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

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Thanks again.

Chris