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  • Anarchy Reigns has the Rin sisters, a trio of Chinese siblings raised from birth to be assassins.
  • There's one team in Arc Style: Baseball!! 3D that's completely made of women players.
  • Interior Union in Armored Core, every one of the Lynxes for hire is a women, and unlike Bernard And Felix, more than willing to let you use them as consorts.
  • Baldur's Gate
    • Depending on the player's alignment in the first game, an all-female party can consist of any combination of Imoen, Dynaheir, Jaheira, Viconia deVir, Safana, Alora, Branwen, Faldorn, Shar-Teel Dosan and Skie Silvershield, with Neera added in the Enhanced Edition. Baldur's Gate: Siege of Dragonspear reduces the roles of Imoen and Skie, but still allows for a party of Jaheira, Schael Corwin, Safana, Viconia, M'Khiin Grubdoubler and/or Neera. Caelar Argent may also be convinced to join you for the final battle as a full-fledged companion if you have a free slot in the party. The second game and its Enhanced Edition brings back Imoen, Viconia, Jaheira and Neera, along with new characters Aerie, Nalia, Mazzy and Hexxat.
    • In Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal, one of the three guardians for the final seal is an entirely female group composed of Y'tossi (a marilith), Nalmissra (a succubus), The Hive Mother (a beholder), Ameralis Zauviir (a drow cleric), The Huntress (an archer) and Xei Win Toh (presumably a kensai).
    • Baldur's Gate III: Of the Origins, the two strongest companions are Lae'zel and Karlach, with Shadowheart not far behind. In contrast, the Origin men are the spindly wizard Gale, the lithe fencer Wyll, and the waifish Astarion.
  • The Umbran Witches of Bayonetta, of which the titular heroine belongs to, are an all-female order of magical warriors sworn to serve the dark powers of Inferno.
  • The Social Justice Warriors in BoxxyQuest: The Gathering Storm are a blatant parody of this trope. They’re a militant ‘sisterhood’ that other characters can barely keep from calling a cult, and can be found exercising their power by harassing old men and getting into fights over sales at the local shop. Til is worried that one day, they’re all her homeland of Tumblr will ever be known for.
  • The Knives of Artemis from City of Heroes.
  • Conqueror's Blade features three all-female units, two of which (Shieldmaidens and Onna-Musha) play this trope completely straight. The other unit, Alchemists, are an exclusively support unit.
  • Crash Bandicoot:
  • Crimson Skies has the Medusas; an all female pirate gang.
  • Cyberpunk 2077: Downplayed. The Mox is open for people of all genders, but the funder and current leader are women, all the more important members we interact with are women, and all the bouncers around the club that serves as their base of operations are women. The only male member we interact with, Mateo, is a bartender we can buy alcohol from and have a brief chat with.
  • Darkest Dungeon has several official Party Combos such as Valkyries, Femme Fatales and Sisterhood, which include some combination of the Antiquarian, the Arbalest, the Grave Robber, the Hellion, the Plague Doctor, the Vestal, and - with the most recent DLC - the Shieldbreaker.
  • Diablo II starts the player out in the Rogues' camp (a reference to the female-only Rogue class from original Diablo). Everyone permanently living there is female, from the blacksmith Charsi to the matronly high priestess Akara to the guard captain Kashya. They're staying in the camp because they had been evicted from their monastery after Diablo's minions took over and mind-controlled half their numbers, whom you fight throughout Act I, and who are also all female.
  • Delilah's coven in the Brigmore Witches DLC of Dishonored and in Dishonored 2 are all women (obviously) and all very deadly Elite Mooks trained in both swordsmanship and supernatural powers.
  • Possible in Divinity: Original Sin if you make both of your player characters women and bring along Madora and Bairdotr in your other two party slots.
  • Several in Dragon Age:
    • In all three of the games, a female Player Character has the option to run with a party of all-female companions. This includes some (though not all) of the DLC campaigns as well.
    • The dwarves have a monastic order of women warriors called the Silent Sisters, who cut out their own tongues and devote themselves completely to martial training in honor of the first female Paragon of the Warrior Caste.
