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So I have a small "Alpha Legion" army that I usually use loyalist rules and models to represent. Everything is loyalist on paper, but the models are painted up in Alpha Legion colors, have AL fluff, etc. In 8th, I generally used Raven Guard rules to represent the AL. However, the 9th edition board size, strategic reserve rules, and changes to the RG chapter tactic have me less in love with the Raven Guard rules than I used to be. I haven't actually bought any loyalist marine books for this edition yet, so I'm trying to decide which of two lists/chapters to use in light of my recent primaris-shaped Christmas gifts.

List One: Death Watch
The fluff idea here is that the DW Mission Tactics represent the AL planning out their primary targets before the harrowing. The Beacon Angelis and Echoes of the Ravenspire represent AL trickery and also let me put my Assault gun Kill Team and captain in position to deliver a heck of a sucker punch. AL using primaris plasma tech (fluffed as xenos and/or heretech) is very REDACTED from the BL novels. The whole force is basically leaning on ablative intercessor bodies to keep the plasma alive a tiny bit longer and using their firepower and redeployment tricks to win board control. The librarian is just infiltrating forward to use the beacon to get his buddies into position and/or to use Neural Void to make an enemy unit unable to shoot. (He'll be the closest enemy unit but he'll be hidden behind terrain.) The eradicators go in reserve and pop up turn 2 to deliver a single tank-killing sucker punch before the enemy kills them.

Captain (warlord): Echoes of the Ravenspire, Banebolts of Eryxia, Master-crafted boltgun, Relic Blade,
Librarian in Phobos Armor: The Beacon Angelus, Neural Void (should maybe switch to Fortified With Contempt?)

Fortis Kill Team: 5 intercessors with stalker bolt rifles, 5 hellblasters with heavy plasma incinerators
Fortis Kill Team: 5 intercessors with auto bolt rifles, 5 hellblasters with assault plasma incinerators
Intercessor Squad: 5 normal bolt rifles

Eradicator Squad: 3 melta rifles

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List Two: Raven Guard
Very similar to list one but more spread out. I lose out on the ability to shield my plasma models with intercessors, but I theoretically make up for it with a more spread out board presence and RG chapter tactics. Master of Ambush would most likely be used to infiltrate a squad of humble intercessors onto an objective to tempt my opponent into make a bad trade trade for them. The captain is meant to be a low-key assassin that hides in combat with one unit just to pop out and go character hunting. Alternatively, he's tanky enough to throw into an annoying unit and keep them from shooting for a bit. Master of Ambush on the librarian would most likely be used to infiltrate a humble intercessor squad onto an objective and tempt my opponent into making a bad trade. The librarian is kind of a suicide unit. The intent is that he gets himself killed on my opponent's turn, and then the unit that did it becomes much easier for the rest of my army to wipe out. Alternatively, he just teleports himself to the most inconvenient places and goes hunting for backline units and objective grabbers.

Or in other words, the whole list is trying to lure the enemy's objective grabbers out into the open where they'll trade badly in a straight up fire fight, and then I win on board control.

Captain (Warlord): Feigned Flight , MC boltgun, relic blade, storm shield, Armor of Shadows
Librarian in Phobos Armor (Chief Librarian): Master of Ambush, the Raven Skull, Spectral Blade, Shadow Step

Intercessors X 5: bolt rifles
Intercessors X 5: bolt rifles
Intercessors X 5: bolt rifles

Hellblasters X 5: Plasma Incinerators
Hellblasters X 5: Heavy Plasma Incinerators
Eradicators X 3: Melta Rifles