Amazon Brigade in Tabletop Games.
- The Amazones of Bloodlust, called Sekekers, practice self-mutilation to the point of ugliness. However, some beautiful young girls form a elite unit called the Chrysalides, and are trained to fight half-naked.
- Chronopia has the Blade Maidens and the Black Sisters. Both these groups are great sword-wielding sword mistresses from the Sons of Kronos tribe and are fanatically loyal to One King of the Kingdom of the Firstborn. The main difference between the two is that the Blade Maidens stay within the subfaction of the Tribe of Dawn while the Black Sisters have a pact to go to the Firstborn and serve as part of the One King's personal guard and law enforcement officers.
- Additionally the elven House of Helios has the Keepers of the Flame, a monastic order of female warriors who are well-armored and dual-wield enchanted swords and either a magic dagger or disk weapon. House of Helios also has the Red Lotus Eaters, the lotus-fuelled pyromancers who are predominantly women. And three of the aforementioned female groups are scantily-clad with the Black Sisters and female Red Lotus Eaters wearing essentially bikinis while the Blade Maidens have Godiva Hair and a loincloth.
- Deadlands - even In a World… with The Masquerade running full steam (replete with The Men in Black), Mina Devlin calling her shocktroops the "Wichita Witches" raised a few eyebrows. Of course, only women need apply.
- Dragon Dice has an entire playable race of Amazons. The only race in the setting created directly and solely by the male deity, they can be played as either an entire army of Amazons, or as an elite maneuver/ranged combat unit in a larger force.
- In 2nd Edition Dungeons & Dragons, several of the "Complete Class" supplements included an Amazon character kit.
- Dungeons & Dragons: The Tome of Battle has lots of fluff about secret organizations of Walkers of the Sublime Way. One of which is the 80 Empresses.
- Exalted has the Brides of Ahlat, the Southern God of War. Completely female, sworn to remain virgins, and symbolically wed to Ahlat himself. They're consider to be Elite troops and thus not to be messed with.
- Exalted also has the Tya, a group of women in the West who reject the usual gender roles for the region to take on male ones-which is more than symbolic, as the ritual wards away the spiteful goddesses known as the storm mothers (they hate any woman prettier then they are, which includes everyone that is not a storm mother). They are treated in society more as men than women, actually.
- The Sisters of Mercy from the Feng Shui supplement "Glimpse of the Abyss" are a convent of Nuns With Guns based in the Netherworld who hunt down and kill those whom their Mother Superior deems to be deserving of the respite of death from the suffering the Sisters believe that life is. Of course, those whose names end up on the Rolls of Mercy and are targeted for "deliverance" often aren't so keen on dying. Also from "Glimpse of the Abyss" are the Shiva Squadron, a band of distimed eight-armed warrior women who have made it their mission to hunt demons.
- Games Workshop games:
- Warhammer 40,000:
- The Sisters of Battle, a force of religious fanatics wielding bolters, chainswords and flamethrowers, all clad in Powered Armor. They began as an all-female sect tricked into becoming the bodyguard of the insane High Lord Vandire, who seized control of both the Administratum and the Ecclesiarchy and plunged the Imperium into a bloody civil war. The Daughters eventually discovered his treachery and ended the conflict by taking Vandire's head, and though the reforms that followed forbade the church from keeping "men under arms," this obviously didn't apply to the newly-renamed Sisters of Battle. Since then, the Adepta Sororitas serve as both the fighting arm of the Ecclesiarchy and the Chamber Militant of the Inquisition's Ordo Hereticus, a force tasked with ensuring that such heresy never happens again. Many Battle-Sisters (particularly the veterans and leaders) show the obvious scars that a lifetime of fighting in the 41st Millennium would entail. Their power armour reflects the theme with decorations evoking breasts, corsets and thigh boots.
- The Howling Banshee aspect warriors of the Craftworld Aeldari are terrifying shock troops with a paralyzing scream who are traditionally entirely female. Some men do take up that aspect, though due to the nature of the War Mask and the customs of the Aspect they are treated as women for the duration of their time with the temple.
- While it isn't represented on the tabletop, the background material for the game mentions that there are entire Astra Militarum regiments composed solely of women, particularly those raised on planets that have a matriarchal society. Some older background information mentions that such single-gender regiments are the norm to avoid fraternisation between troopers (and the literature that does feature mixed regiments have such incidents as a recurring problem) but other material, particularly that released during 8th Edition, has seen mixed-gender units become more common.
- The Sisters of Silence, of the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy era, were composed entirely of women that were Blanks. In the 41st Millennium, they crew the Astra Telepathica's Blackships and manage rogue psykers rather than engage in direct combat, though the 8th Edition retconned it by saying that the Sisters are divided into the old school units who still serve alongside the Custodian Guard in battle while the more common Sisters crewing the Black Ships are considered suspect by them.
- Necromunda:
- House Escher gangs exclusively consist of female members. This is due to millennia of exposure to harmful chemicals and other alchemical substances that has left the male half of the House physically and mentally defective.
- The 3rd Edition background information mentions that while many House Cawdor gangs ban women from taking up arms for the House, some women defy this prohibition and form their own all-female gangs. Just as the male gangs of the overly pious House style themselves after the Adeptus Custodes, the Praetorian Guard of the God-Emperor, many of these female gangs imitate the holy warrior women of the Adepta Sororitas.
- Warhammer:
- The Dark Elves provide two examples. Witch Elves are an all-female cult of attractive, lethal fighters in chainmail bikinis, who serve a god of murder, indulge in combat drugs, and bathe in blood to preserve their beauty. Dark Elf Sorceresses also qualify due to a prophecy that a male sorcerer would kill their Witch-King, who quite naturally banned men from practicing magic. There are male sorcerers, but they keep their heads very far down.
