Lukas Mega Bomb list and BatRep Vs Grey Knights

Nick speaking,

A few posts ago I talked about some tactical ideas on using Lukas the Trickster for my Space Wolves, and my 13th Company Trickster that was painted up by PaintingXoan. For my first game with him, I wanted to run what I call, the Lukas Mega Bomb. Basically, it's a full unit of Blood Claws with Lukas and a Wolf Priest, all charging forward in a Landraider Crusader.

Now that unit comes to 820 points, so in a 1750 point list, that's a massive whack! Still, Lukas is all about fun, so I am happy to run with it and see what list I can come up with. First up we will need some supporting Troops. Two Rhinos with Grey Hunters and a Wolf Guard in each to follow up the Crusader charge, and one Razor back to sit back on any objectives. That leaves me with enough points for two packs of missile Long Fangs and a flanking unit of Scouts with another Wolf Guard.

With my limited play of Space Wolves, I still find it amazing how cheap everything is in the Codex, compared to my original Eye of Terror army, where missile Long Fangs were 188 points! Anyway, I ended up with a few points left over, so I purchsed a couple of Hunter Killer Missiles. After my first game, I realised I should have bought some much needed Dozer Blades instead! With just a few tanks on the table rather than a bucket load, the last thing you want to do is immobilise yourself on terrain!

So here is the list I played, and a battle report of a friendly game I had against Grey Knights with it. The next time I use the list, I will drop a Hunter Killer Missile and both Rhinos will have Dozer Blades...   

Lukas Mega Bomb                                                                                                         

1 x Wolf Priest/Runic Armour/Tooth Necklace/Hunter (140)

14 x Blood Claws/2x Meltagun/1x Power Fist (240)

1 x Lukas the Trickster (155)

1 x Land Raider Crusader/Storm Bolter/HKM/Extra Armour (285)

7 x Grey Hunters/Meltagun/Wolf Standard/Rhino  (155)

1 x Wolf Guard/Combi-Melta/Power Fist (43)

7 x Grey Hunters/Meltagun/Wolf Standard/Rhino  (155)

1 x Wolf Guard/Combi-Melta/Power Fist (43)

5 x Grey Hunters/Power Weapon/Meltagun/Razorback-LasPlas-HKM (180)

5 x Wolf Scout Pack/Meltagun (85)

1 x Wolf Guard Pack/Combi-Melta/Wolf Claw (38)

5 x Long Fangs/4 x Missile/Pack Leader (115)

5 x Long Fangs/4 x Missile/Pack Leader (115)

1749 points

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Lukas the Trickster Tactics

Nick speaking,

Now that I have my Lukas the Trickster mini painted up for me by PaintingXoan, it's time to look at getting him on the table. I am aware that you will not find this dirty fighter in most competitive lists, or indeed even his Blood Claw brothers, but even so, for casual fun games, he surely can bring something to the table. So how are we going to use him?

Lukas has a few things going for him, he is not an IC so he generally cannot be targeted out. When he is left standing by himself and can be hit in CC, your enemy will have to re-roll all of their successful hits against him, and then when he finally dies, he has a chance to have the last laugh and kill all the models in base contact with him! He comes with a Plasma pistol and Power Claw, and with his Tooth Necklace will always hit on a three, sounds like fun to me!

The way I see it you have four ways of using the Trickster...

Lukas Mini Bomb

1 x Lukas the Trickster (155)

5 x Blood Claws (75)

1 x Rhino/Extra Armour (50)

(280 Points)

The Mini bomb is totally based around Lukas and his Last Laugh, and is something you should be able to add into your normal styled list. Five basic Blood Claws and a Rhino with extra armour to help get him to your target. We will be aiming for the most annoying unit your enemy has and sending him into it to die. With a lucky roll off, hopefully you will be able to take out the majority of that unit as he dies. 

Lukas Mod Bomb

1 x Wolf Priest/Runic Armour/Tooth Necklace/Saga of the Hunter (140)

1 x Lukas the Trickster (155)

8 x Blood Claws/Meltagun/Power Fist (150)

1 x Rhino/Extra Armour (50)

(495 Points)

The Mod bomb is similar to the Mini bomb, but has a moderate amount of bodies to go with the Trickster. The much needed Wolf Priest is there to give the unit preferred enemy and and a plus one to it's cover save. He will also make the unit fearless and help with the Tricksters Rebellious rule. The end result and mission of this unit is still to try and use the Last Laugh as best as possible, but it should have a better survival rate if the Rhino gets taken out before you get to your target. If your transport gets you into the heart of your enemy safely, you should have enough bodies to do a reasonable amount of damage before you roll off for the Last Laugh. 

