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[Tack]

Same reason you haven't yet seen a female SEAL? When there is billions or trillions of people available to recruit from, and you have six geneseed available, it'll be going to the six most brutal and imposing people available. Not to start a 'the sexism of science' debate, but when you have children one at a time and with a large investment, the sex which isn't responsible for the future of the species ends up getting selected for killyness.
On deathworld chapters this might be less prominent, or Ultramar where political manouvering affects someone's inclusion just as much as martial skill does. I also imagine there's likely an abhuman which isn't as radically dimorphic as we are, but until then, why?.

[Andres]

I suspect it’s also about the models - the very male models are already done, and they don’t want to make new ones for a lore change that would be controversial at best anyway. According to Aaron Dembski-Bowden, one of the BL writers, the concept of female Custodes came up in a talk (as there’s no lore reason for them to be all male), but the model department vetoed it hard on the basis that the models were already done.

Source?

[Digital Hellhound]

I suspect it’s also about the models - the very male models are already done, and they don’t want to make new ones for a lore change that would be controversial at best anyway. According to Aaron Dembski-Bowden, one of the BL writers, the concept of female Custodes came up in a talk (as there’s no lore reason for them to be all male), but the model department vetoed it hard on the basis that the models were already done.

Source?

Here. Some more comments elsewhere in the thread. ADB is fairly active in the community there (and yes, it is apparently in fact him, there’s AMAs and such).

[Andres]

Thank you.

[Akura]

Rather than asking for female SMs, I wish people would show the Sororitas more love. Space nuns are best faction anyway.

Plastic models for the gun-nuns are apparently coming in 2019, and this year's publication of Chapter Approved is supposed to have a beta codex for them. I've seen a teaser pic for one of the plastic models, and it looks pretty damn good, as long as people remember to thin your paints(and not your pants, as that would lead to awkwardness when looking at your SoB models).

[Tack]

The face does look like it needs... something

[Mech#4]

Rather than asking for female SMs, I wish people would show the Sororitas more love. Space nuns are best faction anyway.

Plastic models for the gun-nuns are apparently coming in 2019, and this year's publication of Chapter Approved is supposed to have a beta codex for them. I've seen a teaser pic for one of the plastic models, and it looks pretty damn good, as long as people remember to thin your paints(and not your pants, as that would lead to awkwardness when looking at your SoB models).

This one? It does look very nice. A good amount of detail and the face is well done, I like the scarring.

[Egan_BW]

Dig the prowess, the capacity for violence!

[TWO CATATA]

Same reason you haven't yet seen a female SEAL?

Increased suitability for plainclothes operations due to being overlooked more by people who say sentences like that

hi i'm a daemonette ask me anything
Luxuria, Zarakynel and Miriael Sabathiel are badass <3

[Tack]

Increased suitability for plainclothes operations due to being overlooked more by people who say sentences like that

hol up fam lemme just hang up my power armor so I can go hang with the civvies.

[MrRoboto75]

Increased suitability for plainclothes operations due to being overlooked more by people who say sentences like that

hol up fam lemme just hang up my power armor so I can go hang with the civvies.

The codex astartes does not support this maneuver.

[Rowanas]

Increased suitability for plainclothes operations due to being overlooked more by people who say sentences like that

hol up fam lemme just hang up my power armor so I can go hang with the civvies.

The codex astartes does not support this maneuver.

"The Codex can get royally fucked" - Every chapter that matters, ever.

[Rolan7]

"God Lives on Terra"

[Andres]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMGRa4_UjE4

[Tack]

So just after Christmas I bought Rogue Trader, Blackstone Fortress and a few other books and things.
Just assembling it all has been a trial, but I wanted the models for my Wrath & Glory campaign so i’m pretty excited to pull them all out.