Blood Claws worth taking?

[Jaarl Stormfang]

I'm thinking of a couple of max size blood claws foot slogging up the field. It's only 360 pts for 30 of them. Perhaps a power axe in each unit, perhaps not. I think it forces a really difficult choice on your opponent. They can't be left alone as they'll mulch up just about anything they get close to, but any firepower directed their way is picking off 12 point, 3++ save models. Short of an AP3 blast there's pretty much no efficient way of doing that (and cover helps vs even that), 

 

Plus you can send one unit off towards an objective and pretty much not worry about it from then on.

[Bloody Legionnaire]

 

Other than the obvious... not having a full pack size and not being able to charge into assault the turn they arrive, what's wrong with Drop Podding them? It's fluffy for a Drop List, especially since I'm trying to have Ragnars great company be what my Army is modeled after. You could say.. 'well they'll lose numbers before assault once they land,' but the same can be said about any GH Pack that is more CC oriented the turn they arrive, however the GHs would have less attacks even if the Blood Claws lost one or two. 

I like that Blood Claws are good enough now that we can actually run some pretty fluffy lists.

in 4th I dp'd all the time. But this was for extra bodies because gh'so were more expensive. The problem with pod delivery is that it is more reliant on maximizing shooting upon arrival which the BCs do not excel. bringing a wp or rune p. mitigates that somewhat.

 

I guess it matters how you like to tactically implement your pods... My strategy, works turned out to function really well with the way 7th edition plays, is to drop a hammer unit into the opponents face that forces him to deal with it. In my 5 Pod lists.. this would be one Shooty unit, one  Assaulty unit, and one unit for fire support... most likely a dreadnought, but I've used TDAWG with some effect. I agree if the Blood Claws were on their own, the'd run into problems with shooty... In a blob they are much more survivable and probably aren't going to have target priority, it wont be until your next turn that the opponent realizes he should have been killing the unassuming squad with bolt pistols and CCWs and not the killy looking units with better weapons and more intimidating look. In my 7 Pod lists I want to have a Shooty/midfield unit of GHs come in with Assaulty BCs, supported by Murderfang and either Bjorn or just a Plasma or MM Dreadnought. That's a lot to deal being told to open wide and shoved down your throat turn 1.... The other GHs and Possibly Blood Claws come in and are instantly on Objective controlling status. It's all about forcing your opponent to make decisions all the while knowing no matter what he chooses you are gonna be good to go.

 

[KiltedMarine]

It's all about forcing your opponent to make decisions all the while knowing no matter what he chooses you are gonna be good to go.

Precisely. Or, as my buddy AhzeeDahak says, force the opponent to choose between two bad options.

 

I'm shamelessly stealing list ideas from this thread, btw. This is all gold, brodyr.

[Karack Blackstone]

I shall be taking both Blood Claws and SkyClaws far more often now, I am figuring currently, yes.

[Spazmonkey]

I have always loved Assault troops, their concept has always appealed to me more than most other models.

I love that I will be able to run them now.

 

Im planning to run x10 with a dual wolf claw wolf loard with the Wulfen stone or whatever it is called. confers rage and Furious charge.

It means he has like 7 s6 attacks on the charge.

they are going to be a very kill unit..... and hopefully a great deal of fun.

 

I know its not the optimum wolf loard load out, but i love the concept.

[skeletoro]

It is certainly very cool!! Note that you could get relic wolf claws from the supplement (they have rending and +d3 attacks instead of the +1 bonus for using a pair) but you couldn't take the wolfenstone on the same character (you could however put it on a second character if they came from different detachments, using two different great companies).

[Spazmonkey]

Yeah I looked at that Relic, but i think giving furious charge to the whole unit, and getting rage for the wolf lord is over better suited.

I think that any unit these guys assault is going to have trouble surviving the assault.

 

You will risk wiping them out and leaving the unit open to shooting in the opponents turn. i like the idea of making the hits they do land have a better chance of wounding, rather than getting more wounds  

[Ragnars Claw]

I'm planning on taking 5 naked ones to get an objective secured storm wolf.

[Spazmonkey]

Stoked jus t got permission to buy a stormwolf. And found them on sale for $60 aud... Blood claws gunna be riding in style...

[viddar]

I shall be taking both Blood Claws and SkyClaws far more often now, I am figuring currently, yes.

Yeah thats pretty much my thoughts as well. I'm thinking a ten man squad of blood claws in a stormwolf, and ten skyclaws. It's gonna be great to switch things up a bit.

[Bloody Legionnaire]

I shall be taking both Blood Claws and SkyClaws far more often now, I am figuring currently, yes.

Darn it.. I've always wanted to try Skyclaws out, and now I'm really tempted to add them in to one of my Pod list and see how they are in comparison to TWC. Curses on the lot of you for putting fun ideas in my head and emptying my wallet!