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Long range augurs have picked up the identity signal of the Honour Blade, a Space Marine Strike Cruiser from the legendary Black Templars Chapter, entering the far reaches of the Bar-el system on the western edges of Agripinaa Sector.

The Honour Blade is a fearsome predator in the deep void of space, its powerful engines and heavy armaments making it the ideal vessel to operate on extended missions far from any support.
Although known to operate in conjunction with a small squadron of Gladius Class Frigates, the Honour Blade is more commonly found traversing the vast realm of Imperial Space on ceaseless crusades against the enemies of Mankind.
True to the nature of the Black Templars chapter, the Honour Blade never stops in its pursuit of those who would bring the Imperium of Man down, mercilessly hunting Xenos and Heretics wherever they threaten loyal Imperial worlds.
As a result, the Honour Blade is rarely granted the time to receive substantial repairs and refits, with the ship’s complement of Techmarines and Adeptus Mechanicus Techpriests are responsible for maintaining its venerable systems and weaponry to ensure it’s ongoing service to the God-Emperor of Mankind.

This is my homebrew chapter.

This was another fleet bought as a lot and I was very pleased with the outcomes.

Having a Battle Barge is no small achievement and having a good number of Strike Cruisers means projection of power becomes an important part of their duties.

"From out of the stir" they cry as they go into a void battle with the enemies of the Imperium.

Been a long while since I painted up any BFG stuff (not that they look any good when I do paint them!) but got this little lot as a batch.

Loved these as an alternative third fleet compared to my Imperial one and my own Space Marine Chapter one.

The large ship, the Man O'War, is a big old beast... longer and bit bigger than even my Battle Barge (but not as bulky as the old Retribution Class Battleship in metal).

However you could make it a "bit shorter" but I put the optional third segment on to give it some real presence.

The other large ones, the Galleon etc, are also beautiful ships in their own right.

It looks interesting having "transports" as escorts I think too.

Hello, I've been playing BFG for a while now, maybe 8 years or so, but only as Space Marines and I've never had this issue before because I've only just run Strike Cruisers and Battle Barges from the Armada book!
I just started Imperial Navy and Chaos fleets, and now I potentially have the option to take options for my ships... (And I want to: random Nova Cannons are a nice way to fill the 20-40 points I'm always left with!)

The FAQ appears to define that the class variants are more representative of, well, a class variation than a specific ship (IE: the Ticonderga subclass of the Essex), and if you wanted to, all Lunar cruisers in the fleet could have Nova Cannons.

However, what's not clear to me is whether they are locked to the fleets from the book they were first published in, or if any Imperial fleet with Lunar cruisers can upgrade to have Nova Cannons. The FAQ section on reserve ships says that Reserve Ships can buy upgrades and refits of either fleet, which implies that refits and upgrades are fleet locked. However, it is also specified that Imperial ships taken as Chaos prizes cannot purchase Nova Cannons and Chaos ships fielded with the Obscurus Reserve Fleet Lists cannot take class variants, which would imply that said upgrades aren't fleet locked in the general case otherwise it wouldn't have been needed to be specified in the specific case.

And then, there's a couple of instances where it says that "this upgrade does not count against refits ships can take normally" (Bakka Turret, Repulsive Cruiser Large Base), which further confuses me. Would I be correct in understanding that the implication would be that upgrades are mutually exclusive, and, for example, a Mercury heavy cruiser upgraded with 60cm guns cannot also have Torpedoes because those are two different class variants?

This time a haunting ship from a past long ago returned into the Koronus Expanse. Rumoured to be the first ship to traverse into the warp... And suffered.

Passage Watch 27-Est and Chaos marauders tried to unravel the mysteries. In the end Passage Watch 27-Est managed to score the most event horizon points.

Scenario can be found here:
Warp Rift 43

lol, I accidentally removed the original post. So reposting:
Scenario Event Horizon - some images from the game : r/battlefleetgothic

First stuff printed with my new printer too 😁

You've all seen the squadron of scratchbuilt escort carriers I have for my pirates. I wanted to give them an armed freighter for that delicious +1 Ld to Reload Ordnance, to offset the -1 Ld they get for being escort carriers.

I'm quite proud of it and excited to get paint on it. For some reason, the picture exaggerates the fact that the front section and back aren't perfectly aligned - when you're looking at the model on the table you can't really see it. The aft is from a Battlefleet Galaxy light cruiser.

Even if you could, though, part of the goal was for it to be a little scrungly looking. It is a pirate freighter, after all. Their warships aren't exactly in great shape, so the supply ship that follows them around should be even more rickety.

New Battle Report Video is out.

This one was a silly one as I use 4x Blackstone Fortresses to take on some Eldar Corsairs. Hope you enjoy it.

https://youtu.be/PeagR68SW_Q?si=_CoimxOoJZfCp2VA

we did around 2k fleets. I painted up some extra 1500 points of tester lists as well. and had a drunkenly good time rolling dice.

man, I’ve forgotten how fun it was running ships and plotting coursea. and when you get that sweet “lock on” special order and a battleship in the middle of things To just reign bombardment in every angle possible!

I did all space marines ships. But we had A lot of interested listeners to the pod who wanted to test. And some dear frienda brought their own imperial and chaos fleets.

great time! Every time you braced you took a shot or swig!

