all the times i ve seen a woman lmay 40k it was either orks, tyrannids or slanesh.

>>96208998 (OP)
Hang on, let me just go ask all the women i know and come right back after

boring box art. Not colorful enough.
>slaanesh
you mean orks.

>>96208998 (OP)
Orks are le quirky chungus and the one thing women hate the most is other women.

>>96208998 (OP)
Why don't men only play Imperial Guard?

Think about what actual women are into OP
>animals
>true crime/serial killers
>monsters
>yaoi
>fanfiction
>witchcraft
>horror and mystery movies
>their sexuality
>fairies and cottagecore
>indie pop music
it makes complete sense that women are into the more fantastical monster factions than the heavy metal sexy nuns. Same reason why they often play wood elves and lizardmen in fantasy.
Sisters of Battle have always been a faction for men, it is what men find attractive. Thinking "faction of girls = girls must like it" is like caveman tier analysis. I see more actual women into space marines than I do sisters because they like to imagine them kissing and having sex with each other in yaoi fanfics

>>96209086
You are not smart.

>>96209113
And yet they want female marines. Women are just stupid anon. Its that simple

>>96209125
>he thinks those are real women
lol

>>96209125

Cis women generally don't want female space marines.

>>96209125
>And yet they want female marines
Culture warriors want female marines, women in the hobby who play nids don't give a shit.

>>96208998 (OP)
Next time please learn to type coherently before posting.

>>96209125
No, that's men.

>>96208998 (OP)
Because they put women in a masuline warlike position, with masculine warlike vibes. They aren't heroic, or graceful, or intriguing. They're brutal, raw, and blunt.

>>96208998 (OP)
Woman here
It's just too obvious, and they're not really fun. Woman gamers tend to like colorful and personality-filled games; the most popular feminine video games are The Sims and Animal Crossing for example.
Tyranids, Orks, and Slaanesh are very colorful, technically permitting you to use whatever the hell color you want. Orks and Slaanesh are very personality-focused, Slaanesh is literally the goddess of excess and debauchery and Orks are the semi-comic relief. Tyranids, sans personality, are cute animals so they have that as an asset. I've also seen women play Nurgle because they have a jolly personality and allow you to mix reds and greens, I personally play Drukhari because they're gothic and horror-movie coded.

>>96209125
The only chick I know who's into wargaming (Nids, fantasy Chaos and Deldar btw) said to me a while back "I'm not a nazi like you but this hobby would be better off if the entire C-suite of GW got forced into a gas chamber along with everyone who has ever asked for fem space marines or custodes." Sample size of 1 but she was pretty enthusiastic about it.

>>96209325
>woman here
Tits or gtfo, you ought know the rules of the internet by now

>>96209125
Said by a stupid person.

>>96209451
This is not /b/, newfag tard.

>>96209624
Nah, he's right.
Tits or gtfo is universal.

>>96209635
>t. someone wrong.

>>96209125
*men who wish they were women

>>96209125
The only woman I know who plays 40k for reasons other than "she's involved with her boyfriend/husband's hobby" has cropped tentacle hentai as her discord avatar and plays nids. She's never once said anything about female space marines, but has talked about some really vile porn involving male ones.

>>96208998 (OP)
They nullify any excuse to ruin the setting with diversity and inclusion

>>96208998 (OP)
The faction kind of sucks and is bad in game and has a really limited set of decent models. The only decent sororitas models are pretty much the main battle sisters set.

>>96209349
>"I'm not a nazi like you but this hobby would be better off if the entire C-suite of GW got forced into a gas chamber
LONDON!

>>96209113
Basically, if instead of Heavy Metal Space Nuns, there were Heavy Metal Space Witches with Fucked up Freudian Monsters, Serial Killers and Fae as their minions, they'd be a hit among women, possibly rivalling Tyranids.

>>96208998 (OP)
because they're an army that looks like a cross between a nunsploitation movie and space marine power armor? The entire aesthetic of the army comes from pornography made by men for men.

