GW Showcase New Commissar For Black Library Celebrations
February 20, 2019 by cassn
On the 23rd and 24th February, Games Workshop will be hosting the annual Black Library Celebrations. Fall into the fiction of the Warhammer worlds, and attend the events this weekend to pick up plenty of brilliant books and gaming goodies!
Among the many releases, this weekend will see Rachel Harrison's new novel Honourbound hit the shelves, bringing the introduction of Commissar Severina Raine and her soldiers to long-form fiction (the fearless leader has already featured in several of Harrison's short fiction stories).
Uncompromising and fierce, Commissar Severina Raine has always served the Imperium with the utmost distinction. Attached to the Eleventh Antari Rifles, she instills order and courage in the face of utter horror. The Chaos cult, the Sighted, have swept throughout the Bale Stars and a shadow has fallen across its benighted worlds. A great campaign led by the vaunted hero Lord-General Militant Alar Serek is underway to free the system from tyranny and enslavement but the price of victory must be paid in blood. But what secrets do the Sighted harbour, secrets that might cast a light onto Raine’s own troubled past? Only by embracing her duty and staying true to her belief in the Imperium and the commissar’s creed can she hope to survive this crucible, but even then will that be enough?
To celebrate this release, Games Workshop have produced a resin Citadel model of the leader, along with a series of characterful rules which reflect her unique command style and armaments.
You can get a closer look at her datasheet here. Commissar Severina Raine can also be used in Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team through a datasheet printed in White Dwarf's February issue, currently on shelves now.
Honourbound and Commissar Severina Raine will both be available to pick up from the Black Library Celebration launch this weekend!
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"Uncompromising and fierce, Commissar Severina Raine has always served the Imperium with the utmost distinction."
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I really like this new Commissar miniature as well as fact that they gave her personality with her own book. That makes her more than just some generic Commissar who just happens to be woman like I was originally expecting. Not that it would had been bad thing either mind you.
Both Wargame Exclusive and Raging Heroes make a better Commissar IMO, though admittedly they are in a more pin-up style, and less androgynous.
Love this model, can’t wait to pick her up. Particularly like the fact that it is a female commissar without the cheesecake factor. I know it is a niche need, but as someone with a daughter, who I want to indoctrinate into the hobby at some point, having female minis which aren’t all boobs and bodices is great!
Same my daughter needs to paint female warriors not scantly clad pin ups.
My favourite series is with that other great Commissar Caine. That said when not if GW release female guard, this is how they need to be done. Clearly female but otherwise dressed the same as their male counterparts.
It’s a nice model but I don’t think it’s clearly female. If it hadn’t been stated it was female (and has a female sounding name) I would have mistaken that for a new Commissar/Colonel Gaunt miniature. There’s no defining female characteristics other than looking a bit thinner and maybe a narrow jawline, neither of which are necessarily definitive features of the female form.
Yup, looks like a male teenager at best.
That is a great figure, one of the best female soldiers I have seen. Impressed again by GW.
This is exactly how you design a female miniature.
No weird boob armour and giant high heels.
You, mean make it look like a boy?
Modern female soldiers don’t wear boob armour why would a soldier in the 41st Millennium? Calling it “cooing” is a bit much. She’s a commissar in the Imperial Guard why should she run around with big metal tits sticking out? Should every female miniature have tits hanging out/boob plate,stripper boots and caked on makeup? Miniature Women in military uniforms tend to look like men just like a miniature man in a ballgown would look like a woman. They wanted to make a plausible character and a miniature of that character. Give her the stripper boots and scrambling through rough terrain… Read more »
I didn’t dispute what female soldiers wear. I said that miniature doesn’t look female. Because there’s a difference between what we recognise in real life and what we recognise in miniatures. Miniatures don’t look realistic, they deliberately accentuate certain features to make them stand out on small miniatures, in this case that would be, literally, tits and arse (on men it’s usually shoulders and jawline). So really you’re addressing a totally different question. You are asking why should a female officer run around in armour with moulded tits? Well, if she were real she probably wouldn’t need to although there… Read more »
Also, as someone who works on an RAF base, I assure you, women in military uniforms look like women. They’re still quite easy to identify
I’m gonna pick her up for my Guard Kill Team ??
