Never before have I ever seen anything so perfect, so pure. The Truth has been Spoken.

15 Squat Clans Representatives. As the old ones die they are replaced by their heirs!

He just claims to be a cluster of AIs because that's somehow less heretical in the eyes of GW. I mean the Imperium.

@@n.henzler50 you mean cluster of “the greatest scientific minds known to mankind” Because that’s not equally heretical

One day the Primaris geneseed will undergo a strange and terrible change, and the marines, once so toweringly tall and proud...will begin to shrink.

Are they really a thing again? Man it's all downhill since they came up with the grey knights...

@Yamato12345666 My man, take a look at the Leagues of Votann (new squats), they're up there with the coolest races in 40k.

except there is no novels yet. I was expecting at least one novel on this new/old race 0.o

Aged like milk

You beat me to this comment by a year and 4 months

I was thinking doing this in my rogue trader round where my players fight side on side with the deep rock guys. Maybe fun.

I always remind my team that we are in fact squats killing nyds

@@brettpid6416 "no copyright infringement intended!"

ROCK AND STONE!

@@cthulhuplus ROCK AND STONE BROTHER!

Yeah, we need some more Nemesor Zahndrek and Trazyns n' stuff Not to mention that OGRYNS exist. Ogryns. Ogres. I mean, c'mon

@@mrcopycat2355 and also Orks. Aka Orcs. And Eldar and Drukhari. Aka Elves and Drow.

@@bonogiamboni4830 And Necrons are Tomb Kings.

@@IceLizardsUnited yep. And skaven are quite a bit different but they serve the same function as tyranids kinda. Infect cities from within then strike with overwhelming numbers.

I think maybe their origin are just not grimdark compared to humans and the eldar heck even with orks. Maybe in the near future we'll have squats with more grimdarky backstory.

And back then (in real world history) space marines were toughness 3, and squats were toughness 4.

“Marine, go charge headfirst into that dark tunnel.” “For the Crusade and the glory of humanit-“ BANG FWOOSH KERPLUNK SQPLISH Left boot flies out, smoking. “We’re making good progress here. Marine, go charge down that dark tunnel.”

Big E superhumans keep punishing Squats that owns Matrioshka brains

Squat: WE AIN'T DRUNK! *HIC!* WE ARE RUNNIN' SMOOTHLY! YOU--You...you....uh...there are six of ya. Damn it Krag! YOU SPIKED MY DRINK AGAIN!

Rogal Dorn is stuck on a Squat planet, learning gravity weaponry and stronger fort construction.

@@Ristle I wonder if Sqaut door height regulations get mixed into Imperial design by accident

They have drinking parties with the custodes

How dare you insult squads like that. They would never be smooth and where all born with massive beards

sounds like heresy to me

@@prettyokandy230 "Ugh. Fine, ye feckin' technophile. O holy Omnissiah, please bless this holy coil, wrap us in your love as you would this wire, etcetera etcetera amen."

If the squats come back I'd like them and the admech to be besties. Like the squats get a laugh out of feigning devotion to the omnissiah. and the admech can't tell that they're faking it so they just think that the squats are blessed by and loyal to the omnissiah. So when shit goes down the admech are fiercely protective of the squats and the squats appreciate having someone willing to cover their 6 for once.

@@P1gdude Well, they're Squats so it's less of a 6, more of a... well, 3. Maybe 2½.

@@prettyokandy230 "Of COURSE when we do thin's without needin' a bleedin hymn to remind us 'Righty Tighty, Lefty Loosey' the second rate body horrors needing to flail people for spare bits get to whining!"

The inquisition killed the Lions

@@erwinthedodo9205 not according to the inquisition

Inquiditor: Tryanids, at this time of year, in the galactic core, localized entirely within the squat worlds Mechanocus: yes Inquidtor: may I see them? Mechanicus: no

Despite what this video contends, that bit about the Tyranids eating the Squats was never actually canon. There's no official book put out by GW stating this to be the case. GW just stopped writing about Squats. They could bring them out of retirement at any time.

