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I think we're being trolled.

At best this is nothing more than a Blackstone Fortress expansion with one squat character.

Hey Ekwatts.

I have a free brand new still sealed copy of Shadow of Ruin battle box set I am going to give away, and I agree with what you said people needing to put on their big daddy pants because a joke is never cruel, so Im just gonna give it to you.

Just be sure to PM me an address where you'd like this big box of stuff sent to.

Oh wait... psych. Jay kay.

I don't think it's "cruel," but it is in questionable taste for a company that's done such a good job of wrecking its primary game over the last year. It feels like the sort of humor that works when everyone likes you, but that falls flat when you're in the doghouse.

The real ballsy end to the animation would be having a Harlequin Voidweaver pop up at the end and vaporize the whole space hulk, Squats and all, in one shot.

So, if this is a prank then it's two years in the making. From Psychic Awakening, Pariah. 2020.
https://www.belloflostsouls.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/40k-pariah-squat-2020.jpg

 oni wrote:
I think we're being trolled.

At best this is nothing more than a Blackstone Fortress expansion with one squat character.

I would love another BSF expansion, Squats would go nicely with the ratlings. I would also love a reprint of Escalation.

I’m going potty trying to settle on whether or not this is a wind up.

Why it may be genuine
1. They teased the video yesterday
2. The rumours mentioned Squats and that source hasn’t been wrong yet
3. It does seem to match rumour engines
4. The wording of the article doesn’t strike me as nudge nudge wink wink
5. An animated trailer seems a lot of effort for a prank
6. What a way to get eyes on and people hype.

Why it may be an April Fools
1. It’s April Fools Day
2. They’ve made light of the Squat Clock in the past.
3. The animated trailer could be for another project, with just the last frames being added in for laffs
4. The post went up at an odd time, even allowing for the U.K.’s clocks changing last weekend. It went up at 11am, but we normally get the day’s first post at 12pm. Also, traditionally April Fools ends at 12pm.

Gah. Hopefully we get a 6pm “only kidding” or a further tease, like even a single honest to goodness model.

 ProtoClone wrote:
So, if this is a prank then it's two years in the making. From Psychic Awakening, Pariah. 2020.
https://www.belloflostsouls.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/40k-pariah-squat-2020.jpg

Squats were specifically mentioned on the last page of the 8th ed core rulebook.

I'm calling bs until I can order a mini from GW.

The faction icon at the very end leads me to belive it's real. For a joke, I imagine it would just end just after the text.

#7: There is no better day to announce the return of the sqauts than april fools, since their entire status is now a verb for being disowned and forgotten ("squatted"), so it makes more sense to announce on this day than it would any other.

If it is real, I for one can’t wait to read their new background.

They really didn’t get a lot of love in Rogue Trader and Epic (but what was there was solid), so new stuff is going to be welcome, especially as it will need to explain where they’ve been.

If they are not the April Fool's Joke, Then where is GW's yearly April Fool's prank?

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
If it is real, I for one can’t wait to read their new background.

They really didn’t get a lot of love in Rogue Trader and Epic (but what was there was solid), so new stuff is going to be welcome, especially as it will need to explain where they’ve been.

Im sure the background authors will write all of that off with hackneyed "we were here the entire time, you just had to look down longshanks!!" types of approach. You know, as they did in the video.

[edit] Though I do agree that I am actually more excited about how they are going to handle it, than if they are going to handle it. Squats are coming. Now its just time to break out the popcorn and judge the background authors as is our god given right as know it alls on the internet.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
If it is real, I for one can’t wait to read their new background.

They really didn’t get a lot of love in Rogue Trader and Epic (but what was there was solid), so new stuff is going to be welcome, especially as it will need to explain where they’ve been.

Me too! There was so little written about them around Rogue trader, where they've been and how/why they returned are very interesting.

 Theophony wrote:
If they are not the April Fool's Joke, Then where is GW's yearly April Fool's prank?

It's still a prank to make an announcement on April Fools if the announcement is genuine if everyone thinks it's fake.

 Theophony wrote:
If they are not the April Fool's Joke, Then where is GW's yearly April Fool's prank?

Have you seen the prices recently?

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
I’m going potty trying to settle on whether or not this is a wind up.

4. The wording of the article doesn’t strike me as nudge nudge wink wink

But the article says "Tell us what you think you’ve just seen over on Facebook and Twitter right now, don’t even stop to check your calendar."

It also says “momentous tidings from the warp” . The video on YouTube’s thumbnail says “life signs detected”, which isn’t otherwise referenced in the video.

