Brandon 122 Posted June 6, 2020 Report Share Posted June 6, 2020 Hey everyone! Hope your quarantine time is going well. I have aquired most of the items I need to play Battlefleet Gothic, well like 50%. Does anyone want to school me in a game or two? I am still learning how to play and am looking at acquiring a 3D printer to fill out the rest of my fleet soon. I currently have a Mars Class, 2 Dictator Class, and Chaos Cruiser. As far as other items, I don't have much. I need to print off all the cutouts, mines, torpedos, flighters, etc. I do have the original rulebook, all the updated versions, addons, rulebooks, etc. Still trying to learn how to play and would love some help! I am painting these to match my Sons of Medusa army since why not keep it all fluffy! Here is what I painted today: andozane, Torg, scotthartman and 1 other 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ish 5,696 Posted June 7, 2020 Report Share Posted June 7, 2020 Battlefleet Gothic is one of my favorite games GW ever produced. Sadly, my beloved Imperial Navy fleet was lost in the Warp ages ago... But, man, just seeing those pics has me tempted to scour eBay. WestRider and Brandon 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Torg 1,191 Posted June 7, 2020 Report Share Posted June 7, 2020 I’d love to try my hand at BFG again Brandon 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Brandon 122 Posted June 7, 2020 Author Report Share Posted June 7, 2020 Awesome Torg! My replacement fight stands sound be in a week or so. I'll message you and we can figure something out! Ish my plan is to 3d print my fleet. These models came into my hands for a steal but they are in rough shape. With the new Elegoo Saturn printer I'm trying to purchase, one could theoretically print a fleet overnight cheaper than 1 used model on eBay. We will see! Torg 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ish 5,696 Posted June 7, 2020 Report Share Posted June 7, 2020 Yeah, I took a quick poke at eBay tonight while making dinner. A single plastic imperial or Chaos cruiser – the kind you got a half-dozen of in the starter box – is selling for $18-20. I also had a quick look-see on Thingiverse, but only found one or two ships, which didn’t look like great sculpts. Mind you, I just searched for “Battlefleet Gothic,” so I’m sure I could have found more if I got more creative with my keywords to find the pirate fleets with their lawyer-bot dodging names. (Battlefleet Art Deco?) What version of the rules were you thinking? The last “official” version of the rules is Battlefleet Gothic 2010, which complies all of official updates made by GW and the “semi-official” work of community members via the old Specialist Games Program before GW axed it. All the main rules, the all official fleets, plus new fleets for the Adeptus Mechanicus, Inquisition, and Rogue Traders, and the Tau. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Brandon 122 Posted June 7, 2020 Author Report Share Posted June 7, 2020 Yeah Thingiverse is a black hole trying to find models. I have downloaded a plethora of 40k stuff and some BFG files that I can share. The STL files are there, you just have to keep looking, and looking, and looking... A quick treasure trove find:https://www.thingiverse.com/Italianmoose/designshttps://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2797426https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4370097 I think I want to use the latest rules like you linked. I found a few tournaments that run BFG games (like Adepticon) and they use the latest rules. Are the latest rules what everyone uses? WestRider 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ish 5,696 Posted June 7, 2020 Report Share Posted June 7, 2020 52 minutes ago, Brandon said: Are the latest rules what everyone uses? In all honestly, I haven’t the foggiest idea... I haven’t played BFG in 15+ years. When the first edition of Firestorm: Armada was released, it caught on like wildfire in my local group (with several players bringing their BFG fleets out of mothballs and using them as proxies) and I stopped paying attention to the (lack of) development for BFG. But I haven’t even played Firestorm Armada in over a decade... I’ve got a real weakness for spaceship combat games. Even clunkers like Starfleet Battles or overly-complex trigonometry maths exams like Saganami Island Tactical Simulator... WestRider 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
andozane 2,046 Posted June 7, 2020 Report Share Posted June 7, 2020 You’d think I know how..... WestRider, Brandon, Ish and 1 other 2 1 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ish 5,696 Posted June 7, 2020 Report Share Posted June 7, 2020 Hey guys, check this out:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TlwdXbZow0OafZNL2yzkZR2r4mPi3Pko/view WestRider 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Brandon 122 Posted June 8, 2020 Author Report Share Posted June 8, 2020 14 hours ago, Ish said: Hey guys, check this out:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TlwdXbZow0OafZNL2yzkZR2r4mPi3Pko/view I was going to get this printed actually! Here are the printing specs: https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/786349.page 16 hours ago, andozane said: You’d think I know how..... YES!! Now that is a collection! You have so many ships. No idea what they all are, but they look fun. Can't wait to get my flight stands so I can start playing games. