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why cant space wolves use locator beacons?
you would think that as they live on a planet full of blinding snow/ice storms and that they wont deep strike there terminators that they would have a real need for locator beacons.

Because they are not called Wolf Howl Beacons.

A space wolf who uses wargear without the word "wolf" in it is no space wolf at all.

Shaman wrote:Because they are not called Wolf Howl Beacons.

A space wolf who uses wargear without the word "wolf" in it is no space wolf at all.

So basically none of them are Space Wolves?
And maybe they don't care where they land?

Because, as primitive savages (not like us upstanding members of the Dark Angels ), they have a fear of deepstriking so don't require a beacon.

They never deepstrike
They fight with two feet on the ground, just like Russ wanted

Because no unit in the entire space wolves army can deepstrike. The only way to do so is by drop pod.

Nungunz wrote:Because no unit in the entire space wolves army can deepstrike. The only way to do so is by drop pod.

Agreed. GW made sure to give their Marine player base training wheels when Deep Striking so they never lose units and cry.

But seriously, Space Wolves have a deep, unaltered fluff though out the years which state they fear and mistrust mythical and mystic sorcery, which is why they don't teleport.... Yet they can tap into some of the strongest winds of the warp to use psychic powers?

On second thought, the fluff for space wolves is so child like and hypocritical it almost rivals the immaturity that is the Blood Angels.

They're so Nordic that they don't need locator beacons

But more seriously, they would probably find it more fun if they went in 'blind', so to speak, not knowing exactly where they would land, making it a challenge to them.

Or they prefer to charge in on foot, not drop straight into the middle of the enemy force. And can't they split up or something? Never mind....

Hope that will suffice?

I would go with "It's more fun to go in blind" as that seems very Space Wolf-ish to me.

May as well ask the reason regular marines can't split their heavy weapons fire for less points, and don't all carry chainswords for less points, or seem incapable of being good enough mechanics to supercharging their engines (everyone knows emo vampires are great mechanics) Why can only BA take a Baal Predator or a librarian dread? OH YEAH because it sells more books! That would just be unfair now wouldn't it if Space Wolves didn't just do everything better? While we're at it can we give them first-rank-fire-second-rank-fire?

Come to think of it, why don't SW have a bunch of Leman Russ tanks instead of Predators. I'm sure they could be modified to fit a big Marine inside, or maybe some Thrall servitors.

As many have stated, it wouldn't serve much purpose since only the pods themselves DS. I realize that it is sometimes helpful to drop pods close to each other using a beacon and not worrying about scattering but with the inertial guidance systems it is still pretty safe to DS pods. I'm more concerned with why my terminators can't squeeze into pods like theirs. I know this was GW's way of allowing terms to DS and keeping with the Space Wolf fluff but c'mon, I wanna do it too!

They're too drunk to use them properly.

yeenoghu wrote:May as well ask the reason regular marines can't split their heavy weapons fire for less points, and don't all carry chainswords for less points, or seem incapable of being good enough mechanics to supercharging their engines (everyone knows emo vampires are great mechanics) Why can only BA take a Baal Predator or a librarian dread? OH YEAH because it sells more books! That would just be unfair now wouldn't it if Space Wolves didn't just do everything better? While we're at it can we give them first-rank-fire-second-rank-fire?

Come to think of it, why don't SW have a bunch of Leman Russ tanks instead of Predators. I'm sure they could be modified to fit a big Marine inside, or maybe some Thrall servitors.

They used to be able to take Leman Russ exterminators in the previous codex but obviously they lost the keys...

Considering the fact that they're based off of wolves, wouldn't "Locator Bacon" be more appropriate?

Shaman wrote:Because they are not called Wolf Howl Beacons.

A space wolf who uses wargear without the word "wolf" in it is no space wolf at all.

Yea, they are all powergamers...

As to why, I can't really say much other than the codex has tons of shiny toys, of course it would lose a few things instead of being considered completely overpowered.

I will do ya a deal.

You can have teleport homers if you dont run any LFs or TWC =)