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I am recently really getting into 40k, many years ago i bought a bunch of space marines, put them together, but never really painted them or anything. Now i recently got a grey wolves set and a rune priest, i want to know if i paint myu older space marines the same as the grey hunters can i use them as space wolves? Thanks!


Phil

Power armoured marines with bolters.

Can literally be any marine codex you want so long as the wargear is properly represented.

No. Says so in the rulebook.

 xSPYXEx wrote:
No. Says so in the rulebook.

Not sure if sarcasm...

Yes, you absolutely can.

Of course if you now have the grey hunters set too you can use some of the extra bit to wolfivy you old marines. (I mean just for fun, there's absolutely no rule requirement to use any Space Wolf bits.)

As has been said, as long as the models have the correct wargear then they can be used for whatever you want.

Paint them as any chapter you want and as long as they have what's listed in their profiles on the actual model and you can use them.

...Bearing in mind that there used to be no variant boxsets for any of the specific chapters. Just because they exist doesn't mean you have to use them. If you want to play Space Wolves you don't even need to paint them in the same colour scheme....

Thanks for your input guys!

Knock your self out! Just make sure they have the right weapons!

If someone raises a fuss about it, they aren't worth playing anyways.

Yep its your hobby.

There is a guy here with a word bearers army that pretty much doubles for every marine out there. His reasoning is that chaos has more conversion possibilities.

Go for it.

Any Space Wolf army from the days of pre-5th(?) edition has nearly all the normal marines made from the same box of Tactical, Devastator or Assault Marine minis that any other Chapter made their marines from. There was only one set of sprues for each type until that point, and before that all chapters used a stock range of metal Marines, with just paintjobs and conversions to distinguish them as any given Chapter.

Even within the small amount of metal figures for the Space Wolves, there were many that were originally normal metal Marine sculpts, and GW added runes and wolf tail talismans to them and repackaged them as Space Wolves.

I am new to the hobby and this was an extremely encouraging and helpful post. Thank you very much.

Not being sure if you have the Codex yet, there is one thing you will need to be aware of. Grey Hunters can take 2 special weapons in 10 men, but they CAN'T take heavy weapons. You would need to paint those as Long Fangs instead.
Don't worry too much about having 9 man units, though, since another option is to attach a Wolf Guard and you then have a 10 man unit that has a character that'll still fit in a Rhino or Drop Pod.

You'd have to get the Codex for the full list of options and points costs of course, since we can't put them here. I would suggest doing so anyway, because if you're serious about getting Space Wolves a) you'll need it anyway and b) it'll give you a few ideas for what to get next.

The previous Space Wolves kits were just Space Marine kits with a Space Wolf accessory sprue thrown in there. A lot of Space Wolves were just standard Space Marines painted in these colors, and a lot of older Space Wolves players' armies reflect this. So yeah, standard Tactical Marines as Grey Hunters is pretty common.