Fairly new to the game. I have scoured these forums for sample armies and have never seen anyone use these units.

Why? Seems like a really nice cheap tank.

They were a sight to behold in the first base set. Large damage, cheap, moved well and have decent Attack Values.
It's the limited arc that made them easy to base and be render useless in the Dark Age. With the AoD rules they are usefull again, but many players that have them don't use them much. I quess old base rules with them left a bad taste in thier armies.

If I have them I prefer to use the Regulator Hover Tanks over the SM1. 360* arc and all.

I did play a faction pure force not too long ago (DF) and ran a few SM1s in the force. If it wasn't for the short DF range they would have been scary >:)

Glad to see you found an old piece that would be usefull to you and your enjoying it.

It's a decent enough tank for its points. As long as the RotS SM1 doesn't hit salvage, you can even repair it back to the green marker! I believe I have one of those things, maybe it's time to dig it up from the box that holds my RotS units and use it to build a nice little Republic/Highlanders army.

I played Rots SM1's as a spanking new player till I got better, namely Po's, Reg's, and my all time fav Balacs!

Problem with that particular SM1 was the 4" min range, small arc, and having to push to get to AP.