Battle Fleet Gothic

Keevan_Colton · Post by **Keevan_Colton** » 2006-07-09 03:34pm

I've been pondering which GW game might be best suited to forum play, other than Inquisitor, and I realized Gothic might be fun to play. With the aid of some basic jpgs we could play normally online, would anyone be up for that?

We could do a campaign or something.

Feil · Post by **Feil** » 2006-07-09 04:09pm

That could be very fun. The rulebook, and some extra goodies, are even published free online.
Games workshop. Free. Does not compute...
WTF. More?

Here's a spiffy automatic dice roller that could come in handy.
dice on the intarweb!

I guess we could make things work by creating a giant pile of ship jpegs and a gridsquare png (so the white could be set to transparent and then have the gridsquares be overlayed over the battle for measuring distances).

2000AD · Post by **2000AD** » 2006-07-09 04:35pm

It's not bad. It can be fun, but can also be very annoying.

Mobius · Post by **Mobius** » 2006-07-09 05:10pm

Feil wrote: Here's a spiffy automatic dice roller that could come in handy.
dice on the intarweb!

God dude, thanks a lot, i searched that kind of stuff for ages...

Thirdfain · Post by **Thirdfain** » 2006-07-09 05:28pm

OH, god, I'd love it. We MUST do this.

SirNitram · Post by **SirNitram** » 2006-07-09 07:50pm

Thirdfain wrote:OH, god, I'd love it. We MUST do this.

Remind me to be a different species from Thirdfain so I don't get caught in his webs of deceit.

Thirdfain · Post by **Thirdfain** » 2006-07-09 07:58pm

This is fuckin' Battlefleet Gothic, not some nancy-pansy lameass game of chit-chat and "diplomacy," or "extreme gayness" as I like to call it. There will be no deceit webs, just the silent thunder of cannon in space and the soundless screams of decompressing bodies.

Booyah.

SirNitram · Post by **SirNitram** » 2006-07-09 08:03pm

Thirdfain wrote:This is fuckin' Battlefleet Gothic, not some nancy-pansy lameass game of chit-chat and "diplomacy," or "extreme gayness" as I like to call it. There will be no deceit webs, just the silent thunder of cannon in space and the soundless screams of decompressing bodies.

Booyah.

Riiiiight.

Aw well. I suppose I could field the Duskguard Chapter if I joined. Redemption in death!

Acidburns · Post by **Acidburns** » 2006-07-09 08:09pm

I'd be interested in this for sure. I could lend a hand creating some ship jpegs too.

Thirdfain · Post by **Thirdfain** » 2006-07-09 08:10pm

SirNitram wrote:
Riiiiight.

Aw well. I suppose I could field the Duskguard Chapter if I joined. Redemption in death!

Whew. That tired me out. It might be time for my medicine now...

InnocentBystander · Post by **InnocentBystander** » 2006-07-09 10:46pm

A game of battlefleet gothic would rock, I love blowing up space ships

Imperial Overlord · Post by **Imperial Overlord** » 2006-07-10 04:14am

Definitely interested.

GeneralTacticus · Post by **GeneralTacticus** » 2006-07-10 04:16am

I'd be up for it.

Brother-Captain Gaius · Post by **Brother-Captain Gaius** » 2006-07-10 04:20am

Sounds like there's a lot of players already, but if you need more, I might be interested. I'd have to read up on the rules, but with Medusa V in full swing I'll often be relatively busy playing 40k games.

Which brings up another idea - you guys could log these battles into Medusa V too.

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2006-07-10 05:38am

sounds fun, the Pirate/Privateer Fleets of Isolde the Doomed shall ready themselves.

Dark Hellion · Post by **Dark Hellion** » 2006-07-10 06:27am

I'll play, just drop a PM whenever, I have an ok handle on the rules, and have some idea of what I am doing.

2000AD · Post by **2000AD** » 2006-07-10 06:58am

I'll give it a try. My imperial fleet desperately needs a win.

Feil · Post by **Feil** » 2006-07-10 08:42am

Brother-Captain Gaius wrote:Which brings up another idea - you guys could log these battles into Medusa V too.

Hey.. we could do that, now couldn't we....

That's a nice idea!

Azazal · Post by **Azazal** » 2006-07-10 08:55am

Just a little pimping here

but we have a forum played Space Hulk game going on over at Bolter and Chainsword might help give some ideas for you.

The Jester · Post by **The Jester** » 2006-07-10 11:01am

I'm very interested.

SirNitram · Post by **SirNitram** » 2006-07-10 11:15am

Feil wrote:
Brother-Captain Gaius wrote:Which brings up another idea - you guys could log these battles into Medusa V too.
Hey.. we could do that, now couldn't we....

That's a nice idea!

SDN Intelligent injected into the 40k Universe? That's madness! YOU'LL KILL US ALL!

Feil · Post by **Feil** » 2006-07-10 12:04pm

SirNitram wrote: SDN Intelligent injected into the 40k Universe? That's madness! YOU'LL KILL US ALL!

Pah.

Let the Galaxy burn.

[Nonsequitor]
Apparently, the blokes down at Games Workshop didn't feel like playing with a calculator while writing the 'Scale' portion of the BFG Rules.

Rulebook wrote:First of all – space is big! Very, very big. Take
your conception of a long way (ie, down to the
shops when it’s raining hard) and multiply it by a
million, then by another million… and then by
another million and you’re still not even close to
how far apart things are in space.

Now, if we take 'your conception of a long way'--let's call it, say, 10 kilometers--and multiply that by a million million millions.

That should give us something a bit more than a million light years.

Now, while if this were "Intergalactic Wars 4", or "In the grim darkness of intergalactic space, there is only background radation... and WAR!", that might be reasonable. However, I'm thinking they multiplied by one too many millions there. Just a feeling...
[/nonsequitor]

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2006-07-10 12:29pm

and since that warp storm near medusa five is providing lots of power for my red solar sails....

Feil · Post by **Feil** » 2006-07-10 10:08pm

Found the reference sheet and fleet sheet, plus some cutouts of squadrons and torpedos that might be moderately useful to us.
http://www.specialist-games.com/battlef ... layera.asp

So, how are we going to go about making representations of minis and a board-thing?

StarshipTitanic · Post by **StarshipTitanic** » 2006-07-10 10:35pm

I'm interested in playing, pretty please, since it's all free.