Space Marine women?

[TylerC]

Why would you watch that, ever.

Halo has space marine type girls.

 

[Cheesebob]

All 40k races are scum, apart from Orks and Tyranids!

 

[Neosage]

All 40k races are scum, apart from Orks and Tyranids!

Those two races can't even think for themselves.

 

[Ultrajoe]

All 40k races are scum, apart from Orks and Tyranids!

Those two races can't even think for themselves.

Orks: The party race, their weapons work because they believe they will. Despite physical impossibility. They staple on augmetic limbs and they somehow manage to work as intended.

Tyranids: Think? Instinct is wiping out the entire galaxy, you can keep your thinking!

 

[Neosage]

All 40k races are scum, apart from Orks and Tyranids!

Those two races can't even think for themselves.

Orks: The party race, their weapons work because they believe they will. Despite physical impossibility. They staple on augmetic limbs and they somehow manage to work as intended.

Tyranids: Think? Instinct is wiping out the entire galaxy, you can keep your thinking!

Well it is true my main army in WHFB is orcs....heh BUT they haven't really got very far for 40,000 years and in this one they have no animosity! Anyway Tyranids Pfft. Do you know why the deathwing are painted white?

 

[NordicNinja]

And you still think it's 'undoubtedly based' on misogyny, over something like practicality?

You mean the game where the monogender race is still incredibly incredibly buff and manlike instead of what a real monogender race would probably look like, rather androgynous? The game that's primarily about a bunch of guys in armor shooting at each other, who are only guys for some contrived soft science excuse? That the only characters represented as having females that fight are the Eldar? A game that didn't have a mono-female army to match the multiple mono-male armies until 1997?

That game couldn't possibly be misogynistic or ignoring a female playerbase at all!

You mean the army that was designed to be the ultimate fighting force of humanity? Who -are- androgynous, but with ample amounts of testosterone and muscle added because they're 8 foot tall killing machines?

Just because something doesn't include boobs doesn't make it misogynistic. And yes, I do appreciate the irony of that statement, but it's still true.

I will readily agree that the Imperium of Man is -totally- misogynistic. But saying Games Workshop is/was? That's pushing it.

Besides, I don't hear any complaints about lack of female Orks - something which is also thoroughly explained in canon.

 

[NordicNinja]

Technically they're freaking fungus.

But that's the point. Space Marines aren't human either. They just look like they are.

 

[Neosage]

Well it is true my main army in WHFB is orcs....heh BUT they haven't really got very far for 40,000 years and in this one they have no animosity! Anyway Tyranids Pfft. Do you know why the deathwing are painted white?

So it does not show up the stains? ^_-

No my dear, it is because a lone sqaud of deathwing, thought they were going to die due to a genestealer invasion, they painted their armour white and managed to hold off the whole invasion.

 

[Kevvers]

There are no female space marines in WH40K because the Imperium in is a fascistic patriarchy. Lets face it, the space marines are like a cross between the Spartans and the Crusaders.

 

[NordicNinja]

Well it is true my main army in WHFB is orcs....heh BUT they haven't really got very far for 40,000 years and in this one they have no animosity! Anyway Tyranids Pfft. Do you know why the deathwing are painted white?

So it does not show up the stains? ^_-

No my dear, it is because a lone sqaud of deathwing, thought they were going to die due to a genestealer invasion, they painted their armour white and managed to hold off the whole invasion.

They got lucky. =þ

 

[Neosage]

There are no female space marines in WH40K because the Imperium in is a fascistic patriarchy. Lets face it, the space marines are like a cross between the Spartans and the Crusaders.

I think they are slightly more over zealous than the crusaders and mightier than the spartan.

 

[Fightbulb]

I didn't bother reading all 4 pages, but as a person who's been playing Warhammer for 14 years, I'm going to say that no, there are no female space marines. Sisters of Battle aren't female space marines. It doesn't make sense for female space marines to exist, because space marines are selected as children (spartan-wise), then trained and genetically/technologically modified to be as strong and durable as possible. The Imperium is too shortsighted/stubborn/locked in tradition (take your pick) to even consider training women to become space marines.

 

[Gitsnik]

Why does this keep cropping up on the escapist. Keep seeing female marine threads.

Head over to www.bolterandchainsword.com and learn all you need to know about marines (both male and their female counter-parts, the sisters of battle). There is errata all over the bell of lost souls, the warhammer wiki and the B&C itself.

/thread

(Please be advised that it is late, gits is rather grumpy, and he has been dealing with idiotic helldesk users all day)

 

[ChromeAlchemist]

I believe Aliens, the movie that inspired the modern space marine stereotype, had a couple lady space marines. I haven't seen it in a long time, so I don't remember them exactly.

Didn't the escapist have an article on this?

 

[Neosage]

No my dear, it is because a lone sqaud of deathwing, thought they were going to die due to a genestealer invasion, they painted their armour white and managed to hold off the whole invasion.

They got lucky. =þ

Wait, did you just say an invasion of Genestealers? Not Lictors or a Carnifex or any of the more deadly types. Just Genestealers as in the tyranid scouting force, close combat only, ususally half human, meat shield GENESTEALERS? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Yeah. Be proud of "fighting" off a force of the tyranids basic troopers when youre in full Terminator armour. Whats next? A special squad of IG who bested a horde of kittens.

Actually it was more like 5 terminators against a planetsworth of genestealers.

 

[Simriel]

Space marines CANT be female. The implants are designed for the male physiology

 

[Simriel]

No my dear, it is because a lone sqaud of deathwing, thought they were going to die due to a genestealer invasion, they painted their armour white and managed to hold off the whole invasion.

They got lucky. =þ

Wait, did you just say an invasion of Genestealers? Not Lictors or a Carnifex or any of the more deadly types. Just Genestealers as in the tyranid scouting force, close combat only, ususally half human, meat shield GENESTEALERS? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Yeah. Be proud of "fighting" off a force of the tyranids basic troopers when youre in full Terminator armour. Whats next? A special squad of IG who bested a horde of kittens.

Actually it was more like 5 terminators against a planetsworth of genestealers.

Genestealer cults can have hundreds of thousands of hybrids and thousands of purestrain stealers in them. Also one stealer can take out like 2 termies. And stealsers are never meat shield

 

[Neosage]

Space marines CANT be female. The implants are designed for the male physiology

I wonder how much people I have actually inspired to join just through this thread.