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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/09/02 22:21:34
Subject: Women in the Imperial Guard
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This may seem odd, but do the IG recruit women? My reasoning is twofold;
1. In the Space Marine game, the main NPC was Lt. Mira, a woman. But...
2. There are no female heads in the Cadian or Catachan troops sets iirc.
In typical GW fashion the info is conflicting (I'm not anti-GW in any way, no hate please). So I thought I'd ask.
So what is the IGs policy on women?
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/09/02 23:34:08
Subject: Re:Women in the Imperial Guard
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The Conquerer
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The Imperium doesn't care if a guardsmen is male or female. Only a planetary culture may or may not care, and they are free to do what they wish in this regard.
Cadia recruits EVERYONE. From the moment they are born, a Cadian is going to become a Shock Trooper. Cadia compensates for the obvious reproductive deficit by rotating regiments back to the planet as Garrison troops(read: reproductive duties)
As for a policy on women by the IG as a whole. There is no policy. Every warm body that can fire a lasgun reasonably straight is suitable for service.
Because regiments are raised by individual planets, the composition will depend on the planet. If its a society where women do not fight then their regiments will not have women. If its a planet where women are dominant the opposite will be true. And on a planet where there are no/limited barriers there will be mixed regiments.
In the book "Ice Guard" one of the Valhallen guardsmen is a women. She is one of the few women on her planet to join. Its implied its because she can't have children. This implies the Valhallen culture dictates women best serve the Emperor by having children. This character feels like she can only make up for this shortcoming by being a guardsmen herself.
Only one example of myriad cultures that exist and how the Imperium doesn't care. If they ever did have a policy on the matter(Again, they don't have one) they would probably take the same stance as Valhalla. Instead of getting one soldier from a single women, get maybe 5 or 6. Leave most women on the planet along with enough men to ensure future generations.
Of course such a policy would be impossible to enforce across the Imperium. And the natural reproductive rate is more than sufficient to raise new regiments every year.
As for why no female IG heads, likely because nobody gave the idea any thought or they just didn't feel like sculpting women's faces. And given GWs track record with female models is a little spotty its probably just as well they don't have any.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/09/03 00:36:33
Subject: Re:Women in the Imperial Guard
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The IG definitely recruit women. Heck, Xenonia (not kidding, check the older Guard Codex) is renown for their Imperial Guard regiments of warrior women.
GW making female models, on the other hand, is very rare. That shouldn't be taken to indicate that the regiments depicted have no women, any more than the fact that they don't make adolescent 'new recruit' models, or 'skinny guy', 'fat guy', or 'glasses-wearing guy' models, should be taken as evidence that they don't have new recruits, skinny guardsmen, fat guardsmen, or guardsmen with corrective lenses.
GW could certainly do more to broaden the depiction of their Imperial Guardsmen (not just gender, but also age and ethnicity), but they are also realistically constrained by economics too. They only make a few sprues of Guardsmen models, so any variations have to be pretty popular. I think they err a little too far on the conservative side, IMO.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/09/03 00:56:41
Subject: Women in the Imperial Guard
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Yes. The IG doesn't give a damn about what's between their soldier's legs, as long as it is not some heretical mutant abomination. They only care that the person is capable of standing and firing their rifle at the enemy long enough to do a little damage before dying. Something which most adult humans are capable of doing, with no difference between the sexes.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/09/03 04:16:42
Subject: Re:Women in the Imperial Guard
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Hallowed Canoness
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This seems to become a recurring theme? I wonder how many pages we'll manage this time until "someone" turns this into a social issues debate.
Anyways ..
From the 3E Guard Codex. Pictured on the lower left: a soldier of the Xenonian Free Companies. Five units from this world were deployed to Armageddon late during the Third War.
The (to my knowledge) full range of GW's female IG minis so far: Rocket Girl and Warrior Woman (Last Chancers boxed set), Female Commissar ( GD limited edition), female Tanith Ghost ( OOP), female Catachan (from the old Catachan Infantry box).
