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Has anybody seen them played? How are they?

And have you seen the 40k noise weapons used on standard marines? It is way cheaper

They are awesome but only really work effectively as troops for the third company ROW.
There are deffinetly cheaper ways to do it but the 40k noise marines looks pretty crap to be honest especially when placed alongside 30k models which for me is a factor.

Been testing them out a bit and have found that if you run them, you'll really want 10. You'll "get hot" a lot, so if you have a spare ~50 pts for an apothecary, that would help keep them alive.

Their fancy rules are fun but with 3+ or 2+ saves everywhere, you really need to produce a lot of wounds before saves start failing (thus the "need" for 10)

I haven't used them in the 3rd Company RoW, but they were adequate as backfield supporting fire that occasionally did something cool or more often, killed themselves

I agree with the above. I run a unit of 10 as Troops in the 3rd Company Elite and they work out well. Add in a unit or two of volkite and that's a lot of STR 6 shots that can do extra damage. It also helps that in 3rd Elite, they are relentless.

20 relentless Str 6 shots that can cause extra wounds on a Troops selection. Very nice. And the models are beautiful.

I'm definitely getting more...