Space Wolves Techmarine

Every chapter needs someone who understands the machines, and in a brotherhood drawn from a world of ice, feuds and long memories that role sits at an angle to everything else. Half warrior, half artificer, trained a long way from home in disciplines his battle-brothers treat with wary respect, the Techmarine keeps armour, engines and weapons in working order and performs the rites that here are indistinguishable from maintenance. This is that specialist in Fenrisian dress, the Norse-inflected character of the Space Wolves applied to a craftsman rather than a howling line trooper. It is a combination that turns up far less often than another axe-wielding veteran. He serves as an HQ or support choice in a tabletop wargaming force, as a proxy for the standard chapter equivalent, or simply as a single satisfying paint project with enough story in it to justify a base built like a forge floor.