Codex Astartes Fenryka - MURDERFANG the Crusedborn

WS: 5 BS: 3 S: 6 F12 S12 R10 I:4 A:4 HP:3

• Points Cost: 135
• Special Rules
  • Furious Charge
  • It Will Not Die
  • Rage
  • Rampage
  • Murderlust
• Wargear
  • Searchlight
  • Murderclaws
• Options
  • Drop Pod….35 points

I love the name of this dreadnought, “Murderfang the Curseborn”. The reason he is call that is because no one really knows what his name was. But the name truly sticks with him like the trophy’s that adorn his mighty tomb.

Murderfang is a special case for the space wolves, usually dreadnoughts are employed by other space marine chapters as tank destroyers, monster hunters and line breakers. Well he is a line breaker alright, since he has 4 attacks base and has rage, furious charge and rampage. The murderclaws are already included in his attacks. So let us see what we got. 4 attacks base + 2 on the charge + D3 attacks when outnumbered, so that means he can dish out up to 9 attacks on the charge. The profile of the Murderclaws are Strength 7 with AP 2, they are specialist weapons with the master-crafted, shred rules added to them. The Murserlust rule means that murderfang ignores crew shaken and crew stunned results. Murderfang also has the it will not die rule, so any one who manages to get a chance to put a glance or pen on him will have some problems cause he can regenerate his hull points.

• TACTICS
  • Murderfang can be used as a major anti-infantry unit, and an anti-elite unit. With the murderclaws you can take out units of terminator’s easily and anyone they are protecting. I would deploy a unit of grey hunters to protect him so that he can have the chance to charge whoever he is going to kill. It would be a walk in the park if he was deployed against imperial guard. But he has to be well protected if he is going to be deployed by drop pod. If you are running 3 drop pods he and the grey hunters need to be deployed in the first wave. In the drop pod assault deploy the first 2 near the long range heavy support units. Take them out first with both the dread and the Grey Hunters to make sure they can’t shoot him in the back.
  • Wolf scouts are a good way of covering the deployment of a dreadnought. A Wolf Scout team with sniper rifles and a missile launcher will be able to pick off anything that will try to kill murderfang. Your scouts have to infiltrate into a good corner so that it can cover the drop pods in the drop pod assault phase.
  • Murderfang is basically a wulfen in awesome dreadnought armor, equipped with ice claws that can kill a terminator.

Personally I want to drop him and another dreadnought into a squad of helpless chaos marines and watch as he cuts them down on the 2^nd turn.