Battlefleet Gothic Ships and Bits

 In preparation for a starship encounter in my Wrath & Glory game I decided to finish up a few ships and bits for Battlefleet Gothic I've been meaning to get done for ages! Having done all this work, however, I'm not sure how well it's going to work with me just pointing my computer's camera at the star field and moving things around for everyone. I suppose, as always with role-playing, I will have to describe the events narratively as the game plays out... 

New stuff - not all of this is needed for the game this evening. 

Planet - the planet they are headed to is Xoxigar Primus - a Frozen Knight World. But this could really be any world swathed in heavy cloud cover - could just as easily be a cookhouse like Venus! 

Looking at this picture, I'm feeling like I might go back in and add some white dots to the base to look like distant stars and make the base blend in with the board. 

Two Chaos Cruisers - not actually needed for this evening, but they were almost done and I took the opportunity to finish them all off... 

Chaos Fighters - I think these were originally meant for Babylon 5...? I've never seen Babylon 5 and had no intention of ever playing the game - I just got a bunch of the ships in a trade thinking I'd use them for... well... some OTHER game. At the time I was probably thinking Full Thrust - which I still haven't played (and would still like to give it a go!). I'm also keen to try out A Billion Suns - from Mike Hutchinson, the author of Gaslands! These I thought looked closest to what I imagined Chaos Fighters would look like (give the look of some of their Hell Blade and Hell Talon atmospheric fighters! 

A few Torpedoes from Vanguard miniatures. I have a bunch more, I just didn't have bases for them when I was getting these ready last night. I may go back and paint some colour on these at some point - to differentiate types or who they might have been launched from (though their direction would generally indicate that! 

Imperial Fighters and Bombers! Again these, I think, are Babylon 5 models. I don't have any Imperil ships with launch bays (yet!) but I figured there could be some land-based fighters that could launch from Xoxigar Prime? If I'd had time, I would have bodged together some sort of orbital defence platforms (which could have included a few launch bays)... alas... 

Imperial Squadron - these minis are from Vanguard Miniatures. One was painted earlier, but I touched it up to match the others. The two smaller ones are listed as escorts on the Vanguard site... but the others are listed as "Heavy Frigate" and I'm not sure what to classify them as in Battlefleet Gothic. 

In Battlefleet gothic, everything is a Capitol Ship (Battleships and Cruisers) - with 6-12 hull points (damage that they can take) - or Escorts (Frigates and Destroyers - though destroyers seem to be smaller than frigates in the 41st millennium?) - with 1 hull point - they take ONE solid hit and they're GONE! Nothing in between?! These "Heavy Frigates" seem a bit beefier and loaded out with some heavier weapons than most escorts have... 

For scale.... Yeah, I'll probably call them escorts in the end.... just to make the situation a bit more desperate! 

This is the Chaos fleet the Players will be encountering tonight - all previously painted. (It doesn't matter if they happen to read this before this evening, they already know they're in the system.... and the first thing they'll be doing this evening is identifying the ships that have arrived in system) The Fleet is made up of a Cruiser - The Discordant - a Devastation Class Cruiser, and a squadron of Raiders (the DENTITE squadron) - Decadent, Dissident, and Despondent. Maybe I won't tell you WHO is on them just yet, though! 

This is the luckless ship the players happen to be on... (also previously painted)... A bulk transport headed to the world. 

They were halfway there with the CSDFC (Combined System Defence Fleet Command) ordered them to head back to Xoxigar Tertium, from whence they'd travelled (and were attempting to travel incognito) at which point they had the choice to turn back with the ship of pull their Inquisitorial Trump Card and press on to their destination... They decided to press on... 

The Chaos Fleet! Last year (I think...?) I traded a pile of painted Imperial Guard I'd picked up as part of a lot for a box full of assorted Battlefleet Gothic Chaos ships - the three raiders and a PILE of the plastic cruisers - most of the plastic cruisers were broken, so I've pieced these together and I may be able to BS one or two more...? Or I may just use the rest as wrecks and space debris... 

Now to find some Imperial Cruisers! 

I also have some other, larger Babylon 5 ships I thought I might try to pass off as Eldar ships of the Biel-Tim Fleet! Stay tuned for those! 

Coming Soon to Tim's Miniature Wargaming Blog:

Probably nothing for the next week... 

After that...? Perhaps a Game Round-Up for August?