Cheers guys!
@Vonny- To be honest I am still really struggling with the white, no matter what I try I just can't seem to be able to get a decent flat, clean white without Airbrushing, just too many brushmarks/imperfections.
I had my game against an Eldar opponent tonight and it turned out to again be a very enjoyable game. It came down to a couple of dice rolls right at the end but I just about managed a 6-5 Victory.
My list was:
Pinion Demi Battle Company
Chapter Master- Artificer Armour, Swiftstrike & Murder, Jump Pack, Melta bombs
5 Tactical Marines- Plasma, Combi Plasma (In a drop pod)
5 Tactical Marines- Plasma, Combi Plasma (In a drop pod)
5 Tactical Marines- Melta, Combi Melta (In a drop pod)
10 Assault Marines- 2x Flamers, Vet Sarge with pair of Lightning claws and Melta Bombs
5 Devastators- 4x Lascannons
5 Scouts- Camo Cloaks and Sniper Rifles
5 Scouts- Camo Cloaks and Sniper Rifles
Ravenhawk Assault Group
Stormraven- TL Assault Cannons, TL Multi Melta, Hurricane Bolters
10 Sternguard- 5x Combi Flamers, 5x Combi Meltas (In a drop pod)
Dreadnought- Assault Cannon.
Culexus assassin
I believe his list was something along the lines of:
Farseer
4 Warlocks in a falcon
10 Guardians in a wave serpent
10 Guardians in a wave serpent
10 Guadrians on foot
3 Shadow Weavers (Farseer in here) with Warlock
3 Jetbikes
3 Jetbikes
3 Jetbikes
Farseer on bike
2x Vypers (Twin shuri cannon)
2x Night spinners
3x Warwalkers (Double Bright Lance)
He tried castling up for deployment, leaving all jetbikes, Vypers, Warwalkers, Nightspinners and Falcon in reserve. My initial Alpha strike was the Sternguard (combat squadded) who came in and wrecked a Wave Serpent and roasted a full guardian squad with their flamers, and two tactical squads who destroyed another guardian squad and took a hull point off the other wave serpent. His return fire was fairly ineffective, just killed a couple of Sternguard. Another drop pod arrived for me and came down in the centre of the board, my assault marines turned up and covered an objective waiting for the rest of his army to appear. Almost all of the rest of his army then appeared and proceeded to kill most of my Sternguard and all of my Devastators. Blows were traded for the next couple of turns but by the 5th turn I was pretty clearly ahead in damage done but he still had jetbike units that could grab objectives.
In the end it came down to a Nightspinner vs two Sternguard, two wounds from the Torrent were both saved and then he rolled a 2,2,1 for the underslung Shuriken Cannon! The Sternguard not dying meant that I contested one of the objectives which gave me the 6-5 Win!
Was a really enjoyable game and I am definitely starting to get a bit more used to using this army, I need to try experimenting with some of the other formations but I need the models to do so.