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Wanna bet red shirt wants to sell his skaven army?

also does anybody know the history of the squats. or knows a website were i can find it out

Mr. Bombadidaloo wrote:

Battlekai wrote:It would be my guess that you have body odour issues.

Why else would a Red Shirt give you information regarding some new race? Especially a race of space skaven that don't exist...

Or maybe the OP asks ten questions a minute like a certain bunch of kids do at my local GW x.x (sorrie OP, if you're a 'normal' person )

Right on target!

bosstiz wrote:also does anybody know the history of the squats. or knows a website were i can find it out

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squats_%28Warhammer_40%2C000%29

Keep in mind the usual caveats about wikipedia.

http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Squat

That has a bit of info, the lexicanicum would probably have some more.

http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Squat

There you go, all the fluff you could ever want.

If you look at the 40k universe map in the new rule book there is mention of other races on it, so you never know GW could be putting options in place

I suppose its possible, but given the amount of resources needed to launch a new race (concept art, sculpting, fluff, tooling new moulds for plastic etc) I can't see it happening.

We know there's new SM stuff coming out, SW stuff to come, a new IG codex, a whole relaunch of DE. At some point they'll have to decide to either revamp or 'squat' Inquisition forces as they're heinously out of date (so too Necrons). Then there's the Adeptus Mechanicus and Chaos Legion rumours that will probably never see the light of day...

Battlekai wrote:It would be my guess that you have body odour issues.

Battlekai, please refrain from the personal attacks. This is (amazingly) the most juvenile one I've seen on Dakka to date.

bosstiz wrote:is this an image of them http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.battlebarge.com/warhammer40k/gallery/hrud/pics/warrior1c.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.battlebarge.com/warhammer40k/gallery/hrud/index.html&h=450&w=483&sz=36&hl=en&start=18&um=1&tbnid=ZmbxSEuwbKuxNM:&tbnh=120&tbnw=129&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dhrud%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26channel%3Ds%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-USfficial%26sa%3DN

That's an old (3rd edition) Jessail model with a (RT era) plastic Imperial Guard Lasgun. Nice conversion, not a new model.

George Spiggott wrote:

bosstiz wrote:is this an image of them http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.battlebarge.com/warhammer40k/gallery/hrud/pics/warrior1c.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.battlebarge.com/warhammer40k/gallery/hrud/index.html&h=450&w=483&sz=36&hl=en&start=18&um=1&tbnid=ZmbxSEuwbKuxNM:&tbnh=120&tbnw=129&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dhrud%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26channel%3Ds%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-USfficial%26sa%3DN

That's an old (3rd edition) Jessail model with a (RT era) plastic Imperial Guard Lasgun. Nice conversion, not a new model.

Your ability to spot these things is amazing. Oh well, its slightly comforting to know that GW hasnt removed too many races overall.

Chimera_calvin wrote:I suppose its possible, but given the amount of resources needed to launch a new race (concept art, sculpting, fluff, tooling new moulds for plastic etc) I can't see it happening.

The tau came out in 04 I think, and they were from scratch. Never say never, just say not often

Tau came out in 2001; I remember seeing the preview minis at Baltimore Games Day that year.

no no no! thats a skaven Jezzail with a fancy weapon swap!

sorry, just realized this thread is two pages long.

Destrado wrote:Though the Hrud did have a small story in the Blood Angels codex, if I'm not mistaken. Yes, the 3rd edition one.

the hrud are mentioned at least 3 times in the Soul Drinkers (series) novels

and in de BL xenon book you have a art word of a hrud

It's on a round base, it's 40k.

Didn't they even say, no new races in the new future?

And ffs, first rule to remember, whatever they tell you in their local GW, they don't know anything.
Most of the fan base is better informed than the average GW troll. Most of them won't know about the news, the detailed information of the new starter set etc.

On one thread on Dakka within the last, say, 2 weeks, I saw a list of upcoming codexes -some of which I knew to be valid- that mentioned Adeptus Mechanicus.
Was that ever confirmed as BS?
(And I ain't talking Ballistic Skill, either)


Eric

siamtiger wrote:Didn't they even say, no new races in the new future?

And ffs, first rule to remember, whatever they tell you in their local GW, they don't know anything.
Most of the fan base is better informed than the average GW troll. Most of them won't know about the news, the detailed information of the new starter set etc.

Right! 'cause GW staff don't use the forums.. Don't kid yourself, GW love to troll these forums to do things just to get a rise from Dakka.. don't believe me, just check any of the forums and see if there isn't a hot debate going on..

Destrado wrote:It's on a round base, it's 40k.

Sure, because it's not like you could swap out the base or anything.

Nerf_IG wrote:

Destrado wrote:It's on a round base, it's 40k.

Sure, because it's not like you could swap out the base or anything.

Thats Captain America! and it looks like his lead foot is on backwards!

Iorek wrote:

Battlekai wrote:It would be my guess that you have body odour issues.

Battlekai, please refrain from the personal attacks. This is (amazingly) the most juvenile one I've seen on Dakka to date.

Please forgive me father for I have sinned....

GW can't keep up with the number of factions they have now. It would be stupid to invent more. (Except of course for the Pan Fo.)

Alpharius wrote:Fishmen.

Got to be Fishmen.

Weren't they eagledogfishmen?

Bosstiz, the most accurate statement you can take away from this whole thread is that it is indeed very unwise to listen to GW retail staff about anything in the future for which they cannot show you a promo picture or preview copy. They are notorious for doing stuff like this; I'm talking years of bogus rumors.

Lol. captain obvious.

I agree with one of the posters that it would be foolish to introduce a new race into the mix.

I could see Hrud and/or Squats as an additional choices for Tau if they were to be included in some way, but not as entire armies of there own.

ProtoClone wrote:I could see Hrud and/or Squats as an additional choices for Tau if they were to be included in some way, but not as entire armies of there own.

Oh, now *that* would be a real kick in the teeth to the last remaining Squat player.

I wonder when GW will reintroduce Squats as a slave race...

Hey JohnHwangDD, shouldn't you be doing some sort of proskynesis to all the "Dark Eldar Are Getting A New Codex Soon" proponents out there?

Squats, baby. Squats. There's humans, elves, dark elves, orks; just seems to be something missing.