They should have made Squats the original Cult Mechanicus guys.

Squats not having their own real distinct play style is why they were squatted, supposedly. But I'm not interested in another dwarves-are-craftsmen repetition. I'd rather they have more jump or jet infantry than most armies, and have rules that take advantage of it.

>I don't think there's any other way for squats to fit into 40k.
having them as disparate bands of survivors fits perfectly fine, without trying to retcon stuff that's remained largely unchanged since 40k first popped into being

If squats were ever to become an official thing again, the squatting should actually be referenced as an in-universe event, rather than trying to sweep the elephant under the rug at the cost of everyone else.

>>47467528
This.

>>47467322
Img related, are they the squats from Iron Sleet? Their exo-armor looks so sweet.

Btw, what is the stance of /tg/ on Demiurgs, the rock people who helps the Tau?

>>47467704
dwarf ironbreakers son. someone just gave them bolters.

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>>47467813
I was referring to this blog, where a guy made an amazing conversion of a squat force following space marines rules.

I thought they were from the same guy because the color scheme is similar, but the guy used the hammerers.

Pic is his terminator/exo-armour conversion

>>47467704

I fuckin love the Demiurg and want to see more of them.

>>47467322

Squats are stupid, and I'm glad they're gone. What's the obsession with wanting them back, anyway? Is it just because GW won't let you play them, so you MUST have them?

>>47468112
Seconding this, fuck Squats

>>47468112
>>47470158
KYS.

Idk if i would want beards on everything, even a lowly sertitor would have a dashing beard and it would be a corner stone of the imperium

>>47468112
>Squats are stupid
I don't lament their loss, but they'd still fit right in with the rest of 40k's dumb shit.

>>47468112
The majority of factions of 40k are stupid. Heck, 40k in general is stupid as fuck with no sense of scale or even internal consistency, squats aren't worse than space elves or space orcs.

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>>47467467
They did in epic. Land trains, blimps, the big cannon-thingie. They were good fun.

>>47467322
Great idea, anon. Today OP was not blahblahblah.

>>47470248
> I demand better storytime for my fantasy-space-armymen

>>47467322
you ever get long sleeve shirts from China where the arms end before your wrists?
that's why squats aren't the original ad mech.

>>47467467
no, because they couldn't retain the rights.

Squats have been member of the adeptus mechanicus ever since RT days, pic related.

as far as gameplay, i've always thought it would be cool if you ported their Epic vehicles into 28mm. obviously you couldn't afford to field more than 1 or two, but maybe every squat army has to build their force around a superheavy vehicle instead of an HQ. so the army would work like a giant lascannon-spewing bullet sponge that poops out choppy dwarves whenever it gets close to an enemy.

think the Ogre tank from the board game Ogre. think Reasonable Orks.

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>>47471033

forgot the pic

Squats should be hardy cover-lovers, who are still able to take a hit in open combat.

Maybe something that reduces the strength of shooting attacks against them?

>>47470759
I hate that shit so much.

It makes no sense for a world with 0,38G like Mars to have dwarfs.
And I rather keep the biker gangs and mafia engineer guilds; at least those were distinct from the usual dwarf archetypes.

>>47470315
>land raider
hmm, I got the book and they definitely didn't have land raiders in it.

>>47471033
They were separated from the Imperium in 2nd ed.
Before that they were short humans, nothing more or less. You could have squad clerics and inquisitors.
After that the Engineer guilds became a separate entity that doesn't have the same tech as the mechanicus (despite some technologival exchanges). In particular, they have warp fission reactors.

>>47467704

Judging by the watermark it would seem they are by someone going by the moniker Technomartyr. They are similar to the ones from Iron Sleet though. Both are just ironbreakers with SM scout arms.

>>47468112
>What's the obsession with wanting them back, anyway?

Dorfaboos. Fat neckbeards who can't go five minutes without sperging out about how great fantasy fat neckbeards are.