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How do my fellow space wolves players deal with the deathwing? What units should we take? Thanks.

I play with some Deathwing and my fear is AP 2 weapons. Go for those.

We don't have that many though!

The most standard SW army will annihilate DW.

Not many ap2 weapons? What game are you playing?
GHs can bring 2 plasma guns per squad for only 10pts, and if you bring along a WGPL with a combi, that's 3 plasma weapons.

How/ Why???

Think a out the model count. You also don't have to spend points on transports because you can be sure they'll come to you. Terminators are slow, so you can avoid assault quite easily while kiting them and picking them off with plasma.

CC shouldn´t be a problem for most sw units too. You hit as fast with the same strength but more often.

Plasma is scary for DW.

You could also take a dread or 2 with plasma cannon. Shoot for a turn or 2, then tie a squad up, killing one or 2 until you get chainfisted. Gives your other units time to reposition and get their plasma guns up. A little more than 100 pts to cripple a squad two or three times more valuable is worth it, IMO.

Mark of the wulfen gives rending.

Fenrisian wolves bring a lot of cheap bodies with marine stat lines and plenty of attacks.

You could even slap a couple of plasma cannons in every squad of long fangs for split fire terminator killing.

Space wolves have plenty of answers to terminator spam.

Loganwing!!! lol Give everyone combi plasma/melta and murder accordingly

Thanks for the replies

 Griddlelol wrote:
The most standard SW army will annihilate DW.

Not many ap2 weapons? What game are you playing?
GHs can bring 2 plasma guns per squad for only 10pts, and if you bring along a WGPL with a combi, that's 3 plasma weapons.

Yeah I agree with this. I've fought Deathwing a couple times already with pure SW and nearly annihilated them both times before the end of Turn 2. 4-5 units of Grey Hunters rapid firing at DW units will force quite a few saves and likely kill off a fair few. Then when they get into combat, you can hopefully kill more at I4.

Pure deathwing doesn't have enough versatility to even scare most armies. People stay stubborn and keep trying to go pure termies with the DA but like others have said basic space wolf lists will tear them up. Vindicators, long fangs and plasma span with grey hunters and combi weapons will eat through their armor and invuln saves. If your opponent is using pure deathwing, that means he'll have little to no backfield support, making It easier to outmaneuver his slow termies. To bog his scarier squads down throw a pack of blood claws with a wolf priest at them.