Space Wolves suspiciously missing from War-Com article

[tangoalphatwo]

So I saw this:

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2020/06/18/indomitus-focus-alternate-colour-schemesgw-homepage-post-3/

Cool. I’m digging the new colors. But noticed the Wolves are absent. I get it that the robes and tabards aren’t really their thing. But just found it interesting they specifically state the blood angels can take them. So where does that leave the Wolves?

[Slips]

Not news or rumors, moved to Adeptus Astartes.

[Brother Tyler]

It's nothing to worry about. The article simply showed a few (three) Chapters (Blood Angels, Iron Hands, and Dark Angels) because that might be all that the 'Eavy Metal team has painted up so far. Don't read too much into it.

 

If past Primaris releases are anything to go by, the Space Wolves, too, will have access to the Bladeguard models.

[Bat33.1]

Max said they had painted 9 different chapters, in the live stream today, so Ultras plus 8 more between the EM team

[DeadFingers]

I mean, so are the Raven Guard, Black Templars, Imperial Fists, White Scars and Salamanders. They just chose three Chapters to showcase in this specific article, I wouldn't look too much into it. There is, I guess, the ever so slight possibility that the Wolves can't take these, they've done weird stuff in the past, but I would not assume that from a painting article. If they'd included every other Chapter but them? That'd be suspicious, but not the case.

 

And besides, I can only assume they want these to be bought by any and all Space Marine players and collectors, so the most likely scenario is that they too can take these.

[Lord Blackwood]

I believe Simon Grant also stated that Bladeguard would be getting the wolfguard keyword for space wolves. 

[tangoalphatwo]

Not news or rumors, moved to Adeptus Astartes.

Sorry, thanks for the fix!

[Bryan Blaire]

The box versions don't really feel Wolf-y to me anyway - the converted versions, based on the box model or not, will be much better than simply painting the stock model blue-grey, yellow, black and gold.

 

Does show the end of "the Deathwing are deployed only in Terminator armor" though, which is interesting.

[BLACK BLΠFLY]

Just paint them baby blue with head swaps .

[mel_danes]

Just paint them baby blue with head swaps .

Winner, winner chicken dinner!

Wolfing up these guys is cake easy. Use all your bits and go to Wolftown.

[Marshal Reinhard]

The box versions don't really feel Wolf-y to me anyway - the converted versions, based on the box model or not, will be much better than simply painting the stock model blue-grey, yellow, black and gold.

Does show the end of "the Deathwing are deployed only in Terminator armor" though, which is interesting.

Wasn't that already ended way back late last year, when that one white dwarf detailed the rise of a DA primaris who was eventually inducted into the death wing... he wore travis there.

[painting.for.my.sanity]

 

The box versions don't really feel Wolf-y to me anyway - the converted versions, based on the box model or not, will be much better than simply painting the stock model blue-grey, yellow, black and gold.

Does show the end of "the Deathwing are deployed only in Terminator armor" though, which is interesting.

Wasn't that already ended way back late last year, when that one white dwarf detailed the rise of a DA primaris who was eventually inducted into the death wing... he wore travis there.

 

 

What did poor old Travis do to deserve being worn as armour!?

 

I'm not too concerned about the lack of specific armies in that article - on the Twitch streams they've repeatedly stated that the Indomitus box units would be useable by all flavours of Space Marines except for Grey Knights.

[Marshal Reinhard]

Hah, phone autocorrect strikes again. Meant Gravis ;)

[Bryan Blaire]

Wasn't that already ended way back late last year, when that one white dwarf detailed the rise of a DA primaris who was eventually inducted into the death wing... he wore Gravis there.

Well, for one, this is actually shown - don't believe I've actually seen a GW non-Terminator model in the white/bone Deathwing colors since 2nd or 3rd Edition. Second, while most folks are still convinced that a Primaris Terminator armor is coming, I'm not (as far as I know, there hasn't been a hint of one) so to me, the Gravis armor would be the assumed TDA stand-in for Primaris, hence, the Gravis armored Primaris DA was the equivalent and not actually much of a change - so the Tacticus armor would be a deviation of the concept, not Gravis.

