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.

Imperial Guardsmen for the Win

I hate Tau but this picture makes me remember why I love assaulting those hooved cowards. Because I'll win.

Rymar's Herd Gets Stomped

I played 2250 points of beast men versus some feral vampires last Monday. I had a real fun time fielding my beastmen for the first time. I learned a lot about them really quick. They are hardy in combat but their magic should not be too heavily relied on. You also need to pump up your leadership so your units can handle fear and terror causing units. I ran tons of gors, ungors, and bestigors. I was impressed with all of them. The razorgor did well against the varghulf. I still need some time learning how best to use my minotaurs. I am definitely working two cygors, a unit of harpies, and more bestigors into my list. That will help with magic defense, offensive capability, and war machine hunting.

Now on to the game. Everything was going well for me pregame. It's when I started using magic and trying to make leadership rolls that things went south. My friends wraiths were amazing holding up my minotaurs and a block of 32 gors. Incredible! The next problem was that the terrorgheist with a vamp rider (the general) rolled my flank up pretty well. My other block of 31 gors put up a good showing but the spell that gives +3 attacks and strength pretty much sealed the deal. Turn three most of my army is dead or fleeing. But then I randomly decide to cast amber spear, strength 10 version, and I get the spell off. It hits the terrorgheist riding general after a random hit roll. I hit the vampire general... My friends army starts to fall apart. I end up killing the terrorgheist most of the wraiths, zombies, and skeletons galore. I still lost horribly. But I know what I am doing turn one next time I play vampires. "which one is your army's general?". Mwhahaha. I had a real fun time playing and my next battle scheduled is a mega battle for warhammer fantasy. I'm hoping for some cygors this Christmas.