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About the idea that Kharadron are repurpose squat, In a 40k perspective, all vehicles seems out of place (metal balloons supporting ship don't really fit w40k) Initial sketches from John Blanche describe them as "metal dwarves chamonic cloud miners" And demiurg and squat look like that

Because do you think that there isn't any existing racial or genre discrimination in hiring? And that is a way to counter it?

Objection! 🙂 Some sculptors can make some really nice female dwarf warrior. Hasslefree Atlantis miniature Plenty at reaper but their photos are so bad And while I am at it, Northstar, that is quite smaller than GW have been able to allow resources to create a female version of their existing soldier and mage kit. I know that Frostgrave is not the same scope that AoS, and it is only 2 kits (/10ish). But think like this: They are not a special unit/troop/army (as sister of thorn to wanderer), they have duplicated existing kits to allow female representation as mere human foot trooper. I don't know it success compare to other kit apart that it was out of stock (as other Frostgrave kit) when I wanted to purchase it. But if Northstar can take the "risk", so could GW for some of their units.

Just to come back on female representation, I want to add quickly on sexual dimorphism, it is very low in human specie. And I would say that the intra-specie dimorphism is certainly higher than the sexual dimorphism. Most of the differences are more a question of training and cultural behaviour, not biological. If sport and physical performances were as much valued for little girls as little boys, differences will certainly fade away. Some people want to see "historical accuracy" in the way their army works/looks despite being a fantasy game (yes their general can ride a griffin but a woman holding a pike, no. it is funny to see where people are drawing there line...). Just keep in mind that it is mainly biased toward mainly the last 2000ish years of occidental history at best, more precisely medieval / early modern, while having tens of thousands years of human existence with an enormous diversity in social and cultural behaviour. Nothing is written in stone, as a cultural animal we are able to decide to change our behaviour. I think diversity is important and maybe even if identification is not primordial, female (or more likely 10-15ish girls) should feel represented and depicted as an active part of the universe (here in warfare). Story and background is important but miniature and artworks are the first contact to the hobby. Since the fist stormcast undeworld warband GW is making constant progress, and importantly they are not limiting them to one stereotype but more would be welcome. This has nothing to do with what army people (male and female) will choose. Some will like serious, other funny army, same with male, female, mixed; good or bad... The how to do it (from an industrial point of view) is more complicated and I don't expect GW to redo recent kit as fyreslayer. Adding heroes and leader is the most easy, but as they do small warbands in plastic now, they can release 5 etb female models sprue to add to some units (ie vulkite berzekers, liberator...). Also, for AoS, there is a lot of opportunity when updating/introducing new armies. If we took the example of city of Sigmar, that is a prime candidate for future update, in my opinion unit should be well deserved in female miniatures, in leader and grunt roles. I tend to see them as the various military corps of attack on titan (even more now with the future release of SoB): voluntary people of any sex or racial background than join the military to defend their city. The concept of city is so loose that you could have any composition (full matriarchal city that use female soldier to defend their poor laborious men, Elf based city watch that are here to defend those incompetent humans and I dare to say ... duardins). But you need a representative city as cadian is for imperial guard in 40k. Hopefully this one will be mixed as much as possible but unified in appearance (old world empire or something else).