>>96208998 (OP)
The only women that'd get into 40k hate anything resembling Christianity

GW female sculpts all look like men anyway

>>96208998 (OP)
They tend to like armies they can feel some kind of affection for, that they can find somehow cute from a certain angle. Tyranids are just animals, you can have affection for animals and meme them as cute. Orks are likeably dumb cartooney guys(from their own perspective, in some portrayals.) Slaaneshi demons also work because they are a bunch of girlfriends just having a good time, they aren't suffering and they by their nature kind of can't truly know right from wrong so the fact that in lore they will do horrific things doesn't interfere with viewing them affectionately through the lense of them being fucked up party girls having a great time with each other.

Soritias are dour. Sororitas do not have a fun, lighthearted angle that aligns with the actual lore or aesthetics as well as those others.

>>96210186
>men are fine playing with toy soldiers of buff half-naked heavy metal vikings
>women want the sexy nun army to away and be made UGLY
What causes this?

>>96209349
What the fuck is a c-suite?

>>96210328
>>women want the sexy nun army to away and be made UGLY
nobody said this

>>96208998 (OP)
Why would they? Nuns with whips is a male fetish.
Look at the RT Vidya. Men are still butthurt about no Argenta romance option, while women are all over Marzipans dick.

>>96210333
Is this a joke or are you chronically unemployed

>>96208998 (OP)
Near naked Nuns with gigantic swords appeal to men more than women, this is true

>>96210485
Aren't we all?

"Superhuman crusaders fueled by hate and zealotry" is a more typically male fantasy. That they're women is irrelevant. It'd be like asking men why they don't like the "abusively homosexual tall men with large hands" faction.

>>96208998 (OP)
Literally the last time a woman I know was persuaded by her boyfriend to try warhammer she got SoB. Her quote "they had a box called battle sisters, I just had to!"
So SoB does happen, though I know the stereotype is nids.

>>96208998 (OP)
ehhhh, my wife collects orks, plays kill team with harlequins. My friends gf plays, deathguard... but mostly because I gave them to her from the two dark imperium sets I bought. And the very tomboy'ish girl we know has just picked up necrons. So yeah, overall it does seem to be skewed towards xeno factions I guess.

I've only ever met 1 tyranid player, since 3e and thats my wifes best friends son who lives next door.

>>96209125
WRONG! Fucking troons want female marines, literally no one else.

>>96210686
>Fucking troons want female marines
So majority of the playerbas

>>96210373
Except women.

>>96210595
no not really, every player in my GW has a job - in some cases a decent one.

>>96210485
im not the other guy but i've never heard of this bullshit term in your fag-speak either. I'm assuming corporate suite

>>96208998 (OP)
Because they are hard to paint, simple as. My gf started with SoB and she switched to Tyranids immediately after finished her Combat Patrol box.
>>96209125
I know no woman that is even remotely interested in Space Marines.

>>96208998 (OP)
Idk. But my friends 6yo wanted to join in her daddies hobby and when he asked which faction she wanted and showed her pictures she instantly chose Tyranids.
Must be a girl thing.

>>96210712
You're on /tg/ here, not your player group

My bf showed me sob like it was the thing I was supposed to like and i was cheesed about it and I ignored that shit out of principle and looked at marines. Sisters don't have all the cool stuff coming out all the time and marines have decent lore that isn't just
>r u a pretty girl?
>is ur planet shit but full of baddies?
>u shood joyn da sisterrrz
Shit is ass and nothing could ever make me care about it, especially if the models aren't going to be blatant hoes

>>96208998 (OP)
My missus liked them but she passed away.

>ITT anons pretending to be trannies who are pretending to be women to bait other anons into arguing with them.
Amazing.

>>96208998 (OP)
Sororitas are designed for women+ (transbians) and men (lesbian obsessed).
Women hate other women, Sororitas are mad fucking ugly and they are competing against both strong bara daddies & handsome twinks and fucking monsters.

>Inb4 malding trannies

>>96209125
>And yet they want female marines
For virtue-signaling.

>>96211098
I haven't seen such advanced shitposting in a while.

>>96209125
Those were not women you were talking to.

>>96209125
Do you think the Tau are aimed at actual Japanese people or weebs?

>>96208998 (OP)

I used to know one middle aged women who collected SoBs back when they were metal. Another I knew was a younger egirl I dated who painted them all pink.

