Primary: Sisters of Battle


HQ

Celestine
Jacobus (warlord)


Troops
BSS #1 x 15 w/MM, Melta Gun, Melta Bombs
BSS #2 x 7 w/Melta Gun, Melta Bombs

Fast Attack
Dominions x 5 w/4x Melta Guns in a MM Immolator

Heavy Support
Retributers x 8, 3xHF, Melta Bombs (deployed BA Drop Pod)


Allied Det:

Blood Angels

HQ

Sanguinary Priest w/ Valour's Edge, Angel's Wing and BP

Elites
Sanguinary Guard x 9, w/PF, Infernus Pistols x 2, Chapter Banner (mix of swords/axes)

Troops

Scout Squad x 5, Camo Cloaks & Sniper Rifles


Fast Attack
Drop Pod (For the rets)

Heavy Support
Stormraven (AC/MM)

Knight Detachment

Knight Paladin




First game was five objectives versus pure Crons, Vanguard deployment, he ran a deathstar of ten Lychguard w/ Orikan, Nemesor, a D Lord and another lord out of a Night Scythe; a Ghostark full of Warriors, ten Immortals for his backfield, six Wraiths, and a C'Tan shard. I won the primary (Objectives) holding three of the five, he won secondary and we ended up tied with tertiary. I had more points alive at the end so I (barely) won the match. Jacobus and the big BSS held the Deathstar and the Wraiths for three turns in CC, slowing them down enough that my scouts, Rets and SG could hold the other three, with the fifth unclaimed (ended on T5 but again, Jacobus/BSS tarpitted the deathstar/wraiths).

Game two was against a pure Dark Angels army; Hammer/Anvil, he ran Ezekial, tacs and another libby in drop pod, a terminator squad, termie interrogator chaplain with Deathwing Knights, the two fliers (Nephilim and ?), another small tac squad, Ravenwing Knights, and an attack bike. I used the smaller BSS to slow down his DWK, Jacobus/BSS held on OBJ, while Celestine/SG cleared through the RW, she then broke off to claim one of his backfield OBJs. The Stormraven went into hover mode on a backfield OBJ after finishing off the Tac squad there, and the Knight Paladin just ran away 12" until his chaplain was alone then assaulted. My poor nuns rolled terribly on armor saves and the Rets were gone after failing something like 12 of 15 armor saves, but I ended up wining on tactical objectives (Primary) the secondary and tertiary.

Game three was against another Cron list, he had: C'Tan Shard, Nemesor w/ 20 Warriors, ten Immortals, the Wraith/Spyder/Scarab formation, 10x Deathmarks,6 x Tomb Blades, a Ghost Ark full of Warriors, and 5x sword/board Lychguard. We each had an OBJ in our deployment zone (Dawn of War) and the Relic as secondary on top of the WHF Tower terrain. I infiltrated my scouts onto the relic, and deployed my OBJ in a corner with ruins, the big BSS/Jacobus on it, the smaller BSS next to it to screen for the Knight Paladin. Celestine/SG waited in deepstrike, the Doms outflanking and the Rets rode in the drop pod of course. He deployed in a line, Nemesor and the warrior blob on his OBJ, the Immortals, Tomb Blades and Wraith/Scarab/Spyder near my OBJ and the C'tan towards the middle with the Lychguard & Ghost Ark. My Rets dropped down to flame/rend his immortals, failing to do much of anything, also trying to put some wounds on the Tomb Blades. Between reanimation, I did zero wounds I think. The Knight sent some love and put a wound on the spyder and a nearby TB, but it reanimated. He ran his Wraiths forward, with the Scarabs and Tomb Blades. The Immortals took out the Rets and then went to work on the Drop Pod. His Deathmarks deepstruck next to the big BSS but lost about half the squad by turn three. His Spyder lost its last wound rolling a 1 when trying to make a Scarab; so his Scarabs/Wraiths lost reanimation protocols. The smaller BSS died to massed fire, then the Wraiths/Scarabs charged the Knight. He took out 3/6 Wraiths and a couple Scarabs before explodinating. Celestine/SG deep struck near his OBJ, the Doms outflanked on that side and put fire into his warrior blob. The SG/Celestine squad charged/wrecked the Lychguard, which are still a bargain at less than 200 for the five. They then shot/charged into the 20 warrior/Nemesor blob and won combat. He lost his leadership, rerolled, and lost again. Nemesor/remaining warriors were swept. The SG/Celestine then moved toward his OBJ in ruins and held there for the remainder of the game. The Doms/Stormraven put several wounds on the C'Tan, and finally took it down after he had some pretty unfortunate rolls (like 3/4 failed Invuls in a turn). The remaining Wraiths/Scarabs attacked Jacobus' squad, and combat went for two full turns until the game ended; one swarm remained although it was maybe outside of the OBJ. His remaining three Tomb Blades jumped onto the Relic and quickly killed three of the five scouts, but they didn't run away and the OBJ was contested. The game ended on turn five, and I won primary (held one, contested another) we tied on secondary (Relic), and I won on tertiary (I had Slay the Warlord, we tied on First Blood) and we both had linebreaker. Points wise I had like 995 left he had like 990 left; so it was pretty evenly matched.

In hindsight, I should have dropped the rets onto his warrior squad to flame them, his reanimation protocols would have been all that stopped the unit from taking multiple wounds, and I didn't get as many rends as I was hoping for. I've played the Canoptek Harvest and knew that reanimating Wraiths were really nasty, so putting wounds on the Spyder (and it losing its last to a bad roll) was key to reducing their combat effectiveness. In CC, the Scarabs did the most damage, they rolled enough 6's to glance the poor Knight, but not before he squished a few Wraiths.


On the whole, running Celestine with the 2+, FNP, Furious Charge, WS5 Sanguinary Guard worked quite well. She could run up front to take bolter shots, her I7 was wonderful as always, and she worked great with the SG. Although expensive and lacking an invuln; its so much faster than what my opponents were running (minus the Wraiths).