Young Berserkers!
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Hello everyone! Zak Ludick here from Cape Town, South Africa and this is a Warhammer 40k - The Great Unit Review Wheel! post!
Now known as the Unit Review Library! Here is the current Library Link post!
What is it all about? It is not there to just give a stat. It is there to give MY review of the unit!
Space Wolves incoming!
As explained in This post about new reveals at Adepticon the Space Wolves are suddenly being launched and dropped on our heads suddenly!
Thus my time for reviewing their Datasheets is running out. I have 34 Reviews to do, I am trying to maintain a fast pace so I will give myself 17 days including today to complete all of these. That means that the last day of this personal challenge will be the 15th of April 2025!
Today is Day 1/17.
I have reviewed 2/34.
Time elapsed: 5.88%
Review Completion: 5.88%
On Par!
Beyond them looms another 85 reviews of the Coming soon section! I better get cracking!
Hobby Fund - Working myself into the clear
With my hobby posts, I generate a hobby fund. 50% of the income goes into the fund. At the moment I put all my HBD earned from Warhammer posts into my alt account @zakl.hobbyfund.
I am collecting funds in the following ways:
- Blogging about Warhammer to earn HBD
- Accepting donations - Can be sent directly to @zakl.hobbyfund in HBD
- Selling some of the collection to friends.
At the current count I am paying off some hobby debts. I still have $264 to pay off!
Every bit counts!
Back to the review.
The whole project has become quite the Challenge! With so many units to review in the game the consensus in the hobby community is that I will not have enough time to review all of the Datasheets before the new edition of Warhammer 40,000 came out.
I should have started when 10th edition launched!
668 days since the start of 10th Edition.
This is Review #326, I am 342 reviews behind! (Lowest I have been is 314 behind)
Space Wolves, Blood Claws
10th Edition Index
Blood Claws are the first rank that a Space Wolf attains after becoming a fully fledged Space Marine.
Other Space Marine Chapters as per the Codex Astartes, have their young Neophytes become Scouts.
This is not the way of the Space Wolves. They form large packs of up to 15 members in a Pack and take part in frontal assaults. By the time they have aged and seasoned a bit, the squads are generally smaller before they become Grey Hunters.
You can field them as a Pack of 10 for 140pts or 15 of them for 210pts.
A box costs $60 for 15 minis.
Let's check their stats!
Stats
Movement 6"
Toughness 4
Save 3+(armor/invul/Feel No Pain)
Wounds 2
Ld 6+
OC 2
Weapons
Standard Wargear for a Blood Claw is an Astartes Chainsword and a Bolt Pistol.
The Pack Leader can exchange his Chainsword for a Powerfist or Power Weapon and his Bolt Pistol for a Plasma Pistol.
Up to two Blood Claws my replace their Chainsword for a Close Combat Weapon and one of the following:
- Plasmagun
- Meltagun
- Flamer
- Grav-gun
Ranged Weapons
Bolt Pistol
12" Range, 1 Shot, Hitting on 3+, S4, AP0 and 1 Damage each.
Pistol (This weapon can be fired while in melee)
Flamer
12" Range, D6 Shots, Hitting on Auto, S4, AP0 and 1 Damage each.
Torrent (Hit automatically, just roll for number of shots)
Ignores Cover (Enemies do not get benefit of Cover against this weapon)
Plasma Gun - Standard shot
24" Range, 1 Shot, Hitting on 3+, S7, AP-2 and 1 Damage each.
Rapid Fire 1 (When firing at half range of 12" gain 1 more shot)
Plasma Gun - Suprecharge shot
24" Range, 1 Shot, Hitting on 3+, S8, AP-3 and 2 Damage each.
Rapid Fire 1 (When firing at half range of 12" gain 1 more shot)
Hazardous (Roll a dice after using this weapon, if you roll a 1, suffer 3 Mortal Wounds)
Meltagun
12" Range, 1 Shot, Hitting on 3+, S9, AP-4 and D6 Damage each.
Melta 2 (When shooting at a target within half range of 6" add 2 to the Damage of this weapon)
Grav-gun
18" Range, 2 Shots, Hitting on 3+, S5, AP-1 and 2 Damage each.
Anti-Vehilce 2+ (Critically Wounds Vehicles on a 2+ regardless of Toughness)
Melee Weapons
Astartes Chainsword
3 Attacks, Hitting on 3+, S4, AP-1 and 1 Damage each.
Close Combat Weapon
2 Attacks, Hitting on 3+, S4, AP0 and 1 Damage each.
Power Weapon
3 Attacks, Hitting on 3+, S5, AP-2 and 1 Damage each.
Power Weapon
2 Attacks, Hitting on 3+, S8, AP-2 and 2 Damage each.
Abilities
Berserk Charge
When this unit make a Charge move, in the Fight Phase they get +1 Attack and +1 Strength to the Melee Weapons for models in the unit.
Thoughts
Last year I built a Blood Claw Army for the Slow Grow. They are Battleline units which means you can field 6x of them. 6 x 15 Blood Claws equals 90 Blood Claws in Power Armor with a massive amount of attacks.
I then fielded 3 units led by Lieutenants which carry the rank of Wolf Guard Battle Leader in my army. This gives those units Lethal Hits to their attacks.
The other 3 units were led by Run Priests (Librarians) which give them a 4+ Invul save and thus makes them into tanking units.
Hammer and Anvil!
I also use 10x Blood Claws in my Land Raider in my Mechanized Space Wolf Army. They are either led by a Wolf Guard Pack Leader in Terminator Armor OR Ulrik the Slayer!
That makes 5 Space Wolves Datasheets Reviewed putting them on 14.28% Completed. The total Completed is 35.58% Complete! Can I review them all?!
Thank you for reading!
Warhammer Review Library
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I shall leave Army and Detachment rules here as well as The Space Wolves Datasheets I did before.
Army Rule and Detachment Rule Reviews
| Faction | Detachment | Review Number |
|---|---|---|
| Agents of the Imperium | Army Rule #2 | |
| Aeldari | Army Rule #4 | |
| Astra Militarum | Army Rule #1 | |
| Astra Militarum | Combined Regiment | Detachment Rule #1 |
| Astra Militarum | Bridgehead Strike | Detachment Rule #2 |
| Death Guard | Army Rule Review #6 | |
| Death Guard | Plague Company | Detachment Review #4 |
| Death Guard | Flyblown Host | Detachment Review #7 |
| Space Marines | Army Rule #3 | |
| Thousand Sons | Army Rule #7 | |
| Thousand Sons | Cult of Magic | Detachment Review #5 |
| Thousand Sons | Hexwarp Thrallband | Detachment Review #8 |
| World Eaters | Army Rule #5 | |
| World Eaters | Berzerker Warband | Detachment Review #3 |
| World Eaters | Vessels of Wrath | Detachment Review #6 |
Datasheet Review list (Alphabetical)
| Faction | Unit | Review Number |
|---|---|---|
| Space Wolves | Arjac Rockfist | #68 |
| Space Wolves | Bjorn the Fell-Handed | #325 |
| Space Wolves | Fenrisian Wolves | #91 |
| Space Wolves | Wolf Guard | #74 |
Thank you for reading!
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