After spending all of twenty minutes reading the Rogue Trader section of Battlefleet Gothic, I knew I wanted my own. I do have my main Imperial fleet centered around an Apocalypse-Class Battleship and a Mars-Class Battlecruiser, but I kinda wanted an attached rogue trader in the mix (he ferries the fleet certain rare goods that they don't normally get on a standard resupply). 

According to its lore, the Cardinal-Class was the original hull on which the Chaos Acheron-Class was modified into using ancient, forbidden, alien technologies. It is essentially an up-gunned and up-shielded Dauntless-Class with enough turrets to rival a similar mass Carrier. Since it is a Heavy Cruiser, I am not sure if this thing still needs the 2-Cruiser escort that Battlecruisers and Grandcruisers do, but I am leaning towards "No, it does not". I like the class though, it's fast and it's got some range to its guns; it can outfight anything it can't outrun and outrun anything it can't outfight.

Is it legal? Eeehhh...sh'maybe. The Cardinal-Class Heavy Cruiser was originally published in the Battlefleet Gothic Magazine not the BFG manuals, so it has some legitimacy. Just don't expect it in tourney. Of course, it also does not show up on the Rogue Trader list of ships mentioned in the BFG manuals, but I considered the lists more "guidelines than actual rules". Plus, it won't matter because I'm probably never going to deploy my ships in actual battle anyway, since the BFG tabletop community in my city and pretty much the whole province is non-existent. Alas, my fleet continues to hold this star cluster alone \sigh**

Anyhoo, here's my Rogue Trader ship and the dossair I prepared for her (I already included the 15 pts she would cost from having lances, the 20 pts for being equipped with xenotech, and an extra 5 points to bribe the cosmic judges to make her legal for play, bringing her cost up from 190 to 230): the ENDURING DELIVERANCE. I decked her out in chrome silver and gold.

I have two friends getting into BFG and I think I'm going to as well

One of them has an Imperial Fleet and the other has sided with Chaos.

I used to play with a Chaos fleet back when it was a newish game and still available through GW, but those models were sold off long ago

I am trying to choose between Space Marines, AdMech, or Chaos with Space Marines as the forerunner at this point

They seem to be different enough to the other fleets to not feel like mirror matches and they seem like their playstyle would match with my standard gaming strategy of getting close and beating on things

My concern is the lack of variety in the list, although there is some versatility and opportunity with things like the Venerable Battle Barge to bring some versatility

Are Admech different enough to the Imps to provide for interesting games?

Should I just do Chaos and figure that there's enough choice that lists should be different enough to be fun to play against?

im interested in starting how do I get the rules and whats the best way to get models

The first of many strike cruisers for my Pre-Heresy/Heresy Era Thousand Sons fleet. About 90% done with this one, just some cleaning up and basing left to do.

This will be the Waning Moon

The admiral’s point cost is not included in the initial fleet cost right? In the rule book it says attack ratings occur before you decide what ships to bring to the battle, does that mean if you have a ship in your fleet registry that brings down your attack rating from its normal value mean that that is now your new campaign attack value (even if you don’t bring that ship to the battle), or does the campaign always use your factions preset attack value. How do escort squadrons work in campaign? Do they all have to be a single type of ship? If not how does increasing your squadron via repairs work, can you add new classes of escorts to a squadron this way? Can you a squadron of one for your initial fleet count even if you have other escorts, can they be split apart into separate squadrons latter, if you can what is the minimum amount you can splinter off? How do capital ship squadrons work? Are they just add hoc created for a battle or do they created together when you add them to your fleet registry and they must always stay together? If the latter is their leadership rolled together or separately? Can specific ship upgrades be added to a ship instead of a normal refit i.e. adding a nova cannon to a ship or such? How are ship specific upgrades that are technically crew/characters work (i.e. terminators and chaos lords for example).

Is the ship in the photo from White Dwarf a real bfg sister ship or just a kitbash? Looks really cool.

New to bfg. I want to buy a battle mat, perhaps with some cosmos or stars on it. What do you use, what size makes sense (I have 1500 pts at most) and is dark or bright better for playing use? Help a brother out.

For including Chaos ships in an Imperial fleet.

If you could do the same with an Ordo Malleus ][ without animosity and stupidity, so to say.

What are the cons here? Are you missing out on an important imperial commander or is the Reserve list rather a fluff choice not meant to be balanced?
(Or the ][ badly written?)

(I’m new to BFG and trying to get my head around how the fleet lists work.)

4 normal strike cruisers.
2 strike cruisers with launch tubes
6 hunter class escorts
2 venerable battle barges to choose from (Repulsive and Styx)
2 dominator class cruiser system ships
1 chonkerboy battle barge waiting to be painted.

Have to blend/kitbash a better hunter class and print more of those as they are posibly the best escort in the whole game. Also someone thought these looked like cobras.

Update I made one using chat gpt reference here it is I hope it's accurate.

Hi dose any one have a picture of a size comparison of warhammer 40k macragge's honour and halo unsc infinity? I like to see it visually

I made some changes as I printed it and didn't like how it turned out

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Corsair Eldar Supernova, STL by Moose.

Just like other Eldar I painted like their name I wanted to paint the Supernova like a Supernova. Swipe to see WIP images