One of the (I think :) cooler things in my collection is the issue of White Dwarf from the 80s giving information on the at-the-time in-development _Space Fleet_ , the precursor to _Battlefleet Gothic_ - I really like the art of things that you never see in the game(s), like a breakdown of an officer's uniform (I readily acknowledge that I'm weird..! :)
They released 4 or five expansions for space fleet, managed to pick up an original spacefleet game off ebay with all the expansion white dwarfs included, quite fun with the extra content
When I was in Middle School I basically lived at the local games workshop and this is by far the largest battlefleet gothic army I have ever seen. Actually makes me wanna play it... I only ever played the store demo game (I was a kind of unofficial unpaid employee who the manager knew shoplifted my wages)
Seconded! We played a lot of BFG back in the day as not only was it the best, you could assemble a decent sized fleet pretty cheaply (£8 for 2 cruisers) lead to me getting a little carried away and buying half the gothic sector Navy (not exadurating, been getting into recently again so did and audit and discovered I've got 30+ cruisers). Fortunately there's some really good proxy companies out there, so while it's not as cheap you can still put together a reasonable sized fleet comparatively cheaply if you look around.
That box cover art is one of the pictures that made me fall in love with 40k. I'd love if a modern BFG was made, maybe with some famous named ships from the lore. It'd be quite cool to see stuff like The Rock or Vengeful Spirit be properly depicted in miniature form.
If GW took another stab at making BFG into a big major game system, I have a feeling they'd REALLY push for huge centerpiece models. Imagine fielding an entire Necron army to try and destroy an Aeldari Craftworld? How about fielding the Imperial Fleet charged with the defence of Cadia and going up against a Blackstone Fortress? just looked it up, apparently there was a metal Blackstone Fortress last time BFG was published.
BFG and Man 'O War were both very entertaining. It was a big shame they got discontinued in the big bonfire of smaller games when GW decided to refocus. The computer game BFG Armada 2 is good fun if you ever want to scratch that itch but don't have the time to get the models out of the case.
Battlefleet gothic is a game that I’ve considered getting some models for since I know 1000pt games are only like 5 models and it looks like a lot of fun
I'm a simple space sailor, I see BFG, I upvote! 100% agree on the fact that Light Cruiser are the nicest ship of the range, just sad Chaos and Orks didn't got access to one.
Nice fleet, the Dauntless was always a favorite. I absolutely Love Gothic!!.. won my copy in a painting contest when it was released. Game was perfect from the get go. Andy Chambers nailed it. Still play games when time permits.
A well painted fleet is a beautiful thing. There's a variant of BFG that's been expanded and revised by the fans since GW stopped supporting it - BFG:XR. I've not played a lot of it, and it's mainly been with proxy ships - the ebay prices are indeed a little steep - but it's definitely as much fun to play now as it was playing a few games back in the school warhammer club. I've subbed to a patreon that's releasing the fleets as stl files, and I can't wait until the fleet enters orbit!
Counter argument to the 2D-ness of BFG: the ship models are just visual representations of the ship in question, not it's actual position in space. The ships are actually a tiny dot right at the centre of their base because the distances involved are _huge,_ as in "1cm on the table represents *10,000KM* of space" huge. The ships themselves could be upside down relative to each other scattered around across a spherical volume and it just wouldn't matter because you couldn't see any of them at that scale. BFG was such a great game though. I loved my Chaos fleet complete with Blackstone Fortress that I won at my local GW store back when it first launched which I promptly painted in the colours of the League of Free Worlds because Colony Wars was what got me interested in big space fleet battles. Took forever to play a game though because my brother wouldn't play unless he could set up at maximum Nova Cannon range though, which for the uninitiated was 150cm and ships moved around 15cm a turn and most weapons on Chaos ships had about 50cm max range. Fun times.
Oh man, this ia game I'd love to see come back! "GIVE ME RAMMING SPEED!" That said, I reckon the current Aeronautica Imperialis is agood replacement, fills a similar "plan ahead/manouvre" niche and avoids a lot of the ambiguity of an open board. The space ships are just so damn cool though, especially the Forgeworld T'au fleet...
