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I am picking up my arnybook tomorrow! Hell yeah.

I will be fielding a character of wolf with hammer. Provably with armour of Russ. And another one on either a bike or a wolf with frost claws relic! *snikt*

Bjorn, a wulfen dreafnought. Some Terminators to be baby sittet by Bjorn. Probably some thunder wolfs! There are so many good ideas in that book.

What will you be brawling with in your wolf codex?

I'm not a mod or anything but there is already a thread for SW

The mods are encuraging induvidual topics instead of superthreads.

Ah, thats fair.

max squad of skyclaws and wg leader, 2 meltas, combi melta, 2 PF.
JP chaplain, +2 to charge Litany, and wulfen stone
drop both units from deep strike, spend 2 cp to use the Litany and charge

A wow. That is pretty hot!

I wonder if the meltas will pay of though. I saw skyclaws as a good source of flamer delivery. What you describe, the charge part, can be done very well with wolf guards with jumppacks.

Although, the meltas seems to have a big inpact the turn after.

I like that SW has so much 'opponent fights last'. The regular SM codex has the whirlwind and the justica. SW in adition gets armour of russ and one of the psyker spells makes them fight last as well. The armour of russ and the kusticar are very good with the 6" heroic intervention. If any blood angels come charging you just pile in and kill them first. All of those wordings bypass the 'I fight now' stratagem.

I'm not 100% sure what exactly I'll be feilding as I have a fair number of models. but I'm getting the new combat patrol box.

definatly wanna play with ragnar some though.

Same I did in 8th. My SW armies was completed in 7th and I have no intention to expand it with primaris models. Full firstborn armies are still very strong against pretty much any other faction in the game and I don't play imperium vs imperium anyway.

I'll play the same lists I used to bring in 8th with some minor changes: TWC instead of wulfen and no Stormfang Gunship basically. Maybe two long fangs units instead of one.

There are literally only megathreads and a bunch of threads started by Niiai. I'm not sure where the idea comes that mods prefer mini threads instead of a concentrated place (=megathread) where to find all the discussion on your favorite faction.

 Weazel wrote:
There are literally only megathreads and a bunch of threads started by Niiai. I'm not sure where the idea comes that mods prefer mini threads instead of a concentrated place (=megathread) where to find all the discussion on your favorite faction.

I think there was some discussion on the matter on the nuts and bolts. I mean, for specific questions individual threads are proably easier to find what your looking for.

I mean the space marine thread, which was started when the new 'dex came out is already 9 pages long.

necrons is 22 pages.

 Weazel wrote:
There are literally only megathreads and a bunch of threads started by Niiai. I'm not sure where the idea comes that mods prefer mini threads instead of a concentrated place (=megathread) where to find all the discussion on your favorite faction.

There was an intention to break up the mega threads at the end of 8E when the new edition rolled over, because it was basically strangling off a lot of the purpose of the army lists board as much of that traffic was going to the megathreads without adequate visibility, the big threads were difficult to search through and navigate, and often became very insular, with poorly maintained or informationally-poor OP posts, and often didn't get necessary visibility to more detailed questions and topics that could have benefited from more diverse views. The megathreads were a convention that developed organically, it's not a rule that people have to post in megathreads.

However, given the extreme reaction of several posters to the suggestion of breaking up the megathreads, it was decided that mod time was better spent on other efforts.

 Vaktathi wrote:

 Weazel wrote:
There are literally only megathreads and a bunch of threads started by Niiai. I'm not sure where the idea comes that mods prefer mini threads instead of a concentrated place (=megathread) where to find all the discussion on your favorite faction.

There was an intention to break up the mega threads at the end of 8E when the new edition rolled over, because it was basically strangling off a lot of the purpose of the army lists board as much of that traffic was going to the megathreads without adequate visibility, the big threads were difficult to search through and navigate, and often became very insular, with poorly maintained or informationally-poor OP posts, and often didn't get necessary visibility to more detailed questions and topics that could have benefited from more diverse views. The megathreads were a convention that developed organically, it's not a rule that people have to post in megathreads.

