11/2/2007
- Adeptus Mechanicus ships are now
available on the GW UK website
(including the battleship which was
delayed due to casting issues).
The GW US website only lists
the cruisers as available at this
time. Rules for Adeptus
Mechanicus ships have been posted as a
pdf on the Specialist
Games
website.
6/25/2007
- GW
UK is now taking Advance
Orders for 3 new Adeptus Mechanicus
ships due out August 4th, the
Battleship, Cruiser, and Light
Cruiser.
Adeptus
Mechanicus Battleship |
Adeptus
Mechanicus Cruiser |
Adeptus
Mechanicus Light Cruiser |
2/3/2007
- An updated rulebook for Battlefleet
Gothic is now available from
their online store or through GW
retailers plus as a free
download as multiple PDF
files. Rules have been updated
and version 1.5 FAQ added. The
boxed starter set will no longer be
available so all the templates and
player aids are also available as free
downloads.
5/8/2005
- Now available from Forge World,
the Tau Courier Transport, 3 for £6.00.
12/10/2004
- Forge World has posted
information on 2 new large Tau ships
available for pre-order. The
minis are scheduled to ship on January
17th. The Custodian is a fleet
carrier able to transport 3 Warden Gunships
and the Protector is a large cruiser.
11/6/2004
- Now available from GW UK, the
Eldar Flame Of Asuryan, Yriels
Flagship, and the Kroot War-Sphere.
The
new site includes the Battlefleet
Gothic Living Rulebook,
basically a free, downloadable PDF
version of the familiar BFG
'blue book' rulebook from the boxed
set. This Living Rulebook
is intended to act as an update to the
rules, and allows player to download
revised versions of the rulebook as
they update the printed version when
it needs to be re-printed.
9/29/2004
- The Craftworld Eldar ship miniatures
are now available from Games
Workshop US.
8/2/2004
- Now listed on the GW UK
online store as advanced orders are
the Craftworld Eldar miniatures,
Dragonship, Wraithship, and Shadow Hunters.
The release date is September 7th.
5/27/2004
- GW US now lists Armada
on their online store and it should be
showing up in stores later this week.
4/28/2004
- Per the latest GW US news
release, available May 1st in stores, Battlefleet
Gothic Magazine #19 and Nicassar
Dhows Escort miniatures ($9.00 for a
pack of 4). They are currently
listed on the US Online Store.
Reports
are Armada will be released in
the US on May 24th
4/22/2004
- Now listed on the US online store,
Tau Orbitals and Tau Messenger class
escorts.
Plus
there are reports that Fanatic Mag
#1 was now out and BFG Magazine
#19 has shown up in the mailbox of
subscribers in the US.
4/18/2004
- There are several reports of Armada
now being available in the UK, even
selling out pretty quickly form mail
order but more were due. No
official word on US dates for this or BFG
Mag #19 but there were some rumors
on an early May date for Armada.
3/16/2004
- Word is Armada has gone to
the printer after the last bits were
wrapped up. It will take about a
week to typeset and then another month
before it should be available. Thus it
could be available in the UK about the
third week in April and in the USA
about three weeks afterward. See
the news from 4/6/2003
for more information on Armada.
2/19/2004
- Reports are in from the UK, BFG
Magazine #19 has shown up in their
mailbox. Rogue Trader Fleets, The
Lithesh War and the Tau fleet are
included in this issue.
2/7/2004
- Now available for pre-orders from Forge
World, the Tau Castellan
escort. It is approximately 50%
larger than the Tau Warden escort
released earlier. Pre-orders
will be sent the week of March 1st.
2/6/2004
- BFG Magazine #18 is now
available from GW US and is
listed on their online store.
Only one more issue of BFG Magazine
before BFG content is
folded into the combined Fanatic
magazine.
1/23/2004
- Reports are coming in from the BFG-list
yahoo group that BFG Magazine #18
is now out. Contents include the
Elaysion Crusade campaign, the
conclusion of the Eye of Terror
Campaign for BFG, and
official Tyranid rules.
11/15/2003
- The Specialist
Games website recently had a
Picture of the Day of the Eldar Void
Dragon. This would probably be
available in mid 2004.