 

 

Just paint them baby blue with head swaps .

Winner, winner chicken dinner!

Wolfing up these guys is cake easy. Use all your bits and go to Wolftown.

Nah - nothing about these models says Space Wolves, even with bits. Then they'd just be tacky, furry tabard wearers, hardly Wolf-like. You're going to have to do some heavy converting to get these guys to look like Wolves, more than just heads and bits - too much non-Wolf bling. Tacticus you can do that with, not these under-armor tabard guys. Unconverted/head-swapped Bladeguard won't look like real Wolves.

[Dark Shepherd]

They showed Wolves Bladeguard on stream today, the shields looked amazing with a black base

[Medjugorje]

They showed Wolves Bladeguard on stream today, the shields looked amazing with a black base

but honestly - Wolves need other models. Thats absolutly not a Space Wolve model with that knightly style. They need round shields and other helmets / heads.

[Lord Blackwood]

Maybe they wont be Space Wolves , I can certainly Make them Dreadwolves which combine both aspects by focusing on turning cloth and tabards into leatherwork. 

From what weve seen on the Space Wolf boards guys are converting their own from  existing models  as well. 

What is or is not a space wolf is subjective , I am sure folks will make them  work. 

[Dracos]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tdod2uflvQw

 

 

I'll be getting 3rd party round shields for my army if I make these guys up. Not  fan of the scuta shield for warriors who fight as skirmishers. Much prefer the clipeus

Edited June 19, 2020 by Dracos

[Medjugorje]

and btw - the first thing when I saw the new models was "Black Templars release", then I thought Dark Angels is the same style and I was very interested how a Dark Angel would look like and was very disappointed how bad a Bladeguard looks like with Deathwing color

( dont understand me wrong - I think lorewise its fully okay - there are Marines who are too big for Terminator Armor but reached that level - Primaris are stronger then other Marines - thats the official lore and thats why I think there are a few Primaris who made it).

I hope the normal Veteran look better.

 

 

I think SW have enough Bitz in their sprues which would fit perfect to make this unit very stylish.

[Marshal Reinhard]

 

but honestly - Wolves need other models. Thats absolutly not a Space Wolve model with that knightly style. They need round shields and other helmets / heads.

 

That's a simple enough change, just have to secure SW style shields and heads elsewhere

[TheNewman]

 

 

They showed Wolves Bladeguard on stream today, the shields looked amazing with a black base

but honestly - Wolves need other models. Thats absolutly not a Space Wolve model with that knightly style. They need round shields and other helmets / heads.

They don't exactly look like White Scars either.

 

I can't really say the mix of knightly aesthetic with tacticool Phobos is going to bother me, I already mix Phobos with the ornate Cataphracii Terminators and Centurions without batting an eye.

[Medjugorje]

in older editions GW just made a knightly scheme for BT or DA. Roman style for Ultramarines and this units were not avaiable for the other factions. They decidec to give each chapter everything and see what the people made out of it.

[Sword Brother Adelard]

The Eavy Metal Team are clearly constrained by what models that have to work with in this case. They have to use the stock model out of the box. And those models work better for some chapters than others.

 

I saw a lot of these yesterday as sort of hints of what can be achieved. The leather style tabard on the white scar looked great. Just imagine him with a tulwar style sword and top knot. Or the Space Wolf with a round shield, axe and head swap.

There's a lot of potential there. Even mine will likely get FW Templar shields if they're a comparable size.

[Medjugorje]

I think the best looking chapters were Blood Angels, Black Templars and Iron Hands what i´ve seen so far.

[Sword Brother Adelard]

I thought the Fist looked great. (Maybe not so much if you continued the colours into all companies?)