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? 

Void Ships of the 41st Millennium

I totally thought Games Workshop was going to drop a new version of Battlefleet Gothic this year. I mean, in the last few years they've rereleased Necromunda and Blood Bowl and Adeptus Titanicus and some other fabulous new games... So I thought it was only a matter of time... But it didn't happen this year. I'm kind of glad. If it was anything like the new Adeptus Titanicus, it'd probably be a GAINT $400CAD boxed set with, like, two Imperial cruisers and two Chaos cruisers and a handful of escorts for each in a TOTALLY DIFFERENT SCALE from the previous editions...

And it would have BROKE me...

I've gone more than a little overboard in the last year or so with the 40K stuff and,  more recently, all the Necromunda stuff...

But still... I WOULD love to be able to play some space actions - whether as part of a 40K/Apocalypse campaign or to play out any action that came up in a Wrath & Glory campaign - whether the characters are working for a Rogue Trader or and Inquisitor, there are definitely opportunities for some Void Ship battles!

last week a local dude posted some old Chaos BFG ships on the local miniature trade/sale Facebook group - and I snapped those up. Didn't even have to pay out any cash, I traded him some of the Imperial Guard I picked up in the summer that I have absolutely NO USE FOR!!

There were SEVEN old plastic Chaos Cruisers and three escorts. Most of the Cruisers were damaged and so I had to steal bits from some to repair others, In all I'll have four or five useable ones - which is probably more than I need as I have no Imperial Cruisers!!



The start of a Chaos Fleet. I was king of thinking Slaanesh when painting these - perhaps delivering a contingent of Emperor's Children and NOISE MARINES to a Warzone!

I was trying to do these all very quickly - so these were mostly just painted gold and washed with purple wash and then drybrushed gold (the one in the front has been given a wash with a Flesh Tearers Contrast Red... but I didn't like it, so it got a wash with the purple as well...).

I'm not entirely sure what class of Cruiser that is. I think it may have been put together with parts from a couple different kinds? Perhaps it's a Devestation class cruiser? If anyone actually knows anything about Battlefleet Gothic - feel free to help me out here!!

The smaller ones, I'm pretty sure, are Infidel Class Raiders.



This one had the bubbles of green stuff already on it and was missing a bunch of turrets... so I added the tentacles and giant eyestalk and decided to call it a Nurgle Deamon Plague Ship - of some sort...? Maybe a Hades Class Heavy Cruisers...?

While I was at it, I decided to knock off a few other ships as well!



These are a pair of Imperial-ish ships I picked up from Vanguard Miniatures... oh... a year or more ago...? I was trying to get a Rogue Trader campaign off the ground (pre-Wrath & glory) and wanted a few gen-u-ine-looking imperial ships to represent the Rogue Traders ships. These are pretty tiny. I do have a few more of these and slightly larger one as well.

The one ship can easily be passed off as an Imperial Transport. The other a Destroyer of some sort? The slightly larger ones I have still to paint should be able to stand in as Frigates... not sure how ANY of these are going to fair against a Chaos fleet with CRUISERS!!!

I guess if I actually get PLAYING I'll just need to pick up a few more Imperial ships - either from eBay or a few more of these fro Vanguard.



I'm not sure where these came from. I'm pretty sure I bought them over a decade ago as part of a large lot of assorted space ships. I was hoping I could pass them off as some sort of Ork Attack Ship...? (Red makes them go FASTER!)

I also have a few chucks of bark that I've been gluing bitz to, to make into Ork Roks.



Two of these - the blue and green ones - I'm pretty sure are from Battletech (Aerotech?). The orange one... I'm not so sure. I'm not sure what I could pass these off as...? Perhaps the ships of some minor alien race(s) in the T'au empire...?



The lot of them - for a sense of scale.

The bases are 40mmx40mm 1/8" thick MDF.

and now that those little distractions are out of the way, I think it's time for a Workbench Hard Reboot!



Things have gotten... a little cluttered...

There are some miniatures I SORT OF planned to be working on... (Necromunda).. but there are also dozens of others that have snuck on as distractions - or that have simply been there for AGES but I can't bring myself to clear them off because they're SO CLOSE to being DONE!? I think to get back on track with THE PLAN, I'm going to have to do just that - EVERYTHING GOES! 



Okay... Maaaaaybe I'll keep the Ambul Hulk on there... because, it's really just his BASE I need to finish up - and without other distractions that should be done in very little time...



I'm tempted to leave this Tallarn Mortar Squad on there as well... because it finishes off a WHOLE DETACHMENT! Not that I've played 40k in few months... or plan to at any point in the immediate future...

and...

and...

GAH!?

We shall see...

That's today's project. clear it all off and make space to get some HELLBOY miniatures painted - as of today Xmas is ONE MONTH (30 Days) away - and I have a LOT of Hellboy stuff to paint up if we're going to start playing that on Xmas Day!


Coming Soon to Tim's Miniature Wargaming Blog:

Still have a few of those Gang posts to finish up...

After that...? Well, hopefully, some pics of HELLBOY miniatures getting painted up! I am also planning to play Necromunda on Sundays for the rest of the year - and into the new year, so there should be game reports of those coming up next week.

More Space Stuff

Carrying on with the sci-fi stuff….

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Thanks to El Grego I an now able to identify some of these space ships if found in some “junk” boxes. This one is actually just PART of a Behemoth Class Battleship from Grenadier’s Stellardate: 2998 range of crafts. As I'm not sure I ever even HAD the fore section I'm just going to use this as-is...

I have a few more I’ll be painting up over the next little bit, as well as a few Aerotech2 ships I just picked up off ebay… and maybe some Silent Death minis I’ve set my sights on…

Meanwhile, down “Dirtside”, on the skirmish side of things…


These are two Future Troopers of some sort from I-Kore’s VOID game. I picked up a PILE of these out of a bargain bin for $1 per pack… I just don’t get it… People just can’t see past minis that are tied to systems being useable for anything other than THAT SYSTEM…


As alluded to in the previous post I have a few Games Workshop Imperial Guardsmen I’m painting up as well to be the above troopers nemesis – a rival mercenary outfit that always happens to turn up on the opposing side, no matter where they go…

Unidentified Flying Object

I’ve been a little distracted lately…

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I have no idea of the manufacturer of this ship. I’ve had it for at least 20 years and for most of that it’s been sitting in a box of junk, half-painted. The base I made for it might seem a bit huge, but I made it pretty big for a number of reasons. For one I have a very big game table - space ships really shouldn't get all that close anyway. Bigger = more stable- lee likely these big ships will tip over on the table or in the storage drawer. Also It will keep them from being knocked about into each other when in the storage drawer.

I guess I'm going to need some new storage drawers... hmmmm....

Lately I’ve been having a hankering to play some starship combat so I dug this, and a couple others, out of said box o’junk to paint up and fly around the galaxy (oh, and I picked up a few more off ebay, which should be arriving shortly…).

I’m not entirely sure what system I’ll use. It will likely be Savage Worlds as we’re all familiar with it… with a few tweaks we were able to have some pretty darn awesome sailing ship battles….

Though I’ve always been interested in Full Thrust. I played Dirtside and Stargrunt – by the same publisher - long, long ago (in a galaxy far, far away…?) and always wanted to give Full Thrust a try…

Coming soon on Tim’s Miniature Wargaming Blog:

Maybe some elves… maybe some more space ships… maybe some sci-fi skirmish stuff… maybe another Seven years War battle report… never can tell these days…