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In my mind Scions of Iron is an army that is rarely used (based on battle reports, discussions, etc. on Taccom)
Just because it doesn't crop up on Taccomd often, doesn't mean it's rarely used. Go have a scroll through PFEs blog and you'll see it is played by his group regularly. And it's probably the third most played space marine army in tournaments here behind Codex and Imperial Fists.
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Obviously a lot of you view the Scions of Iron as an Armour focused list.
Yes, that is correct. Would you like me to quote the list designer again? Hena (thanks Dave) made the Chapter up! How can his view be wrong?
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I still haven’t heard exactly which change you feel made the list lose its armour focus?
By losing, reducing or hamstringing all its tank formations. The Land Raider is the Space Marine Main Battle Tank. You've reduced the size of the formation to only four and suggest a list structure that means you have to take infantry to get them (either in an infantry formation or as a support formation). I love my 6 strong Land Raider formation...with no infantry...ably supported by really, really cool bike with land speeder formations and predators.
You have seriously just messed with or removed all the armour or cool fluffy units from the army list.
Seriously, if you want a heavy mechanised list - please come up with a new name and do it. Use your imagination like Hena did and come up with a new chapters back story. I thoroughly encourage you to.
But again, please don't mess with an already approved list, which is pretty balance and fine how it is.
I do apologies if you think my comments are 'harsh'. I don't mean them to be. I just can't get my head around why you want to completely change the theme of a perfectly good ARMOUR list?
Regards
Harry