handphasers and Disruptors? That would be interesting aswell
I'M SO GLAD SOMEBODY FINALLY MENTIONS THE STOCK.
Another great vid!
Finally get to see someone use the E-11's folding stock :)
Very cool! Well done on the stock animation.
What might be fun would be a similar study of the E-11 props: the differences from ST to ESB to ROTJ.
I like the ANH E-11 look the best, frankly. For as much as the artstyle could be incredibly goofy looking, I'm glad the E-11's in Star Wars: Rebels were based upon the ANH aesthetic versus the ESB or ROTJ versions.
The A280 I think has some variants in canon.
A280-CFE (I call it the A260 for simplicity, it's sniper and assault rifle configurations are identical, ICWS)
A310 (Long Barreled A260 Variant, Probably not ICWS)
A300 (Short Barrelled A260 Variant, Probably not ICWS)
A280 (Standard Planetary Defense Force Assault Rifle, Not ICWS)
A295/A280C (more powerful/accurate version of A280, not ICWS)
A180 (Lighter version of A260, ICWS)
A175 (A280 legends video game Variant, used by Kota's Militia, Royal Naboo Guards, Rebel Soldiers etc. Not ICWS)
All you're missing is the A280C, I believe.
@@somepersonmcsomebody7501 the A295 a.k.a the A280C
Dang, I just realized that they're there lol
I don’t know why but I love your Chanel already
Really liked & enjoyed watching this.
Definitely do more of these vids.
Great video! For an episode in the same vein (although much shorter), the DL-44 and certainly its carbine configuration (since there is still no clear model of it outside of "Solo") would be cool.
I just watched the movie for the 4th time and finally noticed that the DL-44 was originally a Carbine (That or the DL-44 has multiple configurations with the most popular being the Pistol variant)
I love this format of video. I'd love to see more videos regarding different obscure Blaster Types.
Something struck me as odd about stormtrooper guns for a long time, it wasn't until I learned more about real guns that I finally worked it out.
The standard E-11 looks way too small.
The stock is a wire-frame at best and it's always folded away (presumably because blasters don't have a lot of recoil and spaceships are CQB so you want a shorter gun?) but the stormtroopers clutch them like rifles.
Basically, it's a bunch of people holding what amounts to SMGs as though they were real rifles.
very well produced, gj ^^
Loved this format! You should definitely do more.
I really like the E-10’s design.
When the stock is down, the gun bears striking resemblance to early German Storm Trooper SMG's used in WWI (German's had special forces called Storm Troopers who utilized special arms such as flamethrowers and SMG's (in the day of bolt action rifles) to storm enemy trenches instead of playing stalemate like other forces).
The E-11 is to me a visible indication that Stormtroopers were technological more enhances than their clone predecessors which mostly compensates their lack of training.
Really enjoyed this breakdown, can honestly say as even a long time fan of the series I didn't realize so many variations existed, I simply thought they were personal mods or refits (in the case of the First Order). I think an interesting idea for another similar video could be Lightsabers, although you'd really have to stick to universal changes like the Proto-Saber, curved handles, dual bladed, things like that given how personal each individual blade normally is, still think it could make for quite the fascinating vid. Also I'd just love to see your take on things like the Proto-Saber which I haven't seen a 3D model for!
Hacksmith RUclips Channel built one if you want to see one.
Great video I would like to see an analysis of the AT series of walkers in a similar manner.
F for the one handed, no scope trooper that shot Leia in Endor.
Got a hole in his chest by Han, poor little guy.
Your efforts will not be forgotten, most accurate trooper of the Empire.
