Space Wolves refresh

[Wraithwing]

52 minutes ago, lonewolf81 said:

shouldnt bloodclaws/greyhunter be the same kit like the EC troops? Then there is room for 1 more :) (Bjorn?)

Think it is really unlikely that they are a dual kit. The bodies and leg poses are all different for one. 

[LittlePlasticHomies]

Regardless of rules or intent, the lieutenant model looks more like a captain than most captains.

[Lord Nord in Gravis Armour]

5 hours ago, LittlePlasticHomies said:

Regardless of rules or intent, the lieutenant model looks more like a captain than most captains.

 

This one does, definitely. The original from Tooth and Claw looked like the barely-Wolfy Lieutenant equivalent he was meant to be. No cloak, no iron halo, and much less surface area covered by the wolf pelt.

 

It does make me wonder what they think they're going to do if they ever release an actual Primaris-scale Wolf Lord model. This guy pretty much stole all the expected bling.

[Ramell]

9 minutes ago, Lord Nord in Gravis Armour said:

 

This one does, definitely. The original from Tooth and Claw looked like the barely-Wolfy Lieutenant equivalent he was meant to be. No cloak, no iron halo, and much less surface area covered by the wolf pelt.

 

It does make me wonder what they think they're going to do if they ever release an actual Primaris-scale Wolf Lord model. This guy pretty much stole all the expected bling.

He does look fancy, but I don't think he's going to overshadow Ragnar on the tabletop. 

[Wispy]

Not overshadowing Ragnar but the Battle Leader is basically a fancy, wolf-headed backpack short of being Krom. They basically have the same knife, too.

 

 

 

 

 

Anyways I apologize for the semantics,  every special marine release got a cool, multipart character decked out to be exemplars of their respective chapters, let's leave it at that.

Edited 2 hours ago by Wispy

[Commissar Greif]

I suppose there's a sort of "middle ground" in the previous discussion in that while Battle Leaders are effectively Space Wolf Lieutenants, the Great Companies are typically larger in size than the companies of more codex-compliant space marine chapters (IIRC, the Blackmanes numbered around 170 marines and were the second largest of the Great Companies), so it's not outside the realm of possibility that a Battle Leader may find himself in command of a force the size of which would typically be commanded by a captain in any other chapter.

 

On a separate note, I'm surprised we've not seen any of the previews for the other new models yet. I'm suspecting a late May/early June release for the box, and with what's (supposedly) slated for release, I expected they'd have started showing things off by now. I have a theory they might move the SW previews from Monday to Wednesday, because Warhammer Community loves tacky jokes and "Wolf Wednesday" seems like something they would do.

[Wispy]

11 hours ago, lonewolf81 said:

shouldnt bloodclaws/greyhunter be the same kit like the EC troops? Then there is room for 1 more :) (Bjorn?)

I would have happily taken them as a dual kit given how I feared they were going the way of Death Company and becoming intercessors+upgrade sprue (and the fact that we've been building Blood Claws and Grey hunters outta the same kit for decade and a half anyways). But examining the poses and armour differences, they're pretty clearly separate kits.

Edited 1 hour ago by Wispy

[jaxom]

1 hour ago, Commissar Greif said:

On a separate note, I'm surprised we've not seen any of the previews for the other new models yet.

It'll probably be next week, once WarCom has gotten the EC out its metaphorical system.