I thought someone would have weighed in on this before now. I’m not massively up to speed but I’ll try to give you a rough idea.

Then someone who knows but hasn’t bothered commenting can swoop in and rip my reply to shreds, it’s the interweb after all.

1. Blood Claws are youngest and fightiest, pistol and chain axe and charge, Grey Hunters are the standard line troops Bolter and CC weapon if you want, Wolf Guard are veterans. Pack Markings on the shoulders are the easiest way to tell them apart, red and yellow for Claws, red and black for Hunters, Yellow and Black for wolf guard.
2. Beyond what I’ve written above, I’ve no idea since I’ve not looked at a SW codex in years, sorry
3. All terminators are wolf guard, not all wolf guard need to be terminators
4. 2000 for ITC, power level I think around 50… not sure again haven’t really played new ed much
5. For competitive builds you’ll probably struggle if you don’t table your opponent quickly, as I don’t think you can hold objectives with vehicles. For fun games, sure, go nuts 🙂
6. pass
7. the tournament pack will stat whether it’s WYSIWYG or not, but erring on the side of caution I would say play as they’re built
8. the codex will tell you what the options are there is a lot of flexibilty in building especially with the wolves. Magnets may be your friend here
9. GW have never, and probably will never, balanced the starter sets. Anything in power armour will punch well above the other contents
10. Yes checked with Justin and you get the lot.

the 2 player starter sets aren’t balanced so go based on savings and what you fancy would be my suggestion.

Documenting solo play sounds like fun, and it’s a good way to get to grips with the basics.

There isn’t a shield wielding demon that it could stand in for, but certainly use him that way regardless, or if it’s a demon prince then you can always use it to justify an equipment upgrade for it’s save. I know they used to have that not sure if they still do mind you.

Anything else ask away, I’ll do my best to give you a hand.

Some additions and corrections to Gerry’s answers.

2. Blood claws work well in large packs and in melee, with their berserk charge and chainswords they get like 3 attacks a man on the charge. Great for wiping out horde armies. Grey Hunter are your basic tactical marines, great for ranged combat with a variety of weapons, but can do melee quite well if need be, especially since they can carry chainswords for free. Wolf Guard are your elites, they can be equipped to do a multiple array of tasks depending on what you need.

4. I always play with points. GW’s standard is 2000 points or 100 power level. Power level can be really unbalanced as specific weapon options and such are not part of the cost, so therefore I never use it. At my local store playing games of a 1000 or 1500 points is more the standard for a casual game.

5. To correct Gerry here, you can hold objectives with vehicles in 8th ed. They just count as 1 model and rarely have the armies objective secured rule. More models on a an objective than your opponent means you hold it, unless you opponent has a model with their objective secured rule on them, then you need to have more models with that rule on an objective than your opponent. Most troops have this rule.

6. Not having played Killteam, but have had a look at it for my Space Wolves I found that the equipment you’d give to Space Wolves in 40k isn’t allowed in Killteam.

Hi @lawnor

i have a fair stash of Space Wolf transfers from years of collecting. I’d be more than happy to send some your way if you want? Some are old, so you might need to something like this to refresh them:

http://www.microscale.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Session_ID=1a1ce45438ec08b5d4212bf5b8814145&Screen=PROD&Store_Code=MD&Product_Code=MI-12&Category_Code=FINPROD

But it I’ll post them to you if you want!

Hi @lawnor , couple of things that might be worth considering as you are list-building:

• Long Fangs – use black & white for squad markings, up to six pack members, the Sgt can take a special weapon and all of  the other pack members can take a heavy weapon. If you take a Wolf Guard Terminator Pack Leader as well then they can take a Terminator heavy weapon. Personally I’ve got ideas for sticking two packs in a drop pod with multi-meltas & heavy bolters then sticking the Startegum that allows re-rolls to hit or to wound rolls on them 😀
• Bloodclaws/Skyclaws – turns out from the latest Chapter Approved FAQ that Skyclaws can be taken in Packs of up to 15 (plus the WGPL) as well. I reckon either of those could prove
• You mention you have some Dark Angels mixed in there – don;t be so quick to dismiss them. The DA Codex has a Stratagem (The Lion & The Wolf) that lets you play out the ritual duel Space Wolves & Dark Angels indulge in before battle if you have models from both in your army. If the two models you pick to take part survive then they get some tasy stat buffs (fluffy too)….

Regards costs if you want to expand, the good thing about Space Wolves &and Dark Angels to be fair) is the kit bashing. Very few of my Wolves are straight from the SW kit, instead most have been bashed together using these in concert with other kits. (I know, probably telling you how to suck eggs but I find it handy to be reminded how versatile the Astartes kits are from time to time).

But really just have fun with it dude. Wolves benefit from being the most individualistic of Chapters, so if you want to play around with loadouts & iconoraphy fill your boots. If you want to be competitive great, but don’t let that stop it being fun to build the force. I mean hell, I’m approaching 3000 points of Wolves with the only vehicle being a single Relic Contemptor and a load of Drop Pods, all because I was determined to recreate a version of the force from the very first Ragnar Blackmane short story from back at the end of Rogue Trader.  I imagine if I tried to field it at a non-narrative event I’d get some very strange looks….

Within a detachment, yes-ish. They can be from different chapters but I would recommend that they are at least successor chapters or the original chapter, like Imperial Fists. This gives you the chapter bonus. You can mix and match Space Marines with other chapters as you like, just be sure that in any detachment all units share a faction keyword other than Imperium, full list is in the big FAQ 2 from 2018. You can mix different factions with different detachments, like a Space Marine detachment and a Tyranid detachment and your army will still be Battle-Forged.

Rules wise within the Space Wolves different companies don’t really exist, so you can technically use whatever company transfer you like.

Lore wise however, it does happen that multiple companies get sent on a mission and thus it could be possible, but unlikely. Companies tend to stick together and often enough only one company is required for whatever mission they go on. A Space Wolf great company as they are called, are often bigger than a normal Space Marine company and can at times be larger than a whole codex astartes chapter. If you have in your army multiple Wolf Lords for instance it stands to reason that they are from different companies and thus there would be different companies on that mission your army is deployed on. So in short, they can be mixed, but unlikely to be mixed.

On a side note, some of the new lore speaks of strike forces and I’m not sure how they work or how much Girlyman has messed up the Space Wolves with his Primaris thingies.