Okay, so I was starting to work SM ships for ASC 2.0 and part of that is going to be eventually the inclusion of a Space Wolf fleet list. As such I needed to include some Space Wolf character ships.
Now I know the Space Wolves have 1 Emperor Class BB and 1 Retribution Class BB.
In Warp Rift 13, the
Pride of Fenris is an Emperor Class BB, but in the Novel
Grey Hunter by William King, the
Pride of Fenris is a Retribution Class BB, and is Logan Grimnar's flagship.
Now I am thinking of going the Retribution for the
Pride to stay consistent with that. Plus I don't think the Gloriana Class
Hranfkel surived to the 41st millenium.
Now the next issue is the Emperor. Now in Grey Hunter as well there is mention of the
Light of Truth, an Imperial starship which is suppossed to be similar to the
Pride of Fenris, as least in size, and then Egil Ironwolf's vessel is supposed to be smaller. But other sources have Egil Ironwolf's vessel as the second largest of the fleet. BUT Warp Rift 13 had the
Iron Wolf (which is Egil's ship) as a Grand Cruiser. I kinda like that and prefer it, and it stays consistent with Grey Hunter, which though it calls it a battleship, says it is captured from Imperial Navy renegades (Grand Cruiser anyone?) PLUS Ragnar knows very little of starships at the point he is introduced to them and it is smaller.
So I think the one of the unknown "battlebarges" from the 40k wiki should be the Emperor Class in the fleet, since this is most similar in size to the Retrubution. Maybe make it Bran Redmaw's flagship, though IA vol 11 only suggests he has Strike Cruisers, but makes no mention of the number or name of ships.
Now the Battlebarge wiki lists only the
Holmgang as a Battlebarge. So I say we just pick one of the "Battlebarges" with not much info or one of the "Unknown Capital Ships" from the SW chapter fleet list and call it the Emperor Class (other than the
Ragnarok, that is going to be an Assault Battlebarge).
It would be ironic for it to be the
Retribution ![Grin ;D](http://www.specialist-arms.com/forum/Smileys/default/grin.gif)
Anyone else have any other fluff sources or ideas?
Extra resources
http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Space_Wolves#Chapter_Fleethttp://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Space_Wolves#Vesselshttp://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Retribution-class_Battleship#Famous_Retribution-class_Shipshttp://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Battle_Barge