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My FLGS is running an escalation league in 500 point increments. 2 weeks for every level. There will be a 2k tournament at the end of the league. WYSIWYG required, bonus points for painting. You may not remove any units from the list as you increase in point costs, but you can equip them differently. The 500 list only requires 1 troop.

We're at the end of week 1 and I've finished my mandatory 3 games with a record of 2-1 (Bugs/Vanilla Marines-CSM). For my extra games (helping other people get their games in, for fun, etc.) I'm 1-1 (GK-GK).

My current list;

500

Canoness - Jump Pack, Master Crafted Eviscerator, Mantle of Ophelia, Cloak of St Aspira, Inferno Pistol, - 155

Battle Sisters x10 - Heavy Flamer, Melta, VSS w/ BoSL in a Rhino w/ Smoke and Searchlight -205

Exorcist - Smoke -138

The canoness can run through marine squads very easily, she actually dispatched everything short of a predator against one SM player with only 3 assault marines dying to BS fire support. The basic sisters can deal with most standard 500 point threats with use of faith as a backup if gak goes downhill. An exorcist is cheap and absolutely brutal at 500 points, picking up whatever slack the Canoness leaves.

When I move to 1K I plan on adding;

Battle Sisters x10 - Heavy Flamer, Melta, VSS w/ BoSL in a Rhino w/ Smoke and Searchlight -205

2x Exorcist - Smoke -138

This gives me plenty of mobile fire support and meets the minimum troops. I feel light on faith, but even if I only add 1 exorcist I don't feel I'll get anything that can add faith AND something useful to the army (Barebones seraphim aren't exactly world-beaters.) The leftover points will go to misc upgrades (Extra armor, etc.) that can be adjusted later.

When we move to 1.5K, I already have my core (Flying Canoness, 2xBS rhinos, 3x Exo) filled, I plan on adding;

Battle Sisters x10 - Heavy Flamer, Melta, VSS w/ BoSL in a Rhino w/ Smoke -205

2x Seraphim x5 - 2x Hand Flamer, VSS w/ BoSL and Evisc

As well as removing searchlights off all the rhinos, leaving me at 1500 on the dot. This gives me 3 more faith points (6), 2 squads that can deal with infantry and vehicles and another versatile scoring unit. I've considered doing 1 Seraphim squad and 1 Inq Lord with 3x HB servitors, Purgatus and a Hood to give me some additional psyker defense, as well as the ability to seriously hurt a psyker (-3 LD with a LD10 hood... brutal.) I feel this is neccesary with 2x CSM players using warptime princes/1k sons, and 3+ GK players using lolwut tons of psyker abilities.

The final list should be;

Canoness - Jump Pack, Master Crafted Eviscerator, Mantle of Ophelia, Cloak of St Aspira, Inferno Pistol - 155

Inq Lord - Purgatus, Psychic Hood, Auspex w/ 3x HB Servitors -157

2x Celestian x5 - 2x Melta, VSS w/ BoSL in an Immolator w/ Smoke - 168

3x Battle Sisters x10 - Heavy Flamer, Melta, VSS w/ BoSL in a Rhino w/ Smoke and searchlight -205

2x Seraphim x5 - 2x Hand Flamer, VSS w/ BoSL and Evisc -164

3x Exorcist - Smoke and searchlight -136

The biggest decisions I feel I have to make with the final list are whether to go 2x melta or melta/flamer on the celestians. I could drop the seraphim and get another celestian squad, beef their numbers and give eviscerators/combi weapons to the Celestian VSS, but that would cost me a faith point.

Regardless, thoughts/opinions on the overall list trend?