You could have added how in just A New Hope alone there were variations between the props used. Some had the longer scope and some with the shorter scope. Some had no counter on the side and others did. The prop weapons were rented so the modifications to make them Star Warsy meant the add-ons had to be superficial. This is likely why when Luke is holding an E-11 in his stormtrooper disguise you see where the counter had been glued on the side. By the time they got to ESB they began making more foam and rubber versions of the E-11 for stunt work. This is when random parts were being added to the prop and it began drifting away from the look it had in ANH. When ROTJ came around the E-11 looked very different but this was because the props were based on Japanese replicas of the Canadian licensed Sterling SMG. The Canadian version looked a good bit different from the original versions. Of course this is all concerning the props themselves and NOT the version in the universe. Earlier attempts at explaining these differences in the pre-Disney Canon was by saying the E-11 had variants like the E-11B (those used late in the Galactic Civil War) or E-11 carbine (A scopeless, folding stockless version). This made sense like we have ever evolving variants or our real world main battle rifles.
One thing that pisses me off to this day is the prop makers adding a collapsible stock on a weapon that already has a folding stock.
Cool video!
Please do DC-15s and their variants! Or basically all armament used by the GAR during the clone wars.
I'd love more videos like this. Maybe you could make a video on the weapons of the clone wars?
Oh hey this is the guy who made the Y Wing fan made model. Could you consider making multiple Uglies videos on the pirate varients?
I love this channel.
I will never understand why the E-10 has a folding stock when it has a normal buffer tube butt plate stock....
i actually prefer the power-cell on the left side instead of the right i feel it's less awkward to change in a hurry cause don't have either remove my trigger hand or reach over/under with the supporting hand
I love the E-11. Not only is it iconic, but it's accurate, powerful, and reliable, enough to be used by the military of multiple factions. It earned it's fame.
Can you do a video about the DC blaster variants used by the Clones? And how it compares to the E-11 and F-11
Really loved that custom animation
Hi Henry, i really like this type of videos. How about a video about the different walkers of the republic and the empire.
This is my favorite weapon, and is my favored blaster in Edge of the Empire
Where can I download these models? They are really well done!!
I'd really like to see you do a video analysising the ships in the fleets in various Star Wars factions (CIS, Republic, Imperial .ect)
It would be awesome if you made a video detailing all the weapons used by the empire
A versatile firearm for multiple applications. My overall favorite sci fi weapon.
The E-22 is one sexy blaster
1:30 wait, jamming? Blasters can jam? I guess they have moving parts then?
probably. But I’m pretty sure that the “magazine” can be disrupted by jammers and mud. Thus, causing the blaster to jam.
I'm back after watching The Mandalorian and the E-22 Blaster Rifle was seen being used by a few remnant Stormtroopers. Pretty cool!
"You get a stock! And you get a stock! And *you* get a stock! (but using them requires special training where you also learn to hit things)" - StormTrooper trainer.
Fun video. Always nice to see the variants explained.
now, tell me, why are there so few blasters/customization, in Battlefront 2?
... maybe they’re saving all the good game features for battlefront 3. I hope.
Always great vids
If you think about it, the DC-15S blaster carbine is the in-universe/timeline predecessor to the E-11 blaster rifle. It was used heavily by the Republic clone military and saw some use in the early years of the galactic Empire.
One of my favorite sci-fi weapons. Dark Forces, JK, JK:JO, JK:A, the Battlefront games and Rogue Squadron: Revel Strike really make you appreciate it lol
Personally I am partial to the DT-57, but the E-11 is iconic.
You are missing the E-11 variants present on ESB and ROTJ, and those are quite different from ANH version, especially the ROTJ. In ROTJ Lucasfilm decided to use a Model Gun Corporation (MGC) Japan metal replica that is similar to modern airsoft instead of a real Sterling SMG. The greeblies and parts on it are also different. On ESB they used the classic Sterling but with different greeblies and no more mag cylinders or Hengstler counter on the side. Screen used ROTJ Stormtrooper blaster: i.postimg.cc/kXw4XWWv/ROTJ-Stormtrooper-blaster-screen-used-01.jpg
My favorite is the ANH Version. I like the cylinders, wires, and Hengstler counter. The ROTJ version just looks so poor in comparison imo.
The ROTJ prop there happens to be the exact design DICE gave the E-11 in Battlefront 1 and 2.