Fall of squats > Fall of cadia

@@jasons.2807 The homeworlds broke before the Squats did.

Then, you know what time it is? GRUDGE TIME! Get the bolters and I'll get the flyer warmed up.

@@Bluecho4 Have you ever heard about the Tale of the Frog and the Scorpion? ...

Never stop dreaming though, right?

Where Tyranids have a good codex?

Official may never return them, but they will forever live on in our homebrew hearts.

There's always third party options. Mantic Games, Wargames Atlantic, Ramshackle Games. They fill the void that GW left in terms of Squat models.

Honestly, it wouldn't be hard to integrate the Squats back into 40k in the current era.

Don't forget felinids

to be fair they were an entire faction rather than just a normal subtype so it makes sense they had more lore.

@@bootsfluffy9476 HOW does literal CAT PEOPLE have less development than a faction that has been canonically DEAD for decades?! It’s like GW doesn’t understand their audie-oooooooh wait, no yeah, I see it.

GW later: or is it?

GW: Wait, we can make money out of them? *BRING 'EM BACK BOYS!*

Tyranids are just the retcon button at this point

And in Necromunda. One day, Grendel Grendelsen will have his revenge.

They also sip tea from your factory

Also Deep Rock Galactic.

I would have to recheck it but I am pretty sure there was a squad captain appearing for like 2 lines in Watchers of the Throne.

Squadia Never Falls!

well, that can be still canon.. squats eaten by nids leaves plenty of time for the imperium to get ideas from them

ALL ABOARD THE SECESSION TREEEEEEEN!

One year later: Because SQUATS

"How is that homosexual night club going son?"

@@koatam That's a myth, I'm from Nottingham and have never heard about The Rock, there is rock city but that was a straight club with hells' angels as bouncers back in the day

@@DrLennieSmall honestly. Thats even better and more appropriate lore.

@@DrLennieSmall you guys have hells angels???? I thought that was a Canadian/American thing lol

@@LongWarEnjoyer Yeah, my uncle was good friends with them, his cell mate was one

Funny enough the children of Donr hate squats and they entered a war that almost killed the entire legion only ending with a truss because even if the emperor won the war the empire of man would loss to many resources that is why during the war against hive fleet behemoth the empire of man let the squats die as revenge against the emporer fists

The short Fist from the Death Watch novels could be a Squat lol

@@alexanderm8880 Squatstartes

Adeptus Squatartes

I figured they were good friends with the Space Wolves, aka Space Vikings

Ha, that would be awesome if DRG was secretly in the warhammer universe

@@brysonevans7367 that's always been my head cannon. i like to think of some Ultra Marines fighting some Tyranids in some cave. then a pod drops in, ramp goes down and all the Tyranids see is four sets of eyes glowing and "ROCK AND STONE!"

@@musicalDrebin same

@@musicalDrebin ROCK AND STONE!!!

@@mrmacju1530 IF YOU DON'T ROCK AND STONE YOU AIN'T GOIN HOME!

sons of malice are based

The zoats are back as a player character for Blackstone Fortress.

zoats are back in TW: Warhammer

@@gordonthefish Aye, but that is Fantasy. Malal is also canon in both 40k and Fantasy. Increasingly more so in 40k.

@@YuGiOhAbridgeFAN GW is too scared to rock the boat. They are sitting on a ton of great ideas and they do nothing with them.

Jimmies? Why plural, Bifurcated phallus? Lol, just fuckin w/ ya... agree they need to revive the Astra Dawi. GW would do well to hire a few members of the *actual* 40k community.

No kidding! Orks are Cockney Soccer Hooligans and *squats* are too silly?