>>96209030
Well?

>>96211099
Funnily enough, the way the Sisters are presented and often act does remind me of several of the women I encountered growing up in an Anglo-Irish Catholic environment; family, congregation or otherwise.

>>96208998 (OP)
The only chicks I know into 40k are playing SOB *shrug*

>>96211937
The original idea behind them was to attract the Japanese market. At least according to the original creators. How much of that survive till production and reflected in sales is unknown.
The weeb market was corned with Eldar. Mother fucker have shuriken guns and samurai banner for fuck sake.

>>96209349
>this hobby would be better off if the entire C-suite of GW got forced into a gas chamber
Objectively correct opinion

>>96209349
And then everybody clapped.

>>96208998 (OP)
So we're going to need to break out some feminist theory here.

So there's a concept you've probably heard of. The male gaze. The tl;dr on it - it's making shit that's meant to appeal to men (consciously or unconsciously.) If you want to know more, there's been a lot of ink spilled on this concept.

The sisters of battle are made within the male gaze. They're hot battle nuns that are sometimes scantily clad for pure, religious, definitely not sexual reasons. Sometimes there's maybe some implied sexual tension between the women but any lesbianism present is there largely there to tease the reader's dick. They're uncorruptably pure women until they're not and you, the player, can enjoy the fantasy of despoiling something pure.

Now we're going to step out of academic feminism and talk about just general stuff. "The ick" is a term used by a lot of women to describe when something in unappealing in a way that's hard to vocalize. It's a pretty broad concept, and applications of the ick are entirely personal.

Now we intersect these two concept. SoB have the ick for women. They see the sisters of battle, and even if they don't know everything that's going on with them, they can pick up the vibe. They can pick up that while this is the army of women, it's an army FOR men. To be clear, there are sometimes going to be women who like the SoB. Personal experience is that trans women love them more than cis women but that's a different kettle of fish.

Now. You mention why Orks, Tyrannids or Slaanesh. This can only be anecdotal. But let's get something out of the way. Women who play 40k aren't normal. They're fucking weirdos.

So then we break it down. We start with 'nids, the army I see most women playing. They're fucking monsters. I do not say this lightly, women fucking love monsters. Not always in a sexual way, but sometimes that's part of it. But having some kind of creature that knows only hate? Women eat that shit up.

>>96212506
Then let's talk about Orks.
Orks still kinda fall into the monster category of "creature that murders because it's in its nature." Orks are like that, but a bit goofier. They manage to find an overlap of "killing machine" and "funny jokey guy."

And then we come to Slaanesh. And listen, some women are freaks. If a woman plays slaanesh, there's something freak she's into. Maybe it's that she's really into gore. Maybe she's got sexual fantasies that involve literal dehumanization. There is something freaky about this woman inside of her that if she doesn't openly revel in that she absolutely indulges in behind closed doors.

Now. I'm going to disappoint a few fa/tg/uys here. The freaky girl playing slaanesh? She's not going to let you hit it.

>>96212506
TLDR: women hate other women

>>96212720
No. You're an idiot if you thinks that's the take away.
SoB are centered around a male fantasy. Women and men do not share fantasies.

It's really not complicated.

>>96212506
>we're going to need to break out some feminist theory here.
Fuck off back to plebbit, faggot.

>>96208998 (OP)
>slanesh
Say Death Guard and you might have my attention.

>>96212720
>TLDR: women hate other women
Only women who are more attractive than themselves.

>>96210166
Give them a handful of knights in shining armor as well.

>>96212720
women love tyranids because they are mindless beasts = meaning cute animals

>>96210632
But men love space marines. Or at least manboys.

>>96212762
>Women and men do not share fantasies
Found the women

>>96208998 (OP)
There's nothing women hate more than other women.
t. husband

>>96209031
how about slaneesh orkz
deyz de PINKIEST an GAYEST dere iz

>>96209113
>>animals
>>true crime/serial killers
>>monsters
>>yaoi
>>fanfiction
>>witchcraft
>>horror and mystery movies
>>their sexuality
>>fairies and cottagecore
>>indie pop music
sounds like Eldar

>>96212919
Tyranids are all about eating like a hungry hippo, acting on reckless impulse, and having lots of babies (but not worrying about raising them). Things most women can 100% identify with.