11/10/2003
- Forge World announces another
new Tau starship miniature, the Warden
class Gunship:
I
think Dean showed you our first Tau
ship for Battlefleet Gothic a few
weeks ago didn’t he? Well Will Hayes
was the man responsible and he has
just made another Tau ship, in less
than a day! http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/warden.htm
This is the Tau Warden Class gunship.
This is an escort size ship that
travels through the warp linked to a
Tau capital ship using one of the
larger ship’s Gravitic Hooks. And
yes, there are more ships and at least
two great space stations to follow
soon!
£6.00
for a pack of 4. They are available
for pre-order now and should ship on
November 24th.
10/23/2003
- The GW US
Online Store now lists Battlefleet
Gothic Magazine #17 as available
in the US along with the Tau
minis.
Why
is BFG Mag #17 out so soon in
the US? Maybe it is because Fanatic
is discontinuing it in May 2004.
All separate magazines for Fanatic's
games will be combined into a single
96 page full color magazine at that
time. Each game would continue
to get an Annual consisting of
all the best articles from the prior
year. Info is just coming out on
this change as letters get delivered
but one comment I saw was that BFG
articles would be available online
soon after each issue was published.
10/17/2003
- Battlefleet Gothic Magazine #17
is now available in the UK. It
focuses on the new Tau fleet as will
the next 2 issues.
10/4/2003
- Forge World's latest newsletter
includes a preview of the Emissary
Class Starship (light cruiser size)
This is a Tau ship for BFG,
the first in a different range of
ships to those produced by Specialist
Games. Click the thumbnail
image to the right for more preview
pictures of the Emissary.
10/2/2003
- GW US announces that Battlefleet
Gothic Magazine #16 should be in
stores October 4th.
9/18/2003
- GW US announces that the
Apocalypse class Battleship is now
available in the US, though it is
still not listed in the GW UK
store website.
The
GW UK store does list the Tau
Fleet as a pre-order for a
9/23/2003 release date.
On
the BFG-list yahoo group, Bell was at
Gamesday UK 2003 and found out lots of
neat stuff like:
The
Tau will be featured in BFG mags 17,
18 and 19. There will 'probably' be
another Tau vessel from FW inspired by
the new 'Fire Warrior' game/book. The
Kroot Warsphere/Battlesphere will be appearing
in about 6 months. The Niccassar Dhows
will appear about the same time; they
will be rounded in shape with loads of
sails all over, but this is still very
much on the drawing board, if not in
the que! There will be
special campaign rules for the Tau.
Craftworld
Eldar! There will be new model
releases for Craftworld Eldar ships
(which have different stats to the
current ones). They are bulkyer and
rounder in the prow than our normal
eldar cruisers. The Craftworld
rules will be in a near mag but the
models won't be released until late
next year.
Here
is a picture of the Tau
and the Craftworld Eldar
8/20/2003
- Battlefleet Gothic Magazine #16
is now out in the UK. It
includes more on the Eye of Terror
campaign along with information on the
Grey Knights and stats for the Grey
Knight Strike Cruiser.
In
the US, the metal versions of the
Space Marine escort miniatures should
be in stores on 8/23.
Specifically they are the Hunter class
Destroyer, Gladius class Frigate, and
the Nova class Frigate.
FYI,
it seems like GW had problems
with the
Apocalypse class Battleship miniature
as it is no longer listed on the GW
UK store website
7/31/2003
- Matt Keefe (senior editor BFG)
has announced that a trial version of
the Tau rules for BFG
are online (http://www.specialist-games.com/battlefleetgothic/trial.htm).
The fleet of minis is due to be
released in September/October 2003 but
they would like you to download the
Word file of the ships and rules and
playtest them.
Also,
Forge World has posted a preview
of an Eldar space station, the Haven
class Spire. No rules yet and no
release date, just a teaser to make
you want one or five.
7/5/2003
- GW US has announced that BFG
Magazine #15 and the Chaos Daemonship
are now available on this side of the
pond.
6/25/2003
- The gamingreport.com
posted a very nice picture of the new
Tau miniatures (right). Click on the
thumbnail for the full size version.
6/14/2003
- Fanatic has posted the 2 big
articles from Battlefleet Gothic
Magazine #15 on their Resources
page. So if you haven't
gotten #15 yet and want to see
the rules for Chaos
Space Marine Fleet or the rules
for Daemonships,
you can now download the articles as
pdf files.