"Glow rods"
Star Wars finally went tacti-cool, it seems. Behind-the-scenes I think the props for the E-11's in Rogue One had a small piece of MIL-STD-1913 rail on the right side, then the light mounted to that. Certainly caught me by surprise when I saw it.
DLT-19D rifles used by the Death Troopers also had a small bit of Picatinny rail for the top-mounted scope.
Just some very important information needed for survival. Found it fascinating though.
Love your models, could you do the different Battle Droid variants found during the clone wars? Droids were just treated as extensions of their weapons so they made a good amount of specialized droids.
Do the ones from Legends next or just more Star Wars guns in general
This was incredibly informative. What source material did you use for your research?
I actually had an e11 toy when I was a kid. It said it was a “Republic Blaster” and I just wondered if the republic ever had used e11’s.
Technically no, the Republic never issued the E-11 to its troops, but they did use the DC-15S which is very similar to the E-11 but lacks the scope and processing unit on the side.
The DC-15S was the grandfather of the E-11 and while exceptional in its size and performance for it’s time, BlasTech took the lessons they learned from the DC-15 series blasters for the basis of the E series blasters.
I would love to see a break down like this of Rebel/REsistnace blasters!
Just a fun fact the E-11 stock could be used as a Vertical forward grip as well. So with a collapsible stock attached you would have better control. On the real weapon it was a feature we seldom used, I did use it if in a vehicle cab for added ease of stability when fired.
I do plan on having a few added feature's on the E-11 3D model I am going to build. I have idea's to have it all interchangeable from the standard E-11.
blew my mind to learn that bit at the front was a stock
Do a video on the A-180 and it’s variants like the A-190, A-180CFE, etc. also on the DLT series including the DLT-19, DLT-19x, etc
And the battle droids used an E-5.
day 568 of quarantine: i am now educated on every varient of the e11 blasster rifle
That E-22 variant is crazy looking. Just imagine what the recoil would feel like from a full auto over under fire arm. I wonder if the recoil from each barrel firing in sequence would somewhat cancel out recoil from the previous shot... Or if it would just make it worse lol??
I would love to see more on other Star Wars blasters
How do you get all this information
Id love to see a version of this for Clone blasters!
Add more. What did the clones & battle droids use?
Is no one gonna talk about how the E-10/R and E-11 both have, both an adjustable stock as well as a collapsing stock...
I noticed that too. I remember reading the folding stock under the barrel could be partially deployed and used as a fore grip. Maybe the adjustable stock attached to the butt wasn't always issued (a lot of the E-11's don't have it), but the folding stock was standard, so when they did actually get an adjustable stock, they just kept the standard folding stock on to use as a fore grip?.. an unnecessarily heavy-yet-sparse fore grip..
Or maybe Star Wars gun designers know very little about real, practical gun designs and go for rule of cool while also trying to stay visually reminiscent of the original E-11 that was just a Stirling SMG with some "sci-fi" bits thrown on? hah
@@HNTRKLLR Aaron Kuhman I had also heard it was used a fore grip especially on Phasma's gun, but i see in this video it looks exactly the same. But most likely the props designers don't know much about real guns, as the mag is on the most difficult side to reload unless your left handed
@@relston646 fore SMGs with side mounted magazines it's much more comfortable to have them on the left side. Hold the gun on it's grip with your right hand and reload with the left. Pretty simple and you can easily hold the gun
2:40 They're called shoretroopers.
That’s their unofficial name. Similar to the Death Star being the nickname with the official name being the DS-1 orbital battle station.
How do E11 operators fire the thing with bare hands without getting burned by the heatsink fins?
What I did like about the DC-15S (idk what the new canon version is) is how you can see the evolution to the E-11
The you’re looking at the wrong blaster, the E-11 is an evolution of the Separatist’s E-5. This is an even better connection, a new world power using an evolution of their fallen rival’s main weapon, similar to how the USSR used the AK which is an evolution of the German STG-44.
