Iron Wolf

So I was space wolf dreamin' yesterday and came up with a new list.  I saw that Iron Priests can ride thunderwolves and that got me thinking about how to maximize my wolfishness.  I'm usually not one to go for techmarines much, or many vehicles, but i figured it'd be a good change of flavor on my SWs...

(Scanned these pics from the codex, didn't turn out great...)

So anywhoo, my big thing about SWs is including lots of beasties.  I want space marines with attack dogs and riding giant monstrocities (which is one reason I'm disappointed that the Chaos SM list doesn't include more monsters, hellhounds, or cavalry -- give me a shot at writing that codex and we'll have a terrible force indeed!).  So the idea behind this list was to get lots of wolves in it and still balance out with my primary HQ choices and some anti-armor power.  So I left out some of my usual SW flavor favorites (scouts who can outflank like mad, lone wolf badass, and bloodclaws, kinda) and went with the list below.  It features 3 units of grey hunters, including escorts for the stormbringer Njal; my core wolfriders of Canis with 2 wolves as gear, joined to 3 straight-issued thunderwolf cav models, and with his pack of 6 fenrisian wolves running close by; the iron priest riding a monstrous cyberwolf and with a pack of 4 cyberwolves with him instead of servitors (gave him Saga of the Iron Wolf to make his repair rolls 4+, his thunderhammer strikes at S10 when on a TW, and 4 cyberwolves are T5 A3 Sv 4+, plus I5 and Ld7 with Canis on the table).  Then if i'm going to have a techmarine, I need something for him to fix to justify the 110 points for a single-wound guy (that's the embarrassing part), so I have 2 dreadnoughts, one close combat, one heavy firepower, and a predator, plus 2 razorbacks for more firepower and transporting the grey hunters.  A pretty nice list, i think!  (Now if I can only get the time and resources to customize such an awesome force and make them look hot!)  I also threw in some skyclaws for jumping into combat or taking out tanks, led by a wolf priest to keep them focused and rerolling to hit.

	IRON WOLF
HQ	Njal	245
(T)	Wolf Guard w. stormbolter, frostblade	41
T	Grey Hunters (7) plasmagun, wolf standard, wulfen	140
*	Drop Pod/Rhino	35
(T)	Wolf Guard w. p-wpn	28
T	Grey Hunters (5) flamer	75
*	Razorback	40
(T)	Wolf Guard w. p-fist	38
T	Grey Hunters (5) melta	80
*	Razorback	40
E	Iron Priest w. t-hammer, t-wolf mount, servo-arm, saga of ironwolf	110
	WS  BS    S     T   W    I        A    LD     SV
	4     4   5(10)   5   1   4(1)   3(4)    8      2+
	*cavalry, rending, repair 4+, arm (S8 I1 no save)
(E)	Cyberwolves (4) I5 Ld7	60
HQ	Canis Wolfborn w. 2 wolves	205
FA	Thunderwolf Cavalry (3)	150
(T)	Fenrisian Wolf Pack (6) w. Cyberwolf	56
E	Venerable Dreadnought w. assault cannon, DCCW and hvy flamer	175
E	Dreadnought w. 2L-autocannon/plasmacannon and ML	125
HVY	Predator w. 2L lascannon, side-sponson Hvy Bolters	130
HQ	Wolf Priest w. jump pack	125
FA	Skyclaws (5) melta	100
		1998

And now a cool wolfrider image from the codex to end this on...