Techno-monkeys. Indentured Imperial guards with poka dot uniforms. Ciphus Cain Death Core of Krieg Judge Dredd being technically canon. Squigs Ogrins Penitent Engines Lucious the immortal Half of the Drukari weapon names Felinids Dusty old metal skeleton man that steals people's shit, just to fuck with them Nope, nothing silly about 40k at all

I think it's more like the fact that the squats where a one to one parody. Orks? Mix of fantasy orcs and Mad Max. Necrons? Mix of Egyptian Mummies and Robots. Squats? They're literally just dwarfs, but IN SPACE! So I can see where they were coming from. It's not so much that they were silly, but they wanted it to be it's own thing instead of just putting the word "space" in front of a bunch of fantasy tropes.

@@starwarsnerd100 Then they should've come up with something to ADD to them not delete them out of Existence. Also that is a pretty weak reasoning for Deleting a Race because the Imperial Guard is also just Human Military but in Space. I don't see at all what is wrong with Dwarfs in Space, the Space factor adds alot to it.

It’s actually thousands of squats stacked head to toe forming a Titan shaped human pyramid, covered in a Titan shaped trench coat. No Princeps required.

Princeps do exist, the reason they are so rare is because they are the only people capable of drinking a squat under the table.

I'm a titan. I'm a titan. I'm a titan.

What if the princeps are squats in a trench coat. Or 3 grethen slaves carrying a squat in a Trench coat?

what if they are just the result of turning squats into dreadnoughts (they get to be BIG)?

Which episode did he say that

They are squats there is no reason to call them some made up fantasy name.

@@guardsmanlars6797 podcast 3 Draco.

Games Workshops hates Squats. Reason they were "killed" off.

DUMPY GRIMBO

Man all the reasons I’ve heard for why they removed them suck, regardless of which one is true.

The level of simple, petty maliciousness involved makes me think it's true.

Squats weren't even in 2nd ed

Didn't know orks could be that heartwarming.

Well the war with the man of iron kinda fucked over the martians super hard and it was basically mandatory to treat the remaining tech religiously

HHmmmmmm... Which faction should get more attention from the machine god? Cuddly short ppl ocassionally get drunk and inventing strong and beautiful machines *or* skinny rotting body horror mechanical cults flaying ppl for spare parts and bickering about patent law that last until end time?

The Mechanicum is funkier as well in Rogue Trader. They are more like monks who study and learn old tech than owning entire worlds and running a strange alternate religion. A mechanicum monk is literally a dude in sandals with tonsur. There is a general air of mystery about very advanced stuff. Things like a plasma gun and the air scrubbers powerful enough to maintain a hive. The religious mystery gets more intense as it moves from everyday technology and into weird pre-imperial super-science.

The Mechanicum didn't exit when the squat existed. The Admech wasn't even martian back then.

@@corperk The tech-priests existed in Rogue Trader. They were imperial adepts forming a monastic brotherhood that studied ancient arcane science. Most people think machines above the ordinary (a lasgun, a power drill, a landcar) are a little freaky. When you reach the superscience level, things actually start to become freaky.

See also: "the Second" and "Junior."

That's like that stupid Goblin post about all but one Goblin fleeing from a battle they were aiding in that the king(Wizard? Memory's fuzzy.) cursed them all with a "Fuck everyone but Greknarl, he's cool." So then there were millennia generations of Goblins all named Greknarl, heir to Greknarl and his warrior bride Greknarl. I fucking love it.

@Isrel156 OSP is a treasure

Theres a lotta Magnus Magnusens and Erik Eriksens in the old norse sagas.

Came seeking this response. If anything needed to be "akshully'd", that was it.

-DAMN POINTY EARED ELVES. THATS GOING INTO THE BOOK OF GRUDGES!! -random elf: who hurt you?

Sure, if they wanted to completely wreck their franchise.

@@justinlast2lastharder749 how so?

@@justinlast2lastharder749 what would be wrecked? Retcons aren’t exactly unknown

@@yoshimonsterhamoomoo8413 that would mean retconning the Tyranids. Which is a major faction. And would fucker everything over. Edit: how did I…? Wow. I must have been tired as hell when I wrote this.

@@lordfelidae4505 didn’t they retcon the necrons?

A short episode on Digga Nobs would be great

Do not fumble that name, i repeat do not fumble that name

Exactly

The green soccer hooligans were fine, but short guys on big tricycles was the fucking line.

