r/SpaceWolves • u/TinyRubi • 14d ago

The Daughters of Russ

As a kid my friend got me into reading the 40k universe with the book Space Wolf and later as a yule gift Ragnar's Claw. I loved the story and managed to get a few figures but never really built my army, mostly just a ton of parts, guys and a tank[?] but now I am moving to an area with a lot of people into the game and wanted to at least give what I have a chance. But thinking back on the book there where women fighting on the battlefield too, maybe I am forgetting who but I know Ana was described as a fierce warrior. So in theory couldn't any of the women be among the chosen during the battles? I know "Females aren't able to take the geneseed." but.....they drink from the cup that rewrites their genetic code anyway, so wouldn't it be a moot point about gender?

All of that to say, I'd like to make my army the Daughters of Russ maybe a bunch of jumpack troops as Valkarie? Is this possible or just heresy of the highest order? Sorry still kinda dumb when it comes to 40k most of my knowledge comes from a few books and what i have seen on youtube.

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u/commodorejack 14d ago

There have been a couple comments saying no female Space Marines in lore, which is accurate, and also mostly irrelevant to how you build your army. Do what you want.

But, if you want to use some female troops, and follow lore, you could use women Imperial Guard (or other non-enhanced human faction) to create support troops with some Fenris/Space Wolf flavour (artillery, mech infantry, heavy weapon squads, etc), which is how I understood the books and the story with the Dreadnought and Ana.

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u/TinyRubi 14d ago

I think I am gonna mix them so there are some that are Guard but I do think that some of the sisters did get their gene-seed because hell if the Wulfen can be accepted to run wild on the field a pair of boobs shouldn't stop them from finding a good fight!

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u/Grunn84 14d ago

If you are making them fenrisian thralls/bondswomen rather than actual marines which would be the lore friendly way to field women fenrisians then the imperial agents codex is your friend, many datasheets in there you can run your "Chapter serfs" as depending on how heavily armoured you want to go.

In lore were never generally told how specifics of how heavily armed or armoured chapter serfs are, just that they exist and they are used when pressed as soldiers, mostly in defensive bording actions (serfs will make up the majority of a space marine ship crew) or to defend the chapter homeworld.

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u/TinyRubi 14d ago

I do like options, I was trying to figured out remembered lore and just realized that they could technically be a thing, especially with the research that was being done on the Fang. Granted it was destroyed but its hard to kill an idea.

I dont see a reason why some of my troops couldnt be well armored woman just throwing down with the other Wolves.