If you and one other guy are the only meleers in the party, Golden Lion perhaps isn't the best choice. But a lot of parties aren't that way; in my party alone, we have a ranger and her companion, a conjurer, a samurai, a brawler, and a melee occultist (me, subbing out of a warlord next chance I get), and that's not mentioning the support cleric. My party is an outlier, but if you have another 2 melee guys in the party besides you (a very real possibility), GL gets a hell of a lot better. Also, being adjacent to an ally and flanking with them as a warlord is very possible, thanks to how tactical flanking was errata'd and Flanking Gambit.


Comparing Golden Lion to Broken Blade isn't the best way to prove your argument; everyone knows that BB lives up to its name, and is first up on the nerf block when part 2 of the errata is released. Hell, I've soft-banned it in my games (but in my games we try to play PoW conservatively).