    • One of the nighttime street gangs in Dragon Age II, the Invisible Sisters, is an all-female group focusing on attacks from stealth.
    • Krem in Dragon Age: Inquisition mentions that in Tevinter, women in the military are segregated into exclusively-female units, which caused problems for him as a trans man.
  • The Amazons of Kurkum from Drakensang. In both games you have to fight a band of Dark Amazons.
  • There's several of these in the lore of Dungeon Fighter Online. In the game proper, the male Spitfire is able to summon the Black Roses, a group of four gunslinging women that shoot at the enemy in formation.
  • The final match in Dusty Diamonds All Star Softball is against an all-girl team appropriately named 'the Amazons'. They all have ridiculously high stats and are very tough to beat even if you play the game flawlessly.
  • Dusty Revenge and Dusty Raging Fist has the all-female cat bandits as enemies, and they're a lot more agile and deadlier than rodent or mongoose mooks.
  • Earth Defense Force 5: The Wing Diver or in Japan versions of the game, Pale Wing unit. They are all female units that have energy powered jump packs capable of flight and wield powerful energy weapons. The Wing Divers are also typically considered an elite unit and key to defeating the giant bug invaders.
  • The Elder Scrolls
    • Morrowind: All of the guards, retainers, shopkeepers, and other service providers in Tel Mora, home of the man-hating Telvanni councilor Mistress Dratha, are female. There is one lone male Telvanni guard patrolling the grounds, but this is likely a case of Gameplay and Story Segregation, as there needed to be at least one guard in the town capable of arresting the player if he/she commits a crime there. (The female guards are named and thus, not standard town guards.)
    • Oblivion's Shivering Isles expansion reveals this to be the case for the Aureals (aka Golden Saints) and Mazken (aka Dark Seducers), two forms of lesser Daedra in service to Sheogorath. Downplayed in that, while male Aureals and Mazekn do exist, they are physically inferior and less numerous, leaving the females most fit for combat roles.
    • Skyrim has a twisted variant, Arondil The Necromancer has an army consists of entirely female Draugr and ghosts to protect his lair. The reason why they are all females is solely because he is in love with ghosts and wants to enslave them. This results in him repeatedly murdering milkmaids in Dawnstar and recruiting them into his undead harem.
  • Endless Legend has the Sisters of Mercy minor faction. While they are a peaceful faction and specialize in providing medical assistance to the other inhabitants of planet Auriga, they're very handy with a sword if they have to fight.
  • Fallout
    • Downplayed in with Ranger Station Foxtrot in Fallout: New Vegas, the only station staffed entirely by female rangers, though no one comments on this fact.
    • The Disciples from Fallout 4's ''Nuka World's DLC are a villainess example; They're roughly made out of 90% female raiders and also the most ruthless group in all of Nuka World.
  • Final Fantasy
    • In Final Fantasy IX, Alexandria's army consists almost entirely of women. The only males are the Knights of Pluto, a squad consisting of a mere 9 men, including playable character Steiner, who serves as their captain.
    • The military of the city of Troia in Final Fantasy IV likewise consisted entirely of women.
    • Final Fantasy X-2 is a downplayed trope. The Gullwings have seven members total (four guys and three girls) but only the girls leave the airship to fight fiends and such.
    • Clan Ritz from Final Fantasy Tactics Advance consists of all vieras and Ritz.
    • Prima Donna from Final Fantasy Tactics A2 has 2 vieras and 2 grias, and all of them are female.
    • Final Fantasy XI has the Mithra, a race of cat people who are predominately female, and they have so few males that they are kept sheltered in their homeland. Thus, pretty much any combat-oriented organization of Mithra qualifies as this.
