The Second Issue of the Clone Wars Battle Tales comic series has finally been released,
which is once again set before the battle of Christophsis, not long after the first
battle of Geonosis.
The comic takes us through the Wolfpacks journey at the beginning of the war, where they fought
against Wat Tambor’s forces on the trading post called “The Nexus.
This group of Clones is actually the original Wolfpack, who wore red painted armour, before
most of them were unfortunately wiped out by General Grievous.
We also get an amazing glimpse at Anakin and Obi-Wan fighting a fierce duel with Count
Dooku and Assajj Ventress.
So, I’m going to break down exactly what happened in the comic and the brave adventures
of the Wolfpack.
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The story begins right where Anakin, Obi-Wan and Plo Koon’s troops were left off in the
last comic, on the tropical planet of Hisseen.
Anakin and Obi-Wan are thrown right into the conflict, as they engage in a fierce battle
with Count Dooku.
Dooku taunts Anakin about their previous duel, which we saw take place in Attack of the Clones,
which of course angers him and causes him to become more enraged.
Immediately after this, Dooku reveals that his Sith apprentice, Asajj Ventress is actually
with him on the planet, and sends her to fight Anakin one-on-one.
As Anakin and Obi-Wan are duelling the two Sith, General Plo Koon takes cover and attempts
to make contact with commander Wolffe in order to stage a rescue attempt.
Plo Koon begins telling Wolffe that they have discovered the Hisseen parliament on the planet,
where we learned that the politicians of the planet are hiding out in the last comic.
Unfortunately the transmission signal begins to break up, making communication with Wolffe
impossible.
Before the transmission completely dies out, Plo Koon sends Wolffe the coordinates of their
current location and instructs Wolffe to move the Wolfpack to the Parliament before Dooku’s
droid forces are able to arrive and slaughter the politicians inside.
The really awesome thing here is that we get a full shot of Commander Wolffe wearing his
old Phase 1 red armour, before the tragic incident in Clone Wars season 1.
Let me know down in the comments if you prefer his red armour from this comic, or his grey
armour from later in the Clone Wars.
Following this, we cut back to the three Clone leaders, Cody, Rex and Wolffe, where the transmission
containing the location of the parliament arrives.
Commander Wolffe wasn’t able to hear General Plo Koon’s order clearly through the transmission,
so he hesitates to move his troops there, without proper clarification.
Cody also believes that without clear orders, they should remain in place and wait for further
instructions.
This right here clearly demonstrates just how much Commander Cody really is a Clone
that does things by the book.
Rex then storms in and says that they should go ahead with the mission, because Anakin
would trust him with something like this.
You can really see the contrasting leadership styles between Anakin and Obi-Wan here.
Cody then asks Wolffe if Plo Koon would trust him to lead a mission by himself, without
the guidance of his general.
Commander Wolffe then responds to Cody with a strong yes, and begins to tell him a war
story about the Wolfpack’s mission on the Nexus trading outpost above the planet Quarmendy
The story begins with Plo Koon telling Wolffe that the Nexus is said to be impervious to
any kind of attack.
Wolffe replies that he and his men are ready to take on any challenge.
Following this, we cut straight to Sepratist leader Wat Tambor, where we learn that he
is in charge of defending the facility with his droid army after taking hold of it earlier
in the war.
Tambor tells his droid commanders that the Republic forces have no chance of taking down
the Nexus because of their lack of firepower.
Wat Tambor then brings the former custodian of the outpost, named Orkle to himself, in
order to question her.
Tambor is extremely angry at her because as a prisoner, she has been trying to sabotage
his control of the station and give assistance to the Republic.
Wat Tambor is not happy at all with her behaviour and decides to take her as a hostage, in hopes
of preventing the Republic from attacking the station with all of their firepower.
As he does this, Plo Koon is leading his aerial forces into battle in the atmosphere near
the Nexus.
The pilots engage in a full force battle against the droid fighters, but Plo Koon reminds his
men that their primary goal is distraction and evasion.
Meanwhile, Commander Wolffe is leading the Wolf Pack on a covert mission to infiltrate
the nexus and take control of back from Wat Tambor.
Wolffe tells his men that their gunships are too small to be detected by the scanners,
so they won’t have any trouble until they reach the outer walls of the station.
Once they do reach the outer walls though, they will experience the full force of Wat
Tambors forces, because he will realise that Plo Koon's air assault is just a distraction.
Following this, the Wolfpack awesomely use jetpacks to leave their gunship and fly to
the outer walls of the Nexus.
