What exactly was the change? His lead lead was underwhelming for just DS allies (the heakth and prot bonus if you meet specific tags which is strongly meh). The real value of his kit wat for ITs. And if you surround him with ITs with corrent tags, you get that hit points bonus.
It was clear the moment this thread was posted his kit is beastly for ITs, otherwise he's a meh leader. Which is also the case for Veers. Or trying to run CLS lead on a Resistance squad.
Edit: is the change that both conditions need to be met (all Troopers AND the class tags) for the lead to work at all?
Edit: I see, didn't read Kyno's reply closely enough (because ignoring Kyno's posts is my default position). So Gideon's use is either as a plug'n'play for the unique (which will probably get nerfed to only work when Gideon leads ITs) or to lead a specific composition of ITs----which actually is exactly what I thought Gideon's role would be when I posted itt earlier: we get a very strong IT lead to make use of the ITs that didn't have a spot under Veers. And tbh, that's perfectly fine by me because I love ITs.