Maksman Platoon (Galactic Empire)

The marksman platoon was a recon and sharpshooter unit exclusive to the stormtrooper corps. Back during the days of the Grand Army of the Republic was all units organized to complement each other. With the birth of the Galactic Empire came non-clone conscripts and volunteers that would split the army into the elite stormtrooper faction and the less capable, but larger, regular army. No more was specialists like the Clone scout trooper be readily available. As a result the two rival faction compromised.

The stormtrooper corps was as protective of its stormtroops as the navy’s imperial starfighter corps was of its TIE fighters. Regardless, the regular army still required a company worth of the highly mobile sharpshooting imperial scout troops for each of its line regiments and specifically the repulsorlift battalion.
 * Begrudgingly the stormtrooper corps relented under the conditions that only two squads of a regular army platoon should consist of scout troops. And that all scout squads (or lancers) should only consist of five troops. These factors partially helped with the apparent decrease in skilled manpower. But the stormtrooper corps had to seach its ranks for precise and accurate stormtroopers to replace lost personnel. To do this they had to cut corners. The highly mobile survivalist sharpshooters was supplemented by the relatively clumsy stormtrooper snipers.

Order of battle

 * Marksman platoon
 * Scout Squadron
 * Staff Sergeant
 * Scout Lance (5 x Scout Troops)
 * Scout Lance
 * Scout Squadron
 * Staff Sergeant
 * Scout Lance
 * Scout Lance
 * Stormtrooper Sniper squad (10 x Stormsniper Troops)
 * Stormtrooper Sniper squad