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Hey guys,
just a kind of random question. Anyone who runs strictly women only armies, i.e. converted SM to have female heads?
Let me know what you run!

I recall someone from the dawn of the bitz-order age who had an all-female eldar army. The enboobed bitz from the guardian sprue are what did it.

Of course, he also only had guardians, banshees, and a converted farseer, which certainly made that task a little easier.

I've seen female marines. Most people consider them Heresy, but hey whatever floats your boat ; ) You normally see people go for mixed armies, ie. the male and female Arcadians from Vic minis for guardsmen. Also there's lots of mixed gender (D)Eldar troops. The lack of female minis - or good minis in general - for guard is pretty bad from GW. At least the FW guard models look great, though sadly no ladies there.

There are a lot of IG/AM armies that are all female, with zounds of conversion companies out there it's easy..
Also there is an interesting kick-start coming out with three all female armies... Alas they haven't actually supplied any models despite taking money for like two years.. So don't hold our breath for everyday sales...
Also have you heard of Adeptus Sororita? Sisters of Battle?
Many play them as "counts as" SM

 Ailaros wrote:
I recall someone from the dawn of the bitz-order age who had an all-female eldar army. The enboobed bitz from the guardian sprue are what did it.

Of course, he also only had guardians, banshees, and a converted farseer, which certainly made that task a little easier.

My slowly-growing Eldar are going that way, although I'm really trying to source alternate chest pieces to the female Guardian one.

 Ailaros wrote:
I recall someone from the dawn of the bitz-order age who had an all-female eldar army. The enboobed bitz from the guardian sprue are what did it.

Of course, he also only had guardians, banshees, and a converted farseer, which certainly made that task a little easier.

I knew a guy in Olympia who traded me for all my female guardian pieces. So i know theres at least one of those. I play Sisters of Battle. I have seen femal heads added to Space Marine bodies (effectively turned a SM army into Sisters).

 jreilly89 wrote:
Anyone who runs strictly women only armies, i.e. converted SM to have female heads?

I play Sisters of Battle, so all-female. I use non-GW female model as count-as for my conclave, because they fit in more with the army aesthetics (and not just because they are female).

 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:

 jreilly89 wrote:
Anyone who runs strictly women only armies, i.e. converted SM to have female heads?

I play Sisters of Battle, so all-female. I use non-GW female model as count-as for my conclave, because they fit in more with the army aesthetics (and not just because they are female).

Same as above, I use SoB as my main army but I do have some male Crusaders in my Conclave squad which is not used much. I also have a Jacobus model but my other Priests are all female.
Also have a female IG army which grew from the inducted IG squads you could have in the Witch Hunters codex. Once you have one platoon, it ‘seemed’ sensible to keep the theme going.

Well I play a Farsight Enclaves all-suit list.

They can be female if you want them to be

My Chaos Marines all have armour and helmets. They can also be female if you want them to be!

dark eldar are good for all-female. Just replace every head with one from the female wyches and you're good.

 Ashiraya wrote:
My Chaos Marines all have armour and helmets. They can also be female if you want them to be!

This is pretty much what I've always thought for marines. People complain about no female marine models but to me they are pretty androgynous.

JubbJubbz wrote:

 Ashiraya wrote:
My Chaos Marines all have armour and helmets. They can also be female if you want them to be!

This is pretty much what I've always thought for marines. People complain about no female marine models but to me they are pretty androgynous.

When you are that juiced up, and wear that much ceramite, any gender differences should be invisible.

I like to think that the space marine gene-seed removes any gender differences from the astartes, so they look male no matter whether they were originally male or female.

Interesting stuff, thanks for the voice in guys! I really like Sisters of Battle, so I may pick them up. What makes them different play wise from SM?

Second, I would be all over another SOB-style army. I know SM can be female, but I think an obviously female army would be cool.

 jreilly89 wrote:
Interesting stuff, thanks for the voice in guys! I really like Sisters of Battle, so I may pick them up. What makes them different play wise from SM?

On the most simple level, Sisters are more shooty and less assaulty than Marines. They have the advantage of numbers, but less variety in their wargear.

 Ashiraya wrote:
My Chaos Marines all have armour and helmets. They can also be female if you want them to be!

Well, except established fluff, which explicitly state all marines are made out of male humans, but you can still decide they are female anyway. It would certainly lead to much nerd-rage. That could be interesting to watch.
A loyalist chapter made entirely out of abducted and indoctrinated eldar girls?

(Though we all know the truth, only the Male Marines are actually male. That is why no other chapter use the all-time favorite method of men to fight in fantasy/sci-fi settings : distract the opponent by alluring attire that shows all the curve of their gorgeous body and does not limit their movement like actual injury-preventing armor would! )

 curran12 wrote:

 jreilly89 wrote:
Interesting stuff, thanks for the voice in guys! I really like Sisters of Battle, so I may pick them up. What makes them different play wise from SM?

On the most simple level, Sisters are more shooty and less assaulty than Marines. They have the advantage of numbers, but less variety in their wargear.

Seriously? This kinda of makes me want to play them. I don't mind assaulty marines, but it's like, I have this big ass bolter, why the hell would I go for hand to hand?

 jreilly89 wrote:

 curran12 wrote:

 jreilly89 wrote:
Interesting stuff, thanks for the voice in guys! I really like Sisters of Battle, so I may pick them up. What makes them different play wise from SM?

