Though my Squats have been retired from the tournament circuit for years now, and I blogged at length about them for years, I don’t have that many photos of them finished. Time to remedy this.
Working back through the iterations of 40K, this squad’s never game legal. In Rogue Trader the 10-strong squad would only get generated with one “special” weapon (then a catch-all term for special and heavy weapons). In the Rogue Trader Squat army list the Squat Combat Squad was 8-strong and everyone (yes, all eight of them) could have heavy weapons – but no Plasma Guns. In 2nd edition 40K the Combat Squad was split into Warrior, Attack and Thunderer squads (analogous to Tactical, Assault and Devestator squads) – but were 5-strong. Though everyone in a Thunderer Squad was entitled to special and heavy weapons.
And, looking at the squad now I realise I’ve paired off a Lascannon gunner with a Heavy Bolter loader. Oops.
I’m really quite fond of these blighters. I’m always tempted to strip them back and revisit them, but the models are so battered and worn and loved I don’t think they can be painted to a higher standard.
In other news, Ninjabread is now part of the House of Paincakes blog network, along with all the other awesome-cool kids like friend and co-Englishman Kapt. Von. Unlike some people, they don’t object to words like “cocking” and nobber”.
Very kindly, they published my 500-word essay on why I’m God’s gift to the Internet. Cocking nobbers.
