space wolves Wolfguard terminator army still viable?

[whiteridder]

Like the title says, is an wolfguard terminator army still playable in this edition?

 

Havent played with my space wolves for a while but planning to start playing again in january.

 

I have a big army with 6 landraiders (Godhammer, Achilles, and 4 Crusaders) and about 40 wolfguard terminators. I liked to play games with them, but are they still good?

 

I also got 5 x 10 grey hunters, and razorbacks, rhinos and 25 long fangs, and some vindicators, so it's not that I only can play with the terminators. :-)

[Karhedron]

Terminators don't do particularly well on the cost/benefit analysis front. The main problem is that there are too many D2 weapons out there that negate the advantage of their 2 wounds (plasma and dark reapers are probably the biggest threats).

 

Having said that, Space Wolves can take regular power weapons meaning that we can field Termies a lot more cheaply than most other chapters if you are will to forgo their iconic (but expensive) power fists. A squad with 4 storm bolters, 1 assault cannon and 5 power swords/axes is actually pretty cheap and can dish out a lot of firepower on the drop.

 

Thunder Hammer and Storm Shield Termies are still boss for killing large targets but definitely need a LR (preferably a Crusader) to deliver them. They work best with a Wolf Priest and Arjac to lead them.

 

I'm not sure they would be massively competitive but they would probably be fun to play.

[Stoic Raptor]

I miss the Loganwing.  Nothing like having Terminators count as Troops, you know? :)

[Runefyre]

I miss the Loganwing.  Nothing like having Terminators count as Troops, you know?

That's another issue with terminators, they can't have Objective Secured. This makes an all terminator army rather terrible at playing to objectives, and they don't really have the volume of firepower/melee attacks to simply wipe an opponent (unless they're equally elite, but I'll be honest I haven't seen very many elite armies at my FLGS lately).

[whiteridder]

I also miss logan wing, with arjac hammer brothers and the Voidclaws.