Warhammer 40,000 General /40kg/

>boob plate that will fracture sternum if she falls over and literally has two "stab me" traps built into the centre
>selfsame "stab me" decorations turn into shoulder cobras that ostensibly offer some kind of protection by catching horizontal slashes aimed at the head
>literal distraction tits are round, shiny and detailed enough to maybe divert attention for a fraction of a second
>it's both practical and impractical
I have no idea how to feel about this.

I wish there were more models for women in the game.

Guard are constantly mentioned to have both women and men serving but the models don't represent this whatsoever.

Hopefully when they finally update the Guard models GW will add in at least some bits.

This is purely ceremonial
I don't get why Veeky Forums has such a hard on for shit that never existed on the battlefield
Women wrapped their waist in cloth and wore regular armor, if they were to wear it at all.
The last thing you want to do is show your enemy that you're a prime rape candidate.

>never existed on the battlefield
like female soldiers?

>implying no armies on earth utilized all sexes for war

Did Vostroyans actually get some random female minis, or was it just the art and I'm remembering things wrong?

>all
you mean both. Anyways, slave armies maybe, even then it's unlikely. But as regimented soldiers? Nah.

I present you a modern day assassin.

Beside child soldiers are thing and have some degree of success.

No idea why you hate women so much.

I had a point here but then I notice. It was all for the (you)s

>never existed on the battlefield
What does that have to do with anything at all? Elves never existed on the battlefield either. I'd still like to fuck one if I had the chance.

I don't remember Vostroyans having any, but I know the Tanith/Gaunt's Ghosts have them some.

Remember that most women in the IG serve in the very rare all female regiments. Mixed regiments are even rarer.

Unofficial FFG art, iirc.

>you mean both
Eunuchs have social standing of "third gender" in some Asian cultures, you know.

just FFG

The firstborn were explicitly an all-male regiment. One of the few.

[Citation needed]

Fluff also says mixed regiments are incredibly rare.

Nope. The only minis are Tanith, Last Chancers, Catachans, and a Commissar.

an assassin isn't a soldier, you fucking moron. I don't hate women, christ alive. I'm just stating the fact that they don't really have any kind of presence in the history of open warfare. As spies, or assassins, sure. But as rank and file military, almost completely nonexistent.

I don't remember Vostroyans having any, but I know the Tanith/Gaunt's Ghosts have some.

IIRC Catachan has a couple models as well.

Can any Chaos marine legion take a Cyclopia Cabal, or is it for Black Legion only? That seems kind of dumb if the only accessible psykers-blob formation is restricted to one set of tactics.

>all
>you mean both
All can mean all two you mong. But I agree.

>female catachans
yes please, i like this idea

To be fair, he was probably extremely electing something like the tau list I faced as IG, which included 2 broadsides, a riptide, and a hammerhead

Rare in 40k goes from one of a kind to Tau super special snowflake armour being in every war zone they have.

In other word rare means very little

Wait, so Orks are really good in Shadow Wars? Awesome.

So you mean there's only several billion throughout the galaxy?

>it's a social justice/diversity and female inclusion thread
Abandon ship guys this general is doomed.

Why do you faggots insist in shitting up every other 40k general these days? If you want female models, convert them. If you want racially diverse models, paint them that way.

Stop forcing your political views on people and get out.

From what I've seen, they're hit or miss. So kind of balanced?

Have you guys read the old Armageddon Codex from 3rd edition? It shows Steel Legion minis being used for Jopal Indentured Squadrons, but more importantly it shows the Death Korps of Krieg before the Death Korps of Krieg was a thing. I never knew, now I'm tempted to paint my Steel Legion like this. I used to love the old hobby & modelling sections in books.

Asia and the Middle East has a rich history of female soldiers, some pulling a literal Mulan and impersonating men, others outright fighting in unofficial "women's regiments", as well as numerous famous "Warrior-Queens" who fought in battle and marched alongside men.

Which list is better?

"Mixed regiments" meaning two old depleted regiments mixed together, not mixed gender. The guard rarely mentions gender at all because its irrelevant to their day to day duties of dying, dying, and getting shot.

There was also a small amount (very small) that fought in the U.S. Civil War.

Not to mention there were probably Celt women that fought too.

I like how you had to qualify every single one of those examples as either pretending to be men, unofficial regiments (IE defending themselves, probably while the soldiers were campaigning elsewhere), or famous royalty one-offs.

It was rather common back then.

Mostly a western thing the "no girls allowed at war" and from Catholic Rome era.

The thing is it was rare but no uncommon

rare means uncommon, friend. In fact rare is an order of magnitude higher than uncommon

What use is Coteaz in that right list?

Can you just get out? Women are weak and almost universally make awful soldiers.

Men and women are fundamentally physically different and have very different biological roles to play. Deal with it and get out.

Uncommon as in something outlandish and requiering a trigger warning.

God damn I dislike English. In fact you almost need 3 language to properly speak today since everyone is so picky

Please r8 my captains.

I'm trying to keep it both fluffy and useful on the tabletop, already knowing captains are not the best hq choice.

They're all meant to be escorted by vanguard / command squads or sternguard, or to just die heroically

the BA captain is just so I can use that one when I proxy my marines as Blood Angels.

No, you need to use your fucking words properly you child. Read a book. "Rare" is more extreme than "uncommon"

in one post, you said it was common and rare at the same time. sort yourself out before trying to make an argument

i doubt pol is the place for anons looking for fair treatment toward women and ethnics

Europe had its share; Spain, Rome, and obviously France all have famous female warriors who weren't afraid of getting stuck in.

