The Overlords are (almost) here!

Hey everybody!
Well, I’m back, after a week which will definitely not be one for the annals! I managed to cut my left hand open last weekend, so couldn’t type anything substantial for a number of days, not exactly one of my finer moments, I have to say! But still, time to soldier on!

Having an injured hand didn’t impede my reading, of course, so I’ve been catching up with the news on the upcoming Kharadron Overlords release for Age of Sigmar, the first wave of which is going up for pre-order tomorrow. I’ve previously talked about these sky dwarves here, of course, and at the time the first previews were coming out, I wasn’t entirely sure if I was going to go all out and buy any of the models. I’ve been slowly pondering the idea of perhaps getting a box of the soldier-types, predominantly because gun-toting dwarves look kinda hilarious, but they also look like they could be a lot of fun to paint!

I’m still not really feeling that excited about Age of Sigmar as a game, though, which has been giving me pause against going ahead with a lot of my projects at the moment – Slaanesh daemons being top of that list. I’ve actually been selling off a lot of the fantasy kits that I’ve had gathering dust for a while now, partly as I downsize prior to moving house, but also because I’m just losing interest as I firmly plant my flag in the 40k camp – regardless of what changes 8th edition might bring.

However, that raises another interesting question about these chaps: Squats. The Demiurg, to give them the “proper” title, were a race that was removed from the 40k universe early in the game’s evolution, a casualty of the Tyranid Hive Fleet Behemoth. While the term “squatted” has come to be used for the fate of any race removed from the canon by GW, many folks remain devoted to the idea of space dwarves, and range from using them with Imperial Guard rules to actual fan-created Codexes. While I’m not 100% sold on the idea as yet, the mining aesthetic and the fact they’re carrying massive guns has got me playing around with the idea of building a small team to use in Shadow War: Armageddon (using IG rules).

Of course, I’d really like GW to release something that would actually allow for their use in 40k games. Much like a lot of the Chaos Daemons stuff that can cross-pollinate between the two, I think it could be glorious to see happen!