Why play Space Wolves?

[Fhyn]

When I first started playing back in 97, I started with SW, due to well my love for wolves, so was a no brainer. Left the game in 2002, and started playing again in 2010. So first picked up SW again.

 

At that time a lot of folks were playing them, so I put them aside and messed with Necrons. Though I love my little Undead Marines, ;), I still loved my Wolves more. So started building them back up.

 

But just off the codex, the thing I love the most about SW, is the fact of its versatility. There are so many of us that play them, but I can go to a tournament, see 4 different players playing SW, and all 4 of us can have totally different builds. Heck, I just picked up my TWC at the post office from Mythicast, so that gives me I think now 6 different builds for my SW's, all competitive. So just according to what I want to field for the day. :P

[Grey Mage]

I know a lot of people choose an army first for aesthetics, but that aside, what rules or special units compel people to play Space Wolves?

 

I'm currently a BA player and was just wanting to know what makes your chapter special to play with.

SWs have a distinct short range flexable fighting style that I love, its like judo on the table top- get in close, shoot the choppy, chop the shooty, with a myriad of options to get there.

 

Arguably the best DP force out there because of ultra-grit grey hunters with counter-attack, wich is something that appeals to me as a DP player, it adds a real 3rd dimension to the army.

 

Speaking of 3rd dimensions, SWs can also pull off footslogging lists, either with cheap masses of troops or with alot of beasts and cavalry- or both. This is something many armies struggle with- BA pull it off in large part due to FNP, but that gets expensive quickly....

 

*shrugs* SWs are like.... wolves. Lean, efficient, and deadly with plenty of options to take tactic down their prey when a keen mind is behind the controls.

 

Of course, I started playing SWs about 10 years ago... so the current codex, and the above points are new. I find the fluff fun, and parts of it are dear to my heart.

[Revan Noir]

Thanks for all the enthusiastic responses, I expect nothing less from my fellow battle brothers.

[Loki-LaughingDeath]

I play the Wolves because over the Years I have had my interest piqued by different armies offering a specific set of tactics. There has yet to be an army that can offer the tactical flexibility that the Sons of Russ have consistently offered over the years.

 

Their stories have always gripped my imagination by the throat and never let go.

[DV8]

Why play Space Wolves? That's like asking someone "Would you like to be less awesome, or mind-blowingly awesome?"

 

 

DV8

[d@n]

I was amazed at how cool they were when i was a teenager, with all the cool wolfy bits and tag striped shoulder guards ect and they looked brutal. So when i got back into 40k a few years ago sw were the natural army for me. I like them now for there versatility when playing them and there far more convertable from a modelling perspective then most other armys, bar maybe orks and csm.

[Firenze]

I began the hobby with Tau. First army I used, and loved the style (I still have Tau, being sold and rebuilt). At my warhammer club at school, one guy had SW. I loved em, and wanted to collect them too, but was talked around to the DA. For 6 years, I used DA, IG [still one of my favs], Chaos, DH... none was perfect to me [bar the Guard :D]. Vassakov inspired me to get the SW around 2-3 years ago finally.

 

I love the barabric style, mentality and fluff of the Wolves, and now I started, now I wont stop!

[AbyssKnight]

This http://images.icanhascheezburger.com/completestore/2008/2/5/ouroboroslizard128466889710959776.jpg

 

How could you bring a symbol of the hated Thousand Sons into this holy extension of the Aett?!

[commander alexander]

Says a Night Lords player. Pfft.

[Blackrime]

The Space Wolves have abeen a point of fascination for me since I got into the hobby, twenty years ago. The first founding companies are all just a bit more awesome to me than subsequent foundings. The first founding are the chapters of legend, and the Space Wolves were the coolest of the group when I was eight. After a long break from the hobby, I found myself reading Prospero Burns and taking a class on the Old Norse language and its literature. I had previously read the Space Wolf omnibus, but found it to be rather poorly written, especially when contrasted with the pulpy excellence of Prospero Burns. I really hope they maintain the darker Wolves Abnett so painstakingly created, as opposed to the slapdash, single dimension mediocrity of King's characters.

 

Anyway, point of the story is: Old Norse + Horus Heresy Wolf novel = addiction.

[Wulfebane]

I thought of another suitable reason...

 

"To crush your enemies -- See them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women!"

 

 

...and all the imagery that source evokes.

[Nazguire]

You play Space Wolves for a number of reasons. I did because

 

1) Vikings in Space are great.

2) The models have such character. Seeing a fully painted, converted and lovingly played army of Space Wolves with their futuristic armour and tribal totems and runes advancing with a laser cannon on one shoulder and an axe in the other hand is such an amazing image to see.

3) Their background is some of the most entertaining, thought provoking, deep character studies in all of 40k. Especially with the release of 'Battle of the Fang', 'Prospero Burns' and 'A Thousand Sons'. Suddenly the jovial, ale swilling, farting viking in armour is replaced by a much cooler, more serious, more believable blend of all the awesome elements of many barbarian cultures of Earth with logical and realistic reasons that they do what they do. No other Space Marine faction, in my opinion, has such well thought out and extensive background.

4)Because people like to win, and after winning with the Space Wolves, winning with starcannon spam or lash princes or leafblower just doesn't have the same appeal as barreling headlong into an impossible enemy and MOTHERFREAKING PREVAILING!

[Skirax]

Read Grimnar's quote in Planetstrike.

 

That's why.

[Prot]

I love my Wolves but I have a different take on them right now.

 

I chose them because I personally love the background, models, and diversity.

 

But I find I rarely play them anymore, opting for one of my other armies instead.

 

Why on earth would I do that?

 

I am finding that the internets uber tournament Las/plas Razorback spam with 15 missile fangs makes me want to puke. Seeing these lists has really muddied the waters for me.

 

I play some strong lists, but that las/plas/raz spam list is so incredibly boring and thoughtless.... I wish it wasn't an option. But it is. And there are people who live and die by that type of list.

 

Secondly, I find when I play them there is this expectation on the other side of the table. Kind of an eye rolling that says, 'OMG, I'm going up against one of the cheesiest armies of 5th'. This is before a die is rolled.

 

It's easy to lose with Wolves. There are a lot of competitive lists out there for nearly every 'dex regardless of what the internet tells us. But very few codexes appeal to me on a background, and 'feel' sort of level.

[Grey Mage]

I know what you mean prot... my eldar have been seeing alot of action lately because of that.