Chicken flavored broth based food for the space vikings soul

[NightHowler]

First of all, a disclaimer.  I did not write this.  I don't remember where I found it, or who wrote it.  If it was written by somebody from this forum, know this: I liked it so much that I copied it and kept it on my phone.  It really spells out a lot of why I like my space wolves so much, and so I wanted to share it with you fine barbarians.

 

Chicken flavored broth based food for the space viking's soul:

 

The Fluff, the models, the background. The non-game part of the force. We've got our own series of books, we've got axes, we've got a viking-nordic-celtic feel, and we've got WOLVES (arguably one of the coolest animals on the planet...lone wolf...wolf pack...dogs). Even if GW completely neutered us in the 4th edition codex, I'd still play Space Wolves, because of the Iron Wolf fluff I've written, the Space Wolf fluff I've read, because of Fenris, the ALE, the Fang, our habit of capturing and using enemy Space ships, our general disdain for uptight order, and LEMAN BLOODY RUSS (The primarch so badass, he ripped a titan's head off in one battle and got the main battle tank of the Imperium named after him in another. He broke the back of and nearly killed another primarch and drained the ale cellars of his kingdom to prove he could outdrink the Emperor). We've got Bjorn the Fell handed, one of the oldest living beings in the Imperium, and we've got the 13th Company, who were so tough that the Eye of Terror rejected them. We've got Wolf Guard Ranulf, strongest Space Marine EVER. We've got werewolves with power armor. Fenris has dragons, wolves, giant polar bears, psychic foxes, kraken (hell...a Magos Biologis thinks that Fenris was unsuccessfully invaded by Tyranids due to the extreme climatalogical conditions, but left behind the Kraken). Our planet is damn close to a deathworld. The Fang is one of the greatest fortresses in the Imperium, and Bjorn, along with a skeleton crew of Space Wolves and servitors, held off the ENTIRE Thousand Sons Legion until the Space Wolves could get back and help defend. We had 3rd most victories during the great crusades with a smaller legion than anyone else. Hell, we didn't even bother splitting up when other Space Marine chapters did. We, along with a company of Grey Knights, kicked Angron and his Worldeaters back to the warp from whence they came. Hell, some Space Wolf Great Wolves have been so far ranging as to fight out on the eastern fringe against the Tyranids. We're badass, we're bearded, we're ultimate Space Vikings. Our foes think us dim barbarians, but that simply makes our victory easier when we use our wolf-pack tactics. We hit fast, strike hard, and go howling into battle. We are one of the most flexible and least dogmatic of all the forces in the Imperium. We made the Predator Annihilator when the Adeptus Mechanicus thought it was heresy to screw with the Destructor template. We made our own damn Belt of Russ when everybody else just gets a standard Iron Halo. We have our traditions, but we are not bound by them. We have our methods and our tactics, but we are not restricted to them. We take trophies and we wear wolf pelts. We make axes out of the Kraken we have slain. The guys who run our Space ships are not slaves, but they do so willingly, to serve the chapter. We have honor. We adapt. We're flexible. We overcome. We WIN. We may not shoot as much as other marines, but I'll be damned if we don't shoot just as well. We're closer to human than many other Space Marine chapters out there, despite being a god, when compared physiologically with another human being.

 

I don't care how the rules represent that on the table, the fluff alone is enough reason for me to play Space Wolves, even if we had to use Codex rules to represent them.

 

-written by a spacewolf fan

 

P.S.: if someone here wrote this, pipe up and I'll give you credit for it.  Again, it's not my words, but it is a lot of why I love space wolves.

[Frater Cornelius]

Amen. That is the reason I always come back to SW, even after tasting Necron, Tau and Eldar cheese first hand.

 

One can not resist the call of the North. That is my blood after all and that is what I will always be.

[Huggtand]

I totally agree!

And with the ongoing Horus Heresy-series the VI ͭ ͪ are only getting better

[Frater Cornelius]

I am totally gonna get Leman Russ from FW, once they release him. I heard that after Rowboat Girlyman, Prospero Burns will be the next one in the series. *giddy*

[Rune_Priest_Rhapsody]

Couldn't of said it better myself. We are certainly the proudest of chapters as well. I will argue to the end with any player at my flgs or anywhere else to defend the chapter I love.

 

Thanks for posting this,NighhtHowler!!

 

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[Skallagoose]

The Space Wolf Fluff is awesome. I just wish it carried over to the table top. 
I'll put it this way- I've read the Icelandic Sagas, I've studies Norse Literature and Mythology… That stuff is B.A.M.F. and the lore takes after that. Egil Skallagrimson and his saga is a tale of a warrior poet, who learns to balance education, vengeance, honor, and duty- at a time when the english didn't even have a country. All I'm saying is the norse theme of the army could go further- something that is written into the fluff but not in the game itself.

[Rune Priest Jbickb]

That's why wolves is my main army (and the other 40k ones are just small supplemental forces for allies to wolves). We are bad ass, we are almost good guys, and we aren't scared to give the occasional finger to the Inquisition when they are going to be a PITA about something.

 

Fenris Hjolda!

[Ulrik_Ironfist]

The Norse-celtic theme to the army draws me in. I imagine an army of Viking/Highlanders in power armour, and I weep many manly tears of manliness. Vikings and Highlanders are a huge part of American Military tradition, we aspire to be as proficient, as powerful, and as efficient as they. Space wolves are my main army, the only one I have expanded into Apoc points levels. 

 

I have played dark angels, and found them wanting. I have played Tau, and while I love my fish people and will not get rid of them, They are safe but always fun and challenging. I have necrons, which I love, their lore is intriguing, and their abilities are good for a laugh. But I always seem to come back to the Space wolves. I play my Tau, and people surrender, or I wreck them, which is fun every now and then. Nobody wants to play against necrons, except me, so I never get to use them. Space wolves have been my biggest challenge since starting back into the hobby, and I find them the most fun to play. Dark angels are too formulaic and synergistic for my taste, and their lists sort of fall apart once the keystone is eliminated. 

 

The Space wolf lore brings me back every time.

[Fury_of_Fenris]

We spit with disdain at the mundane nutritional gloop that an ultramarine will supp, well take our meat raw and straight off the bone

We'll laugh at the person who dares hand us a glass of water, we'll instead drink ale that'll kill a thousand men

We don't wait for order's we charge headfirst at the foe screaming our defiance and roaring our chainblades and whet our axes with the blood of our foes

We fight not for vain glory but because we love to fight and love to kill

We do not fear a scratch on our power armour or breaking some dogmatic rule or following doctrine, for that is for cowards something we are not!

We fear nothing only that which we cannot kill,and frankly there isn't much out there we cannot kill (or die trying to)

When men falter we go on steady and sure of ourselves

The wolves will never surrender or retreat

We will fight on for the emperor and for russ

When the time of man ends and our emperor given right to rule this galaxy comes crashing down we will be there

Till the last breath in our lungs and the last drop of transhuman blood leaves our bodies

We will be there

We are from the planet of ice and death

we are the hunters that stalk in cold and the dark

We are the Rout and the Vlka Fenryka

We will kill you 

And we know no fear!