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For the longest time I've been playing CSM with a strong leaning towards noise marines, and I've recently been playing in a campaign while making the transition towards Lost and the Damned, pushing the CSM to an allied force. However, there are a couple of armies in the opposing faction that I simply cannot beat, and can't come up with a counter to with the models I have; and if there is a way, my schedule is restrictive enough that I can't get in enough games to figure it out.
The first is a Sisters of Battle army, of all things. I get crushed every time I play against them, both when I was going pure CSM, and when I started LatD. And I'm completely at a loss as to what to do against them. If I go heavy vehicle, they get wrecked by Exorcists and Penitent Engines. If I go hordes, he easily has enough flamers to wipe out a good 20-30 models with minimal effort. My atrociously bad luck doesn't do me any favors either, to the point that I'm tempted to sneak in weighted dice just to stand a chance. I can't remember the last time my lord fired his plasma pistol without overheating. The player himself is relatively easy-going, and I was thinking of trying to do much smaller games (no more than 1k) to try and get a better feel for my own army (which would lead me to my trouble with larger games, but that would probably be a discussion in itself).
The other is a Pre-Heresy Emperor's Children legion, typically led by Fulgrim, and usually featuring some odd beam-tank or that gunship that has two independent autocannons on its sides. Even though the army is primarily footslogging, there are enough dreadnoughts and extremely tough units that, no matter how hard I try, always seem to close in to melee, effectively spelling Game Over for even my best close combat units. This player is a little more troublesome, as he seems to only ever want to play 2500 point games or more, usually on a whim, and usually trying to get the whole thing done in about two and a half hours, playing very fast and loose to the point that I'm certain he's either bending the rules to his advantage, or knows I don't play well under that kind of situation and takes advantage of it every opportunity he gets.
There's also a Tyranid player who I can only seem to tie with in even my very best-played games, but at least he's in my faction, so I'm not terribly concerned with coming up with a reliable tactic against him yet.
From what I understand in the current meta, I must be doing something very wrong to be losing this consistently against these armies. I was wondering if I could get some advice? I could start listing the models I have at my disposal if it helps.
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