Hey, whack a 0 per 1000 pts or part thereof restriction on it and I'm good with it. No, I lied, I still object to it.
Sig, you'd object to anything I proposed so sorry if no one takes your objection to this particularly seriously.
Some perspective
Defiant @ 150pts with 4lb?
6 of them : 900pts
+ 1 Emperor + fa : 1295pts
+ 1 more Defiant: 1445pts
re-rolls
That is 7*4 + 8 = 36 launch bays
With only Defiants it could be: 9 Defiants = 9 * 4 = 36, so that doesn't change a bit.
And then I bust you for having an illegal list. Since you have +1 Defiants more than is allowed at 1500 points. So that's only 32 lbs.
I've sent another (IMHO less) workable change to Vaaish to bounce it off him, but let me pop it up here as well:
2 per 500
3 lbs (which gives it enough lbs to be useful in pairs but avoids stepping on Dictator's toes too much)
25 cm
str 4 torp.
130
+5 all around
That makes it weak on the line, but powerful ranged support, able to keep away a bit, and worth taking in pairs.
(And Yes, I forgot it was in the Bastions fleet list. It's also technically in the Maelstrom fleet lists too, but no one talks about that.)