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How is the force from such an idea meant to compete in the GT scenario?
Well, the first year, if you've timed the release correctly, you'll be the only one fielding the list and everyone else will be so intimidated by facing a large resin wall that you'll pretty much zip to the top of every tournament. After the fanfare dies down, someone will figure out what you're doing, banish you from the tournament circuit and you'll live the rest of your life as a pariah...or even better, you might strive for Julian Assange status in Epic and threaten to release secret development notes associated with the list, thereby assuring that the ERC come down hard on you and motion to place you in a small box with nothing but the resin pieces of wall you assaulted their intellects with.
To be honest, I guess it slipped my mind that you were intending this as a tournament ready list. I would have some concerns about developing a list that is expected to be defensive in nature which seems to be more scenario oriented, yet also able to compete with all the other lists out there. Not that it isn't possible, only that you may find yourself in a position where the defensive list has more of a OGBM or AMTL effect to a tourney, which may not be what you intend.
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Being so defensive, I see BTS, T&H and Blitz being out of consideration.
I'm not so sure that at this stage that the statement is valid.
Blitz -> Terminators
T&H -> Sallying forces from gates
BTS -> Depends on what it is, but the Laser Defense Tower should have some effect
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Leaving only two objectives (DTF and TSNP) which are probably the two hardest to achieve, I am having trouble seeing how they will be competitive without deliberatly changing the goals of the GT scenario.
So, is it possible that the list is limited in scope? Sure, but that has more to do with design and what it is expected to accomplish. Going back to my initial post on the list, I define my scope and then give a few details later on how that might be accomplished.
But the most important part of this list, and any list for that matter, is what do you want it to do? You don't have a working model to help guide you like the Krieg or Elysian lists, so until you answer that question, it will be difficult to arrive at a cohesive solution.
I know you know this, but a list is a lot more than a bunch of formations that coexist on the table. You're supposed to be able to do something with them. Putting a list together just to feature a different unit or formation won't attract people or cause them to do silly conversion things at this ridiculously small scale.
Look at your WE list...and BL's Red Corsairs as well. Look at the hobby effort they inspired. Why do you think that happened?
So what do you want to do?
1. Sit in your deployment zone in trenches and shoot people?
2. Run around in rhino's and melta people to death?
3. Drop out of the sky and beat people senseless?
How do you want it to work? What is the operational model? Why would anyone want to play the list? Why is this list going to be different than any of the other SM lists, not the least of which is the codex list which is quite capable?
If you're not sure how to answer that question yet, take a gander at a 40K codex or two (that would be called homework). In the first page or so, there is a brief explanation of why you would collect that army. What's great about that from a consumer perspective is you can read that and say, "Hmm, I rather like the sound of that" or "Oh, that's not me at all, better keep looking".
So, why do I want to play your list?
Note: And don't feel like you are alone in this regard. I am supposed to be the Alpha Legion AC, but for the life of me, the list that I wanted to create isn't all that significantly different from E&C's Vraks rebels, so languishes that effort because at this scale, there sometimes aren't enough differentiators to justify yet another list. Not saying that an IF list isn't possible within a framework, but you're going to have to define why it should exist.
Oh, and never ask for my opinion. I'll give it. lol
Cheers,