Me: Hey look GW, it is Battlefleet Gothic! GW: Yup, Armada is a great game, and if you like that game you should try Lost Crusade! Me: No, I mean when will we see a new edition of the table top game Battlefleet Gothic? GW: Have we told you about the latest on Warhammer+? Me: Is there any Battlefleet Gothic? GW: See the latest from Hammer and Bolter!
I wasn't sure how well this fleet would do at first glance as Imperial fleets really depend on synergy between ships to punch above their wieght, but for being built with what bits you had this fleet is pretty well rounded, 18 attackcraft wings, pretty decent spread of weapons batteries including a fair amount of range with the Tyrants and Overlord, good spread of lances, 2 Nova cannons and LOT of torpedos,its got pretty much everything covered and a lot more use of speed than anything I ever put tigether (I like big capital ship heavy fleets with a lot of full sized cruisers and above)
Oh having played Battlefleet Gothic Armada 2 I recognize everything you said, except the Jovian, in BGA2 we get a grand cruiser called Exorcist with four launch bays. I wish they sold these again.
Ahh Battlefleet Gothic my favorite Warhammer 40,000 war game though I haven't played in many years. I had two main fleets (One Chaos and one Imperial) plus smaller Space Marine, Adeptus Mechanius, and Eldar fleets, a mixed Imperium and Chaos pirate fleet plus inherited Dark Eldar and Tau fleets I never played (Many of the other smaller fleets were all or partially inherited as well but I played them some) My fleet builds are always Frigate or Raider heavy depending on the faction but if a wargame has Frigates my fleets are always Frigate heavy unless something in the rules prevents it or renders the concept non-viable.
That's really intresting always like seeing someone go a differenr route, I had a big Imperial Fleet and always went really cruiser heavy, only using escorts to use up left over points, I just preferred then better survivability of the larger ships, then again I didn't really build my fleet in the standard way, based it more around a US carrier group, using Ordnance to cover the usual job of escorts and most of the opponets in shop were orks or Chaos rarely went against Elder so that may of also shaled my experince.
Great video. Loving these army/model spotlights. If I'm able to give a suggestion, it'd be great if you put a link to your patreon in the video description. It'd just make finding a way to support you a lot easier. Other then that, excellent video, can't wait to see more!
I was obsessed with BG when it released, but tragically broke, so I only ever got the base game. Since none of my friends ever bought any, I only ever got to play the demo games in-store. My love of the game miiiiight also have to do with me working at a Subway at the time, so I was able to estimate distance with the Nova cannon uncannily well by measuring in sandwiches.
I had a modest five ship 1000 point fleet of five Luna's, all with Nova Cannons, and a slight conversion where I cut the lance batteries in half and had one half of each on wither side of the weapon batteries. Had them painted in the same grey gold and purple as my imperial guard. They had some amazing battlefield results, including arcing a nova cannon round a moon to obliterate a Dark Angels Battle Barge, aimed for an escort and it scattered.
Would love to see a campaing where you guys play 30k, but you all have a small fleet of gothic to represent the transport fleet for your respective legions.
oh man a Siege of Vraks compaign??? I've wanted to do Vraks on the tabletop in some way for years and years. I spent a lot of days between driving patients around daydreaming about Vraks on the table. Guardsmen in trenches, all the resin and plastic tanks, the lines of artillery, figuring out how to do endless waves of reinforcements, rocky crags and long dusty boards. I also would love to see Battlefleet Gothic be a Thing again cause I would be happy to have a little spaceship game on the side. I grew up playing the X Wing games and have always felt enamored with little spaceships
Watching your army (or in this case fleet) videos really makes me want to try Zenithal on some of my forces. For simple batch paint jobs, your minis look fantastic.
Nice battleforce. Very consistent look to everything. The metal battleships really stress the flying stands to the limit . I drilled mine out and inserted a 2mm brass rod all the way through. Made a huge difference...
Great trek down memory lane Ian! How did you convert the bridges of the battle cruisers? It looks like you used the back of the imperial battleships...
I recently started collecting and painting Dropfleet commander minatures. I wanted to get into Battlefleet Gothic but it seems to be out of print and dropfleet's rules are written by the same guy so close enough I guess.
