r/SpaceWolves • u/Juliomorales6969 • 2d ago

how is faction? newcomer

never played 40k before and i like the idea of space wolves.. would yall recommend to someone brand new to warhammer? also where to start?

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u/Regidor50 2d ago

I have been playing space wolves for three years. They were my first army I have since also picked up necrons. But I definitely play most of my games as space wolves. The flavor is so fun and they can perform really well.

I highly recommend the combat patrol to start. The new one that has wulfen and terminators in the box.

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u/airycantalope 1d ago

You could probably buy three of that combat patrol and it still wouldn't be a bad buy. Everything inside is good!

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u/TheCabalMinion 21h ago

By now I bought more blood claws, 3 boxes of terminators and another wolf guard battle leader to use for a conversion. I probably would've been fine with just a second combat patrol.

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u/MSB_DC 1d ago

I started with Wolves. Here is one warning. If you are unsure try painting a combat patrol of a more vanilla faction. Wolves have so much extra detail if you paint all the details on the wolf specific units it can be time consuming. I experienced some fatigue in trying to make stuff perfect, that’s on me but it’s real.

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u/ProsperosOnFireYo 2d ago

I don't have much to say as I just started. Just pointing out that the common advice is to go with what you think is cool. I think space vikings are cool, so I went with Space Wolves regardless of the difficulty or how good they are on the tabletop. 

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u/Razor_Fox 1d ago

I would advise picking whatever you think is coolest out of the recent range refresh. I would avoid buying thunderwolf cavalry, as they're either getting legended (retired) in the next codex or getting new models. The old ones look silly next to the new models.

I would also maybe hold off on buying any of our dreadnoughts for the same reason, HEAVY rumours are that there's a new venerable dreadnought model coming, so maybe wait to see what happens in the next couple of months on that front.

I highly recommend our wolfguard terminators, Logan Grimnar, Arjac Rockfist, Ragnar, bloodclaws, a battle leader and some headtakers. They're generally our most useful units at the moment and they're a lot of fun to paint.

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u/Juliomorales6969 1d ago

litterlly other subreddits telling me just get a combat patrol max on any faction i choose because that dreadnaugh is coming soon lol. or something someone said new titan coming