Good day everyone! Zak here again with another Warhammer army update.

I am getting ready for a truly massive battle on the 5th of August. I hope to have an army with a total strength of 5,100pts ready for that battle. For now with the addition below, I am up to 3,115pts! 11 painting days to go including tonight! Can I do it?

I will try!

Below is a Drop Pod for my Space Wolves army. What is a Drop Pod? Well, it carries troops and it is shot from low orbit space craft onto a battlefield. Usually, vehicles such as these are reserved for Shock Assault troops such as the Emperor's finest: the Space Marines!

Space Wolves love these things, far more than trusting the strange technological sorcery of teleportation technology!

This guy can carry 10 infantry but nothing in the larger armor classes or heavier equipment such as: Terminator Armor, Gravis Armor, Jump Pack Troops or the feral Wulfen.

It can however carry either Firstborn Marines in Power Armor or Primaris Marines in Tacticus Armor.

This unit has the Drop Pod Assault rule. Regardless of Mission Rules which could dictate how many units may be placed in Strategic Reserves, the Drop Pod may be ADDED to that total to push the limit above.

Furthermore it may be used in the First, Second or Third turn to bring whatever unit is embarked inside to the battlefield. As it is a vehicle that has arrived via Deep Strike rules, it counts as moving. This means that the unit that disembarks from it - and they MUST disembark, count as disembarking from a moving vehicle.

This means that on the turn that they arrive, they may shoot but they cannot declare a charge. Despite this meaning that empirically, for a single unit to use a Drop Pod it would be best to use some sort of Ranged attacking unit to surprise the enemy by being in range and being able to see units they would like to hide, there is still an opportunity to use them for assaults!

When using Drop Pods to benefit Close Combat units, the concept of distance, surprise and screening comes into play. Drop two or three drop pods and create a wall between yourself and the enemy. Line this up with terrain and effectively block off one side of the board.

The enemy will need to attack the vehicles with shooting and melee to get it out of the way, upon which time you launch your counter-offensive!

Right now I have one... so I will need to continue painting!

Grand Imperial Army to date

Grand Total - 3,115pts

Space Wolves - 2470pts

Characters - 595pts

• Great Wolf Logan Grimnar - 145pts
• Bjorn the Fell Handed - 220pts
• Iron Priest (Techmarine with Bolter and Thunderhammer) - 70pts
• Wolf Priest with Jump Pack (Chaplain with Jump Pack and Power Fist) - 85pts
• Rune Priest (Librarian) - 75pts

Datacards - 1875pts

• Space Wolf Scout Squad (5 models) - 80pts

• Redemptor Dreadnought - 225pts

• Blood Claw Pack (10 models) - 140pts

• Wolf Guard Pack Leader in Terminator Armor - 45pts!

• Grey Hunters Pack 1 - 90pts

• Razorback Transport - 100pts

• Grey Hunters Pack 2 - 90pts

• Razorback Transport - 100pts

• Cyberwolf - 20pts

• Cyberwolf - 20pts

• Fenrisian Wolves - 30pts

• Long Fangs - 180pts

• Vindicator - 205pts

• Vindicator - 205pts

• Land Raider - 275pts

• Drop Pod - 70pts

Dark Angels - 70pts

Characters - 70pts

• Techmarine - 70pts.
  
  

Ultramarines - 95pts.

• Captain Sicarius - 95pts

Agents of the Imperium - 480pts

• Inquisitor Torquemada Coteaz - 75pts
• Inquisitor - 55pts
• Inquisitor - 55pts
• Vindicare Assassin - 80pts
• Callidus Assassin - 115pts
• Culexus Assassin - 85pts
• Inquisatorial Acolyte - 10pts.

More reinforcements are inbound!

Thank you for reading!

Cheers!