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 Lynata wrote:
For example, I for one do not believe that the Vostroyans will become mixed gender in the next Guard Codex just because that's what FFG liked to print in Only War.

No, they won;'t become a mixed gender unit because GW still struggles to sculpt women. Have you seen the female catachan? Brrrrr....

Ah, one could argue the males look just as crude - it just doesn't strike as much attention because there it's "manly".

I actually like the mini... >_>

To be fair, sculpting women isn't exactly a strong point of most miniature companies.

 Grey Templar wrote:
To be fair, sculpting women isn't exactly a strong point of most miniature companies.

I dunno, Hasslefree's aren't too bad. I use their female grymns for female ratling snipers. Raging Heroes are a little too supermodel-y.

i dont think they would but mixed gender in squads because men are aparently better at every thing then women
Ithink women could be used for elagant purposes like scouting or the storm trooper corps

The israeli army tried out mixed gender squads. They found that the men start doing really stupid things to impress/protect the women. So segregated units it was!

Heh, I could see that. I'd like to think I would be immune to stuff like that, but you never know.

I personally have no issue with mixed gender stuff. As long as everyone is qualified for their job I don't particularly care if the other people in my fire team are guys or girls, but it seems like the logistics of that is more difficult than otherwise.

On a less serious note I really want to make a female space marine army some day. I will give them all helmets and make no model conversions whatsoever, then just say they're all female. After all, under power armor and with all the future-steroids they've been filled up with there's probably not much difference.

thats kind of like the sisters of battle but only not under the adept soirtis or whatever its called

 dementedwombat wrote:

On a less serious note I really want to make a female space marine army some day. I will give them all helmets and make no model conversions whatsoever, then just say they're all female. After all, under power armor and with all the future-steroids they've been filled up with there's probably not much difference.

That's a hotly debated subject right there. Depends on the mechanics of their strength enhancement. Steroids would do some, sure, but they're actually pretty weak sauce compared to what a SM needs. If you rig their dna to improperly produce myostatin or have them naturally produce something like Follistatin that binds up it's receptors, however, it looks to be on the right track.

However, while you would see increased muscle size and strength, you wouldn't see the other morphological effects you see with steroids, so, no, they wouldn't look alike.

This thread has made me sad... It's that ultimate realisation that scifi tech wouldn't work in he real-world.

However, upon saying that, what I really like about the Imperium is that their tech is all backwards facing and archaic and pretty much technosorcery. Instead of the Imperial Guard being a super advanced army with active-camo, caseless smart rifles, AI controlled drones, and a computer inside each soldier's head, lets face it, they're essentially an army from the 1960s; boots, helmet, radio, and instead of an L1A1 or M14, they've got a lasgun.

In my opinion it adds a nice flavour to the Imperium. Their whole tech tree is controlled by cyborgs from Mars. It's all so archaic and shrouded in lost history and mixed in with region that even the Mechanicum doesn't know how it all works, yet this tech is more advanced then 21st Century tech. I just think that's cool and geeky and neat.

While I personally prefer firearms, being a member of the NRA and an avid target shooter, I like that the Guard have a scifi, direct energy weapon.

Even though real tech cannot produce a lasgun, and we know that the physics of lasers defy what a lasgun is, I choose to believe and accept that my beloved Imperial Guard have a working, direct energy lasgun.

As to the strength of a lasgun? Pfft, pick an author and choose your own ideas, in my mind, it's like being hit by a full-power rifle bullet, like a 7.62 NATO or .303 round.

 Tower75 wrote:
This thread has made me sad... It's that ultimate realisation that scifi tech wouldn't work in he real-world.

Read the Project Rho website I linked (twice) in this thread earlier. Hopefully you will be made less sad.