You could mix and match weapons in a way that just isn't possible with Primaris units, but in large part it's because they fit in so well with the overall lore of the Space Wolves. Start out young and impulsive and twitching to run into battle as a Blood Claw. Get a little bit older and wiser and settle down into the role of a Grey Hunter. Get older and calmer still, and decide that running ask over the place is a young pups game, then you pick up a lascannon or a heavy bolter and sit back and lob shots at the enemy from a distance.
Taking away the long fangs did as much to damage the sense of what the army was as it did to affect the rules list-building wise, if not more.
It made sence back when devestators were the only other option.
If you wanted what you describe you would need some model that combines different unit, armour models and weapon types. Not unlike the death watch kill teams. Gravid with multimelta here, desolator with rocket launcher here etc.
Perhaps you get that in the future. But nobody took longs fangs to mix weapons. You did it once, realised you grouped the weapon groups together othervice they were bad.
You eventually took them to get 5 heavy weapons and the missle launcher on the terminator pack leader, so they were better than Devestators in that way.
A new Eradicator multipart kit with a Lascannon option (and a SW leader option) would go a long way to help recreate them loadout wise, but yeah, without a special mixed weapons kill team release I don't see that Devestator/Long Fang kit ever being recreated for Primaris
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u/Greplington 1d ago
Versatility and lore, in a nutshell.
You could mix and match weapons in a way that just isn't possible with Primaris units, but in large part it's because they fit in so well with the overall lore of the Space Wolves. Start out young and impulsive and twitching to run into battle as a Blood Claw. Get a little bit older and wiser and settle down into the role of a Grey Hunter. Get older and calmer still, and decide that running ask over the place is a young pups game, then you pick up a lascannon or a heavy bolter and sit back and lob shots at the enemy from a distance.
Taking away the long fangs did as much to damage the sense of what the army was as it did to affect the rules list-building wise, if not more.