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I've actually had some success using Shadowsun as Warlord and tossing her in with a squad of Crisis Suits loaded with plasma and fusion. It's great at hunting tanks (5 potential melta shots at 18") as well as dealing with all sorts of Marines and Terminators (up to 11 shots that wound on 2s and ignore armor). Because of how stealth/shrouded works, her suit confers it to whatever squad she joins, so you can have a team of Crisis Suits jumping about the board with a 4+ cover save in the open (and a 2+ if they get behind any sort of cover). The Ghost That Walks Among Us gives her and her team an extra d6" jump move as well.

Farsight is a great choice as well, but bear in mind that it's expensive, and you're putting a lot of eggs in one basket, so to speak. Farsight plus seven suits is, with no wargear options, almost 400 points. Throw in wargear, and you're dropping even more points into it. It is one hell of a sucker punch, though, since you can easily put target locks all over the squad, throw in some specialist wargear, and murder whatever you want when they drop in. Toss in Shadowsun for even more fun - two extra fusion blasters, plus her command-link drone, plus stealth/shrouded for the entire unit.

Overall, I recommend going with one of the three suits as warlord - either a Commander with a Crisis Team, Shadowsun with a Crisis Team (stealth teams are just too expensive for what they do), or a Farsight Bomb. They can all be extremely destructive depending on how you use them.