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[Tack]

Ehh, I know the Vallhallans aren't shy about conscripting women, and the Cadians probably have a regiment or too, two.

The Vostroyans should have female regiments too, just as a matter of providence.

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Shining spears are jetbike lancers.
Not that I can remember the actual wingy hawk ones.

[TempAcc]

Catachans also have women among their ranks, though I'm not sure if they have gender exclusive regiments, even.

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[Teneb]

The lack of models is probably GW not bothering to make new molds.

[KingofstarrySkies]

Chem dogs have 'em too.

[Grim Portent]

Swooping Hawks are the Eldar jump troops with wings, the Shining Spears are the Aspect Warrior version of the Windrider jetbikers.



On the note of female guardsmen, most regiments are raised by their homeworld according to their own standards, so regiments are composed of women, men or both according to the culture of their homeworld, except for occasions when the Administratum needs a regiment now and abducts everyone able bodied they can hit with a shock baton and drag to a shuttle regardless of gender. Unless a world is marked as being highly patriarchal it's probably fair to assume they allow female soldiers, if only because when recruiting on such a scale having to check gender would drag things out an unnecessary amount.

The lack of models is probably GW not bothering to make new molds.

I think the only new guard model for a decade or more is the plastic Enginseer, so this is probably it.

[Kot]

Everyone knows women can't fight 40,000 years in the future

38000.
Also, there is literally nothing that says there are no Korpswomen. Think about it, gas masks and loose trenchcoats...
Unless you think that their women are /d/ worthy breeding slaves, but that would be waaaaay fucking heretical for anyone, maybe except Fabulous Bill. At worst I can see them somehow cutting breeding organs out or someshit, or really just regular kids-in-jars.

[Tack]

Far as I'm aware the bluebloods and mordians don't take women.

Also I can definitely see the chem dogs and Catachans having mixed regiments.
For that post-battle tumble in the jungle.

[Kot]

Mordians do.

[Rolepgeek]

Everyone knows women can't fight 40,000 years in the future

38000.
Also, there is literally nothing that says there are no Korpswomen. Think about it, gas masks and loose trenchcoats...
Unless you think that their women are /d/ worthy breeding slaves, but that would be waaaaay fucking heretical for anyone, maybe except Fabulous Bill. At worst I can see them somehow cutting breeding organs out or someshit, or really just regular kids-in-jars.

As far as I was aware, it was canon that there were no Korpswomen. As in I remember people talking about it. I took issue with the idea previously on this thread even, I think, because given the irradiated hellhole of their planet, even if all of the fertile women are made into Vitae Wombs, there's gonna be a ton of infertile women too.

Hell, even you basically brought it up:

Except that reasoning goes out the window with the Korps of Krieg - Barren women should be allowed to fight then, no?

Nope. That's mutation and proably heresy. Krieg doesn't give a shit, if you aren't metting the conditions perfectly, you're used as shooting back shooting target for the actual Kriegers.

[Kot]

There is nothing in canon saying there are no Korpswomen but also nothing ever showing them (or there was, but thanks to gasmasks we may never know), making it mostly a matter of headcanon. Also, as far as irradiated hellhole goes, a lot of men would be infertile too, not to mention mutations and cancer and shit, which is exactly why they pay attention to purity. Mechanically induced infertility wouldn't be an issue, I guess, and to think of it, possibly neither could be regular one, but... we don't really know a lot, there were barely any canon works portraying Korpsmen as characters, and the only one taking place on Krieg was during final training on surface just before they were to be shipped offworld... and the protagonist was one of rejects and spent most of the time hunting an Genestealer on surface disobeying orders and shit. It's a matter of headcanon, really.

And note how tons of Krieg related writebunchofsticky often involve female Guardswomen, the concept is really attractive to fetishists... after all, uncaring muscular military German space women in gasmasks and trenchcoats...

[KingofstarrySkies]

DON'T YOU JUDGE mE

[Kot]

To be honest it's actually more like shy cute animesque French maids with German accents and a thing for digging trenches in the backyard. Such is 4chan.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Vitae Wombs are definitely cloning tubes, for the record. It isn't mentioned a lot, but the Imperium is seriously anti-cloning. It's one of those very few things that there's variable policy on other than accusations of Heresy.

Humans are born. Servitors are cloned.

[Grim Portent]

I always assume Vitae Wombs are artificial wombs that are used to culture harvested embryos. Such tech exists in Siege of Castellax, where they're called embryo farms, and are used to grow children created from ovaries surgically extracted from female slaves.

[Andres]

Vitae Wombs are definitely cloning tubes, for the record.

Probably not. The technology regarding cloning is called replicae and allows for the creations to be modified with such things as total subservience. That might sound dead on like the Death Korps of Krieg, but Kriegers are made to be as subservient as they are through extremely heavy indoctrination, which would be redundant if they actually were using replicae tech. Producing that many high-quality replicae is also rather technologically impossible without some seriously radical and dangerously heretical deviation.