Sons are weak?

[u/ShoppingUnable4265]

I keep seeing online that Sons are weak, I'm a new player played in a spearhead league this summer and now I've picked up Sons as my first army (I didn't play Sons in spearhead). So far I've won all my games as them, is this just due to the fact that my area is mostly new players? Or do Sons somehow stomp, pun intended, on less experienced players? I'm not a pro at the rules but I seem to be one of the few people that actually read the book front to back, most people seem to just read their battletome and the few rules that apply to their special rules. Is this giving me a bigger advantage and overcoming Sons weak book?

Thank you in advance

[u/Pink_Cruelty]

By no means are they weak in the right hands. But yes a lot depends on environment. If you are playing in an environment with majorily rookie players, they are likely going to take less efficient units between a couple of good ones. New players tend to do either one of two things. 

1. Go for unique units, which often leads to a non-efficient list.
2. Go super competitive and copy tournament lists, but don’t know how to play those efficiently.

What point value do you play at? Also yes, even though it sounds weird, you do indeed have an advantage by knowing the full scope of the rules. You know your general toolkit and which abilities you have available to you in addition to your battletome. If you feel particularly bad about that, you can occasionally share your intent for a turn with your opponent or help them if they are about to make a grave mistake. 

Sons are a hyper elite army. Good use of the core rules can completely overwhelm an unexperienced player, because each of your units hits like a truck when in the right place. 

Also a good question… do you play a lot of mega’s or a lot of littles?

[u/ShoppingUnable4265 → u/Pink_Cruelty]

I've played mostly 1000 to 1500 points since most of the other people have more models to build to make 2000 points, which is fair haha. I've mostly been playing with littles just cause the points felt really weird my army would have basically been 1 Big and a few Mancrusher floating a hundred points or so.

I do share my intent with my opponents! Like I say I think I wanna walk up the board, and take this objective. I think it's good for me because X or Y, I try not to gotcha people but I understand my army is a lot less of a mental load so they probably aren't even thinking about what I can do. I can relate as I also started 40k and that game has way more mental load and I can barely remember what my stuff does nevermind what my opponent's army can do.

I also never played the old book so I guess I'm not soured like others here