If we count modern history you also have the Viet Cong, French resistance members who saw open combat against German forces early and late in WWII, and the innumerable female Soviet pilots in WWII.

Considering the number of famous warrior women in leadership roles, I'm wondering how many went undocumented or ignored as part of the rank-and-file.

>yfw you learn this was made for a man to wear as a joke

Even in the year 40000, no one wants to see a bunch of dead qts ripped apart on a battlefield

word you're looking for is unusual, methinks

You don't know what fair means

Not that guy, but the implication I got was that it was rare among individuals, but not uncommon for any given culture to have had it at some point in time.

Either way, not really applicable in 40k, since even if 1% of all guardsmen are women, they'd still outnumber Tau, Space marines, and Eldar by an order of magnitude.

Thank you!

Allows interceptor on deep striking/outflank maneuvers within range so my knight won't get instantly destroyed by drop pod/bike grav
Divination psyker for the Kataphron, also gives me a MUCH better chance of getting first turn. Also provides some CC potential.

point still stands, bucko

I'm sure Comissars alone outnumber the Tau and marines.

Yeah, you're right. /pol/ isn't a place for people who don't know what the word fair means

>an entire species is BLAM!ed in a single fell swoop

Not him, but
100pts for PM2, I've been expecting you, reroll to Seize the Initiative, AP2 Force.

Is pretty good.

Especially if he Presiences those Destroyers. Tho I feel 7 Grav Cannon in the same unit is huge overkill.

Doesn't mean you can shit up another board with your political shit. Keep /pol/ in /pol/ doesn't just apply when you get triggered by some naziboo.

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Astra Militarum Codex Supplement: Officio BLAM!matorium.

what the hell happened to make these threads so fucking cancerous lately

>people correcting others on their literally factually incorrect statements that are rooted in Eurocentric bias is "forcing political views"
I am amused by your faggotry, now get in the gas chamber with the rest of the gays.

/pol/ get trigger hard by women and tits.

We can't discuss tit armour in a setting with space magic and space travel by going into hell without the retards getting trigger hard by women with space guns magic

I just imagine an army of commissars all shooting each other for cowardice as the Tau look on in confusion.

Finished my first painting!

I think I did pretty good with my bad eyes and shaky old man hands.

Had to brace the brush against mu face to keep it steady enough for the smaller details.

/pol/ isn't the one being triggered by tits, that's the other side

>Tau surrender out of massive PTSD after watching billions of Commisars BLAM each other.

/pol/ whines and carries on about "muh degeneracy" pretty hard.

To be fair, that's Tau, who have genuinely never had their slow travel or scarcity of resources ever correctly presented except in the most fringe of fluff. They really aren't a good basis for anything in 40k, since the writers seem to be adamant on making the Tau 'above' the limitations and themes of the setting.

>R&H heavy weapon teams are BS 2
>Can buy an upgrade that lets them snap fire at BS 2

I know this is probably more useful going to ground within cover or something, but I really want to have a full squad of 6 with heavy stubbers going full Rambo running around and firing machine guns

Not too bad
How come the eyes are blue though

Pretty good. Is he supposed to be possessed or something? The eyes are kinda over the top

yeah, but no on in this thread is complaining about degeneracy, they're complaining about boob plate, which is not a /pol/ complaint

Even better, do it with autocannons or lascannons

wait so you can only play custodes/sisters in unbound?

How does this look for low points games?

no?

>unofficial regiments (IE defending themselves, probably while the soldiers were campaigning elsewhere)
Nakano Takeko. She has the stereotypical "only female samurai" origin story, but she lead a unit of female warriors who got stuck in alongside the Aizu army, who didn't recognize them as a military unit, but at the same time didn't outright tell them to stop trying to fuck up the enemy.
She died after being shot in the chest while leading a charge.

I never said they were any good, I just pointed out the facts that they existed. YOU fuck off back to the fedora containment board.

The entire thing was people telling other people that outside of a very narrow view of the world women at war was not something unheard or unusual as it was in Europe or NA.

Then it turn into a (you) war and now everyone is a nazi nigger feminist Jew.

desu i havent seen much boob plate arguing go on ITT, just "y wud der b womynz in da fyte?"

Oh hey. This guy again.

Tzeentch fluff thing. I'm trying to match the colors with my favorite book, but I thought it would be fun to throw in some Chaos shenanigans too.

Don't fall into the bullshit that is grav, user.
You could just as easily have meltas if you are that worried about a close quarters anti-armor unit, and few armies are going to field 2+ on you at 750.
I'd ask you how you plan to deal with AV13/14 front armor if your vehicles get ventilated.
Get meltabombs on your vanguard, a stormshield on the sarge, ditch the tl asscans for more anti-infantry dakka.

figured there was something more to it

Amem

You could play with nothing but Ratlings in unbound. I do not see your point or question.

Is /pol/ the new /b/? In anyway case bitching about women soldier in 40k is just fedora tiping at its finest.

The only reason I'd want heavy stubbes is that a full team with those costs 75 points, while it's another 60 for all the autocannons. For dudes with no armor in the open, I feel like they should be really cheap.

I don't think anyone in this thread was bitching about female soldiers in 40k though. It's fantasy, they can do whatever they want. The argument was about historical examples.

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>Is /pol/ the new /b/?
Yes, it is one of the reasons why this site is going downhill, because people find /pol/ first instead of /b/ and think /pol/ particular brand of nonsense comprises the entire site's culture, just like the newfag /b/tards of yesteryear, except there is a specific skew to the logic, rather than just shitting on everyone/thing.

Speak for yourself, pal.

Wich one has the most crazy-zealot-badass chaplains, the Dark Angels or the Black Templars?

sisters of battle :^)