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Been playing an Elysian/Scion force for a while now and been thinking of diversifying by using the Scions as inquisitorial storm troopers and adding detachments from other armies for specific militant arms of various Ordos.
Ordos mechanicum, Malleus and Hereticus are obvious enough but I'm a bit torn for Xenos.

My first thoughts were imperial fist sternguard in a 1st company task force with conclave to back them up but it seemed a bit spammy and HQ heavy. I then looked at a CAD with Pedro, 2x Scouts 2x Sternguard and some grav cents mounted in Taurox from the scions but the new FAQ stopped them becoming mounted.

I then started poking around forge world and looked at a very similar CAD but with Lias Issodon instead of Pedro, allowing a decent deployment without vehicles, and the chapter tactics giving and elite feel and hopefully 1st turn stealth giving enough survivability and the reserves boost coming in handy.
But once again something else has caught my eye with the Red scorpions. The chapter tactics seem a little lacklustre, but Haas and Loth would allow for relentless sternguard which I quite like for abit of mobility as well as giving a bit of a boost in shooting and assaulting weaker troops (ie double tap and 3 attacks on the charge), just one thing I'm wondering is where I can find their latest rules as I've heard Tears of the scorpion are replacements for relic blades but I'm wondering if this is for characters only or if honour guard too? As Loth with tooled up honourguard would be a tasty (if expensive) unit and coupled with Haas's Sternguard would off two very different but elite units to support the storm trooper elements.

Sorry for the poor structure of this post as my ideas are a bit scattered but I'm keen to here any feed back/ideas.