30K: Did Forgeworld Just Sneak Back the “Squats”?!

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Jun 8 2015

We’ve all been bemoaning the lack of Squats for decades now. Forgeworld may have heard our prayers. Come look:

So some fine chaps in the BoLS Lounge have been going over the latest Horus Heresy Tempest (Volume V) with a fine tooth comb and found some “interesting” rules options in there.

First of all them Tempest includes a new armylist called Imperialis Militia. This is a very interesting list representing the “general army” of the Great Crusade/Heresy Imperium. These guys are the plain non-augmented, crappy equipment soldiers who envy the awesome training and kit the Solar Auxilia get, with the Astartes being in an entire different league. As an example of what I mean, the armylist has a TROOPS unit called an Inducted Levy Squad that is 40pts for TWENTY dudes – and boy will it SUCK for those guys to ever get within charge range of a Space Marine!

The armylist is cool in that it has a basic set of units, and you can make it loyalist, or traitor by applying any number of a large set of fluffy background doctrines (Provenances of War) to represent their history, culture, and origin.

And that list of doctrines is where it gets VERY INTERESTING…

Take a look at these:

Abhuman Helots +35pts

Abhumans, often draw from the helot labour classes of afflicted worlds, sub-citizens on the cusp of accepted tolerance levels for mutation and genetic deviance, are often pressed into the front line fighting by their human Imperial Commanders in times of emergency, and suffer this fate even more readily at the hands of cult demagogues and petty tyrants in the Traitors’ service. (+1 Toughness, -1 Initiative)

Survivors of the Dark Age +75pts

The force has its origins on a world which survived with many of its wonders of the Dark Age of Technology intact, and it’s forces are equipped with weapons and equipment which are potent, if idiosyncratic in origin. (+1 armor save, troops must use Grenadier Squads with 3+save in total, +1S las weapons, may take Rhinos and Land Raiders as dedicated transports).

Hmm, I dont know about you, but that sounds a LOT like the Squats to me. And I know exactly what models are affordable and JUST PERFECT!

Well done Forgeworld (and Mantic) – well done!

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Author: Larry Vela

Dad, Gamer, Publisher, Pilot, Texan. All games all the time since junior-high. I started BoLS Interactive in 2006. I’m a lifelong tabletop & RPG gaming enthusiast, and internet publisher working to entertain and inform my readers every day. I've been playing RPGs and Tabletop Games since the 1970s. I'm been playing and covering Warhammer and Warhammer 40K for over 35 years.

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