Hfran Morkai Posted November 12, 2009 Share Posted November 12, 2009 Well I want to know how you became a wolf. Myself: I was forced into extra-curricular activities at school as everyone where I went was and I chose the wargaming club with my friends, I was given five Tau Pathfinders and blew a Tactical squad to pieces, however I quickly realised the lack of combat prowess. A friend of mine had these grey Space Marines and I asked about them and they sounded pretty awesome. Several weeks later I saw Ragnar Blackmane in my LGS and snapped it up, that was six years ago and I've been a son of Russ ever since. Share your stories, whether you are a Long Fang or Blood Claw I want to know what drew you in, even if it was the shiny aspect. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/184642-when-did-you-come-to-the-wolves/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
stinkenheim Posted November 12, 2009 Share Posted November 12, 2009 it was about 12 years ago i think. some friends at school played and i spent some pocket money on a box of eldar guardians. i painted them all differently and thought they looked really cool, then i changed schools and i didn't think any more about it. i had never played a game of WH40K and didn't really know what it was about so it didn't trouble me. then some more friends in my new school said they played and i started to game with them. i had a weekend/holiday job at a cafe and basically spent most of my moeny on toys :D i liked the close combat side and they said to play 'nids which i did, and whilst i thought they were cool and looked nice i didn't enjoy playing them (try playing lengthways on a 7 foot table against eldar/guard and you'll see why i didn't enjoy the games too much). so i flitteed around different armies, from salamanders to eldar to daemonhunters. then whilst looking through an old WD i saw an advert for the SW battleforce... whats that, i though, good armour AND good combat abilites... SWEET!! that was me sold. about 8 years ago i think, and i haven't looked back (aside from a slight reak from them a couple of years back when i got bred of winning every game i played) Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/184642-when-did-you-come-to-the-wolves/#findComment-2182657 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark Bjoern Posted November 12, 2009 Share Posted November 12, 2009 It was 18 years ago. First i saw the Space Hulk box. I was fascinated by it. A few weeks later when i came back to my LGS to find out more about the 40K universe i saw them, those mighty warriors in grey. Wolf Pelts on their armour and the holy weapons of the Astartes in their hand. I picked up the 2nd. Ed Box, the codex and some WG Terminators. As far as i remember my first IC was Njal Stormcaller. Maybe that´s why i had become a Rune Priest here at the Fang. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/184642-when-did-you-come-to-the-wolves/#findComment-2182658 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DV8 Posted November 12, 2009 Share Posted November 12, 2009 12 years ago one of my friends at school brought in his painted Ragnar Blackmane. I was instantly hooked, and went out that very weekend to the local GW to pick up my first WD, the (then new) Space Wolves codex, and a Space Wolf battle force. DV8 Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/184642-when-did-you-come-to-the-wolves/#findComment-2182670 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perry Posted November 12, 2009 Share Posted November 12, 2009 A few weeks ago when two Battleforces and a few assorted bits arrived I wanted a very cheap army with as few models as possible :P Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/184642-when-did-you-come-to-the-wolves/#findComment-2182673 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winterseven Posted November 12, 2009 Share Posted November 12, 2009 I was 7 it was a wet day and so we were all forced to stay inside. One guy loaned me an Issue of White Dwarf and the next day we were playing Space Marines and Orks in the playground. I will admit i started life as an Ultramarines player but had my head well and truly turned when my best friend wanted to swap armies. I did and never looked back that was probably Second Edition I think. I think it was the Iron Priest that clenched the deal (He had two) and now after a 14 year break I'm back with the wolves again. :P Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/184642-when-did-you-come-to-the-wolves/#findComment-2182674 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hendrik Posted November 12, 2009 Share Posted November 12, 2009 i first started by buying random models, a beast men unit and such. after i heard there was this "big" warhammer event i convinced my dad to take me and my friend to. when i was there i was just amazed by all the boxes and stuff! my allowance back then was 2 euro's par week so i didn't really had money to buy all these great boxes! when i was there i noticed a painting competition where you could pick a model and paint it, elt it dry and take it with you so there me and my friend sat down, starting to paint. however both of us had very different motives; my friend panted up this beautifull to us-tabletopquality to others old