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What would compliment a rune priest, a bunch of grey hunters in pods and maybe a squad of wolf guard in pods? I was thinking long fangs but then they'd be the only thing on the board at first and would probably get shot to pieces. So what other options are there? Or is the answer just all pods, even more pods lol.

Guard allies? 3 Leman Russes in a squadron isn't just helpful, it's fluffy. (Wolves of Russ fighting along tanks of Russ!)
Barring allies, Long Fangs are a good choice.

If the SW player goes second you don't thing the long fangs would get shot up too much? I guess night fighting helps that from being a slaughter. What about the Aegis with the Comm relay? Would that be worth it just to protect the fangs and to get the pods down faster?

Vendettas.

I second the notion of more pods.

As an eldar player with lots of Wave Serpents, I'd LOVE to see an all drop pod list. focus fire on the couple of units on the board, wipe them out...win turn 1 :-) In short, make sure that whatever you put onto the tabletop is very survivable!

7 drop pods, 4 grey hunter squads, 3 full long fang squads(missiles), 1 Rune Priest.

40 Grey Hunters D.S'ing turn 1, how about that for drop-pod space wolves.

As an eldar player with lots of Wave Serpents, I'd LOVE to see an all drop pod list. focus fire on the couple of units on the board, wipe them out...win turn 1 :-) In short, make sure that whatever you put onto the tabletop is very survivable!

If you kill everything on the first player turn the drop pods still come in second player turn Not that easy i'm afraid

I am fidling with a drop pod list with wolf guard with combi-weapons for alpha strikes

Tanks and long fangs. My drop pod list has a predator, whirlwind and long fangs with another rune priest chilling out at the back. If there's enoug points a 6 man GH squad in a lazerback too.

this is a good setup:

Runepriest, jaws, living light, meltabombs
Runepriest, jaws, hurricane, meltabombs
Commisar, Poweraxe, meltabombs

10 Greyhunters, 2 Melta, Standard, Mark, POD
5 Greyhunters, Melta, POD
5 Greyhunters, Melta, POD
1 Imperial guard Platoon
Platoon command group
Platoon Heavies 3 autocannon
Platoon Infantry, autocannon, Poweraxe, Meltabombs
Platoon Infantry, autocannon, Poweraxe, Meltabombs
Platoon Infantry, autocannon, Poweraxe, Meltabombs

Vendetta, Heavy Bolters

5 Longfangs, 4 Missile Launchers
5 Longfangs, 4 Missile Launchers
5 Longfangs, 4 Missile Launchers

ADL with Quad gun

About 1750 points, can beat about everything and excells in the defensive game!

Valek, I don't know enough about IG to understand them yet. :( Were you going to do one of those 'blob' things to hold an objective?

Both priest can bunch up with the infantry squads and the Comissar in one giant squad behind the ADL and claim a objective.

If you swarm them enough open and conga the command and heavy platoon in them they can score another. And not much bar a Mace Prince can beat that thing in hth.

There are some hard counters to the list but not much, it is all about tactics for the opponent as the list can pump out a frightning number of shots, shutdown the psyphase or kill a not so carefull melee list in hth.
Jaws priest in a pod can snipe low ini monsters or troops for added fun...

Thanks Valek!

Question for everyone, in a list of just Space Wolves, what do drop pod wolves do to hold their 'home' objective as it were? Or do they ignore it?

If you pod them all I´d make the enemys objectives my own and deploy them on his side too.

5 hunters in a pod that you drop last onto the objective works too, but i go for put it as close to the enemy as you can.

You can actually deny them putting objectives in their aegis line too if you place one outside it. A dirty tactic but

Sternguard and Null Zone

 Chumbalaya wrote:
Sternguard and Null Zone

I'm not well versed in IG (that's who you're talking about right?), please elaborate.

Super Newb wrote:

 Chumbalaya wrote:
Sternguard and Null Zone

I'm not well versed in IG (that's who you're talking about right?), please elaborate.

That's Codex Marines, actually.

Sternguard are elite dudes with uber bolters (2+ to wound, ignore cover, AP3, etc) and plentiful combi-weapons. They excel coming out of Pods.

Null Zone is a Librarian power that forces the enemy to re-roll passed invulnerable saves. It's invaluable against a good variety of armies.

