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Taking fluff, models, and play style into account, which do you all prefer? Explanations to your choices are much appreciated.

Wolves because their models are just cooler. (And they aren't heretics!)

Space wolves because they have doggies, they butcher traitor chapters, they are cool.

Also he litterally snapped Magnus over his knee.

Dark Angels all the way.

Dark Angels are cooler.

Dark Angels all the way for me, but I have some of both. The whole "dark secret" thing is really cool, like how they serve the Emperor and yet are always trying to hide their own past. Plus their color scheme (well, schemes, they have 3!) is really cool and I love the models with robes over their armor.

2ManyNids wrote:
Wolves because their models are just cooler. (And they aren't heretics!)

Just, you know, mutants.

 kingbobbito wrote:

2ManyNids wrote:
Wolves because their models are just cooler. (And they aren't heretics!)

Just, you know, mutants.

They get exception for being too damn awesome.
Space Wolves are are epic mutant monsters.
Dark Angels are emos with a secret nobody cares about.

Both are cool and have their own interesting background. I like the wolves slightly more due to their close combat aspect. But I dislike both due to their rules, its a shame that they both are the backbone of IoM deathstar shenanigans.

Do you like Werewolves or Knights?

Dark Angels easily. They may be my favorite loyalist legion.

Space wolves are my least favorite legion of any of the space marines, loyalist or traitor. Especially, with much of their, "We'd rather be a fantasy army" units.

Dark angels are emo? Come on dude get real... show me in any fluff where they were self harming emotional crazed folk.

Dark angels were tactical genuses, as the lion was the most tactical of the primarchs. This is one reason the dark angels and untramarines worked so well together while fighting the haunter in the hh.

Dark angels are a secretive army, with different levels of knowledge with each promotion (scout-tactical-ravenguard-black knight-deathwing). The robes and ceremonies for each promotion only deepens the fluff. They are dark, hidden, secretive, and yet hit like a ton of bricks with their elite ravenwing/deathwing attacks.

Space wolves are brutish space vikings. They lack much tactical flavor and will charge the enemy, resulting in many casualties. They glorify death and it is an honor to die in battle. Some have mutated into big beasts.

So, if you like dark, secretive, elite armies, play dark angels. If you like powerful vikings and borderline chaos heretical werewolves charging into battle, play space wolves. Both have some of the best loyalist fluff out there.

 455_PWR wrote:
Dark angels are emo? Come on dude get real... show me in any fluff where they were self harming emotional crazed folk.

I'll take that challenge.
Ragnar Blackmane by Aaron Dembski-Bowden
You're looking for a Dark Angel by the name of Sorael - Page 192.

Dark angels were tactical genuses, as the lion was the most tactical of the primarchs. This is one reason the dark angels and untramarines worked so well together while fighting the haunter in the hh.

Dark angels are a secretive army, with different levels of knowledge with each promotion (scout-tactical-ravenguard-black knight-deathwing). The robes and ceremonies for each promotion only deepens the fluff. They are dark, hidden, secretive, and yet hit like a ton of bricks with their elite ravenwing/deathwing attacks.

Secrets nobody cares about - Half their number are Chaos, bah, the other half are useless.

Space wolves are brutish space vikings.

AKA - Interesting.

They lack much tactical flavor and will charge the enemy, resulting in many casualties.

They're tactless brawlers, they're very tactical soldiers - learn the difference.

They glorify death and it is an honor to die in battle.

Same is true of all Space Marines, including Dark Angels.

Some have mutated into big beasts.

Now that's a secret worth keeping.

So, if you like dorky, secretive, uppity snobs, play dark angels. If you like powerful vikings and borderline chaos heretical werewolves charging into battle, play space wolves. Wolves have some of the best loyalist fluff out there.

Fixed that for ya.

If you like a viking looking army with some dogs, big dogs and werewolves that do most of the job in close combat go for SW, if you like tons of bikers/speeders and/or terminator armours go for DA.

They're both semi-competitive and not extremely difficult to play.

Personally speaking I love SW, especially their typical stuff, and I'm not even remotely attracted by DA, and any other SM chapter as well, but that's up to you to understand what you like most.

Wolves because they aren't traitors.

I picked Dark Angels, because I got the Dark Vengeance boxset when I got back into 40K, so I have a Dark Angels army by default. I do think they're cool though. I prefer the medieval gothic aesthetic to the viking one. The whole thing with the fallen is interesting too. Plus, Cypher - he's technically a Dark Angel, sort of. It counts.

From a model perspective, I like many of the Space Wolves models (e.g. Thunderwolf Cavalry) more but I gotta admit: The robes on many of the Dark Angels models look pretty damn cool.

Fluff-wise, I prefer the Space Wolves. The Dark Angels fluff just never truly sat well with me. The only saving grace that the Dark Angels fluff has for me is that not all of the Fallen are simply Renegades. Some are, some have sought seclusion, and others have fallen to Chaos.

As for play style - I can't comment on either since I don't play either.

Dark Angels. Space Wolves are cool, but take it just a little too much into the ridiculous zone

 jreilly89 wrote:
Dark Angels. Space Wolves are cool, but take it just a little too much into the ridiculous zone

What, you don't like how wolfy their wolves are? Or how about the overall wolfishness of their wolf brothers? Wanna-be wolves riding on wolves wearing wolf cloaks while praising the Great Wolf and waiting for the Wolftime...cool right?