Could a LW be elected to WL?

[Brother Caleb]

Could a lone wolf be so vicious that he earns the respect of his brothers and lives long enough to see his wolf lord die, and consequently be elected the new lord?

[Grey Mage]

You mean could a Lone Wolf eventually overcome his pscyhological issues to the point of being a relatively sane marine again, and then go on to become a Wolf Lord?

 

I dont see why not. Wouldnt be common, but it could happen.

[Aeddon]

Very possible, just read the fluff for Lone Wolves. Says's that it is common for those that survive to be elected to the Wolf Guard and subsequently they could end up being elected as the new Wolf Lord.

[Brother Caleb]

I've been trying to work out some fluff for my GC and I thought it would be interesting if my Lord was at one point a lone wolf.

[Requiem of the Wolf]

I've been trying to work out some fluff for my GC and I thought it would be interesting if my Lord was at one point a lone wolf.

Yes In the rare instances that a Lone wolf avenges his pack,by hunting down and killing the monster responsible for wiping them out. He will carry the head of his prey to the Fang and basically drop it in front of the Wolf lord. At this point it is unheard of for the Lone Wolf to not be promoted to the Wolf Guard.

[Freman Bloodglaive]

Whereupon he loses a point of WS, W, Feel no pain, fearless, and eternal warrior along with what is effectively saga of the beastslayer.

 

Did any Lone Wolf sit down and think, "hey, maybe that isn't so great after all"?

 

In your sig I think you mean annihilating the full squad of sisters. Decimating is just killing one in ten, and was the punishment for a company fleeing in the Roman legions.

[Requiem of the Wolf]

Whereupon he loses a point of WS, W, Feel no pain, fearless, and eternal warrior along with what is effectively saga of the beastslayer.

 

Did any Lone Wolf sit down and think, "hey, maybe that isn't so great after all"?

 

In your sig I think you mean annihilating the full squad of sisters. Decimating is just killing one in ten, and was the punishment for a company fleeing in the Roman legions.

Yes I know that was the original meaning...nowadays its a little bit looser. Besides...All told I think it did end up being 10% of the army or close to it lol.

 

as for losing the ws,wound,feel no pain,fearless and eternal warrior and beast slayer saga...its more that he kind of stops being a single minded maniac. and becomes a normal Space wolf kind of maniac.

[Brother Belgae]

dec·i·mate   /ˈdɛsəˌmeɪt/ Show Spelled[des-uh-meyt]–verb (used with object),-mat·ed, -mat·ing.

1.to destroy a great number or proportion of: The population was decimated by a plague.

2.to select by lot and kill every tenth person of.

3.Obsolete. to take a tenth of or from.

 

You are both correct.

[Freman Bloodglaive]

Okay, as long as somebody is. :tu:

[Necron God]

See no ther forum talks about the meaning of decimate! thats how awesome we are :)

[Decoy]

See no ther forum talks about the meaning of decimate! thats how awesome we are :)

 

Moreover, while other forums talk about "Decimating", we know the true meaning because we rarely do it; we simply annihilate. See sig.

[Lord Ragnarok]

Fluffwise I see no reason a LW couldn't become a wl after completing his pack oath and possibly joining the WG. In fact it would make a great addition to a wolf lords saga to go from the depths of misery of losing one's pack, overcoming that(by killing some great ememy) and adding other heroic feats thereafter.

[WLRanulf]

Just the past couple days me and some friends played a massive 20,500 point 4 player Apocalypse battle (over 10,000 points a side) to end off a 5 month campaign we had running. I had it intially in my storyline that my lone wolf named Ulfthor lost his entire squad at the very beginning of the campaign against a horde of Orks, and that he would die in the final battle, finally finding some semblence of peace and avenging his lost brothers. But after the way he performed in this massive battle, me and my ally, a guard player, decided that he should definately live, being promoted to the Wolf Guard.

