40k Dwarves

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**Kilkrazy**

Kanluwen wrote:
purplefood wrote:Probably not. The Squats were removed because the guys at GW couldn't find a way to make them fun to play. A lot of people genuinely miss them. Though if you make the models you can use the IG codex as a stand in... not the same but still.
They won't add another race into 40k as they have too many as it is. Though there are hopes they will fold some codcii into each other so there may be space for one if they feel like creating one...

This is actually wrong.

Squats were already fun to play, the models were nice, and they had a background that was on par with Orks.

But the real reason, from everything I've been told/heard from people like Andy Chambers at Games Days in years past, was simply that they couldn't find a way to make Squats fit in with the background change.

Squats when they started out were pretty much the same as Orks. A silly conceptual archetype of a fantasy race in space. But as they were trying to find a way to bring Squats in...they realized the niches were already filled.

Hard-drinking, clan based race? Space Wolves.
Silly, biker styled fantasy archetype in space that specializes in weird technology? Orks.

And so on and so forth.

So, Squats weren't let go because they "couldn't find a way to make them fun to play".

It was because they "couldn't find a way to have them in the background that didn't already step on the toes of an existing faction that was already fleshed out more than the Squats were".

Yes, this is right.

GW changed 40K from the fun, knockabout game and background of early editions to make it ever more emo and Grimdark, as part of the strategy to appeal to teenagers.

Squats didn't fit and got squatted.

Orks were Grimdarkified.

GW are now doing the same to Tau.

**Ribon Fox**

Squats did have pyskers, they were called Ancestor Lords and could stand toe to toe with the best of them
I miss the days of when this hobbie was more than a hobbie, each game was a story in its self, now what do we get? Better looking minnies, plastict tanks and dreaddies, but where has the heart of the game gone

**spya**

Just use a massive ig army of ratlings!

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Ribon Fox wrote:but where has the heart of the game gone

The gw staff have been tainted by choas and took away all the story and fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!(not saying 40k is boring)

**Luco**

They are not tainted by chaos, the truth is much more sinister... they own chaos, it is a mere toy to these overlords; even tzeentch bows to their iron will.

**spya**

Luco wrote:They are not tainted by chaos, the truth is much more sinister... they own chaos, it is a mere toy to these overlords; even tzeentch bows to their iron will.

omg lol

**Malice**

Well i think space dwarves dont suit the 40k universe, and i never liked dwarves. But necrons dont sell?! I see loads of necron players at the blanchardstown gw.