Well if you wanted an excuse to play a game, I for one would love to see a video battle report of BFG...
One of the (I think :) cooler things in my collection is the issue of White Dwarf from the 80s giving information on the at-the-time in-development _Space Fleet_ , the precursor to _Battlefleet Gothic_ - I really like the art of things that you never see in the game(s), like a breakdown of an officer's uniform (I readily acknowledge that I'm weird..! :)
Please post this somewhere!
@@EmmanuelKa You can watch Snipe and Wib's rather excellent video on it... ruclips.net/video/-ZKHxPMOnSM/видео.html
They released 4 or five expansions for space fleet, managed to pick up an original spacefleet game off ebay with all the expansion white dwarfs included, quite fun with the extra content
Battlefleet Gothic, the best game GW ever released, in my opinion. Thank you very much for taking me on a trip down my own memory lane!
When I was in Middle School I basically lived at the local games workshop and this is by far the largest battlefleet gothic army I have ever seen. Actually makes me wanna play it... I only ever played the store demo game (I was a kind of unofficial unpaid employee who the manager knew shoplifted my wages)
Tied with space hulk in my opinion, but it’s hard to beat space navies!
Seconded! We played a lot of BFG back in the day as not only was it the best, you could assemble a decent sized fleet pretty cheaply (£8 for 2 cruisers) lead to me getting a little carried away and buying half the gothic sector Navy (not exadurating, been getting into recently again so did and audit and discovered I've got 30+ cruisers). Fortunately there's some really good proxy companies out there, so while it's not as cheap you can still put together a reasonable sized fleet comparatively cheaply if you look around.
Thankyou Ian, it's been a very tough week and this is just the boost I need.
Best of luck Ben
Hope it's better soon Ben
That box cover art is one of the pictures that made me fall in love with 40k. I'd love if a modern BFG was made, maybe with some famous named ships from the lore. It'd be quite cool to see stuff like The Rock or Vengeful Spirit be properly depicted in miniature form.
GW: Our Market research has concluded there isn't enough demand for a new edition of this niche game.
Fans: Do you want to die, GW?
If GW took another stab at making BFG into a big major game system, I have a feeling they'd REALLY push for huge centerpiece models. Imagine fielding an entire Necron army to try and destroy an Aeldari Craftworld? How about fielding the Imperial Fleet charged with the defence of Cadia and going up against a Blackstone Fortress?
just looked it up, apparently there was a metal Blackstone Fortress last time BFG was published.
BFG and Man 'O War were both very entertaining. It was a big shame they got discontinued in the big bonfire of smaller games when GW decided to refocus. The computer game BFG Armada 2 is good fun if you ever want to scratch that itch but don't have the time to get the models out of the case.
Battlefleet gothic is a game that I’ve considered getting some models for since I know 1000pt games are only like 5 models and it looks like a lot of fun
I'm a simple space sailor, I see BFG, I upvote! 100% agree on the fact that Light Cruiser are the nicest ship of the range, just sad Chaos and Orks didn't got access to one.
I think it all just looks beautiful, unified color just looks amazing from afar.
I've never been into Battlefleet myself, but the models are gorgeous as ever.
Nice fleet, the Dauntless was always a favorite. I absolutely Love Gothic!!.. won my copy in a painting contest when it was released. Game was perfect from the get go. Andy Chambers nailed it. Still play games when time permits.
I hope one day GW brings back Battlefleet on tabletop. I would love to build, paint and play a Pacificus fleet. 🥰
Oh my a miniature game that out of hand with the collection goodness gracious!
A well painted fleet is a beautiful thing. There's a variant of BFG that's been expanded and revised by the fans since GW stopped supporting it - BFG:XR. I've not played a lot of it, and it's mainly been with proxy ships - the ebay prices are indeed a little steep - but it's definitely as much fun to play now as it was playing a few games back in the school warhammer club. I've subbed to a patreon that's releasing the fleets as stl files, and I can't wait until the fleet enters orbit!
