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Bit of background, a friend of mine pointed me to a financial news site with an article on Games Workshop and how they went about presenting their IP to others. The writeup and pictures are from an investors fair, where they also gave a presentation on the hobby. Most of what was on display is stuff we already know about, like Necromunda, Forgebane and Space Marine Adventures.

Read it all here: [Link removed, see below]

All in all there's not much new there, standard article about Games Workshop and the stuff they sell. I was told to check the gallery at the bottom of the page though, which aside from showing off the above mentioned, also had previews of an upcoming Space Wolves release. No dates or in depth descriptions, just caption cards or whatever you call those cards they stick in front of models. I was quite surprised that aside from the obligatory upgrade sprue and lieutenant blister / small boxed there was more to this release, though the rumours have already hinted towards at least one big model coming.



The obligatory Primaris Space Wolves upgrade kit, with a pair of hairy heads, obligatory pauldrons, wolf pelts for armour decoration, a pair of power axes to keep the Vikings in Spaaaaaaace vibe going, no real surprises there really, on par with the other upgrade kits. Quite surprised they kept things so.. restrained, like with the other Primaris upgrade kits.



"Space Wolves Primaris Hero", so their version of a lieutenant and it's okay for a Space Wolf with a lighting claw and bolter. The pose is a bit wooden, perhaps a bit too 90's..?



"Baldr Aesir", some sort of psyker/librarian type (can't remember what Wolf psykers THEY HATE PSYKERS AND DON'T USE THEM are called, not my army!), I like the new shoulder pads and especially the alternate head piece, we need more majestic beards.





"Broddja Mammoth Thunder Artillery" which is an armoured robot elephant of sorts I suppose? Seeing as it in two variants, one with a battle cannon of sorts and heavy bolters, the other with some sort of (speculation here) oversized melta weapon and lascannons, we can safely surmize that one is for hordes while the other is for hunting monsters and vehicles.



"Krom Dragongaze in a Contemptor Dreadnought", which is something I suppose? Did he wind up near death around the end of the.. can’t remember the name of that campaign book involving Cadians, Imperial Knights and Orks. I just hope it has more articulation than the current excuse for a plastic Contemptor.



Leman Russ in both regular and Wulfen form, OBVIOUSLY.

So yeah, whinge, whine and whatever away at this with the usual stuff.

Elephant, more like a not so woolly mammoth... could have at least tried with the fur, the FW Wolf Terminator fur looks better FFS.

And why do the Puppies get a special Primaris Hero when everyone else only got "named" Lieutenants.

Guess I should be glad they don't have Primaris Hellblasters with Helfrost.

Well I mean if Hannibal can march 40 elephants over the alps like an absolute mad man, it kinda makes sense that you can imagine the space wolves having elephants.

I do appreciate you can dakka them up, this could lead so some awesome alternate squiggoth conversion for the ork players

Seriously?!

More Space Wolves?

How did this get moved to the head of the queue before battle sisters?

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
How did this get moved to the head of the queue before battle sisters?

Normally i'd be asking the same thing but I can forgive a lot for sci fi mammoths.

Artillery mammoths at that, well if the Leman Russ tank cant be taken by SW it makes sense that you would have a wooly elephant with a big ass gun!

Not feeling the Primaris stuff but that actual Russ and new Krom!

Think they'll have the beards as a separate piece so yuou can kitbash?

 BrookM wrote:




Now the caption just says "Space Wolves Primaris Hero" and it's okay for a Space Wolf with a lighting claw and bolter. The pose is a bit wooden, perhaps a bit too 90's..?

OK maybe I'm reading too much into this but doesn't that lighning claw and wolf pelt on the shoulder look a bit familiar...

I'm not sure if this is legit, but at AdeptiCon one of the Warhammer Community guys mentioned "Fellhanded the ReBjorn". At first I thought he was kidding around, but they put out that joke video about plastic sisters a few months ago and now they're actually confirmed . Maybe this is for real...?

Really? REALLY? That name just makes me gag with the lack of creativity, I fear I may snap my own neck from whiplash if it were to be confirmed.

The angle is bad but the shoulder pad looks like it might have the same bas relief as Bjorn's front.

 BrookM wrote:
Really? REALLY? That name just makes me gag with the lack of creativity, I fear I may snap my own neck from whiplash if it were to be confirmed.

Right!? Note this was in the hotel bar after he'd had a few, but it seems to line up with these rumors, and it was the same guys who were revealing other crazy things (plastic sisters!!) at AdeptiCon. Still better than something like "Murderfang", I think...

Don't shoot the messenger!

 RiTides wrote:
I'm not sure if this is legit, but at AdeptiCon one of the Warhammer Community guys mentioned "Fellhanded the ReBjorn". At first I thought he was kidding around, but they put out that joke video about plastic sisters a few months ago and now they're actually confirmed . Maybe this is for real...?

That has to be a joke, I mean it seems like GW is letting their hair down humor wise so it being a joke would make more sense

Since when has anything in 40k needed to be "serious"?

Did anyone else hear that they are going to have their own psychic discipline? Is that a new thing? Must say I stopped following SW when the wolf sleigh was released and don't remember it being from prior.

