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Love the new codex, every new army that comes out I try and make an Allied detachment for my Spacewolves. Here is my Latest attempt at an Allied Ravenwing Debuff/Assist/Harassment Squad. This is being added to my Core of 1 Runepriest, 3 Greyhunter Packs in Drop Pods, 3 Long Fangs.

Librarian
Mastery 2
Auspex
Bike


125 points

Ravenwing Black Knights x4
Ravenwing Gernade Launcher

168 points

Tactical Marines x10
Melta x2
Drop pod

195 points

The Librarian will be using Divination. Depending on what he rolls, it will change the nature of the Black Knights, Misfortune + X will have me play more defensively and pick targets for the longfangs, having the target unit be at -1 Toughness/-1 Cover save and Rerolling successful saves. Perfect Timing + X will allow me to use the plasma talons more reliabily to alpha strike tough units who require plasma beatdowns. Forwarding + X will have me take a more aggressive stance with the unit, Diving into combat around the Marines Drop Podding in. Prescience will be used on the squad itself quite a bit, and sometimes to Assist the melta Dark Angel Tactical Marines in taking out their target.

The Dark Angels tactical marines with melta replace one of my squads of melta Greyhunters, they are a reasonably priced unit, and can gain from the Librarian on the other side of the board.

Overall I like the Black Knights, originally turned off by the high price, They are not much more pricey than a Biker with a plasma gun (37) and they have a great close combat punch against anything that is not Dedicated CC. The amount of danger that they bring could cause your opponent to overreach trying to deal with a fast unit, in addition to their actual abilities.

This is all based on book reading, I got a whole week of playtesting ahead of me.

(And for the Fluff Nazis, Ragnar begrudgingly worked with Dark Angels, and I like the Idea of a Fast outriding Ravenwing interfering with a Space Wolves fight to go alpha Strike some baddies)