Wolf Lord Fenrir Posted November 13, 2009 Share Posted November 13, 2009 Around '93 or '94. Can't remember exactly, but I do remember having a fevered wait for the codex to arrive and getting it on the day of release. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/184642-when-did-you-come-to-the-wolves/page/3/#findComment-2183401 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Narsil the Death Dealer Posted November 13, 2009 Share Posted November 13, 2009 I bought the 2nd edition boxed game sometime in 93. I started out playing my marines as blood angels first but when the Space Wolves codex came out I was hooked. Bought the codex, a box of metal blood claws, and Bjorn the Fell-Handed.....I still have all till this day. I've been a Space Wolf fan/commander ever since. My army has grown and has changed with each new edition. It's currently going through a major overhaul as most of my wolves are getting stripped and re-painted and I'm adding the new plastics into my army. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/184642-when-did-you-come-to-the-wolves/page/3/#findComment-2183421 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lucian Posted November 13, 2009 Share Posted November 13, 2009 Worked at a hobbystore that sold GW's games, 93-94. And since I have viking blood in my veins, I choosed the Space wolves. ;) Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/184642-when-did-you-come-to-the-wolves/page/3/#findComment-2183485 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schertenleib Posted November 13, 2009 Share Posted November 13, 2009 About seven months ago a buddy of mine started working at a GW store. He got me playing a couple games of 40K and I was hooked. It was a toss up between SW and Salamanders, but once I got my hands on a copy of the old codex I knew I had to play Wolves! Now we have a new codex and I'm really glad I made the choice. Now I just have to get some cash and put more models on the board ;) Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/184642-when-did-you-come-to-the-wolves/page/3/#findComment-2183498 Share on other sites More sharing options...
khairney Posted November 13, 2009 Share Posted November 13, 2009 i bought a considerable army of blood angels when i was about 10 years , fell in love with the game, then collected a army of my own, space wolves. they looked terrible! painting was soul destroying, and my modelling techniques left alot to be desired, but i loved em, and i have ever since! so that must have been about... err. umm. a long time ago. bout 10-11 years maybe. im not sure. my memery is kinda hazy at best. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/184642-when-did-you-come-to-the-wolves/page/3/#findComment-2183505 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rokafort Stonewolf Posted November 13, 2009 Share Posted November 13, 2009 '99 here. I was just getting into 40k as a young lad and found the wolves to be my army of choice. I'm in the process of redoing the army in my new style, mostly for nostalgia purposes - motorized Land Raiders with robot motherboards in them, airbrushed insignia, the whole nine yards. ^^ Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/184642-when-did-you-come-to-the-wolves/page/3/#findComment-2183513 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Audun Posted November 13, 2009 Share Posted November 13, 2009 About four years ago, I was browsing Gamespot looking for demos, found Dawn of War, loved it, and a few months later got myself some tactical marines (Like everyone else right?!). I started reading background on the GW site, and found that the Grey Knights interested me the most at the time, got some of them. I then decided that I wanted a chapter with true style, and I really liked the nordic theme, and I've had my wolves ever since and wouldn't trade them for any other SM chapter. None of the other have as much fun as the Wolves. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/184642-when-did-you-come-to-the-wolves/page/3/#findComment-2183520 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freman Bloodglaive Posted November 13, 2009 Share Posted November 13, 2009 http://images.fotopic.net/1y0xqe.jpg Remember this guy? Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/184642-when-did-you-come-to-the-wolves/page/3/#findComment-2183640 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow Jester Posted November 13, 2009 Share Posted November 13, 2009 I don't remember what year it was but a friend of mine got these really cool looking models from his cousin. at the time i was still building kit planes and at a hobby store i had found plastic models of army troops. these were so much cooler they had armor! we played many little battles and really started getting into the world of 40k it didn't take long to find the LGS. for about a year i invested in Tau and got my butt handed to me many times by my friends Black Legion. once combat began i lost. could have helped to have been using a rule book and WYSIWYG, not just the codex's. one of the guys at the store suggested switching armies if i was having so much bad luck and suggested the brand new Witch Hunters "check them out he said" and i left that day with my first WD. it had lots of Witch Hunters Stuff and the first battle report i ever read Witch Hunters vs. The Thirteenth company. i was hooked like burned macarroni to the bottom of a pot. i bought the Battle force and a rule book! i slept not that night building painting and researching as much as i could all about the wolves and viking history(which i was already into) my next battle saw the hordes of The Black Legion stopped dead in its rampage, and turned back. i have gone back to my Tau on occasion and do have some Chaos models of my own but the Wolves always call to me. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/184642-when-did-you-come-to-the-wolves/page/3/#findComment-2183658 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raulmichile Posted November 13, 2009 Share Posted November 13, 2009 "Remember this guy?" Obviously. Our father Leman Russ himself!!!!!!! (When he was a lowly imperial commander.... :cuss ) Beleive it or not. