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What happens if the British army decides to revive the concept of elite companies/battalions of Grenadiers, as a British counterpart to units like the Stormtroopers and Arditi and a callback to the Grenadier's origins as troops for assaulting and clearing fortifications?

Of course, OTL the British Army had "bombers" at platoon level. They were originally to be called grenadiers, but the Grenadier Guards threw a hissy fit over their elite status being cheapened, despite the bombers being much closer to the original concept of grenadiers as assault troops.

This concept isn't about that, though, it's about units in the spirit of the original grenadiers as a British counterpart to Stormtroopers, or as a picked battalion level shock unit.

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