Not to be a Debbie downer but there are some things that I really dislike. Redirecting abig part of the strategy in 8th. If you take it out there really aren't many ways to stop a death star. Not letting characters leave units seems silly. Also Swedish is written with 50% lords and heroes in mind so disallowing that could skew your Swedish scores. I am all for combined profiles for monster riders but I think your your formula is off. If i paybfor a 4+ward it should not be reduced. Also by your formula if i buy a 5+ ward item it works just like the 6+ ward item. Combine wounds and take the beat toughness, best ward save, and I could see doing average of the two armor saves being good. Love the LOS changes and magic changes except for losing the spell on a miscast. Sometimes miscasts happen on 2 or 3 dice and that's a pretty harsh penalty. Maybe make the penalty worse if more dice are thrown and less if less dice are thrown. Love the deploy!ment and movement rules too.
Just seems like all of the changes benefit deathstars. I see them being too strong in these rules.