Would probably work for a Slaanesh-cult!
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i wonder when a developer has the actual balls to say “you know f’it heres a few millions for tax write off, lets make an adult only 40k game the way its meant to be and go full slaneesh”
then theres conan exiles that still sold moderately well with full on schlong and booby physics.
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Codex Sisters of Battle (2E):
That’s right heretic, stare at the spiked garter on my thigh while I smack you with my spiked power maul!
If my heavy bolter won’t get you, my torpedo-tipped-tits will. What are you gonna do about it?
Codex Witch hunters:
I don’t even have a comment.
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Just for the record, there is non-tit female arbites armor in the art, so it’s not like they were going out of their way to defy breastplate-depicting artwork from the setting here:
The one I posted earlier could be made a buyable skin alternative later I suppose.
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Makes me want to watch Dredd 2012 movie again. Just to see all the gun mods in action.
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Damn, that’s gruesome. Who’s the artist?
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Not sure, it’s from the Dark Heresy 2nd Edition TTRPG Core Rulebook, the page doesn’t specificy an artist. It’s one of these guys:
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Sadly, they’re a bit of a downgrade from the original Sister Sin’s pointy nipple spikes of DEATH! from Rogue Trader. Probably too spikey to survive into the later Sisters army, given the predeliction for the Enemy to wear spikes on their armour, and could be confused with devotees of a certain deity.
Normally, I’m not a fan of ‘boob armour’ at all, but the Sisters are absolutely iconic, and WD212 - SoB release with the John Blanche cover - is still my absolute favourite issue.
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I don’t understand why people are so prudish about boob armor.
“It’s not realistic because it’s not functional” is such a weak argument in the 40k universe.
At least we could see a difference between body type A and body type B. What were those called again?
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There’s nothing prudish about it, you can be critical about it for practical reasons and that’s fine in 40k because the Imperium veers between the practical, the efficient, the inefficient, and the absurd all the time and even contradicts itself when looking at one single thing.
One example specifically related to armour can be seen in the Cadian pattern of flak armour, which follows the thinking of our modern body armour in that its goal is to protect the heart and lungs, whilst leaving the lower torso uncovered. This is efficient as the goal is to protect that vital region to give a Guardsman the best chance of survival whilst keeping the weight and restriction of the armour down. However, Cadian flak also comes with pauldrons as standard that for their weight and bulk are of less value than protecting the lower torso if you’re continuing with the goal of giving the Guardsman the best chance of surviving damage. Better to lose an arm than have a las-blast punch into the abdomen with its collection of squishy organs.
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So anything goes. Including boob armor. Cool.
How is this relevant to the point you are making?
It can do, yes, and we have examples of it outside of the Sisters; there are depictions of female Inquisitors who have boob armour, and then there’s the iconic House Escher from Necromunda, who have boob armour. You can still level criticisms about them from a practicality stand point.
To boil it down, my example showed the facets I mentioned in action on a single commonly found set of armour in 40k. Cadian flak = efficient at protecting the upper torso, inefficient by not protecting the lower torso, and absurd by prioristising protecting the upper arms instead of the lower torso.
When looking at real world examples of armour which see or saw widespread adoption and use, whether modern or historical, the upper body is protected first and foremost, then the lower torso, then the limbs after that.* If you’ve ever had to go for a hike/march with a heavy rucksack on your back, talking 10+ kg plus any other gear, then you know how it affects the body’s balance; shoving more weight on the shoulders with pauldrons will also affect the body’s balance, and then the Guardsmen will have their rucksacks and packs, as well as their additional gear as well; just a wee bit top-heavy. On the other hand, it is a purely stylistic choice, so that we can paint things on the pauldrons for our minis and it ties in somewhat with the style of armour worn by Space Marines. From a practical standpoint it could be said to be a stupid design that has the wrong priorities; perfect for 40k.
Not that any of that changes anything, the Body 2 Arbites lacks boob armour and that is what they’ve chosen to go with.
*Talking solely in terms of armouring the body from the shoulders down; the head is always the first thing to protect where possible.
Female armor doesn’t need to have boobs, but the Copypasta Chinesium that Adia puts out (and that Fatshark pays for, hoping we’ll pay them for access to said Chinesium) commonly isn’t adjusted at all to a female form and tends to look barrel chested or have overly broad shoulders. Curious to see what the above armor will look like in-game, the screenshot’s shadows and presentation may not quite show it off well enough in that respect, but wouldn’t surprise me if Adia botched it again.
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?? You should expect 80s shoulder pads.
Not only did WH start in the 80s, so a lot of the core aesthetic calls back to it, but 80s fashion fit WH’s theme. A lot of 80s fashion was counter-counter-culture fashion, reacting to the down-dressing and outrageousness of the 70s.
The Imperium is rightfully inseparable from the infinite tackiness of the ambitious bourgeoisie, and any question one might have about WH-meta can be answered by Marxist art-theory.
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I’ll just smile and nod politely to all of that 
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Boob armor makes a lot more sense than people might believe,
throughout history, people added useless designs to their armor even relating to their sexuality.
the codpiece comes to mind.
For the sisters who can trace back their origins to a technicality of specifically not having men under arms, it makes a lot of sense to present Female attributes outwards as to hammer that point home.
And for glancing hits inwards, all you have to do is reinforce the focus point, and you’re good, sure you add some weight, but as mentioned before, historically people had no problem adding useless clutter and thus weight,
if it had been common for women to fight, their armor would most definitely have some very different visual cues.
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