Bottom line: The Imperium does not care who fights in your regiment, as long as it's human. Gender, age, skin colour and other possible requirements are subject to local customs, which will differ from world to world. Specifically for Cadia, Codex fluff has the entirety of Cadia's population undergoing basic training, with a "lottery" determining who stays with the Shock Troops and who remains with the planetary reserves.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/09/03 06:09:19
Subject: Women in the Imperial Guard
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Thanks for the information, I'm glad there's a precedent, now I can find a female head in my HE army to use for it.
GW probably could do a wider range, but we leave that to them, this isn't the place for any 'social issues debate'
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/09/03 06:22:26
Subject: Re:Women in the Imperial Guard
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There are plenty of women in the guard and the Imperium is not wrong for recruiting them.
A corpse with ovaries jams the enemy's gears just as well as one with testicles.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/09/03 12:38:58
Subject: Re:Women in the Imperial Guard
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Cannon fodder is cannon fodder, be it XY fodder or XX fodder.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/09/03 15:03:28
Subject: Women in the Imperial Guard
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The fluff has lots of female IG. GW figures do not. And it aint because "they won't sell." Laziness? Afraid of women? Don't have the skill to make women that don't look like men? I don't know. I'll let the reader decide.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/09/03 15:39:42
Subject: Women in the Imperial Guard
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MWHistorian wrote:The fluff has lots of female IG. GW figures do not. And it aint because "they won't sell." Laziness? Afraid of women? Don't have the skill to make women that don't look like men? I don't know. I'll let the reader decide.
Maybe they already have, released them but we didn't recognize them as female
See this "female" Elven beauty:
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/09/03 16:26:11
Subject: Re:Women in the Imperial Guard
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I tend to stick with perspective bias. I mean, by the same token you could ask why so few of the artwork depicts black people.
This game is made by a bunch of white males, so that is probably the first thing that springs to their mind when they think "I need a bunch of characters". For many people, it takes conscious effort to expand this scope to include other types of people, which is why they tend to show up as special focus groups such as an all-black Marine Chapter (Salamanders), an all-female army (Sisters of Battle), an all-female IG regiment (Xenonian Free Companies), or an all-female Hive Gang (House Escher).
This is also a consequence of how the individual writers and designers grew up, however, and what kind of games, books and movies helped shape their image of fantasy and sci-fi. A reader who read a lot of Battletech books in their youth and later turns into a game designer will include female characters by default, simply because they were "normal" in the stuff he grew up with. On the other hand, someone whose experience with this material has women only in the roles of damsel in distress will probably continue to have this idea stuck somewhere in his subconsciousness.
There will (fortunately) always be some authors and designers who will break with "established standards", else our storytelling media would merely run in circles, but all in all I believe that most people are considerably influenced by whatever nation/culture they grew up in, and this includes those who work in creative development.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/09/03 17:00:44
Subject: Re:Women in the Imperial Guard
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Preacher of the Emperor
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Lynata wrote:This game is made by a bunch of white males, so that is probably the first thing that springs to their mind when they think "I need a bunch of characters". Lynata wrote:someone whose experience with this material has women only in the roles of damsel in distress will probably continue to have this idea stuck somewhere in his subconsciousness.
It seems that they're aware and cautious of these factors too. http://www.lounge.belloflostsouls.net/showthread.php?34864-Gamesday-Germany-2013-Master-Roundup/page2 -one guy actually asked why there were so very few female characters in 40k, to general good-natured amusement - they said it was mainly because they have almost no women in their team, so they kind of fear that anything they might do could be involuntarily sexist, or something along those lines
Though when they do turn their hands to writing females, it usually goes fine. Female IG, SoBs and female Inquisitors are usually just as gritty and hardened as any male counterpart. At least in my view, anyway.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/09/03 17:41:45
Subject: Women in the Imperial Guard
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Oh look, this thread again.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/09/03 17:46:50
Subject: Women in the Imperial Guard
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Hallowed Canoness
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Oh, yes, the GW core designers can write them - at least I think that they have displayed this ability to sufficient degree in the past (see Sisters Martika, Anastasia, Dominica, etc). It's just that I would have thought that the option to include a female character just doesn't spring to mind most of the time. I think Aaron Dembski-Bowden once talked about this little problem in 40k, if you recall that thread here on dakka?