>>96213477
Not all women are like your mom, anon.

>>96212277
>The original idea behind them was to attract the Japanese market. At least according to the original creators.
No, it was to attract people into anime and manga in western countries. Fucking FRANCE is right across the channel there and has for decades been the largest buyer of manga outside of Japan.

>>96213618
You had eldar for that. Specially during the time Tau where created.

>>96208998 (OP)
Because Sororitas are faithful, pure and take responsibility for their actions.
Literal opposite of 21c femoid. Plus they look good in short hair.

>>96213815
You might want to sex them, but they tend to claim each other.

>>96210842
Sup tourist fag, you never going to be a woman.

>>96212506
>>96212539
go back to xitter and Reddit nigger

>>96213859
Only in minds of mentally ill drawfags and their enablers.
Sororitas orders are generally OK with sisters having kids unless specific order have vows of purity.

>>96213815
>t. dumbass who knows zero women.

>>96213910
The orphan kids of imperial officers for the schola have to come from somewhere.

>>96208998 (OP)
far as I'm aware having heard from multiple nids girls, it's as simple as
>nids are fun to paint
>sisters are not fun to paint

>>96213859
>there will never be an aoi hana/watanare sob anime

>>96210485
I do blue collar shit and sleep though the meetings when office people talk about policy shit. I drove my first excavator when I was 12. I could make you a new lawn, a stone terrace and build the foundation for your new house expansion, but I don't know what a c-suite is.

>>96212008
Still looking, patience.

>>96212506
Did you ask chatgpt to write the most insufferable shit ever written?

>>96208998 (OP)
>orks, tyrannids or slanesh.
AKA, the things these women want to fuck them. Women are not as complicated as you think. And if you think I'm wrong, women buy erotic novels about getting fucked by monsters.

>>96209125
Women who play 40k, for the most part, don't want femarines. MEN who play 40k, and women who DON'T play 40k, are the ones asking for them.

>>96209641
NTA, but they have a point, Barbaranon did it to prove she was legit. I still have that incredible titty pic saved. Barbaranon if you're out there, you have a spectacular set of sweater puppies.

>>96212506
>>96212539
I hate Whedonisation! I hate Whedonisation!

>>96210166
>Basically, if instead of Heavy Metal Space Nuns, there were Heavy Metal Space Witches with Fucked up Freudian Monsters, Serial Killers and Fae as their minions, they'd be a hit among women, possibly rivalling Tyranids.
this is literally what Dark Eldar are and it should be entirely unsurprising to anyone that they're disproportionately popular with women. They're psychic vampire pirates who live in a dark and twisted fairyland with inherent bdsm dynamics and backstabbing court intrigue and they're all inhumanly graceful and tall and think murder is an art form and have slavery as their only unit of currency because they're all so rich and powerful and post-scarcity that flesh is the only resource they can't have arbitrary quantities of

>>96213395
The shared fantasy between men and women is that men fantasize about raping and women fantasize about being raped.
But even then the most common male sexual fantasy is a threesome with two chicks at the same timex not rape. You can meet them halfway and engage with a fantasy about raping two girls at once.

I genuinely feel bad for men who are not sadists because interacting with women must be exhausting

Let's play a game anons:

Straight, gay, transbian, whatever; Have you ever met a sisters of battle fan that you would happily fuck?

>>96208998 (OP)
It's an army themed around beating off to women slapping other women in nun costumes. It doesn't really resonate with ladies except the ones that are into that themselves.

>>96210686
>And the very tomboy'ish girl we know has just picked up necrons
I'm... jealous of that environment of yours, anon.

>>96210702
Except biological women.
And no, no creature in Britain should be considered female.

>>96212919
Tyranids are a hyper-intelligent synaptic species that has figured out and actively employs intelligent design on the fly. They ar wonky dumb when they are cut off from the network and have to engage their survival instincts. And even then, it depends on the type of tyranid. Lictor-gene tyranids act independently from the synapse for centuries and they are around the same level of intelligence as the 5% brightest among humans.
All tyrants are pretty smart as well and often are described as having an individual personality. And Old One-eye as well.

