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Hi again people. Tonight ive been looking at alot of stuff about the 13th company and im really interested in doing the army but i have a few questions that i cant seem to find.

would they still be classed as 13th company if i just build a normal space wolf army and use the colours?

or will they have to be converted to pre heresy armour?

also, i dont want to d'load or use a different codex so would anyone have any advice how to make this list 13th company without changing it much because im looking at using this list for tourney use. any advice would be great, thanks!



HQ -
Rune Priest: LL, JotWW, CotS

Elites -

x4 Wolf Guard /w Powerfists and Combi-meltas


Troops -
x8 Grey Hunters /w Wolf Banner, Wulfen and Melta Gun & Rhino - Rune Priest in here

x9 Grey Hunters /w Wolf Banner, Wulfen and Melta Gun & Rhino

x9 Grey Hunters /w Wolf Banner, Wulfen, Melta Gun & Rhino

x5 Grey Hunters /w Flamer & Razorback TL lascannon

Fast attack -

x2 Land Speeders /w Heavy Flamer and Multi-meltas


Heavy Support -

x5 Long Fangs /w x4 ML & Razorback with TL lascannon

x5 Longfangs /w x4 ML & razorback with TL lascannon

I built myself a humdinger of a 13th Company way back when the Eye of Terror codex came out!

First, do you want to play 13th Company within the confines of the SW Codex or do you want to play Space Wolves in 13th Company colors?

If you want to do a true '13th Company' list, it is feasable to do using the SW codex. First, NO VEHICLES. They didn't get anything better than bikes (and no assault bikes on top of that!). You could only take one of each of the HQ's (I believe they were Wolf Lord, Rune Priest & Wolf Priest), so you are going to be limited there, also. This was also the first time that fenrisian wolves had thier own entry as a fast attack choice.

Here is the 13th Company Warband breakdown (straight out of the codex);

HQ: 1 Wolf Lord, 0-1 Runepriest, 0-1 Wolf Priest
Elites: Wulfen pack, Storm Claws (think wolf guard)
Troops: Grey Slayers (Think Grey Hunters)
Fast Attack: Fenrisian Wolf Pack, Storm Claws Bikers
Heavy Support: 13th Company Long Fangs (they could be armed with plasma guns, melta guns & flamers, as well as heavy weapons)

That's it. No razorbacks, rhinos, speeders, land raiders, vindicators, predators........

As far as the look of the army, they would scavenge replacement parts for thier armor from the chaos marines they had killed, so you through in some chaos shoulder pads, legs, chestplate, etc., painted in the ruinous colors, as opposed to the rest of thier armor which would be grey, and VOILA!

Good Luck!!

Ditch any vehicles.
Take a few Fenrisian Wolves.
Don't take any Blood Claws.
Take some Long Fangs.
Take some Wolf Guard.
Take a Wolf Lord.
Take a Rune Priest.
That's how i would do it with a SW codex...
Your other option is getting the EoT codex and house ruling bits of it...

i think id rather use the transport as i want the army to be based on tournament play as im looking to be competing with them. the stuff that the 13th company use doesnt really seem like it can be made into a competative army. if it can please prove me wrong if not would it be feasable and not looked down on if i just did the list i have in 13th company colours?

It wouldn't be looked down on (After all it is your army) but it wouldn't be fluffy.
This is one of those times that a fluffy list is not a competetive list...
Though with SW you would still put up a good fight.

ok thanks, ill probably do the colour theme and build my list, then over time try and make it into more of a themed list thanks for the advice, really appreciated. One more thing though, would i need to do some chaos conversion to them to make them more 13th company looking?

A few Chaos armour peices and maybe the odd bolter wouldn't go amiss.

My 13th are almost entirely plastic. Get yourself 3 boxes of Space Wolves and 1 box of Chaos Marines. Try and put 1 part from the Chaos Marines on each of the Space Wolves (One shoulder pad, one set of legs, etc). Then paint the chaos part as if they had just ripped it off of a dead Chaos Marine.