So,
http://natfka.blogspot.com/2013/12/escalation-is-there-balance.html
Anybody have any thoughts?
My first thought is, I'm disappointed that there are only about 15 superheavies that are legal. I had hoped that the superheavies in the book would be just EXAMPLES of what you can bring. So, no playing Zarykynel for me after all. I really have no interest in a Lord of Skulls, and that's the only option for either CSM or Daemons, so my "main armies" are lord-of-war-less. Sisters have no access to any superheavies, period. The Necron choices seem pretty interesting actually, so there's that 
It seems a little strange that Guard get access to as many superheavies as the rest of the codexes put together.
i certainly want to give it a try, that being said as someone who owns 5 super heavies i'm probably not going to field one unless its a huge point number game.
Super heavies die pretty quickly to heavy melta or assault and its a huge point sink. The choices while i think it's the right move to limit the options instead of opening the entire FW catalog to play are not balanced.
IG have some decent options but only one is a destroyer weapon (large blast)
Nearly HALF the codexs can only use a thunderhawk which is meh, i think there's only like 2 in the entire BG community and they die rather rapidly to anti air.
lord of skulls is a huge amount of points (888)
Necron one is semi expensive but probably is the most cost effective, AV14 all around D flamer and many other weapon options
Revenant titan, again a huge ammount of points (900), a little harder to kill with the holo fields thing but i'm not scared of it.
dont know much about the tau one
the Harridan looks nasty at T8 and 8 wounds although it is 735 points
