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pogey wrote:

 Tastyfish wrote:
I'm all in for Mjolner's Shipbreakers, with a bunch of retcons that more or less sticks to the basics we know (including the fight against Tyranids) and has the survivors of the leagues now nomadic spacers rather than underground miners. Aliens powerlifters meets Alien Resurrections oddball crew for the Kill Team. Living ancestor in his old exoarmour perhaps.

Just as long as we still get the Demiurg for T'au...

the tyranids eating them was just an offhand comment, this is the quote:
"Would you believe they were all eaten by the Tyranid invasion? Or, due to the Squats biker life style, everyone of them was arrested for disturbing the peace and sacrificed to the Emperor. Where do you think they get all of those souls anyway? All kidding aside, it doesn't seem likely the Squats will ever again see the light of day. When they were out they never seemed very popular, showed up at our stores, or tournaments, and didn't sell on top of all that. Their look was really outdated compared to the hundreds of other great Warhammer 40,000 models. Don't send us hate mail, it's just the cold hard facts of the 41st Millennium."
- unnamed GW employee

Unless it has been written into the canon further?

They added a new foreword to the original Ian Watson Inquisitor novel. Basically it said that the events of the novel were impossible to corroborate and gave various reasons, such as in passing mentioning how the Squats' homeworlds had been consumed by the Tyranids.

The animation was way more fun that watching a Marine get dressed.

 Togusa wrote:
How would SoB players have reacted to this?

We know that pretty well. Between GW getting a social media presence and the 2017 survey that established to them that there was genuine customer interest in Sisters of Battle, they let the Internet know on a few occasions that they were in on the plastic Sisters joke. Which was not well received by Sisters fans and combined with the years of lacking support led to recurring (bitter) comments well past the official announcement of the Sisters' range update that GW was just playing a joke. Markedly on GW's end the survey ended any jokes about Sisters very abruptly and they've been treated as a serious faction since, to the point that the 8th ed launch trailer didn't just feature the editions two showcase armies, Marines and Necrons, but also had a strong and otherwise completely unrelated Sisters presence.

Conventionally I wouldn't put it past GW to have learned nothing from that experience, but even GW deserves the benefit of the doubt sometimes, so unless I see nothing come of this announcement (or GW outright stating it to be a joke), I'm going to assume the announcement of Squats is real and the joke is in the timing of the announcement.

 Wiz Warrior wrote:
A kill team would make an excellent beginning though. Help gauge interest and do some engineering practice on modelling squat aesthetics on a sprue.

I think Squats are too big for GW not to commit the resources for a full release, to be honest. Kill Team as a first appearance seems likely. It's April now and we're less than two months away from the next Kill Team box. I consider it plausible for GW to make the announcement on April 1 for the joke, let it sit for a month so people actually grow doubts, and then have the Squat models announced and shown at Warhammer Fest with the pre-order of the Kill Team box only a week or two later. Add a mention of the commitment to a full 40k range later in the year to complete the experience.

If Squats got a Kill Team and GW waited on feedback for a 40k release, that release would be at least 18 months away. That's a long time to lose any momentum from the sudden and unexpected return of Squats. I like to think they'd rather give people the opportunity to buy while the idea is novel. Unlike Sisters which had an existing fanbase, Squats won't have many holdouts left to throw money at GW, so they have to consider whatever money is to be made from a Squat release will overwhelmingly come from customers new to the army.

Iracundus wrote:

pogey wrote:


Unless it has been written into the canon further?

They added a new foreword to the original Ian Watson Inquisitor novel. Basically it said that the events of the novel were impossible to corroborate and gave various reasons, such as in passing mentioning how the Squats' homeworlds had been consumed by the Tyranids.

"Ian Watson mentioned it in his author's introduction, but he was mistaken and it was changed in the next edition." - Andy Hoare

"The thing about them being killed off by Tyranids is a mix of fanon, Chinese Whispers and Games Day banter, it was never actually written anywhere." - Andy Hoare

Interestingly none of the social media profiles have said anything yet today. Don't know what time the usual start us. 2pm?

Generally speaking Saturday and Sunday are late updates by UK time. I think generally around 5pm or so - in general a one news release and that's it.

I think some Tyranid codices have also corroborated the invasion of the core worlds though, no mention of Squats, just the 'miners of Golgotha' or something like that.

