Wolfblade?

[spjaco]

Anyone know how many Wolfblades there supposedly are at any given time. I recall something about it being twenty or so, but I am having trouble tracking down that source of information.

[Vassakov]

According to Wolfblade, by Bill King, it is about 20. As this is the only source of any kind to do with the Wolfblade, I'd say its as reliable as we're going to get.

[DV8]

There are 24 Wolf Blade. It matches the number of Navigators that Belisarius sends to navigate the Space Wolf fleets.

 

 

DV8

[Logan230]

There are 24 Wolf Blade. It matches the number of Navigators that Belisarius sends to navigate the Space Wolf fleets.

 

 

DV8

 

I, personally, wouldn't be so quick to drop the number 24, granted I don't have the book here but sending just enough Wolves to cover the "out with fleet" Navigators doesn't make sense. I would put money on it being closer to 30. that way the Wolves dont have to operate solo all the time. besides Ragnar, Torin, Haegr, and Bossman (cant remember) were on Terra or were guarding that one Navigator, so IMO it would make sense to have closer to 30.

[stinkenheim]

the navigator house sends 24 navigators to serve as part of the spae wolf fleet and as advisors, the spaces wolves in return send 24 marines to act as bodyguards to the navigators house. it also helps to act as a show of strength for the navigators on terra, basically you mess with us you mess with the wolves.

its stated in the books that we send 24 wolves, so its not like DV8 just pulled a number from thin air.

[Token]

Doesnt that book also say that those marines are the only ones on Terra? I thought the imperial fists were there as well? And those.. Golden ones, whatever they are called?

[DV8]

There are 24 Wolf Blade. It matches the number of Navigators that Belisarius sends to navigate the Space Wolf fleets.

 

 

DV8

 

I, personally, wouldn't be so quick to drop the number 24, granted I don't have the book here but sending just enough Wolves to cover the "out with fleet" Navigators doesn't make sense. I would put money on it being closer to 30. that way the Wolves dont have to operate solo all the time. besides Ragnar, Torin, Haegr, and Bossman (cant remember) were on Terra or were guarding that one Navigator, so IMO it would make sense to have closer to 30.

 

It's not a number I'm just dropping willy nilly. As Stinkenheim has mentioned, the novel specifically states that there are 24 Wolf Blade positions to equal the 24 Navigators that House Belisarius sends to the Space Wolves Chapter as Navigators and advisors (quite often political). In turn the Wolf Blades are stationed on Terra as bodguards, envoys, and as strike teams (very often leaders, but as the novels show, small "units" of Wolf Blade are sometimes banded together for a mission of importance). In this way particular Space Wolves are actually exposed to the politics of Terra and gain a better understanding of how the Imperium truly functions. It is for this reason that Wolf Blades aren't always necessarily "exiled" to be Wolf Blades (although that may be the most visible reason).

 

After all, Wolf Lord Ragnar Blackmane was Wolf Blade, and in fact the novel states that our Great Wolf Logan Grimnar was once Wolf Blade as well.

 

Doesnt that book also say that those marines are the only ones on Terra? I thought the imperial fists were there as well? And those.. Golden ones, whatever they are called?

 

The Imperial Fists call Terra their homeworld as an honorific for their role as custodians and because of their role as defenders during the Horus Heresy (although Rogal Dorn was actually found on Inwit, their ship the Phalanx acts as a mobile fortress-monastery). As such the Fists don't actually maintain a "fortress" on Terra, although they can certainly recruit there (as they would on other planets, like Necromunda and suchforth).

 

And the golden boys you refer to are the Adeptus Custodes, the Emperor's bodyguard. They are stationed around the throne (all 10,000 of them) and technically aren't Space Marines (the comparison has been made that the Custodes are to Astartes as Astartes are to mortal men.

 

 

DV8

[Demonslayer]

And the golden boys you refer to are the Adeptus Custodes, the Emperor's bodyguard. They are stationed around the throne (all 10,000 of them) and technically aren't Space Marines (the comparison has been made that the Custodes are to Astartes as Astartes are to mortal men.

DV8

 

Ooo, got to get me some of them, and I won't make them stand around all day either. Only problem is I'll have to keep them with the Blood Claws until they are battle hardened :wallbash:

[mastrchief33]

Not to mention that Custodes weren't created like marines either...mass produced that is. They are all individual and are both larger in stature and physically more powerful than Astartes. They don't literally stand around all day either. People have the perception that they are stagnant house guard, they are not. They are defensive warriors by training, meant to act as a bodyguards more than soldiers. I thought I read somwhere that they also have heightened psychic potential as well. I could be wrong on that.