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I recently completed my Bane Wolf and I was planning on running it with a Hell Hound as a murderous anti-infantry squadron. I am aiming at getting another one to have 2 BW's and an HH together for ridiculous amounts of dead infantry, what do you all think?

The Banewolf is great... in theory, until you realize you have to get right up to the troops you want dead and then any that Survive will counterstrike the BW.

If you can isolate some infantry that lack anti-tank you aer golden but any good player will quickly learn to have several squads within 6-12" of each other to deny Banewolf assaults.

The HellHound mitigates that weakness by "throwing" the template 12" away

Don't run a banewolf and hellhound together in a squadron, you will be helping your opponent. The different AP values means that wounds can be stacked in such a way as to minimize casualties.

I LOVE hellhounds though, fantastic tanks. I prefer to run them in a squadron of two.

Banewolfs are good but work best as solo tanks. They are excellent for counter assault as anything that comes across the board will get a face full of hurt. As an assault tank they struggle a bit though, as they have such a short range.

Forgot to mention I did put a mm on it. I'll do some experimenting with it to see how it really does.

If you are going to run 2 HHs of any flavor, mixing is a good idea. Think about it.

The armies that are afraid of the hellhound are less afraid of the banewolf. The armies that are afraid of the banewolf are less afraid of the hellhound. When you're running expensive, dangerous armor 12 vehicles, they're gonna get their gak pushed in. Remember that since they're a squadron, you can allocate damaging hits as you please. So if you're against a power armor army, you put the hits on the HH to keep the BW running, against anything less you put the hits on the BW to keep the HH running, and the result is that your opponent has to put twice as much firepower into the unit to take away something that can really hurt him.

It's the best way to run HH chassis, IMO. It's always useful against something, it's harder to take out, and everyone is afraid of one or the other.

I've seen 2x Hellhounds be used very effectively, stacking that many wounds will kill even MEQ. Plus the massive range (for a template) on the turret is nice.

The guy who won our 'Ard Boyz had two BW's in a highly melta spammed and mechanized Guard list.

I personally run a squad of 2x Devildogs with Heavy Flamers, in support of 2 separate Vendettas. It works well enough; pop light transports, meltacannon the survivors.