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I am new to the game and to the forum and of course I have questions. I bought the Primaris start collecting pack which came with intercessors. When I built them I didn’t use helmets because it just didn’t seem like the Space wolf thing to do. My question is probably pretty common but I couldn’t find the answer so here it is. Can I use the intercessor models as Blood claws? They seem to be the more common Space Wolves model I see on just with a lot of advantages over the intercessors and if I knew that before I bought my first pack its what I would have gotten. Thanks to anyone willing to help.

The answer, as with a lot of things in 40k, is "it depends". In most cases, probably not. Intercessors are much larger than Blood Claws and armed very differently so there's some potential for confusion. If your opponent are fine with it, however, there isn't a problem.

Would there be any other type of unit I can convert them to and if not what advantages do the intercessors have over other units so I can use them as is.

Supersoldiermedic83 wrote:
Would there be any other type of unit I can convert them to and if not what advantages do the intercessors have over other units so I can use them as is.

Intercessors are harder to kill than regular Blood Claws or Grey Hunters and provide longer-range support than other Space Wolf Troops units thanks to their Bolt Rifles. They make a pretty good unit of basic Troops that can hold objectives and hold ground towards the back of the board while the rest of your Space Wolves do what they do best and charge forward into combat.

Not sure there are too many other units you can convert them into. Space Wolves have quite a unique roster of units which can make conversions from the generic Space Marine line of models a little tricky.

So having them on the back line to hold objectives and maybe soak damage for characters and vehicles while the rest of my make runs in and takes down the enemy at close range. I think I can work with that

Supersoldiermedic83 wrote:
So having them on the back line to hold objectives and maybe soak damage for characters and vehicles while the rest of my make runs in and takes down the enemy at close range. I think I can work with that

Intercessors, to be fair, are really good, though they're better for Vanilla Marine [but everything is better for Vanilla Marines than it is for us]. I'd deploy them near the front in cover, so that they get the most of their 30" range and don't have to move to keep Bolter Drill up, and they can lay down some pretty damaging fire from out of range of the enemy.

That said, you can't really make them blood claws.

although they're nearly as good in melee as blood claws, having 2 attacks each.

Also my brother gave me a Space Marine Dreadnought from Assault on Black Reach from when he attempted to start playing years ago. (He’s the one that got me into it and now he’s playing Astra Militarum). My question is am I able to use this model and how?

Supersoldiermedic83 wrote:
Also my brother gave me a Space Marine Dreadnought from Assault on Black Reach from when he attempted to start playing years ago. (He’s the one that got me into it and now he’s playing Astra Militarum). My question is am I able to use this model and how?

yeah you can use it. just run it as a dreadnought,

Actually got to play my first game and my intercessors wrecked a number of enemy squads it was pretty awesome

Intercessors are quite good. The assault bolt guns are what I would use them with to maximize the space wolf style of fighting.

the_scotsman wrote:
Intercessors are quite good. The assault bolt guns are what I would use them with to maximize the space wolf style of fighting.

That’s how I used them and probably how I’m going to use them from now on