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Really wasn't expecting to see more squats so soon. The bike is great, really fun aesthetic and I love the rider. Really gives me some scout/Browncoat vibes.

I'm glad they didn't plaster guns allover it too. Really looking forward to seeing more!

 TalonZahn wrote:
Badly proportioned body with a Gnomes head on a Norelco Electric Razor.

But enough about me, eh?

The white and teal colour scheme, and the bulky trike, makes me think of AT-43 Karmans. I do miss my albino gorilla dudes.

The armor plate design of the revealed basic trooper seemed reminiscent of the AT-43 Karmans.

I see a backpack and what looks like a shovel on that trike as well. That is a lot of non-combat stuff being carried around (as compared to the bike equivalents of other factions) and I wonder whether the point is to show them as nomadic.

Iracundus wrote:
The armor plate design of the revealed basic trooper seemed reminiscent of the AT-43 Karmans.

I see a backpack and what looks like a shovel on that trike as well. That is a lot of non-combat stuff being carried around (as compared to the bike equivalents of other factions) and I wonder whether the point is to show them as nomadic.

“Pioneer” kinda covers it.

Iracundus wrote:
The armor plate design of the revealed basic trooper seemed reminiscent of the AT-43 Karmans.

I see a backpack and what looks like a shovel on that trike as well. That is a lot of non-combat stuff being carried around (as compared to the bike equivalents of other factions) and I wonder whether the point is to show them as nomadic.

I think more that this unit is called a Pioneer and is a forward scout, rather than them being nomadic.

 Olthannon wrote:

Iracundus wrote:
The armor plate design of the revealed basic trooper seemed reminiscent of the AT-43 Karmans.

I see a backpack and what looks like a shovel on that trike as well. That is a lot of non-combat stuff being carried around (as compared to the bike equivalents of other factions) and I wonder whether the point is to show them as nomadic.

I think more that this unit is called a Pioneer and is a forward scout, rather than them being nomadic.

The silhouette of one of the other Squats had what looked like a pick-axe. So they seem to be carrying mining/entrenching stuff with them. Maybe nomadic isn't entirely the right word but it seems to show them with industrial/mining stuff, which may fit with the old idea of the Squat wargear being repurposed/redesigned industrial and mining equipment.

 Momotaro wrote:

 TalonZahn wrote:
Badly proportioned body with a Gnomes head on a Norelco Electric Razor.

But enough about me, eh?

The white and teal colour scheme, and the bulky trike, makes me think of AT-43 Karmans. I do miss my albino gorilla dudes.

Yea, I just can't place the aesthetic.

It's really odd for a "40k" look.... like... Imperial + Tau or something...AT-43 Karmans is a good call also.

I don't see/get a feel of Tech Dwarves/Squats etc.

The new Necromunda bikes + Dwarves may have been better?

Iracundus wrote:

 Olthannon wrote:

Iracundus wrote:
The armor plate design of the revealed basic trooper seemed reminiscent of the AT-43 Karmans.

I see a backpack and what looks like a shovel on that trike as well. That is a lot of non-combat stuff being carried around (as compared to the bike equivalents of other factions) and I wonder whether the point is to show them as nomadic.

I think more that this unit is called a Pioneer and is a forward scout, rather than them being nomadic.

The silhouette of one of the other Squats had what looked like a pick-axe. So they seem to be carrying mining/entrenching stuff with them. Maybe nomadic isn't entirely the right word but it seems to show them with industrial/mining stuff, which may fit with the old idea of the Squat wargear being repurposed/redesigned industrial and mining equipment.

In the video commentary, they mentioned something about them going ahead of the fleets.. so maybe they are space bound?

Definitely Karmans. I have a sneaking suspicion that I will try to assemble a League force using nothing but gorillas. I have 2 shotgun cases full of Karmans, so I should be able to sub out pretty much everything.

Plus, that should make my buddies furious that I found a use for the Karmans again.

Not my cup of tea, but glad to see that they're harkening the designs back to old models like they should be.

Looks like crap, like the rest of what we have seen of the Squats.

The Trike has somewhat made me a bit more optimistic about them. The original model was a bit bland but this has a somewhat retro/diesel-punk feel, reminiscent of the Imperial Robots or something about of the Fallout series. I quite like that.

I just wish it wasn't yet more hover-tech, there's enough of that already. I hope that all of their vehicles aren't anti-grav.


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Iracundus wrote:

 Olthannon wrote:

Iracundus wrote:
The armor plate design of the revealed basic trooper seemed reminiscent of the AT-43 Karmans.

I see a backpack and what looks like a shovel on that trike as well. That is a lot of non-combat stuff being carried around (as compared to the bike equivalents of other factions) and I wonder whether the point is to show them as nomadic.

