With the Imperial Officer out now, what do you guys think of a Vader/Officer list with an IRG unit "attached" to Vader?

My thought process is using Vader with an IRG for melee/area denial/character elimination asset while using the officer as a backfield commander for the rest of the army.

Here's what I have so far:

Vader: 215 pts

• Saber throw
• Force choke

Imperial Officer: 50 pts

Imperial Royal Guards: 100 pts

• Electrostaff guard

Stormtrooper: x3 204 pts

• DLT-19 trooper

Snowtrooper: 73 pts

• Flame trooper
• Frag grenades

Snow trooper: 68 pts

• Flame trooper

Scout Strike Team x2 88 pts

• DLT Sniper

Total: 798

Force reflexes? Otherwise seems like a good idea.

I've been looking at this kind of list as well and I get torn on a few items. Specifically, I struggle with whether and officer is more/less effective than say an E-web. To wit, I've been looking at something like this very closely:

Vader Test
- Darth Vader (200) + Saber Throw (10) + Force Push (10) + Force Choke (5) = 225

Corps:

- 2x Snowtroopers (48) + Flametrooper (20) + Imperial Officer (20) + Fragmentation Grenades (5) = 186

- 2x Stormtroopers (44) + DLT-19 Stormtrooper (24) = 136

Special Forces:

- Imperial Royal Guards (75) + Electrostaff Guard (25) + Tenacity (4) = 104

- 2x Scout Troopers Strike Team (16) + DLT-19x Sniper (28) + Recon Intel (2) = 92

Support:

- E-Web Heavy Blaster Team (55) = 55

Total: 798/800

Commands:

- Implacable (1)

- Ambush (1)

- New Ways to Motivate Them (2)

- Push (2)

- Master of Evil (3)

- Coordinated Fire (3)

- Standing Orders (4)

But I'm not sure if it works better/worse with an officer in back. The extra 5 points aren't really gamechangers, since we can't quite get up to another DLT squad without hurting the effectiveness of the Snowies (really relying on them to do work).

What specifically do you expect the officer to do for you? Cuz that's what I'm struggling with currently - not sure what it will be doing. At the least the e-web will be throwing lots of dice at things

do you need the officer? I'm trying to see what benefit he gives. If you're worried about units in the back getting panicked, you could add an officer upgrade to a unit in the back and get the same benefit outside of the free aim for 30pts less.

strike team is already courage 2 and the snow troopers will be marching with Vader and the IRG. If you drop him you could get the e web (I don't like them that much) or you could get a small unit of stormies for objective grabbing or add tenacity, stims, more frags, etc.