 Valek wrote:
If you swarm them enough open and conga the command and heavy platoon in them they can score another

You might want to reread page 123 Under Controlling Objectives. A unit can only ever control one objective at a time.

Stewy,

The blob is one squad, the heavies and the command squad allthough part of the same platoon are not the same unit, so yes they can cap on their own, and you can deploy them with the big unit around them.

So where do i need to read the rules that is not possible???

 Chumbalaya wrote:

Super Newb wrote:

 Chumbalaya wrote:
Sternguard and Null Zone

I'm not well versed in IG (that's who you're talking about right?), please elaborate.

That's Codex Marines, actually.

Sternguard are elite dudes with uber bolters (2+ to wound, ignore cover, AP3, etc) and plentiful combi-weapons. They excel coming out of Pods.

Null Zone is a Librarian power that forces the enemy to re-roll passed invulnerable saves. It's invaluable against a good variety of armies.

LOL, whoops! I actually knew that. I shouldn't post when half asleep.

Sternguard wouldn't help with my 'home objective holding' question though. I am curious what drop pod lists do to hold the 'home objective'.

Martel732 wrote:
Vendettas.

This, and a pair of 50 man IG blobs.

 Valek wrote:
Stewy,

The blob is one squad, the heavies and the command squad allthough part of the same platoon are not the same unit, so yes they can cap on their own, and you can deploy them with the big unit around them.

So where do i need to read the rules that is not possible???

It was the way you worded it. You said by conga lining them out you could claim more than one objective, which made it sound like you were saying the blob could hold multiple objectives which is incorrect.

The heavy weapons teams and PCS are separate units, so you don't really conga line them. You just move them where you want.

DOOMONYOU wrote:

As an eldar player with lots of Wave Serpents, I'd LOVE to see an all drop pod list. focus fire on the couple of units on the board, wipe them out...win turn 1 :-) In short, make sure that whatever you put onto the tabletop is very survivable!

If you kill everything on the first player turn the drop pods still come in second player turn Not that easy i'm afraid

I am fidling with a drop pod list with wolf guard with combi-weapons for alpha strikes

Can you please post the page it detail that rule..

Not trying to spam but I was thinking about building this list, and it fits the topic of this thread.
HQ: Rune Priest
Troops:
5x Grey Hunters, flamer
5x Grey Hunters, flamer
10x Grey Hunters, WS, 2x flamer
Drop Pod
Elite:
8x Wolfguard, combi plasma (Runepriest)
Drop Pod
Heavy Support:
Land Raider, mm
Land Raider, mm
Long Fangs, 5x missile

Space Marines:
HQ:
Lib (goes with long fangs for prescience)
Troops:
5x Scouts
Elites:
Ironclad, mm, flammer
Dreadnought Drop pod
Heavy Support:
Whirlwind
Total: 1844

I would def drop the priests with the WG instead of gh so youre not wasting free spec weapon, either tda or power armor with all combi

DOOMONYOU wrote:

As an eldar player with lots of Wave Serpents, I'd LOVE to see an all drop pod list. focus fire on the couple of units on the board, wipe them out...win turn 1 :-) In short, make sure that whatever you put onto the tabletop is very survivable!

If you kill everything on the first player turn the drop pods still come in second player turn Not that easy i'm afraid

I was forgetting that half of any drop pods come in on the player's turn 1...had reserves on the brain instead of special drop pod rules. But if, at the end of turn one (for both players) one of the players has no models on the board, then the game is over. So if you could manage that, then yes, it would be that easy. The player with no models would never see turn 2 because he "automatically loses" (p122). So my comment would really apply to an all flyer list vice a drop pod list.

Can you please post the page it detail that rule..

Page 122. BRB like wolfgng says. No models at the end of a GAME turn, not a player turn.

If the Podding player has the first player turn then they could be wiped off the board by the second player. But if the podding player has the second player turn, and their opponent wiped them in the 1st player turn of Game turn 2, then they have a chance (baring bad reserve rolls) to get more pods down in their player turn.

No one said GK, but two DKs would certainly get in an opponent's face along with the drop pods. I made a (hopefully not terrible) list with them here: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/545769.page