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Stormfang looks brilliant. I like it a lot better then the storm raven honestly.

Talking about SW books and fiction.

There is absolutely nothing wrong in investing in the 6 Ragnar Blackmane books. They give some interesting perspective on his rather meteoric rise to Wolf Lord. As well as covering life on fenris, life of an aspirant, the ascension etc etc.

The flyer is a poorly done Caestus Assault Ram knock off.

I can't wait to hear why it is SW only.

New supposed release schedule from BoLS:

http://www.belloflostsouls.net/2014/07/space-wolves-release-schedule-latest.html

It sounds like the Space Wolves are going to have a similar release to the Orks. Here is what's doing the rounds:




Latest Space Wolves Rumor Releases: 7-23-2014

August 2nd: Stormwolf/StormFang Combo-kit
August 9th: Dreadnought/Bjorn Combo-kit (includes new "freeze/cold" cannon and DCCW weapons)
August 16th:
- WolfLord (Frost axe/pistol)
- IronPriest (Servo-harness w "freeze/cold" weapon, T-hammer, pistol)
August 23rd:
- Codex Space Wolves
- Artbook
August 24th:
- Long Fangs ("freeze/cold" cannons)
- Rune Priest (Termy, (helmet/bare heads) Force staff, SB)
Rumor reliability: Medium-Low, coming from both known and unknown sources

I hope that is true about the codex, broke till September, then really broke.

More confirmation on new Dread/Bjorn model by natfka:

http://natfka.blogspot.com/2014/07/space-wolf-confirmations-bjorn-fell.html

This evening I received a confirmation of next week's releases from a separate source. This always helps to hear this from multiple sources. Next week is looking to be a Venerable/Dreadnaught with the option to build Bjorn the Fell Handed.

Please remember that these are still rumors.

via Voice of the Chaos Gods
I can confirm;
my sources say next week Space Wolves Dreadnaught with option on venerable and Björn the Fell-Handed and various weapon options.

Rumor Trackers: How reliable is this "Voice of the Chaos Gods?"

Looks like Helfrost might be a thing. Looks like I did a smart thing by waiting before getting some new Long Fangs, looks like I might have to wait because if it's a SW only pack maybe it'll just be 4 Helfrost launcher/cannon/slingshots instead of one of each devastator weapon which annoys the pants off of me.

"Well we've exhausted the viking theme... and we've exhausted the Wolf theme... what other vernacular can we abuse to invoke the imagery of a frozen viking wolf hellhole?"

 SickSix wrote:
The flyer is a poorly done Caestus Assault Ram knock off.

I can't wait to hear why it is SW only.

So much hate there, mate. It could simply be that it's an old STC that they dont want to share. Like the Baal predator STC from the BA.

And it's not a knock off. it's certainly based off the Caestus assault ram... but why cant we have similar flyers?

 BlaxicanX wrote:
"Well we've exhausted the viking theme... and we've exhausted the Wolf theme... what other vernacular can we abuse to invoke the imagery of a frozen viking wolf hellhole?"

I guess the next in line are Squats armed with a Shrink Ray, and Sisters with Blessing of Perpetual PMS.

Im not convinced the frost cannons/guns are going to be an army wide thing.
But then again, we have already seen what,look like a techmarine pilot (and fluff mentioning the iron priest).
And it feels like an obvious release to have a new plastic Iron priest, so perhaps they will expand the fluff around wolf tech and
make up some new stuff like frost cannons to represent the singular nature of the SW battle smiths.

Edit: at the same time, the rules in the storm claw box hint that SW will loose much of its indiviuality,
so im not realistically hoping for much changes and new stuff at all.

I like this idea of a staggered release, I'm building my own bjorn, but wouldn't mind getting a weapon for him from the rumored kit. However I am sad to see no Wulfen. I miss those guys. T.T

The helfrost canon being a rear mounted turret on the storm wolf could be useful strategically since it has PoTMS. I can easily see it hitting rear armor on enemy fliers/transports with twin linked S8 AP 1 on its way to the enemy back field hitting another target.