6/8/2003
- Forge World announces a new
mini for BFG, the Grey
Knight Strike Cruiser for the Space
Marines. It was first seen at the
LA Gamesday but now Forge World
has several pics of this new mini with
different views (http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/gkscruiser.htm)
It is available for pre-order now with
a July 7th release date. Cost is
£5.00 (US$/€8.50) plus shipping
The
Forge World Newsletter says: The
Grey Knights are documented as
possessing some of the fastest
spaceships available. The Grey Knights
Strike Cruiser features redesigned
hull plating, stylized bridge and
benedictions to the Emperor inscribed
along the hull.
6/4/2003
- Battlefleet Gothic Magazine #15
is now listed on GW UK's online
order list and the editorial is up on
the Specialist Games BFG
page.
4/28/2003
- Last weekend was Salute, one of the
largest game shows in the UK. GW
previewed some upcoming minis and epic40k.co.uk
has pictures posted.
Specifically they had the Space Marine
Escorts in pewter (not the Forgeworld
resin versions) due in July (UK), a
chaos Daemonship (June UK release) and
some more Tau ships including the Hero
class cruiser (September UK
releases). The thumbnails link
to the pictures on epic40k.co.uk's
site.
4/6/2003
- Battlefleet Gothic Magazine #14
includes rules for the Imperial
Apocalypse class Battleship, and the
miniature for this ship is now
available in the UK.
Also
some very interesting news came out
that the 2003 Annual will be
replaced by a supplement due later in
2003 called, Armada. This
information is from Matt K at GW
posted to the bfg-list yahoogroup and
the BFG Forum on GW's
website:
It
has come to my attention that news of
the Armada supplement has already been
leaked on to the internet through a
newsletter of some sort. The news of
Armada is actually privileged
information, which wasn't meant to be
public knowledge yet. I was rather
hoping to be able to inform the rules
committee first amongst other
things!
I was due to make a public
announcement in a couple of months,
but this has all rather forced my
hand, so rather than allow rumour and
speculation to mount I might as well
just give you guys all the info
straight away.
The following excerpt is from the
agenda I am currently writing to send
to the rules review members, which
introduces Armada.
"Firstly, and this is a big one,
there will be no 2003 BFG annual. This
is because, instead, at the end of the
year we will be releasing Battlefleet
Gothic: Armada, a 160-page supplement
for the game covering all the ships
and fleets released since the game was
initially released. Unlike the
annuals, the supplement will become a
stock item, and remain in print, and
in stock permanently (at least until
the information in it is outdated, of
course).
Battlefleet Gothic: Armada will be
released in November/December
2003
The decision to go without a 2003 was
made as a result of consultations with
the different international GW
departments, and is actually part of a
long term plan to make Fanatic
publications more available. The
effect of skipping an annual this year
is that we can begin work on the 2004
annual much earlier, and hence
implement a global release plan,
meaning that from Armada onwards, BFG
supplements and annuals (not
magazines, yet) will be released on
the same date in all countries (so no
more 6 week waits in the USA or
Australia). "
Okay, that's the hard, fast and basic
facts. Also, you might be interested
to know that Armada will be published
in the full size landscape format,
identical to the rulebook (rather than
in our magazine or annual formats).
The book will be 100% official,
meaning that everything contained in
it will represent the final, official
version of the rules, collecting
together in one place such additions
to the game as the Necron and Space
Marine fleets (which are already
official) plus all those currently in
the process of moving from
experimental to official status. That
means that the BFG rulebook and Armada
together will provide you with ALL
official elements of the game up to
this point in time.
3/13/2003
- Battlefleet Gothic Magazine #13
is now available in the US. Also
reports are that BFG Mag #14 is
now out in the UK
3/1/2003
- The guys at heavyhand.org were at Cry
Havoc at the GW
Headquarters and got a pic of some Tau
minis set for a September 2003 UK
release. The pic is on this
page.
GW
US has released the 4 new Ork
battleships:
While Orks have
never been a race that is known for
their sophistication, their innate
mechanical ability and unstoppable
aggression have enabled them to make
their way to the stars! This week we
have 4 huge new battleships from the
Third Armageddon War for Da Boyz in
Battlefleet Gothic, sure to bring
massive amounts of green death to the
rest of the galaxy.