- The Everqueen of the High Elves is protected by an exclusively female elite unit known as the Maiden Guard.
- Actual Amazons existed in early editions as a Jungle Princess tribe in Lustria (Warhammer's equivalent to, yes, the Amazon rainforest), the descendants of Norscans (and Norscan slaves) from before these became synonymous with Chaos. They even had a Fountain of Youth.
- Blood Bowl has the Amazon team who draw their players from the all-female human tribes of Lustria. They even existed in very early editions for the main Warhammer game (and even had the lasguns of out of Warhammer 40,000), but were never updated ever as the years went on and more editions rolled out leaving their canonicity as dubious.
- In Mordheim, the Sisters of Sigmar are an all-female religious order consisting of the wayward and troublesome daughters of the Empire’s nobility. They believe that it is their sacred duty to cleanse the City of the Damned of its taint and collect wyrdstone so that it cannot be spread across the Empire.
- Warhammer 40,000:
- Infinity: The Nomads alone have the Reverend Moiras (Church Militant nuns), Riot Grrrls (radical feminist punks), and Tunguska Cheerkillers (cybernetically-enhanced cheerleaders turned spec ops). More broadly, there are enough female models that you can make an all-female list for just about any faction if you so desire.
- Kings of War has the Basilean Sisterhood, who are an all female unit who are armed with flails or ride as panther lancers.
- Legend of the Five Rings has two examples in the matriarchal Utaku and Matsu families. The Utaku family (formerly known as the Otaku family) has the Shiotome, or Battle Maidens, an elite unit of shock troops that ride into battle on horses the size of Clydesdales. The Matsu family's elite Lion's Pride is an all-female unit of samurai women that specializes in finding and killing the enemy general and his command staff.
- Legends of the Wulin has two: The Resplendent Phoenix Society, who seek to embody feminine perfection, and the Blood Wind Cult, an all-female sect of assassins.
- Mage Knight included a subset of Amazon figures in one of its more Steampunk factions, the Black Powder Rebels. They weren't necessarily more powerful than any other group or faction (except for the Amazon Draconum, which was borderline broken.)
- In Mutant Chronicles, at least three factions have Amazon Brigades: Bauhaus has Etoiles Mortant, Imperial has Mourning Wolves and The Brotherhood has Valkyries and Vestals. Mishima was supposed to have an elite unit of female warriors, the Kikigomae Sohei, as well, but circumstances caused them to be limited only to a concept drawing and a mention in the rulebook for Warzone: Universe Under Siege as no figures were produced.
- Rifts:
- Free Quebec has mastered the creation of the uber-powerful Glitter Boy powered armour. Female pilots lobbied for years to get their own distinctive style of armour. Enter the Glitter Girl recon/special forces unit. More dangerous than the male variant due to the pilots being older and more experienced. Notable squads include the Harlots, the Harpies, the Vixens, and the Riot Girls.
- The Splugorth also make use of a bio-engineered race of slave-warriors called the Altarains, or else "The Blind Warrior-Women of Splugorth" who are a One-Gender Race.
- Faked with the Shemarran Warriors, whom are all actually just Robots.
- In Rocket Age the Vanstiku'll are a Venusian concordat who suffer a hereditary condition that makes their males die before 25. Because of this, the women take up the dominant and war-like positions in their societies, with the storm riders being their most feared members.
- A quite literal example in Scion. Not only do Amazons exist as a tribe/nation, but they can also be recruited by a female Scion as Followers. In fact, PCs can gather Followers that happen to be all female.
- Shadowrun has the all-female street gang Desolation Angels that are active in many American cities. The gang is known to hunt bug spirits with great enthusiasm for some reason. The reason is simple: they are Mantis spirit hosts.
- Space 1889: Very surprisingly there is such a unit, a human unit to boot, in this Victorian role-playing game... ...and it's historical. Soldier's Companion mentions that Company A of the 62nd St. John's Fusiliers of New Brunswick, Canada stationed in Syrtis Major, better known as the Amazonians, is all female except for the commanding captain. Averted in that it is not an elite unit. Soldier's Companion claims this unit existed historicallynote . It is also mentioned in Transactions of Royal Martian Geographical Society part 1.
- Talislanta has the Danuvian warrior-women.
- In Unicornus Knights, the Queensguard is said to consist solely of women.
- Wargods Of Olympus, being based on Classical Mythology, naturally has Greek-myth-style Amazons as a playable army. Maenads and Medusae are also unit options.
- Warlord features an all-female mercenary company called the Sisters of the Blade, which was expanded into its own faction in the Savage North book. Some other factions also have their own Amazon Brigades, such as the Crusaders' Battle Nuns and the Overlords' Daughters of the Whip.
- Werewolf: The Apocalypse had the Black Furies, a tribe made up entirely of female Garou who worshipped Artemis as an aspect of Gaia. Of course they'd associate with men for production of new children, but male offspring were passed on to other tribes. There are male Black Furies, however; Metis (deformed children of werewolf-werewolf matings) born to Black Fury mothers are accepted into the tribe regardless of their gender.
- In The Witcher: Game of Imagination, dryads are a One-Gender Race of Cold Snipers devoted to protecting their forest. This is the basic way of organizing their ranks. And they have a well-earned status of The Dreaded, both in and out of universe (just ask any seasoned players what's the worst enemy you can face).
- Heroscape: There are a number of all-female squads among the various armies, such as the Warriors of Ashra and the Nakita Agents.
