[all-lucky7777]

I agree with JoeGuardsman. I also agree with the OP, at least halfway. All my shooty guard squads (basic squads) have a sarge with a bolter. I think that a vet is a better choice than the vox because of this (and the stormbolter, etc), you get cool extra guns, but you miss out on a better and more difficult to reduce leadership. I occasionally double up on the vox and the vet, but thats a different post...

I don't like putting Bolt Pistols on anything that doesn't need it modeled on because the model is going to shoot it once, if he's an exceedingly lucky bastard twice, and it isn't that much better than the laspistol to begin with. A plas pistol on the other hand has the potential to mess something up, but consider this: What will you be charging that requires such strength and AP that you actually expect to live through the combat with? Again, 10 points for one shot.

I HAVE found a use for the Plasma Pistol. Its expensive, but it works wonders for Guard's AP Problems (or so I would think). I'm not gonna thread hijack but I'm not gonna post it here either, I'm gonna go start a thread about it now.