Imperial Armor Elysians versus the New-like Sisters of Battle

My friend and I ran 2250 point armies against each other in a thrilling battle of crazy new rules to remember. My Elysians I have played with before but I have the sneaking suspicion that I just don't know how to use my Valkyries correctly. Vendettas are relatively easy but we'll get into that in a second. My friend ran a bunch of sister squads with meltaguns in rhinos, two exorcists, two dominion squads in rhinos, a sisters of repentia squad, a unit of angel winged chicks that showed up late, and a canoness. Uriah Jacobs was is the list too pumping shotgun rounds everywhere.

My list had some Tauros vehicles (love them), a venerator (awesome vehicle), a vendetta, tons of veteran squads and a platoon with a mortar heavy weapons squad and a missile launcher heavy weapon squad. I took two company command squads to have the ability to rally below 50% squads. A smart thing to do with such a flimsy list. I missed not having a commissar. I had a Valkyrie for each veteran squad, and in hindsight I wish I had only taken one Valkyrie with an objective grabbing squad in reserve. I need to get a Valkyrie tactic down as I constantly get them into trouble without a decent payoff.



The game was capture and control with a spearhead deployment. This is one of my favorite scenarios. I had a lot of fun playing the battle out. My friends sisters kicked off the first turn missing all of my Valkyries due to cover saves. He had tons of meltaguns which is different as he usually had tons of flamers. Come to think of it I think my friend did pop a Valkyrie and charged the squad with his sisters of repentia. You can imagine it went bad and I didn't have any troops left over after the nasty charge by the repentia squad. It was brutal.

My turn one was my Tauros vehicles avenging my slain veterans with some heavy flamer action... The canoness and one repentia survived this making for a nasty round of vengeance if I didn't get my Tauros out of there quickly. My venerator did what a lone lascannon can do to any rhino. It shook and shaked but no pop. I wonder what two venerators would do. I definitely want to go infantry heavy next go round with my Elysians.

Turn two is why I say that. I was melta'ed out of the sky. My heavy bolters, rocket pods, and multi-lasers were pointless without good positioning to match all that fire power. I'll get it right some time. I probably should have outflanked with my Valkyrie veteran squads! I just thought of that. I need more play time.

By turn 4 there were sisters within walking distance of my objective and me with no Elysians left near it. Uriah was leading the charge with all the vigor of a wild man unfazed by any shooting I threw at him. Fun character that guy. I did enjoy using a heavy weapons squad of mortars. Cause one casualty and that's a pinning test. That is awesome.

If barrage weapons are pinning I should remember that. I always forget during tournaments. I would probably do better should I remember that in the future. Sigh, I amuse myself with my lack of complete knowledge of warhammer 40k. It's always a new and fun game to me.

My friend pulled the win in the end with tons of sisters on the table and both his exorcists. I am kind of disappointed by the exorcists. They have so much potential but they always fall short of the awesome display of fire power I am expecting. They should be able to split fire. Take that Necrons! I will be making more mortar heavy weapon squads and Elysian officers as I am short.

I had fun playing, and my friend keeps his undefeated streak. He's wicked good at wiggling out of nasty situations. He would be my bet in the Hunger Games. Until next time! I will be working to finish my Steel Legion while I am on break. Keep gaming!