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I was contemplating a modelling project, and one of my thoughts was to create a 40k chaos dwarf army. The gist of it would be that they are the equivalent of adeptus mechanicus but chaos fluffwise, IE they are the creators of terrifying technology from chaotic forge-worlds. The army would be daemon engines, elite troops and slaves for chaff.

Is there any existing fluff for anything like this out there? I know most fantasy armies, even those without actual 40k equivalent armies, have fluff in the background, like beastmen. I know that squats were, well, squatted, but were there ever chaos squats?

I just love the aesthetic of Chaos Dwarves, and the heavy-metal technology they use in fantasy. I thought an army of terrifying daemon engines could be an awesome thing to try and make!

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Yes, Chaos Squats were a thing -

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Yup they were a thing! Although they had a very limited miniature range, even smaller than the regular Squat range, and I can't remember ever seeing them on the tabletop.

Although - technically have they never been 'squatted' (from flying too low under the radar) and so I'm sure there must be some hiding out in the eye of terror

There is a pretty cool range of 'Space Dwarf' miniatures from Mantic called Forge Fathers - have seen quite a cool conversion someone did once of making them 'Chaos Squat' type miniatures - although sadly couldn't find it when I looked.

A couple of other bits I found if you need some inspiration






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Looks like the older models (as I would expect from that era) are a bit more comedic than I'd like to go for. I'm after more of the sinister darkness that fantasy chaos dwarves have.

I think that this project may be my next one. My current one is to inject some squiggoths into my Orks.

Any thoughts on a "counts as" army that chaos squats would work as? I'm mainly focussing on the daemon engines side of things, less so on the troops. I don't really want them to be power-armour counts-as, so Chaos (which seems the obvious answer) isn't what I'll be using.

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Astra Militarum or Adeptus Mechanicus would seem to be appropriate. Or the Renegades list from the Forge World Chaos index book.

Hearthguard and techs could be in heavy armour, so a detachment with a Warpsmith, a bodyguard unit of Chaos Space Marines and a lot of daemon engines would work.

Alternatively a Thousand Sons sorceror with accompanying Rubricae would work to represent some sort of Chaos Squat psyker with daemon-possessed robots. After all, the Chaos Androids from Space Crusade were described as being built by the Chaos Squats.
   
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Your idea seems to be dark mechanicus squats, so some kind of mechanicus army, just switch out faction key words for chaos or something (if you are willing to house rule).
   
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Weren't there a couple more recently? Weren't they crew to some sort of Chaos artillery piece? Or am I thinking of something from Fantasy? I am, the Hellcannon - https://warhammerfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Hellcannon But maybe that will give you some inspiration with some 40K artillery.

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