Vs. Space Wolves v6.1

[yoritomo]

With a new tyranid codex come a new versus thread for Space Wolves. The purpose of this thread is to discuss how our new codex can deal with this army in general. This is not a place to post army lists for review. This is a place to discuss what units work against the Space Wolves, what units we should watch out for, tactics and army builds we expect to see when playing Space Wolves, allies they usually take, and questions you might have before or after fighting a Space Wolf opponent.

Fair warning, the versus threads will stay on topic at all times. The moderating staff reserves the right to move or delete any post they deem off topic, incoherent, flat out wrong, or confusing to read (i.e. out of context due to previous posts being removed). This is a serious discussion geared towards people who want to play better against the Space Wolves, so let's act like it.

[sovngard]

Know your ennemy if you ever hope to defeat it. Understand it for a better result!

As some might have guessed from my username (or not...), my first and main army are Space Wolves, so I'll try and share what knowledge I can to make it easier for nomnoming these fierce space viking warriors with a weird wolf fetish.
An army-wide rule that could be useful to know, but not absolutely vital, is Leader of the Pack, which allows space wolves to have up to 2 HQ units for each HQ slot in the FOC, as long as they don't have the exact same power, exact same equipment and no saga can be taken more than once.

1-Rune Priests
2-Rune Priests Psychic Powers


1-Well first off, do watch out for rune priests, as they have the best psychic defense so far imo, a 24" bubble in which they cancel ANY non-friendly psychic power on 4+, even the ones that aren't targeting them or not in their LoS. So for armies relying on our primaris power, watch out for these! Well... for any psychic using, look out for these. Next on the list comes the Chooser of the Slain, which prevents infiltration within 18 inches of it, but also give the rune priest +1 BS if both the chooser and the priest have a line of sight on the priest's target. And it can be played up to 4 times in a normal game, even if I've never seen one myself except from my own army, but given how cheap it is, everyone should always take it.

2-Their psychic powers are also top-tier, having access to the dreaded Jaws of the World Wolf, a psychic power to force every model on a 24" straight line to make an initiative test or be removed from the game. Since this is not wounding of any kind, there can be no saves of any kind nor feel-no-pain, nor look-out-sir! or anything else. Heck, it doesn't even need a line of sight for targets beyond the first! This is particularly powerful again our big beasties like tervigons, carnifex and too much other stuff.
On top of it, they can also generate power from Divination! Combined with their devastator-equivalent, Long Fangs, this can be a disastrous combo to wipe our any MC, or even FMC with a bit of luck on their side.

That's all I have for now, more to come. And sorry if it's obvious for everyone, I'm just pointing that out in case someone doesn't know.
With the new edition around the corner, I'll wait to read those before posting anything new and updating the few thingies above.