hornywingythingy Posted November 9, 2014 Share Posted November 9, 2014 Thought you might be intrigued? I know I am, sisters, no allies, wins six games vs filthy lists. https://fbcdn-photos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xap1/v/t1.0-0/10806493_375978439228746_8021330109186708444_n.png?oh=e5c0c1aac6b191ae40b49a9b4a3c9143&oe=54EE4E20&__gda__=1423420924_a42ecb87250fdab8eb728ee4e93b53ca Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
*Furyou Miko Posted November 9, 2014 Share Posted November 9, 2014 Nicely done. Although I'm assuming you're Stuart from the highlighting. Define 'filthy lists'. Wave serpents and Knights? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hornywingythingy Posted November 9, 2014 Author Share Posted November 9, 2014 Nope, I'm just an interested observer, if I remember correctly 12 of the lists were eldar, and there were 50 wave serpents, and a dozen imperial knights and wraithknights? Something like that anyhow. I'm just intrigued to see what was obviously a very well played meta spoiler list do so well. Plus its lovely to not see eldar or imperial knights get top spot again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hornywingythingy Posted November 9, 2014 Author Share Posted November 9, 2014 Nicely done. Although I'm assuming you're Stuart from the highlighting. The yellow line is the cut off for qualifying for the UK gt final. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markham82 Posted November 9, 2014 Share Posted November 9, 2014 Very interesting, I would like to see the list and some type of interview on how the guy used his army. Eldar with Knights just seem so wrong, things like that should not be allowed. Except between friends trying weird combo's along with beer and pretzels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frater Cornelius Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 You have to remember that in a tournament you do not play against everyone. Maybe that guy had mad luck and only went up in favourable match-ups. Regardless, mad respect for even having the balls to try. Anyone know if Forge World was allowed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
*Furyou Miko Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 There is only one "favourable match-up" that would allow for casual roflstomping and an easy win in that entire list, Immersturm - the 'nids. Except the 'nids probably had double flyrants and a skyblight and thus were not a "favourable match-up", since they were at a tournament. I've been saying it for over a year now: Sisters are just that good, easily a 'mid-upper tier' army, if you assume that the only top-tier armies are Eldar and Tau. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the jeske Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 almost 50% of top 16 is eldar :D. SoB are good against eldar when they multi CAD, specialy now when baron star is gone. Plus they have a lot of table fliping ablitities. +6inv is nothing, it is uber bad. Until your opponent swarms an objective and your knights/scaters/SunC fail to kill their avarge and the sob players clocks another objective card next turn. +the flamers are problematic for eldar. Marines dont run them and wyverns can be killed off, when every sob squads is able to hurt your 5 man DA squad and there is zounds of them it becomes a problem[specialy when scouting dominions can hurt your spiders or weapons turn 1]. Mad kudos to the winner though, luck or no luck. But lately a lot of odd ball loyalist armies have been wining large tournaments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frater Cornelius Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 Indeed. Pretty weird to see DA/IG there too. I assume it was the 50man 4++ FnP blob. I had to face one of those a while back. Wasn't pleasant. By the way, one reason that he won could also have been that many players never faced AS before and did not know how to kill them. The element of surprise is powerful. However, as an Eldar player and someone who knows AS reasonably well I have to disagree with some assessments of yours jeske. Flamers are the least interesting weapon to me. The only unit of any concern are the Exorcists. The rest can be stopped reliably. Even scouting dominions have to bow to the almighty 3 skull inquisitor :D But that only further underlines my surprise that the guy had the sheer nut sack to even attempt it. I am really curious what sort of list he was running. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hornywingythingy Posted November 10, 2014 Author Share Posted November 10, 2014 Here's the list. https://fbcdn-photos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xap1/v/t1.0-0/10806346_1537656766479376_3706107702938872820_n.jpg?oh=a7c54c2ed5553510a2eb3956b8f553a2&oe=54DF3B7D&__gda__=1423899460_3b48aebb3f29a92954a7af21ebfdf9aa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tvih Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 So, some allies after all it seems. Still, certainly cool that he managed to pull this off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frater Cornelius Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 Yep, there they are. Repressors. In my eyes the one vehicle that makes Sisters competitive. Without it it wouldn't look all that great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hornywingythingy Posted November 10, 2014 Author Share Posted November 10, 2014 What are repressors? TBH I'm not that familiar with sisters, but I'm guessing it's broken Fw stuff? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarriorFish Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 The Repressor isn't broken, just a good transport that gives Sisters options :) As for the result it is good news of course, but has no real bearing on competitiveness as each tournament is it's own beast. Sisters are a strong army, we don't need to hear results to know that ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knight of the Raven Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 Be sure to yell "We're on a mission from the God-Emperor!" whenever you move them around on the tabletop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frater Cornelius Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 It's a 13/11/10 transport with 10 spaces, multiple fire points, dozer, SB and turret-HF for 75 points. Not broken by any means. Serpents eat them for breakfast. But AV13 rhinos are tough to put down and savely delivers the ladies in threat range. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warsmith Aznable Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 Sisters are a strong army, we don't need to hear results to know that ;) I agree, but there will always be people so convinced Sisters are bad that a win from a Sisters player will be explained by anything other than that fact. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarriorFish Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 If the opinions of fools bothers you that much then let them face you on the table top if Sisters are such a push over. Remember to collect their tears as your prize Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frater Cornelius Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 If the opinions of fools bothers you that much then let them face you on the table top if Sisters are such a push over. Remember to collect their tears as your prize Individual skill is still a major factor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hornywingythingy Posted November 10, 2014 Author Share Posted November 10, 2014 If the opinions of fools bothers you that much then let them face you on the table top if Sisters are such a push over. Remember to collect their tears as your prize Individual skill is still a major factor. Yeah, he is one of the best in the UK, Josh Roberts brother, been in the ETC team for years, but it's still unusual to see sisters do so well in the UK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacinda Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 I'm curious about what he did with the priest. I can see Saint Celestine keeping up with the chapter master and his bike squad but a priest is too slow. Nothing else says close comabt and a priest only shines in the assault phase. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naminé Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 I'm curious about what he did with the priest. I can see Saint Celestine keeping up with the chapter master and his bike squad but a priest is too slow. Nothing else says close comabt and a priest only shines in the assault phase. My guess would be as a Litanies Caddy for one of the Dominion squads. I'm not surprised by this result. Sisters are at least as strong as Codex Marines :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Ravel Posted November 11, 2014 Share Posted November 11, 2014 Someone has his list ? Or the batrep or something ? Thanks ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chronozoah Posted November 11, 2014 Share Posted November 11, 2014 Yeah, he is one of the best in the UK, Josh Roberts brother, been in the ETC team for years, but it's still unusual to see sisters do so well in the UK. It's a renowned player using competitive standard units and allying in units from a different codex in addition. I mean, I know it's SoB, but still, those are some pretty important mitigating circumstances. Also, you can tell it's bad when a Sisters of Battle vet (?) implies that your codex is inferior and describes your army as a favourable match-up - Skyblight aside. But then, I doubt any of these lists were particularly inspired. not a tyranid player...honest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
*Furyou Miko Posted November 11, 2014 Share Posted November 11, 2014 Chrono, Tyranid armies that aren't build around FMCs are full of big, offensively-designed monstrous creatures with T5-6 and 4+ saves, backed up by a handful of T4 4+ models that survive by having 3 wounds, and T3-4 5+ gribbly swarms. Sisters are good at three things: BS4 S8 AP1 Ignores Cover, S5 AP4, and having lots of both. When everything in the enemy army is an ideal target for your guns, its hard to describe it as anything but a favourable match-up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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