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I've searched through the codex and I'm not finding much. Are there any workable close combat Space Marine counters to the Wraithknight?

TH/SS Terminators.
Ubiquitous Chapter Masters.
Tiggy/Loth making something Invisible.

Your best bet are TH/SS terminators, they hit at S8 and will get their invulnerable save against 5/6 of the D-weapon attacks and all of the S10 attacks. The occasional 6 on the stomp or D-weapon chart will remove them, but it also will remove any kind of beefed-up character just as easily.
Delivery is the main problem, since you will rarely be taking multiples of these squads and the wraithknight can avoid you. Your best bet is to shoot it with grav instead.

Knight Lancer

I cant think of anything you can do that can kill him on the first round of combat.

Other than he missing, and all your available HQs hit him and score wounds.

probably 1 in a 100

Thank you for the ideas. If first turn were possible: what a back breaker.

Well, you could probably throw in a SM Libby with Telepathy and hope for Invisibility, AND that he doesn't roll a 6 on the D-table.

As noted though, delivery will be a problem, as anything that can take out the Wraith Knight will be very high on the list of things for the Eldar player to shoot and remove from play.

Why?

Space Marines aren't noted for their close combat, and that's the easiest place for a Wraithknight to avoid death: a double wammy of futility. Just shoot it.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Knight Lancer

That's actually a horrible counter, since best case the knight strikes at the same time (otherwise after the wraithknight) and costs 105 more points.

Still best chance in melee tbh. Don't forget. It'd hitting on 5s now that it is a gargantuan

Not only hitting on 5, but the lancer has a 5+ invul save in melee as well. If they are both swinging D, the wraithknight has nothing to hurt the lancer at range with while the lancer has a good chance to remove 1-2 wounds on the way in.

Lythrandire Biehrellian wrote:
Not only hitting on 5, but the lancer has a 5+ invul save in melee as well. If they are both swinging D, the wraithknight has nothing to hurt the lancer at range with while the lancer has a good chance to remove 1-2 wounds on the way in.

at 500 pnts you can use Gerantius, Initiative 5, WS5 and a 3++.

but 500 pnts...

:(

Pick your favorite flavor of imperial knight and hope he makes it there and survives the I5 D weapon.

DA actually can handle Wraithknight.

5 DWKs on charge with Smite deal 8.3 wounds and that without counting Masters attacks and HoW. Without charge it becomes 5.5 wounds.And all of this for 281 points wich is cheaper then Wraitknight.

But TH/SSH terminators more reliable in the long run.

Shoot the melee Knight and melee the shooty Knight. You're Marines, you don't beat most people's elite special fancy people one-on-one at their own game.

 greyknight12 wrote:
Your best bet is to shoot it with grav instead.

THIS. remember at the end of the Day a Wraithknight is just a garg creature.

whatever it's stats, it'll be 2+ armor save tops, and then whatever toughness. Grav weapons will chew this to peices. if you can get grav canon centurions into range, you WILL kill the WK

BrianDavion wrote:

 greyknight12 wrote:
Your best bet is to shoot it with grav instead.

THIS. remember at the end of the Day a Wraithknight is just a garg creature.

whatever it's stats, it'll be 2+ armor save tops, and then whatever toughness. Grav weapons will chew this to peices. if you can get grav canon centurions into range, you WILL kill the WK

Except it's a 3+ save, like it's always been, as reported by numerous people with the Spanish and English versions of the codex. Grav cannons move 6" and have 24" range, WK moves 12" and has 36-48" range. Good luck.

Probably the best counter is Draigo star. Gate your gravturians close enough and nuke it.

I play CSM, so I can't be specific enough to help with specific examples. However, I've decided that all my units are going to cost 35-40% less when playing against Eldar. So, that really negates any weaknesses I currently have. I can't wait to field 20 point terminators, 30 point mutilators, 60 point helbrutes, and 85 point maulerfiends. Likewise, my two fire raptors coming in at 130-140 is going to be spectacular.

 Toofast wrote:

BrianDavion wrote:

 greyknight12 wrote:
Your best bet is to shoot it with grav instead.

