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What option would you like to see?

Personally, I'd like to see Squat Bikers as an option in the IG list, along with a Squat HQ choice and possibly with Squat Heavy Weapon teams and a Squat Gyrocoptor. Enough to make a pure-squat list, but not one that is competetive with no humies in the list at all, to represent the fact Squats have had their homeworlds wiped out by Behemoth.

I was sad to see squats go, as i thought they were quite cool. I wouldn't want to collect a 40k army of them though. I have a lot of epic squats from the days when they came in a box set along with orks.

I think they'd fit in an inquisitor force though (maybe Xenos hunters as they hate orks). In the old battle for armageddon strategy game, they landed on armageddon as part of an inquisitor's force (Inquistor Horst?) and fought on armageddon prime, while the SMs fought on armageddon secundus.

I was happy to see the back of them to be honest. I never want to see them ever again.

Hear hear!

Personally I don't like them at all but I voted 'Squats selectable as options in IG Codex' since I have a friend who really wants them back.

Hmm.Hairy, drunken, short arsed bikers....in spaaaaaaaaaaace.....

No ta. Leave them in the bin where they belong.

Epic Squats were kind of cool though.

I hate short people who think theyre tough.. An army of napoleons was always lame.

What would I like to see? Them being forgotten. Forever.

Dont say squats. Every time you sa squats they get pushed back to another edition.
We must be at millionth edition.

I wouldn't mind a space dwarf race of some sort. Calling them 'Squats' was so '80s...

P.S. Hey, 50th post. I got upgraded to Phil Kelly...

I would say Jack and Squat and Jack left town! Errr, um, I will be off to turn myself in to the Authorities for the criminal act I just performed by telling that joke.

I wouldnt mind them comeing back as demiurg
Maybe as a "mercenary/ally" choice for IG and Tau

They're too close to human (human looking at least) to make a plausible ally for Tau. We already have Gue'vesa. I'm sure some of them are already bearded midgets.

I wouldnt mind them showing up as a selection in the IG codex. Make them pilots to a vehicle similar to a Deffcopter and there ya go.

Or you could just convert them to mini rough riders or something.

I am so tired of hearing about Squats. Ive beem playng since 91 and they were dying off then. I sware people just blab about them to try impress the new players. The squats were and looked pathetic. GW is having a hard enough time supporting its current line. Like the Dark Eldar even need to exist.

John

If someone has a collection of Squat models, can't they just field them as a counts-as IG or Space Marines army depending on their collection?

Bigmac wrote:I am so tired of hearing about Squats. Ive beem playng since 91 and they were dying off then. I sware people just blab about them to try impress the new players. The squats were and looked pathetic. GW is having a hard enough time supporting its current line. Like the Dark Eldar even need to exist.

John

...says the "I've been playing since '91 man"

I've been playing since '88, and though I never had a Squat W40K force, I had a very sizeable Squat Epic force. It is the fact they are missing from the fluff that bothers me more than whether they are playable in W40K, to be honest. I doubt I would even have a Squat W40K army if I could, though now I have 10 bikers to use for counts-as marine/scout bikers.

I also think it could be very very interesting to return them to the fluff as part of a Xenos Hunters book and have them now hate 'nids instead of Orcs for what Behemoth did to their homeworlds. It need not be bikers, but a unit designed to be very effective against 'nids. (Though not special rules that only affect 'nids - it would have to be abilities that are effective against everyone but which are especially useful against 'nids. I hate the idea of paying for an ability that has no use in most battles.)

If you say "Squats" three times when looking in a mirror, one of them appears behind you holding a mug of mead, slurring "why did you furrrshake ush?" before disappearing from your life forever.

I would like space dwarves to make a come back, it was a shame to see them go.

Back in the day there was a guy at my FLGS who had a pretty sizable Squat army, it was always fun to check out because there were so few pics/info/anything relating to them. When 3rd edition came out that guy was Pissssssed.

I think they're dead Jim. Seriously though has Dwarfs in Space ever been an even plausible race? Think about it how stubborn they are in any piece of popular fiction. You think that they would seriously every be able to accept the changes of time and advance out into the galaxy?

Now the Demiurge (sp) is a different can of worms. I would be interested in a Demiurg list, but it should in no way, shape, or form match any Squat fiction or material. It just doesn't work.

As Squats are demi-humans, they should be in the IG alongside Ratlings & Ogryns as a single Elite entry.

I kinda liked the look of Squat Exo Armor....

I just want GW to support what they already have first. DE have been waiting how long for an update? The FAQ section is so neglected and outdated it's pathetic They already have enough woes with their release cycle to be compounding the problems with another race.

We must have space dwarfs back! If only so my poor larry the lascannon-totting thunderer has a place in an army!

I have a sizable force of Squats, I'd like to see them as an elite force for IG, or as an alley to imperial forces. And yes I am an old school player, from the RT days. I would also like to see Imperial Beastmen brought back, just for the variety of models, and fluff.

During the whole time I've played 40K I have seen ONE Sqaut army,and at that time GW had already "sqauted" them.
However,I voted to restore them to the fluff & give them a new codex,not due to any love for Sqauts,but basicly because I think it's foul of GW to release armies,make money off them and then dicontinue them,leaving those who put so much time into those armies with a pile of unplayable minis,and no,"counts as" dosen't count.