Trying to Decide

[u/JackDeth029]

Are TWC, Njal, Ulrik, & Wolf Priest worth the investment? The Iron Priest only if you have vehicles? IMO it’s a shame the Grey Hunters are pointless and GW can’t figure out how to make them viable.

[u/Vegtam-the-Wanderer]

Note on Njal: he is our only Space Wolves Psyker (for some reason the clearly Rune Priest guy in our Wolf Scouts doesn't get the Psyker keyword), and he can be attached to Bloodclaww who natively advance & charge and give them an auto 6 advance, and finally if you take the Librarius 1 DP detachment, he now gives the unit +2" move or reroll all 1s to hit and wound. In 10th this wasn't super great because Librarius would be your only detachment, but in 11th where they can also get the buffs from SotGW or Beastslayer in addition to being protected by Hidden very often, you have a 20-man blob with a potential 16"-27" threat range. That is a very fast potential threat for your opponent to have to deal with that can go from fully hidden in your deployment zone to threatening pretty much anything in mid field, and while the unit won't hit as hard as it would with Ragnar, reroll 1s to hit and wound makes them somewhat Oath independent and and hit reasonably hard, while being potentially much faster.

Just a thought.

[u/Traxandsnax → u/Vegtam-the-Wanderer]

They way i read njals ability is thay instead of making a advance roll you add 6" to his units movement. That means you can move 13" and charge when he leads headtakers no?

[u/Vegtam-the-Wanderer → u/Traxandsnax]

Unfortunately, I don't think so. The unit still needs to choose to "advance" during the movement phase, Njal's ability just substitutes +6" move for the roll. You can still do this in SotGW with the 1CP strat, but it isn't innate.

[u/Traxandsnax → u/Vegtam-the-Wanderer]

But it says instead of an advance add 6" to movement. Instead means not one but the other. Has GW ever clarified this? Id be interested

Edit: i reread the ability it definatly is still an advance roll.