The Space Wolves. The Vlka Fenryka. The Rout. The Emperor's Executioners. The most kitbashable, convertable army in Horus Heresy due to being able to coat every janky join in fur and owners of the fastest infantry in the Legiones Astartes. This is my main army and by far my favourite, put together for a store campaign my LGS was running and that I had a great time building. About 2/3 of this army was used in that campaign and so a decent number of units have their own stories and (unfortunate lack of) achievements from that.
Ymir Doomtread, the Mountain King, one of my Leviathans and the one token wolf.
Ymir Doomtread is the half-sane leader of this merry band, he's an Age of Darkness praetor with a powerfist added, a bare head, pointing arm and a copious amount of fur. His illustrious career started in my local shop's escalation campaign where in his first outing he got his head drilled by a Leviathan Siege Dreadnought, which has done nothing for his stability. After dying to that his injury recovery roll resulted in him being blessed by the Emperor and thus his career of dying in every single match began! He'll get shot to bits, he'll chump duels from fighting last, he'll job to primarchs but every army should have an HQ who just looks good and he does rock that powerfist.
The skull-faced dreadnought is the Mountain King, a converted Contemptor dreadnought armed with gravgun and Kheres assault cannon whose speciality is running straight through an enemy unit and being targeted by a hugely disproportionate amount of firepower due to looking absolutely terrifying. This guy was a fun conversion, mostly a Contemptor and Sentinel mashup with a Citadel Skull head and copious greenstuff. The idea before working out how horrific an all-dread army can be is that this would be my Fury of the Ancients HQ dreadnought so it's bigger and more imposing than a standard Contemptor.
The wolf is a wolf. Never used it, never will but it's there as a mascot and to give Ymir someone to hang out with when the Grey Slayers get bored of being tabled and refuse to let him join in any more.
The Leviathan is normally deployed in a drop pod and used to smash gunlines before they can shred my units, the Butcher is predictably messy and good fun but is a lot of points to drop into every game.
Caster of Runes and two more dreadnoughts
My Caster of Runes, converted from the other Age of Darkness Praetor and two Contemptors. The stiff looking one is a spare from the old Calth box and the multi-melta one a converted plastic kit, responsible for doming a couple of tanks but mostly these three are a set of spares.
Faffnir Oathspeaker yet another two dreadnoughts, oh my!
Faffnir Oathspeaker is my Speaker of the Dead, he typically accompanies a squad of Terminators to act as my main beatstick inside a Spartan and has accounted for company champions, Rapier weapon teams and many sergeants in his time. Faffnir is pictured here with two Dreadnoughts; the Blood-drunk with its two melee weapons and the Grav Flux Bombard bearing Weight of Wyrd, who breaks mortals beneath the crushing pressure of his left arm.
Slayer Squad Black
Slayer Squad Black is one of my pair of Grey Slayers squads, a fairly competent beatstick unit that can overpower most other peer units and even give heavier units a hard time with their power weapons, power fists and hammer though doing so will normally get the unit killed in return. This was one of the first units I built for my army and is one of my mainstay units, so it's both killed and been killed by many other units, best used to charge Tactical squads, weapon teams and small specialised units and big enough to tie up small assault units for a long time.
Slayer Squad Red
Slayer Squad Red is the twin of Slayer Squad Black, each named for their shoulder pad colours. Both my Slayer squads contain a small number of MkIII marines to represent the older members of the warband, my army is mostly MkIV but the veterans will be wearing MkIII, if I ever build a command squad they'll be built that way.
Stalker Squad Horizon and The Hailstorm
Hailstorm is my Sicaran battle tank, tasked normally with taking down large light units and engaging slower units at range, normally accounts for a couple of things and its most impressive kill is a Sunkiller squad. The Stalker squad is one of my midfield units mostly used to hold the middle ground or sit back and snipe depleted units off of objectives with their Calivers.
Stalker Squad Vertex and its Rhino
Stalker Squad Vertex on the other hand normally hangs back and waits for the late game, then storms across the battlefield to claim remote objectives once the path's been cleared by the heavier units. In a pinch its combi-meltas and the Rhino's pintle multi-melta can act as an ad-hoc anti-tank unit, though doing that normally proves suicidal. The normal target for this is a Land Raider or Spartan containing Cataphractii as this unit trades for the Spartan then forces the unit inside to walk slowly. This unit typically underperforms but without knowing what else to put in Troop slot 5 I feel a fast, cheap unit is as good as any.
Spartan Assault Tank Drakkar and Tartaros squad
Drakkar is my main hammerblow unit and the personal transport of Faffnir Oathspeaker and his Einherjar terminators. The Tartaros unit pictured here is a spare, normally not used unless my opponent would rather face fewer dreadnoughts.
The Einherjar
The Einherjar accompany Faffnir into combat. A ten-strong unit of Tartaros with unqiue armaments and each man a hero, they go in every game I can get them into because they hit hard and run if they lose their transport.
Recon squad and Scorpius
The recon squad has mostly been used for sniping sergeants and pinning deep strikers using its augury scanner to Intercept. They're a conversion made with MkIV legionaries and a plastic scout squad plus some spare heads. the Scorpius isn't named yet but is a fantastic unit for basically any infantry.
Drop Pod, Cataphractii squad and spare Praetors
The drop pod here is a dreadnought one, used for delivering The Butcher to his victims. The Cataphractii are another spare unit for the same purpose as the smaller Tartaros unit above and the spare Praetors are here just in case I take any permanent casualties in a campaign and need a replacement, you can tell they don't get much use because they have no beards or fur.
Seeker Squad
My Seeker squad are new and mostly untested, a hybrid unit capable of shooting stuff up close and sniping from a distance they work best when pointed at a specific target or two and sent to take them down, the combi-disintegrator on the sergeant in particular makes a mess of practically everything. They're Tortuga Bay bodies, GW everything else and were a good fun unit to build.
Varagyr Squad
My Varagyr are another Tortuga Bay kit with some additional parts, the thegn is rocking a great frost weapon and the rest are on the stock loadout. They'll be getting a new Ymir in matching armour and a Land Raider to act as my main hammer unit, maybe even an alternate Speaker too and this will cap off the main additions to my army. From here on it'll be additional fun units now and then with my main focus moved onto Militia, Daemons and a new Knight army.
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