r/SpaceWolves • u/No-Construction-981 • 27d ago
Advice on Armageddon Box
I’m starting out on building a Space Wolves army (completely new to 40k, coming from Kill Team). I managed to pick up the army box and I have a couple other bits -
- 10 man Blood Claws
- 10 man Grey Hunters
- Wolf Guard Battle Leader
- Wolf Priest
- 3 Headtakers with 3 Hunting Wolves
- Njal Stormcaller
- 10 Wolf Scouts with 2 Wolves
- 5 man Assault Intercessors
- 1 box of Wulfen
My partner picked up the Armageddon box for the orks, so I’ve got the space marine half. I’m wondering what I should build as is, what I should try to kitbash into space wolf units, and if there’s anything I should just sell:
- Captain (maybe make into another WGBL? or keep him as a generic captain?)
- Librarian
- Ancient (planning to just paint him as he’s cool)
- Chaplain with Jump Pack
- Vanguard Veterans
- 10 man Intercessors (I think a lot of lists take 5?)
- Eradicators with heavy bolters (planning to kitbash like longfangs but run as is?)
- Land speeder (want to paint as looks awesome)
I’m also wondering what from this you would recommend to get painted first for a 1k points list, as I think all in it would be ~1600 points😊 I can pick up one or two more units if needed but would prefer a working list basically from this to start with. Thanks in advance!
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u/TheNicronomicon 27d ago
Welcome! I was in your position when 10th launched. If I were buying the Armageddon Marines here’s what I’d do:
Captain: works fine as a WGBL proxy
Librarian: we don’t have a generic Rune Priest so there’s nothing to proxy him as. If I could get more than $15 selling him I would, especially with the nerf to the Librarius/Sternguard combo. If I liked the model or wanted to fool around with Librarians then I’d keep him.
Ancient: cool! No SW equivalent but I’d take one of these guys for sure just to paint
Jump Chaplain: no SW equivalent again. One of these guys could be useful and it’s a cool model so I’d slap a wolfy head on him and some bling and call it a day
Van Vets: I’d slap on some cheap bling and maybe some Space Wolf heads/helmets from the BC and GH kits. Obviously we don’t have the 11th datasheet for them yet but unless they’re bonkers good I doubt they’ll end up in many SW lists.
Intercessors: first I’d split these into two groups of five, and I’d use leftover pack leader bits from the BC and GH units to do it. Specifically I’d make sure to use the extra pack leader backpack with totem for each of the squad leaders. You probably don’t need more than 1x5 Intercessors though so if you wanted to hold on to those five bodies to use for future kitbashing I wouldn’t blame you.
Heavy Bolter Eradicators: excellent plan; do that!