Any mention of traitor VIth legion?

[1ncarnadine]

 

Not really, as the Wolves head is a pretty common symbol. Especially as the company can't seem to decide about Wolves colour or iconography colour anyway.

 

 

For example. here we have 30k era wolves with red wolf heads, but a blue-grey armour colour which, although darker than the Eavy Metal scheme, is still distinct from the flat grey of the dark Wolves.

http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/topic/325090-the-new-hh-box-highly-likely-to-be-prospero-happy/page-13

 

The here we have a mix of red and black Legion symbols on the transfer sheet, and a sample model with armour a shade of grey pretty close to the Dark Wolves:

https://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-GB/FW-Space-Wolves-Transfer-Sheet

 

The we have this MKIV Marine, wearing Ragnar's company colours, but used to advertise HH products, and his armour's far closer to the Dark Wolves than the Eavy Metal pale blue scheme:

https://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-GB/Space-Wolves-Task-Force

 

My point being, using armour colour and iconography to link the Dark Wolves with the VI Legion doesn't work, unless you're already convinced the link's there imo. There's just too much uncertainty and inconsistency when it comes to the 'proper' colours to consider that a 'strong' link. Far more likely the Dark Wolves are one of the Great Companies that have been 'recanted their oaths of fealty' in the 10,000 year history of the Space Wolves Chapter.

 

Fair points on how they're being painted. I don't think the MkIV tac squad in particular was painted with the FW art direction in mind though, so I'm pretty willing to discount that. All of the models shown alongside the BaC bundles are schemes that are removed from the main FW schemes, probably to show paint jobs that are easier to accomplish for beginners by brush. I'm trying to go more off the color plates from Book VII that have been previewed at events, but again, being fair, the pictures of those haven't been under the best lighting.

 

I'm not 100% certain they're traitors originating during the Heresy, but I think their origin is just as likely there as anywhere else in the next 8000 years. They could even be "all of the above," and are a host of Wolves from different periods that have ended up in the Eye over the millenia and banded together.