Warhammer 40,000 Will Never Be The Same Again.

The “don’t check your calendar” could be read either way.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:

2. They’ve made light of the Squat Clock in the past.
.

you mean the clock with plastic sisters (have) and a plastic thunderhawk (Have.. for IA)?

 Shadow Walker wrote:

 Wha-Mu-077 wrote:
...on the other hand, doesn't the guy in the video kind of look like this type of boot would fit him?

I think that leg looks more robotic than Squat but I can be wrong.

Definitely.
The ankle is like a ball attachment.
Though squat with a robot leg is possible. And the perfect leg to use for a Rumour Engine. As it’s hard to say what it is.

Could be a leg from new Exo Armour.

 silverstu wrote:
Votann is text in the link to the video- Killteam Votann then in shipboard action? I think some of the details from the video might feature as scenery like the bulkhead doors and maybe even the dead ships captian in his chair.

Just out of curiosity, where did you see that? I don't see any link text that says Votann.

Quick search online and found an obscure reference (in a saga about the Orkneys) to it being a form of the Old Norse word vátr (adj. wet). I could definitely see it being a GW-ification (ie a made up name) reminiscent of Wotan -> Woden -> Odin.

Theophony wrote:If they are not the April Fool's Joke, Then where is GW's yearly April Fool's prank?

Danny76 wrote:

 Shadow Walker wrote:

 Wha-Mu-077 wrote:
...on the other hand, doesn't the guy in the video kind of look like this type of boot would fit him?

I think that leg looks more robotic than Squat but I can be wrong.

Definitely.
The ankle is like a ball attachment.
Though squat with a robot leg is possible. And the perfect leg to use for a Rumour Engine. As it’s hard to say what it is.

I'm looking at the thunderer with the mechanical leg and could see a similarity in design(albeit less geared).

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:Could be a leg from new Exo Armour.

That would be dope.

 Wha-Mu-077 wrote:

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
I’m going potty trying to settle on whether or not this is a wind up.

4. The wording of the article doesn’t strike me as nudge nudge wink wink

But the article says "Tell us what you think you’ve just seen over on Facebook and Twitter right now, don’t even stop to check your calendar."

Thinking about it, I believe the don't check your calendar is in reference to the line "After a short absence". Meaning they don't want you to remember the last 30 years of them being relegated to the warp.

Perhaps Chaos breaking free from the eye of Terror and the storm that has rent the galaxy in half opened up a way for the Squats to get out again. Between the way time stands still in the warp an how long a Squat lives (Guessing as long as a dwarf), would the Squats really notice that anything has changed in the galaxy? Big marines have gotten bigger, Chaos still angsty, Eldar still a dying race, Orks still like to fight and the nuns still smell the same from their height .

A Kill Team would seem appropriate. A full army is probably too much to ask for.

If this was just a joke, why would they have teased it the day before?

 Mentlegen324 wrote:
If this was just a joke, why would they have teased it the day before?

To make people question it. It's a multi-layered april fools - the best kind!

 Mentlegen324 wrote:
If this was just a joke, why would they have teased it the day before?

Like most 'traditional' April Fools 'jokes' now, you've got to build up the flat out lies so they're more convincing.

 Daedalus81 wrote:

 Mentlegen324 wrote:
If this was just a joke, why would they have teased it the day before?

To make people question it. It's a multi-layered april fools - the best kind!

So their April Fools joke...was to post the Joke before April fools Day?

This is pretty clever April Fools because regardless of the outcome it will have us fooled in one way or other. If Squats are indeed coming then April 1st would be the perfect time to announce them because we would assume that it's fake and thus be fooled.

Theophony wrote:

Spoiler:

 Wha-Mu-077 wrote:

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
I’m going potty trying to settle on whether or not this is a wind up.

4. The wording of the article doesn’t strike me as nudge nudge wink wink

But the article says "Tell us what you think you’ve just seen over on Facebook and Twitter right now, don’t even stop to check your calendar."

Thinking about it, I believe the don't check your calendar is in reference to the line "After a short absence". Meaning they don't want you to remember the last 30 years of them being relegated to the warp.

Perhaps Chaos breaking free from the eye of Terror and the storm that has rent the galaxy in half opened up a way for the Squats to get out again. Between the way time stands still in the warp an how long a Squat lives (Guessing as long as a dwarf), would the Squats really notice that anything has changed in the galaxy? Big marines have gotten bigger, Chaos still angsty, Eldar still a dying race, Orks still like to fight and the nuns still smell the same from their height .

I spit out my water when I read that. Exalt