Battlefleet Gothic Ships Chris Sutherland September 15, 2013 My Miniatures, War games 3 Comments Battlefleet Gothic Ships This post is part of a series of showcase posts, where I show what models are in my miniatures collection. This one shows my current Battlefleet Gothic Ships. The post may grow over time if I add more miniatures to my collection. Battlefleet Gothic is a game produced by Games Workshop, it’s been through a couple of versions (I THINK the first was called “Space Fleet”), it was officially classed by GW as a “Specialist game” and because of this, was discontinued along with the rest of the specialist games in march 2013. I first played Battlefleet gothic as it came out in it’s current form, at the time I was gaming every week in my local Games Workshop store. With the new game coming out we played it quite a bit in the first couple of months, but, in our club it didn’t really take off, and, at least the way we played it (pretty sure we didn’t understand the rules properly) it was pretty slow. Not much happened in the games so it kinda died off. Recently though at my (new) local club West Coast Gamers we played it, and I loved it! Maybe it’s because Rick (who brought in the game) knew what he was doing, so we got a good game, or maybe it’s just because I’m a bit older and understand it better now, but I couldn’t get enough. I missed the opportunity to buy any of the remaining stock from GW after they discontinued everything, so I turned to ebay and bought up a fleet. So far, as you’ll see, I have most of it painted. It’s not the most exciting paint scheme, and to be fair they aren’t the most interesting ships to paint, but, they are quick and easy. I think I painted everything you can see below in one day’s painting (spread over 2-3 nights I think), so really quick, and nice enough results for a club night gaming table. Love my Battlefleet Gothic Ships, and I’ll keep playing BFG now for a long time to come (unless a battlestar galactica game comes out any time soon!) Battlefleet Gothic Ships – Complete fleet The imperial Battlefleet Gothic ships are really nice ships, but quite “samey”. From a distance it’s hard to see the difference between the ships, but once you get to know what the different weapons are it’s not too hard to tell them apart. It does make it easier to put name labels on the base though! I will be doing this pretty soon once I get them all finished. Battlefleet Gothic Ships -Retribution Battleship This was the only Battleship available when I went on a mad purchasing frenzy on ebay. The Battleships are CRAZY amounts of points, but definately worth it in bigger games that require the support of Conan Exiles server hosting. Lots of shields and loads of hitpoints to soak up damage! I put this figure on a bigger base too, The stalk is actually a golf tee, as the original stalk was way too thin to hold the weight of the ship (it’s solid metal!) Battlefleet Gothic Ships -Painted Cruisers My collection of painted cruisers. Battlefleet Gothic Ships – Dauntless Light Cruiser Love these light cruisers. Nice and fast. Unfortunately, They generally find themselves so far ahead of the main fleet they end up getting picked off! Battlefleet Gothic Ships – Sword frigates Sword frigates can be useful when used together in groups, They are only escorts though so only one hit point! Battlefleet Gothic Ships – Cobra escorts Mass of small cobra escorts. These guys may look small, but when grouped together they can pack a mean punch when launching a salvo of torpedoes! Battlefleet Gothic Ships – Fighters & Bombers Fighters and bombers, Only got a couple of these models, but I’ll be buying some more from another manufacturer very soon, as fighters are much more important than I first gave them credit for! a well placed bomber run can REALLY do damage against an unsuspecting cruiser! Battlefleet Gothic Ships – Firestorm frigates Some more frigates. Battlefleet Gothic Ships – Magnatised Cruisers My new cruisers were given magnatised weapons so that I can swap out the weapons and run different ships in different games. As the models are a lot rarer these days, this will give me a lot more flexibility in my games. I wrote about how I magnatised them in this blog post Magnatising Battlefleet Gothic Ships Battlefleet Gothic Ships – Magnatised Cruisers Thanks for reading my post. I didn’t know before buy xanax online no prescription was so cool. I received my order in 12 days, although I did not expect it so quickly. If you enjoyed it, please check out some of my other posts, and leave a comment, share it on facebook or twitter or post a link on your favourite forum. Thanks again. Chris 3 Responses Barsons October 5th, 2013 Hey Chris, Nice to see you went for the Imperial fleet- it