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ish 5,696 Posted June 8, 2020 Report Share Posted June 8, 2020 Oh, this all reminds me! There's a new game due out soon from the author of Gaslands, called A Billion Suns. The game was originally supposed to release in August, no word yet on whether or not it's been delayed due to 2020 being, well, 2020.Hey, here's a crazy idea Ish: Why don't you look $#!+ up before your post! -Me Shaddup. Mom never loved you anyway. -Me to Me So it turns out that the game has been delayed until 2021. But they have extended the playtest period. WestRider 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Brandon 122 Posted June 9, 2020 Author Report Share Posted June 9, 2020 50 minutes ago, Ish said: Oh, this all reminds me! There's a new game due out soon from the author of Gaslands, called A Billion Suns. The game was originally supposed to release in August, no word yet on whether or not it's been delayed due to 2020 being, well, 2020.Hey, here's a crazy idea Ish: Why don't you look $#!+ up before your post! -Me Shaddup. Mom never loved you anyway. -Me to Me So it turns out that the game has been delayed until 2021. But they have extended the playtest period. Seems cool. I downloaded the rules and will check them out tonight. My flight bases shipped, so maybe I will have my stands by this weekend. andozane 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Brother Glacius 1,809 Posted June 20, 2020 Report Share Posted June 20, 2020 There is also Firestorm Armada...a bit easier to find cheap fleets, might be able to use those models.... Andrewgeddon 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ish 5,696 Posted June 20, 2020 Report Share Posted June 20, 2020 Firestorm: Armada is my absolute favorite spaceship combat game. Andrewgeddon 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Andrewgeddon 925 Posted June 21, 2020 Report Share Posted June 21, 2020 20 hours ago, Ish said: Firestorm: Armada is my absolute favorite spaceship combat game. Always wanted to play it, thought the models looked amazing. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ish 5,696 Posted June 21, 2020 Report Share Posted June 21, 2020 It's not for nothing that it is routinely described as "the game Battlefleet Gothic should have been" in reviews of the game. Unfortunately, Spartan Games had a weird form of "Gamer ADHD." It's not uncommon for nerds, like you and me, to bounce from game to game, project to project, and never sticking with anything quite through to completion. Unfortunately, Spartan Games did the same thing with their product lines: Uncharted Seas, Firestorm Armada, Dystopian Wars, Dystopian Legion, and on and on... It seemed like they were releasing a new game every three months. Not just small little boxed board games, no, each one was a full wargame with a range of factions and models that each rivaled what Privateer Press was offering for WarmaHordes at the time. Unfortunately, they were a much smaller company... like four full-time employees. They also worked exclusively in resin. Quality was top-notch, but delays were common. Long delays too... Like, six months to a year behind schedule. Some games were dropped from production without any announcement (Uncharted Seas), others were never released and then dropped from the schedule after they had taken preorders (Firestorm's 28 mm skirmish game), and basically everything else that you could do wrong as a miniatures company. WestRider 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jesselowe 126 Posted June 21, 2020 Report Share Posted June 21, 2020 Also, all of their games built on the Dystopian Wars engine - including Firestorm Armada - took hours to play, and not in a good way. I always felt like they were at least twice as long as they should have been. I understand that the final version of the game addressed some of the pacing issues, but by then I'd moved on. (Not to mention they got the Halo license and biffed it. Which is a damn shame.) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Brother Glacius 1,809 Posted June 21, 2020 Report Share Posted June 21, 2020 Wayland Games now owns the license for FA and DW...they have plans on re-releasing both games eventually. The rules for DW are in a beta state now and they do look more streamlined. Time to play was always the killer of those games. Planetfall was my favorite system and played very well. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ish 5,696 Posted June 21, 2020 Report Share Posted June 21, 2020 I only ever played Firestorm Armada during its first edition. Never felt like it had any major pacing problems, although it did seem like it would have broken down if fleets got too large. It was certainly smoother than a lot of other spaceship combat games that I had played previously (Starfleet Battles, Saganami Island, Attack Vector) although not quite as simple as some that have come later (Star Wars: X-Wing)... I am still eagerly awaiting the release of A Billion Suns. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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