Bartali

Entertaining thread I must admit.

All comes down to personal tastes.

Some of those miniatures folks are having fits over were actually developed by females and they get a collective laugh here in the office from the ladies whenever someone makes mention of them. That includes Taelor, whom originally had a full on shirt before the ladies said 'no .. try this' and we did.

There isn't a disconnect between writing, artwork or miniature sculpting, as that all comes through my desk, if not outright written or sketched by myself at times.

Funny enough, the dead hookers, Rotten Belles, are usually what have women coming into the booth to look over and laugh with, and nine out of ten who leave the booth have them in hand along with many of our other female miniatures/groups. It has been something that I've observed and marked the trend on over the last few years with some serious bemusement.

I won't try to high brow or belittle anyone here in the least as everyone is most welcome to their opinion and reactions will most certainly vary.

Still .. no problem you can't solve with a pile of dead hookers.

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Thanks for replying Nathan. It just seems a shame that when there's so many strong female characters in the fluff, they are mostly depicted in a certain way. Perhaps a little variation in the future ? Either that or start upping the count of 'strong' male ex-hookers in thongs to redress the balance

I bought Rising Powers the other day, and interestingly Lord Chompy Bits may be the one to sell it to my girlfriend. Not sure what that says about her !

Geee....

I think, that just somebody was jealous at female minis,which took more attention than girlfriend itself.

Eh ?

I think it totally fits the "larger than life" style of the characters. Flip open an X-Men comic. What will you see? Strong female characters in skin-tight tops and massive breasts. I've yet to hear anyone complain about that objectifying women, though perhaps I just instinctually avoid those kind of people!

My girlfriend isn't a complete innocent in the ways of fantasy and sci-fi. She loves Halo Jones (early Alan Moore strip from 2000AD), Aliens (she named her cat Jonesy after both Halo Jones and Ripley's cat), Star Wars, Terry Pratchet etc

She's often watched me paint, and expressed an interest in painting after watching me paint my nth Deathwing Terminator for an upcoming 40k tourney - she did ask though "Where are the female ones ?". I suggested Malifaux due to the strong female characters, and interesting fluff. As mentioned previously though, on flipping through the rule book she's been put off by the art and minis.

I wonder if there's a conflict between the teams writing the background for Wyrd, and those doing the art and mini design,

I've been trying to get my girlfriend into Malifaux, but she's completely turned off by the majority of the female characters in the game, namely comedy breasts and/or underwear. Lots of rolling eyes from her at the pictures of Lady Justice and the Taelor model in particular

For myself, I love that Malifaux has created some really strong and diverse female characters in the fluff, it just seems strange that the art and/or mini design lets itself down with stereotypical images of fantasy women.

We have a few players at the October Wargames Club on Birmingham. We meet on a Tuesday between 6 and 10ish. The club is located just at the top of Broad at very close to the city center so it's nice and easy to get to.

Anyone new to the game is more than welcome people would be happy to help new players along so everyone is welcome

I'd quite like to come along to this, but still learning the game. best to arrange a game in advance, or can I just turn up ? Will need a lot of hand holding through the first few games !

I'll probably make the trip over from brum. Still learning the game so would appreciate playing against some experienced players

There's a pretty good list on Wikipedia under the "Weird West" heading

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weird_West