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A group of friends and I have been playing 40K since the late 80's, and we all miss those space dwarves.  We've decided to fool around and draw up a codex for use within our group.  I want to loosely base it on the list that came out in the 40K Compendium that was released in or around 1990.  Of course, we are striving for a balanced list that can hold its own.  No crazy unbalanced tricks or anything, just fun, interesting stuff that would set them apart from other lists without being bogged down by special rules.

Some ideas I have had:

USR: Slow and Purposeful for the infantry troops (squats used to have a very short Move characteristic, and their heavy weapons all came with suspensors....hehe, back in the original list, every member of a tactical squad could be upgraded to carrying a heavy bolter.  That's a bit much for now, though)

Trikes and Heavy Weapon Trikes (Think 4'6" 225lb Hell's Angels on 1200 HP two-stroke engine trikes).

Squats in Exo Armor (A watered down version of terminatory armor...not sure what stats to give them.  The models look like weeble-wobbles with legs.)

Squat in Exo Armor w/Trike and Power Lance (I actually have a GW model of one of these...17 years old or something).

Bringing back the Thud Gun, Mole Mortar and Rapier Weapon Platform.

They would, of course, be an Imperial army, akin to the IG with their own flavor (an advantage would be that a converted army could be used as an IG army in tournaments with little modification).

Any other ideas/comments?

Sal.

Edit: Who knew smiley faces in the subject line would be such a pain.  Wish I could edit it out.

Yeah! About time the squats got back in the game. I like the Slow & Purposeful idea, and would be giving the exo armour something like a 3+ save.

I'd make the thudd gun a barrage weapon with 3 or 4 shots, not sure on stats tho... mole mortar would basically be a standard mortar, but going underground instead of through the air.

Remember to give them all the Preferred Enemy rule against Orks.

Let us know how it all goes!

What a superb idea,

I always thought the squats had loads of charachter.

What about miniatures though?  GW seem to be in a massive huff, even the mention of Squats gets you kicked off the forum.

If anyone feels like it, a rather well known group of French players produced a professional-grade (in terms of quality) squat codex. I'll get the link...

There: http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/Squat/

Unfortunately, you'll need a Yahoo account to see the thing (and be able to speak French), but just so you know.

Hehe. Unfortunately, about the only French I know is "Merci" and "Au revoir."

I was figuring it might be fun to combine a bunch of pieces from fantasy Dwarves with various bits from 40K Imperial forces; IG, Daemon/Witchhunters and SM's.

The original thud-gun was a four shot barrage weapon. The mole mortar had three potential effects based on whether it happened to burst below ground, at ground level or air burst.

Give me a few days; probably until this weekend, and I will post a few more ideas and try to firm them up Any further ideas would be appreciated.

{Remember, this is just for fun use and for conversion opportunity.}

Sal

yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay squats nothing cooler then tons of little guys with tons of options i mean a termanator on a trike with a lazer lance (I smell loopholes) how cool is that i own (coned it from my teatcher) one and the guys threten to throw me out if they see it oh well any chance you can make them like gray knights where you can take a unit or two? 

what about the grot revolution?

 

the best thing to do with the squats is either IG with abhumans, or just use the thousand sons without magic, or the magic is "technology"

wanna do the grot revolution? use IG with warrior weapons

no not IG its not "groty" i want seuiside grot bomers and...err...stuff in my revloution red gobbo rules (and squats too)

but for squats ilike the IG idea not shure for the thousend suns

oh what about IG with carpace armor, sharp shoters, cameleoline, and die hards( the stuborness of the squat)

Bugs ate them... Guards with warrior weapons are terrible... Bugs should eat them too... Can't wait for the "Space Skaven" to come out and GW laughs its way to the bank while, well while they try to think of how they can make the next useless dumb idea of an army so we can blow money on...
Squats were eaten for a reason, guard with warrior weapons should be eaten, and GW needs to do better jobs making armies.

Posted By Blank on 06/23/2006 4:07 PM
Can't wait for the "Space Skaven" to come out and GW laughs its way to the bank while, well while they try to think of how they can make the next useless dumb idea of an army so we can blow money on...

Didn't I see some concept pictures of Hrud looking a lot like "Space Skaven"?

Squats are bad, but Imperial guard with power armor is fine? (Sisters)

They had plasma and melta tech. They could easily be masters of melta tech and have their trikes be longer ranged for both guns and the extra dice. Give exo-armor a 2+/(Feel no pain) with combi-weapons like chaos but with the ability to shoot the other guns more than once. Add a few extras like their vehicles being armored monsters and you have something along the lines of squats.

Someone locally uses squats and says "counts as death guard" Funny as heck.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Warhammer_40%2C000_species
this gives background on 40k species
and for rules for some of them see
http://www.inisfail.com/40k3/