Bjorne the Fellhanded has no hands.

That makes me sad.

The claw counts, surely? That's like saying a dreadnought has no face. Technically true, but everybody knows where the "face" is supposed to be.

Personally, I quite like it. Certainly better than those turtle riders they showed off at AdeptiCon...

 ingtaer wrote:
Did anyone else hear that they are going to have their own psychic discipline? Is that a new thing? Must say I stopped following SW when the wolf sleigh was released and don't remember it being from prior.

Every faction that has psykers got its own little psychic power chart.

The more I look at the mammoths the more I like them. I mean yeah space vikings on cyber elephants, ha-ha-ha. But honestly the silly horse left the fluff barn around the time Inquisitor Sherlock Obi-Won Cleusseu took the field and silly can work if it's done with a straight face.

I actually like the Thunder Wolves too and they both make sense in the SW context.

Ultramarines don't need to ride giant eagles or whatever, they have a mini-emipre of 100 world to meet their needs. But Fenris was never the most industrial world, whatever tanks the SWs have have to be imported and maintained when there's really no one outside the Fang who can do that. And they last we saw of the Fang was well...



So it only makes sense that the SWs would turn to the mega fauna of Fenris as an option.

I'm actually interested in seeing how the SW story arc goes from here. I'm hoping that they have been exiled/excommunicated/whatever and now find themselves as outcasts but still fighting for good. 40k has long needed that kind of 3rd faction to break up the whole Imperium vs Chaos dichotomy. There has to be some human faction that's not Imperial but also not covered in spikes and tentacles.

Oh also, could this



Equal the turret on this?

 BrookM wrote:

 ingtaer wrote:
Did anyone else hear that they are going to have their own psychic discipline? Is that a new thing? Must say I stopped following SW when the wolf sleigh was released and don't remember it being from prior.

Every faction that has psykers got its own little psychic power chart.

Ah. Only own two codexes (SM and Eldar).

Was thinking about the mammoth and was wondering if it is an adaptation of the Ogre ones. It certainly seems to share some design elements, I don't remember the tusks being that similar but could that be the angle? or am I just imagining things.

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:


The more I look at the mammoths the more I like them. I actually like the Thunder Wolves too and they both make sense in the SW context.

You know, I hadn't thought of this, but you're definitely right in that context! And I'm warming up to them, too - wish the pic was a little better, though, as it's hard to make out much detail to really determine how good the sculpt is, and how much of that is just the painter.

 RiTides wrote:

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:


The more I look at the mammoths the more I like them. I actually like the Thunder Wolves too and they both make sense in the SW context.

You know, I hadn't thought of this, but you're definitely right in that context! And I'm warming up to them, too - wish the pic was a little better, though, as it's hard to make out much detail to really determine how good the sculpt is, and how much of that is just the painter.

Yeah I'd like to know if the runes are transfers, freehand or actually molded into the armor.

I think it's great they're bringing over their "big monster" expertise from AoS to 40k. I'd like to see more of this, and the the ThunderMammoth (or whatever they're calling it) is a great start.

I'd really like to see a Kraken model, even though it'd never hit the table. There's always been a hint that the megafauna on Fenris is due to Tyranid influence; I'd like to see more of those beasts as well.

It would absolutely hit the table. They just make its so someone has to Release the Kraken.

Wait, they're putting Dragongaze in a Dreadnought? That's just gonna make the old model invalid to play with. Good thing I passed mine on, right?


A lot of people say that GW's long term goal is to have Primaris replace all "regular" Marines. I thought that theory was pretty silly, but this is GW, and this looks like the first step in doing that.

On the plus side though, if they are just gonna Dreadnought all the Shorty Marines, maybe we'll get Dread Squads like in 30k.

 VictorVonTzeentch wrote:
On the plus side though, if they are just gonna Dreadnought all the Shorty Marines, maybe we'll get Dread Squads like in 30k.

Yeah, I'm not really keen on that idea. Dreads are cool, but not cool enough for me to scoop out £40 a Dread to make an army with. God only knows how much this one will be actually; they could be going down the route of the Wazbom Blastajet being added to the Bommer Kit - make the box bigger by adding a single variant that needs its own sprue, meaning they can up the price of the whole original box, whether you want to build said Wazbom or not. Hopefully that's a syndrome that just sticks with the Space Wolves, and isn't something we see added to all Primaris Dread kits.

But I suppose on the bright side, this could be a kit like the current SW Dreadnought, which has multiple variants and characters for Space Wolves. Time will tell when GW does a Community announcement, I suppose.

Interesting point.

Looking again at the Thunder Mammoths, it looks like the crew are all Primaris Marines, even in these small images you can see the different proportions.

Take that for what it's worth.

I can see why "Manny" the mammoth will suck people in. We were in desperate need of a Giant Kaiju thing to battle all the Giant Robots.

On the other hand...

"Krom Dragongaze in a Contemptor Dreadnought", which is something I suppose? Did he wind up near death around the end of the.. can’t remember the name of that campaign book involving Cadians, Imperial Knights and Orks. I just hope it has more articulation than the current excuse for a plastic Contemptor.

I'm sorry but he looks fantastic to me. I may have to build a Space Puppy army just to use him in it.

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