My orders are just going out, meaning I will have the components for my Harakoni on my desk within 2 weeks. Assembly and painting time added to that, plus real life, means I likely wont get any games in til summer, but I read the list almost nightly.
The complaint about the millions of scatter rolls plays heavily in my thought process as I read the army entries. I did notice, however, that the Blood Angels have a reroll ability on their planetfall. Wouldnt making a whole group planetfall in together effectively be teleportation? I dont have my rules in front of me here at work.
My list currently has 2 Marauder Bombers in it, and I hope/plan on reserving a small force of infantry until turn 3 when they can come in and contest or capture an objective near the end of the turn. All in all, my list has 4 Marauder-types and 1 wing of fighters. I think aircraft are a major role in this list, and I plan on maximizing my ability to take them.
Gliders? I havent really considered them because I was relying on the few formations that had
Skimmers to Self-Planetfall and then use them to taxi around the battlefield.
Changes to Self-Planetfall does make sense, I think, but it saddens me
I have put a Forward Observer in one of my Warhawk units. It looks really good for a Turn 1 and Turn 3 suppression, but is, of course, untested.
Sentinels. I am using EW's Khazari Raiders as my Sentinels, and I am only taking the base group to have access to the Support group. Ive never been a fan of them in any IG list, but artillery we do need, and so a small garrison unit of Sentinels isnt bad. I do not know anything about the Tauros Scout vehicle.
All in all, I keep looking for the "Must have" unit and dont see one...which is really good, I think. I am having to work my mix of units around to ensure I can deal with War Engines/Titans, massed tanks, and massed infantry effectively. Game experience will tell, but I am looking forward to this enough that Ive dropped a few hundred dollars on new units for it
NOTE: I realized just today that I was going off the v1.4 PDF. I downloaded the v1.4.2 version (which, by the way, has no version number on it) and am looking it over now.
It is, off the top of my head, missing an entry for the Leman Russ Conqueror (and it only calls them "Conqueror", not "Leman Russ Conqueror", which confused me. It also isnt clear if adding the 2 more Lightning Interceptors to the Fighter Squadron is +75 points total or +75 points per fighter added.
I see the ability to only take 1 Vulture or Vendetta in a Tank Hunter Squadron was added, but at the expense of +25 points if you want to take 2. Same thing with the Interceptors, mentioned above, assuming the cost was "each" instead of "total".
The only other major change I see is the composition of the Linebreaker Relief Column, but the tanks are a nice addition.