Items for Sale

Items for Sale

Don’t worry, ‘for sale’ posts like these shouldn’t be coming up too often. As the only real source of original BFG models is eBay, it quite often occurs that one bids on a listing which contains more ships than one needs. (Not that it would ever occur that one bids on a listing which contains no ships that one needs at all – not ever! …), and so, the spare ships have to go somewhere. I run an eBay account (which also sells antique books and other things from time to time). An up-to-date listing can be found there (link), but here’s just one delicious piece to whet your appetite.

 

 Please note the above Lunar has been sold, and pretty quickly at that! Looks like other people still play BFG...

New Ship (Chaos Torment)

Chaos Torment Light Cruiser (115 points)

 Emerging from developing port-worlds in the Eye of Terror, light cruisers are a new addition to the Chaos fleets. Of this frightening new development, the class known as Torment is by far the most common, representing over half of all the new patterns in use.

Lacking the long-range weaponry of the elder Heresy-era cruisers, Torments rely on speed and savagery at close range. Extremely lethal to convoys alone and a direct threat to capital ships when acting in wolfpacks. Additionally, they are far easier to construct and maintain than the full-sized heresy cruisers.

Lexati the Bloody, named for its sadistic captain, led a trio of Torments in lightning strikes against Imperial shipping, outmanoeuvring cruisers and outgunning escorts. A lucky shot smashed Lexati’s bridge, discoordinating the raiders. However, other competent Warmasters are increasing the construction of Torment and other light cruisers, in order to emulate Lexati’s earlier success.

Type/Hits	Speed		Turns	Shields	Armour		Turrets
Cruiser/6	30cm		90*	1	5+		1
Armament		Range/Speed		Firepower/Str.		Fire Arc
Prow weapons b.		30cm		4		Front/left/right
Port weapons b.		30cm		4		Left
Starb. weapons b.		30cm		4		Right
Dorsal weapons b.		30cm		4		Front/left/right

 

Famous Ships

Asurgent, Fanatica, Lexati the Bloody

Notes

Torments have advanced thrusters which provide +5d6 to movement when on All Ahead Full orders instead of +4d6.

The Torment class is packed with additional teleports, short-range boarding missiles, EMP launchers, and other short-range disruption techniques. Torment class ships gain a +1 bonus to Hit and Run attacks.

The Torment class cruiser is an entirely new hull design, and so a challenge to model. Wargames Romania have articles detailing how to kitbash, using one Imperial cruiser kit and one Chaos cruiser kit, each both an Imperial Grand Cruiser and a Chaos Light Cruiser, the design of the latter being perfect for a Torment class.

New Ship (Imperial Vanguard)

Imperial Vanguard Class Cruiser (170 points)

The Vanguard class is not a common sight, not due to unpopularity, expense, or difficulty of manufacture, but due to having a specialist role. The Vanguard is popular on the outer rims of the galaxy, in systems vulnerable to the dark sectors beyond known space. Increasingly, forces on the Eastern fringe are commissioning a single Vanguard class per fleet, especially by regions left empty by the Tyranid Hive Fleets.

Vanguards replace the traditional armoured torpedo prow with an advanced array of sensors, probes, and communication systems. They act as scouts and patrol ships for extended voyages and periods beyond the endurance of an escort or light cruiser.

Most of the Vanguard class swap raw firepower for additional range on their weapons batteries, in order to act more self-sufficiently without requiring fleet support. Some admirals argue that retaining the lance arrays is a waste on ostensibly an oversized scout vessel, but the dual array helps the Vanguard class engage enemy destroyers and raiders who would otherwise slip through the inaccurate weapon battery fire. Such was well-proven when the Beacon single-handedly engaged and disbanded a whole squadron of pirate frigates, forcing them to abandon a valuable hulk salvage on the edge of the Aoso system.

 

Type/Hits	Speed		Turns	Shields	Armour		Turrets
Cruiser/8	20cm		45*	2	5+		2
Armament		Range/Speed		Firepower/Str.		Fire Arc
Port lance b.		30cm		2		Left
Starb. lance b.		30cm		2		Right
Port weapons b.		45cm		4		Left
Starb. weapons b.		45cm		4		Right

Famous Ships

Hawkeye, Beacon

Notes

Vanguard class ships count their Leadership as +1 higher than usual after rolling.

Any Vanguard may remove all their Lances to increase the firepower of each Weapon Battery to 8.

Modelling a Vanguard can be done by taking a Lunar class cruiser and filling in the torpedo tubes. Then, add additional antennae and sensors, especially to the prow of the ship.

Welcome...

...to the first of (hopefully) many blog posts. This blog is primarily to indulge hobbyists of the classic tabletop game Battlefleet Gothic. I will be posting new rules, options, ships, stories, scenarios, perhaps even full campaigns and factions.

In time, I may tie-in Battlefleet Gothic with other games from the Warhammer 40,000 universe, BFG rules for novel universes, and perhaps similar sci-fi games that may interest the BFG player. We shall see! For now, I will aim for a post per week and already have a good few months lined up.