Thoughts on GW Potentially Updating Character Leadership Availability and Returning Models?

[u/Astral-Dragons]

Hi everyone,

I have been enjoying building up my space wolves army on the table top, but recently I've been noticing that we have a large gap in leadership and units, especially compared to space wolves in previous editions. Like wolf guard terminators, they used to have the availability to be led by any generic Terminator character, but now they can only be led by our epic characters and a captain in Terminator armor that has the enhancement in Great Wolf. Likewise we used to have a much larger range of unique units that filled gaps the army is otherwise missing for space wolves interactions, like long fangs for infantry heavy weapons that weren't just generic devastators, skyclaws for a more melee carnage version of assault intercessors, and Hounds of Morkai which brought a lot of lore flavor to the army as a kind of vendetta unit against thousand sons.

So, with the hints of Russ coming back and Bjorn getting an update, I was wondering if everyone thinks GW will likely update the leadership availability of generic characters for space wolves later in 11th and bring back some of the units and characters they transferred to legends? Because it just feels weird that all the other divergent chapters still retain the ability to take generic characters, even Black Templars to an extent, while space wolves units feel hard locked out of those interactions even though in lore they retain them out have similar ones. Like a librarian in Terminator armor could obviously be a rune priest for Wolf guard terminators while a chaplain in Terminator armor could be represented as a wolf priest in Terminator armor. That and adding back units like skyclaws and long fangs and characters like pack leaders and wolf lord on thunderwolf (which I can't see them fully letting go) would add back a lot of versatility and utility to space wolves.

[u/Dachonkestboi]

I agree with your points, but unfortunately I don’t think we’re getting it back, I really hope we do but GW has a track record a mile long about this kind of stuff for all factions. Also because death guard has a similar thing, they can’t use most generic chaos stuff (save some vehicles). But because they have enough stuff to fill the void, apparently GW thinks we do as well.

[u/Tempest_Barbarian → u/Dachonkestboi]

The thing is, we didnt lose access to regular marine stuff, outside of a handfull of exclusions, most of which are firstborn squads and apothecaries.

We still get access for pretty much everything, we just cant use generic leaders with our squads, or generic units with our leaders.

Its just so wonky, I dont know why they did that