Modern Western women are repulsed by ideas of piety and modesty

>>96208998 (OP)
>here have this hamfisted faction
>made for religion and tit holding curiass armor
>made by men
If you don't understand any of these you won't understand why.

Anecdotal but the only woman I know getting into 40k, explicitly to join her husband in his hobby, has opted to go with SoB "Because they're women." So they're out there.

Have to assume that women actually into the game will have an army speak to them one way or another.

>>96221341
>repulsed by ideas of piety and modesty
>BDSM outfits and makeup of a slut
That's pathetic, even for a chud counterculture wannabe. Next thing you're gonna say christ is kang.

>>96221374
>S-so lets make female Space Mari-
No
You being unhappy because "m-muh patriarchy" made your faction is no excuse to ruin someone else's

>>96221422
SoB bdsm outfit are more modest than some outfits women wear at the mall.

>>96222124
Well that's entire poin of BDSM and other fetishes.

>>96221135
Yes, women don't want sexy women army to exist.
I just said that.

>>96209325
>dino-sized bugs are cute animals according to females

Ok.

>>96225773
bruh imagine using "females" as a noun
lmao

>>96225773
That zoanthrope is cute in a way

>>96208998 (OP)

Women do lol

My ex wife played sisters as a hero primary factions because they were girls along with my one of my friends currently

>>96225773
They're not dino-sized, though. They're cute little miniatures. A life size dino would be scary to a child, but children love toy T-Rexes.

>>96212506
>hot battle nuns
Not with GW sculpts they ain't!

>>96220630
>I genuinely feel bad for men who are not sadists because interacting with women must be exhausting
I find there's the occasional chick who likes less dominant men but that's maybe 10% of them

>>96208998 (OP)
>do you want to be a church going nun who either runs the very same haircut on every model or goes bald and ugly as repentent sinner
when was the last time you saw a woman being hyped about going full christian nun? Its just not an appealing fantasy.

Funnily enough from what i can tell, being a OC rogue trader with freedom of background, visual customization and liberty to act within the setting, seems pretty popular and appealing to the woman gamers i know. And all their fan art is conventionally attractive OCs dating the hot boys

Judging by fanart/fics, women like Dark Eldar, Thousand Sons and Night Lords the most.

>>96208998 (OP)
Whats the appeal of the sisters? to pray and be pious, fight, pray, be pious, fight, pray and be pious some more? Who the fuck wants that? What average nerd woman want to larp as a church cuck dedicated so some shrivled up bishop or cardinal?

stop circle jerking you faggots. also I know one in person that collects SoB and necrons

>>96227094
The re-release was a mistake.

>>96209125
No only troons want that.
And GW to make the franchise look better for investors.
I suspect most of the fem marine shilling is by GW themselves.

>>96227069
women like the fantasy of a bad guy who's willing to be good to them only, I guess.

>>96227208
same reason men get a hard on for femme fatal ice queen characters who are some really bad bitches, but do love only them. Its kinda universal, anon.

>>96227283
some* men
It's not nearly as universal

>>96227310
we are in both cases talking about literally half of humanity. Yeah, obviously its "some" men and "some" woman in both cases. To argue otherwise is proof of retardation.

>>96227331
I think it's fairly universal for women while not nearly as much for men, obviously exceptions and all that but read some romance lit and it will all be more or less the same
They want to be the Eva to their very own Hitler

>>96208998 (OP)
Women want the organs

>>96209125
Troons are men and will never be real women

>>96227020
>OC

>>96208998 (OP)
OP, you don't even talk to women so how would you know what they play?
All the women I've actually hung out with at the game store, which is quite a few because we all gravitate towards each other (faggots) either had and played SOB regularly, painted them for fun, or admired them but never played because they get wiped in tourneys.
I was in the painted for fun camp because I don't grind, I want to be the bad guy and die spectacularly if and when I do play.
They are well loved by all kinds of nerds not just the dicked ones.