Interesting that, at least according to that statement, they seem to intentionally avoid it. It may not have anything to do with the writing at all, then, but rather the miniatures. Although I see little risk in the writing (a character's gender never played a role in the fluff, they were just "people"), the design of the miniatures we have certainly shows a tendency towards fetishism. I mean, just going by the photo I posted above, we have a Commissar in thigh boots presenting her impressive rack, a skirt-wearing amazon, a belly-free Catachan ...
GW could certainly use one or two miniature designers who are capable of sculpting female characters that appear more "normal" for a militaristic setting. It's not an issue when the design fits in with the rest of their planetary culture and their male counterparts, such as with the Escher gang's "punk" outfit, which is why I don't perceive the aforementioned minis in a negative way. But I can see how someone who sees only those minis and not, say, the male Catachans or Necromunda Pit Slaves, could get a wrong idea when seeing those girls next to the "professionally dressed" male Cadians or Space Marines.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/09/03 18:10:48
Subject: Women in the Imperial Guard
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Lynata wrote:the design of the miniatures we have certainly shows a tendency towards fetishism. I mean, just going by the photo I posted above, we have a Commissar in thigh boots presenting her impressive rack, a skirt-wearing amazon, a belly-free Catachan ...
I dunno, across all armies, I think they've put out lots of decent female minis too. We've got Shadowsun, Howling Banshees, the SoB (that one unit aside, of course). Although we've also got ones like Daemonettes and Wynches (who are now mixed gender, though), those at least have acceptable fluff reasons to look the way that they do. And, correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't most of the guardswomen you posted older models anyway? Could be that GW has "grown up" a bit since then. Hopefully, were they to make new female IG minis in the future, they might actually be dressed like soldiers.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/09/03 19:02:09
Subject: Women in the Imperial Guard
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Hallowed Canoness
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Troike wrote:And, correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't most of the guardswomen you posted older models anyway? Could be that GW has "grown up" a bit since then. Hopefully, were they to make new female IG minis in the future, they might actually be dressed like soldiers.
I'm not sure I'd actually want that, as weird as it sounds. As long as male troopers look one way, I think it'd be weird if female troopers would look different. So when you have a regiment like the Catachans, I'd expect to see a "Vasquez" there. Really, the only thing that could be argued as improper with the above mini is that her tanktop should go all the way down like with the male soldiers.
I have in the past years noticed a trend away from miniatures that are even remotely sexual in appearance. The new Dark Eldar Banshees as well as the new Slaanesh Daemonettes look just ugly and have lost much of their early allure - which was a fairly important part of their background. Ugly elves? Hideous daemons of seduction?
Just a feeling, but in my pessimistic mind I classified this as a move to make 40k more "kids-friendly", as in our modern society, blood, violence, gore and murder are, for some silly reason, regarded as less offensive than a pair of boobs.
And perhaps it is this kind of boardroom-style thinking that will forever prevent female Imperial Guard minis, for of course the safest way to avoid such a controversy would be to avoid the object of the controversy. Or, in other words, female miniatures not being available may be regarded as less conspicuous than GW potentially releasing "the wrong ones".
Everything could be so simple... Typical humans.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/09/03 19:12:23
Subject: Women in the Imperial Guard
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I was thinking more of the typical Cadian-esque IG when I was talking about possible future IG minis. But yes, the female Catachan isn't dressed any different than the dudes so she's really pretty inoffensive. As for female IG possibly not showing up, that could also be due to GW seeing "no need" to spend the extra time and effort making female IG, as opposed to the whims of some shadowy boardroom guy. And, of course, they could also be thinking that the female human minis box is already ticked. Just speculation on my part, mind you, just wanted to highlight some alternate theories.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/09/03 19:21:39
Subject: Women in the Imperial Guard
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Hallowed Canoness
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Sure, sure - I agree about the "no need / already ticked" part. But the initial design then goes back to my suggestion that the failure to include any females in spite of the Codex fluff is a result of the designers simply not thinking of this when they made this product line, which in turn is a result of the aforementioned perception bias.
