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Going to a small tournament with some friends in my FLGS this weekend. Wondered if this army was a good idea. The whole thing is 500 pts.

HQ

Rune Priest-100 pts

Elites

Lone Wolf- Terminator Armour, 2 Wolf CLaws-65 pts

Troops

Grey Hunters x5 - plasma gun- 85 pts

Grey Hunters x5-plasma gun, drop pod-120 pts

Fast Attack

Fenrisian Wolves x5-40 pts

Heavy Support

Predator- Autocannon, HB sponsons- 85 pts


Any ideas?

MC

I would take meltas over plasma.

I also dont really like the drop pod. With only 5 guys in the squad, podding them in puts them all by themselves somewhere. Even in a 500pt game, its not too hard to kill 5 MEQs turn 1 when you focus fire on them. I would drop the pod and just have your wolves try and screen them as they hike upfield on T1.

Lonewolf is interesting. might be really good, but could also be too many points for a single TDA model. If you lose the pod and switch to meltas, cant you swap the lone wolf for a dread? (dunno, maybe the wolf is better?)

something like:

Rune Priest (100)
5x GH, Melta (80)
5x GH, Melta (80)
5x F-Wolves (40)
Dakka Pred (85)
Dread, MM (115)

Or you could keep the lone wolf and spend the extra 50 points from the pod and guns on more GHs and/or more wolves.

If you stick with the lone wolf, might not be a bad idea to try and swap your predator for a bargain long fang squad instead (ML and/or HB). That way you dont have anything for your opponents meltas/lascannons/etc to really shoot at, you can split fire, and you potentially put out more firepower than the pred.

*dont have my codex yet, so points are from memory of what ive read elsewhere*

I would cut out the wolves. 5 6+ save models won't survive at all. I would give your rune priest at least some wargear. And what powers are you planning to use?

I was planning on using the Jaws of the World Wolf and Living Lightning. I forgot to mention, the rune priest was going in the pod as well. I might put the two GH squads together. Any ideas?

MC

Are their any specific rules? Like you can have on troop, no more than 2 wounds per model etc?

I would go with:

Rune Priest - 110
Saga of the Beastslayer

Lone Wolf - 85
CF; Stormshield; Terminator Armor

GH - 80
5x; Meltagun

GH - 115
5x; Meltagun; Rhino

TWC - 130
2x; Power Fist; Meltabombs

IDK of many armies that can handle TWC at this points level. They can only be ID'd by ST10 so good luck finding that kinda weaponry at this points level. You got one mobile and one stationary troops so objectives should be fine. The Lone Wolf protects the 5 man non-rhino squad + the Rune Priest messes up stuff with LL and JotWW if you want.

Overall very nasty this one.

Is the Lone Wolf necessary since hes easy victory points for the enemy if hes in the open and gets shot by a battle tank (or alien equvilant)

EzeKK gave great advice...

I'd basically like to break it down a bit.

lone wolf. Lone wolves have built in beast slayer. And can't really generate a high number of attacks in order to take on full units. That means they are best served hunting walkers/tanks or MCs. That means storm shield and thunder hammer, or to make him more survivable to small arms fire, terminator armor and storm shield, and then your choice of either chainfist or thunderhammer. Chainfist if you have a walker heavy or mech heavy metagame, thunderhammer if you have an MC heavy metagame.

He did a pretty good job explaining why you should take TWC and a thunderhammer or power fist is a must for them. I don't feel that the meltabomb is necessary unless you have 3 (you want to keep them uniquely equipped)

As to your fenrisian wolves. You put the cart before the horse on them. Without saga of the wolfkin on the table they don't win CCs as well and they won't hold when taking morale tests for shooting, and without a TWC model their leadership doesn't get re-rolled... add the TWC first, and then, points permitting, add the wolves to screen the TWC.