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I have nothing against them besides the terrible TWC models and the TWC idea in general. Wolf riding marines is a dumb idea and they are paving the way for the even dumber dark angel spider riders.

I simply dislike them for certain sections of the fluff, though I'm yet to encounter this dreaded 'Jaws of the World Wolf', what does it even do? I don't see why every one hates them having Wolf themed war gear, as they are 'Space Wolves', the Blood Angels on the other hand have somewhat ridiculously named War-Gear and is an example of Wards incompetence.

It's not so much Space Wolves, as it is the travesty of the fluff-ignorant fanboy abomination of a Codex inflicted upon them by Ph(a)il "Wish-I-Was-Jack-Sparrow"" Kelly.

I flick through the cooler old Space Wolves stuff or the better Black Library things, and get exited for some Wolf-action. Than I open the current Codex and read a few lines, and it almost inevitably ends with violent vomiting on my plastic toys. Also, their current "sit-back-Long-Fangs-and-JoTWW"-list happens to be not only exceedingly unbalanced cheesy, it also is easily the most "fluff-contradictory" list currently out there, which doesn't help.

The only redeeming virtue of the space wolves is that they got to be the butt of a hilarious DE practical joke, of which SWs are still ashamed to speak. (DE Codex, pg.22)

They have beards and ride wolves. Nuff said...

So many lads focused on their object of hate instead of their object of love... tsk... tsk...

(and ah mean that, sometimes ah wonder if instead of people, there are cauldrons of boilin' bile typin' on computers)

It's a newer army.

My cauldrons of love is stuck on half empty due in the fact Dark Angels has been the butt of the joke for Space marine armies.

Same with Codex: Spikey Marines

Unfair, even as a SW player, ah like 'em.

Let the love and toleratin' begin!

I'm going to get a lot of hate for this, but I like the SW fluff precisely because they act like jackasses.

Space Marines are not nice people. They are not, for the most part, rational people either. They are stormtroopers, jacked up on combat drugs, whose jingoism and xenophobia are strong enough to carry out multiple genocides unblinkingly.

This, fluffwise, is a good thing in my book. 40k is supposed to be grimdark. Having a faction you can point to and go "Oh, except them. They're the good guys." breaks that for me. There aren't supposed to be bastions of shining good. Fluff that reinforces the 41st millenium as a grim place of black vs black (or at the least, very-muddy-grey) morality and adds layers of complexity past the Saturday Morning Good vs Evil scenario is welcome. So saviors of humanity who're nontheless brutal, totalitarian donkey-caves who took the first chance they could get to wipe out their rivals? That fits my view of how 40k should be. I understand this may not be other people's ideal, but for me, it makes the setting more interesting.

So, yeah. What SW fluff I've encountered (which I'll admit is little) hasn't rubbed me the wrong way. I'll agree that the new models look a tad ridiculous, and Jaws is annoying, yes. I've not played SME in the current edition, so I can't really say much about their comparisons to the others.