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Battlefleet Gothic

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I don't know if any of you guys are a fan of the mini's genera. Did anyone here ever play games workshops short lived Battlefleet Gothic.

That game was pretty fun.

Some of the stuff I liked from there.

1. Massive torpedoes

Were talking about ship killers that you had to move the ship out of the way from and could use to move other guys ships out of areas that you wanted to go into.

2. Boarding action

You could fire "boarding torpedoes" and basically take over a ship or failing at that sabotage large sections of it.

3. Ramming / Fire Ships

Some ships could ram it was pretty sweet some could also function like a big torpedo.... that was awesome.

4. The ships had sections you could knock out an engine ... that was pretty cool.

5. Ships could really blow up

As in they would implode and take down anyone who happened to be near them that was pretty awesome.

6. Some ships as i recall could use gravitic and solar wind effects

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Reply #151 from Sins Forums Top
inert told me the tau cap is completley done so on to the next ship!

in other news now galaxy forge is out some maps for the mod would be cool if anyone wants to do some i'd find a suitable reward ;p the maps would prefferably concentrate on the eastern fringe of the 40k galxy around ,if memory serves me corectly, the ultima segmentum and the tau 3rd expansion
Reply #152 from Sins Forums Top
The Barracuda, the Tau's Interceptor


There's a closer picture on the Modcraft thread, but I warn you it's damn ugly up close due to it's size.
Star Control: Origins
Reply #153 from Sins Forums Top
And now their bomber, the Manta flying fortress (Updated Size Comparison on you-know-where)

Reply #154 from Sins Forums Top
You guys are kicking ass on these models. Great job. How about working on BSG ones for us on the side?
Reply #155 from Sins Forums Top
only if you can get us some textures spartan ;) and or some more uvmapage but atm i think we may have that covered...

no to somthing completley diferent... a an with 3 buttocs. we have code now thanks to blair so soon we should see some of these exelant models in game... if we can get a converter from .3ds/.max
Reply #156 from Sins Forums Top
i hate this mesage board now bloody repeated posts...

the emperor protects
Reply #157 from Sins Forums Top
This looks pretty slick. My b/f wasn't into this game when he was watching me play it, but after I showed him this thread he really wants to get into it >_>

Good work guys. Truely amazing stuff.
Reply #158 from Sins Forums Top
cool we got someone into this gae =) as soon as i can get some emmiters going on il get some screenies of the cap ships dishing it out at one another
Reply #159 from Stardock Forums Top
I WOULD love to see chaos imperial tau tyranid and other ships in this!it would just rock.
Reply #160 from Sins Forums Top
@Prezo - give me an example of what you guys need and I'll see if I can find similar stuff.
Reply #161 from Sins Forums Top
I completely support a battlefleet gothic mod! even if it was just a reskin on all the current ships and buildings

heres wishing to pilot planet killer!
Reply #162 from Sins Forums Top
ok time to let out a few secrets. first of all if possible there will be a planet killer. how it will be implemented is as such. each race will be very diferent from each other cos thats how they are in tt but we are also giving each race a focus for instance the imps will be very defenceive and the chaos will have very heavy cap ships

also in sins you have superweapons, lots of people think that sins dident pull them off very well, so we will have them too but in another form each race will ,if we can find a sutable unit (in fluff or rules), have a unit that epitomises their speciality the forces of chaos will there for have the planet killer the biggest baddest cap ship in the game, and the imps will have the ramalies class star fort a bloody huge defenceive waepon with the firepower equivilent to some of the biggest battleships (16 squadrons of strike craft anyone  :D ) these are in my opinion good super units cos they are capable of turning the tide and keeping it turned we dont know about the tau but sugestions are welcome they will be concentrating on strike craft (their 2 main caps are carriers) anyway very soon we will have a internal pre-alpha to start geting ideas in game

the emperor protects
Reply #163 from Sins Forums Top
Hmm, you need Wh40k fluff? I'm your man :)

When someone says Chaos, I'm thinking "Blackstone fortress".
For Tau, it's a bit more difficult, as they're not really into big massive ships. It might be the Custodian class, but you've probably allready got that in as a capship. Maybe the Kroot Warsphere?

for the imperials I don't know if a fortress is the best way to go, as it doesn't move. Maybe one of the Battlecruisers would be a better choice, allready massive ships. Victory class, with big Heavy Lance batteries, or Retribution Class, with a massive broadside both sound very imperially :)

*disclaimer, I had to look up all of those names, except Blackstone and warsphere ;)
I need to find a BFG group again.