  • The various Fire Emblem games have several of these, with the most blatant examples being the Pegasus Knights, who up until Fire Emblem Fates introduced Subaki the Sky Knight were Always Female Pegasus-riding and lance- or sword-wielding Action Girls. Recruitable Pegasus Knights often come in trios, and sometimes they're also sisters. A list of examples from the series:
  • In the Galaxy Angel trilogy, the Moon Angel Wing under Commander Tact Mayers is composed entirely of female pilots (one of which eventually becomes his Love Interest and the team's ace depending on the route). There's no particular reason for this, other than the fact that they all show compatibility with the HALO system to pilot their respective Emblem Frames. The Galaxy Angel II trilogy subverts this, as the new protagonist, Kazuya Shiranami, is the first male member recruited in the Rune Angel Wing, and a second one is added in the second game with Roselle Mateus.
  • Get in the Car, Loser!: The party consists of three girls whose pronouns are she/her, and Valentin, whose pronouns are they/them.
  • The Twelve Divine Generals in Granblue Fantasy are all female. As Vajra learns in her 5* Fate Episode, though, this wasn't always the case; the first one from her bloodline was male, and according to him male Generals used to be common.
  • The Counterfeiting Syndicate in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City is an all-female criminal organization that helps with the process of illegal plate trading currency in Vice City.
  • In Guenevere, Guen's bodyguards are two knights from the ancient, all female Order of Boudica.
  • In the game Heavy Smash: The Future Sports, the Australian team is all-female.
  • Hong Kong Ninja have Scorpion's Elite Mooks, many of them which are women, from kunoichi that hurls kunai and teleports everywhere to triad henchwomen that puts up a far better fight than their male counterparts.
  • InvisibleInc can develop this based on player progression and a little bit of luck, as starting agent Internationale can be joined by Banks, Nika and Prism; Central becomes available if you beat the game once on Experienced difficulty; and the Contingency Plan DLC adds Olivia and Rush.
  • Two of the gangs in the Jet Set Radio games are all-female: the Love Shockers and Rapid 99.
  • Just Breed has an all-women squad led by Lydia, the last person to join your ranks. Orlof's squad also consists entirely of women except for Orlof himself.
  • Any naginata unit in Kessen III.
  • The King of Fighters
    • The various incarnations of the "Women's Team". Its ranks include: King, Mai Shiranui, Yuri Sakazaki, Kasumi Todoh, Chizuru Kagura, Li Xiangfei, Hinako Shinjou, "Blue" Mary Ryan, May Lee and Alice Garnet Nakata.
    • In KOF 2003 Athena Asamiya, Hinako, and Malin had their own all-girls group, the "High School Girls Team".
    • Similarly, KOF 2002: Unlimited Match (a remake of the original KOF 2002) gave us two other all-girls team: the "Pretty Girls Team" (Xiangfei, Hinako, and May-Lee, who was a member of the original Women's Team in the first 2002) and the enemy-only NESTS team (Kula, Foxy, and Angel).
    • XIV also has another all-female team dubbed "Team Another World", consisting of Nakoruru, Mui Mui and Love Heartnote .
    • XV so far has two of them: the Agents team consisting of Blue Mary, Vanessa and Luong and the Super Heroines team (a spin on the Women Fighters team consisting of Athena, Mai and Yuri).
  • In the first Knights of the Old Republic, an away team composed of a female player character plus either Bastila Shan, Juhani or Mission Vao. In the second, a female player character plus either Mira, Kreia or Visas Marr (especially if you have progressed far enough to make Mira a Jedi).
  • The Legend of Zelda:
    • Gerudo have all-female fighting forces - mostly because bar Ganondorf their entire race is nothing but women.
    • Hyrule Warriors: Of the story mode's ten playable hero characters, eight of them are female. Impa, Zelda herself, Midna, Sheik, Princess Ruto, Agitha, Fi, and newcomer Lana. Updates add Cia, Twili Midna, Tetra, Linkle, Medli, Marin and Toon Zelda; though other male heroes are also added that even out the gender balance.
  • The Latin Junta from March of War has literal units of Amazonian warrior women in their army.
  • Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope features the Spark Hunters, a Quirky Miniboss Squad of Original Generation female Rabbids created by Cursa to gather Sparks. The group consists of Midnite, Bedrock, Daphne, and Kanya. One of Mario's Rabbid allies, Edge, was the former leader of the Spark Hunters who gained enough free will to make a Heel–Face Turn, but couldn't reform the others.
  • Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order: If you have a team of 4 particular heroines such as Psylocke, Black Widow, Elektra, Phoenix and etc. then that team will get the designations of Femme Fatales and get attack bonuses.
  • Mass Effect
    • The asari are a One-Gender Race of women, and due to their extremely long lifespans (upwards of a thousand years) asari commandos train for a hundred years before they go on active duty. In addition, the asari are also natural biotics. The warrior turian race (where military service is the entire society and military service is directly responsible for citizenship) have a saying: "The asari huntresses are the best warriors in the galaxy. It's a good thing there aren't that many of them."
    • Additionally, a field squad composed of a female Commander Shepard and any two of Ashley Williams, Tali'Zorah nar Rayya, or Liara T'Soni also qualifies as an Amazon Brigade, particularly at higher levels. And in the sequel, Female Shepard with Jack, Kasumi Goto, Miranda Lawson, Samara, Tali, Morinth, and Liara T'Soni (in DLC) counts.
    • And in the third game, Female Shepard with Ashley, Tali, Liara and EDI, or the Omega DLC squadmates.
    • In Mass Effect, should you refuse to recruit Garrus, kill Wrex and sacrifice Kaidan on Virmire as a Femshep, an Amazon Brigade squad will be your only option.
  • Master of Orion: In MOO II, the Elerian species has their roles designated by sex. Men are in a support role with their psychic powers, while the women join the highly trained military.
  • Medabots AX: Metabee and Rokusho: Several of the female Medafighters, like Karin and Erica, use a pair of female Medabots.
  • Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots has two Amazon Brigades: the Beauty & The Beast Corps, a quartet of Power Armored Super Soldiers with PTSD, serving as the Quirky Miniboss Squad (for a given value of "quirky"), and the Haven Troopers (aka: FROGS), Ocelot's personal Elite Mooks in full power armor who are several steps above the regular troops he rents out.
  • Mortal Kombat:
  • Mount & Blade has the Sword Sisters unit, female knights/heavy cavalry clad in plate armor, wielding swords and crossbows. They are notoriously hard to acquire (you have to rescue or press-gang a lot of unskilled peasant women and give them some Training from Hell).
  • Inevitable in the Neptunia games, since nearly every playable character is female save for Umio.
  • In Neverwinter Nights 2 it's possible to create a balanced all-female team using a female Knight-Captain built as a tank, Qara the sorceress, Neeshka the rogue, and Elanee the druid. Act II adds Shandra Jerro as a guest star fighter, and the githzerai cleric Zhjaeve. Even easier in the second expansion, Storm of Zehir, which lets you handcraft your own party, or use existing companions Belueth the Calm (Shadow Thief), Chir Darkflame (Wizard), Inshula sar Mashewe (Ranger), Soraevora Aeravand (Favored Soul) and Lastri Kassireh (Swashbuckler).
  • In New Horizons, the player's generic crew is all male by standard. However, it's perfectly possible to play a female captain, only hiring female officers, and only taking female fighters with them.
  • In The New Order Last Days Of Europe, the Night Witches, which were this in Real Life, are still around as The Free Aviators, even as Russia descended into anarchy after the German victory. They still work to stop German bombers from targeting Russia.
  • The Valkyries of Ragnanival, and the Inferno King's Vulcan soldiers in Odin Sphere are all females.
  • Easily achievable in Pathfinder: Kingmaker with a party of Amiri, Jaethal, Linzi, Octavia, Valerie and DLC addition Kanerah/Kalikke.
  • Cassandra Devries' bodyguards from Perfect Dark.
  • With the latest addition to the roster in Pillars of Eternity, this is now possible with a female PC and a party of Pallegina, Sagani, Maneha, Grieving Mother and the Devil of Caroc.
