4/5 stars. The rules are good.
Background.
The Scorpius is a different type of Whirlwind tank that was created at the behest of the Space Wolves who apparently wanted some indirect fire support to fight against xenos. It is built on the ubiquitous rhino chassis and fires some rather lethal missiles to do exactly what the Space Wolves wanted.
Strengths.
The main strength here is the Scorpius missile launcher. This fires S=8 small blasts that have barrage 2, and breaching at 5+. With AP=4 they're very good at clearing out non-marine enemies and will likely take care of at least some standard marines if they are tightly packed!
Heavy on FP means you're likely sat at the backfield and staying still most of the game and shooting at your leisure.
The pintle bolt guns don't really add much, and there's smokecreen as well. I would not bother with a dozer blade, but search lights might be good here. Take a pintle weapon to taste, but possibly a waste of points too ... unless you take the havoc launcher to give you stun (recommended! and has superb overlapping range!).
Weaknesses.
The rhino chassis with AV=10 at the rear makes it vulnerable. The 5 hull points offsets this.
The lack of inflicting statuses is a milder issue for the tank.
Builds.
Scorpius, Searchlights (125 points)
The core build.
Scorpius, Searchlights, Havoc Launcher (130 points).
An extra shot that comes with stun is actually really rather good and excellent points efficiency overall.
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