terminator i just went crazy, painting as much marines as i could! ended up with 5 terminators and about 6 tactical marines that day. all drybrushed boltgun metal. when i was painting there was this random guy who i started talking to and he said i should buy the battle for macragge set, which i then did. leading me into the fantastic game of 40k. as soon as i had a few models i had some real games and quickly realised i needed another sheme for my marines. by that time my brother had started with tau so we came up with this "marvelous" idea to build some tau marines, a bad memory even to this day! then a couple of months later i managed to pick up a ton of lotr models for only 10 euros which were actually worth about 150 euros which i then in turn traded for a khorne army which had about the same value. with it i got the chaos dex, read it, thought ok, maybe i want a less brainless army then a khorne one so i started reading all the fluff on the games workshop website, which led me straight to the wolves. ever since that moment i haven't picked up a single other army, nor do i ever intend to. oh yeah this was about 7 years ago Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/184642-when-did-you-come-to-the-wolves/#findComment-2182675 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nadir Posted November 12, 2009 Share Posted November 12, 2009 I went to a shop to buy some more chaos knights. Looking for chaos centaurs (and I mean centaurs, not centigors) I have found a blue book with golden yellow "... Wolves" on it. Because I just love all wolfy things i just want to look at it. And it has begun. I've sell all other figures, and buy the best of the best power armored Wolves. Since then, I'm a huge SW fan. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/184642-when-did-you-come-to-the-wolves/#findComment-2182689 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Growler67 Posted November 12, 2009 Share Posted November 12, 2009 Roughly a dozen years ago as I don't recall exactly when. Introduced to TTGaming by a coworker. Went from game to game and actually like others more than 40K, especially Warzone and VOR. Base 10 was so much easier and fun than the convoluted system employed in 40K. Within the group proxy models were allowed so we began seeking out and acquiring some great models regardless of game and employed them in whatever we were playing that weekend. It was more fun that way. It was more fun then too. Now playing feels like a chore which is why I prefer the modeling and fluff much more these days. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/184642-when-did-you-come-to-the-wolves/#findComment-2182706 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spazmonkey Posted November 12, 2009 Share Posted November 12, 2009 Me oh about 5 months ago.... i started about 2 weeks prior to hearing the new dex was comming out with new models.... They match my personality well, and the fact I have Futhark runes tattooed on my body helps..... Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/184642-when-did-you-come-to-the-wolves/#findComment-2182707 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ullr Direfang Posted November 12, 2009 Share Posted November 12, 2009 well for me, about ten years ago, i wandered into my LGS. A bunch of my friends were there playing Fantasy. They said i should look into it. so after reading the rule book, i choose to go dwarfs. well about a year later the group kind of fell apart after the death of a friend, but i still wanted to play. most people at my LGS plays 40k, so i started looking for and army. i noticed a really cool space marine battle force(they were on an ice world and a red haired space marine was killing an ork). after finding out that the codex for that army would be hard to find, so i picked up IG. about a year later i walked into another store, that wasn't close to where i live, and low and behold there was the codex i was looking for. i bought it and got a good small army to use together and let it grow from there. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/184642-when-did-you-come-to-the-wolves/#findComment-2182727 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draketh Firewind Posted November 12, 2009 Share Posted November 12, 2009 Well for me it would of been about about six years ago or five I think and well the view of this space marine slaughtering orcs on the cover of the codex just caught me so I got reading the codex and well when they started showing me all the little fun items and such and well got hooked ever since, admitedly I had not played with them in a long time but recently had got back into using them becuase I had a better idea of tatics and how to paly a better smarter game and well this was before I even knew of a new space wolves codex coming out! Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/184642-when-did-you-come-to-the-wolves/#findComment-2182758 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Amarel Posted November 12, 2009 Share Posted November 12, 2009 I bought the original Rogue Trader the day it was released. That makes me old, right? Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/184642-when-did-you-come-to-the-wolves/#findComment-2182762 Share on other sites More sharing options...
