User blog comment:Pygmy Hippo 2/Stormtroopers (Star Wars) vs. Imperial Guardsmen (Warhammer 40,000)/@comment-24.229.228.144-20171112211939

The rifle edge goes to the Imperial Guardsmen. The reason I think that is because the Stormtrooper's guns, while faster, are not exactly the most accurate. Plus (I may be wrong about this) both guns are capable of burning through metals that don't exist in real life, but the Guardsmen's are the only ones I know that can take off a person's arm. Plus, Guardsmen guns tend to be better at long range than the Stormtroopers's do. EDGE: Imperial Guardsmen.

Machine guns on the other hand goes (in my opinion) to the Stormtroopers. The reason is that "heavy bolter" is actually a category of weapons, some of which need two people to operate, others a guardsman physically can't lift, and also the two person ones are stationary. You can however move a DLT-19 and it only takes one person to use. EDGE: Stormtroopers.

In my opinion the launchers depend on how they are used. The Guardsmen can use their more often and likely at a larger range, but they seem better in anti-infantry combat. The Stormtrooper's lock on capability could be more useful in anti-vehical combat, but don't seem very useful otherwise. I'm going to call for this one to be even. EDGE: Tie.

For vehicles though... Chimera. It has 7 guns (one of which has multiple barrels) where the AT-ST has two. One is amphibious, the other... isn't. Though the AT-ST might be faster, it also can fall victim to weakpoint exploitation moreso than the Chimera. EDGE: Imperial Guardsmen.

Armor: I agree the Stormtroopers win. Both can shrug off glancing laser blasts. While the guards have a better record against lasguns than Imperials vs blasters, the Rebels actually use anti-imperial guns to penetrate Stormtrooper armor, the Guard's enemies don't. Also in universe the Stormtrooper armor only got penetrated by the Ewoks in the joints (and the arrows/spears were poisoned.) Also the rocks in the movie were roughly as big as the Stormtrooper's heads, that's gonna hurt no matter the armor. EDGE: Stormtroopers.

Morale: I actually have to disagree with the thought of the Imperial Guard having more moral. From what I know, both groups go through heavy indoctrination (to the point that in some sources Stormtroopers no longer even feel anything but blind obidience, (i read one book that said that their indoctrination was so ) but the IG need people to keep them from fleeing. That isn't a sign of high morale, that's a sign of cowardice. Besides, the IG would need to use a Commissar for the "high morale" to apply (and Commisars use different weapons than were allowed here, so I assume there are no commisars.) EDGE: Stormtroopers.

Experience: Yeah, I got no argument here (other than pointing out that Stormtroopers have fought several different Rebel Armies.) EDGE: Imperial Guardsmen.

Overall, I vote for the Guard. They just have better weapons, vehicles, and even the Stormtrooper's edges are kind of situational (i.e. the DLT-9 might be dropped and then it's harder to get it rather than a mounted one) and the armor is not TOO much better. So yeah, the Imperial Guard should win