Goonhammer did a proper sum up on the core fleets (Imperial Navy, Chaos, Eldar Corsairs and Orks), and with having some solid, not too fancy or complicated to get into, I went with the classical set up of the Imperial Navy vs.
#Battle fleet gothic free#
He has a Gumroad Store as well as licensed traders, who offer his models printed, along with free files (like the ones below) for you to have go.Īs I want to keep it the way I do it with the other systems, having two factions to be able independently host a game, I have to choose two fleets.
I can not honour ItalianMoose enough for his support for this game. There are several STL producing artists, who offer gumroad, patreons and other means like Cults3D to sell their files. Details were amazing and I decided to go for the original scale, to be able to play with others and not just my own two fleets. So I went with the classic original scale of the game and some microfleet scaled models. But with the latest of technologies 3d printing is simply the largest market and somewhere between cheap to just barely reasonable.Īmong the first things I did try out, when I got myself a 3d printer, was printing some BFG models, to see for the scale itself (as that was something that Dystopian Wars messed up in my opinion) worked for me. There are other manufacturers like Vanguard Miniatures, who offer "classic" resin and metal cast miniatures with their Battlegroup Helios range. And some of the fleets repeatedly offered on eBay or other market places are clearly recasts at completely irresponsible prices. OOP BFG miniatures go for ridiculous amounts of money, I've seen things like 80 EURs for the chaos plastic cruiser boxes and other shenanigans. The biggest challenge will actually be the miniatures. The community starter kit is a great set to look into, as it covers tokens and even terrain to begin with, incl. So, a flat surface, 4 by 4 is fine for the beginning and a few ships (a small 500-750 point fleet is a good starting point). And as BFG is two dimensional (you don't need height information, as everything is measured from the stem of the flight base, you could make it work with cut outs and don't need three dimensional / plastic terrain. But with Battlefleet Gothic being a space game, you don't need that much terrain at all, a few asteroids would be enough to begin with. Most of the terrain you own from other systems probably won't suit this setup. What do you need to play Battlefleet Gothic?
#Battle fleet gothic for free#
That's the rules, you can pick them up for free in digital form (I'd love to recommend going on eBay, but the prices on BFG items are bonkers and shouldn't be paid) or if you're fine with one of the alternative rule sets, they are either free (as Full Thrust for example) or start rather reasonable around 12-15 EUR. And if you want to go specifically for the Horus Heresy / 30k - there is a supplement called Battlefleet Heresy. rules, tokens and even some STLs for you to print.
#Battle fleet gothic download#
There is even a free to download BFG starter kit on reddit, incl. You can find a lot of ressources on the old Specialist Games website or use the Battlefleet Remastered set (hosted among other places on DakkaDakka). But as Battlefleet Gothic is a former Specialist Game and went OOP, the community did, what it did with many of those and picked it up again and continued support in various forms like a Living Rulebook. Well, you can obviously try to get your hands on the old White Dwarfs if you're a absolute purist. Beside being the range that speaks to me the most, using Battlefleet Gothic miniatures / designs, would give me the option to tie in the games with other Warhammer-themed systems, that I have, similar to the way I can combine Bolt Action with Cruel Seas and Blood Red Skies.
They don't go bad and I could easily use a fleet of BFG ships with Full Thrust, A Billion Suns or the living rule book / remastered rule sets of BFG. The question is more about aesthetics, as I can use the miniatures for any rule set there is. there was Battlefleet Gothic in 1999 - introduced via White Dwarf and later released as an boxed game. There is Full Thrust by Ground Zero Games (a game with an incredible support in the German community), there was / is Firestorm Armada by Spartan Games (Warcradle picked it up again), Star Wars Armada (which I somehow count more like a board game) and is OOP from my point of view.
Of course, there are plenty on the market. I do have naval battles with Black Seas, and faster, skirmishes with Cruel Seas (both only covering the miniature range, not bound to the rule set) in my collection, but as I said, no sci-fi space battles. I have talked about it in my parking lot theory article, and I don't have any space battle games. Epic 30,000 was already introduced with my Imperial Fists, and Battlefleet Gothic so far only teased with the terrain article. There are three projects, that I'll take on with my 3d printer. 18Sep/22 0 Battlefleet Gothic – The Fleets
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