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Hi All,

Have been having a play with my wolves, and have come up with the following list, would appreciate your thoughts!

Primary Detachment - Space Wolves

HQ

Rune Priest, Rune Axe, Chooser Of The Slain, JOTWW, LL

Rune Priest, Rune Sword, Divination

Troops

10 grey hunters, 2 plasmaguns, wolf standard, mark of the wulfen, drop pod

10 grey hunters, 2 plasmaguns, wolf standard, mark of the wulfen, drop pod

9 grey hunters, 1 meltagun, wolf standard, mark of the wulfen, drop pod

Elites

5 wolf guard, terminator armour, 3 x power axe and combi melta, 2 x storm shield and chainfist, drop pod

Heavy Support

6 long fangs, 3 missile launchers, 2 lascannons

6 long fangs, 3 missile launchers, 2 lascannons

Fortifications

Aegis Defence Line with Quad Gun

Allied Detachment (Space Marines)

HQ

Librarian, force sword, bolt pistol, the avenger, machine curse

Troops

5 marines, meltagun, combi melta, drop pod

Heavy Support

Contemptor Mortis, 2 x kheres assault cannons and a cyclone missile launcher


Divination priest, Fangs and contemptor rock around provide a firebase behind the ADL

Marine Squad, Hunters and wolf guard drop in and break face from the pods

Let me know what you guys think?

First thing to note is that your tactical marine squad is illegal. You don't get access to special weapons on vanilla marine tactical squad till 10men irc.

I did some quick sums based on remember costs, I got 1875 points. Might want to just double check your costs.

I think the wolfguard unit is bloody expensive for what it does.

You may run into trouble when the opponent has big scary monstrous creatures ready to eat your men when they land. Otherwise, watch out for the Tau with their interceptor ion templates which will cut through your dudes quick.

Divination on Long Fangs and a quad cannon may cover flyer wise but watch out for those helldrakes. They'll come in, take out your fangs and spend the rest of the game eating your army a unit at a time.

My bad I typed the list wrong I added 2 packs of fangs when there is only one, contemptor can own flyers it has skyfire and interceptor when it stays still

Any ideas on alternatives for the wolf guard?

Commander Helia wrote:
My bad I typed the list wrong I added 2 packs of fangs when there is only one, contemptor can own flyers it has skyfire and interceptor when it stays still

Any ideas on alternatives for the wolf guard?

Careful with the contemptor. The rules I've got (IA Areonautica) only grant it interceptor in its own turn (ie to stop it from being locked into skyfire NOT to allow it to shoot stuff coming out of reserves).

The wolfguard must be running into low 200s points wise? You could do Sternguard in a pod for that. They're pretty damn amazing (although not as tough).

Will have a look at that when I get home and yeah was considering sternguard to be fair will do some points comparisons when I get back from work

Ok so i have come up with something for the stern guard option here we go

Primary Detachment (Space Wolves)

HQ

Rune Priest, Living Lightning, Jaws Of The World Wolf

Rune Priest, Divination

Troops

10 grey hunters, 2 plasmaguns, wolf standard, mark of the wulfen, drop pod

10 grey hunters, 2 plasmaguns, wolf standard, mark of the wulfen, drop pod

9 grey hunters, meltagun, wolf standard, mark of the wulfen, drop pod

Heavy Support

6 long fangs, 3 missile launchers, 2 lascannons

Fortifications

ADL With Quad Gun

Allied Detachment (Space Marines)

HQ

Librarian, Machine Curse, The Avenger

Troops

5 tactical marines, combi melta, drop pod

Elites

8 stern guard, 2 meltaguns, 6 combi melta's

Heavy Support

Contemptor Mortis, Kheres Assault Cannons, Cyclone Missile Launcher

1850 on the dot, what do you guys think?

Interesting. Definitely looks fun to play. You'll want to be flexible in your plan if you face something terrible like 3 Heldrakes (use both Rune Priests with the Long Fangs to twin-link), but this should do well.

My only comments would be that I'd consider Power Swords in the Wolf Guard. At least 2. Right now you're Initiative 1 for the whole unit, which I guess if you charge into cover/difficult terrain doesn't matter anyways. So it might not be that big of a deal. Also, give the Divination Rune Priest a Boltgun so that his point cost remains the same. He needs different wargear to be legal.

Very solid list IMO.

Looks cool, but I'd add that I'm not a super huge fan of sternguard without a box. Either throw them in a rhino, razor, or drop pod, cuz they will die before they get to do anything.

Sorry they do have a pod forgot that lol