It's more GW: "We're not making any money off these. Kill them all off."

@@blacklightredlight2945 that the weird thing. They were actually making money at the time.

@@blacklightredlight2945 that is explicitly not true

When does he say this? I'm guessing in an episode of TTS.

I think he said this in the latest Voxcast. The one about Jaque Draco, written by... Ian Watson Author of the screen story for Steve Spelman's AI...

@@heartofdarkness8548 A normal wrote this... And yet I find myself ostracized for wanting to cull him...

DUMPY GRIMBO

@@TrinityShoji "Yes!" - Magnus The Red

@LibtardsStillCant SilenceMe4 The Klanz are still a thing my dude. Every faction has subfactions. Sisters have Orders, Guardsmen have Regiments, Tau have Septs, and Orks have the Klanz.

@LibtardsStillCant SilenceMe4 My man, you ever heard of the "Orkperium"?

@LibtardsStillCant SilenceMe4 You're thinkin' of the stormboys, the freebootaz' are pirate orks they're all still a thing too also bad username

@LibtardsStillCant SilenceMe4 yeah stormboyz like someone else mentioned and the freebooterz are pirates. All the clans do still exist. Goffs are probably the biggest atm because of ghazkull mag Uruk thrakka.

@LibtardsStillCant SilenceMe4 the hell does this username mean?

Plot twist: tyranids all die of alcohol poisoning.

Current GW: not!

music to my ears, brother. the prince of pleasure will reward you for your passionate work.

I will prepare. (Why can't We have some nice waifus?).

@@unitedstatesofamerica4987 (We did.....yet something about the Emperor's Creed and no more internet......truly Chaotic Times. Almost makes you want to revolt for another Heresy.)

The whole fic is written in hewwo.

ill prepare the lasgun. for myself ofcourse

lazy writing

They didn't. The squats were made up of an Empire of them (League of Votunn) and only one of the minor kingdoms communicated regularly with Imperium got nommed, not the squats as a whole.

@@HideyoshiKinoshita84 That was made up very recently. Up until the Leagues were invented the squats as a whole were nommed by the Tyranids, aside from a scarce handful of mercenaries who were on other worlds.

*FUCKING ELVES!*

I still hold on to my own personal pet theory that the imperium wiped them out for being a successful human faction outside of direct imperial control and then claimed it was the tyranids.

@@randombencounter263 Well, that means that the Adeptus Mechanicus should be wiped out. As they are technically a successful group and technically not apart of the Imperium. Rather they are just a faction that signed a deal with the Emperor. They do not believe in the God Emperor and really do not give two shits about the Empire. They just care about technology and the Machine Spirit. So by that logic. The Imperium should have destroyed them too. Just poking holes in the theory. Do not take offense.

@@Qardo well the squats are abhumans and the mechanicum is human.._ well sort of._. They start of that way at least.._

@@GarmrsBarking Well, Squats started as humans as well. They pretty much evolved to survive the harsh punishments of their world(s). Sooo...yeah there are a few holes in your theory. Not shooting you down. It could be a strong possibility. Just that Squats have such a hate towards the Eldar for being total dicks. It would not be much of a stretch the Eldar wanting to get back at the Imperium over something. Though to attract the Tyranids. As they would know they were out there along the edges of the galaxy. Just send off a pychic blast through the warp. Get the attention of a splinter group of Tyranids, they head that way. They have a snack and leave the world. Being that the Squat Homeworlds were pretty much barren anyway. There still be all those resources. As Tyranids do not really stick around after they absorbed every bit of biomass. Though I swear I heard the Tyranids also even suck up all the minerals on a planet too. Just leaving the world a literal husk. Nothing left. Yet maybe I am wrong or that is another Tyranids swarm that does that.

As a faction they don’t exist but there are some left in the imperium. Also the tau have a species just for mining I think they were called something like the demigerg but not entirely sure. The only description we have of them is how they’re short, live entirely on ships and go around mining.

