Editing Warhammer 40,000/8th Edition Tactics/Imperial Guard (section)

=====Troops=====
*'''Elysian Drop Trooper Squad:''' More expensive than basic Guardsmen and also lack heavy weapons access, but have an extra point in Ld and the whole unit can take krak grenades for free. The sergeant can replace his laspistol with a lasgun since the faq.
**'''The problem with breacher charges:'''Breacher charges are super cool but expensive and ineffective, even when we get to use them. 25 points is a ''lot'' for a piece of equipment, especially when that equipment is one use only (faq 1.0). Remember that the entire base cost of the squad is only 50 points. Even when we get to use them they don't do that much damage. Since they only work 50% of the time they will score an average of 1.75 mortal wounds on vehicles, buildings, or monsters, and only 1 on everything else. Combined with the abysmal likelihood of making the charge after aerial dropping in, we can only expect to land 0.5 wounds on a vehicle with an infantry squad.
**'''Alternate opinion:''' Our infantry squads are not very tempting compared to other options. If you are going to take them to keep them dirt cheap and expendable because they will not have the punch of veterans or special weapon squads. If you want to have something aerial dropping and killy in the troop slot take some scions. A cheap unit of infantry can be very useful in 8th edition. You can drop them on to objectives, this is especially relevant in progressive scoring missions. You can deploy them as a screening unit for your long-range shooting, and it's not like you can take Conscripts since they're not allowed in the army list.