So you know, “ Victoria miniatures “ makes great female guardsmen! All types NOT pinups. But you can tell there women. Look them up. I discovered them at adepticon, there great.
They are great, but bloody expensive to bring to the UK.
Considering how expensive it is to buy FW models outside UK I guess it’s over all fair that buying ones from Victoria Miniatures to UK is expensive.
Agreed. I’ve used Victoria models for a lot of female starship crew, and some mercenary ground pounders as well. They are distinctly female… and attractive, which this model is not. It looks like something from the latest Star Trek series.
There is always a fine line between what is acceptable and what is OTT, but the females in our group actually want a female character to look female and be attractive, just as men want buff, hulking hero figures. They’re all for the boob turrets and curves, as long as the character isn’t in a chainmail bikini.
No stripper boobs, no combat heels. Are GW growing up?
In case it’s not clear: a female model who looks like she belongs on the battlefield. I approve.
I really like the direction Games Workshop has taken their female sculpts in recent years, and this is another good example. She looks like a Commissar who fits in with the others of her rank. An Astra Militarum/Imperial Guard political officer who is garbed and equipped for war and in a combat pose. She doesn’t have that stereotypical pinup look that may arguably have its place, but it most certainly isn’t the battlefields of the 41st Millennium.
ooh a fabulous looking model commissar.
I think this is one of gws finest miniatures , and as others had said a great representation of a female warrior.
*cues theme music of Falco’s “Der Kommissar”*
…but oops, this would be “Die Kommissarin”, ja?
Just to let you know mate … I appreciate your humour … thanks
I have said this in many discussions about female miniatures, this one proves me right. If you want a miniature to be recognisably female, you need to give it definitive female features. If you don’t give a miniature boobs and a narrow waist it just looks like a man. Which is exactly what has happened here. Everyone seems to be cooing about how great it is that a female model that doesn’t have tits, but the result of not having them is that it just looks like a boy. The only reason we know it’s a woman is because it’s… Read more »
Yup. For anyone looking for a female Commissar done right, go to Victoria Miniatures. Her take is decidedly female, with long hair, slim waist, and bumps in the right places, without the boob turrets.
I think it is very difficult to create a female model in the ‘heroic 28mm’ scale that has the slightly over-the-top features that the scale needs without doing yet another pinup.
This one has not enough of that and can be mistaken for a male figure.
Especially if you’re not a master painter and look at her from tabletop distance
This is a great model. Full of character. @onlyonepinman I get what you’re saying about it being able to pass as a boy, but so what? It doesn’t have exagerated feminine features but nor does it have exagerated masculine features. So it looks different to the other male characters available. Sure, you may only appreciate the build / body type of the character from up close, but it’s a lovely detailed model that you’re going to want to look at closely. I don’t have a problem with exagerated models or even pinups existing (though they may not always be appropriate… Read more »
I think it matters if, as seems to be the prevailing opinion, you want to see “better female representation”. If it doesn’t look female then it’s not really representing anything.
From a personal perspective, it matters from an artistic point of view. It looks neither male nor female, it has a very androgynous look, like a teenage boy. I don’t really think that particularly says or celebrates anything. It’s a bit of a cop out.
To me this seems a bit like complaining that one tank looks very much like another. They may do, because they’re both tanks, but the few differences matter to those who want to see both represented.
I think it’s good to see women who look like women represented on the gaming table. They might not scream out with great obviousness from across the room, but that’s fine.
I’m not complaining. I”m expressing an opinion. It’s a model I am highly unlikely to ever own, especially given it limited availability. I admit it’s good to see women who look like women, I just don’t think that looks like a woman.
Fair enough. Also, sorry, I didn’t mean to imply that you were complaining – that was the wrong word to use.
I think it looks like what it’s supposed to represent and I think it’s a welcome addition to the range.
Each to their own!
No offence taken, it’s all fine
Well, I just received in the mail my ‘Commissar Severina Raine’ model. Guess I was lucky to find a shop that still had one up for grabs. Now that I have her I guess I need to think about building an army for her. My one and only full army in 40k, (as has been for some time), is the unstoppable ‘Imperial Fists’. But I have never liked the look of the standard trooper in the ‘Astra Militarum’ or as they were called in the old days, ‘Imperial Guard’. So I’ll have to do some looking around to find something… Read more »