What are THE SQUATS now? New Lore from Halls of the Ancients! | Warhammer 40k / Necromunda Lore

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• DA

  @davydatwood3158 · 1 year ago

  So, basically the writing team has gone "nope, Tolkein-esque dwarves in space are totally what we want" and done a really very good job of reskinning classic fantasy dwarves to 40K, which some 21st century awareness of history and metaphor built in.  Cool.

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• IA

  @iapetusmccool · 1 year ago

  I do like the way that GW has managed to take all the years of lore about Squats, Demiurge, Votan, etc, including stuff that had previously been retconned, and unify it into one consistent whole, where just about everything claimed before is true, and makes sense.

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• CT

  @cthulhluftagn3812 · 1 year ago

  I like how they didnt retconn the old lore, just made it so that what the empire belived to be the homeworld was just a single clan Hold.<br><br>Everything this legue did is still cannon, land trains included, they just got chomped by the nids.

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• LO

  @LordyT34 · 1 year ago

  I like that Votaan don&apos;t have some galaxy stretching goal, no centuries long plans or massive cataclysmic goals like Chaos or the Imperium. <br><br>Just a race of Dwarves keeping their heads down, surviving, not too big, not too small. Feels very 40k to just have a race that just exists

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• TI

  @tinyfishhobby3138 · 1 year ago

  That was a really entertaining watch. Necromunda remains one of GW&apos;s best settings hands down.

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• VR

  @Vroomerz · 1 year ago

  Must.. resist.. starting…. Squat… army….

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• PA

  @pavarottiaardvark3431 · 1 year ago

  Necromunda Squat players having a great time in the game room with their cool models, while Leagues of Votann players press their faces against the glass like street urchins

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• GE

  @geologyjohnson7700 · 1 year ago

  I&apos;ve been into 40k since Rogue Trader and I always liked the &quot;viking heavy metal bike gang&quot; version of the squats. <br><br>These new takes are pretty cool though. And as a geologist, I&apos;m always going to have a soft spot for a mining faction.

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• FE

  @Fenris028 · 1 year ago

  I absolutely love the Leagues of Votann. GW did an excellent job making them fit.

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• PA

  @pavelnadolski · 1 year ago

  Epic was when Squats really came into their own. They were so much fun to play

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• IV

  @ivanovcentrumcz · 1 year ago

  I love that The Kin calls nids &quot;The Bane&quot;.<br><br>It makes perfect sense considering that getting your body recycled (so, not eaten) is basically League of Votann religion and it is also beautifully meta because nids are the bane of squats.

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• SV

  @svenskhund3603 · 1 year ago

  ROCK AND STONE!

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