I think it is VERY strong AA now actually. It basically has the advantages the storm raven wish it had if its turret wasn't hindered by poor placement.


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Triszin wrote:
I like this idea of a staggered release, I'm building my own bjorn, but wouldn't mind getting a weapon for him from the rumored kit. However I am sad to see no Wulfen. I miss those guys. T.T

Has anything indicated their removal?

 Red Corsair wrote:
The helfrost canon being a rear mounted turret on the storm wolf could be useful strategically since it has PoTMS. I can easily see it hitting rear armor on enemy fliers/transports with twin linked S8 AP 1 on its way to the enemy back field hitting another target.

I think it is VERY strong AA now actually. It basically has the advantages the storm raven wish it had if its turret wasn't hindered by poor placement.


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Triszin wrote:
I like this idea of a staggered release, I'm building my own bjorn, but wouldn't mind getting a weapon for him from the rumored kit. However I am sad to see no Wulfen. I miss those guys. T.T

Has anything indicated their removal?

They weren't in the Stormclaw book, and given how integral they are to most GH buiids it could mean that they were taken out.

I'm talking Wulfen troops, not Mark of the Wulfen.*

UltraPrime wrote:

Jefffar wrote:The termies in the Stormclaw box had Deep Strike, so we might see it on the full codex versions too.

No they don't.

Maybe you should try reading the storm claw campaign book before making a blatantly false statement like that.

In the description you have put it has a six model transport capacity. This is wrong. It's sixteen!

See bellow, I was a pic of this on page 15 but it was washed out with the flash

 Ferrum_Sanguinis wrote:
More confirmation on new Dread/Bjorn model by natfka:

http://natfka.blogspot.com/2014/07/space-wolf-confirmations-bjorn-fell.html

This evening I received a confirmation of next week's releases from a separate source. This always helps to hear this from multiple sources. Next week is looking to be a Venerable/Dreadnaught with the option to build Bjorn the Fell Handed.

Please remember that these are still rumors.

via Voice of the Chaos Gods
I can confirm;
my sources say next week Space Wolves Dreadnaught with option on venerable and Björn the Fell-Handed and various weapon options.

Rumor Trackers: How reliable is this "Voice of the Chaos Gods?"

50/50 and falling...

Even worse. I just ran some more and he's well under 50% now.

 elStrages wrote:
In the description you have put it has a six model transport capacity. This is wrong. It's sixteen!

Different variant, no? The gunship is 6 models, the transport one 16?

It's confirmed that the gunship has transport 6 and the transport variant has capacity of 16.

 prowla wrote:

 BlaxicanX wrote:
"Well we've exhausted the viking theme... and we've exhausted the Wolf theme... what other vernacular can we abuse to invoke the imagery of a frozen viking wolf hellhole?"

I guess the next in line are Squats armed with a Shrink Ray, and Sisters with Blessing of Perpetual PMS.

Nice one!! LMAO!!

Anyone care to start imagining what the new Helfrost guns will look like?

I'm actually really hoping this becomes a weapon for Long Fangs, I'm gonna try and find a good tutorial on how to make icicles, maybe do some kind of backwash from the blast coating part of their Power Armour or something.

It's going to be Long Fangs throwing snowballs, you know it!

 Paradigm wrote:
It's going to be Long Fangs throwing snowballs, you know it!

No, they are Wolfballs, of suspiciously yellowish hue.

So whilst it's not the most competitive formation in the world, does anyone know if The Fierce-Eye's Finest (Stormclaw Formation) requires the models in the formation to be modeled as per the individual units in each unit?

