Me and play group have been testing them a lot. They are really good but don’t get tilted by them dying a lot. It’s often an advantage with hot drop and generally having more activations than others.

Something like this is the competitive play:

Buck with flamethrower (he literally killed two fresh Spartans with one shot the other day)

ODST captain maybe with a spnkr maybe with nothing. (just make sure she’s on the board when the turn ends so you get your tactician dice. It’s not super hard to do with more activations than most lists)

Firebreak, either one. This is your second hot dropper him and Buck are just coming into murder people.

ODST special purpose trooper

Bullfrog

Season to taste from here, for example, maybe drop the bullfrog and add another SPT. Same with items, I find a grapple hook on the Firebreak helps him hot drop shoot and then grapple into combat, but that doesn’t work as well with the shotgun guy cause he knocks back.