greese_m0nkey Posted November 12, 2009 Share Posted November 12, 2009 I was in the U.S. Marines on my way to my first deployment to Iraq back in 2003; we were on ship and stopped in Darwin Australia. I happened to find a GW store and noticed they had the Space wolf codex and Battle force on the shelf. I bought both and all of their wolf scouts and wolf guard in tda armor plus paint. Six years latter and 8000 points more I am still playing my Wolves even though I have two other full armies of Dark Eldar and Tau that don’t even see daylight let alone a gaming table. ;) Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/184642-when-did-you-come-to-the-wolves/#findComment-2182765 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahorsecalledwar Posted November 12, 2009 Share Posted November 12, 2009 When i was 10 my saga began. My elder brov had a mate who was so good at painting it was un real but he had a massed ork hord ( 2nd ed) and needed help painting it. So my brov helped, and imployed me to do the building being i was well into my airfix kits at the time. The only problem being was being young i never wanted to be the bad guys and building orcs was boring the hell outa me, so my brovs m8 gave me a few space marines and told me to paint them. He wanted a light blue/grey shade so i cracked on. I done a cracking job so he thought it was time for me to paint something alittle harder so he gave me his model of....Russ. My 1st real taste of things to come. Took me weeks and weeks but after that i was hooked. So i started gameing after that but many many years later and there was only one army i ever wanted to have out. My space wolfs, and to this day i have never played another army. There was a time (and now to think of it) that i was so hooked by it all i even started studying nordic law and was amazed by how closley related it all was and the art work was just mind blowing, i even went and had terminator hounors tattoed on my left sholder. With that, my 10ks worth of wolfs and my WTN (no joke i really have one) i still take to the table with the only army that should be used.... So thats where it all started. Sorry for the spelling 4 bottles of Hobgoblin have some what taken there toll....... Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/184642-when-did-you-come-to-the-wolves/#findComment-2182766 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hfran Morkai Posted November 12, 2009 Author Share Posted November 12, 2009 I was in the U.S. Marines on my way to my first deployment to Iraq back in 2003; we were on ship and stopped in Darwin Australia. I happened to find a GW store and noticed they had the Space wolf codex and Battle force on the shelf. I bought both and all of their wolf scouts and wolf guard in tda armor plus paint. Six years latter and 8000 points more I am still playing my Wolves even though I have two other full armies of Dark Eldar and Tau that don’t even see daylight let alone a gaming table. ;) Now that's a story! Wolves from half way round the world, that's dedication! Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/184642-when-did-you-come-to-the-wolves/#findComment-2182768 Share on other sites More sharing options...
greese_m0nkey Posted November 12, 2009 Share Posted November 12, 2009 You think that was good two thirds of my present army was painted on a ship at sea. My First scout squad was painted in Eygpt. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/184642-when-did-you-come-to-the-wolves/#findComment-2182782 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commander Sasha Posted November 12, 2009 Share Posted November 12, 2009 Well I want to know how you became a wolf. ...I rather suspect that a lot of current Wolves are about 5 weeks old now :P ...and they'll be turning into bugs in January. Like in the film 'The Thing'! ;) Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/184642-when-did-you-come-to-the-wolves/#findComment-2182802 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolf Lord Jukes Posted November 12, 2009 Share Posted November 12, 2009 I believe it was the year 2000, when after many months pouring over an old citadel catalog my friend had I went to the LGS and had to decide between Imperial Guard tanks and the Space Wolf Battleforce. I chose Space Wolves and think that's the best decision I could've made. I've since gotten into WHFB (6 armies there LOL), Blood Bowl and Battlefleet Gothic, but in 40k it's been Space Wolves only, and I've loved playing them all these years :P Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/184642-when-did-you-come-to-the-wolves/#findComment-2182809 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raulmichile Posted November 12, 2009 Share Posted November 12, 2009 17 years ago, in Rogue Trader age, I've always been a space wolf and will die as spece wolf... and CSM, and IG, and Fantasy Chaos, and Fantasy Empire..... but Space Wolf first and foremost!!!!! :P Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/184642-when-did-you-come-to-the-wolves/#findComment-2182813 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolf