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El Ordinatus is in there as cutting to much would make the traditionalists howl. Plus keeping the Armageddon one means the Titans don't have to kit up for TK'ing. Actually that is a good argument for putting them all back in as, well two of them, replace Titan configs at a slightly cheaper price.
The alternative is having it in an allies restriction, like the Titans are for everyone else. However allies restrictions are actually a boost for this army as you get to up your activation count without buying Battle Titans. If the armies to weak that would probably be the first boost.
An alternative second is 3 support per Battle Titan but that's a last resort.
As for two Warlords, no way. You have a Warlord paying 200 points more for a support config a Reaver can carry. I would ditch it for the reaver and get aircraft, upgrades, bigger formations etc.
Slow Fire weapons are good for assault units - ones that double, assault, sustain/advance and are costed for that strategy.
Tim - the list isn't legal  You would need a second Reaver.
Scouts - I, as an opponent, love strung out scouts, you just shoot the middle one.
I think probably you have 4 basic builds with the list.
Warlord, Reaver, Reaver - 850 points for upgrades and 6 supporting formations
Reaver, Reaver, Reaver - 1000 points for some other upgrades and 6 supporting formations
Titan, titan - 1500-1700 points for Ordinatus, 3 Support, Warhound Packs
Reaver - 2 flak, 4 warhound packs
Your weapons fit would dictate the support configs. Biggest problem is speed, corner to corner would be a bugger, though I can't see anyone except a very long ranged army getting more than a draw that way.
I would probably go for an assault warlord with carapace ML, 2 Reavers (support and tactical) and one of the following support options
- Infantry, 2 flak, fighters, Tarantula, Sentinels
- Warhound, 2 Flak, Sentinels, 2 tarantula
- 2 Warhounds, Flak, 2 tarantula - though here you may as well switch a Reaver for Warhounds and play with the 150 extra points, but one less activation
Saying that I could go for something with the Ordinatus
Warlord with CML, Reaver with CML, Warhound Pack, Ordinatus, Flak, Infantry, tarantuala
Oh and though this may look restrictive I think that's good - get it to work like this then people can very easily trot out variants that build on it and, dare I say, introduce new Titan types.
Indeed I feel a competition coming on if people would be interested, something along the lines of design a Titan using cheap easily available bits that is easy to build and looks good. Winner can have an Emperor or something from my dusty collection. Hmm, shall give more thought to it, as well as what do people think for other Battle/Scout titan chassis rules?
Its quite easy incidentally to tweak around weapon allocation to build different legions by changing make is the 50% plus weapon type(s) and alter the support formation mix.
Currently we have the Legio (old) Vic who are a fairly solid boring bunch favouring ranged combat and so forth. Other legions that are more extreme could well be more fun and shouldn't take that long to do.
We'll probably be able to do a couple whilst waiting for the first one (once its ready) to be approved 
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