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 Green is Best! wrote:
So... I fielded the pen engine army this weekend. Went 1-2, but the two I lost were kill point missions. Needless to say, the deck was stacked against me.

I faced a khorne berzerker army with a spartan LR. Kharn wrecked those things quick.

Against the other two, they lasted a long time. The last game, all my opponent had left was a fire raptor. So, overall the list did better than expected. Definitely not a power list, but fun to play.

Will post pics later on this week.

I finally crossed paths with Green at the tourney this past weekend. I ended up bringing an entirely different list, but I have to admit that I was impressed with Green's pen list. Looked awesome!

My list was:

Uriah
priest with LoF
3x BSS (H.flamer, flamer) in immolator (MM)
3x Dominion (4x melta) in immolator (H.flamer)
2x Exorcists

Hereticus inquisitor with psyocculum and hereticus relic
Inq squad (3x crusaders, 3x plasma accolytes, 1x DCA, Priest, psyker)
Inq squad (6x crusaders, 3x DCA, loser carrying a melta bomb)

Anti psyker assassin


I ended up facing:

1: Guard, tank heavy + imperial knight
2: The Chaos SM list that Green faced in turn 1
3: Dark eldar/eldar list

Went 3 and 0 and only lost a total of 2 points (out of 72) in the entire tourney, but ended up placing 3rd overall. Had three very good games, but I do wish I would have been able to face Green's list, just to see another sisters player across the table.

I'll post more on it later.

Lol! That's the only thing of his that survived when I played him

Here our servo-skull has taken an image of the purging of the vile Chaos worshipers. The foul magics of the warp clearly had protected the defiled land raider as the Emperor's melta was not able to destroy the construction in a reasonable time.

So during the game it was the off kilter map (corners, not edges). I scouted with my chimera and all the dominion. I snapped the pic after the end of my first turn. The single CSM standing alone had just fallen out of his blown up rhino and his squad was decimated by the inquisitor's plasma. The other squad on the other side of the map had a similar fate, but not quite as quickly. In the forest there was once two predators, but one was just in range of a dominion squad. No-cover melta is a wonderful thing sometimes.

Soon after, Karn shot out and killed the dominion in the front of the pic, but lucky for me two of the other dom squad survived and rolled amazing to pen and blow up the last predator. The rest of the game was mostly just cleaning up what was left and waiting for his reserves to show up and get shot up.

Rough game on my opponent, but I rolled wonderfully in turn 1 and he couldn't make a save for anything. When the dice decide you are going to lose.... you are going to lose.

I was looking at the 'drop troop' list and I have a question. Do you have to have the transport plane to benifit from the deep strike rule? Do the troops automatically get the deep strike, or is it something that happens when they get loaded on a plane?

The list seems like it would be a potentially good ally for a sisters force. It provides cheap-ish bodies to go collect strategic points, they come in planes so AA is built in, and they fit the theme of an elite force.

If I was going to add guard, it would probably be either drop troops or the tempest guys

One thing to add to Codex: Outflanking.

If you end up playing on the long board (4 foot wide x 2 foot deep deployment zones) then think about outflanking regardless of first/second turn.

As a second note, Remember that if you set up first, you can choose to go second. Basically that means that you can always go second and set up your army to do exactly that.

Yea, I like summaries. They help me to fine tune my armies when I see bat reps in print (both mine and other people's)


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That, and they tend to be good reads

I'd suggest 2 different units.

1. Avengers are amazing flyers. You already have your heavies, but just a suggestion on that one.

2. Priest + Crusaders is a tarpit that can freeze anything.

I figured i'd start posting army pics in the gallery. Recent project was to fix up an Avenger Strike Fighter. I think this one turned out all right, but I have a second one on my table that I put a lot more time cleaning up. The cast on these.... well, they need a lot of repair.

Still need to work on the pilot, seats and the heavy stubber. I'll get there eventually.

Anyone know a good way of keeping the windows on without gluing it on? Still working on that bit.


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http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/684356-sisters%20Avenger.html


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lol, i'll try to get a better pic up sometime that doesn't have my airbrush station (read: Diaper box) in the background

Tough break on opponents Celtic, you're right with the comment "probably not the best list to try out the drop pod list". Still, interesting how it went.

BTW. Thanks for putting the work into those, i've been enjoying watching the exploits of Sister Kathryn. She shall be remembered long after she is martyred.

I generally expect my dom's to all die very quickly, is a bonus when they get a second round of shooting. Their power comes from quick removal of transports and long range dangerous stuff. Once you opponent has to walk across the field, you can pick them off at your leisure.

Thats always been my theory of them. Make their points back... eh, who cares! They give you the game instead.

So keep them cheap, and droppods are wonderful for them (long answer)

Went to a FLGS tourney the other day and had 3 decent games. Had about 13 people there

My list was:

St. Celestine
Priest with litnies

2x BSS (flamer/flamer, immolator MM)
3x melta dominions in rhinos
1 exorcist
1 avenger

inquisitor (psyocculm, 3x servo skulls, hereticus relic)
inquisitor, naked - general

3 plasma acolytes, psyker, 4x crusaders, 1x DCA

2x plasma servitors, 6 naked henchmen, psyker


I ended up going 2 and 1 and got 3rd place overall.

