[@SomeChap]
Well, no point just having them standing there, being bullet sponges. I mean, they might make halfway decent ones, but in the grand scheme of things, ordering them to go about doing things might work a lot better. Like reloading your heavy weapon for you, or blamming the psyker to prevent unusually bad perils of the warp. And I am fully expecting and prepared to have to roll up new characters every now and again, its all part of the casualities of war.