  • Project Justice has the Seijyun High trio of Akira, Yurika and Zaki. Closer to the definition of this trope is Zaki's gang, the Ladies Team, though a good number of the gang's members may not meet the "be at least moderately attractive" description.
  • Racing Lagoon has Queen's Motomachi, an all-women street racing gang in Friendly Local Chinatown.
  • Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time
    • The Valkyries, an army of ace pilots and shock troopers comprised entirely of female aliens. Despite the name, male versions do exist, but according to a piece of Galactic Trivia, they were banished after failing to ask for directions during their pilgrimage after their home colony was decimated by a supernova.
    • The Galactic Rangers are apparently all female as well, although whether that's correct or simply the squad leader unnecessarily taking the Mickey isn't explained.
  • In Return to Castle Wolfenstein the SS has an all-female force called the Elite Guard.
  • Sakura Wars. This is the entire point of this Dating Sim / Tactical RPG series, with a dash of The One Guy thrown in as your player avatar (Ogami in the first four games, and Shinjiro in the fifth game). Your party's effectiveness in battle is dependent on how strong your bonds with your Amazon Brigade are... in addition to how well they get along with one another.
  • The MMORPG Scarlet Blade emphasizes in this, as the game focuses on genetically enhanced females, and there are no male playable classes.
  • Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice: Several item and text descriptions refer to the Okami, a clan of inhuman warrior women with an affinity for lightning. However, the player will not encounter them directly until reaching the Fountainhead Palace, where the Okami have become bodyguards (and food) for the Palace Nobles.
  • The Mosu Ninja from Shinobido are composed only by kunoichi.
  • Siege of Avalon has the Blood Roses, an order of female knights.
  • Sins of a Solar Empire has the Advent, a faction of psychics. The military is almost all women due to psychic power being typically a lot stronger in females.
  • Solatorobo has the Pink Peaches Sky Pirates. Naturally, their robots are all pink as well.
  • Luna's subordinates in Soulcalibur 3's Chronicles of The Sword, the Klessirpemdo, are a quartet of elementally-themed female minions: Lupi (Fires of Hell), Heal-Do (Water of Origin), Elua (Wind of Creation) and Aege (Earth of Foundation). Their leader Luna is probably meant to be Spirit/Aether or something.
  • In Spellforce, all elven units are female. Except Titans, who are ents. Apparently their treemen aren't different.
  • In the Splatoon series, one of the enemy types you encounter are female Octolings: a sister species to Inklings that can transform into octopodes rather than squids. Their Japanese name is fittingly a portmanteau of "tako", meaning octopus, and "amazons". While the sequel (starting with its DLC) and later installments allow the player avatar to be a male Octoling, the enemy Octolings remain exclusively female.
  • The Kuniang Martial Arts Team from Strider is a Sibling Team of skilled world-renowned bounty hunters and assassins formed by Tong Pooh and her sisters Pei Pooh and Sai Pooh/Nang Pooh, plus their mentor Xi Wang Mu in the last game. In Namco × Capcom Tong Pooh was instead the leader of an entire enemy unit made up of clones of herself.
  • The Aeon military in Supreme Commander comes very close-game background states that Aeon women are just plain better at battlefield command, with very few males qualifying for command. Possibly a coincidence, but the foremost commanders of the UEF and Cybrans are women as well.
  • A few subversions in Sword of the Stars:
    • In the Tarka military females hold most command positions while unchanged males do the grunt work as they're considered to be more emotionally stable. But the highest ranks are usually changed males because their younger brothers and sons instinctively submit to them.
    • Zuul females are much larger than the weedy males so they fill most ground combat roles, but they're not sapient and used as Cannon Fodder by their "husbands".
    • The Morrigi fleet has traditionally been all male, since they live in nomadic space-faring tribes while the females reside dirtside. But during the war with the Suul'ka the Siren mind-controlled many males and turned them against their families. As females are resistant to psionics, a result of the evolutionary arm's race with the males' Glamours, a number of female tribes known as the Harpeizanae rose to defend Morrigi civilization from their turned kin. However, once the war was over the Morru Qu'aan exiled them for murder and blasphemy, but as of the second game a new Morru Qu'aan has ascended who fought alongside the "Harpies" for some time and he's made gestures to welcome them back.
