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How to bring my Space Wolves up to date-


sturguard

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Hey folks,

 

So I wanted some opinions on how to bring my SW up to date- not for tournament play, but simply to be able to go down to the hobby store and play a game and have my units be recognizable and not disrupt the game. I have a huge painted SW army that I started in the early 90's. As  I am hitting 50 this year, I really dont do much painting anymore. I can't see well enough and my hands move too much. In fact, I have had trouble assembling models as well. At this point I am considering hiring a guy to do a few models for me. I have a feeling GW is going to gradually phase out normal marines and everything will be primaris- I don't want to debate on this fact, that isnt what the thread is about. Given I have spent about 30 years married to GW, humor me and allow me my opinion. SO-

 

I was going to use my grey hunters as Intercessors, I mean there shouldnt be a huge leap there correct, they both have bolters of sorts. However I was thinking of adding a sergeant intercessor to lead the 4 grey hunters? Then to potentially field 3 squads I just need 3 primaris painted.

 

Hellblasters I was going to use my grey hunters with plasmaguns. I have 3 grey hunters with plasmaguns now and kind of in the same vein, I could have 1 grey hunter with plasmagun painted and 1 primaris sergeant painted? Or do I even need to do that? Could I get away with a unit of 5 grey hunters with plasmaguns (As I have a metal guy with a plasma as well). I mean you can't field a SW squad of all plasmaguns so the only real conclusion would be hellblasters correct?

 

Could SW scouts with snipers be eliminators? I mean no one that I know of fields SW scouts with sniper rifles, you just dont see it. Again, my opinion would be if I told one of you, hey these are eliminators (and we werent playing in a tourney) it wouldnt be hard to keep up with?

 

Any suggestions would be appreciated. I don't harbor any ill will against GW, they are a company, they have to make a profit to survive, however, I have fed GW a steady stream of revenue for 30 years, I just can't justify that anymore, but would also like to continue to play in a fairly competitive setting.

 

What are your thoughts to shaping up my units in a fairly cheap manner.

 

Thanks!

Tigurius,

I wasnt really referring to what would make Marines or SW more competitive, I was more referring to how I can make my sw more Count As primaris, since everything is eventually going that way anyways. How with minimal effort can I represent my old school marines as primaris units.

 

Thanks,

Brian

Tigurius,

I wasnt really referring to what would make Marines or SW more competitive, I was more referring to how I can make my sw more Count As primaris, since everything is eventually going that way anyways. How with minimal effort can I represent my old school marines as primaris units.

 

Thanks,

Brian

 

Ahh totally missed the point then didn't I :whistling:

 

I have seen people use primaris as regular marines but not the other way around.

 

The models are simply too small.

 

If you are in a "friendly" environment they will probably go with it.  

 

I think you are on the right track as well. 

-Intercessors are just GH

-Eliminators are 3 man wolf scout squads

-Hellblasters I would go long fangs or something

 

But I mean if you are in a super casual friendly you can do whatever.  When i started casual league play i was using empty bases and armless dreadnoughts and nobody cared.

I think as long as you dont try to run mixed lists, ie grey hunters and intercessors, then your opponents will likely let you do you. Otherwise I would suggest re basing for sure. As the old 25mm bases are a bit small for now.

Jbickb,

 

Actually when the first primaris started coming out,  I had my whole army (well except for my scouts) rebased- so all my grey hunters are on 32mm bases. Honestly I dont see the size between the models as that great, especially if I had one model per unit which was a primaris. SW with their big hair and lots of bits dont seem as small as compared to my 30k MK4 tac squad. 

 

Thanks!

Maybe base your OldMarines on top of the new 32mm bases. This way you can't be accused of modelling for advantage with either height or footprint. Apart from that I can't see a problem, once you'd be playing all Primaris and not a mix and match of old and new. 

Mactire,

 

All my SW are already based on 32mm resin ruins bases which give them height, again I would guess they are the height of a primaris. My point was, if say I showed up with 4 grey hunters with bolters and a primaris intercessor as a sergeant, would most people be ok with that?

I dont know about "most" but as long as you are straight up and just say, hey, Im not replacing 30 yrs of models, these are all Primaris. I'd be ok with it, as others have said, I would avoid mixig and matching though, like dont run one squad of oldmarines as Grey Hunters and another as Intercessors.

Im not replacing 30 yrs of models, these are all Primaris.

I'd be good with this as well.

 

The only sticking point would be whether they actually are as tall as Primaris. If they are not it could be considered modeling for advantage and I'd be less okay with that. It matters for line of sight purposes.

  • 2 weeks later...

Claws, 

Actually,  I would guess mine are taller than a primaris as  I use resin ancient ruins bases for all my SW. Now if the Primaris were also put on a resin base, yes they would be slightly taller. However, Primaris aren't that much taller, you are probably talking 2-3 mm- do you really think anyone would cry modelling for an advantage over 2mm? In a day and age where a predator call fire all its guns out its exhaust pipe, you think those 2 mm are going to make a difference? I have played in all different environments over the past 30 years of gaming, but I can't imagine anyone baulking at that fact that my models are 2 mm too short.

 

Karack- I actually rebased all my Space Wolves except my scouts, they are all on 30mm ancient ruins resin bases.

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