Guard Nostromo Posted November 12, 2009 Share Posted November 12, 2009 15 or 16 years ago, a friend of mine showed me a copy of white dwarf - I was immediately interested in the ideas, particularly the space marines, and went along to my local store to have a look. I came away with a starter set and six space marines which I (appalling badly) painted as Blood Angels (mainly because they seemed like the easiest to paint and I had red paint!) After a fling with them and then with eldar, I was inspired by an article in WD about the background to the more diverse space marine chapters, and was drawn to space wolves because of their attitude, the viking backdrop (i am into my history and mythology) and the combination of typical sm firepower alongside genuine heroic prowess in close combat - that was some 14 years ago. While I admit to flirting with Grey Knights (wait, that came out wrong :P ), I have been building my Space Wolves ever since. Although I do occassionally add to my Eldar and Grey Knights (now always as allies for Frostbringer's Great Company in apocalypse), I don't ever see being anything other than a Space Wolf. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/184642-when-did-you-come-to-the-wolves/#findComment-2182817 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warhorse47 Posted November 13, 2009 Share Posted November 13, 2009 A friend got me into 40k a couple years ago after trying for years to get me in. On a suggestion, I started with DA, but when I saw they would [and had!] leave others in a fight, they were out the window! Then I found a SW Codex and joined the Fang in January of last year. Up to about 5,000 points now due to selling and trading off the ladies of the night [DA]. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/184642-when-did-you-come-to-the-wolves/#findComment-2182889 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonas Stromclaw Posted November 13, 2009 Share Posted November 13, 2009 I'd known about 40k for several years, thought it was pretty dunce (I played LOTR, 1st read tolkien's books when I was seven). About a year ago I walked into my LGS for a box of Rohirrim, spent five minutes staring at a blood angels box wondering why anybody would go to war wearing nice bright red armor that screamed TARGET! I took two steps to the left and saw the PA rune priest with the axe in a display case and I was hooked. Left the store with an AOBR and grey hunter box, never looked back. My great company is now 2K points and growing. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/184642-when-did-you-come-to-the-wolves/#findComment-2182896 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sambu Posted November 13, 2009 Share Posted November 13, 2009 I started back in 1997. I bought a pack of the 6 plastic space marines. When I finally found the GW's website I got hooked on the Space Wolves (LOL, plus my friend was already building Ultramarines). Then I found A local store and he was running his version of a Games Day near the store. I went and met some of the best friends I could have including the one who we share our army together. Now 13 years later and if I lift my lazy arse to finish we may be able to have 9,000 to 10,000 points of Wolves. One day I want to do all 12 companies. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/184642-when-did-you-come-to-the-wolves/#findComment-2182903 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Godhead Posted November 13, 2009 Share Posted November 13, 2009 I bought rogue trader when it came out. I painted my 1st squad of marines as crimson fists. Then everyone I knew that played was a space marine. So I started my eldar army. I quit playing, went to college, drank my out of college, joined the Navy, met some more guys who used to play. Uncrated my eldar, bought the 2nd ed rules, and fought MANY GLORIOUS BATTLES against the Space Wolves chapter. I will aways remember Bjorn running down the middle of the table absolutely wrecking my lines. Once I got out of the Navy I did't have a gaming group anymore and I moved around a lot trying to quench my wanderlust. When I finally decided to try to put down some roots I felt the urge to get back into the table top gaming. One of the things I really enjoyed about the game was doing conversions and trying to have a semi unique looking army. I also decided it was time to take the plunge and walk away from the pointy eared space fairies and become a true hero of humanity. I tried Blood Angels but something didn't fit. I have such fond memories of pitched battles and trash talking and drinking with my buds who played wolves. Wolves offered tons of oppurtunity for conversions and they drank and fight and feast. Plus their primarch didn't go down like some punk. He is still out there kicking butt and taking names. Bam. Space Wolves it was. I haven't regretted it yet. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/184642-when-did-you-come-to-the-wolves/#findComment-2182908 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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