Each is a type of
the new Hammer Class Battle Kroozer,
which first appeared in numbers during
the war. Built around the hulks of
captured or wrecked Imperial Capitol
ships, they are greatly favored by Ork
Warlords as their personal command
ships. By adding ever-increasing amounts
of armor and weapons, each has grown
well beyond the scale of normal Ork
ships to become truly monstrous vessels.
Enemy admirals beware!
Rules for all of
these ships can be found online at the
Battlefleet Gothic Resources Site here
in the file "The Return of the
Beast," and in Battlefleet
Gothic Magazine 13 too.
Each of these sets
contains one complete model.
BG50
- GORBAG'S REVENGE ORK BATTLESHIP
The following ships
are available only through Mail Order or
as Bitz through your local store:
BG51 - SLAMBLASTER
ORK BATTLESHIP
BG52
- KROOLBOY ORK BATTLESHIP
BG53 - DEATHDEALA
ORK BATTLESHIP
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2/7/2003
- GW has posted the 'Return of
the Beast' rules for the 4 new Ork
Battleships from BFG Mag #13 as
a pdf file online (479kb). Click
here for a direct link to the pdf
file or go to the BFG
Resources page.
2/1/2003
- Reports are in that BFG Magazine
#13 is out in the UK and the
highlight being the 4 new Ork
battleships. No image yet.
Now available in the US is the
Falchion class frigate:
Armed
with torpedoes and speed, Falchion
Class Frigates were designed for
patrolling deep space, guarding long
haul convoys, and escorting Capital
class ships.
12/15/2002
- Time to catch up on BFG Releases.
The Dark Eldar minis are now out,
consisting of the Torture class
Cruiser, the Corsair class Escorts and
the Booster Pack which contains bits
to customize your Dark Eldar
ships. GW has even put
the Dark Eldar rules from BFG Mag
#11 online here
(this is a Word document). A few
other BFG articles were
posted on the Specialist
Games Resource page including
Eldar Solaris and Aurora light
cruisers and the Cleanse the Stars and
Slayer of Worlds articles.
BFG
Magazine #12 has been released in
the UK and it includes rules for the
new Imperial Endeavour Light Cruiser
(above left) and variants along with the Falchion
Escort (above right). Unfortunately in Fanatic's
December Newsletter, the let us know
that there were some major molding
problems due to the miniature design,
so this mini has been delayed and the
Endevour as shown in the magazine and will
probably never be released.
10/27/2002
- This weeks release of minis is
smaller than prior weeks. Only
the Tyranid Razorfiend Cruiser and the
Space Marine Strike Cruiser are
released.
10/22/2002
- The next wave of minis is now
available consisting of space
facilities and attack craft.
Included are the Blackstone Fortress,
Defense Monitors and System Ships,
Orbital Defense Platforms, Space
Station/Orbital Dock (pictured), plus
Imperial and Chaos ordinance and
mines.
10/12/2002
- GW America's re-release of BFG
is in full swing with new minis out
every week and everything is in a
blister or box. The third wave of BFG
re-releases is now available.
Battleships for most races to flesh
out the fleets since several smaller
ships were in the first
releases. Chaos Repulsive Grand
Cruiser, Imperial Emperor class
Battleship, Imperial Retribution class
Battleship, Chaos Desolator class
Battleship, Chaos Despoiler class
Battleship, Chaos Planet Killer, Eldar
Void Stalker, and the Necron Tombship.
Minis
from the first wave are the Imperial
Dauntless Light Cruiser, Eldar Eclipse
Cruiser, Eldar Shadow Cruiser, Ork
Kill Krooser, Ork Terror Ship, Necron
Harvest/Scythe Class Cruiser, Necron
Shroud Class Light Cruiser, and the
Imperial and Chaos Cruiser boxes.
Minis
from the second wave are Imperial
Cobra Destroyers, Imperial Firestorm
Frigates, Imperial Sword Frigates,
Chaos Iconoclast Destroyers, Chaos
Idolator Raiders, Chaos Infidel
Raiders, Eldar Aconite Frigates, Eldar
Hellbore Frigates, Eldar Hemlock
Destroyers, Eldar Nightshade
Destroyers, Ork Brute Ramships, Ork
Onslaught Ships, Ork Ravager Attack
Ships, Ork Savage Gunships, Necron
Jackal class Raiders, and Necron Dirge
class Raiders.
