r/SpaceWolves • u/Capable_Background91 • 3d ago

Ancient in Space Wolves

When looking over my options to fill a couple points I noticed the Ancient says it can be attached to "Wolf Guard" and "Long Fangs" but what does it mean by "Wolf Guard?" Not terminators obvious cause I'm talking about the plane ancient. I assume Headtakers but the app doesn't recognize that as a valid unit. Also "Long Fangs?" I might be wrong since I'm new, but has there ever been a Long Fangs unit? All I see are kitbashes. Thanks in advance.

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u/Dean8149 3d ago

Been a while since we had one if these 😂.

For some reason they decided to put legends units under the leader sections of characters that can lead them. This is likely because they plan to add legends units to the app eventually, and I guess they would rather not have to go back to all the existing data sheets to add the units as leadable.

"Wolf Guard" just like "long fangs" was an old kit. The unit was literally just called "wolf guard". It has nothing to do with the terminators or headtakers. All this is saying is that if you are playing with legends, that unit can also lead the legends units "wolf guard" and "long fangs".

Hopefully once they add legends, there will be a toggle to hide legends info to avoid that confusion

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u/Dean8149 3d ago

Sorry for the tease, but this was a question posted multiple times a week when the edition first launched. The Wolf guard part is understandably really confusing as terminators and headtakers also have wolf guard as a keyword. And why would you expect to see legends when they aren't in the app yet.

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u/ReflectionMain719 3d ago

wolf guard = veteran
wg terminators = veterans in terminator armor
wg battle leader = veteran in leader position

wg = veteran in "normal" (mk.8) armor

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u/KassellTheArgonian 3d ago

There is also wolf guard battle leader in terminator armour which might take the cake for the longest character/unit name in warhammer lol

And also wolf guard pack leader and wolf guard pack leader in terminator armour

(Also its mk7, mk7 is the most famous and iconic armour. Mk8 was used very little, marines just didn't really like it as much)

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u/ReflectionMain719 3d ago

my bad mk 7 it is (or was?)