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 Gert wrote:

 Mr_Rose wrote:
No! That movie also never happened, just like these stupid helmets. That don’t exist.

(BTAS forever!)

Arnie is the absolute best thing to come out of that movie. His puns are glorious.

Look, I’m not going to argue that point directly but I still feel they could have just made 90 minutes of Arnie cracking terrible ice puns as a stand-alone film and kept that stuff away from any DC properties and both would have been better off for it.

I'm with Gert on this one. Batman and Robin was great, and Arnold was amazing.

StraightSilver wrote:
I've loved all the other Legion upgrade heads and shoulders so far, but these are a (wide) miss for me.

One wolf's head helmet might have been OK, but not all the same.

TO ME, these upgrade helmets wouldn't be something I'd use on every model anyway. I mostly stuck with stock helmets for my XIIth, putting the bunny ears on characters and other important models. Again TO ME, more stock models fit the setting...it's not 40K where every model should be blinged out and OTT.

As a VIth legion player, the wolf helms seem mostly fine. I'm using the wolf helms from the 40k kit on my characters, and that's likely how I'd manage these too, either any further character conversion, or maybe a vet/seeker squad to really differentiate them from the troops.

Not a huge fan of beakies personally, but they aren't far from the legion's aesthetic, and generally anything I can do for minor individualisation of their armour is fine by me.

Those shoulder pads are a miss for me though, will likely stick to my transfers.

So are beakies in a space wolf army called snouties?

The helmets aren't bad, they're just silly.

Honestly, I love this version of the Wolf helmet (they even used it for the primaris action figures). Or a wolf skull. But they based it off the design that comes in the SW box and I hate that one.

 TheBestBucketHead wrote:
I'm with Gert on this one. Batman and Robin was great, and Arnold was amazing.

His comment didn't seem as much praise to movie as praise to Arnie.

You can have bad movie with good character. Like sw7 had solo to give movie some value.

tneva82 wrote:

 TheBestBucketHead wrote:
I'm with Gert on this one. Batman and Robin was great, and Arnold was amazing.

His comment didn't seem as much praise to movie as praise to Arnie.

You can have bad movie with good character. Like sw7 had solo to give movie some value.

See and I thought adding in the old man detracted from it....

 GaroRobe wrote:
So are beakies in a space wolf army called snouties?

Muzzlims.

Those wolf helmets look terrible. Come on, GW, what the hell were thinking. Would love to be a fly on the wall of the meetings where those designs were decided upon. I imagine everyone was being sarcastic "Yeah, sure, John, those helmets you designed look great" and the person taking the minutes just recorded it word for word and somehow it got through. This is something I'd call absurd even in 40k even though I long since gave up caring about SW in 40k, but 30k, come on.

They don't even have any norse type features on them.

The shoulder pads look okay, they've been painted with way to much contrast but I assume when painted a bit more subdued they'll look okay I hope.

Hate them. Wish they’d stop trying with this stupid wolf helmet design when the wolf skull design (a-la deathsworn) is so much better if they’re committed to a wolf head look. If it was just one for the sergeant it would be one thing but this is just a waste of an upgrade pack.

 ImAGeek wrote:
Hate them. Wish they’d stop trying with this stupid wolf helmet design when the wolf skull design (a-la deathsworn) is so much better if they’re committed to a wolf head look. If it was just one for the sergeant it would be one thing but this is just a waste of an upgrade pack.

I suspect the Deathsworn are why these aren’t skeletal? Keep the units distinct.

I’m more disappointed as Wolves would better fit barbarian style, unhelmeted heads.

I’ve been waiting on the SW helmet preview before deciding on a legion as they were at the top of my list for a number of reasons: lore, Russ model, rules...

But now... these are just ridiculous and over the top silly which is poor in 40k but really really doesn’t suit the aesthetic of 30k at all.

No wolves on Fenris wrote:
I’ve been waiting on the SW helmet preview before deciding on a legion as they were at the top of my list for a number of reasons: lore, Russ model, rules...

But now... these are just ridiculous and over the top silly which is poor in 40k but really really doesn’t suit the aesthetic of 30k at all.

Helmets that make them look like Crow's with Downe syndrome are fine but the wolf heads are where it doesn't 'fit the aesthetic'. Sure. I buy that.

The skull helmets look infinitely better than the "with skin" wolf helmets.

Of course they could have also just made a helmet that looked like Norse Helmets.

I liked the part where the WolfPod doors opened and the Space Wolf said "it's Wolftime" and then he Wolfed all over them Thousand Sons

I cannot help myself, but those helmets remind me more of a feline head rather than a canine.


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Also feeling the urge to listen to Duran Duran for some reason.

What does Rio have to do with Fenris?

Racerguy180 wrote:
What does Rio have to do with Fenris?

Hungry like a wolf....

A true Fenrisian wouldn't need a helmet to have fangs.


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 Theophony wrote:

Racerguy180 wrote:
What does Rio have to do with Fenris?

Hungry like a wolf....

The album was called Rio, so I think he got it.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Weird. I've never really liked Wolfhelm helmets... until this ones.

I don't like them, they look terrible.

Since HBMC does, I know I'm right.

*Nervousness for Night Lord Helmets intensifies*

The angle they used for the product picture make it look like they all have smiling wolf face, lol.

EldarExarch wrote:
*Nervousness for Night Lord Helmets intensifies*

How do you feel about bat wings?

Heresy Designer - "So, I have an idea for some Space Wolf heads for the Heresy range. You know how in all of the Heresy books they adamantly refuse to answer to the name 'Space Wolves', and we have all of these books that describe them as often going bareheaded with ornate leather face coverings?"

Heresy Boss - "I'm intrigued, please continue!"

Heresy designer - "So we give them comically smiling wolf helmets!"

Heresy Boss - "Genius! I'll have 10!"

Well it's GW. They gave up on not trying to Flanderise the Woofs a long time ago.

I think GW hates Heresy SW. I'm not sure which are worse, these or the Varagyr. Complete garbage. Good thing 3d printing exists. There are some nice bits out there for SW.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Well it's GW. They gave up on not trying to Flanderise the Woofs a long time ago.

Sure. And in 40K, where it's most certainly been dialed up to 11, I don't have a problem with it. I think it's just disappointing that they had the opportunity to do something different with them in Heresy, they went so far as to set it up extensively in the novels, and then just ignored it in favour of 'Yeah, just put wolves on them'...


It might be excusable if they were at least good wolf helmets, but the appearance of giant, cheesy grins from the front view just kills them.

I do actually have a problem with it in regular 40k, too, but in 30k it feels particularly out of touch.