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How about this for a simple balanced way to do elitist armies ala Deathwing.

IN lieu of a normal org chart an army may choose to use this organization chart.

0-3 HQ

2-6 Elites

0-1 Heavy

0-1 Fast Attack

Would this be unbalanced?

This could be unbalanced if left for the player to decide what choices to take. For example and all tyranid warrior army would be wuite cool. But if you allow 6 elite fex's in there, it could be trouble (even though it too would be neat).

I think it needs to be figured on an army to army basis.

But then again, I have a tau army that fields nothing but drones whenever possible (gun drones for troops, heavy gun drones for HS, sniper drones, A crisi suit for HQ and stealth suits for elites. basically all jump infantry.)

Just a quick bit of numbers:

Tyranids: 3 Hive Tyrants, 6 Elite Carnifexes, 1 HS Carnifex.
Iron Warriors: 18 Obliterators
Imperial Guard: 6 squads of 3 Plasma Infiltrating Veterans?

o_O

I like it. What about expanding it, allowing an option to pick up 2-6 Fast Attacks at the cost of 0-1 Elites?

I think it works out fairly balanced too. The Tyranid list isn't much scarier than a normal Godzilla list, and it's mostly the extra Tyrant that does it. What if it were 0-2 HQs, or what if it were 0-1 HQ and 0-3 Troops?

The Guard list just isn't scary - it hasn't spent enough points to be threatening. Vet squads can't be more than 120 points or so, and so you're going to have to load up your one allowed regiment if you want to even approach 1500.