Editing Warhammer 40,000/5th Edition Tactics/Space Wolves (section)

==Tactics==

Space Wolves' strength is not in close combat, but rather in spamming shooty units and using assault defensively; making big expensive CC units is fail.  Their Terminators are too expensive, and while you can easily build an army to use big units of [[Furry|Thunderwolf Cavalry]] their Ld8 sucks wolf-cocks when it comes to getting Tank Shocked repeatedly and their 3D6 Fall Back move means they're likely to run out of play if there's anything nearby to stop them regrouping.

Instead of shitty combat units, bring a few small Grey Hunters packs with a single Meltagun, a Wolf Standard and a [[METAL BOXES|Rhino]] to ride in, some Wolf Guard with Combi-Meltaguns to lead them, a Rune Priest HQ to [[Matt Ward|shit on Blood Angels flying Dreadnoughts and Grey Knights' magic tanks]], then spend the rest of your points on Missile Launchers, Lascannon/ Plasma Gun Razorbacks, and Land Speeders with [[Multilasers|Multimeltas]]. The Meltagun Grey Hunters and Land Speeders go forward, everything else is fire support.

The basic gist; [[Reasonable Marines|shoot big guns at tanks until infantry falls out, and when infantry falls out use Rapid Fire Boltguns, Frag Missiles, Plasma turrets, Rhino Storm Bolters, and anything and everything else to drop them]]. Thanks to Counter-Attack your units are as good when defending as they are when attacking, which means where other Space Mehrens need to work out how to get their dumb asses into combat from the back of a Rhino, your Hunters can quite happily roll up to some schmuck, Rapid Fire him with their Boltguns, then sit beside their Metal Bawks and eat the charge next turn, at which point you pop your Yiff Standard and beat face.

What Spess Wulfs in this configuration don't have in any real form is mobility; at least not beyond the 12 inches your Rhinos can take you. Then again, who the fuck needs mobility when you have 15 Missiles, 5 Lascannons, 8 Meltaguns, 10 vehicles and 50 Marines? At 1500 points. Fuck you and your Dreadknight.

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