Counter argument to the 2D-ness of BFG: the ship models are just visual representations of the ship in question, not it's actual position in space. The ships are actually a tiny dot right at the centre of their base because the distances involved are _huge,_ as in "1cm on the table represents *10,000KM* of space" huge. The ships themselves could be upside down relative to each other scattered around across a spherical volume and it just wouldn't matter because you couldn't see any of them at that scale.
BFG was such a great game though. I loved my Chaos fleet complete with Blackstone Fortress that I won at my local GW store back when it first launched which I promptly painted in the colours of the League of Free Worlds because Colony Wars was what got me interested in big space fleet battles. Took forever to play a game though because my brother wouldn't play unless he could set up at maximum Nova Cannon range though, which for the uninitiated was 150cm and ships moved around 15cm a turn and most weapons on Chaos ships had about 50cm max range. Fun times.
The Dauntless are also pretty lethal, 3 forward lances makes a lot of firepower. If a ship has no shields, they're in for the kill
I always wanted this game. What I would give to have a full line of modular plastic warships.
I have two, big imperial and chaos fleets painted up and sitting in boxes.
Loved hearing you on snipe and wib the other day. Keep it up from austin tx.
Thanks!
Oh man, this ia game I'd love to see come back! "GIVE ME RAMMING SPEED!"
That said, I reckon the current Aeronautica Imperialis is agood replacement, fills a similar "plan ahead/manouvre" niche and avoids a lot of the ambiguity of an open board. The space ships are just so damn cool though, especially the Forgeworld T'au fleet...
Me: Hey look GW, it is Battlefleet Gothic!
GW: Yup, Armada is a great game, and if you like that game you should try Lost Crusade!
Me: No, I mean when will we see a new edition of the table top game Battlefleet Gothic?
GW: Have we told you about the latest on Warhammer+?
Me: Is there any Battlefleet Gothic?
GW: See the latest from Hammer and Bolter!
Man you got a lot of cruisers. I don't recall a lance-armed battleship but that'll put the hurt on anyone.
I wish I could just get over to the London area to send my Aeldari Corsairs against your beautiful fleet. Oh well, one day, maybe.
Battlefleet Gothic miniatures are so cool.
Really nice paint job they look awesome. Last played BG about 2 years ago. Such a good game.
Always enjoy your content, especially your historical approach to the whole setting!
I like to have fun with the bases, wet blending little purple, blue and green nebulae and speckling some stars over it.
Really nice, my group never got into BG I struffled painting the army i already had.
I wasn't sure how well this fleet would do at first glance as Imperial fleets really depend on synergy between ships to punch above their wieght, but for being built with what bits you had this fleet is pretty well rounded, 18 attackcraft wings, pretty decent spread of weapons batteries including a fair amount of range with the Tyrants and Overlord, good spread of lances, 2 Nova cannons and LOT of torpedos,its got pretty much everything covered and a lot more use of speed than anything I ever put tigether (I like big capital ship heavy fleets with a lot of full sized cruisers and above)
Gorgeous fleet, thanks for showing it off Ian!
Oh having played Battlefleet Gothic Armada 2 I recognize everything you said, except the Jovian, in BGA2 we get a grand cruiser called Exorcist with four launch bays.
I wish they sold these again.
nice models and intersting pic of histroy.
Ahh Battlefleet Gothic my favorite Warhammer 40,000 war game though I haven't played in many years. I had two main fleets (One Chaos and one Imperial) plus smaller Space Marine, Adeptus Mechanius, and Eldar fleets, a mixed Imperium and Chaos pirate fleet plus inherited Dark Eldar and Tau fleets I never played (Many of the other smaller fleets were all or partially inherited as well but I played them some)
My fleet builds are always Frigate or Raider heavy depending on the faction but if a wargame has Frigates my fleets are always Frigate heavy unless something in the rules prevents it or renders the concept non-viable.
That's really intresting always like seeing someone go a differenr route, I had a big Imperial Fleet and always went really cruiser heavy, only using escorts to use up left over points, I just preferred then better survivability of the larger ships, then again I didn't really build my fleet in the standard way, based it more around a US carrier group, using Ordnance to cover the usual job of escorts and most of the opponets in shop were orks or Chaos rarely went against Elder so that may of also shaled my experince.