As they reach their landing point, massive blaster Cannons begin appearing out of holes
in the wall, firing at the Wolfpack on their jetpacks.
Commander Wolffe reassures his men that they will make it out in no time, as long as they
keep climbing and stay focused.
At this point, Wat Tambor still doesn’t know about the Wolfpack’s covert mission,
and is focussing all of his firepower on Plo Koon's fighter squad.
After that, things got very worrying for the Wolfpack, when Wat Tambor used his famous
D-Wing battle droids, which you would remember from Clone Wars Season 7, when Wat Tambor
used them on Skako Minor to attack the Bad Batch.
These droids are honestly so cool, I always love to see them making appearances with their
awesome yellow wings.
The Wolfpack then come together as a single unit, back to back to defend each other from
the flying d-wing droids, giving enough time for Commander Wolffe to attach blase charges
to some of the d-wings, and flying them straight into Wat Tambor’s command centre.
At this point, Tambor has noticed the Wolfpack’s presence, and rushes out of his command centre,
only moments before the blast charges detonate.
Commander Wolffe and his men then land directly in front of Wat Tambor and point their blasters
at him, demanding that he release the hostage.
Tambor swiftly refuses this offer, stating that he’d rather let the whole place explode
than see the Republic take hold of it.
Unexpectedly, he pulls the trigger to detonate the entire station, and calls in two d-wing
droids to safely lift him out of the area.
Tambor successfully escapes the station, but the hostage is rapidly falling off of the
platform, only moments away from death.
Thankfully, the Wolfpack respond extremely quickly, activating their jetbacks and grabbing
the woman before she can fall.
Honestly, how awesome are these guys!
I really hope the next issues of the battle tales comics cover their adventures more,
because they’re quickly climbing the ranks as my favourite Clone troopers.
AT the moment, the 501st are still on top for me, but we’ll just have to see where
the story goes for the Wolfpack.
After that, Plo Koon moves into one of the squad’s gunships and directs his pilot to
move towards the Wolfpack.
Once his gunship arrives, Plo Koon pulls his men into the Gun ship one by one, only seconds
before the entire Nexus station explodes behind them, destroying every single droid inside,
and millions of credits worth of equipment.
Wolffe then apologizes to his general for allowing the Nexus to be blown up, but Plo
Koon is not upset whatsoever.
He tells Commander Wolffe that his mission was not a failure at all, because each one
of his men are safe and well, which is all that he cared about.
Plo Koon honestly is one of the best Generals!
Wolffe is very relieved that his general is not angry at him and is extremely thankful
for his understanding.
Plo Koon again mentions that they were only able to complete their mission and rescue
the hostage because of the great trust that they both shared for each other.
This scene just further backs up the extreme respect and love that Plo Koon has for his
men, which we saw from the episode where he says that Clones are not expendable to him.
Plo Koon is such an awesome Jedi, definitely one of the more caring ones like Anakin and
Obi-Wan.
If only Luminara was more like this, maybe Barriss Offee wouldn’t have turned to the
dark side.
At this point, Wolffe’s story about the mission to the Nexus outpost ends, and we
cut straight back to the planet Hiseen where Cody and Wolffe have taken their men to the
location of the parliament.
They are scouting out the area, hiding in dense jungle bushes, when they discover that
all of the Hisseen politicians have been taken hostage by the droid army.
We know from the last issue of the comic that Count Dooku will likely execute every single
member of the parliament because of their refusal to join the Separatist alliance.
Cody then thinks about what Obi-Wan would do in this situation and warns Wolffe that
if they don’t act now, they will not get another chance.
This prompts Commander Wolffe prepare his Wolfpack for battle, and give one of the coolest
lines ever.
“The WOLFPACK leads the hunt.”
This is also such an awesome shot because we get to see the entire Wolfpack standing
together in their red phase 1 clone armour.
For those of you who don’t know, the original meaning of the Red painted armour was meant
to symbolize a wolf destroying its pretty and leaving only blood behind.
The wolfpack then changed the colour of their armour again to blue after the incident with
General Grievous, to honour their fallen brothers, before finally settling on grey.
And that’s where this issue of the comic ends, right on a massive cliffhanger.
I’m sure we’ll get to see the result of their rescue mission in the next one and meet
up with Anakin, Obi-Wan and Plo Koon once again.
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on the third issue of the Clone Wars Battle Tales comics.
Make sure you let me know down below which colour is your favourite from the Wolfpack,
red, blue or Grey.
Thanks so much for watching, cheers guys, hope to see you in the next one!