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Hi again guys,
A while back I posted an Imperial Guard starter list and got some great feedback. I originally wanted to play a Steel Legion list with lots of flyers, but was convinced that this play style didn't really suit the SL. Chimeras are awesome too and I'm in the processes of building that army. However, I still want to build an army around airplanes! In my last thread I got the suggestion that Scions were more suitable to what I wanted to do, and after looking at them, I think that's absolutely correct. So here's what I was thinking as a main army:

Battalion Detatchment

HQ:
tempestor prime w/ command rod
tempestor prime
tempestor prime

Troops
10x scions with 4 plasma guns
10x scions with 4 plasma guns
10x scions with 4 plasma guns

Elites
command squad with 4 plasma guns
command squad with 4 plasma guns
command squad with 4 plasma guns
officer of the fleet with dagger of tu'sakh

Transport
taurox prime with gatling cannon
taurox prime with gatling cannon
taurox prime with gatling cannon

Air Wing Detatchment

valkyrie with rocket pods
vulture gunship with twin gatling cannons
vulture gunship with twin gatling cannons
vulture gunship with twin gatling cannons
vulture gunship with twin gatling cannons

total:1999 points

the goal is for the Officer of the Fleet to deepstrike close to an enemy target to allow the flyers to reroll 1s to hit, and would ideally repeat every turn that he's still alive. 2 command squads and the tempestor with the command rod start off in the valkyrie to be dropped close enough to get into rapid fire range on turn 1. All other infantry units deep strike in.

I ran out of points, which is why only one HQ has a command rod... This list has a fairly obvious achilles heel, which is that it can be tabled perhaps fairly easily by ignoring the flyers. To compensate I took the tauroxes which should also do no small amount of damage with their guns. More so than a more typical scion list, I'll be relying on a hard alpha strike. But the all-or-nothing style is definitely appealing!

I'm super excited about this army, and hope to hear your feedback once again!

I myself have been been working on a few Militarum Tempestus list ideas. I like your idea of going with flyers, as I imagine that would be quite fun, but, since you are already using forge world (vultures are forge world, right?), perhaps you could consider Elysian drop troops. I hear they are flyer and drop troops themed imperial guard.

I took a look at Elysian troops too but scions seemed a bit more up my alley. do you know if the playstyle is more or less the same?