4/5 stars. Good rules!
Background.
Made in vast numbers on Terra and Forge Worlds like Anvilus and Galatea, the Storm Eagle is a mainstay of the legions. An orbital assault craft, it carries large numbers of Astartes into battle whilst protecting them with strong armour and prosecutes warfare with excellent weaponry at the same time.
Strengths.
Flyers in third edition function a bit different in the sense of the combat assignments that you have to assign them. Presumably you will want a drop mission for the storm eagle given its (reduced) capacity of 16. And then remember with the FAQ/Errata that you can enter the board from any board edge ultimately from turn 2 onward. This gives you strong flexibility to drop your deadly cargo right in the middle of enemy deployment zones.
The tempest rockers, vengeance launcher and even the heavy bolt guns are all viable. With the stable rule on the flyer, you don't even have to fire snap shots. This is great fire power all round.
AP=12 and 6 hull points are very reasonable and the movement rate of 18 very respectable.
Weaknesses.
Points cost builds fast. New rules for flyers in third edition are also worth a re-read if you've not used them much before.
Builds.
Storm Eagle, Twin Lascannons (230 points).
The las cannons are almost compulsory given the resin you buy from Forge World!
Most other weapons are viable: the multi meltas and cyclone make sense to replace the heavy bolters depending on your targets, and the hunter killer missiles will help kill vehicles as well.
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