 

As a note, my Lone Wolf was equipped as follows:

 

Lone Wolf

Terminator Armor

Thunder Hammer

Storm Shield

1x Fenrisian Wolf

 

Our side was at 10,250 points. There was 4000 points of Imperial Guard, 4000 points of Space Wolves, a Warhound Titan with Vulcan Mega-Bolter and Plasma Annihilator, 2x Baneblades, and a Stormlord carrying Ragnar, a Wolf Priest, Rune Priest, Wolf Guard and 15x Blood Claws from my list. The opponents army was a huge mix of Orks, including 3x Stompas and a Squiggoth.

 

He started the game deployed hidding inside the corner of a building near the center of the board. By turn 2 he was surrounded by 2x Stompas, a Squiggoth carrying a Big Mek and other boys, 3 Kans and a Battlewagon carrying a bunch of burnas. He ran out of the building expecting a glorius death in close combat with the squiggoth. Guns from the guard knocked out the Squiggoth before he could charge, so I redirected my assault to the battlewagon full of burnas. I immobilized and stunned it to keep it from doing anything for a turn. The following turn, the ork player kept his burnas inside the battlewagon to protect them from any guard fire, and was able to repair the battlewagon's immobilized result. He then charged the Lone Wolf with a fully kitted out Warboss and a Stompa! The fenrisian wolf was quick to die, but the lone wolf only took one wound. The lone wolf was then able to attack back, keeping the battlewagon pinned in place. The combat kept going on, with the lone wolf somehow surviving each turn.

 

When we finished the game after 8 long hours, the lone wolf was still alive with a Stompa (who now had a damaged drive), a battlewagon full of burnas that was severly damaged and a warboss all surrounding him, but still he lived. A 95 point model finished the game tying up close to a 1000 points of units without dying, which really helped our side of the board. We ended up winning the game 7 objectives to 6. He was definately one of my MVPs for the game, along with a unit of Wolf Scouts and two units of Long fangs.

 

So i definately think Ulfthor the lone wolf will end up surviving the campaign and be promoted to a Wolf Guard and eventually a Battle Leader, keeping him in his terminator armor with thunder hammer and storm shield.

 

Ranulf

[n00b in need]

wow after reading the Apocalypse battle story i'm def adding a LW of my own just to see how well he does, was the storm shield what helped him last so long by chance? cause that saved my Wolf Guard attached to a squad of blood claws so many times that my opponent ended up throwing his entire army at one wolf guard in PA lol. (oh on a side note, he survived with the help of a drop poding Njal and Wolf Priest both in TDA with 3 escort terminators :huh:)

[WLRanulf]

Oh yes, the Storm Shield definately saved him more than a few times. I like fielding my space wolves with shields. It may be a bit more pricey and not as efficient, but it adds so much to the feel of "vikings in space" that I love about space wolves.

 

Oh, and on a purely fluffy note, me and the opponent Ork player that was controlling Stompa made a friendly little wager. Obviously the fenrisian wolf could do nothing to the Stompa before he was completely crushed. But, I said that if the fenrisian wolf could roll to hit, then roll two 6s back to back for armor pen, then he should atleast be able to scratch the armor with his claws. So he told me that if I could roll to hit then roll two 6s in a row, I could sculpt some wolf claw scratch marks into the Stompas armor. I won, and now one ground level panel has some trailing claw marks running down the panel. Entertaining to say the least.

[Vassakov]

From a fluff perspective, then there is no real reason why not. A Lone Wolf is simply a last survivor, who wishes to either exact vengeance in blood for his fallen brothers. Preferably the biggest, scariest, bloodiest thing nearby!

 

There is no real "flaw" or psychological issue that would affect a LW, so promotion to the WG followed by promotion to a Wolf Lord is entirely possible.

 

In fact... what do we know about Logan Grimnar's history...?

[Korraz]

...or the other Wolf Lords.

 

In fact, I'm planning to play the rise of my Wolf Lord, starting as a Blood Claw, in a campaign. And if he becomes a LW on the way and manages to achieve redemption, the way to Wolf Guard and then Lord is free.