Fine tuned list

We played again this Saturday and I got to fine tune my list a little bit. There are only 5 things that I need left to do to get my army ready for the tournament. I need to order my Tech Priest, I need to get a unit of guardsmen, I need to paint my Tech Priest and the Guardsmen after putting them together, and then paint my Leman Russ. The army I put together was actually quite effective in that it killed quite a few enemies, but it did not score alot of kill points. This was more of a fishing expedition on my part in that I was trying to find out what it was going to be effective against. So just to remind readers of this blog the stipulations of the tournament at this point, the Force Organization Chart looks like this. The compulsory choices are one HQ and one troop choice (as opposed to 1 HQ and 2 troop) and optional forces consist of (I am assuming on the troop choices), 5 troop, 1 elite, 1 heavy, and 1 fast attack (I know for sure at this point on the heavy, elite, and fast attack choice numbers) and a maximum point value of 500 points. So my list consists of:

1 Tech Priest - HQ
1 Infantry Platoon - Troop
-Platoon Command Squad with Vox Caster
-2 Infantry Squads blobbed together
1 Leman Russ
-Lascannon
-Heavy Stubber
1 Valkyrie
-Multiple Rocket Pod
-Pair of Heavy Bolters


So in the first fight, we lost 9 kill points to 2 kill points but we managed to kill off a majority of the figures in their unit, we just failed to kill of the entire unit. It also doesn't help that my partner, while fairly good at picking out units that are effective, is still learning the rules (not that I've learned all the rules. I still get them wrong), but we've got about a month to work on our strategies and I have confidence in my teammate. Anyways, after this game I played 2 games with an Ork player that we practice with. Technically I won both games as I swept him off the board for the first game and in the second game I killed off the only figure that had a power weapon capable of killing off my vehicles (I think, it may have been that he only had a chance of killing it off on a six when assaulting the vehicle if it hit). After killing off that squad, I decided that he could swap the power claw on his big mek in a battlewagon with a kustom force field. After doing that, he swept me off the board, so technically I won, but at the same time I lost. I am not sure if there is anything I can do increase the effectiveness of this army, but now I just have to come up with effective strategies along with my partner so I will try and work with strategies with him. I will probably not post again until Saturday unless I am able to purchase the figures that I need to round out my army for the tournament.