Now, originally I found this company via a post about
(link is nsfw due to nip slip)
a new upcoming figure. However, upon looking I discovered that this company does kind of reflect everything that’s wrong with the tabletop wargame scene in terms of depictions of female characters.
If you exclude the female characters, their shop looks pretty much like a serious wargaming miniature shop. it has iconic characters, scenery bits, armies, etc.
However, not only do they have the problem that they stock female characters purely for over the top titillation value, and are promoted as though as relevant to but they also have the fanbase who try to rationalize this with baffling excuses:
I don’t think that it’s a very reliable trademark given it’s basically what every single wargame minature studio seems to do – only some make actual warrior minatures as well.
Let’s just be straight about it – they do what everyone else does but more blatantly and with exposed nipples.
– wincenworks
These images are taken from a novelty trading card set that was printed in 1902, imagining how women of the future might look in the roles that were exclusive to men at the time.
Now, it bears noting that there was no serious artistic intent behind these – they were not an exploration of the (then) future so much as they were a novel excuse to have photos of cute girls in costumes.
Yet somehow they remain far more convincing and charismatic than so, so many modern products that want us to take the notion of their “empowered” warrior women seriously.
– wincenworks
Started playing Gems of War, and its female outfit situation is pretty dreary.
My “favourites” are the Ice Witch’s floating boob cups and the armour-clad green hippo (Sunweaver) with the random boob window. Though the balloon-boobed snow leopard (Shadow-Hunter) looks pretty ridiculous too.
(The compliation images are all the female cards and armours in the game atm.)
It is kind of amazing to see the combination of cutesy text/markup, horrifying monsters and painfully generic sex-sells outfits that this product has apparently chosen to use.
It’s almost like their whole strategy is “copy a bunch of stuff popular people are doing and hope it sells”.
– wincenworks
Started playing Gems of War, and its female outfit situation is pretty dreary.
My “favourites” are the Ice Witch’s floating boob cups and the armour-clad green hippo (Sunweaver) with the random boob window. Though the balloon-boobed snow leopard (Shadow-Hunter) looks pretty ridiculous too.
(The compliation images are all the female cards and armours in the game atm.)
It is kind of amazing to see the combination of cutesy text/markup, horrifying monsters and painfully generic sex-sells outfits that this product has apparently chosen to use.
It’s almost like their whole strategy is “copy a bunch of stuff popular people are doing and hope it sells”.
– wincenworks
Half mark on Boobplate because well she has half a boob plate… I guess it’s to protect her lucky lung (and/or boob)? Unfortunately Phoebe’s design gives me so many flashbacks to Zarya and disappointment nobody wants to learn from Ellie.
– wincenworks