On the most simple level, Sisters are more shooty and less assaulty than Marines. They have the advantage of numbers, but less variety in their wargear.

Seriously? This kinda of makes me want to play them. I don't mind assaulty marines, but it's like, I have this big ass bolter, why the hell would I go for hand to hand?

this a pretty good simplification, however the way i end up playing sisters ( before i sold them ) was close range fire fights - lots of melta. Dominions squads in immolaters are a great delivery system.

Backed up with 3 exortcists

so basically its up close and personal - pick your targets, and use the longer range of the Exoercists to enage targets you dont want in melta range

 jreilly89 wrote:
Seriously? This kinda of makes me want to play them. I don't mind assaulty marines, but it's like, I have this big ass bolter, why the hell would I go for hand to hand?

Do you like bolters, heavy bolters, melta, flamers and heavy flamers, on power-armor infantry, along with rhino and razorbacks-like with twin-linked melta? If you think this lacks variety, do not play sisters, because that is basically all they have. Well, they also have one decent close-combat unit (the conclave), one not too bad shooty jump pack unit (with hit and run, certainly the most fun, characterful and unique sister of battle unit…) and a tank that shoots 1d6 S8 AP1 shot with BS4 each turn. And penitent engine, but those are really bad. But really, the bulk of your army will be sisters with bolter, melta and possibly flamers. Usually in transports.

A Town Called Malus wrote:Well I play a Farsight Enclaves all-suit list.

They can be female if you want them to be

lol. So can my imperial guard armored company.

jreilly89 wrote:This kinda of makes me want to play them. I don't mind assaulty marines, but it's like, I have this big ass bolter, why the hell would I go for hand to hand?

Umm... but there's plenty of choppy in SoB as well. They are... I think... the only place in the game right now where you can take eviscerators, and practically anybody can have them. I mean, you can have whole squads of them...



Plus Celestine and the book of st. lucious, and all the flamers, etc. There's going to be some close combat sooner or later if you play SoB. Meanwhile, SoB doesn't get access to things like razorspam. I can imagine it would be kind of hard to run a gunline with them.

 jreilly89 wrote:
Interesting stuff, thanks for the voice in guys! I really like Sisters of Battle, so I may pick them up. What makes them different play wise from SM?

Second, I would be all over another SOB-style army. I know SM can be female, but I think an obviously female army would be cool.

Someone had mentioned earlier about a kickstarter that had 3 different female armies. The Iron Empire models look like they'd fit in perfectly with Imperials or even stand in models for Sister's of Battle. You should really check them out. I initially pledged 15 bucks because I wanted just a sniper model they had, but when the pledge manager came out I dropped an additional 150 due to how awesome the models actually looked. The kits are actually fairly affordable too. Standard troopers (IG stand ins) run about 15 bucks for a box of 5 and the heavier troopers (Sisters of battle stand ins) run 20 for a box of 5. The kickstarter was called Raging Heroes: Toughest Girls of the Galaxy. You should check it out if you are looking to field an all female army, it's mu understanding that Sister's is pretty pricey fund wise to field.

If you want an all-female army, all sorts of SM, Necrons, Tau, CSM, DoC, GK, Orks, Imperial Knights...basically anything but SoB and maybe Eldar are out.

 Ailaros wrote:
Umm... but there's plenty of choppy in SoB as well. They are... I think... the only place in the game right now where you can take eviscerators, and practically anybody can have them.

If by “everyone” you mean “HQ,, the leader of the jump pack squad, and one unit”, then yes. Otherwise, no.


Let us be honest, the only thing that is close combat and decent for Sisters is the conclave. Repentia are T3 W1 6++ models that cost 17points and strike last. Celestians… are equipped with a bolter rather than a close combat weapon. Seraphim will do way more damage by shooting than by assaulting. The Canoness is a sick, sad excuse for a joke. Celestine is meh, just not as bad as the other HQ. The Penitent Engine are open-topped 11-10-10.

 Sigvatr wrote:
If you want an all-female army, all sorts of SM, Necrons, Tau, CSM, DoC, GK, Orks, Imperial Knights...basically anything but SoB and maybe Eldar are out.

Tau can be all-female. Shadowsun, suits and Fire Warriors with the helmeted heads (or use some green stuff and a paint job to change the helmetless ones into females).



Don't need boob armour to be female, after all.

I was coming from a fluff perspective as, iirc, female Tau in the army are insanely rare.

 Sigvatr wrote:
I was coming from a fluff perspective as, iirc, female Tau in the army are insanely rare.

I don't think that's true. Tau don't discriminate on the grounds of sex. If a girl is born into the fire caste, then she's in the fire caste.

Gonna check my codices.

Just basing this on vague memories. Technically, I don't think that there would be any need for genders anyway...hm. Gonna look the interwebz up. Nothing beats alien sex!

Just a random thought, they do reproduce similarly to humans, don't they? And if they do, would their females have breasts as well? Given that reproduction seems more like a "service" to them?

Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:and decent

Yes, but if you just wanted to win games, you wouldn't be playing sisters in the first place. There's lots of CC ability in the sister's "codex", just not if you're powergaming.

And certainly, the distinction between SM as the choppy ones and SoB as the shooty ones doesn't make all that much sense either.

 Sigvatr wrote:
If you want an all-female army, all sorts of SM, Necrons, Tau, CSM, DoC, GK, Orks, Imperial Knights...basically anything but SoB and maybe Eldar are out.

Imperial Guard, Tau and MTS are possible.