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Way1and Veteran

Way1and

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Gunnar Red Moon's Great Company!

 

'Cause old people rock! :D

 

... and I'm only three generations out of the Ozarks. There's just somethin' about kickin' back on the porch with Grandad and his cronies, sippin' on some hootch and takin' pot shots at every critter that moseys on down the valley...

Brother Captain Kezef Veteran

Brother Captain Kezef

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I have a homegrown Great Company, that of Vargr Stiarnaganger. The name translates roughly as either Wolf Star-walker or the Outlaw Star-walker (Vargr meant both wolf and outlaw in the Nordic tongue).

 

The company is set about a thousand great years before Logan took the position of great wolf.

Bikeninja Battle-Brother

Bikeninja

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Argus ShadowWolf is Jarl of my great company.  He is has led the Wolves of the 3rd Great Company for close to 400 years.  Been playing this guy as my leader since 3rd Edition.  When the new Wolf stuff came out in 5th Edition I reconverted him in 4 different ways.  Power Armor, Termie Armor, Thunderwolf and Bike.  The bike version is the one I use the most.

RADU LYKAN Veteran

RADU LYKAN

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In the first few years of Logan Grimnar’s reign as Great Wolf the mighty Wolf Lord Soker Gudruk was struck with visions of Leman Russ, the Primarch was beckoning him to come to his aid. Various other visions intruded during his hours of rest. Soker consulted the chapter’s priests who cast the runes and spoke at length with the Great Wolf and amongst themselves. In the past such visions had heralded the beginnings of a Great Hunt where the 12 great companies of the space wolves would search anew for their lost Primarch. The threats faced at the time by the chapter had the space wolves spread over millions of light years, fighting on over a hundred fronts. If they pulled out of these campaigns whole sectors would be lost to their various enemies. The Great Wolf Logan Grimnar instead decided that only Soker’s great company could be spared, if Soker, aided by his visions, could find the Primarch then a new age would come to the Imperium and its dawning would be bathed in the blood of the Emperor’s foes.

Soker vowed he would not return to the Fang without the Primarch at the head of his great company. He cast aside his personal icon, that of the spirit wolf, and he and his great company adopted the icon of the wolf that stalks the stars, Russ’ personal icon, when they found the Primarch they would already be wearing his heraldry and ready to swear their fealty to him.

The Great Wolf assigned many of his priests to Soker’s great company, their accumulated wisdom and faith would be a vital aid in the challenges to come. A few other wolf lords heard of this new great hunt and many sent some sort of aid, some a single wolf guard, others an entire pack of battle brothers. If Russ was to be found each wolf lord wanted a representative from their own great company to take part in the glory.

Since leaving the Fang Soker has travelled many millions of light years aboard the battle barge Amarok in his search for Russ, though as yet unsuccessful his great company has stopped many a threat to the Imperium and recovered some revered chapter artefacts that were long thought lost. The search goes on………

PupLord Veteran

PupLord

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I really liked the Great Company insignia of Krom Dragongaze when I started painting my wolves. The fact Krom has "dragon" in his name was an added bonus :). There is also precious little information about him in the Codex as well as online and whatever is mentioned is positively unambiguous meaning I can use all there is mentioned about him and easily add my own, relatively uncreative, flavor into his story.

 

In my version of Krom's Merry Men all whelps must prove their worth (natural selection and so forth) by taking on the most dangerous equipment they can (jump packs, bikes etc.) and learn to temper their hot-headedness or on failing that objective to lie down on the red snow. Only after they have proven their worth - and wits - in the heat of battle can they be elevated to become Grey Hunters. This also should explain why my Great Company has plenty of land speeders deployed at all times. Once a speed freak, always a speed freak.

 

 

 

Horus Heresy-era.

 

The warband is called Cry of the Grieving Jarl, though they're also listed in various Imperial archives (who seem to struggle with Space Wolf Legion organisation) as Howl of the Mourning Lord, and more simply 'the Dirge'. The warband uses the former of these last two names when dealing with other Imperial forces, and the latter as a short-hand reference they will at least answer to, if not with any particular affection or irritation one way or the other.

 

It's led by a Warleader and a Rune Priest. The former is Laughing Jaurmag - given his soul-name because he never smiles or laughs, neither in battle nor in revel. The latter is Rufn Fights-the-Final-Winter - given his soul-name name because he has visions of the Wolftime, in some dark and distant future. 

 

They're currently in the 12th Great Company, though they were in the 7th for most of their history.

 

 

And this just shows what ones skill with words - not to mention having English as their mother tongue - do to their army fluff compared to the rest of us. Well done Sir, well done!

 

-Pup

IronFather84 Battle-Brother

IronFather84

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Right now i have Harald Deathwolf and Vaer Greyloc's Great Comanies but i am currently creating my own person homegrown gret company. I love Thunderwolves and have close to 20 in my army so I gravitated toward Deathwolf but i like to make my own fluff chapters and characters when i can.

WolfLordKejl Veteran

WolfLordKejl

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I have chosen to do a siege company. The idea being that a Wolf Guard Battle Leader was raised to the title of Lord and was sent to task the siege of a multiple cities and citadels upon a planet plagued by chaos and rebellion. 

 

I chose to incude units from many of the Great Company retinues and packs to represent that fact  that packs are moved to where they are needed at the moment and show the ebb and flow of the Space Wolves company standings.

 

Thus far the Wolf Guard raised to a the title of Lord to lead the army is from Engir Krakendoom's Great Company.  Wolf Lord Kareegan (The Spearman)

 

So far I have units from the Great Companies of:

 

Bran Redmaw

Harald Deathwolf

Krom Dragongaze

Karl Grimblood

 

I plan to have several more....I may include bloodclaws from Ragnar Blackmane's company.

 

 

Wolf Lord Kejl

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Valerian Venerable Brother

Valerian

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It is Ragnar Blackmane's Great Company for me, for a full two decades now.  When the Space Wolves were "reborn" with updated fluff and models at the end of the Rogue Trader era, I switched over to them and slowly started collecting.  Ragnar was a very cool character at that time, and had decent rules in both his RT and 2e incarnations.  As I started collecting the models for the army, I was also taken with the old pewter shoulder pads that were available back in the 90's, that gave a bas relief style third dimension to the Great Company and Pack Markings, so I went all out with those.  Although there were several variations of Pack Marking pads available, there was only one symbol for GC's, and it was Ragnar's; availability, therefore, reinforced the choice that I had already made to go with Blackmane, The Young King.

 

Valerian

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