"What do you mean, Blog Wars is only a week away!?" I exclaimed.So in the classic 'Adam hasn't prepared for a tourney' style, I'm going to take my 1750pts from the UK GT and shoe horn in a special character somehow.
Now I understand that Blog Wars is a friendly tournament (click on the link for my full feelings on 'friendly' tournaments), but the whole compulsory Unique choice really screws certain armies while others are usually taking a Unique unit anyway.
For Space Wolves it means we have to take a special character, which I personally would never take. They're just too expensive. Although Arjac is incredible.
I took Njal out to play a few weeks back (I still need to write that up!) and he wasn't fantastic. In fact, he was a fat waste of points.
But, that's the only Unique unit I can cram into my army at such short notice.
Sometimes you just have to make the best of what you've got. I dunno about you guys, but I don't have time to build and paint the perfect army in advance of a tournament.
Anyway, as the picture above beautifully illustrates, here are the modifications to my GT list:
Adam's 1750 Space Wolves Army for Blog Wars
Njal Stormcaller
Wolf Guard Terminator with combi-plasma, power sword
Wolf Guard Terminator with combi-melta, power sword
Wolf Guard Terminator with combi-plasma, wolf claw
Wolf Guard Terminator with combi-melta, chainfist
Wolf Guard Terminator with storm bolter, power sword, cyclone missile launcher
--> Land Raider
Wolf Guard: Combi Melta, Powerfist
7 Grey Hunters: melta, wulfen, standard
--> Rhino APC
Wolf Guard: Combi Melta, Powerfist
7 Grey Hunters: melta, wulfen, standard
--> Rhino APC
Wolf Guard: Combi Melta, Powerfist
7 Grey Hunters: melta, wulfen, standard
--> Rhino APC
5 Long Fangs: 4 Missile launchers
--> Razorback APC with Twin Linked Lascannon
5 Long Fangs: 4 Missile launchers
--> Razorback APC with Twin Linked Lascannon
CONCLUSION
You all know I love my Wolf Guard Terminators. They seem to do so well for me, I managed to pull them from my usual 2,000pts lists and cram them into my 1750pts lists instead.
Then I've got my usual mix of fairly well sized Grey Hunter packs, backed up by Long Fangs in Razorbacks with lascannons.
I'm sad to have to drop the Land Speeders so I can afford Njal.
Truth be told, I wish I had 6 Grey Hunters packs in Rhinos led by Ragnar. It may not be sensible, but it'd be great fun!
On the flip side of things, I've seen some seriously maxed out MSU (many small units) lists on other blogs for Blog Wars.
Aside from the torrents of plasma, the Terminators and Land Raider seem to be fairly immune to the worst of it. So that'll be interesting.
While the meta game seems to be swinging back to MSU for many people, I'm still not convinced that it's the way to go.
Sure, against Marines it's pretty good. But against armies that can and will blow up all your light armoured tanks, you're just throwing away Kill Points.
But I guess that the real moral of this story is to have EVERYTHING built and painted for your army. Then you can just build your perfect list without having to worry about what's in your miniatures collection.
I'd better start working on my list for the next Battle Of The Chumps too...
3 comments:
May 27, 2011 at 7:28 PM
So why did you pick Njal over the others?
Was it strictly a 'this is the only thing I can do easily' thing?
A unit of 10 Wolf Guard with power weapons and Ragnar will mess things up, with furious charge being somewhat like shooting all those combi-guns before charging.
Or you could use Bjorn to fling plasma death whilst the enemy charges you, then counter charge them, like you did with the LR + WG combo.
Still, Njal will probably shock us all and be a really amazing unit for you, lol.
May 28, 2011 at 3:48 AM
You've hit the nail on the head.
More on this...er...Sunday maybe!
May 29, 2011 at 10:39 AM
Ragnar is much better. And if you need 1 unique model, just take Arjac and a basic runepriest. That way your list works the same and you can some runepriest goodness!
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