Man can you show most of the known blasters and their history and variations throughout star wars?
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Thing is with the collapsible stock all the previous and advanced versions still had it will having traditional stocks which never made sense to me.
please make more of these videos
I like the e-10 , e11d, and e22 of all the blaster
The E-series of blaster rifles seems like the space version of an AK or AR-15. There's just something about how pragmatic the design is with no frills or fancy coverings.
I would love if you could do this for other blasters
How does an energy weapon jam?
Probably depends on what blaster mechanics you assume are actually cannon. If you assume it's taking discreet units of gas, ionizing it into plasma and then magnetically accelerated as a condensed bolt held together by it's accelerating magnetic field, then I could see how you could get anything from feed issues to having moisture or foreign material cause issues or blockages with the magnetic rails or coils. I'd also imagine that if something also interfered with it's ability to move heat into it's heat sink, the gun wouldn't fire as that could also screw with magnetic properties of accelerating rails or cause them to fail and basically have a whole bunch of plasma blow up in your face.
Thats my mental gymnastics at least to make sense of Star Wars!
@@willlasdf123 I'll buy that. 😊
You missed one of the most important things - what powers these things? A portable fusion reactor? Because you'd need one to provide the power needed
Considering that the Blaster Bolts fired from E-11s barely graze shoulders and requires head or chest shots to kill. I bet it wouldn't need that much power.
@@richardched6085 Well they can pierce a Stormtrooper's armour and blast through locks so the power needed would still be pretty high. Granted they fall well short of being able to vapourize someone like the Star Trek phaser can do (now for that you really would have to drag a power station along with you)
I would guess that some sort of supercapacitor might hold enough power for short bursts or a battery with many times the density of ones produced with our current technology. Perhaps in 50 - 80 years time?
@@ewaf88 that sets the bar pretty low for Stormtrooper Armor. Considering that 98% of all Stormtroopers hit by a Blaster Bolt are instantly killed (The 2% who survive being almost exclusive to Star Wars Rebels). When unarmored people actually take time to die (Leia's Shoulder "It's not bad, doesn't die", Melshi's Clavicle "Takes 2 minutes to die and has enough stamina to run behind cover", Rio "Just got nicked in the shoulder I'm fine." Becket "He's not fine....') it's all over the place depending on the plot. Sometimes Blasters are abundantly more powerful than Bullets and other times they are inferior to 22 Calibre Hunting Rifles.
@@richardched6085 Perhaps they have settings on them to save power hence the differing shot effects
@@ewaf88 why not just use the highest settings possible in combat? I can see where variable yield settings would be useful in special situations but in pure unadulterated combat the objective is to kill the enemy. I'd just set my Blaster to full and waste an entire Rebel Squad with Superheated Shrapnel.
I'd love to see a similar video about the clone DC-15 series and variants or the rebels' A180 and A280 blaster series
The front end of the F-11d has an integrated glow rod & a folding grip
Im confused about the E-11D. It has a collapsable stock but it still has the folding stock of the standard E-11
I love how the OG trillogy blasters have a folding stock but the modern ones have collapsing stocks and folding stocks, were the designers high?
Well no because it also acts as the grip so if you want a better grip and a much more secure stock there you go
There's so many variables for the E-11, yet EA only uses it for only a quarter of one of Battlefront 2's guns.
Hopefully when Scarif arrives in BF2, so will the E-11D (one modder made the gun which started the comment "If modders can do this, why not DICE?" , and F8RGE on the BF2 Reddit responded with :0 , the typical symbol used by Ben [BF2 Community Manager] when teasing new content for BF2)
is there ever an oppertune moment for your weapon to jam? Edit: could you take a look at the supped up blaster the rebel commandos use at scarrif? each one has rather unique modifications.
Based upon one of my favourite SMGs
I just realized that that gun on the u wing was supposed to be similar to an M60
Really want to see the legends version of this list.
The Imperial Soldiers look friggin sick.