I believe at some point in the psychic awakening campaign there was a sighting of a ship with the squats heraldry on it.

Boy do I have a game for you. Check out Deep Rock Galactic. The game is all about space dwarves, and the enemy you fight may as well be tyrannids.

@@funkemonke8084 such a good game

@@funkemonke8084 Oh bro, that one's so good and a perfect example of why there should be more dwarf games.

Blue ones ...

"We wanted to do more Primaris Lieutenants"....

well abhumans any way

Well humans come in all shapes sizes and colors.... we are a broad variety of people.

I must know more, can you please tell more?

@@MrShark-gi7ii ain't much to tell, just that in one of the books there is a very short line of an adeptus explorer sending a message how some unknown space ships are destroying the exploration fleet and at the end he exclaims "hold on they are squa-" and thats about it

“Yes”

Indeed

I too give my support as governor of alpha-273

So we can breed the squats back into existence, is what you’re saying...

Where? I would love to see them.

@@devinmctrusty9178 you can google "squat tech-priest" for the old metal model, the recent one is "Tech-Priest Grombrindal." Technically, Grombrindal is a fantasy dwarf and the mascot of Games Workshop's magazine White Dwarf, but they occasionally bring out various themed models of him and the one for Christmas 2019 was a tech-priest, so I'd say that version counts as a squat.

I just looked them up and they are adorable.

^THIS.

ROCK AND STONE!

Hehehe

@@drmalpractical I TOLD YOU REMAIN CALM THE LEAGUE ENDURES THE SQUAT HAVE RETURNED

YOU WERE RIGHT BROTHER! LONG LIVE THE LEAGUE!

There's also a SF Dwarf line from Scibor Miniatures and a Dvergr Commando line from Kromlech. I think the Forgefathers is still the best looking, definitely the most complete line out there, but there are multiple options for wanna-be Squat players.

Aced it

That turned out to be an awesome teaser

Aged like fine milk

so thats were Termagants came from!

They also gained a hatred for eldar humans and orks

Yes that is a shame, in Pariah they have a small teaser. As the explorator fleet recognizes their hull markings I am assuming these are the old stronghold squats. They were also mentioned in Liber Xenologis (which got released very recently). Besides the Necromunda Range i remember from back in the day some Squats allied with chaos. I imagine some of them still live in the warp or a dark corner of space. Some other squats joined the Mechanicus, some likely still operate on admech forgeworlds. Both the chaos and mechanicus squats had official models. Working on a squat project myself (so far hoarded over 50 official models including chaos, mechanicus and anniversary grombrindals). For as far as I know they were never fully killed off.

SAME

I mean... when they were around they were the admech but normaler lol. A few books even replaced specific characters that were Squats with tech priests.

April fools?

I asked during the premiere, apparently this a bonus episode and took priority

Well the space dwarfs are basically early draft version of Mechanicus, but with a skin of Warhammer Fantasy dwarf. Mechanicus is a rather more interesting idea, which they then used them to replace squats.

So, you getting Votann models to help you with that?

@@nikoladedic6623 oh definitely. I had just finished my neo squats army when they announced the LoV. So, am definitely getting them

He’s my uncle.

That guy is my dad

Uncle Toby. Mostly a good dude. Crazy as a shithouse rat. He's in jail now for drilling through a guys kneecaps.

A custodes is 3 squats in a golden trenchcoat

@@motirolamotoe1558 7*

"The Doom Squatter has entered the facility"

Sort of like the Karak Kadrin army from the Stom of Chaos booklet?

what is sister hat?

@@notajalapeno4442 It's best that you don't know. Trust me.

Well now I haft to

That would be fucking sick ngl

There were Chaos Squats. They only had one model, as far as I know. They were an infantry unit in Epic, back in the 1st or 2nd edition of that game.

hell yeah there were and they were smarter than the mechanicum

here's a link to the wiki for them if you want EVERYTHING after the vid warhammer40k.fandom.com/wiki/Squats

Wow 😯 I am interested now