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/184642-when-did-you-come-to-the-wolves/page/3/#findComment-2183660 Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiplash Posted November 13, 2009 Share Posted November 13, 2009 2003 probably, my first warhammer army :( (and 2 out of my 3 armies to date have been space wolves!!) Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/184642-when-did-you-come-to-the-wolves/page/3/#findComment-2183877 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wispy Posted November 13, 2009 Share Posted November 13, 2009 Last January, my first 40k army. 'Space Vikings' is really all that needs to be said. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/184642-when-did-you-come-to-the-wolves/page/3/#findComment-2183890 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaotic Death Posted November 14, 2009 Share Posted November 14, 2009 I started Space Wolves back in 3rd edition. I was looking for an army that would fit my playstyle of a combined arms type of force. I wanted an army that was good at close combat, and one that was good at range. I started playing the Wolves and fell in love. Shortly after 4th edition came out, I moved to another state and the FLGS that was close by wasn't playing any 40K games. I then sold my 2000pts of Wolves and started playing Warlord. What a big mistake that was. A few months ago, I heard that the Wolves were getting a new 'dex. I knew that I had to start them up again. I now have over 7000pts of them. I am so happy to be playing the Wolves again. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/184642-when-did-you-come-to-the-wolves/page/3/#findComment-2183984 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mammon Posted November 14, 2009 Share Posted November 14, 2009 10 years ago, a friend and I were really into Battletech. We collected the TCG because we liked the artwork. To get these cards (I eventually acquired one of the rarest cards, the Kodiak, still have it), we had travel to a single hobby shop and dig around. Well, we would gander at everything and even though we were Battletech fans we each started to pick up different bits from Warhammer 40k. I, still very much into my Powered Armor fix, strayed towards the space marines and my friend opted towards the orks. We picked up the occasional model and even a few of the cards when they had those. About four years ago we both began to dabble in the hobby. I originally had purchased the Tau codex, figuring them to be the most noble and honest of all the races in Warhammer 40,000. For some reason I just never got started. I didn't much fancy the look of the Tau, for some reason aliens were not for me. Then I began to read alot of fluff and ran into the Space Wolf Omnibus and did some reading into the Space Wolves. I was hooked. The Space Wolves were my first army. Everyone told me to start with another army until I understood the game better. I didn't. I lost 11 games before I won my first. I have tried other armies but sold them all, never feeling the same sense of glee whenever I took the field with my Wolves. We haven't won many victories and we are often the underdog, but we fight on, often taking down the biggest and baddest enemy on the field when we can. The game just isn't as fun unless I hit the field with my Wolves. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/184642-when-did-you-come-to-the-wolves/page/3/#findComment-2184060 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolf Lord Arrnulf Posted November 14, 2009 Share Posted November 14, 2009 Ah ye young pups... I started my saga with the wolves about 18 years ago. Was really into D&D and then my friend wanted to start a new game. Had no clue wat it was cuz u weren't roleplaying.. ROGUE TRADER... Loved dwarfs so i started with the Squats.. yes.. those dimunitive lil hells angels with bikes, trikes and granddaddies in sidecars... anyone remember those mole mortars?? hah!! Then i started reading about the wolves and i fell in love. Vikings in space! Codex Astartes?? Whats that?? who cares!! We get drunk! We fight everyone and with our brothers! and we have hair!! 2nd ed came out and picked up every single space wolf box there was... Ragnar and +20 wolf guards.. lol... Bjorn at his prime.. those were the days... Then i started working for GW.... lol... but those were and are the days ;) Cant wait to finsih my new space pups ;) Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/184642-when-did-you-come-to-the-wolves/page/3/#findComment-2184099 Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyeslikethunder Posted November 14, 2009 Share Posted November 14, 2009 when i bought Armies of the Imperium in 1991 Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/184642-when-did-you-come-to-the-wolves/page/3/#findComment-2184391 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grimmwulf Posted November 14, 2009 Share Posted November 14, 2009 I had been playing whfb for quite some time with no intention of ever beginning with 40k. however, a guy that i know quit the hobby and gave me his butt ugly painted space marine army, around 1500 points of them. Well, I then made the best out of power armored models that can be made of them and joined the ranks of the wolves. 3 years later my army has grown to 5000 points I have also added a 3000 point tyranid army to my wargaming shelf. I liked playing space vikings so much that they hooked me to the hobby, inspite of me beeing a fantasy fiction fan rather than a science fiction fan. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/184642-when-did-you-come-to-the-wolves/page/3/#findComment-2184446 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormwulf133 Posted November 14, 2009 Share Posted November 14, 2009 Well young pups, my fangs are a bit long and my memory a bit clouded by this time. As I remember it many moons ago a friend of mine introduced me into this game called Warhammer 40k. This was way back when I was still in school. (I am 31 now) I don't remember which year of high school, or even if it may have been Jr. High that I started. The army that got me in was the tyranids. I love the bugs, always have always will. But while tiring of fielding the same army over and over again, my buddy Kyle handed me this book called Codex:Space Wolves. It was one of the first space marine codex out in those days. I was always bored by the other marines, but gave this a quick glance through. Space vikings you say? Well