Commisariat

SO, lets take an honest hard look at the commissar. For starters, what is he, what does he do. He is an add on to a few select infantry units, where for a small fee of 35 points plus equipment, he can be rather devastating for the menial fee. So what does he do? Ever had your guard squad in a combat where you were guaranteed to fail your morale checks? yeah me too. Well, with all the buffs this guy gives you, worry no more. Oh, and he's pretty good in close combat. Slap a priest in there too, and you have a medium priced decent unit in close combat. Anywho. Commissars are often overlooked because they could kill the sergeant in the squad. And to this I say, so? what does a sergeant do that a commissar doesn't do better? and on top of that, sergeants are no good for shooting, and still no good in close combat, so yeah, WHO CARES if he shoots the sergeant? He failed his duty anyway, I mean, the squad has much higher leadership with the commissar anyway, what are the odds you fail at that point?

Commissars = worth it in points
However, not so worth it, in money. says the poor gamer anyway.

Things to give your commissar? well, I'm not a fan of giving him anything he doesn't already have. Bolt pistol is good enough, really want to kill space marines, ok, maybe a plasma pistol, other than that, I also like a good powerfist, who doesn't these days. So I like my commissars either tooled way up, or bare minimum, anything else, I say isn't worth it. So plasma pistol it up if you only want to buy one of the two.

So yeah, that and they have a beast savatage song named after them (I know its really about the soviet Kommissar, but who cares)