Setting the news A-Gender
The Mail, in reporting on the latest Warhammer ‘controversy’, know exactly what they are doing. I’ve deliberately tried very hard to refrain from commenting on the latest hot topic that’s doing the rounds on my various hobby groups and among my friends. Games Workshop, self- professed purveyor of the ‘world’s finest miniatures’ and occasional producer of actual games, has caused a stir with a bit of ‘colour’ text in one of its latest codexes (books which provide the rules with which to use an army of models on the tabletop). This particular codex relates to the faction Adeptus Custodes – the even more massive, even more ridiculously overpowered cousins to the flagship Space Marine line. The text in question, which has had such incendiary impact on the tabletop gaming community that the Daily Mail has reported on this, essentially mentions in passing that one of the Custodes is a woman, with the implication that this is a perfectly normal, in-universe thing. You might think this is not ...