Space Wolves cannot take APOTHECARY, ASSAULT SQUAD, DEVASTATOR SQUAD, STERNGUARD VETERAN SQUAD, TACTICAL SQUAD, or VANGUARD VETERAN SQUAD units, nor can their successors. They have their own versions of those units, which are special and drink mjod.

Hunters Unleashed: If a unit has made a charge, been charged, or made a heroic intervention, it gets +1 to hit in melee. All units with this tactic can perform a Heroic Intervention. This is a dangerous tactic for 9th edition gameplay – the +1 to hit is nice to have, but the heroic intervention thing means that any unit attempting to flip an objective that Wolves are holding has to assume they’re getting into melee – which is exactly where you don’t want to be against most Space Wolves units. Imperial Fists During deployment, you can set up these units anywhere on the battlefield more than 9″ away from the enemy deployment zone and any enemy models. OutflankAs ever, this strategy article is fixed in a specific time and place, and may be subject to change as the meta continues to evolve and new releases bring different armies up and down in power and relevance. The article was last updated in November 2022.

Kill Team focuses on small-scale covert operations”, explains Elliot from the Kill Team team, “so it’s rare for high-ranking commanders to find themselves involved in the lethal shootouts depicted in our games. That being said, we’ll occasionally find a place for character-level models in Kill Team.* Narratively, these heroes are a fun focus or objective, but they’re not invincible – plasma and meltaguns can make short work of even the mightiest officers.” Purgatorus: A relic which can replace all the different kinds of bolt pistol. 3 shots at 18″, S5, AP-3, D2. GW are really, really trying with making relic guns worth taking, and if you really have nothing else you want to take, this goes on just about anyone. CThis multipart plastic kit builds a Space Marine Captain and four Company Heroes to accompany him into battle. You can arm the Captain with a master-crafted bolter, plasma pistol, One other thing included in this book is a set of 13 Chapter warlord traits. We’ll cover them here partly because they’re printed in the main codex, and partly because there is one relevant case (Deathwatch) where you can get one of these and take it from this list specifically, so it would be doing those players a disservice to completely ignore them. These ones won’t be rated because in most contexts they aren’t really comparable to each other – we’ll talk about them in their proper context in their supplement articles.