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I recently discovered that Space Wolves are unable to Deep Strike their Terminators via their suits. It strikes me as odd. I get that they are untrusting and stuff but wouldn't their suits still have the capacity to Deep Strike or would they have removed that part of their suit?

They simply will not trust the Warp and arcane technology to teleport them somewhere. I'm sure their suits still have the capacity to do so, they just refuse to ever consider it.

Fluffwise anything can be teleported, fluffwise the only thing special with Terminator armour in regards to teleporting is that they are routinely fitted with a teleport homer so they can be beamed back again. This isn't reflected in the rules of course, because GW has decided that that should be part of Terminators tabletop 'thing'.

Pretty much the above. They don't like teleporters and so don't use them.

There is one chapter in one of the Ragnar novels of him being teleported out after his squad gets into trouble with some orks.

Bjorn let himself be teleported! If it's good enough for Bjorn, it's good enough for everyone!

Its not that Space Wolf TDA is incapable of teleporting, its just that the Wolves basically refuse to use such measures as part of normal protocol.

They don't like the way the telly-porta scrambles their molecules.

They aren't descendants of vikings, they are descendants of Leonard James McCoy.

Given how haphazard and dangerous Deep Striking has been made in the last few editions, I think the Space Wolves are the sensible one on this point.

Seriously, you take hardened veteran post-humans clad in ancient and irreplaceable armor and teleport them into a bulkhead? No thank you. We will stick with the drop pods. Stick us in a rocket and aim at the ground. Less chance of missing that way. What kind of epic saga ends with the hero being teleported into a bulkhead? Eaten by deep crows, maybe, but teleported into a bulkhead? Weaksauce.

 chromedog wrote:
They don't like the way the telly-porta scrambles their molecules.

They aren't descendants of vikings, they are descendants of Leonard James McCoy.

I am pretty sure Vikings also don't really like the idea of their molecules being scrambled.
Also, teleporting is hardly heroic.

 Iron_Captain wrote:
[I am pretty sure Vikings also don't really like the idea of their molecules being scrambled.

Or the idea of being called wolves, for that matter... If a northman was declared "wolf" it was for such a heinous crime (or refusing to pay the gild for one) that the community wanted nothing to do with him. Anyone was free to slay him, as long as they reported the deed to the public. Space Wolves aren't vikings, they're some sort of deranged wolf fetishists.

Bears. They are Space-Bears. Bears in space.

Hence all the leather.

As if leather can't be made from pseudo-human mutant beasties' skins? But our name is Vlyka Fenryka; we love the name wolf tho, just not the space part

Also as the SW codex stated in the terminator armour section, the SW terminator wolf guards don't use teleporters because Russ didn't like such things, just as jump packs primarily used by sky claws because Russ really loved fighting on foot.

 Gashrog wrote:
Fluffwise anything can be teleported, fluffwise the only thing special with Terminator armour in regards to teleporting is that they are routinely fitted with a teleport homer so they can be beamed back again. This isn't reflected in the rules of course, because GW has decided that that should be part of Terminators tabletop 'thing'.

I beg to differ. TDA can be teleported because it protects the guy inside the suit from the warp influence. SM in PA can't be teleported, they'd go crazy. Unless they are GK, who can be teleported in PA without going crazy. The SW armour has everyhting it needs, since noone bothers to modify or improve technology (Omnisiah and all that). I can see a situation where a SW whould be teleported though : if he joined a deathwatch terminator squad. His own armour would be repainted black, but it makes sense that they would not add a warp protective layer or whatever, that it would be just there.

In any case, get a drop pod. Like teleportation, but cooler.

Daston wrote:There is one chapter in one of the Ragnar novels of him being teleported out after his squad gets into trouble with some orks.

It happens in Ragnar's Claw. None of them behave like teleporting is unusual.

Seb wrote:SM in PA can't be teleported, they'd go crazy. Unless they are GK, who can be teleported in PA without going crazy.

In the above mentioned book, all the marines are in PA, none of them go crazy.