  • SXPD by Little Chicken Games'', the SXPD are a lethal police motorcycle division and they're all women.
  • In Tales of Symphonia Raine's title of Crimson Rose is earned by putting her along with the other three playable women characters in your active party. There's also the Distaff Counterpart title of Testosterone for Regal by putting him with the four other playable male characters.
  • You can run with an all-female squad in Templar Battleforce, due to Purely Aesthetic Gender.
  • The Coven faction in Town of Salem are a team of witches who share the Big Bad Ensemble spot with the Mafia, and are all female.
  • Trials of Mana: Militaries of two kingdoms, Altena and Laurent, are comprised of Hot Witches and spear-wielding Amazons, respectively. The former manage to handily defeat the army of Valsena, warriors of which are renowned for their swordsmanship, while the latter gave their capital the fame of a "castle that never fell" in the backstory, and are taken out only when their foes resorted to a Forced Sleep trick.
  • The party size and companion roster in Tyranny allows for an all-female team with Verse, Sirin, Eb and/or Kills-in-Shadow.
  • The second Ubersoldier has the UberMacht's personal guards, an all-female Nazi Super-Soldier unit who's more agile and tanks far more damage than regular mooks. They can even execute a devastating kick attack at close range, and three of them can take down most of your Redshirt Army.
  • Unreal II: The Awakening features such a brigade in the form of the Liandri Angels, an all-female "mercenary" cyborg squadrons, the game's toughest Mooks. An in-game dialogue maintains that females are naturally ruthless and that that has been the reason behind the creation of these squadrons.
  • While the Valkyria Chronicles games (developed by the same team as Sakura Wars) have plenty of male squad members, there are enough ladies for you to form an all-female brigade led by The One Guy if you so wish, with said guy being either Welkin, Avan, Kurt, or Claude, depending on the game.
  • The heavily armed Space Pirates of Void Bastards. As far as the player can tell, they are all bloodthirsty Scottish women, and they are, bar none, the single most deadly threat a player can face on a ship. One can finish the entire game without managing to kill a single one; standard procedure is Run or Die.
  • Warcraft III
    • The Night Elves' military, the Sentinels, is comprised solely of women because the race's men study druidism and spend centuries at a time asleep in the Emerald Dream. Over the course of the campaign male Night Elves join the battle, but only as support casters (at least until the Druids of the Claw shapeshift). By World of Warcraft the gender divide is eased so that Night Elven females can become druids and men can become fighters, but the overwhelming majority of Sentinels are still women, while there is only a single male priest of Elune seen in-game. As probably an inverted reference to this, the Blood Elf guards are all male.
    • The WoW RPG mentions a group called the Sisters of Steel, a faction of warrior/blacksmith women who spend so much time at the forge that they become immune to fire and can transform themselves into stone or metal. Unfortunately, this faction didn't see any screen time in the game.
  • Putting together an Amazon Squad is feasible in all X-COM games, either on purpose, because the most competent soldiers happen to be femalenote , or because the girls are all you have left.
    • You get an achievement, "Flight of the Valkyries", for using an all-female squad in XCOM: Enemy Unknown.
    • XCOM: Chimera Squad randomizes which recruits you can get at set intervals, but if you skip the tutorial, you can start the game with any combination of Godmother, Zephyr, Patchwork, Torque and Terminal, the five females in Chimera Squad.
  • Xenogears has Dominia's all-girl robot pilot squad.
  • In the second X-Men Legends game, putting Storm, Jean Grey, Rogue and Scarlet Witch in the team gave you the Femme Fatale bonus (5% damage inflicted goes to health). In Marvel Ultimate Alliance the bonus changes to a 5% damage increase granted to any combination of Storm, Invisible Woman, Elektra, Ms. Marvel and Spider-Woman; in the sequel it's Storm, Invisible Woman, Ms. Marvel, Songbird, Jean Grey and Psylocke.

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