Nothing malicious, merely human nature.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/09/03 20:30:06
Subject: Re:Women in the Imperial Guard
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-one guy actually asked why there were so very few female characters in 40k, to general good-natured amusement - they said it was mainly because they have almost no women in their team, so they kind of fear that anything they might do could be involuntarily sexist, or something along those lines
I always wondered why GW sculpts mostly evil psychopaths and monsters
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/09/03 21:25:17
Subject: Women in the Imperial Guard
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If you want to see some nice official female guard art, the "Only War" RPG series has TONS of female artworks (if you count FFG as official). I know there's female Cadian, Mordian, Catachan, Catachan Commisar, Valhallan... There's even a female Vostroyan Firstborn in there! (I guess sometimes they draft daughters in addition to sons).
...no models though, of course.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/09/03 22:40:36
Subject: Re:Women in the Imperial Guard
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Its not that hard to do. Just make a sculpt of this woman and be done with it.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/09/03 23:36:26
Subject: Women in the Imperial Guard
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A sculpt of something like that, with numerous poses and variations, so that I can make an entire army out of it.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/09/04 00:31:14
Subject: Women in the Imperial Guard
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Hallowed Canoness
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Yus! Lt. Mira was a nice asset to the game. Thankfully my initial fears that she'd play the role of Damsel in Distress or, worse yet, would become some sort of romantic interest for the Space Marine player character, proved to be untrue.
I think GW shut down the above fan project, but it goes to show how it could work out. The hips feel a tad wide in comparison to the slim waist ,but some compromises may be necessary due to GW's "heroic scale". A simple headswap could also be an option, but Cadian minis have really, really fat arms and hands, so the end result might look less cool .
Also, a slightly different leg pose might be in order.
TiamatRoar wrote:There's even a female Vostroyan Firstborn in there! (I guess sometimes they draft daughters in addition to sons).
The writers of those books just left additional some liberties to allow for greater freedom at character creation, other examples including Storm Troopers or Ogryns mingling with regular troops..
There's nothing wrong with an all-male, or all-female regiment. If that's the respective planet's culture/tradition, then that's that. Social discrimination is part of the setting's overall theme, and gender is one of the possible shapes it can take. What matters is that there are counter-examples of the opposite gender, as well as entirely mixed armies, so that in the greater picture the game does not send a "wrong" message, and allows us to cherrypick what aspects we like.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/09/04 00:40:14
Subject: Re:Women in the Imperial Guard
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MWHistorian wrote:Its not that hard to do. Just make a sculpt of this woman and be done with it.

Wait don't! That many Miras in one army would be so drastically awesome that any other army would lose from her tactical prowess (I'll take about 100 of them to have an equal number of male and female guardsmen)). Automatically Appended Next Post: Lynata wrote:Troike wrote:And, correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't most of the guardswomen you posted older models anyway? Could be that GW has "grown up" a bit since then. Hopefully, were they to make new female IG minis in the future, they might actually be dressed like soldiers.
I'm not sure I'd actually want that, as weird as it sounds. As long as male troopers look one way, I think it'd be weird if female troopers would look different. So when you have a regiment like the Catachans, I'd expect to see a "Vasquez" there. Really, the only thing that could be argued as improper with the above mini is that her tanktop should go all the way down like with the male soldiers.
I have in the past years noticed a trend away from miniatures that are even remotely sexual in appearance. The new Dark Eldar Banshees as well as the new Slaanesh Daemonettes look just ugly and have lost much of their early allure - which was a fairly important part of their background. Ugly elves? Hideous daemons of seduction?
Just a feeling, but in my pessimistic mind I classified this as a move to make 40k more "kids-friendly", as in our modern society, blood, violence, gore and murder are, for some silly reason, regarded as less offensive than a pair of boobs.
And perhaps it is this kind of boardroom-style thinking that will forever prevent female Imperial Guard minis, for of course the safest way to avoid such a controversy would be to avoid the object of the controversy. Or, in other words, female miniatures not being available may be regarded as less conspicuous than GW potentially releasing "the wrong ones".
