{"id":1207398,"date":"2026-02-20T20:54:52","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T20:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/q45XpKBcrzjEZRr27px48M"},"modified":"2026-02-20T20:54:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T20:54:52","slug":"warhammer-40000s-space-dwarfs-will-make-their-videogame-debut-in-turn-based-tactics-sequel-mechanicus-2-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/warhammer-40000s-space-dwarfs-will-make-their-videogame-debut-in-turn-based-tactics-sequel-mechanicus-2-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Warhammer 40,000’s space dwarfs will make their videogame debut in turn-based tactics sequel Mechanicus 2 this year"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When Games Workshop first released sci-fi miniatures for Warhammer 40,000 in the 1980s the line included space dwarfs<\/a>, also called squats, with a hairy biker aesthetic\u2014like if the forgemasters of trad fantasy evolved into greasy spaceship mechanics. Never as popular as space elves or space orks, by the second edition of Warhammer 40,000 they were written out of the setting as a casualty of the tyranid invasion, and Warhammer players say old aspects of the lore that no longer apply have been “squatted” to this day.<\/p>\n

The squats came back a few years ago, however, rebooted under the less insulting name of “the kin”, with their main force arrayed as the Leagues of Votann. The descendants of human mining fleets sent to the galactic core in ages past, generations of genetic adaptation with technology they call cloneskeins have turned them into, well, space dwarfs. But now they wear cool armor.<\/p>\n

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