However, given the extreme reaction of several posters to the suggestion of breaking up the megathreads, it was decided that mod time was better spent on other efforts.

Thank you for the clarification. Maybe a separate subforum for all factions where questions would be more readily available and not be lost in the swarm of "irrelevant" posts about uninteresting factions. That would probably work better.

I actually suggested that in the thread where they asked for community ideas, and the general response I got was this is a completely private organization, and they don't have the funds or the ability to enact that type of upgrade to the current system.

Yeah, unfortunately as the site is ancient and built on many layers of custom made code over many years and is basically maintained as a part time independent effort that covers its costs but not much else, changes to the site are not as easy as they are for other communities that are built on newer platforms or don't have to maintain their own code.

On topic, if I go back to actively working on my Wolves I'll probably make use of my existing Thunderwolf Lord with TH/SS, and throw in Canis Wolfborn (who I have but he's not assembled or painted, gonna paint him in parts). I hope to run like 3x5 TWC, although I'm not sure exactly how I'll load them out as it appears the jury's still out on the best configuration. I also want to run a big 10-man blob of Jump Pack Wolf Guard, perhaps with the frost claw upgrade on the leader and storm shields with a mix of weapons on the other guys. Troopswise I might actually go with a mix of Primaris and Firstborn. I own 2 10-man units of Grey Hunters, but I'm not sure they are any good anymore compared to Blood Claws or either variety of Intercessors. Thankfully I have a few of both of those things knocking around in my collection.

I'll have to play around in Battlescribe and see what I can come up with and plan any future purchases accordingly.

Got my Supplement and datacards today.

As I am dipping my toes back into 40k after a hefty absence I am starting back with a small force of my old favourites.

Bjorn and a ven dread poss Iron priest as I like the model.

Small units of Skyclaws, Bloodclaws and min squad of bikers.

Baby steps back with my son who has started Tyranids he seems to have a better grasp on the new fangled rules than I do so I expect a lot of frustration on my part.

I like the look of massed skyclaws along with a JP chaplain/WP though.

Oh Ill also have the obligatory Long Fangs squad in my force Not sure how to deploy and equip to go along with my rash young pups!

I want to do thundercav with a bike chaplain and puppy captain with frost claws, or maybe Canis. Even without Death Grip Bite, they'll be pretty scary, and maybe tech a few power fists or thunder hammers in for that D2.

The rest of my list right now is WG Terminators with Combiplas & Chainfists, Eradicators, Intercessors, Assault Intercessors, Bladeguard, and Judiciar.

The HQ slots are competitive for me, on one hand I like the tempest discipline and want to have a rune priest, on the other hand I definitely want a Chaplain for that sweet +2 to charge, and I also want a lieutenant for the wound fixing, so like I'm kind of juggling around what characters I want in the list.


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 Weazel wrote:
There are literally only megathreads and a bunch of threads started by Niiai. I'm not sure where the idea comes that mods prefer mini threads instead of a concentrated place (=megathread) where to find all the discussion on your favorite faction.

The hundred-page megathreads are honestly pretty useless except as a community. If you have a problem or question, it's more like asking a chat stream than a forum thread. If you want to chat with other players of your faction though and pick their brain, it's great.

After browsing through the codex I have a better grasp if what I will be playing.

A big group of Terminators, with combi plasma/shield combo. And two cyclone missile launchers.

Bjorn to baby sit the terminators, and re-rolling missed plasma shots.

Wold lord on wolf, with hammer shield and pelt of the baowolf. With double warlord traits, I do not know witch once though.

5 thunderwolf. 2 with shields and claws, 2 with powerfist and shiled and a leader with two frost claws thanks to the grant a relic to a sergant stratagem.

Last HQ probably some form of chaplain or runepriest with jump pack and armour of russ. Or perhaps a terminators runepriest with armour of russ. I really do not know.

A wulfen dreadnought with frost axe/blissard shield. A redeptor dreadnough to hang out with Bjorn.

By that point I should have almost 2000 points. Last points will be 3 minimum groups of intersessors. And probably some points left to go into multimelta bikes. Probably a more toys over boys list.