I think more that this unit is called a Pioneer and is a forward scout, rather than them being nomadic.

The silhouette of one of the other Squats had what looked like a pick-axe. So they seem to be carrying mining/entrenching stuff with them. Maybe nomadic isn't entirely the right word but it seems to show them with industrial/mining stuff, which may fit with the old idea of the Squat wargear being repurposed/redesigned industrial and mining equipment.

In the video commentary, they mentioned something about them going ahead of the fleets.. so maybe they are space bound?

It's really had to judge when we really have only one basic infantry unit and a bike to go on and some basic artwork.


Right now the bike gives me a "wild west" feel with the long coat, revolver shotgun and the packs of stuff on the back of the bike. It's very much like something straight out of Brave Star. Which if they go down the mining-pathway with them, could be a big core focus of some design choices.

Heck we've already got Ad Mech riding on robot-horses and Genestealer Cults have a good number of "I'm a space cowboy" styles and mining influences. So it almost feels like either they will follow those themes, or branch off with their own angle or something else entirely.
Perhaps less miners and more rangers, railroad operators and such would be the influence.

Then again it might just be this one unit. Many armies have units that are outliers or which vary the styles. Heck look at Tau they've two totally separate aesthetics in their army.



As for the fleets, I'm going to assume that the fleets are just the general fleets of their spaceforce rather than them being totally a spacefaring and living race. I would assume they have worlds of their own.

What a weird design. Being grav is unsurprising, but it looks like it's supposed to transform into a Kastelan robot.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:

punisher357 wrote:
New hover trike is up on the warhammer community site.
Not sure how I feel about it

I’m not sure I like it in isolation. As in, as a single model for 40K.

I think (hope?) that’ll change when we see it in the greater context of the full Squat army.

Particularly it’s “NHS Crockery Blue” hull colour!

I absolutely hate the color choices. No contrast at all.

I don't love it but I don't loathe it. It might look better with a 3rd party wheel conversion and a helmeted head?

It's growing on me. Colors do it no favors, but replacing the matrix hover discs with plain old wheels would look out of place with the DAoT styling.

Pretty close to Van Saar green isn't it.

 MajorWesJanson wrote:
It's growing on me. Colors do it no favors, but replacing the matrix hover discs with plain old wheels would look out of place with the DAoT styling.

I don't see how really. Imperial Wheeled vehicles are based on DAoT STC designs too. Being somewhat more advanced/sophisticated than Imperial designs doesn't necessary mean that everything has to hover.

 insaniak wrote:

Spoiler:

What a weird design. Being grav is unsurprising, but it looks like it's supposed to transform into a Kastelan robot.

Twitter is on the case
https://twitter.com/TheManufactorum/status/1521920419489628162

I love the colors. I think while it avoids the pure earth tons of IG, it also isn't heraldric or bright. I hope the retro-future vibe shows up in other models.

 Mentlegen324 wrote:

 MajorWesJanson wrote:
It's growing on me. Colors do it no favors, but replacing the matrix hover discs with plain old wheels would look out of place with the DAoT styling.

I don't see how really. Imperial Wheeled vehicles are based on DAoT STC designs too. Being somewhat more advanced/sophisticated than Imperial designs doesn't necessary mean that everything has to hover.

You need to understand that STCs are not equal, and never were.

Early ones were kind of smart hard drives. They held the info, but one needed Google-Fu to find the answer.

Latter day ones were at least semi-sentient industrial replicators.

Add in The Imperium largely works from STC Generated Blueprints, and I trust you can see the potential difference.

I was really hoping to see the rest of the basic infantry squad before anything else. The bike is pretty meh to me, especially since my only real interest in these is for killteam.

It's odd that the grav mechanics look like half a bike wheel bolted on upside down by an Ork.

I think I'll have to do a little bit of conversion work there.

I like that a lot more than I expected. The "dwarfs on bikes" part of the old Squat lore was always the least interesting part to me. But this looks pretty excellent!

Really like how the design evokes the Dark Age tech that we see on the Kastelans! It has an almost Fallout kind of retro-futurist look to it, and I love it!

Also, the bolt shotgun is bad ass! Really loving both gun designs that we've seen so far!

Yeah, I'm digging the vaguely dieselpunk art deco/streamline moderne stylings of the bike personally.... although the colorscheme they chose makes me think that the design brief was "make them Warmachines Crucible Guard, but short".

Would've preferred a Kettenkrad-type setup.

It looks very round, like a car from Dragon Ball or some other old school animes like Appleseed.

I would like to see the trike in an olive drab, I think that would give a very different vibe.

Either/Or wrote:
I would like to see the trike in an olive drab, I think that would give a very different vibe.

The dull red from the tool case on the back would be interesting- swap that and the teal.