What happened to all the extra space wolves when they went from

Attrition

>>54135466
They just stayed in the space wolves

>>54135466
During the 2nd founding, the space wolves tried to create a successor chapter. Splitting the legion (which if I remember correctly was one of the smallest at that point) in two, with all resources, manpower, vehicles, etc, the Wolf Brothers, as they were to be called, were sent to another system near the fenris system to set up shop in the name of the Allfather. Then everything went to shit, a bunch of the brothers fell to chaos, the remainder mutated beyond salvation, and the wolves learned the hard way to never "separate the pack" so to speak.

>>54135466
They didn't comply with the codex. They are still much larger then a normal chapter, but aren't full Legion size due to attrition and just recruiting from a single planet. (or at least they were, I don't know how many they lost when Magnus fucked up Fenris)

>>54139689
13 Great Companies of about 80 marines each = roughly 1040 marines in total. They've been properly chapter sized for a long time, but no explanation has ever been given for why their numbers dropped so dramatically between the Burning of Prospero and the establishment of the Codex, at least to my knowledge.

>>54140168
>but no explanation has ever been given for why their numbers dropped so dramatically between the Burning of Prospero and the establishment of the Codex, at least to my knowledge.
I'd bet that there's no real explanation, just handwaving bullshit and retcons for the sake of pushing more universe content.

>>54140168
where are you getting that the great companies are only 80 marines? AFAIK they are more like 200 each, so bigger then a chapter, but not close to legion size.
I expect that geneseed flaws and only recruiting from Fenris is why they are not as big as they were in the past.

>>54140303
>>54140168
Great Companies don't have any kind of set size. All we know is that the largest has 250 marines.

I'm fairly sure they failed to give a fuck about the codex even when they said they did.

So yeah, they still were in the space wolves

oh and they were split into two chapters, only their successors, the wolf brothers, were mutaded and anded up getting disbanded

>>54140904
The Leman Russ: the Great Wolf novel has a scene where Russ tells the first space wolves "Not to know the Legion", that he intentionally stopped recruiting for a while and attritioned the legion down to roughly Chapter strength, and ordered them to stay about there; because after the Horus Heresy he no longer had it in him to fight his brothers.

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>>54135466
>implying there were any extra space wolves

>>54135466
The space wolves are strong, independent mary sues who don't need no rules and can get away with anything. Don't think about it too hard. In fact, never acknowledge their existence again.

>>54135466

They had to be put down

>>54135466
Magnus and a bunch of very pissed off sorcerors happened.
After that they could only recruit from Fenris. Which does not have the population for keeping a legion up.
The rest was attrition.
The Magnus happened again.

>>54135466
There was far less "extra" than you'd think, Russ got in some very messy battles before the Heresy was over.

Also they did make a gesture of compliance creating 1 successor chapter, but they fizzled out