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Help a poor noob build an army! Me and a friend will in about 2 weeks play a 1000 points game, and I would love to get some help with my army. I currently have a Rune Priest, a Lone Wolf (TH/SS), 8 Bolter carrying GH's, one Melta, and a guy with Combi Melta/Power Fist. I really want to have a shooty army, what should I get?
Oh, I also would love to have a unit of Blood Claws with Lukas. I don't want to buy TWC just yet.

Oh man i hate to do this to you wolves are not a shooty army i mean they can pack heat but against IG or Tau or Eldar you will be outgunned the best way to run wolves is mid range combat

if you must have ranged you need long fangs predators and helfrost dreads this is your holy trinity of guns

if you support it with teams of grey hunters in rhinos or pods with plasma weapons and storm shield sergeants you are doing it right

hope this helps you out have fun with your furrys i mean manly viking warriors

Well, what do I need to make a good Choppy army at 1000 points then?

There really isn't much in the SW codex that isn't choppy barring tanks. It's hard to give much advice since you have so little and I don't really know what you're playing against. Here are some tips on good melee units for SW. Blood Claws will make a good addition to your army but remember that they have poorer WS and BS compared to Grey Hunters. Wolf Guard Terminators will be a huge help and can be armed to the teeth but get expensive really quick. You mentioned not wanting to get TWC but they are amongst one of the best units in the codex. You are playing a low points game but being able to bring transports like Rhinos or Drop Pods will greatly increase the chance that your wolf marines make it into battle.

A Rune Priest or Wolf Priest can make any unit more likely to survive... Consider a Stormwolf or a Land Raider Crusader (in the long run), since either one will hold a full squad of 15 Blood Claws, plus a Wolf Priest or Rune Priest (Wolf Priests, in particular, are great with Blood Claws, the Preferred Enemy rule making up for their poorer Weapon Skill and Ballistic Skill, plus giving the whole squad Feel No Pain 6+), and both vehicles are Assault Vehicles.

Putting the Grey Hunters in a Drop Pod (with a Locator Beacon) means your Lone Wolf can Deep Strike, rather than walking across the field.

Paintwhore99 is right, though - Space Wolves are not a strong shooty army, though there are some nice options for shooting. You'll definitely want Long Fangs (Lascannons and Missile Launchers are the weapon of choice, due to their range, but, in the long run, it wouldn't be a bad idea to have a unit with some combination of Heavy Bolters, Multi-Meltas, and Plasma Cannons for a mid-field LF crew, too). Putting a Wolf Priest or Rune Priest with them can increase their survival rates, too, since the shootier armies (Tau, Eldar, Guard) often have a lot of Ignores Cover options, too. If you're a fan of Blood Claws, in particular, then you're definitely not going to want to try to be a shooty army.

But, yeah, if you like Space Wolves, as glyder says, TWC have pretty much become the lynchpin unit, now. The newest Codex has made the models and their gear significantly cheaper than they used to be, and they are pretty much the one thing Space Wolves have that no one else does (aside from Helfrost). 3 boxes will give you 2 units of 4 plus an Independent Character of some sort, depending on how you build things, and they will tear through most things out there.