While it’s true in theory, let’s be honest: the writing of GW gives very little to do to female characters. Let’s take the Imperial Guard, for example. In theory, there’s no problem having guardsmen or commissars of both genders. Yet can someone here name a special character from its codexes that’s female? (now it’s been half a decade since I stepped away from the hobby, so if things changed on that front in that period, good for them)
Add to that the constant priority given to the all-men space marines (“So, after the new space marine book, we’ll release the ultramarine codex, followed by the blood angels, then the space wolves. After that, I was thinking grey knights for variety. And then, for something completely different, black templars! What’s that? People are getting a bit tired of space marines? Fine, I hear you. Here’s a chaos space marine codex.”), and you can easily see where the impression that 40k is mostly a sauasagefest comes from.
You said it yourself Krieg is very special, you just need to see their rates of creating Imperial Guardsman Regiments in comparison to normal Imperial planets or to more war-frontier planets.
Papa Emperor never had a girlfiend so he didn’t want women in the legions
I know that except in the legions the roles of anything else are fairly diversed, tough I had to search for especific lore of “psychic woman” to see a pic of it because even after all my years of reading from the wikis and books I didn’t ever see one of them, well okay that’s not totally true now I’ve remembered that in one of the Ultra books there was mentioned one woman psychic, but that’s all one from all of the lore I’ve gathered for Papa Chair.
hello, just to clarify I have no interest in monetizing/selling or formally publishing this game, which I guess would fall into fan-fiction-game territory.
The tabeltop rpg its based on - dark heresy 1st ed was made by FFG, whos licence with GW has lapsed so they no longer sell the sourcebooks, or any other warhammer stuff, and it has been superseded by subsequent 40k rpg, wrath and glory, by a different production house/publisher. so DH 1st ed sits in limbo, hence why I felt it was fair game for fanficgame.
the reason I posted this here is purely because its written in choicescript, as opposed to something like twine.
Honestly I hate spess marines despite Humans being my favourite species (totally not biased here) and find them to be the literal worse part of the Imperium of Man but that’s a very unpopular opinion. I just dislike them because they overshadow the Astra Militarum, Militarum Tempestus and other infinitely more interesting aspects of the universe. They give off a feel of DM PCs that the DM wants you to gawk at and think how cool they are for being so bad arse. With the head DM balancing this all by making his DM PCs stand above the other DM PCs.
Spess marines are cool in moderation but I wish GW focused more on the more common folks of the Imperium. But I guess writing what its like to be in WW1 trenches but ten million times worse is a bit too depressing.
Only Grey Knights are interesting from the “spess marines” for me but they have that horrific abomination in their armoury so not perfect. I swear if I find the guy who thought it was a good idea…
Still Spess marines are the most easily marketable and sellable part of 40k that everyone knows about so that’s how it is.
I personally thought it was pure pragmatism. Mens bodies are much better built for physical activities like violently beating each other to death, since our sexes are specialized for different tasks, at least limits wise which is for some strange reason is a controversial topic these days. Anyways so I just see it as the Imperium going “Well why take women, make them more like men then make them super soldiers that’s a waste of time and resources” but seeing how when it comes to tasks that DONT require specimens that need to go to the peak and far beyond it yeah sure women are perfectly suited for the task. Hence why you see them in many other tasks across the galaxy like Astra Militarum, Officio Assassinorum etc.
Honestly probably for the best that they wont be spess marines. Nothing good in any shape, or form would come of that I’m sure. But I dislike spess marines so…
I also wouldnt say Krieg is special in anything but the rates of creating regiments. Our world would fit perfectly into the Imperium if you dial back technology in some respects and up in others. Then again I wouldnt be surprised if some worlds are exactly like ours since they are so far off and the Imperium just cant be bothered looking too deeply into them.
That’s more of a GW issue than one of the Imperium. At least the way you worded it seemed like you were aiming more at the Imperium than GW writers. Honestly I’d welcome more variety in whose gore, agony, desperation and corpses we see.
EDIT: Since lorewise the Imperium is surprisingly a meritocracy in many respects. Women can be in most positions if they can achieve them, it’s just that the GW writers dont utilize that aspect of the setting at all or if they do, rarely. And with their focus on spess marines I’m not surprised.
While not Codices… the ones I can name off the top of my head are Saint Celestine, Alizabeth Bequin and Lotara Sarrin as pinnacle bad arses.
EDIT: Sorry for the wall of text. I got a bit carried away with describing things.
Women are in pretty much all the roles in 40k if anything women have many more roles they are only barred from being space marines as female dna isn’t compatible with the gene seed.
If I remember correctly the Ecclesiarchy can only field female armies.
Sisters of battle
Sisters of silence
Any other standing army under the churches direct control.
What is funny since Planetos is pretty much a big damn Lovecraft fanfiction with a bit of Jurassic park And weeabotry. Hey the best fanfic I ever read was Purple Days! (All save our God Emperor Joffrey Baratheon Stormking and Empress Sansa Stark our beloved Magnar!)
This!
Damn buddy now you just reinforce my head canon the the Empra is Shinji Ikari. Bluepencil you will pay for have writen da fanfix!
I was more talking about the Imperium of Man, theoretically in pure lore aspect there are woman in the other aspects that aren’t the Legions themselves, but in practice there’s almost no models of a woman techpriest or guardswoman, so yeah they do exist, they should exist but they don’t tend to be seen in the spotlight
Females or non-gendered, they specifically have not to be males, but they could be male mutants that because of their mutation (a good one) aren’t considered male anymore and thus could serve under the Ecclesiarchy
Same as @Nevantyr. Yeah, in theory, there’s nothing barring women from playing a prominent role in 40k. In practice, their presence in the tabletop game is minimal. I had a friend who played Sisters of Battle who had to wait years before getting a proper army book, the rules of his army simply being cobbled up in a White Dwarf instead, all while space marines got a umpteenth rerelease. I believe it was only recently that a female commissar model was made.
You can’t separate the two. GW writing is what makes the Imperium. And personally, I’d welcome going back to a time where Warhammer 40k was explicitly a grimdark parody. Some writers trying to play it straight and attempting to lionize the imperium in the process opened a pretty nasty can of worms.
Ah well. i kind of fell out of love with the franchise anyway. Except Ciaphas Cain books. Those were awesome.
One of the most important characters in Horus Heresy outside of the Emperor and Primarchs is a women, Euphrati Keeler she is one of the first Saints of the Imperial Cult. And if you read the novels the common peoples are well represented as part of the Imperium.
GW are currently updating alot of kits and more and more female models will come into play but female to male miniatures shouldn’t matter when it comes to a story.
Raging heroes do female versions of 40k models though most are a bit to skimmy (the dark eldar range is nice though) but of course they are labeled as something else.
Good for them, but as i said, I mostly played during the 2000s, and it’s been years since I set foot into a Games Workshop or bought one of their products. It’s good if they’re taking steps in this direction, but I suspect the road ahead is still long.
As for the story, for the longest time, that was only what you had in codexes and rulebooks.
I’ll be honest, I’m not overly interested in those books. By the time the Horus heresy series began to be published, I was already mostly fed up with the Imperium in general, and with space marines in particular. I saw a few summaries, and heard people talking about it, but nothing in that made me want to reconsider.
@Talyrion In honesty I haven’t played 40k in along time iv moved over to infinity by corvus belli and the newer/updated range of models are so much better then GWs in my opinion.
