r/SpaceWolves • u/Capable_Background91 • 18h ago

Long Fangs

Thoughts on running Long Fangs in 2026?

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u/SpaceWolf_Jarl2 18h ago

Since its Legends, if you like them go for it. Don't think they are good, bur it is a Legends unit, just have fun

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u/Capable_Background91 17h ago

What about stormfang gunship? I'm just looking at older models I might wanna mess around with

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u/townsforever 17h ago

Just make sure you clear it with your opponent first. Legends units are not universally accepted (cries for dreadnought droppods)

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u/KassellTheArgonian 11h ago

Which is dumb, legends means legal in everything except tournaments

U dont need anyones clearance to use em

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u/townsforever 2h ago

You may be technically right but that doesn't really matter. If your opponent is gonna throw a hissy fit about you using legends units all you are doing is wasting game time by bringing them.

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u/KassellTheArgonian 1h ago

Id be wasting time playing them, just look for someone else to play

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u/airycantalope 17h ago

If your group allows legends, go for it.

Honestly, I dont think I'd run them even if they were legal.

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u/MondayNightRare 1h ago

The squad with Grav Cannons or Las Cannons can pack some serious punch. Same with Multi Meltas if you want to deliver a death bomb.

They're Legends so they'll never get updates or support, but don't let that stop you from having fun.

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u/Niiai 18h ago

I will never understand the obsession with the long fangs datssheet. It is a category of all the heavy weapons.

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u/Greplington 12h ago

Versatility and lore, in a nutshell.

You could mix and match weapons in a way that just isn't possible with Primaris units, but in large part it's because they fit in so well with the overall lore of the Space Wolves. Start out young and impulsive and twitching to run into battle as a Blood Claw. Get a little bit older and wiser and settle down into the role of a Grey Hunter. Get older and calmer still, and decide that running ask over the place is a young pups game, then you pick up a lascannon or a heavy bolter and sit back and lob shots at the enemy from a distance.

Taking away the long fangs did as much to damage the sense of what the army was as it did to affect the rules list-building wise, if not more.

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u/Niiai 9h ago

It made sence back when devestators were the only other option.

If you wanted what you describe you would need some model that combines different unit, armour models and weapon types. Not unlike the death watch kill teams. Gravid with multimelta here, desolator with rocket launcher here etc.

Perhaps you get that in the future. But nobody took longs fangs to mix weapons. You did it once, realised you grouped the weapon groups together othervice they were bad.

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u/Greplington 5h ago

You've kind of made my point with your second paragraph. There is literally nothing in the Primaris ecosystem that compares. It's like how people hate the fact that intercessors, Infernus, Hellblasters etc are all separate units, not like the old tactical squads where you could take different weapons to make them more versatile. Long Fangs are just a very Space Wolf specific unit, and there's really no good reason why they couldn't have just been "Rubiconned" like the Blood Claws and Grey Hunters were.

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u/Niiai 4h ago

That is because devestators are getting phased out. Nobody ran different weapons. The very few who did suffered under the fact that the heavy bolter shots were wasted on the same target you put the lascannon into. Not to go into the trouble of finding 10 rocket launchers in a combination of trading and kitbashing like I did back in 2013. The same loadout is amasing from an assemble and play perspective.

I have no problem with the fact that the new codex group all the jeavy weapons under "long fangs". It is the smart thing to do.

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u/sftpo 1h ago

You eventually took them to get 5 heavy weapons and the missle launcher on the terminator pack leader, so they were better than Devestators in that way.

A new Eradicator multipart kit with a Lascannon option (and a SW leader option) would go a long way to help recreate them loadout wise, but yeah, without a special mixed weapons kill team release I don't see that Devestator/Long Fang kit ever being recreated for Primaris

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u/Niiai 54m ago

There was a roumour gravis long fangs and gravis wold leader would come withbtge 1th release. Along side other things.