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karnaeya wrote:

You forgot the pintle mounted assault cannon. And the assault cannon exhaust stacks. And Assault cannon headlights. Oh yeah, don't forget the coaxial twin-linked assault cannons for the smoke launchers.

The wolf riding unit is the one rumor, I have the least faith in so far.


I can completely buy a SC riding a Wolf, but a unit of them seems iffy at best. Although I have no doubt that the info was given to Hastings with complete sincerity.

Actually, I take it all back, this is a great friggin idea...I thought about it for a few minutes and heres some of the cool Ideas I thought of....

I've always wanted to do a space marine chapter called the Blue Lobsters...it just sounds cool to me.

What I'm going to do is go to the dollar store, and get some plastic lobster toys, so I can have my space marines riding Lobsters into combat....backed up by assault cannon Land Raiders of course. Thats the theme, Lobsters and assault cannons. Cool Huh?

Then there is always the opportunity to stick with the space wolves, but why stop at a Space Wolf riding a giant wolf? Why not have a Wulfen character riding the giant wolf. I mean, how awesome is that? You could even have a basic space wolf marine riding on the wulfen's shoulders...then you'd have a wolf, riding a wolf.....riding a wolf! Awesome!! Make that Giant Wolf riding a bike and then maybe you can reach that Valkrie in close combat.

Grow up guys.




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Oh yea, and I dont wanna hear anymore fluff about how a Space Wolf's rite of passage is killing a Fenris Wolf...it's just not that impressive anymore.

"But they're really ferocious!", you say?

Yea, so ferocious that they can be tamed and ridden as mounts.

Big deal, give me a Rambo Knife and I'm pretty sure I can walk up to a horse and kill it. It might jack me up a bit in defense before it trys to run away, but I'm fairly sure that I'd have a good chance of surviviing the encounter AND killing the horse...and I have a bad back and am a couple pounds chunkier than I'd like.

Do we need any more proof why Wolf-riders are dumb?...or shall I go on?

(hehe, this is fun)

Deadshane1 wrote:Actually, I take it all back, this is a great friggin idea...I thought about it for a few minutes and heres some of the cool Ideas I thought of....

I've always wanted to do a space marine chapter called the Blue Lobsters...it just sounds cool to me.

What I'm going to do is go to the dollar store, and get some plastic lobster toys, so I can have my space marines riding Lobsters into combat....backed up by assault cannon Land Raiders of course. Thats the theme, Lobsters and assault cannons. Cool Huh?

will you be counting the lobster arms as powerfists? if you need some cheap bits, there's a discount chinese buffet by me that does lobster and crab sundays. i'm going there this weekend and could eat the meat from a few claws and sneak them out in a bag to take home for you. obviously, you'll have to reimburse me for shipping.

H.B.M.C. wrote:

BrookM wrote:And Adrian Smith still can't draw human beings normally even if his life depended on it.

Which is why they need to kidnap Mark Gibbons and make him start drawing for them again.

I agree, all of the art he did out of the 2nd ed Wolves codex is, IMHO alot better than most of the art they've got around now.

But I'm starting to get more interested about the upcoming release, gonna have to save some bucks I think.

And I like the sound of relentless LF's jumpin out of a Drop Pod using it for cover and blassting a couple of tanks or squads....

Deadshane1 wrote:Do we need any more proof why Wolf-riders are dumb?...or shall I go on?

(hehe, this is fun)

please go on, this is great stuff

...and then there are all the cool diorama's that wolf riders give to potential Golden Daemon winners.

Giant Wolf humping a carnifex's leg
Sniffing around looking for places to poop (with those snarly faces while 'doing the deed')
Wolves chasing Rhino's (instead of dogs chasing cars)
Then there is the soon-to-be-popular cyber wolf with an assault cannon coming out of his mouth (to go with the land raiders of course)

Deadshane1 wrote:<snip>

Grow up guys.

Funny that the only person I see winging is you...

UltraPrime wrote:

Deadshane1 wrote:<snip>

Grow up guys.

