Reply To: Noob help wanted with 40k Space Wolves

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Some additions and corrections to Gerry’s answers.

2. Blood claws work well in large packs and in melee, with their berserk charge and chainswords they get like 3 attacks a man on the charge. Great for wiping out horde armies. Grey Hunter are your basic tactical marines, great for ranged combat with a variety of weapons, but can do melee quite well if need be, especially since they can carry chainswords for free. Wolf Guard are your elites, they can be equipped to do a multiple array of tasks depending on what you need.

4. I always play with points. GW’s standard is 2000 points or 100 power level. Power level can be really unbalanced as specific weapon options and such are not part of the cost, so therefore I never use it. At my local store playing games of a 1000 or 1500 points is more the standard for a casual game.

5. To correct Gerry here, you can hold objectives with vehicles in 8th ed. They just count as 1 model and rarely have the armies objective secured rule. More models on a an objective than your opponent means you hold it, unless you opponent has a model with their objective secured rule on them, then you need to have more models with that rule on an objective than your opponent. Most troops have this rule.

6. Not having played Killteam, but have had a look at it for my Space Wolves I found that the equipment you’d give to Space Wolves in 40k isn’t allowed in Killteam.