Why? Because it’s obviously more interesting, let alone dodging the weirdness of only men being represented.Ĭlick to shrink.I think the problem with a lot of Warhammer stuff around the sisters and marines is that fragments of lore made to support model ranges they wanted to sell, or were throwaway fluff to fill out a page, are held up as gospel as time goes by, both by the studio and customers. Especially when the biggest novel series, the Ghosts and Ciaphas Cain, both feature Guard regiments with mixed units. So there’s a huge opportunity there for them to make the main human army in 40K, the Imperial Guard a mix. Really they need to bite the bullet and start making mixed units, especially when a) the imperium doesn’t care who holds a lasgun as long as they are pointing it the right way, and b) the model kits aren’t interchangeable ‘head/body/legs/arms’ any more, they lean towards more intricate, specific sculpts cast in ways to make recasting them difficult for pirates.
When they were selling small numbers of minis to teenage boys in the 80s, one of their directors claimed female kits didn’t sell, and so they weren’t part of many lines at the time they were locking in the mini ranges. It’s true that 40K and GW in general still has a long way to go, often leaning towards female-only troop types, units and factions rooted in lore 20-30 years old.
