Believing this unit to be ineffective and terminally boring I wrote [URL="http://www.lounge.belloflostsouls.net/showthread.php?t=3798"]alternate rules for them [/URL]. It was not long before the thread was choked with gamers exclaiming the very real usefulness of the unit but, slow witted mammal that I am, I have completely failed to see how this unit could ever be more than a mediocre choice thoroughly outclassed by the Last Chancers of the previous edition.
Can someone please relate to me how this unit is worth the glossy paper its rules are printed on? Specifically I would like the opinions of older IG players who can compare the merits of the new Penal Legion with that of the old but anyone is welcome to take a swing at it.