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I just Blue/green stuff mold mine from a Canoness Inferno Pistol

Wheres that 5-1 LVO batrep?!!?

I just got me some sisters and need the dopest strats

This is a dope free zone, sir.

 MacPhail wrote:
I'd love 8 of the Canoness Infernos, if i could get them for less than the price of 8 Canonesses.

I have two, one still attached to an arm and one filed off with a fret saw.

Interested?

CB

I am working a Supreme Command detachment of Shield Captains on Bikes into my list currently.

This is what I came up with:

Supreme Command detachment:

3 x Shield Captains on Jetbikes


Bataillon detachment:

Celestine
Canoness

4 x 5 BSS (2 Stormbolters each)
2 x Repressor to carry them around
5 Seraphims (2 inferno pistols)

Outrider detachment:

Canoness

3 x 5 Dominions (4 meltaguns each)
3 Immolators to carry them around


I think the list has decent anti tank, decent anti-horde and a nasty assault element to support the dominions moving forward while still sporting some ObSec units.

Currently it's at 1990.

Any way to optimize this further?

I feel like the Doms should be in the repressors, not the BSS.

Flip your four BSS squads for four Dom squads, gives you two squads with four meltaguns, two squads with four stormbolters. Put one of each in your two Repressors.

Gives you three BSS in Immolators with five girls each and four meltaguns between them.

You lose a few points to get extra Dominions, invest in a HB Retributor squad and put the remaining points into weapon upgrades for your vehicles.

So I know I don't run the most optimal list, but I just recently tabled a Custodes player with my Sororitas brigade. I brought 94 models (49 Battle Sister Squads, 10 Seraphim, 10 Dominions, 15 Retributors, Celestine & both Gemini, 2 Canonesses, 2 Imagifiers, 1 Hospitaller, and 2 Immolators).

It was a fun game - I think my number of Meltaguns alone outnumbered his entire army. (2 five-girl dominion squads with 4 melta & combi melta is 10, 2 multimeltas each Immolator for 14, melta+multimelta+combimelta on a 5-girl BSS for 17, and 4 Inferno Pistols on the seraphim for 21. He had 19 models).

So my Retributor squad with heavy flamers proved to be invaluable. I know people don't like them but I used them as a back-line countercharge unit advancing slowly behind my BSS wall, and they did a lot of work, especially with the heavy bolter girls. Celestine was not my warlord, instead being used with her Seraphim escort to hold up the enemy's MLE, which made him decide whether to halt his advance boardwide (because of his small model count) or come at me piecemeal. He ended up charging ahead with his bikes, and I think it would have been better to hold them back. His Land Raider (he was testing it; he knows it's suboptimal) got nuked, and his bikes also died; I think I killed 3 of the 4 in a turn. Celestine was an effective roadblock, holding up the walking part of his army while I eliminated the bikes and Biker-Captain super-warlord, who essentially got eviscerator'd and Blade of Admonition'd to death by my canonesses. Sweet times were had when he killed the Blade of Admonition canoness and I martyrdom'd the other Canoness to finish him off with her eviscerator.

I went 3-0 over the weekend in a 1500 point 20 man tourney. I ended up taking 3rd because the way the TO was scoring was total differential in a score as opposed to win/loss. My brother who went 1-2 actually got second because his 1 win was like 39-1, and my 3 wins totaled 36. It was a weird way of scoring and I think I was the only 3-0. Anyway...

It was a fun tourney and I ended up trouncing Deathguard, Nids, and then Nurgle. I didn't get to face any of the Custodes guys. I was disappointed by that because I think Sisters are an extra hard counter and I really wanted to tarnish some of that gold.

Also, those Chapter Approved missions are kinda fun. They do keep it a bit interesting.

What was your list? Just curious.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1WVS0YA83vOW1u5HWN_LOnGDKnO5APGtn

I have to point out that I ran a Dialogus to fill out a detachment, and it was hilarious. I killed a Trygon because I assaulted it with her and she, shockingly, died, allowing a squad of doms hanging out next to it to fire at the end of the phase. The Dialogus also did 1 wound to the Trygon, btw. MVP material right there. The other two games she sat on points midfield and scored VPs since she was untargetable. I can in no way say she was a waste of 15 points.

