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Squats might be coming back to Warhammer 40K, but since it’s April Fools there’s no actual way to know without waiting.
In a post to Warhammer Community, Games Workshop released a new teaser seemingly hinting at the return of Squats to Warhammer 40K 9th Edition.
Here’s the catch: It’s April Fools, aka the worst day of the year to announce something and be taken seriously, as everyone assumes it’s just another prank by PR companies.
Squats have been missing from Warhammer 40K for a while- long enough for the term “Squatted” to become slang in the community for being discontinued.
The faction are essentially space dwarves, being humans who’d adapted to high-gravity environments by being, well, squat.
Over on the Warhammer 40k subreddit, fans can’t decide if this was just a poor-taste joke by Games Workshop, or if they were doing the rare double-bluff and that these space dwarves were actually getting new miniatures.
“I don’t know what to think about this…”, writes one redditor. “On the one hand this would be a perfect April Fools joke. On the other hand, GW know how much some people want Squats and know how badly this community can react to things so I don’t think they’d want to go “Hey look, Squats!” and then say “Haha, we lied, April Fools”. I’m sure you can all imagine the intense “REEEEE GW BAD” from some aspects of the community if that was the case.GW’s usual April Fools content is much more harmless, like Chocolate Space Marines, Citadel War-ter or Aquilos Cereal…”
Games Workshop has been bringing back some fan-beloved models to Warhammer 40k. Most recently, the Death Korps of Krieg received new plastic models, as opposed to the previously resin-only nature of the company’s Forge World line.
Whether or not Squats are getting the same triumphant return, we’ll simply have to wait and see.