Hum... out of time. I'll come back to give summaries. Whoever thought up the 'send Celestine out alone and don't make her your general' is a genius. She's a beast if you throw her around recklessly!

my second game was against the new crons and I had a rough go of it, even though I ended up winning on objectives at the end. I could tarpit their warriors with celestine, but reguardless of what I fired I was bouncing off all sorts of saves everywhere. He brought 2 of the 4HP transports that raise d3 warriors per turn so even when I made it past his saves they came back anyway. Frankly it was frustrating.

So far the solutions that i've thought up involve killing the transports (my first approach), then killing the squads... problem is that the transports are AV13 skimmers and can jink for stupid saves.

They didn't seem to be able to pen my vehicles very effectively and they seem to suck hard-core in close combat (minus flayed ones and wraiths of course). Maybe those could help.

Anyone ever try adding a melta bomb squad or two in order to take out superheavies that are so prevalent?

something like:

12 inq henchmen with melta bombs

or, if you don't like extra points laying around

10 priests with evisorators in a land raider crusader

throw them in a vehicle to give them mobility and it could be a nasty little surprise. I kinda like the henchmen squad because its only around 100 points and thats a LOT of melta bombs.

Could always spend the extra 10 points or so and give them bolters, but thats not the point.

To make it more of a sisters death squad how about starting with a repentia unit. Thinking something like:

-9 Repentia + the S&M whip girl
-Priest with LoF
-Ordo Xeno's Inq with rad and psyco gernades and the scouting relic

Still need something to tank so I was thinking a SM or GK character. Artificer armor and a storm shield (or the eternal warrior storm shield) would work well and the GK characters almost all know Hammerhand. (whats better than 36 S6 AP2 armorbane? 36 S10 AP2 armorbane of course!)

If you go with a Black Templar or Grey Knights allied force then you can get a land raider out of troops for ObSec, but you would have to load your squad in it on the first turn. Kinda annoying, but 4 AV14 hull points are a pain for some armies to crack when parked on an objective.

I'm kinda liking the GK version. The prospect of instant death on T5 troops is VERY appealing


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I do think that to run a squad like this you will need a land raider, probably a Crusader for the capacity. Scouting one forward is a fun prospect

Yea, I thought about that but the problem is that you would be throwing him in what I would consider a suicide squad. Giving up your general is rough. Its ashame it doesn't work when he isn't your general.

Countercharge would be nice in the rare chance someone would actually charge repentia though.

I suppose the biggest thing about any variant is that it demands attention from your opponent. If they choose to ignore it, it will cause an awful lot of damage. Works for me because my obsec BSS squads and rhino/immolators will be free to win the game for me.

acolytes with bolters could wander around pushing units off of objectives (ashame not obsec). They're dirt cheap and give you more bodies. Maybe 2 units, one on foot and one in a chimera or something.

Either that, or Avenger strike fighters happen to cost 150 points. Just saying

I finally found a use for repentia!!!!! The following explosion took everything out, but totally worth it

The funny thing about it is that the only thing that I can think of that would do a better job at the Stompa stomping would be terminators with chain fists (S4 base). On the charge, the Repentia have more attacks! and the strength D kills terminators about as fast as repentia.

Course, getting them into combat is a bit of a trick.

Could just go unbound and take as many Exo's and Dom's as possible. Oh, and Celestine for an HQ choice

The immolator hatch thing is something that should exist. It is clearly on the fig, so it really aught to be in the rules. That is one of those things that always kinda bothered me about the immolator figs

all of the stuff that needs to go in the combined squad are 0-1. I guess that means that you don't actually have to have that squad if you don't want to?

I guess we'll have to see what the options for the inquisitors are. I always liked to put inquisitors with the psyocculum into artillery units so they can shoot at psyker units ad BS 10. Great for madusa, nothing says 'Die Heretic' like a BS 10, S10 AP2 large blast with ordinance. But times change and tricks get replaced. Guess we'll see this weekend when I get the book.

Ashame about Celestine though. Hopefully some character can get jump packs, because i'll still use the fig and i'd rather WYSIWYG if the option is available.

Amazing figs


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With any luck we'll need to start another 'New Sisters of Battle Codex Tactica' thread soon!

:-)

Ug, sounds like i'm reading something from an intellectual property lawyer.

I was just going to throw New Celestine (and friends) in with my seraphim and see what happens. I think they may be the cheapest jump-type troops available to her, and they have a re-rollable 6++ to boot!

I thought they FAQ ed that for the IA valks so they were useable

I wish you could get a repentia for every Troop sisters squad. Would make them useful and also give some hth punch that is sorely lacking

So rhinos have 10 wounds. How many melta shot would you need to cripple/kill one now that splitfire is important.

3.5 wounds if long range and 5 wounds per short range. Assume 1 out of every 3 that shoot will miss... and you could miss the wound roll... so 1 dominion squad, 4 melta, should take out 1 rhino per turn.

Pistols can be shot in hand to hand. Tiring up stuff may be worthwhile, but they'll still die to dedicated assault units. Melta pistols and flame pistols are interesting.

Yea, we did that when the last edition rolled out. Probably worth it when the new edition drops


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So can immolators fire overwatch now? Seems pretty strong