Yeah, nice.

I am actually (I ordered 3 boxes) of SOS and some heads from 3rd party, making them into my HB Rets. I cant wait.

This past Saturday I attended the Good, Bad, and Ugly (GBU) Tournament in Wisconsin. The GBU is generally a once a year one day event that draws 40-60 people. The idea is that you are split by your faction (Good = Imps, Bad = Chaos + Nids, and UGLY = everyone else) and compete to see who is the best faction.

This year they drew 40 people. There were about 16-17 good, 16-17 bad, and 6-7 ugly players.

I brought a mostly Sisters army.

My list:



Game One:

Chaos.

His list was a gurgle/Alpha legion heavy infiltrate list. He had a few daemon princes, a lot of Beserkers and cultists. We all know the arch type.

I deploy most of my seraphim out of first turn charge range and throw the guard up front. The shield captains and Celestine also hang out near the back.

He wins the roll to go first, I don't bother trying to seize. Turn 1 he kills off all my guard and a unit of Seraphim while everything else just advances up. In response I kill 40 cultists, 2 Daemon Princes and all the Beserkers. I do however lose a Shield Captain. From here on out I'm just picking up most of my opponents units. I win 29-1. The max is 30.

Game Two:

Eldar.

His list was mostly serpents equipped to deal with tanks/monsters. Some fire prisms, a handful of rangers, one of the flyers and some characters. I deploy similar to how I did the last game and win the roll to go first. I opt to go second as it was maelstrom scored at the end of the battle round.

His first turn he kills my guard and a scattering of Seraphim. My first turn I take out 2 Serpents and a bunch of random elements. I wind up tabling him by turn 3.

30-2 for a max win.

Game 3.

Eldar.

Going into game three I find myself near the lead as well as the highest scoring "good" player. I think there are 7-8 players at this point with perfect scores (60 points) to my 59.

My opponents list was similar to my last opponents expect he had a big unit of shinning spears. The mission was end of Battle Round progressive.

I win the role to go first and opt to go second.

Turn one my opponent had one of the worst shooting phases I think I've seen in this edition. Despite all his fire power he only killed unit of mortars and 5-6 guardsmen. My turn one I get him off all the objectives and score three points (there were only 3 objectives).

His turn two is better but its not enough. My turn two I kill off the spears.

I win 30-0.

I finished the event with 89 out of 90 battles to finish 2nd or 3rd in battle. I did however win best overall, which I was not expecting at all.


Thoughts on the list:

Wow mass Seraphim are good. I was all about repressors up until now. However between the points hike in Chapter Approved for Repressors, the points decrease for Inferno Pistols, and the fact that I would much rather go second in most mission formats makes repressors feel outdated. Seraphim are capable of going almost wherever they want and if a unit dies it's not a huge loss.

Shield Captains - These guys are no joke. I was unsure about 5 of them but I'm really happy with my decision. They are really tough to deal with and even when you can shoot them they take a tremendous amount of fire power to bring down. I think I lost a total of 4 the entire event.

Final thoughts:

Its really strange to play a game where Celestine isn't my biggest CC threat.

Wow. You own that many seraphim with IP? Daaamn.

Yeah. For awhile on eBay people were selling bulk Seraphim and I just scooped them up. I think I have 100 Seraphim in total.

Yeah i just order 10 more and looking for 10 more on top of the 10 i already have. So I could have 30.

I have 12 Custodes bikes and after a couple games, it seems that 3-4 Shield Captain on bikes is the way to go, i was going to do 1k Bikes, 30 Seraphim, Celestine and some foot Doms. But now i'm thinking of just doing 5 Shield Captains.

5 captains are great but probably overkill. The only reason I don't drop one is because everything I want (Culuxes/Greyfax) breaks up a pure detachment and I'm not really willing to do that. Too many buffs in playing pure.