Funny that the only person I see winging is you...

Who's winging....heck, I'm not even whining!

I love it.

It's fun to make fun of a codex that is completely ridiculous. Not unbeleivable in a Sci-Fi game, but RIDICULOUS.

Space Wolves used to be cool beer drinking Viking Space Marines. Now they're dog riders with an assault cannon fetish....I.E. Clown Marines. funfunfun.


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Soon to come in upcoming Space Marine Codex's:

Salamanders-riding cold ones
Blood Angels-riding giant Bats (they ARE Vampires after all)

I hear there is a Space Shark Codex coming out soon too! GUESS WHAT.....!

seems like a lot of complaining about something thats not even out yet. Your whining a bunch of RUMORS are ridiculous. Yeah, they usually are.

Deadshane1 wrote:I hear there is a Space Shark Codex coming out soon too! GUESS WHAT.....!

Marines riding sharks with twin-linked multilasers.

Sigh, somebody had to say it....

"The color of the armor does not make an army, its the character and background."

QFT

Those wolf riders do make me apprehensive, Im simply not gonna use them like that though (doesnt suite the background for GC anyway)
I suggest we hold until the actual 'dex comes out before we slit each others throats with griping ya? After its out then fine but seem to recall this being a thread for letting folks kno what the rumours for the new dex are...?

Just a thought.

cuscus wrote:

Deadshane1 wrote:I hear there is a Space Shark Codex coming out soon too! GUESS WHAT.....!

Marines riding sharks with twin-linked multilasers.

Sigh, somebody had to say it....

No thats too stupid.

Its Marines riding sharks with twin-linked Multi Melta's

...to go with the new Melta Land raiders. (twin linked MM in the centre mount with sponson mounts that have the new Magma melta's-two twin linked meltaguns for each sponson for a total of 5 melta shots from the tank, all twin linked!!!!

Guys, lets try and keep this thread on topic.

Please take any and all attempts at humor to the appropriate forum sections.

Remeber when this was a rumor thread?

Can we please move back on topic?

Ninja'd by Alpharious.

as a Space Wolf player I'm not thrilled about a character riding a giant wolf. even if you set aside how silly it is to ride a wolf if you are anything larger than a goblin, think about GW's history of actual wolf models... now please show me one that really looked like a wolf. Now I could be surprised and whatever they've done actually will look like a giant wolf capable of carrying a space marine, but I'm not gonna hold my breath. Even if his rules are awesome(x2) I'm not likely to field such a character. 40k has always been a cartoon, but sometimes designers cross a line and things get a bit weird. This would be an example, Sisters Repentia would be another.

As for the silliness factor, while viking marines are a cool idea the name Space Wolves has always been silly. They are my favorite chapter, but it's a silly name, but so are Ultramarines(not just marines ultra marines), Space Sharks(and their jabberjaw insignia), and others.

Assault cannon Land Raider variant seems like a change just to have one. If I want to pack a Crusader full of blood claws why not just do that, especially if they retain their current unit size? That isn't to say that it won't be in the codex just that I don't see the logic behind it.

Long Fangs with relentless is cool for one round of drop pod surprise fire and if they retain the ability to split fire there's some potential there, I still don't see how 5 marines are going to weather the return fire though so we are still left with a durability issue versus whatever their point cost ends up being.

I crave more details than I fear will be forthcoming anytime soon, unless somehow this codex gets leaked onto the web as others in the past have.

When I read that about the wolf riders, I thought the concept sounded wierd myself. Space marines riding robotic wolves? No thanx.

I bet the GW Game design session was something like this.

"Hey we gotta do something special for the wolf special character"

"Yeah lets really think out of the box on this one"

The designers sit down to really start hammering out some ideas....

"Hmm... how bout we make the wolves robotic"

Loud choruses of yeah "Good On ya mate!!"

"Hey if we make them robotic let's make them really big and put them on Blood crusher sized bases!"

more loud choruses of "Good on ya Mate!"

"Oh..Oh...OHH..I've got one....Lets put the commander so that he is actually riding on the large robotic wolf!!"

