Death Troopers have a standard +8 attack and a +8 defense.

Thats the first thing.

+8 +8......

Squad Firepower
Squad Assault
Cunning
which is +8 +20

so now they get a +16 attack!!!!!!

this is asinine!!
Why is this made?
a freaking death trooper with a base 25 defense and a base 16 attack that can get to a 24 attack.

now we have the rest of Krennic.
He cant be disrupted.
he gives out squad discipline which allows death troopers to not be distracted or disrupted

he is also a massive movement breaker as in he gives a double speed movement to get adjacent to him.

Now the best part. Unit Bodyguard. If you use it, attacks that are exactly 20 are 10 and more than 20 are 20.

Making it very very hard to take these guys out unless you have area damage or spread damage.

So lets say you are running with Speeder and want to go hit every one of them but they are all attached to one another. you have disruptive in place, but its useless. you go and hit everyone for 40. they just bounce the damage around each other and take 20 each. and one takes 40 to save krennic from taking any damage.
Which is wonderful to stop speeder.

Now we talk about Serra keto. she comes waltzing in for a 30 attack and a 30 attack. it deals 40. now she is at the mercy of double attack from 2 death troopers that have a 20 attack and 30 damage each. and are adjacent so no soresu.those attacks are not going to miss so dead.
Cin Drallig comes waltzing up for his brutal strike twice kills one. and than takes 120 again. unless they dropped a 1 roll.
Very very hard to see why this is in effect.

Was this play tested?

Did it face up against Rogue one?

let me tell you, Baze starts with an 8 attack, with jyn it is a 10, with chirrut it is a 12, with artoo it is a 14. he still needs an 11 to hit them, or a 15 while they are in cover. Jyn is even worse. 7 base 11 against adjacent. 9 or 13 with artoo.
Cassian the sniper... 7 attack 11 with assassin, 13 with jyn, 15 with artoo.
he gets one shot. so standard 13 needs a 12 to hit than it deals 20 damage. even with reprisal in effect it deals 20 damage.

kanan runs up to use lightsaber with ahsoka, going to kill one with an 80 drop, instead it deals 40..

LUKE SKYWALKER, master of the order moves out throws his lightsaber to kill a trooper... supposed to do 120 damage. you literally unit bodyguard one attack to one, on attack to the other, they both take 20 each. unit bodyguard with one, takes 20, let the original take the 30.
So now instead of doing 120 damage, you do 90 and one death trooper has 40 life left, the other has 50, and the other has 60.
Next round you attack again. this time you just swap it around a bit. unit bodyguard to to the one with 60 twice it has 20, the one with 50 takes the original it has 20, the one with 40 once it has 20.

After 2 rounds of Luke Skywalker that costs 100 points it cannot kill a single friggin death trooper... possibly. if all attacks hit.

if he fails an initiative then he definitely cannot kill one. its crazy 240 damage potential cannot kill a single 3 man group of death troopers!

http://www.bloomilk.com/forums/default.aspx?g=posts&t=11909

Synergy doesn't stack.

I don't think they got tested enough, for a powerful piece that's potentially a new squad base.. But I doubt they'll dominate the meta as they'll struggle to keep up with mobile squads. Lots of stand and deliver power and some damage negation as well, probably comparable to say a droid squad with an energy shield.

P.s. unit bodyguard mixed with krennic is still ridiculously powerful

Well with the defense down to a 21 i can see them landing enough hits to get past unit bodyguard. Which is fine and a cool dynamic since Death Troopers get worse as time goes on and Rogue gets better as time goes on.

The Synergies don't stack? Even tho they are completely different synergies altogether?

The Death Troopers Have synergy for Krennic, while within 6 they get +4/+4

Agent Kallus has Synergy for Stormtroopers, while they are within 6 squares, he gives them +4/4?

Aren't those two different abilities, coming from different sources for different reasons?

I could be wrong, and if so, I would be happy about it.

The confusion with Synergy stems from Rapport, the glossary of which specifically states that it stacks from different sources.

SO Baze's Synergy with Chirrutt does not stack with the synergy given from Jyn Erso?

From the ruling we just got, there is no way in the world they can get it. Because its the exact same scenario as these Death Troopers. Which means... Rogue One just worse... Because Baze and Chirruts base attack and defense are 2 less than they are intended to be...

The facestealer says "push and pull of the ocean and moon spirits" is everlasting.

and so is the give and take of minis. You win some you lose some.

You lose out on Baze and Jyn, you gain on Deathtroopers.

This time the fear of the +8+8 is better stifled than the Coolness of the +4+4 granted

Artoo's CE would stack with Churrut and Baze's Synergy though, because it is a CE and not a Special Ability given by a CE.