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I have just read the following in the Sapve Wolf 6th edition Tactica about Ulrik and just want everyone's opinions, as I think I am missing something. Is he soooo good:

Ulrik is the Wolves' head Wolf Priest, a character of amazing skill. Fortunately, his rules are very overpowered - I would argue that he's better than every special character i know in every situation . He is a Brilliant choice, even with a bad set-up.

Pros:

Against armies with lots of T5+ models (Nurgle armies, Tyranids and Space Marine Bike armies are really the only ones that can put out a lot of these), Ulrik can be quite potent allowing rerolled hits and wounds in close combat.
Now that his Crozius gives him +2S, he will almost always wound a T5+ model reliably.
He is a beast in challenges and can easily kill characters such as Mephiston,Abaddon,Typhus,Marneus, the swarm Lord and many more
He is the best anti-flyer/infantry/meq in the game

Cons:

Opposing players may refuse to play you

Not sure if trolling or what....

Cons. Ap 4
Not a psyker
No good range
Carnt get through MEQ armour
Not very good at AT
No eternal warrior
Not much better then a normal priest

Get the picture, an no, he can in NO way beat any of the people you listed. Abaddon instant deaths hi, so does the swamy, so does meph, and typhus. Seeing a patern?
While he isnt bad, there are much better things for the cost he is and is way over shadowed by the SW psykers.

WTF, to who ever wrote that for ulric, what are you drinking? He sucks big time

Put him in a building in los of your Space Wolves and watch as they never run away. Ulrik can most certainly kill any of those models that were listed but certainly not with the ease the person you are quoting is saying. After all, anyone fighting Ulrik has to take a leadership test to even attack him. Fail that and it's free swings with Ulrik for a turn. I personally like Ulrik and have for 17 years. He's gotten me some of my best kills including killing Abaddon back in 2nd edtion when Abaddon was a REALLY powerful chaos lord.

No trolling...... was reading through 6th edition space wolf tactica under dakka articles to get some more pointers to fine tune my list when I came upon that section on Ulrik. I also don't think he is that great for 180pts and thus wanted to see if I am missing something, some great combo etc.

Sounds like trolling, he is at best good against t5+ troopers and maybe other thunderwolves or something I dont know, he is not good against CC HQs

Looks like some troll went and changed my tactica article... thanks for the heads-up, I'll revert it to its previous state.

For the record, here's my original assessment of Ulrik:

Ulrik is the Wolves' head Wolf Priest, a character of unsurpassed skill. Unfortunately, his rules a rather lacklustre - I would argue that he's worse than a normal Wolf Priest in almost every suitation. He is a POOR choice, even with an ideal set-up.

Pros:
# Against armies with lots of T5+ models (Nurgle armies, Tyranids and Space Marine Bike armies are really the only ones that can put out a lot of these), Ulrik can be quite potent allowing rerolled hits and wounds in close combat.

Cons:
# Ulrik's Slayer's Oath is far more situational than a regular Wolf Priest's Oath of War (and doesn't even benefit shooting like Wolf Priests' now do). T5+ units are generally pretty rare. Even if he gets lucky and faces off against an army comprised of them, Ulrik isn't equipped to deal with T5+ at all (made worse by the fact that his Crozius is AP4 now).
# The Mentor and Wolf Helm of Russ special rules are both mediocre buffs, and aren't really worth the extra cost that you're paying for them.
# You could almost take 2 Wolf/Rune Priests for the price of Ulrik or a squad of Grey Hunters.

I would like to point out that he doesn't have a Crozius Arcanum. he has a Power Weapon.

The model for him is from 2nd edition 40k when he did have a Crozius Arcanum but that isn't what his weapon is listed as in the 5th edition codex. It is simply listed as a Power Weapon. Yet a regular Wolf Priest is listed as having a Crozius Arcanum.

Weird right?

I suppose if you wanted to convert you could give him an axe (after all, it doesn't actually list him as having a crozius arcanum.)

Faq list him with Crozius, no debatte, sorry

SlyasR wrote:
Faq list him with Crozius, no debatte, sorry

Yeah... still, he's better off with a Crozius in all honesty.