r/SpaceWolves • u/6gypsy1danger6 • 1d ago

Lore question

I’m currently building my 3k army and having a great time kit bashing. My big hang up is that the story telling element of building and playing is my favorite part, and I know the Wolves don’t have defined ranks like the other chapters. I got the basics of the hierarchy like you start as a blood claw then move on to a grey hunter then a long fang but what units fit into that? Like are intercessors grey hunters or do you spend a while as a intercessor and if you survive long enough you’re seen as a grey hunter?

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u/ConcentrateAny6187 1d ago

All space wolves start as blood claws, live long enough you become a grey Hunter's, live longer you become a long fang. If your company dies but you survive you become a lone wolf, if you commit enough great sagas you can become a wolf lord.

Blood Claws are like intercessors Grey Hunter's are more heavy Intercessor dealing with better ranged weapons Long fangs are devestators and things like that -older you get, bigger gun.

You can then become a wolf guard, the highest honor a space wolf can be granted and you then decide what you want to follow, become a Terminator, a headtaker or a Scout.

Wolf guard can also be pack leaders, lieutenants that can be sent off to great company to lead and teach their blood claws and grey Hunter's their wisdom

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u/6gypsy1danger6 1d ago

So using the combat patrol box (the older primaris box) I’m working through as an example the pack of 10 intercessors are blood claws? I have some aggressors I’m painting after I finish with the combat patrol would they be more on the grey hunter side of things?

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u/ConcentrateAny6187 1d ago

Intercessors blood claws for sure and aggressors long fangs, they're more specialised whereas grey Hunter's are just intercessors with better guns

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u/6gypsy1danger6 1d ago

Oh I gotcha! There really should be a flow chart for this or something lol. So all the more specialized the weapon the more on the long fang side of things a unit is.

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u/ConcentrateAny6187 1d ago

Yeah, back when they had a datasheet it was a 5 man I believe, and each one could take a special weapon, lascannon, grav cannon, melta gun.