I do think it affects balance, for example a broken Warhound Titan able to rally with zero blast markers is a considerable boost over rallying with 1 BM.

Titans are also enabled to raise an extra Void Shield when marshalling due to leader, and be slightly better in Engagements due to the MWCC attack and inspiring.

All in all I see no reason why the Titans allocated to supporting Imperial Guard regiments should be afforded better Titans than those allocated to supporting Space Marine chapters.

could potentially mirror an option in the AMTL list?

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Agreed and though I appreciate hardly anyone would anyway I'd still prefer it generally banned (included as a note in rules amendments and/or tournament rulespacks) for this reason myself.

Technically Leader can only be used to remove an extra BM .

Are they? How so?

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Titans attached to Marines have SR 5... attached to Guard, SR2, for one thing... easier to "alpha strike" with Marine Titans that way.

Warhounds also bring much desired "long" ranged MW attacks to the Marines, something that isn't quite so valuable to IG with all their other shooting attacks.

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