Robbienw

Isnt the warehouse heavily automated now? Probably a spot of maintenance and refit.

Sounds elite and cutting edge to me if its that versatile.

I'm pretty sure in the early 90's the small coloured boxes of plastic epic infantry and vehicles were £6 each. Still have a yellow imperial guard infantry box in the loft somewhere. Fond memories!

Interesting. Similar to when the Emperor resurrects/heals Caecaltus in the The End and The Death vol 2 in his final Dark King moments. He is approaching Dark King power levels once again!

40k is a setting. I find rather than trying to headcannon changes I dislike to the 'current 40k time' that GW is at, instead I concentrate on earlier eras of the setting and the lore from earlier periods of GW. You can still share this with others if you want to because you will find many fans who also like earlier periods and ignore 'current 40k'.

It came off as a bit preachy (this is the correct way to enjoy the hobby vibe) and self congratulatory to be honest. Liked his picture of the Imperial Guard army from the 3rd edition codex though, all metal Cadian armies, those were the days, direct hit to the nostalgia gland

That may be the case, but the perception about elite military units I highlighted still exists and applies to Custodes. Additionally, we know they are taken as infants, but we don't know much of the process and what stages it takes place in. The candidates could grow into young adulthood and puberty before any significant kind of physiological or neurological changes take place. If the process turns a baseline human male into an upscaled physically perfect but still male human looking and shaped being, then it follows that the process will turn a human female into a an upscaled physically perfect but still female looking and shaped being, and their will be a commensurate small difference in physical capability.

Stormcast are AoS, they have nothing to do with 40K power levels. Primaris by design are a development of Space Marines, you couldn't have said they had always been there as a surprise new addition. It would have been a massive retcon. Saying they were a new development was their only option. They probably should have gone with its just a new armour mark and warmachines, and left the geneseed evolution part though

Its not the same. A new tank appearing is an addition. Changing previously specifically all male Custodes to include women is a retcon, there is a difference. The Votann was a resurrection of old Squat fluff, i'm failry sure there was a lot of fuss over it.

ADB said he wasn't allowed to use female Custodes because the model line was all male. This is not proof at that point that there was always intent to be female ones. That makes no logical sense, they would obviously have just put female models from the start if that was the case. The scene in EoE will be Custodes and SoS. It says about all infant sons only in the 8th edition codex, the recruiting during missions/off world came in the 9th edition codex. Additionally the infant sons line in the 8th edition codex proves up to that point there was no intent to have female Custodes. Regardless, i was just stating the reasons why people perceive their inclusion as wrong. Regardless of if you think that perception is wrong or right, the perception will still exist.

There actually has. I think the reason why its seen as wrong to introduced them is twofold: Previously produced lore where they are stated to be all male and have been shown to be entirely male in various art and BL fiction - many will solely object to that because its a sudden very abrupt change. Not least of all because it has a strange as yet unknown effect on a 60+ novel HH series that has only just concluded. It affects 30k far more than 40k. Secondly, like Marines the Custodes are the top military elite. Elite units have extremely stringent requirements in the real world and seemingly in 40k. A miniscule percentage of the very best hardest men make it through training to be one, a vanishingly small amount. It seems hard to believe any women would make it given innate physical differences and the gap there would be between women and men in the respective top percentiles. This is ameliorated a bit by some peoples perception of this being based more in Hollywood depictions rather than real life, but probably still a factor.

Its made mainstream news, there is an article in the daily mail of all places

It follows the human form, as does Vratine armour. Its not comparable to a crewed vehicle like a titan, sentinel, Knight, Leman Russ Thunderhawk etc It would be comparable to the amour the crew of these vehicles would have, like the personal armour the knight pilots wear.

No of course they don't differentiate in form between male or female crew. They are crewed war engines. You can't compare that with form fitting suits of individual armour

Yeah they do. They are called out as specifically female. The process isn't going to transmogrify them into men, and if it did then there wouldn't be any female Custodes The process transforms the body one into a superhuman one, but you still have huge base muscloskeletal differences between men and women. The process still leaves men looking recognizably male and not something else entirely. I see no reason why it would make women look like men, that would be odd. You still see a lot of difference in combat gear ready men and women in modern militaries. Facial and body structures and general heights are not changed by utility uniforms and body armour. Female body builders still look distinct from men.