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A tale of two single point games - Raiding away with CSM at LGT.

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I can’t be the only one who was hoping GW would release the dataslate on the Thursday before the list cutoff, can I? Would have really helped me decide what to run at the event and I'd have loved the chaos it caused. The meta's pretty good at the moment, to be fair, and it seems there's a real chance to focus on internal rather than external balance when next dataslate is due. The downside of this balanced meta is that when I was looking at potential lists, I didn’t have a ‘target’ to aim for, and I was really struggling to get a CSM list I enjoyed. My old Possessed list just wasn’t cutting it—if the meta switches back to a few hard targets, then they might be interesting, but it’s a bad meta for them (they really don’t do much into TS/Sisters/BA and get killed hard by them, and dear lord, Dark Angels are horrible for them). I was struggling to come up with a list I enjoyed that was unique. The best I came up with was an EC Veterans detachment with lots of Noise Marines, us