I'm not wild about the God Machines rule for two reasons.
1. It tends to give TK heavy armies a fairly easy BTS goal.
2. It tends to promote cheap numerous battle titans rather than encouraging a player to build more expensive titans. If you can lose BTS simply by losing any battle titan, then you might as well keep per unit costs down and build as many as you can. After all, losing the cheapest one still costs you BTS.

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I wouldn't favor 1/2 starting damage capacity BM's. But it's not a bad idea. Adding BM's to units within LOS when a battle titan goes down would be a better choice than granting automatic BTS, IMO. Perhaps a single BM to every formation within LOS would be a suitable penalty and could certainly make a big difference late in the game.

Please leave BTS as applying to the most expensive unit. This approach is consistent with the game mechanics and keeps special rules to a minimum.

Finally, while I prefer the lightest touch for the "God Machine" rule, even still I don't like special rules like this. They almost always feel gamey to me. I believe it makes the game less approachable to new players.

Hope I've made sense.

I thought you were now limited to 1 free weapon? So the above reaver would cost 625? Same as an MRL Reaver?

It is my intention to refocus development for the Mechanicus armies onto the Skitarii PDF and Knight World lists in the new year.

I don't care for the God of Machines rule either. "Everybody seems happy with it". Everybody is a pretty small group in my opinion. Those that don't post or watch the boards fanatically don't seem to count.