Lukas Mob Bomb

1 x Wolf Priest/Runic Armour/Tooth Necklace/Hunter (140)

1 x Wolf Guard Terminator/Combi-Melta/Chain fist (53)

1 x Lukas the Trickster (155)

14 x Blood Claws/2x Meltagun/1x Power Fist (240)

(588 Points)

The Mob bomb is a foot based unit maxed out as best as possible, so that it can slug across the board and take a few casualties along the way. The Wolf Guard is added to the unit to take on those AP3 shots along with the Priest, but don't forget not to allocate any instant death shots on the Priest when doing so. 

Lukas Mega Bomb

1 x Wolf Priest/Runic Armour/Tooth Necklace/Hunter (140)

1 x Lukas the Trickster (155)

14 x Blood Claws/2x Meltagun/1x Power Fist (240)

1 x Land Raider Crusader/Storm Bolter/Hunter-Killer/Extra Armour (285)

(820 Points)

The Mega bomb is taking Lukas the Trickster and building a Death Star type unit around him. Forget about slugging the unit across the board on foot, lets put them in a Landraider Crusader and charge at our enemy with all guns blazing!

Supporting the different bombs is going to be the next step. The Mini bomb should fit right into any list with maxed out Grey Hunters in Rhinos. Whereas the points of the Mod bomb would probably mean replacing a Thunderwolf pack to get them in! The Mob and Mega bombs are a totally different story with their points values. You would be much better off building a list from the ground up, rather than fitting them into your current list, and that's where I am going to start my first list for a bit of fun, the Lukas Mega Bomb!

More to come...

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Lucky Lukas the Trickster Painted!

Nick speaking,

A while back I posted about winning a competition over on a YouTube Channel by PaintingXoan. The prize was for me to send him one of my miniatures for him to paint up to my requirements. I sent him my Space Wolves 13th Co. Lukas the Trickster conversion, with an Emperors Children arm, and I am very pleased to have received the mini back to show all of you the results. I think Xoan has done an amazing job on him and I am really happy how he turned out, what do you think? Thanks so much Xoan, I really appreciate the work you have done on him, and I plan on fielding him as soon as I can to see if he really can have the 'Last Laugh'

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Lucky Lukas the Trickster!

Nick speaking,

I have recently been lucky enough to win a competition that was run by PaintingXoan over on his YouTube channel. His winning prize was for me to send him a mini of my choice, and he would paint it up for me however I wanted it. I chose to send him my 13th Company Lukas the Trickster conversion, which I have previously posted about here. I spruced up his base a bit as I hadn't done anything to it yet, and sent it off to him with my painting requirements, including a dead Blood Angels helmet!

Thank you so much Xoan for running the competition and for choosing my video as the winner. I hope you have a lot of fun painting Lukas up, and I am really excited about receiving him back when he is done, which of course, I will post pictures up for all of you to see. If you have a YouTube account, please go and check out his Channel and subscribe if you like what you see...  

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13th Company Lukas the Trickster Conversion

Nick speaking,

Having just purchased Lukas the Trickster with a GW voucher I got for Christmas, it was time to convert him into a 13th Company Space Wolves version...

I have replaced some of my 13th Company Wulvenkind armour with Black Legion and Emperors Children's armour, as per the Eye of Terror fluff. I didn't want to cut up the original model too much, and decided that Lukas would look pretty cool with just a pink shoulder pad as a point of difference.

First I cut off the orginal shoulder pad on the plasma pistol arm, making sure that I didn't ruin the pad, it's a great looking pad and I will try to use it on a different model in the future. I also wanted to change the angle of the gun and make his arm a bit straighter than the original model. I cut the pistol off and found a few spare bitz in my bitz box that I had. I found an old Space Marine bike arm spare which was perfect for the angle I wanted...

Then all I had to do was glue it all together...

 

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Space Wolves Madness - Bjorn and the Trickster!

Nick speaking,

I know it's been a while since my fellow blogger Fritz 40k posted his Space Wolves Madness! post, but this post did stick in my mind, and now that I am getting my Space Wolves army up together, it was time to revisit his question....

"Why aren’t you guys playing Bjorn and Lukas the Trickster?"

If you don't want to click the link above, this is what Fritz's had to say...