now, that is a bit different. I shall give this a read. I read the old sagas in the book, the short stories about Ragnar Blackmane (Who is BLONDE DAMNIT!) I was hooked. I bought myself (albiet slowly with allowance money) a few vehicles, some squads. I was too young and poor to build it into a proper army but I played none the less. One thing that cemented my love for wolves in stone was a fateful day reading white dwarf. There was this miniature featured that was in the Games Day painting competition. It was a wolf lord conversion of Egil Ironwolf modeled by a man named Kent Plumb. The thing that struck me as odd is that he sculpted it to look like himself. While showing my girlfriend this (she also played), she laughed and said, "I'm pretty sure he works where I work!" She found him the next day at work and asked him about it. At some point we met up to talk about painting and converting. Seeing all his models that were just awesome really finalized that I would be playing wolves from that point on. He even helped me sculpt one of the wolf icons on my venerable dreadnought, Buliwyf. The "Pups" have been my main army ever since. I have dabbled in tons of other armies over the years, able to field many thousands of points of my Tyranids, several thousand in Chaos, and even a bit of a Blood Angel force, but for me it always comes back to the Wolves. There young lads is how I became a space wolf. I even proudly have the Blooded Hunter, the Thunderwolf, and a wolf skull proudly inked onto my body. Now drink a pint to your elders young ones, and meet your foe with teeth and claw in the fields of battle. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/184642-when-did-you-come-to-the-wolves/page/3/#findComment-2184601 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Durfast Spiritwolf Posted November 14, 2009 Share Posted November 14, 2009 I went into a GW store in Plymouth in late '95 after some fifteen years of wargaming including a short dab into Rogue Trader in the late '80s. I had a good look at the various options and, having just returned from BiH, decided that Space Wolves seemed suitably anarchic and far enough removed from real conflict to be fun. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/184642-when-did-you-come-to-the-wolves/page/3/#findComment-2184650 Share on other sites More sharing options...
AcidBurn Posted November 15, 2009 Share Posted November 15, 2009 i started my Steel Fangs lost company about 7 years ago (so i dont know what that makes me here in the fang, Grey hunter? or long fang? il let you guys be the judge of that). it all started when me and a staffer at my local GW got into a conversation about "space vikings" and he pointed out the space wolves to me. Not too long after that i won a conversion competition and my prize was a random codex, and low and behold it was the space wolf one it was there and then i knew i had been chosen to become a son of Russ and have been ever since. "For the Wolftime brothers!!!" *raises a tankard of ale* Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/184642-when-did-you-come-to-the-wolves/page/3/#findComment-2184708 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vash113 Posted November 15, 2009 Share Posted November 15, 2009 Lets see, I started Space Wolves about... hmm 2 years ago. I bought a 2000pt 13th Company army from a guy I knew at my LGS while at college around October/November of 2007. I'd only started marines about a year and a half before that so I've been playing Space Marines for only about 3 1/2 years. Warhammer for 7 1/2 years though. I first saw Space Wolves back in 1998 but I didn't have nearly the disposeable income required to get into the game then. Still I remember seeing a box of Grey Hunters and Logan Grimnar and thinking, "now those guys are cool." So when I had the opportunity midway through my Sophomore year I figured what the heck, why not? I chopped off some of the worst chaos bits, fixed em up as regular Space Wolves and added 30 Blood Claws I got for about 30% off at another LGS because of overstock and my Space Wolves have grown and kicked but ever since. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/184642-when-did-you-come-to-the-wolves/page/3/#findComment-2184764 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beef Posted November 15, 2009 Share Posted November 15, 2009 For me it wwa so long ago I cant even remember the dates. Although It was way before the Ulrick. NJal And Ragnar models came out. Early 90's. But the sad thing is I have not even bought any of the new wolves yet. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/184642-when-did-you-come-to-the-wolves/page/3/#findComment-2184775 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grimfoe Posted November 15, 2009 Share Posted November 15, 2009 I started playing in high school, around 1988 or so. I played several games with my older brother, including Rogue Trader using his stuff. Didn't play a lot in the beginning, but I started playing more and more once I graduated in 1990. Finally the new wolves came out at the end of 1992? I bought the line and have played them every since. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/184642-when-did-you-come-to-the-wolves/page/3/#findComment-2184785 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crimson Devil Posted November 15, 2009 Share Posted November 15, 2009 Back in 1994 I purchased my very first GW model; a Long Fang with a Missile Launcher. A week later I went back to buy the 40k box set and was talked out of playing Space Wolves by the locals because the SW were broken/cheesey/bready/etc. So I never did play a Space marine army during 2nd Edition. I played Blood Angels during third, and started Howling Griffons and many other DIY chapters during fourth. But most never got further than a couple of finished models. Something was always missing, the marine codex always seems too bland to me regardless of the angle I tried. And I always regretted not building a Space Wolf army, so in 2007 I did. So to answer your question I was always a Wolf, even if I didn't know it. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/184642-when-did-you-come-to-the-wolves/page/3/#findComment-2185243 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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