That's a new squad, an assault squad. With short range guns, it's for storming positions, regardless of not having an "assault" weapons type on its lasguns.
I'd really like it if the game were built around making infantry squads with mixed weapons work.
After all, if US army infantry squads were in 40k, they wouldn't make sense, and people would want to change them.
Although actually, I think a plasma gun is effectively like an LMG. It's still four models with a plasma gun, a combi las-grenade launcher, a lasgun with m40 targeter, and then all that times three makes one squad. This is ludicrous in game terms, but I think that something in the same general vein should be workable in a game of 40k.
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