Add the Skaven to Warhammer 40K, you cowards

polygon.com:

Warhammer 40,000 is stuffed to the brim with bad guys; nearly every faction racks up atrocities on the daily. There’s the protagonist faction, the Imperium of Man, which is quite literally the most brutal and inhumane regime possible. The Chaos Space Marines are engaged in a 10,000-year-long war, using the powers of the dark gods to fuel their armies. And, of course, there’s the stupid, sexy Dark Eldar who torture and pillage their way through the galaxy. But there’s one specific kind of bad guy that’s missing from the setting, and a recent Warhammer Age of Sigmar release throws that into stark relief: I demand that Games Workshop add Skaven to 40K, you cowards.

The Skaven are a longtime presence in the Warhammer fantasy settings, including Age of Sigmar, an alternative fantasy setting introduced in 2015. The new Warhammer Age of Sigmar Skaventide box set — which went up for pre-order on June 29 — pits the Skaven, a ravenous horde of rat men who are scratching at every door and every dimension in hopes of finding something to feast upon, against the noble Stormcast Eternals. Age of Sigmar has some great villains, like the father of necromancy and all-time hater Nagash, but few are as beloved as the Skaven. They’re even the antagonist in the popular Vermintide games developed by Fatshark. You can’t truly escape the Skaven, and the only saving grace is that they’re so busy fighting each other that they sometimes forget about their mission of total annihilation.

The Skaven are bipedal critters who swarm en masse, which is obviously dangerous in and of itself, but the fact that they have a decent grasp on technology just makes matters worse. In the original Warhammer Fantasy Battles, the human empires largely denied the existence of Skaven. (There are no rats living in Altdorf, waiting to rise up and overthrow humanity. That’s ridiculous; you must be just seeing things. Do not ask any more questions about the giant rats whomst walk like men.) They worship a Chaos entity