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Overall idea: Bjorn hosted another great hunt to try and find Leman Russ, he found him, now they are trying to make it back to the Fang.

List

HQ
Bjorn the Fell-Handed, Chosen of Russ.
-Assault cannon

Leman Russ, Primarch of the Space Wolves.
-Wolf Lord on Thunderwolf mount, Frostblade, Stormshield, Runic Armor, Saga of Majesty, 2 Fenrisian Wolves (dubbed Freki and Geri, in honor of the original wolves which had fallen many centuries prior)

Troops
Blood Claws x10
-flamer, power weapon,
-Rhino dedicated transport

Grey Hunters x10
-2 meltaguns, banner of win, mark of the wulfen,
-Rhino dedicated transport

Elite
Caretaker of Bjorn, Iron Priest
-4 Cyberwolves, 3 servitors, Saga of the Iron Wolf

Fast Attack
Last of the 13th company, Defenders of Russ, Lost Brothers of Bjorn.
-5 Thunderwolf Cavalry, 1 with thunderhammer, 1 with stormshield, 1 with stormshield+meltabombs, 1 with meltabombs, 1 bare

Heavy Support
Long Fangs
-5 Missile Launchers

"For Russ" Land Raider Redeemer
-Extra Armor, Multimelta




The Thunderwolf cavalry are modeled as truescale half-and-half post and pre heresy gear 13th company using a combination of new space wolf bits, regular marine bits, chaos berzerker bits, beastmen gor and ungor bits, Chapterhouse jump packs + pre heresy heads, greenstuff, and plasticard.

Pics of the models will be posted once I find my cameras' USB cable.

Leman Russ is the "Odin Knight" model, mounted on a larger scenic base than you see in this picture to match the size of canis.

I like it. Only thing I might throw in as a change is putting the Blood Claws in the Land Raider and using the saved points to buy a few more Blood Claws and gear forthe rest of the bunch. Extra fluffy and I think you have an awesome idea, can't wait to see the rest.

Yea, I really dont like bloodclaws in the rhino, I tried to squeeze points to get them in a land raider, but I realllllllly like the Iron priest in the land raider as a chaperone for Bjorn (with the added effect of an auto-repairing redeemer, lulz)

fluff-wise I wanted to hit a few points,

Russ
13th company
Bjorn
Iron Priest as the caretaker for Bjorn
Land Raider Redeemer (I have mine painted with a big "For Russ" painted on the top)

after those points were taken care of I fleshed out the ranks with the 3 primary units in the standard Space Wolves force, Blood Claws, Grey Hunters, and Long Fangs.

The problem with the Iron priest is you can only really field them either on a thunderwolf or in a land raider, they cant take non land raider transports without stealing one from another unit, they cant join another unit, and they cant footslog without getting blown to bits.

If I could I would drop the wolves from the Iron Priest, swap the Iron priest to ride in a rhino, stuff the Blood Claws into the redeemer, and add a couple of bodies to the blood claws unit to fill the redeemer slots. But Iron Priests cant take rhinos!!!! arg!!!!

I'd like to pit my Thousand Sons against that

Thousands of years ago Leman Russ betrayed us, and at last we will have our revenge!

I foresee an Apocalypse game of Space Wolves Versus Thousand Sons...I would definitely travel for that one!

Auot-repairing redeemer...that's just silly... I think the Iron Priest coming out the of Land Raider Redeemer is just majestic and fitting to the fluff so I'll take that one.

Heck, if there was a hunt to find Russ and the only things coming back from the beginning from the beginning was a thinned out pack of Blood Claws, some Grey Hunters, 1 pack of Long Fangs, Bjorn and an Iron Priest I would say that has to be an EPIC story.

I can imagine it now, apocalypse, no superheavys, a large set of tables, 1 space wolf player takes command of russ and his escorts on one short table edge, the rest of the space wolves on the other side of the table, chaos deploys using dawn of war on the long table edges, Russ has to make it to the opposite table edge to win. Objectives in the fang secondary, killpoints tertiary. no Flank March.

say 15k per side? with 1850-2500 for Russ's force?

I'm down, all we need now is a when and where.