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greetings,

I'd like to get get some wolves together (new player) but I am a bit perplexed about how to "safely" equip the troops. In other words, I'd like to offer them the best weapon use for the pieces.
I don't even know if I should make ten blood claws or ten gray hunters or five of each, if they are identical sprues.

a bit of advice would be so appreciated so I can get moving. For example, "go 5 & 5 with hunters using full bolters and plasma gun and blood claws with ccw bolt pistoll and +1 plasma pistol."

hope you can help thanks.

Blood claws have been bad for as long as I can remember, so you want to build Hunters.
Safe bets are normally to base them around plasma or melta weaponry, depending on what you want them to go after.

I just don't build anything when I know a new codex is dropping in a week. I have all my terminators bodies glued together and painted but no arms on them until I see the points for different weapons. My grey hunters are all still on the sprues until l see the options for them in the new dex. Unless you have an important game in the next week and a half, I would just wait for the codex before building stuff.

Stock answer, magnets.
If the shoulder fittings are like the other SM models, magnetise them up. That way, you can use them now, and still swap them when the load-outs turn out to be expensive/useless/illegal.

Thanks gentlemen; I forced myself to wait. I look forward to digging in to the options if they have changed.

Cheers.

greetings all,

I won't have my codex until next week.

Any thoughts on how your first 10 Blood Claws and first 10 or so Gray Hunters are going to look?

Personally it seems with the point reduction Claws are going to be popular, but I do want some gray hunters just for the fluff. Give 'em all full sized bolters I take it.

any weapon combos that would be safe for a new player with 10 & 10 for each unit respectively.

This is an annoying question --- I can't wait to have the codex in hand but would absolutely love to start assembling.

thanks in advance for the assistance.