Silence engulfs the design room.

........

Suddenly they all stand up and cheer with shouts of "Good on ya..... Good on ya!!" "Brilliant!!"



GG

Grimhowl wrote:but it's a silly name, but so are Ultramarines(not just marines ultra marines)

Damn you lol!

Going to think of that every time I see one now.

So it is agreed.
Marines riding wolves, stupid idea.
Any other rumours? Any news on the damned TH&SS gig?

Alpharius wrote:Guys, lets try and keep this thread on topic.

Please take any and all attempts at humor to the appropriate forum sections.

How is making fun of the new rumours not on topic?....or do we start a whole new thread for "Space Wolf Rumours: This is what's dumb"?

Deadshane1 wrote: How is making fun of the new rumours not on topic?....or do we start a whole new thread for "Space Wolf Rumours: This is what's dumb"?

Personally I'd like to see more debate on the plausibility of the rumours myself. At the moment you just seem to be filling the role of Cpt. Obvious of the H.M.S. No
(no offence intended)

Stygian Mole wrote:

Deadshane1 wrote: How is making fun of the new rumours not on topic?....or do we start a whole new thread for "Space Wolf Rumours: This is what's dumb"?

Personally I'd like to see more debate on the plausibility of the rumours myself. At the moment you just seem to be filling the role of Cpt. Obvious of the H.M.S. No
(no offence intended)

Dont you think after 9 pages if that question hasnt been answered for you...it's probably not going to be anytime soon?

Wolf riders = stupid idea, but I am interested to see how it pans out.
Assault cannon land raider = OMGYESPLZ. I already have 3 land raiders, this will make me buy 3 more.
no TH/SS? = I think its just that there is no TH/SS combo option, but we might get individual THs and SSs to purchase
AV14 Bjorn = ZOMGYESPLZ no need to say why this is broken/awesome/lol/cool
Blood claws +1ws+furiouscharge-berzerkcharge = Cool, i like it
Ragnar giving fleet and rending? = LOL with blood claws, 3 attacks each at WS4 S5 I5 rending? roflcoptor.

Grimhowl wrote:

Long Fangs with relentless is cool for one round of drop pod surprise fire and if they retain the ability to split fire there's some potential there, I still don't see how 5 marines are going to weather the return fire though so we are still left with a durability issue versus whatever their point cost ends up being.

Hopefully you will be allowed to buy 5 extra marines for the squad like in the vanilla codex to soak up the enemy fire power.

The no TH/SS rumor has been dismissed as false.

Lord of battles wrote:Hopefully you will be allowed to buy 5 extra marines for the squad like in the vanilla codex to soak up the enemy fire power.

Surely that goes against fluff though? The idea of a LF pack being bigger than a BC pack (whilst tactically enticing) doesn't really fit the background.


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BDJV wrote:The no TH/SS rumor has been dismissed as false.

Good to hear.

BDJV wrote:
IIRC taking Canis also allows you to take two cav choices, 1 can be SW mounted on wolves, the other is just wolves.

Thunder, Thunder, Thunder, Thunder-Woofs hurr!

Probably one of the main reasons I never went with Space Wolfs or Ultramarines was the name.

Something about telling people what army I play, "And my armies name is Ultramarines/Space Wolves, they are super humans who are ultra/werewolf"

Now Space Sharks, theres a name that just oozes awesomeness.


Game over man.

I am seriously doubting the assault cannon LR, unless they are releasing an accessory pack for all 4 variations.... or its a FW cast.

Personally I'd like to see more debate on the plausibility of the rumours myself. At the moment you just seem to be filling the role of Cpt. Obvious of the H.M.S. No
(no offence intended)

Thats a quality quote right there.

Modquisition on:
This thread has been reported again. One more time lets keep the focus on the rumoprs and not violate Rule #2 territory by going too far off track. We now return you to your regularly scheduled gripe session...

BDJV,
The Preditor Varient rumor was debunked, right? Please, p-l-e-a-s-e tell me it is!