Also, why did I neglect this thread.... curses
Reply #164 from Sins Forums Top
@Alcari - Cool! I just know Prezo & Inert would love to have another hardcore person working on the team.
Reply #165 from Sins Forums Top
Hmm...Imperial Battleship...lances...Gotta make it the Apocalypse class. ;)

Activated Blackstones for Chaos would be evil.

Tau...Here's a thought I had. Tau tend to get a fair number of Imperial defectors. Might be worth keeping in mind if you need to fill any gaps.

I've always had a soft spot for BFG so if I have any other ideas I'll toss 'em up here.
Reply #166 from Sins Forums Top

@Alcari - Cool! I just know Prezo & Inert would love to have another hardcore person working on the team.


don't forget me! I'm the resident rules nerd!


When someone says Chaos, I'm thinking "Blackstone fortress".
For Tau, it's a bit more difficult, as they're not really into big massive ships. It might be the Custodian class, but you've probably already got that in as a capship. Maybe the Kroot Warsphere?


we thought about each of these pretty hard, and while we like the blackstones, implementing them would be rather hard as a mobile force like the planet killer, because chaos' focus is really on the heavy caps vying for glory and killing loads of imperials along the way as well as their focus on the attack. If you have any ideas, i'd absolutely love to hear them, because I want to have a reason to put blackstones ingame.

About the warsphere, it's a good idea, but iirc a retrubution class battleship tore a warsphere to shreds through "fire superiority" (old tau codex, section on the damocles gulf crusade, so while big and scary, it's kind of slow and undergunned. While I like the idea, the lore rejects it too harshly. The tau are kind of hard to brainstorm because that's the only big scary thing they have in their lore other than crazy good diplomats and traders.

Also, we have plans (and I have the .entity files for chaos and some for tau) to make all ships for all races, and all the variants of ships for the shorter-handed races, so if you really like a ship in either the standard rules or armada, it will be in the mod (eventually).

If you want to join in, contact us on our modcraft thread:

WWW Link

If you really want to contact me without joining because you have a really awesome idea:

AIM: memyselfi1119
MSN: [email protected]

We welcome all who want to join, especially those who come up with plenty of ideas.
Reply #167 from Sins Forums Top
as x said all ships will be in IF it can work and pending how many slots there are on the build menu's we will add armarda ships and even the book of nemesis (a fan made armarda style book) which has some very nice ships in it

blackstones are a hard one while they are mobile they are slow and activated ones are unbalancing to the max and also would have no counterpart in any other race. id love to add them too but i just dont see how.

ideas thats a resource we will never need less of and mor fluff heads is good cos from past experiance 1 fluff head will miss or miss-enterpret somthing and it could open alot of doorways (hapened with me on the adeptus mech mod for DoW)

anyways i can be reached at jjprezo@hotmail or gmail and my msn/aim are the same so feel free to send me an email if you cant get on to x

the Emperor protects
Reply #168 from Sins Forums Top
the tua super weapon could be a massive rail gun that luanches planet killer astroids
Reply #170 from Sins Forums Top
@xthetenth - sorry brother. I tend forget names, especially odd ones, but not meaningful community contributions or those that do the deeds like yourself.
Reply #171 from Sins Forums Top
Well, you could always make up a ship for the Tau to use as there supership. Just create something that would seem plausible in the 41st millennium and fit in with their style of attack and their fleets strengths.
Reply #172 from Sins Forums Top
Well, the Warhammer universe already has it's fair share of planet killing weapons.
Virus bombs and Cyclone torpedos and at least one weapon I'm forgetting.

I'm sure chaos managed to get a few of those during the Heresy. As for Tau, it's not really their style. It's hard to pratice Tau'va when you reduce the population (or the planet) to smoldering ruins.
Reply #173 from Sins Forums Top
Exterminatus, one result, multiple tools =)

Virus bombing is nice, Cyclonic Torpedoes to burn the atmosphere are fun, but I don't see the Tau doing either of those. Tau = Culture war? Join the Greater Good and you will be rewarded.
Reply #174 from Sins Forums Top
we have discussed them having a super ability thing that makes their culture and trade proffits skyrocket and i liked that one