I really like how SM can give warlordtraits and relics everywhere.And SW can give one warlord 2 warlord traits, and one relic to a pack leader. I really like that!

The fast attack slot in general seems very taxes in wolf lists. Bikes, attack bikes, thunder wolfs, skyclaws, regular wolfs and cyber wolfs are all there. Last two entries are mstly for grabbing objectives.

I love how fluffy the book is.

Can Bjorn's Aura self apply? I thought you can't self buff anymore?

He does not. But the terminators are core with combi plasma. And the redemptor is core with plasma. D3 looking at you eradicators!

My innitial plan is to try Bjorn with lascannon. But if I do not need the range I can downgrade to multi melta.

Sorry, I thought you were taking Bjorn with the heavy plasma cannon!

Yeah I figured. I find it trying to intepred what people are trying to convey instead of trying a literal interpretation usualy gets you further on social media.

How many Dreads would be too many in a Wolves list?

Bjorn
MurderFether/Wolfen
Venerable/Wolfen?

I've got a real itch to to cram as many as possible into a list.

Is 4 doable? with some bubblewrapping? I've got the spare bodies for WG Termies to provide a roadblock for opponents.

What about a shooty dread list?

 Mr. Burning wrote:
How many Dreads would be too many in a Wolves list?

Bjorn
MurderFether/Wolfen
Venerable/Wolfen?

I've got a real itch to to cram as many as possible into a list.

Is 4 doable? with some bubblewrapping? I've got the spare bodies for WG Termies to provide a roadblock for opponents.

What about a shooty dread list?

TBH, I like Space Wolves Dreadnought a lot, especially those unique ones, Bjorn, Muderfang, Axe n Shield ones, etc. You can, somehow take them in casual game with a "chief" Iron Priest to fix them on their way in. However, tbh, I don't think there will be much place for them in semi competitive and competitive games for them. The prime reason is that they have too large base that the terrains in 9th will block their way, and enemy can simply screen their important thingy by placing chaff unit at choke points. The second reason is that they are too slowslow compare to wolves and TWC, so unless you get them buffed by Saga of the Hunt, they are not likely to slam into enemy valuable units until T3, by when it might already been tooooooo late.

Neophyte2012 wrote:

 Mr. Burning wrote:
How many Dreads would be too many in a Wolves list?

Bjorn
MurderFether/Wolfen
Venerable/Wolfen?

I've got a real itch to to cram as many as possible into a list.

Is 4 doable? with some bubblewrapping? I've got the spare bodies for WG Termies to provide a roadblock for opponents.

What about a shooty dread list?

TBH, I like Space Wolves Dreadnought a lot, especially those unique ones, Bjorn, Muderfang, Axe n Shield ones, etc. You can, somehow take them in casual game with a "chief" Iron Priest to fix them on their way in. However, tbh, I don't think there will be much place for them in semi competitive and competitive games for them. The prime reason is that they have too large base that the terrains in 9th will block their way, and enemy can simply screen their important thingy by placing chaff unit at choke points. The second reason is that they are too slowslow compare to wolves and TWC, so unless you get them buffed by Saga of the Hunt, they are not likely to slam into enemy valuable units until T3, by when it might already been tooooooo late.

Thanks.

I dont play competitively but do use a lot of scenery on my tables when I play so terrain is something to think about! Ill still go with at least Bjorn and 1 other coz I like them so much.

Well Bjorn is good imho. The character rule and T8 makes him strong. Perhaps ladcannon is to exspensive, but MM sees cheap and good.

I am not to sold on murderfang. The blizzard shield/axe wulfen dread is very strong. 4++ helps a lott. And split attackprofile on the axe prevents tarpitting. 125 point of joy.

Redeptor dreads also seem strong. Not sure about the others but I would start with redeptor, bjorn and wulgen axe/shield dreads. The 6" heoric in and 3+ consolidate should force the opponent to focus them early or pay the price of bloodshed.

Ok. After a lot of fiddeling with the points I think this is what I shall be trying out for 2000 points.