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With the go to ground rule, it improves your cover save by +1. In open ground, that means you get a 6+ cover save. What myself and a couple of friends like to do for fun, is when a unit in open ground uses this rule, they role a D3 and a scatter dice. If their cover save is successful, they "jump" in the direction shown on the dice. This is sometimes very amusing as they jump into bits of impassable terrain (such as lava or smash head first into a rock) and consequently die! Thoughts anyone?

Thats a cool addition, but imagine the dice and movement involved a big squad of IG that makes a bunch of saves would have to make. I think dropping them prone would make more sense, reducing how visible they may be for the next squad shooting at them.

To keep comic value, when the unit drops prone only let them tip forward from the front of their base in the direction they are facing. If they would overlap with each other or a piece of terrain when lying them prone they take a s3 hit as they kick each other over the right to be closer to the ground/smacking their head on a rock.