Actually you could have 10, the 8 from the space wolf codex, and two from the allies that can join each of your FOC's.
That being said it'd be way too easy to squish.
His point was you can't ally SWs with SWs, so you only get a max of 8 SW HQs. But, yes, you can get 2 extra HQs from another codex.
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