Why Penitent Engines is a guy on it？

[Zundamon at Arms]

Did I assume his gender?

[Solis]

I'm pretty sure the model/lore comes with both options, men and women? Could be wrong but I feel like I remember that.

[Edmon]

Sinners, usually from the higher ranks of the Imperium of Man, are strapped to these engines. They can be sisters, commissars, priests, you name it.

It is considered a pretty extreme form of punishment. Even by Imperial standards...

[Asperger Berzerker]

Probably some kind of censorship decision forced on the devs. If you look at the Penitent Engine in the old DoW Soulstorm game, it has a hot woman on it.

[Black Lab Games]

The models in the game reflect the plastic kits, no censorship required.

https://www.games-workshop.com/Adepta-Sororitas-Penitent-Engines-2020

[ecb2]

Never mind all that. When are we going to get a Junith Eruita model?!

She looks awesome!

[Prof_Nekko]

Penitent engines can have any form of sinner in it similar to arco flagellents. It's the mortifiers that are usually reserved for Sororitas who fail their tests of faith, or for those who REALLY fail they get the anchorite treatment. Though the anchorite can also be a reward for the most faithful sisters who were mortally wounded, acting like a full Sororitas dreadnought. The main difference between the two anchorites is that while both versions are designed to keep the owner from dying. The sinner is kept in constant suffering while being kept alive so that they will have a very hard time being freed from the pain while honored anchorites are kept alive but without the machines inside that keeps them in a state of hellish pain.