The formation specifically lists as follows:
- Krom Dragongaze
- The Fierce-Eye's Wolf Guard
- Hengrist Ironaxe's Grey Hunters
- Egil Redfist's Blood Claws

Not, generally as below:
- Krom Dragongaze
- 1 x Wolf Guard in Terminator Armour
- 1 x Grey Hunters
- 1 x Blood Claws

Because if the former is the only way you can run the formation then I doubt anyone will ever see it on a table, outside of anybody who has genuinely bought this box as their first starter set and introduction into 40K. However, if it is the latter it could be a somewhat useful formation for larger point games, where you can afford to not have every troop choice automatically claim objectives, i.e. 20 Blood Claws, rerolling shooting and/or assault range and/or close combat hits thanks to supporting Grey Hunters, or (up to) 10 Wolf Guard rerolling their all important TH/SS hits?

Just a thought for larger games. To be clear, I'm not looking to build a competitive list around this formation, and I think I've answered my own question as per the Formation's specific contents, but could be a nice buff in larger point games... cheers!

My interpretation is that you have to run it exactly as modelled.

There are a couple of nifty buffs going on there, and you could deep strike the Termies, but I'm not sure how you'd get the other couple of units into the fight. You can't buy dedicated transports for them, so either they hitch a ride elsewhere, or they're relegated to backfield or footslogging use... I guess you could load one of them with Krom onto a Stormfang (that's the 6-transport one, right?), but you'd only have them on the table by T3...

I don't really see you getting all 3 units to somewhere useful till T3 or so, at which point their reroll buffs might just about make up for their inactivity for the first couple of turns, assuming the rest of your army isn't much faster; but said buffs probably don't make up for the loss of Objective Secured, or for having to buy plasma pistols...

rtb02 wrote:
It's confirmed that the gunship has transport 6 and the transport variant has capacity of 16.

Ahh cool

WallaceMerrett wrote:
So whilst it's not the most competitive formation in the world, does anyone know if The Fierce-Eye's Finest (Stormclaw Formation) requires the models in the formation to be modeled as per the individual units in each unit?

The formation specifically lists as follows:
- Krom Dragongaze
- The Fierce-Eye's Wolf Guard
- Hengrist Ironaxe's Grey Hunters
- Egil Redfist's Blood Claws

Not, generally as below:
- Krom Dragongaze
- 1 x Wolf Guard in Terminator Armour
- 1 x Grey Hunters
- 1 x Blood Claws

Because if the former is the only way you can run the formation then I doubt anyone will ever see it on a table, outside of anybody who has genuinely bought this box as their first starter set and introduction into 40K. However, if it is the latter it could be a somewhat useful formation for larger point games, where you can afford to not have every troop choice automatically claim objectives, i.e. 20 Blood Claws, rerolling shooting and/or assault range and/or close combat hits thanks to supporting Grey Hunters, or (up to) 10 Wolf Guard rerolling their all important TH/SS hits?

Just a thought for larger games. To be clear, I'm not looking to build a competitive list around this formation, and I think I've answered my own question as per the Formation's specific contents, but could be a nice buff in larger point games... cheers!

It appears all be certain to never see the table top. But not to worry, seems like the box will likely be used simply to buff existing armies of orks and SW.

 SarisKhan wrote:

 Paradigm wrote:
It's going to be Long Fangs throwing snowballs, you know it!

No, they are Wolfballs, of suspiciously yellowish hue.

With Rocks in them!

 pretre wrote:

 Ferrum_Sanguinis wrote:
More confirmation on new Dread/Bjorn model by natfka:

http://natfka.blogspot.com/2014/07/space-wolf-confirmations-bjorn-fell.html

This evening I received a confirmation of next week's releases from a separate source. This always helps to hear this from multiple sources. Next week is looking to be a Venerable/Dreadnaught with the option to build Bjorn the Fell Handed.

Please remember that these are still rumors.

via Voice of the Chaos Gods
I can confirm;
my sources say next week Space Wolves Dreadnaught with option on venerable and Björn the Fell-Handed and various weapon options.

Rumor Trackers: How reliable is this "Voice of the Chaos Gods?"

50/50 and falling...

In this case he's literally just reading the preview in the White Dwarf like everyone else and extrapolating. I can't see how it's even a rumor.