I just want to play with the bikes, i bought 4 boxes I'm going to use some of them lol.

Rynner wrote:

My list:

16x Conscripts

Forgive me if I'm much mistaken, but isn't the minimum size of a unit of Conscripts 20?

I think so......

 MinMax wrote:

Rynner wrote:

My list:

16x Conscripts

Forgive me if I'm much mistaken, but isn't the minimum size of a unit of Conscripts 20?

It is!

Sounds pretty close to what I was going to run with a buddy in a team 2k tourney:

my list:
Celly and 2 gems
6 seraph squad 4 inf pis
6 seraph squad 4 inf pis
6 seraph squad 4 inf pis
5 seraph squad 4 inf pis
5 seraph squad 4 inf pis
5 seraph squad 4 inf pis
5 retributers 4 Hv bolters
5 retributers 4 Hv bolters

his list:
Cap on bike, 3 plus re roll charge artifact, 5+ fnp
3 bikes
3 bikes
3 bikes

Gonna call it " in the arms of the angels" and blast some sarah Mclaughlin!

AdmiralHalsey wrote:

 MinMax wrote:

Rynner wrote:

My list:

16x Conscripts

Forgive me if I'm much mistaken, but isn't the minimum size of a unit of Conscripts 20?

It is!

Crap! Good catch. Thanks! I'll change it.

I don't think it really mattered but I'll talk to the TOs about it and offer to mail the trophy to second place.

Rynner wrote:

AdmiralHalsey wrote:

 MinMax wrote:

Rynner wrote:

My list:

16x Conscripts

Forgive me if I'm much mistaken, but isn't the minimum size of a unit of Conscripts 20?

It is!

Crap! Good catch. Thanks! I'll change it.

I don't think it really mattered but I'll talk to the TOs about it and offer to mail the trophy to second place.

If you went fully kitted with the Shield Captains you could have still put in 20 conscripts for 2001 pts, you kinda cheated yourself out of 4 conscripts.

 davidgr33n wrote:

Rynner wrote:

AdmiralHalsey wrote:

 MinMax wrote:

Rynner wrote:

My list:

16x Conscripts

Forgive me if I'm much mistaken, but isn't the minimum size of a unit of Conscripts 20?

It is!

Crap! Good catch. Thanks! I'll change it.

I don't think it really mattered but I'll talk to the TOs about it and offer to mail the trophy to second place.

If you went fully kitted with the Shield Captains you could have still put in 20 conscripts for 2001 pts, you kinda cheated yourself out of 4 conscripts.

I'm not quite sure what your talking about but I sent you a pm about it.

Maybe it’s just coincidence, but has anyone else noticed this:
Thousand Sons alphabetically is (was) the last Faction still to get a Codex, preceded by Tau (next Codex), if Space Wolves are next then Adepta Sororitas may be waiting a while. Ergo a big finish with new Codex and plastic Sisters, then 9th Edition a month later.

I don't think thats on purpose at all but it would be funny if true.

I don’t know if this has been discussed in the thread before, but I just noticed that the Canoness can exchange her bolt pistol for a bolter and then exchange her chainsword for a ranged weapon (like a combiplasma). The core rules state she can shoot both weapons (even at different targets) so she could shoot the plasma part of her combi-weapon without penalty and shoot the bolter without penalty.

Or you could put a bolter AND a Stormbolter on her pumping out 6 shots at BS2 for 2 pts.

Don’t know if anyone would ever outfit her like that, but it is an option.

 davidgr33n wrote:
Maybe it’s just coincidence, but has anyone else noticed this:
Thousand Sons alphabetically is (was) the last Faction still to get a Codex, preceded by Tau (next Codex), if Space Wolves are next then Adepta Sororitas may be waiting a while. Ergo a big finish with new Codex and plastic Sisters, then 9th Edition a month later.

Did I miss Tyranids getting a codex?

Looks like you missed their debut