![]() They just changed the name of the book to achieve a specific reaction/effect from the player base, like they changed the points values of models to alter how you perceived the standard game size/model count. However, regardless, the book stayed about the Ultramarines (painting guides, majority of special characters, etc). It's kinda like how Codex: Ultramarines got renamed Codex: Space Marines so it would be less confusing to new players as to what codex to buy to play regular Space Marines. Clever wording has always been the GW way. It was really a marketing ploy to sell more models by making it seem like 2000 was still the standard (it was in 2nd, and then 3rd), but now you could (read had to) buy more models to field, lol. What used to be a 2000 point battle just became a 1000 or so point battle. If you halve the points costs, then you can play bigger games for the same number of points.Because you could have just played higher points values before. ![]() A Tactical Squad, for example, went from 300 points, to 150. In 3rd Edition, to fool people into thinking they could play bigger games for the same amount of points, Games Workshop just cut all of the point values roughly in half. Veteran Sergeant wrote: The real difference, however, is points costs. ![]() The real difference, however, is points costs. You could always have them be Space Marine allies, and count them as Power Armor, right? Yeah, the Exo-Armor and the trikes are harder to do, but hey, there isn't a single model line that hasn't had models become obsolete in the last 20 years. Since there isn't a Move stat anymore, and the Squat models mostly wear flak armor anyway, you can translate most the model range over. So, by today's standards with the "forced balance" of the Force Org Chart, you could create a pretty absurd gunline army.īut, really, the best way to do modern Squats is to use them as IGuard. You could literally spam an entire list of heavy weapons with no required HQ/Support choices, haha. Squat Thunderer squads with 5 man, 5 heavy weapons. It was also collected as part of the rules updates in the Warhammer Compilation.īut yeah, the last Squats list was in the Black Book Codex that came as part of the 2nd Edition boxed set. The Space Marines eventually got T4 in one of the early, early White Dwarf articles that was retroactive. There are deals from time to time, and Squat models make characterful additions. If you want some Squats in your Imperial Guard army, be patient on EBay. But, I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for the reintroduction. However, as an Imperial Guard sub-faction, I think they fit in just fine. I don't think the Space Dwarves were a solid fit for the universe, especially the way they were portrayed in the game. The Squats are officially a living race again in 40K. Regardless, the whole "Et by Tyranids" and "Never existed" schtick is gone. That, and hopefully they figured out that telling a segment of your target market to go feth themselves and the model trikes they rode in on is probably not a good idea, nor is it really ethical. No real intention or desire to keep the line around, but they remembered how annoying Squat fanatics were, so they figured so long as they pretend that the Sisters are still part of the game, that they will get far less annoying hate mail and shirt-tuggings at conventions from oddly smelling players. You can see that they learned their lesson with the Sisters of Battle. ![]() Essentially throw the Squat players a bone. If GW had been smart, they'd have released a Squat list that was an offshoot of Codex: Imperial Guard. However, 40K players are hardly ever reasonable. Just about every army was revamped and lost models, so Squat players could hardly complain about the loss of some of their models. After all, Squat models were, for the most part, armed with lasguns and wearing flak armor. For a little while, they suggested playing them as Imperial Guard, which is what reasonable players would have done. Why were they asking this? Well, because GW had effectively made their entire armies of Squats useless. It was a petty and juvenile response, but I think they just got tired of players asking when they were going to bring them back. What was "official" was that GW, for a long time, just banned any mention of them. The whole "eaten by Tyranids" was never official, it was just an offhand comment made. ![]()
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