>>96212506
Be grateful your momma thinks you are as smart as you think you are.
>Male gaze
Straight women look at other women in a worse way than men do. Guro enjoyers are predominantly maiden to matron.
>Made with the male gaze
Fuck you. Women can be attractive without it being for a man's benefit, and equally there's nothing wrong with a man honoring the female form by depicting it the way THEY want to be depicted.
Women want men to see them for their best sides and I guarantee that a woman signed off on those designs before they became shameful man faced ogres, you just don't recognize the women behind the scenes for the influences they hold, you expect women to fill a man's shoes otherwise her opinion doesn't matter.
>ick
grow up.
>Women who play 40k aren't normal. They're fucking weirdos.
Yeah no shit women are fucking weirdos, but you're a fool if you don't recognize that normie women just repress their weird shit and force it into the social shape that they can actually use. 40k women are just the ones that gave up the community rat race.
40k players are outcasts and fools all and you're a filthy casual for not realizing it sooner.

>>96209125
>Anon thinks it's biological women who want femMarines
TWNBAW

>>96212506
>We start with 'nids, the army I see most women playing. They're fucking monsters. I do not say this lightly, women fucking love monsters. Not always in a sexual way, but sometimes that's part of it. But having some kind of creature that knows only hate?
Why do women not play Blood Angels and Space Wolves bros??

>>96229080
They don't play space marines because they look like they wear diapers.

>>96212762
SoB are literally based around Joan of Arc

>>96229080
cuz they don't look like sparkly vampires and werewolves
>inb4 wulfen
wulfen just look retarded

>>96209125
Women won't want them, trannies do.
Femarines and femstodes ruin the bara yaoi shit they play those factions for.

>>96215033
Well post em up bro.
You can take a three day it's the weekend anyway

>>96209113
>true crime/serial killers
It's wild how toxic this "fandom" is.

>>96229344
Work on your art.

>>96227069
>Women like the BDSM /murder factions
Imagine my shock

>>96210166
>Freudian
Sigmund Fraud was a jewish hack

>>96210186
Made by jews who run the porn industry and hate Christianity, so they subvert and try to corrupt the pure like a nun. Very satanic.

>>96208998 (OP)
I said it multiple times over the last 20 years...
Most girls that plays Sisters do it only because they were "forced" to it by their boyfriend/husband. She's not really interested in the game, she just want to spend time and share hobby with her so, or her so want to do it and she complies. She don't know anything about the game, the rules or anything. It's more like "Ok, babe, you have to choose an army first. Look at this, it's army of only women, it's super cool" and she's like "Oh, ok." Everything looks the same for her, small minis with guns. Eventually she either quits or switches to something that she's actually interested in.

From my experience, the most popular armies for girls are Tyranids (easy number one), IG, Orks or some kind of Eldar. In Fantasy it's been elves, O&G and Skaven. Then I noticed that Seraphon in AoS got really popular among female players and I don't believe Lizardmen were so popular back in WHFB days.

>>96211937
>>96212277
>>96213618
>>96213801
yeah its definately the western mechafags
asians dont exactly like bald people, let alone bald women
honestly the tau would've been popular in general if they they had something that looked like hair then BALD

>>96229729
Jews invented Christianity thoghever to control the Aryans therefore you're Jewish also this is /tg/ related because of ReconQuest or something

>>96212506
>So we're going to need to break out some feminist theory here.
No, we don't. Schizo nonsense belongs on /x/.

>>96231873
Pussy whipped blue pilled beta male mangina

>>96229484
>>96227069
Only the women who had bad childhood

>>96209125
No they don't, trannies and male feminists want fem marines

>>96213934
>.t Seething simp
Hope she sees this, bro

>>96229080
>Why do women not play Blood Angels and Space Wolves bros??
Not outwardly monstrous enough.

>>96234750
>t. retarded faggot who thinks calling people simps is a good idea.

>>96234926
Seethe harder, faggot.

>>96238313
No u, tardfag.

>>96211098
>>96211127
Technology must progress, gentlemen!

>>96212506
>>96212539
I'm sincerely impressed by the note-perfect "smug obnoxious retard" tone of these posts. This took a measure of talent.

>>96229344
Wart on your ork.

New DoK when?

>>96208998 (OP)
How many women (bio) have you seen play?

>>96245913
>token males
>more covered up
>more warlock focus
>still no khinerai hero
Do you want one?