1850 Wolves

[crimthaan]

Since buying Smitty's army I've been toying around with various builds and keep coming back to what I brought up to Canada and took 2nd with. I completely sacrifice my ability to shoot at range and shoot at fliers but make up for serious punch.


HQ:
Rune Priest - Bike, Hood, Frost Axe, Level 2, Digital Weapons, Melta Bombs (I want these attacks to hit if I split them off from the main groups)

Elites:
Iron Priest - Thunderwolf Mount, Digital Weapons (I want these attacks to hit if I split them off from the main groups)

Fast Attack:
Thunderwolf Cavarly - 2x the exact same unit
1x Bare
1x Chainsword, Storm Shield
1x Thunderhammer, Storm Shield (the other unit has a Powerfist instead)
1x Wolf Claw, Storm Shield

Troops:
Grey Hunters - Wolf Guard Pack Leader, Combi-Melta, Powerfist, 2x Melta, 7x Close Combat Weapons, Drop Pod
Grey Hunters - Wolf Guard Pack Leader, Combi-Melta, PowerAxe, 2x Melta, 7x Close Combat Weapons, Drop Pod
Grey Hunters - Wolf Guard Pack Leader, CombiFlamer, 2x Flamer, Drop Pod

Allies:
Imperial Knight Errant

1848 Points.

The general idea is two drop pods come down and instantly put 20 Grey Hunters in your opponents face with 2 Thunderwolf Packs and an Knight running up the board. The third drop pod can come in to support where needed. It's a very blunt army but I found it was very dependable and very fun to play compared to what I'm used to with my Crimson Fists.

What do you guys think? I've thought about dropping the Knight to add a Blood Claw pack with a Stormwolf for another scoring unit (and ObjSec flyer) and a flayer to kill others but than I feel like I take away the "up the board" threat.

[nogle]

Now that is my kind of army. love getting up in people's snizz first turn.

[dudeisuck]

Honestly, I don't see the knight really doing much in the army. I like the rest of it though.

A blood claw pack is real nice, they do lots of work, especially with a wolf priest with the wolfenstone. 60 str 5 attacks with preferred enemy? Yes please.

[koszkamade]

You have enough units to tackle another super heavy. I'd say leave the knight out of this list. With the points saved though you could toss in a a myriad of things. Id say you could trim the fat on your army to get a little more points rustled up:

• Digital weapons + frost axe on rune priest - These things are great, but you want to hold off from having your only psyker accepting challenges. He may even perils himself to death before he even gets to sink his axe into someones head. I'd recommend keeping him cheap and as a buffing tool, not a combat beast.

• Combi flamer on pack leader - those ten points can be used towards adding a cyber wolf to your iron priest. Cyberwolves will be invaluable. they'll assist in taking instant death hits via look out sir, or accept challenges against giant combat beefcakes. yes, you heard it right, cyberwolves are characters!

• The knight - He's awesome. He's scary. The only drawback is that he's your only real AV unit in your army and will be the target of most DSing melta units, D weapons, and haywire attacks. If you drop him and reinvest in that blood claw + flyer you'll get more obj. sec. units on the board and an awesome flyer that can smack down most other things in the sky. Raging claws is also a lot of fun to dump into someones face. Either that, or you can invest more points into your wolf stars ( IE: another iron priest + more a bunch of cyberwolves and anther greyhunter pack in a pod possibly.