THIS. remember at the end of the Day a Wraithknight is just a garg creature.

whatever it's stats, it'll be 2+ armor save tops, and then whatever toughness. Grav weapons will chew this to peices. if you can get grav canon centurions into range, you WILL kill the WK

Except it's a 3+ save, like it's always been, as reported by numerous people with the Spanish and English versions of the codex. Grav cannons move 6" and have 24" range, WK moves 12" and has 36-48" range. Good luck.

I said tops. but yeah to get it you'd really need a way to make that mobile.

FW needs to give us a predator with some sort of heavy grav canon

 Reinokarite wrote:
DA actually can handle Wraithknight.

5 DWKs on charge with Smite deal 8.3 wounds and that without counting Masters attacks and HoW. Without charge it becomes 5.5 wounds.And all of this for 281 points wich is cheaper then Wraitknight.

But TH/SSH terminators more reliable in the long run.

If there is one thing I would absolutely love in the next Dark Angels book, it would be Deathwing Knights having a massive points discount. If the points were just better, they'd be godly melee units, more-so than now.

Eadartri wrote:
I've searched through the codex and I'm not finding much. Are there any workable close combat Space Marine counters to the Wraithknight?

Why would you use close combat? Just go Centurians, Grav Cannons and paste the thing.

Newtype Zero wrote:

Eadartri wrote:
I've searched through the codex and I'm not finding much. Are there any workable close combat Space Marine counters to the Wraithknight?

Why would you use close combat? Just go Centurians, Grav Cannons and paste the thing.

Grav Centurians certainly seem to be the only real answer to the WK for space marines without resorting to allies. Problem is, any Eldar player worth their salt is going to put a bounty on that Cent squad and likely wipe it out before it ever gets in range. D-scythes will do a number on them, and WG in a WS going flat out turn 1 will likely be in position to erase those Centurians in Turn 2.

If rumors hold up, the IoM armies will soon have access to their own ranged D knight, hopefully at the reduced cost the WK currently enjoys (or at least 1-2 Str D blast weapons if priced more like the existing knights).

Good luck catching that WK in combat with th/ss termis without being drowned in shots first.
You need a fast unit with an invuln due to D and stomps. So VVs with SS's and a few fists (massively overcosted unit), thunderwolves with SS's, smashfecker or... well... that's it really.
There are less fast options like mephiston hidden in a unit, but a reasonably smart eldar player will stop that combat happening.

 ClassicCarraway wrote:

Newtype Zero wrote:

Eadartri wrote:
I've searched through the codex and I'm not finding much. Are there any workable close combat Space Marine counters to the Wraithknight?

Why would you use close combat? Just go Centurians, Grav Cannons and paste the thing.

Grav Centurians certainly seem to be the only real answer to the WK for space marines without resorting to allies. Problem is, any Eldar player worth their salt is going to put a bounty on that Cent squad and likely wipe it out before it ever gets in range. D-scythes will do a number on them, and WG in a WS going flat out turn 1 will likely be in position to erase those Centurians in Turn 2.

You're not going to do much with centurions on foot vs. eldar. If he feels particularly ironic he can just scatterlaser you to death with bikes while standing completely out of range.

Grab a Draigo, a Tiggy or Sevrin Loth and now it's an entirely different story.

 Toofast wrote:
Pick your favorite flavor of imperial knight and hope he makes it there and survives the I5 D weapon.

except the knight Lancer actually has a concussive shooting weapon.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:

 Toofast wrote:
Pick your favorite flavor of imperial knight and hope he makes it there and survives the I5 D weapon.

except the knight Lancer actually has a concussive shooting weapon.

true, the Knight lancer's JOB is to hunt down knights in melee combat.

Ally in Space Wolves and take Arjac and his Brotherhood coming out of a Stormwolf. Just as many points, but they should get the job done.

best bet is to go unbound, two 3 man CENT DEV squads in a Drop pod with Tigirius and Sevrin Loth in the other one. surround the beast on turn 1 and see what happens. There should be no issue with going unbound against Eldar

 greyknight12 wrote:

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Knight Lancer

That's actually a horrible counter, since best case the knight strikes at the same time (otherwise after the wraithknight) and costs 105 more points.

Incorrect. The range option has Concussion, so getting one wound through means you strike first.