Baggronor:
Is the LoA sub-optimal? That doesn't seem to be the feedback so far.Its is sub-optimal in general, it just has a few things that are so good they can change the game. Magma Cannons, Destroyer and multiple ID builds are the culprits, the rest of the list is sub-par at best, overpriced junk at worst (I'm looking at you, Ironsworn). Its just badly written.
mistrmoon:
Agreed, It feels a lot like they were so afraid of making it overpowered (given forgeworlds reputation with writing 40k rules) that they watered down everything. But a few units managed to sneak under the radar. Exactly like you said, magma cannons, destroyers, multiple hellcannons and multiple Iron deamons are scary, a couple units are meh (hw&sh infernal guard, khans) and the rest is overpriced.