This is a great video. Never heard of the that brand of Spray Cans. Going to check them out!
Great video. Loving these army/model spotlights. If I'm able to give a suggestion, it'd be great if you put a link to your patreon in the video description. It'd just make finding a way to support you a lot easier. Other then that, excellent video, can't wait to see more!
I loved this game. Wish they would bring it back.
That battlefleet gothic rulebook though....
I was obsessed with BG when it released, but tragically broke, so I only ever got the base game. Since none of my friends ever bought any, I only ever got to play the demo games in-store. My love of the game miiiiight also have to do with me working at a Subway at the time, so I was able to estimate distance with the Nova cannon uncannily well by measuring in sandwiches.
I had a modest five ship 1000 point fleet of five Luna's, all with Nova Cannons, and a slight conversion where I cut the lance batteries in half and had one half of each on wither side of the weapon batteries. Had them painted in the same grey gold and purple as my imperial guard. They had some amazing battlefield results, including arcing a nova cannon round a moon to obliterate a Dark Angels Battle Barge, aimed for an escort and it scattered.
Would love to see a campaing where you guys play 30k, but you all have a small fleet of gothic to represent the transport fleet for your respective legions.
oh man a Siege of Vraks compaign??? I've wanted to do Vraks on the tabletop in some way for years and years. I spent a lot of days between driving patients around daydreaming about Vraks on the table. Guardsmen in trenches, all the resin and plastic tanks, the lines of artillery, figuring out how to do endless waves of reinforcements, rocky crags and long dusty boards.
I also would love to see Battlefleet Gothic be a Thing again cause I would be happy to have a little spaceship game on the side. I grew up playing the X Wing games and have always felt enamored with little spaceships
SWEET Fleet ✌️💚
Watching your army (or in this case fleet) videos really makes me want to try Zenithal on some of my forces. For simple batch paint jobs, your minis look fantastic.
BATTLEREPOOORT!!!!!
Amazing 😍😍😍😍😍🤘🏼
Aww man, you left off how nightmarish the big ships were to build, so heavy, so many ill fitted pieces... Look great once they are built though :D
Oh yeah, the core of that battleship is probably 50% greenstuff!
Nice battleforce. Very consistent look to everything. The metal battleships really stress the flying stands to the limit . I drilled mine out and inserted a 2mm brass rod all the way through. Made a huge difference...
Yeah, I drilled the holes bigger and chopped the stem down so there's a wider point of contact!
Great trek down memory lane Ian! How did you convert the bridges of the battle cruisers? It looks like you used the back of the imperial battleships...
GW could release this as a one off boxed game and I'd be all over it, regardless of factions.
(gotta be imp vs tau tho right?)
Loved BFG, the PC games are great. I would love to see a revival. There just isn't any good space fleet games out there.
I want GW to bring this back. I love the Imperial Battleships. Might not play the game, but I want a few of those models.
its the 40k variation of Battleships, its fun it's cute, you name can name your ships,
Lovely video! Im just getting into BFG but with third party ships.
Did you ever do a batrep?
Very nice! I regrett never getting into BFG when it was availble :/
If you fancy a bfg game at t'club, then let me know. I have an imperial and a chaos fleet 😁 (and an eldar and space marine one unpainted!) 😝
On another topic, One page rules have an army list for squats. Just sayin'.
I recently started collecting and painting Dropfleet commander minatures. I wanted to get into Battlefleet Gothic but it seems to be out of print and dropfleet's rules are written by the same guy so close enough I guess.
I’m starting to build me a fleet. I want to use it for Horace heresy.
call me a Salamander space marine because I am green with envy
Montana paint... From the UK? Montana. Paint.
MONTANA
I wonder if we can use them for Horus heresy
Ian, I will take these miniatures off of your hands as a service to mankind! NO,NO you do not haff to thank me it is what I do.
Anyone else wince every time he used the word "army" instead of fleet?
Awesome! Gift us with a BR please!
niccceeeeee
Anyone know where I can tau fleet lists / ship profiles, please?
I rather play this than 40k
Dear god man its fleet ! not army fleet!..arrrrrrrrrrr...unsubscribing....im too lazy...till next time..