tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-530039869894502743.post4039778485312997448..comments2024-01-07T18:00:22.125-05:00Comments on Hungry Ghosts Chaos Squats of Khorne: Historia Squataticus Supplement: Squats Summary from 1994 to 2004Hungry Ghostshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01400963638180097309noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-530039869894502743.post-29750395017744831032013-09-25T03:39:13.801-04:002013-09-25T03:39:13.801-04:00Ah, my friends, Lead Legion and Euan, GW did remak...Ah, my friends, Lead Legion and Euan, GW did remake the Squats. They shaved off some letters, then the beards, and slipped a bit and got the noses as well... and now we have the Tau.<br />An army that is pro-technology.<br />An army that is all shooty to make up for not being so speedy, a bit short, and uses more technology to make them better at shooting things.<br />An army that likes armored suits, Exo-Armor -> Battlesuit. Maybe Exo-Armor + Sentinels = Battlesuits.<br />An army that likes tanks with big guns, but can't have the same tanks as the Guard, and can't be bound by primitive silliness from WW1 & WW2 documentaries.<br />Living Ancestors -> Ethereals<br />Bikers -> Kroot. Krootox? Seriously?<br />Sure, we have plenty of differences, but the essence of armor - personal and hovering with honking huge guns - reverence for a special class of critter (well, pretty much every army has these), lack of need to pray over their toys or imbed them with mortuary bits of lost warriors, and even the same stupid conflict between the main army and the unruly greasy part.<br />Squats - hair - beer (-sq) + Japanime = Tau.<br />No need to speculate over mysterious Demiurgs that mostly exist to encourage speculation over mysterious Demiurgs.<br /><br />We can imagine a second scenario, merging Squats with the Adeptus Mechanicus, ditching the slaves and bringing back the robots.<br /><br />The Hungry Ghosts army is organized along Imperial Guard lines, but that's because it's much easier to turn Guard tanks into daemonic monstrosities, like motorcycles much more than Kroot nonsense, and don't like the Tau battlesuits. But have been accumulating old Revell Robotech mecha models lately... and have a few old Imperial Robots to use as Sentinels.<br /><br />And remember, it could be worse. Look at what they did to Orks. They couldn't do a lobotomy, obviously, but a humorectomy and kulcha-stomping, you betcha.Hungry Ghostshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01400963638180097309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-530039869894502743.post-39356746442858950252013-09-19T04:35:43.514-04:002013-09-19T04:35:43.514-04:00I've never really bought the excuse that they ...I've never really bought the excuse that they couldn't make the Squats into an interesting and coherent force. Surely an army based around tunneling miners armed with meltaguns and powerhammers would have been a good place to start. Make them into an elite force, tough and hard hitting, but few in number. Maybe the new "supplements" format will allow GW to address the Squat sized hole in their fluff.Euanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12664773681095466696noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-530039869894502743.post-34609596252406929242013-07-24T17:07:57.113-04:002013-07-24T17:07:57.113-04:00I really do miss the Squats. But I can understand ...I really do miss the Squats. But I can understand the difficulty in making the Squats sufficiently different from the Imperial Guard to merit their own codex. However, how hard can it really be? I'm sure that if someone at GW were to put in enough effort, they could come up with something.Lead Legionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12700198528204457272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-530039869894502743.post-57381977727306025702013-07-23T16:19:17.021-04:002013-07-23T16:19:17.021-04:00Those Effin buggers.
Best army in 40K and they e...Those Effin buggers. <br /><br />Best army in 40K and they erased us from the galaxy map.<br /><br />The Electronic Book of Grudges is chapters deeper for this slight of all slights.Daihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04978439841611727387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-530039869894502743.post-62131324913009802762013-07-23T15:56:06.497-04:002013-07-23T15:56:06.497-04:00I never much appreciated dwarves of any variety. I...I never much appreciated dwarves of any variety. I'm not sure why.<br />But recently I was having a look at an old issue of White Dwarf (111, March 1989) and found a good-sized article on Squats... and they grabbed my imagination. <br />I'm particularly gone on the idea, from that article, of Squat expeditions to recover lost strongholds and homeworlds. A Brotherhood along with some Guildsmen and a small retinue of Adeptus Mechanicus going into dark empty places haunted by gawd knows what. Timmy Crabcakeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14737954661234574830noreply@blogger.com