"Here is what I’m thinking and seeing with the two…

Wolves like to get up close and go to town. While the army can have the full complement of ranged support, the codex encourages in your face play, as it should, for Russ’ sake being Space Wolves and all. However, the meta game of 40K as always conflicts with the fluff in the codexes. Your space barbarian horde is not going to arrive intact on the other side of the table unless you have a way to crack open transports on the way in so your hunters and claws can assault the heck out of them.

Bjorn with a las cannon fits in perfectly- twin linked 2+, AV 13, and a 5+ invul save alone is worth the price of admission. Put him in cover and plink away, and then when your opponent closes counter attack with his dreadnought close combat arm, insane attacks and AV 13/5+ invul save.

Oh, and on top of that uberness you get to re-roll to see who goes first. Now, it is a self serving question, but I fully know why most ‘wolf players (any?) don’t take him. They look at the points and say that he will never make them back before he dies. Guys, stop thinking of 40K as a war game about killing models! Look at what Bjorn can do outside of killy! He can auto-create a freaking objective marker! And in a game where two of the three standard missions, and even at tournaments, that is HUGE. I don’t want to give everything away, but consider this…

Capture and Control mission. Your objective on one side, your opponent’s on the other. Break it down real simple- you are going to send out X units to take/contest your opponent’s and they are going to try and do the same to you. The actual mechanics of how you are going to do this doesn’t matter- skimmers, infiltrators, brick in the face, etc.

Well, what if you just camped everything on your objective- your entire army defending against the percent that your opponent has decided to send out to capture/contest your objective. I personally like those odds! My entire army vs. a smaller portion of my opponent’s. Well, with Bjorn in the mix, and getting him killed by turn four, when he “dies” he becomes an objective. Now I have two on my side, (Bjorn is chilling in my back ranks and plinking away with the las cannon) that I’m camping on- how can you really loose? Seize ground gets even sillier. How are Space Wolf players not abusing this? How has GW not FAQ’ed it?

Lukas the Trickster.

I’m playing this guy just so I can say “You just got punked by the Trickster!” to my gaming friend. With everything else being at a super reduced point cost in the codex- Grey Hunters, Razorbacks, etc. the Trickster upgrade is nothing. Take the Trickster and put him in a small squad of claws and ram him right into your opponent’s uber unit and watch him get killed. Then it is a dice off to make those base to base units go poof. A dice off none the less, but I like those odds, and the fact that an aware opponent caught up in mix/max point values will be running his uber point cost unit away from the Trickster afraid of what could be."

So as I am still working on my Space Wolves ideas, I thought I would give both Bjorn and Lukas a go and see what sort of list I could come up with. Please bear in mind that I only have three Razorbacks and one Rhino to work with currently, and I have had to base it around that...

This is the list as it stands at the moment:

1 x Wolf Lord/Frost Blade/Storm Shield/Runic Armour/Warrior Born/Thunderwolf

2x Fenrisian Wolves

(275)

4 x Thunderwolf Cavalry

1x Pistol

1x Storm Shield/1x Pistol

1x Boltgun

1x Storm Shield/Frost Blade

(285)

1 x Bjorn/Lascannon

(290)

5 x Blood Claws

1 x Lukas the Trickster

1 x Rhino/Extra Armour

(280)

5 x Grey Hunters/Power Weapon/Meltagun

1 x Razorback/Las-Twin Plasma

(170)

5 x Grey Hunters/Power Weapon/Meltagun

1 x Razorback/Las-Twin Plasma

(170)

5 x Grey Hunters/Power Weapon

1 x Razorback/Las-Twin Plasma

(165)

5 x Long Fangs/4x Missile Launcher/1x Pack Leader

(115)

Points 1750

The basic concept (capture and control/seize ground) would be to lay down the Las/Missiles whilst potentially sending out the Lord, Calvary and Lukas Rhino to make it look as if I am attacking/moving out for objectives. They will be my main distraction units, with some fun from Lukas and his last laugh, who knows they may even end up contesting if still alive as well. I will then make Bjorn and his Lascannon a threat to try and get him killed for the extra objective on my side, mid game. Ignoring my opponents objective, Grey Hunters stay inside the Razors using chaining, terrain, smoke, and parking lot to stay up best as poss, waiting to grab/contest!

I originally wanted to get a unit of Scouts in there as well, but to get them in would mean a reduction in points on the Thunderworf unit somehow? In the end, even though I know the power of the Scout unit, I figured that if I am not actually making a real play towards my opponents objective, the scouts could be a waste of points anyway?

So what do you think?

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