I've got a Vigil class Imperial corvette responding to some trouble the party stirred up. It shows to carry a hundred or so troops in addition to crew but no shuttles, no assault landers etc. The corvette is 400 meters long, do the land that thing at the spaceport to drop troops? Seems like they have to but kind of odd.

Well the Vigil is only 255 meters long, but is designed for system patrols and light interdiction duty. At the most it's a picket ship.

The few troops it does carry were likely to counter the unlikely mutiny or the more likely boarding actions.

All that being said, Venator class Star Destroyers are nearly 5 times the length but were capable of planetary landfall, so up to the game master!

Your right on the size, my bad - I was scanning a lot of different ships. There are a lot of rather large ships that don't appear to have secondary launches or what have you. You have to assume they do land but kind of an odd picture, this big ungainly and lumbering behemoth setting down.

The Acclamator is huge. and it makes planetfall:

https://jvhageshii01.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/imperialmarch.jpg

The Vigil shouldn't have a problem. Besides, you can always just say it has a shuttle, the rectangular bottom section could open up to be a landing bay for one. If you want to be more "official", just reduce the passenger capacity (200) to account for it.

If you're just trying to get troopers onto the planet to blockade them I would suggest using a Sentinel-class landing craft. (Or 4)

Or if you want to keep a vigil in orbit, it could order up a local Imperial or Civilian ship to shuttle troops down, but I seriously think the Vigil's troop capacity numbers in the few squads range....

There are many transport forms and uses. I would say that a "dropship" like you discribe usually lands in combat or to combat terrian. Troops for garrisons would land with civilian type craft, like a big shuttle or a hauler, depenfing on "port class" (accomodation size).

For urban troop insurgency, smaller more manuverable crafts would fit, like a clone wars LAAT/I or a droped armored transport.

The Vigil-class Corvette is Silhouette 5, and plenty of other Sil 5 ships have shuttles, starfighters, etc…. So, it would make plenty of sense that a Vigil-class could also have smaller ships like that.

If you look at the spine of the ventral side of the Vigil-class (see http://fractalsponge.net/gallery/Vigil/61.jpg), you see a whole row of what look to be eight large enclosed docking bays, which I would assume could take landing craft of one sort or another.

Here’s a preview of that image, if you want to take a look at it here:

Funny, stumbled upon this, which appears to disagree entirely with RAW Vigil Class

https://star-wars-edge-of-the-empire-18.obsidianportal.com/wikis/vigil-class-corvette

Im very tempted to just ignore the stats as they are written and give it a squadron of 6 fighters or something and a shuttle.

Decided on calling it an Imperial variant. A "Vigil II" Corvette - aimed at providing less muscle and more finesse in the way of a flight of fighters and a shuttle at the expense of some troop quarters and some cargo space.

Maybe it has lots of tiny blaster-sized holes that open up for the troopers to fire through

And that comment addresses what?