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Hello all! Just trying to sort out a list for an upcoming game with a friend. They are steel legion figures so its difficult to find/convert many figures with flamers or meltas so there is notable a lack of these. But what I lack in Flamers, Meltas, Autocannons etc, I've well and truly made up for in Plasma guns and Missile Launchers (also a bit of a fluff decision but still) . So anyway, critique would be nice! Go for it.

HQ
Company Command Squad with Lascannon, Plasma Gun, Master of Ordinance and Vox Caster.
125
Lord Commissar
70

TROOPS

Infantry Platoon 1

Platoon Command Squad, with 2 Plasma Guns and Vox Caster.
65
Infantry Squad with Missile Launcher and 1 Melta Gun and Vox Caster
80
Infantry Squad with 1 Flamer and Vox Caster.
60

Infantry Platoon 2

Platoon Command Squad with Lascannon, 1 Plasma Gun and Vox Caster.
65
Infantry Squad with Lascannon, 1 Plasma Gun and Vox Caster.
90
Infantry Squad with Lascannon and 1 Plasma Gun.
85
Heavy Weapon Squad with 3 Missile Launchers.
90
Heavy Weapon Squad with 3 Missile Launchers.
90
Heavy Weapon Squad with 3 Missile launchers.
90

FORTIFICATION
Aegis Defence Line with Icarus Lascannon
85

Seems quite good just two things IMO. You've spent a 5th of your points on hq and I think a master of the ordinance is pretty useless and expensive for a small guard army

And I would replace the heavy weapon teams because missile launchers are pretty crap

Personally I like the heavy weapons squads just because of the concentration of heavy firepower they provide as opposed to wasting lasgun shots by including all of those in infantry squads (also during the progress of buying so many steel legion infantry squads I have inadvertently acquired a ton of missile launchers )
But I do see your point in other heavy weapons teams perhaps being more suited.

Would it be worth it dropping the Master and ordinance and instead finding a way of putting in a priest with an eviscerator to go with one of the infantry squads (also would drop one of the plasmas and replace with an additional flamer)?

I would drop the master of ordinance and have just a basic command squad

And don't take a priest if your guard are in combat your doing it wrong :p

And in my opinion with the saved points try buy a leman Russ with a demolisher or the plasma Russ just for some anti infantry