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Hello everyone! Zak Ludick here from Cape Town, South Africa and this is a Warhammer 40k - The Great Unit Review Wheel! post!

Now known as the Unit Review Library! Here is the current Library Link post!

What is it all about? It is not there to just give a stat. It is there to give MY review of the unit!

Space Wolves incoming!

As explained in This post about new reveals at Adepticon the Space Wolves are suddenly being launched and dropped on our heads suddenly!

Thus my time for reviewing their Datasheets is running out. I have 34 Reviews to do, I am trying to maintain a fast pace so I will give myself 17 days including today to complete all of these. That means that the last day of this personal challenge will be the 15th of April 2025!

Today is Day 11/17.
I have reviewed 22/34.

Time elapsed: 64.70%
Review Completion: 64.70%
On Par!

Beyond them looms another 85 reviews of the Coming soon section! I better get cracking!

Hobby Fund - Working myself into the clear

With my hobby posts, I generate a hobby fund. 50% of the income goes into the fund. At the moment I put all my HBD earned from Warhammer posts into my alt account @zakl.hobbyfund.

I am collecting funds in the following ways:

Blogging about Warhammer to earn HBD
Accepting donations - Can be sent directly to @zakl.hobbyfund in HBD
Selling some of the collection to friends.

At the current count I am paying off some hobby debts. I still have $242 to pay off!

Every bit counts!

Back to the review.

The whole project has become quite the Challenge! With so many units to review in the game the consensus in the hobby community is that I will not have enough time to review all of the Datasheets before the new edition of Warhammer 40,000 came out.

I should have started when 10th edition launched!
678 days since the start of 10th Edition.
This is Review #346, I am 332 reviews behind! (Lowest I have been is 314 behind)

Space Wolves, Ulrik the Slayer

10th Edition Index

Ulrik the Slayer is likely the oldest Non-Dreadnought Space Marine currently alive in the setting of Warhammer 40,000. Let me explain how I know that.

Well... Commander Dante of the Blood Angels is means to be around 900 years old. Logan Grimnar is over 700 years old. This is then a rough 150-200 year difference.

Well Urik had been a Space Wolf, starting as a Blood Claw, then became a Grey Hunter and was then chosen by Wolf Lord Kruger to become one of his Wolf Guard. After some time in this position there came a day that the Wolf Lord was killed in battle. Ulrik avenged his Lord by killing the attackers single handedly.

After this point, all the members of a Great Company vote for a new Wolf Lord from the most respected senior members of the Wolf Guard. Urlik was chosen almost unanimously!

However, he DECLINED the position, saying that he is not a leader of men, but rather a tutor. And so he became an Wolf Priest. I have read a bit about this process. Space Wolves do not just turn about and say: Hey I want to be a Wolf Priest. Wolf Priests are BOTH Chaplains and Apothecaries in the Space Wolves Chapter. Meaning that they have to study the arts and science of both and be tested to be proficient in this.

You need to teach a Space Viking bodyguard hero.... Psychology, Spirituality, Medicine, Surgery, Genetics and more.

Ulrik did all of this... and then began teaching and training young Fenrisians and aspirant Space Wolves. A Wolf Priest is often called a Chooser of the Slain as they witness great heroes battle and often choose those that have fallen in those battles.

It was THEN, during this time of Ulrik's like that he picked up a boy off the ice on Fenris... the boy would later become Logan Grimnar! The 700+ year old Chapter Master!

So yes, I think Ulrik is at least 1000 years old!

Ulrik is 70pts to field and $35 to buy I believe.

Let's check his stats and abilities!

Stats

Movement 6"
Toughness 4
Save 3+/4++[with Storm Shield] (armor/invul/Feel No Pain)
Wounds 4
Ld 5+
OC 1

Weapons

Ranged Weapons

Plasma Pistol - Standard Shot

12" Range, 1 Shot, Hitting on 2+, S7, AP-2 and 1 Damage each.
Pistol (This weapon can be fired while in Combat)

Plasma Pistol - Supercharge Shot

12" Range, 1 Shot, Hitting on 2+, S8, AP-3 and 2 Damage each.
Pistol (This weapon can be fired while in Combat)
Hazardous (After firing this weapon, roll a dice, on a 1 the wielder takes 3 Mortal Wounds)

Melee Weapons

Artificer crozius

5 Attacks, Hitting on 2+, S6, AP-2 and 2 Damage each.

Abilities

Wolf Helm of Russ

Friendly Adeptus Astartes units within 6" of this model, their Leadership characteristic becomes 5+!

Slayer's Oath

At the start of the Fight Phase select and enemy in engagement with Ulrik's unit, Ulrik's unit re-rolls 1's to Hit and re-rolls 1's to Wound. If that target unit is a Monster, Character or Vehicle unit they can re-roll Hit and Wound rolls instead!

Thoughts

He is incredibly powerful and usually I run him with a squad of Blood Claws!

That makes 25 Space Wolves Datasheets Reviewed putting them on 71.42% Completed. The total Completed is 37.77% Complete! Can I review them all?!

Thank you for reading!

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I shall leave Army and Detachment rules here as well as The Space Wolves Datasheets I did before.

Army Rule and Detachment Rule Reviews

Faction	Detachment	Review Number
Agents of the Imperium		Army Rule #2
Aeldari		Army Rule #4
Astra Militarum		Army Rule #1
Astra Militarum	Combined Regiment	Detachment Rule #1
Astra Militarum	Bridgehead Strike	Detachment Rule #2
Death Guard		Army Rule Review #6
Death Guard	Plague Company	Detachment Review #4
Death Guard	Flyblown Host	Detachment Review #7
Space Marines		Army Rule #3
Thousand Sons		Army Rule #7
Thousand Sons	Cult of Magic	Detachment Review #5
Thousand Sons	Hexwarp Thrallband	Detachment Review #8
World Eaters		Army Rule #5
World Eaters	Berzerker Warband	Detachment Review #3
World Eaters	Vessels of Wrath	Detachment Review #6

Datasheet Review list (Alphabetical)

Faction	Unit	Review Number
Space Wolves	Arjac Rockfist	#68
Space Wolves	Bjorn the Fell-Handed	#325
Space Wolves	Blood Claws	#326
Space Wolves	Canis Wolfborn	#327
Space Wolves	Cyberwolf	#328
Space Wolves	Fenrisian Wolves	#91
Space Wolves	Grey Hunters	#329
Space Wolves	Harald Deathwolf	#330
Space Wolves	Hounds of Morkai	#331
Space Wolves	Iron Priest	#332
Space Wolves	Krom Dragongaze	#333
Space Wolves	Logan Grimnar	#334
Space Wolves	Logan Grimnar on Stormrider	#335
Space Wolves	Long Fangs	#336
Space Wolves	Lukas the Trickster	#337
Space Wolves	Murderfang	#338
Space Wolves	Njal Stormcaller	#339
Space Wolves	Ragnar Blackmane	#340
Space Wolves	Skyclaws	#341
Space Wolves	Space Wolves Venerable Dreadnought	#342
Space Wolves	Stormfang Gunship	#343
Space Wolves	Stormwolf	#344
Space Wolves	Thunderwolves	#345
Space Wolves	Wolf Guard	#74