Honestly "tyranids ate them all" is as good an excuse for why a faction vanished so suddenly. It's not like Eldar Exodites where GW just doesn't make anything for them, but has kept them in the lore and references and such. Squats just straight up vanished overnight kinda.


The other good excuses would be "the Warp ate them" and "The Imperium wiped them out"

I really hope it *is* some sort of new co-op Space Hulk with rules/expansions for multiple forces on each side though.

 Overread wrote:
Honestly "tyranids ate them all" is as good an excuse for why a faction vanished so suddenly. It's not like Eldar Exodites where GW just doesn't make anything for them, but has kept them in the lore and references and such. Squats just straight up vanished overnight kinda.


The other good excuses would be "the Warp ate them" and "The Imperium wiped them out"

THe race went on a drunken bender, hopped in their ships and competed in the 41st millenniums version of the Iditarod . The race is now over and it’s time to go back and earn a living in the coal mines going down down down . In a bit of irony, their digestive system finds Tyranids to be a delicacy , so they will be boarding space hulks to try and scrounge up some morsels off the post race bash.

zamerion wrote:
https://ibb.co/V2zL4Lj

What were you trying to even link here?

 Kanluwen wrote:

zamerion wrote:
https://ibb.co/V2zL4Lj

What were you trying to even link here?

They are real! https://www.warhammer-community.com/2022/04/02/what-april-fools-the-41st-millenniums-next-faction-is-real-heres-a-model-to-prove-it/

Guess who's back... back again...

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2022/04/02/what-april-fools-the-41st-millenniums-next-faction-is-real-heres-a-model-to-prove-it/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=warhammer-40,000&utm_content=leaguesofvotannreveal020422

What a time to be alive!

I can't believe it. Genuinely.

The right foot on the model shown looks like the cyber foot from rumors. Maybe they will be the not marine faction for 10th.

Feeling pretty vindicated right now

In all seriousness, welcome (back) to 40k's brand new (kinda) faction ! My bet on the next returnee is Exodites.

Later in the year.

Well, that settles it. Take that, unbelievers!

Thats what I wanted to see. Space Dworfs reimagined.

Well after the overly aggressive responses from some people, hopefully we can, yet again, trust in the massive leak with 100% accuracy?

Heh. Really not how I imagined them to look, but also really liking it. Kinda nice that there's a range of rather hard sci-fi looking factions between GSC, Orlocks and now these buddies in the setting

Dudeface wrote:
Well after the overly aggressive responses from some people, hopefully we can, yet again, trust in the massive leak with 100% accuracy?

Who'da thought that the one part of that leak that made people go "Ok, yeah, but surely that part can't be true!" turns out to be 100% accurate as well.

Yes, they’re really real. In an April Fools double-bluff that had Tzeentch himself scratching his feathered head, Humanity’s long-lost cousins actually are making their return to the 41st Millennium as a full Warhammer 40,000 faction.

Not even just for Kill Team. What a world we live in. Squats were dead even when I got into the game in the late 90s, to see them coming back is just mad. Even better, it looks like they're ditching the daft 'Squats' name and just having it as an in universe name that some people in the Imperium call them. Knew that GW wouldn't be stupid enough to wind people up about this, even on April Fool's Day.

Guess this almost 100% confirms that we're going to be getting World Eaters at some point as well. It's interesting that 40k is getting so many more factions these days (Genestealer Cults, Knights, Full on Legion armies, now this), back in the day when there was nothing from the Tau ('01) for years it was usually blamed on shop space. I wonder if increasing online sales are allowing them to create more factions, ignoring the game balancing issues of it.

...it kinda looks like a StarCraft Marine, just squatter and less armoured.

I'm....surprised this is real. Also surprised they are (re)introducing a new faction when there are so many decades old models that need a refresh.

Great news for everyone who wants Squats though.

I didn't want Squats to be true.

But I'm glad they are. That looks great.

 The Red Hobbit wrote:
I'm....surprised this is real. Also surprised they are (re)introducing a new faction when there are so many decades old models that need a refresh.

Great news for everyone who wants Squats though.

There's not that many decades plural old models out there, catachans, some aspect warriors, zerkers, core cadians maybe?

They look as "big" as Cadians. Size creep and all.