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Grand Admiral Thrawn now knows everything about you  To defeat an Enemy, you must know them. Not simply their Battle Tactics, but their History, Philosophy, Art.

This last weekend I won a cosplay contest as Captain Beckett at a local con, and decided I wanted some better pictures in this character. So I met up with Izzy at our Tatooine Wall we made for South Valley Squad, and we got to work! The costume is not screen accurate yet, more fairly it is "Inspired by", but I really like this uniform and wanted to troop this character regardless!
 
"Do you wanna live, Sparky? Then shut up and do what your Captain tells you!"

 

 

 

 

 

IMHO, first, General Veers is not just an AT-AT Commander.  He's an armored officer (prepared for combat) that is on the AT-AT because those were the vehicles granted to him for his assault.  He is clearly giving troop orders.  You could easily have inserted him into any vehicle, and/or inserted any officer into that position.  If he had sub-officers with him, I believe they would have worn the same battle ready armor as well.  I think having him as a CRL as AT-AT Commander is incorrect, and should be renamed as Armored Imperial Line Officer (or something like that), and moved from ACD to IOC.  I'm sure folks will disagree and that is ok.  I just don't see it any other way.
 
The ACD should be for Imperial/F.O. pilots/drivers (whatever name you prefer) navigating a vehicle.  All their CRLs are just that, except the random AT-AT Commander.  It just doesn't make sense.  And granted, I understand at one time they only had like 4 CRLS, and IOC had 25+, so it was nice to share.  But now they've received more, and the random officer in armor (AT-AT Commander) should be updated and correctly categorized (back to IOC).
 
The IOC should have any officer, armored or not.  I'm not a part of the ACD, but I'd go out on a limb to say that I don't believe the "spirit" of the ACD is to have folks in armor.  And, if that is the case, then then why our officer and no other troops wearing armor?
 
We would, in theory, have Veers, Tarkin, Thrawn, Pryce, and any other generic Line Officer or generic governor or grand admiral whom needed to wear armor for combat readiness.
 
Looking even to see if there is anything to trade to them, I don't think currently.  Probably could throw one or two to JRS, but that's another discussion.

Now for what we have all been waiting for, a reference photo of a Line Officer wearing Armour!!!!!
 
The officer in question is Viggen and while he has no rank if we refer to the handy Official IOC Rank Guide we can probably extrapolate that he's a General.
 


 
SOURCE: "Vulnerable Areas"—Star Wars Rebels Magazine 17
http://xenadd.tumblr.com/post/143237160795/vulnerable-areas-part-i-part-ii-star-wars-rebels
 
While I'm not command staff or the LMO, I think we have enough information to say that Officer's can wear armour and would make a good optional accessory
Star Wars Rebels - TV Show (offical) Star Wars Rebels Magazine (official) Wookieepedia (unofficial) With that said, I do this Kris is right in thinking that the Armored Cavalry Detachment will poach a CRL for armoured officers!
 
 
 

Moff is a political/military leader.  In the early expansionary days of the republic, they would absorb a sector and the traditional leader would stay in charge with the title of Moff.  As time would go on, the moff would pass and a more democratic government would take over.  Chancellor Palpatine resurrected the moff system at the end of the Clone Wars to allow direct military coordination with sectors based there, not just traveling fleets and armies.
 
Any and all officers should be prepared to don armor if going into a combat situation.  The original script for Empire had Piett reporting to Vader on Hoth how many ships had been destroyed.  It would have been interesting to see if he would have worn the same armor as Veers for that scene.

Imperial Officers' Armour
Currently we have two instances of Imperial Officers wearing armour
Grand Moff Tarkin Grand Admiral Thrawn Nothing says "Grand" more than some shiny armour and a funny hat (I mean) Helmet!
 
While we are in pre-CRL territory it's hard to say who would be allowed to wear these, wether it would be limited to the "Grand" Ranks or limited further to just Tarkin and Thrawn.  Also while it is in pre-CRL Territory, the question on which detachment would look after these is also up for debate:
Imperial Officers Corp, due to them being officers? or Armored Cavalry Detachment - because they look after armoured officers like Veers? But until then, nothing hurts us talking about it here!
(There was a little bit of chatter over in the Q&A forum - Armour Question)
 
As luck would have it, both sets of armour are different - because standardising it would make way too much sense.
 
Grand Moff Tarkin's Armour
Grand Moff Tarkin wears modified AT-DP Armour and Helmet.  The difference being:
Helmet Grey in colour without Faceplate White Inverted Triangle versus Red Armour Field Grey(Olive Drab) in colour with Rank Bar White Inverted Triangle versus Red without Shoulder Bells  without Leg Armour More can be read about the AT-DP Armour over at the Armored Cavalry Detachment - AT-DP Drivers/Imperial Combat Drivers.
 
It's worth noting that there was a colour change for the armour between the Concept Art and the end product.  Here it is defiantly metal and matches his Belt, Code Cylinders, & Rank Bar but in the actual show it is Field Grey (aka Olive)

 
 
Grand Admiral Thrawn's Armour
Grand Moff Tarkin wears the same Helmet as the AT-DP/Tarkin except recoloured different Armour to Tarkin is more like General Veers but different.  and a recoloured Helmet, The difference being:
Helmet White in colour without Faceplate with White Goggles not sure about decals Armour White in colour with Rank Bar Gold epaulets/shoulder straps rounder at the bottom than Veers missing electronics area (bottom centre) from Veers different buttons on the left hand side (also look illuminated) raised areas on right hand side flattened new seam lines
 
 
As more information on this comes I'll update the post

No problem. We had the same talk on the BF page.
Some guys were saying snowtroopers sent approved to carry DLT19s. I said BS.
Once your approved you can alter your kit as long as you can change it back for LFL events.
Our purpose is to wear plastic and make kids smile.
No one is putting Tigger in a detention center for carrying a blaster not on the CRL.
I'm here for fun.


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I really want to do something blasphemous like using white (snowtrooper) battle armor on an ISB uniform. *hides*

Hmm, maybe it's not so blasphemous.