Everything could be so simple... Typical humans. 
In the grimdark world of 40k where we can have intestine trails through the city and genocides every Tuesday boobs are icky and wrong and should not be shown to our children but slaughtering millions of human beings or entire xenos races is completely fine. I really ahve to admit I never understood that (plus I open my chaos daemon book and see a multiple boobed slaanesh daemon and am just like eh not as bad as the picture earlier on of a plagubearer getting a hole blasted through his gut from a bolter shot). Hey! We can hope that whenever the guardsmen codex comes out they have some female veteran guardsmen. Just model Mira (as mentioned above) or the FFG Cadian guardsmen that was rugged (I actually almost punched a friend for saying eeew that is ugly). Forget that, I want a guardsmen like that. Serious, obviously war hardened, noticeably female but not sexualized, and, most importantly, not constipated.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/09/04 03:59:46
Subject: Re:Women in the Imperial Guard
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The Conquerer
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Really all they would need to do is include a couple female heads in the Cadian box. You wouldn't need to sculpt a female body for them either.
The standard IG kit is almost certainly unisex and may even be one size fits all. This would mean that as far as the models are concerned the body would be the same regardless of the sex of the guardsmen.
The same pants, the same flak armor, the same helmet, etc...
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/09/04 04:20:00
Subject: Re:Women in the Imperial Guard
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StarTrotter wrote:plus I open my chaos daemon book and see a multiple boobed slaanesh daemon
Merely an oversight! In the next Codex, all daemons will be depicted in appropriately modest lingerie and be designed in a suitably hideous way so as to not give rise to confusing feelings in the viewer.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/09/04 04:40:22
Subject: Re:Women in the Imperial Guard
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Grey Templar wrote:Really all they would need to do is include a couple female heads in the Cadian box. You wouldn't need to sculpt a female body for them either.
The standard IG kit is almost certainly unisex and may even be one size fits all. This would mean that as far as the models are concerned the body would be the same regardless of the sex of the guardsmen.
The same pants, the same flak armor, the same helmet, etc...
I'd also be up for some more helmets that cover the entire face  oh it might be a male or female. Huzzah! Automatically Appended Next Post: Lynata wrote:StarTrotter wrote:plus I open my chaos daemon book and see a multiple boobed slaanesh daemon
Merely an oversight! In the next Codex, all daemons will be depicted in appropriately modest lingerie and be designed in a suitably hideous way so as to not give rise to confusing feelings in the viewer.
 oh mah what will the children think! Naked monsters that rip others apart!? Now then let us go make some plague bearers (I still miss the pink horrors ripping their mouth open for two blue horrors to hop out)
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/09/04 14:59:00
Subject: Re:Women in the Imperial Guard
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I love those models - hard to get hold - just picked up a few on ebay but they do make the current versions look so bad :(
Back to the OP - its 40K it depends.... but yes many GW and francised products confirm the existance of female IG. In fact the only place they don't really show up in is the model range - luckily lots of other model ranges out there to plunder to fill the ranks
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Subject: Re:Women in the Imperial Guard
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Hallowed Canoness
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Well, for Xenonian Free Companies, you can admittedly just plunder GW's Necromunda Escher range.
That drawing in the Guard 'dex is a 1:1 copy of one. In fact, I recall many of the regimental designs on that page were GW minis from other games - as a "what you could do" showcase, so to say. You can even use WHFB minis ... the Guard is very versatile.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/09/04 15:33:14
Subject: Re:Women in the Imperial Guard
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Ancient Venerable Dreadnought
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Grey Templar wrote:Really all they would need to do is include a couple female heads in the Cadian box. You wouldn't need to sculpt a female body for them either.
Yeah, but nobody wants that. There are dozens of companies out there that supply female heads that could be utilized with GW figures. If that was the solution, there would be no problem. Somebody would have supplied the link.
They want little idealized female guardsmen. Either with big hips, narrower waists and discernible boobs like those resin ones, or they want them like Lieutenant Mira and have slight feminine forms with skinny arms and wrists that wouldn't be able to sustain the muscle/joint endurance required to hold a large rifle for long periods of time.
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