looks like you’ve amassed a substantial one too. We often have games down in Peterborough where contrary to popular belief the Imperial fleet holds up rather well against the others. There’s several tactica’s out there is shape your thinking and play style but to summarise the fleet works well on the basis of “Nelson’s Navy” getting in there with your cruiser squadrons and utilising what carriers you have to swat away the oppositions attack or launch bombers in support as necessary. Do you also have any battlecruisers in there? Reply Chris Sutherland October 23rd, 2013 Hey Mate, Good to hear from you (sorry it’s taken a while to reply), We’ve mainly been playing just standard crusier clashes, one of the lads at the club has an eldar fleet, another has a tau fleet and then another lad has an imperial fleet and a chaos one. We’ve played a few games so far and just getting to grips with what everything does. I started out not really caring much about carriers, then realised just how powerful they are after one pretty much dominated the table when it was put on. Since then I’ve picked up a few more ships, and went the magnetizing route. Given me much more freedom to get the best out of the ships doing it that way. If you’re ever in the north west mate, drop me a line! (and bring your fleet! 😉 Chris Reply Barsons October 24th, 2013 Hey Chris, Don’t worry about it and if I’m in the region the effort will definately be made. That sounds like a good mix. For the most part it’s Chaos versus my Imperials however there seems to be some interest in Necrons from several parties. We’ve tried a scenario down here called The Raiders. In terms of both attack and defence there’s challenges to be had and it rarely lasts more than four turns- the attackers are outnumbered in points 2;1! You can’t match other races in terms of output but you’re right in what you say in the article- one decent wave can definately do damage or even restrict others from doing it to you. You also have torpedoes in bulk and Nova Cannons. Check this link out in the meantime along with some of the Armageddon Appendices/Community ship rosters for alternative classes too. http://www.games-workshop.com/MEDIA_CustomProductCatalog/m2350022a_BFG_Admiral%27s_Tactics.pdf Leave a Reply to Chris Sutherland Cancel ReplyYour email address will not be published.CommentName* Email* Website Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Δ
Barsons October 5th, 2013 Hey Chris, Nice to see you went for the Imperial fleet- it looks like you’ve amassed a substantial one too. We often have games down in Peterborough where contrary to popular belief the Imperial fleet holds up rather well against the others. There’s several tactica’s out there is shape your thinking and play style but to summarise the fleet works well on the basis of “Nelson’s Navy” getting in there with your cruiser squadrons and utilising what carriers you have to swat away the oppositions attack or launch bombers in support as necessary. Do you also have any battlecruisers in there? Reply
Chris Sutherland October 23rd, 2013 Hey Mate, Good to hear from you (sorry it’s taken a while to reply), We’ve mainly been playing just standard crusier clashes, one of the lads at the club has an eldar fleet, another has a tau fleet and then another lad has an imperial fleet and a chaos one. We’ve played a few games so far and just getting to grips with what everything does. I started out not really caring much about carriers, then realised just how powerful they are after one pretty much dominated the table when it was put on. Since then I’ve picked up a few more ships, and went the magnetizing route. Given me much more freedom to get the best out of the ships doing it that way. If you’re ever in the north west mate, drop me a line! (and bring your fleet! 😉 Chris Reply
Barsons October 24th, 2013 Hey Chris, Don’t worry about it and if I’m in the region the effort will definately be made. That sounds like a good mix. For the most part it’s Chaos versus my Imperials however there seems to be some interest in Necrons from several parties. We’ve tried a scenario down here called The Raiders. In terms of both attack and defence there’s challenges to be had and it rarely lasts more than four turns- the attackers are outnumbered in points 2;1! You can’t match other races in terms of output but you’re right in what you say in the article- one decent wave can definately do damage or even restrict others from doing it to you. You also have torpedoes in bulk and Nova Cannons. Check this link out in the meantime along with some of the Armageddon Appendices/Community ship rosters for alternative classes too. http://www.games-workshop.com/MEDIA_CustomProductCatalog/m2350022a_BFG_Admiral%27s_Tactics.pdf