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What do you guys think about a Sons of Horus Maloghurst Orbital Assault army? It's one of the few ways to get veterans as troops in legion drop pods, which is deadly combined with Death Dealers. I'm thinking 5 vets all with combi-meltas in a pod for 185pts. This can reliably arrive and take out a Contemptor, Sicaran, Vindicator, Basilisk, Medusa, or basically anything without armored ceramite, and even against armored ceramite the vets can take machine killers and stand a fair chance. With all the heavy armor prevalent in the game today, units like this that can drop down and delete tanks sound really appealing. After that they can score objectives, beat up small units in close combat, be chaff, and generally be a nuisance. Of course vets with combi-plasmas or heavy flamers can delete units and are a good option too. I'm not sold on dreadnought talons, a trio of flamestorm cannons or dual graviton guns on turn one sounds cool but they need to take either dreadnought drop pods or Dreadclaws. They're both quite expensive now and don't allow for good alpha strike shooting with the shrouding change. Leviathans in pods aren't quite as ridiculous as before but I think they're still decent, shrouding doesn't hurt them as much and the cost of the pod is a much smaller percentage of their value. Dreadclaw/Kharybdis carrying Justaerin are still a good choice. The new awesome Javelins provide good ranged support too, Jetbikes as well. Assault marines are an option and are attractive with Merciless Fighters, but Deep Strike just isn't that reliable with them so to me their value is debatable. Flyers are pretty good, but I just favor them less because they don't take advantage of the Sons of Horus rules as much. Unfortunately Orbital Assault means no heavy armor and rapiers. It also means getting in harms way right next to Spartans carrying close combat beatsticks without the option of a Typhon, grav rapiers, or whatever big guns to shoot them from a safe distance. Combi-plasma vets and Justaerin will have to take them on in person, but that's very appropriate for a Sons of Horus speartip anyway. In fact, using the initial wave of combi-melta vets to pop some supporting armor and then get murdered by the enemy's close combat elite could be a way to get the enemy out of their Spartan and into the open to get shot by combi-plasma vets coming in on turn 2. The tactical flexibility to back up, outmaneuver, and whittle the enemy down is unfortunately not an option and your opponent will know that, making this army predictable. What do you guys think about the practicality of a veteran-based full Orbital Assault army?