Hey, here's an update on this if anyone's interested!
I played with the list at the
GT and it did pretty well.
Game 1: against alaitoc footdar.
The list: 3 units of dark reapers, lots of guardians and swooping hawks in reserve, 3 shadow spectre units and a battle line of dire avengers.
The game: We were playing maelstrom. The eldar just couldn't do enough damage to the infantry squads, who just rolled up gunning gown aspect warriors. Celestine soloed a unit of 10 dire avengers herself and my characters mugged asurman in close combat to get an objective. I was heading for a tabling towards the end and way ahead on maelstrom.
Game 2: against
CSM + daemons
The list: magnus, changeling, 3 daemon princes, lots of alpha legion cultists + brimstone horrors, 3 malefic lords and three units of deep striking obliterators.
The game: eternal war, 4 objectives. This was a real mess. I gunned down almost all his cultists and brims straight away. Then magnus and three daemon princes hit the gunline and murdered a lot of guardsmen, and then jumped over to kill psykers next turn. By the end magnus was on 3 wounds and his warlord prince was on two. I had both my home objectives and had swooped in to take one of his home ones with rough riders and my outflanking infantry squad with the dagger. His obliterators were brutal. My psykers did a lot of work here, both denying magnus' powers and chipping wounds off the princes. Also the outflanking infantry squad with the dagger did amazingly well, using
FRFSRF and vengeance for cadia in combination to kill a LOT of cultists and two obliterators. I won 10 points to 6. My opponent here came 4th over all out of 70 people!
Game three: against tank-heavy guard
His list: catachan doctrine. 6 russ (two were punishers), 2 taurox primes, 2 hellhounds, 60 conscripts.
The game: Maelstrom. I got lucky on deployment, and had three objectives from the start. Mortars and guardsmen killed almost all his conscripts turn 1 but barely hurt the tanks. I made a mistake with celestine and wussed out of charging a hellhound to attack more conscripts... My plan was just to barrel infantry forwards until I could get my psykers in smiting range, but hist efficient tanks double-firing and rerolling numbers of shots just chewed through my battle line. I was way ahead on maelstrom, but only managed to take out 2 hellhounds. If the game had ended turn 5 or 6 it would have been my victory, but it went on to 7 turns and he ended up tabling my 200+ guardsman army!
Game 4: against magnus/mortarion/poxwalkers
His army: Magnus, mortarion, 2 princes, changeling, 50 poxwalkers
The game: Eternal war. Again I got lucky and had all the objectives I needed in my deployment zone. He three mortarion forward unsupported turn 1. Between smite, ratlings and endless volleys of las fire, he was shot straight down! Magnus and one of the princes went exactly the same way the turn after. If he'd held back one more turn and charged them all in one go, things might have been very, very different.
Game 5: against primaris marines
His list: 2 redemptor dreads, a repulsor, 2 hellblaster squads, 3 intercessor squads, some inceptors and a few support characters.
The game: maelstrom. He got quite unlucky with his cards and I pulled into a crazy lead on objectives straight away. I basically just rushed infantry and psykers at his castled-up army and smited/mortared them until they died. Quite a one-sided game.
Overall in terms of wins/losses, everyone had joint points from 4th-12th out of the 70+ attendees. Unfortunately due to me scoring secondaries poorly I placed 12th out of this selection! Need to make sure I kill more warlords and break more lines... The list was fun (if tiring) to run and the event was good. If anyone has any questions on what worked/didn't I'm happy to help
1000pts Space Marines 
1200pts Tau 
2500pts Blood Angels 
3500pts Imperial Guard/Renegades 
and 1700pts Daemons 
450pts Imperial Knights 
3000+ points 
