Great Company
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The Great Companies are unique to the Space Wolves Chapter of Space Marines. Where most Chapters are organized into ten Companies of 100 warriors, the Space Wolves are grouped into twelve Great Companies of about 120 warriors, each having different iconography and banner symbols. Each Great Company is responsible for its own recruitment, maintenance, and running, each acting as a seperate force altogether, each lead by a Wolf Lord in a semi-feudal system. When working with multiple Great Companies on a large crusade, they would use the iconography of the first Great Company, Which is the Chapter's 'Standard' colours to avoid confusion on the battlefield. There was once a 13th Great Company, which has several rumors to its disappearance. Some state that they disappeared into the Warp during the attack on the traitorous Thousand Sons homeworld, other rumors claim they disappeared after the Space Wolf Primarch Leman Russ himself went missing. Regardless, there is currently hardly any information concerning the company in the Imperial records.
Sources
- 1 Games Workshop Codex: Eye of Terror
- 2 Wolf's Honour by Lee Lightner
- 3 Codex: Space Wolves (1st Ed.)
- 4 Codex: Space Wolves (2nd Edition)
- 5 Codex: Space Wolves (3rd Edition)
- 6 Codex: Space Marines (4th Ed.)
