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Squigs are fictional creatures from the Warhammer Fantasy and Warhammer 40,000 universes. The term "Squig" is a contraction of '''Squiggly Beast''', and refers to a Race of half-flesh/half-fungus creatures.

Squigs come in a variety of shapes and sizes, and all are extensively used by the Orc s (and Goblins ) in Fantasy and Orks in Warhammer 40,000.

loaded with weapons (and an Eldar Warp Spider Exarch impaled on its tusk!)]]

  • Hair Squigs have hairy growths, and Orks like to stick them in their heads to give themselves hair.

  • Attack (Cave) Squigs are one of the most common types. It's a bouncing ball of claws and razor-sharp teeth up to a foot in height. Night Goblins use them as both a food source (if the Squig doesn't eat them first!) or as a weapon of war, pushing herds of them into the enemy. Orks like to keep them as pets, and sometimes even as weapons as well.

  • Squighounds are a variation of Attack Squig, used by Ork Slaverz to help them keep the Grots in line.

  • Squiggoths are the largest type of Squig, huge Quadruped monsters used by Orks as a primary food source. Since they're so large and tough, some Orks (primarily Feral Orks) like to lash armor plating and guns onto the larger Squiggoths, which can rival tanks and buildings in size.

  • Oil Squigs are very small squigs that look like tiny elephants. They squirt oil from their trunks and are used to maintain war machinery.

  • Ball Squigs look like a football, and are sometimes swapped with the real ball in Blood Bowl games as a practical joke.

  • Squigeons is a "bird" that the orks uses to transport the warplans to the bases,(as seen in deff squadron).


In the first and second editions of the Warhammer 40,000 game, it was revealed that squigs were the result of Tyranid manipulation of Orkish gene-matter. Orks discovered the first squigs aboard a Tyranid bio-ship and subconsciously recognised them as being "Orky", subsequently taking the little creatures home. Squigs then spread throughout Ork space. This backstory neatly explained how squigs could appear in both Ork and Tyranid armies. Since then, Tyranid squigs have been Retconned into Ripper Swarms.


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