Also
keep and eye out for White Dwarf
#273. It has some BFG
content including a large pullout
recognition poster of BFG
ships.
9/16/2002
- Battlefleet Gothic Magazine #11
spotted in in the UK (just as #10
shows up in the US). It includes
rules for the brand new Dark Eldar
fleet, new rules for the Tyranid
fleet, and system defenses
Also on the new support site, a
picture of a Dark Eldar cruiser.
9/12/2002
- Battlefleet Gothic
re-launch officially announced.
Here are some excerpts from the
announcement from Tim Huckelbery of GW
America:
...Games
Workshop is proud to announce that
Battlefleet Gothic, the game of Spaceship
Combat, will be returning to our
galaxy this September. The game will
be re-launched along with a full
complement of ships for all fleets in
the game
...Fans
can also expect new ships to cover the
ancient Necrons and the cruel Dark
Eldar, plus the ravenous Tyranid
Hivefleets. Battlefleet Gothic
Magazine will continue to support the
game with new rules, scenarios, hobby
tips, and more. Special sets of
fighters, bombers, mines, space
stations, assault ships, and more will
also be coming out as part of the
launch.
...Battlefleet
Gothic is also supported with a new
supplemental booklet called Invasion.
Invasion contains new scenarios for
Battlefleet Gothic, painting and
scenery tips, fleet listings. It also
has new Warhammer 40,000 missions such
as boarding actions for so you can
link results from one game to others.
This booklet will appear the same day
as the game itself, September 21st.
"The new scenarios in Invasion
and the others to come in White Dwarf
and the Games Workshop Website are
very important for Battlefleet
Gothic," says Lonnie Mullins,
Warhammer 40,000 Brand Manager.
"They not only give players some
great new ideas for Gothic play, but
also firmly tie the game into the
Warhammer 40,000 Universe by linking
these games into games of Warhammer
40,000."
Right
after the release of Battlefleet
Gothic, each week will see new
releases as multitudes of spaceships
launch from the warp and into your
local store! Within two months, there
will be several dozen ships and other
gaming related releases for
Battlefleet Gothic available in
stores, so that players can easily and
quickly assemble their fleets for
play.
The
head of Specialist Games, Jervis
Johnson, is extremely excited about
the launch of Battlefleet Gothic in
the USA. "It's a great game, and
it's fantastic to see it being
supported so well. Now that the game
is back for good, the Fanatic Team is
busy with plans for new models
including Possessed Chaos ships, Ork
Battleships, and we've started
preliminary work on the Tau Warfleet."
For
the full announcement along with the
pictures that went with this release,
go here.
More
info on Invasion is available
on a new GW BFG
support page here.
8/27/2002
- It seems that a BFG
booklet has been released called Battlefleet
Gothic Invasion for for $3.95US.
It is 32 pages and in a similar format
and layout to the Warhammer
Skirmish booklet. The table of
contents are: 1 Introduction, 2 BFG
Scenarios, 3 Asteroids and Planets, 5
Speed Painting of Fleets, 7 Ship
Conversions, 8 Space Station Scenario,
10 Ship Showcase, 12 Boarding
Actions, 18 Ion Cannon Scenario, 20
Catalog, 32 Assembling the Fleet.
8/15/2002
- The BFG Annual 2002 is
available in the US, I picked up a
copy at GenCon. Also BFG
Magazine #10 is available in the
UK.
7/23/2002
- With the re-launch of BFG
in September, miniatures from Forge
World will now be packages and
available as normal BFG
minis along with a bunch of new ships:
Vengeance
class Grand Cruiser (five variants,
both Imp and Chaos)
Space
Marine escorts (Hunter, Nova, Gladius
classes)
Necron
Fleet (consists of a BB, cruiser,
light cruiser and two escort classes)
Armed
freighter Escort carrier
Eldar
transport Planetary defenses (three
types)
NEW
MINIS (not NR status yet):
Demiurg
fleet (consists of BB and light
cruiser, mercenaries that can be used
with Imps, Chaos or Eldar -think Space
Dwarves)
Eldar
light cruisers (two classes, one
matches stats in Warp Storm)
Super
heavy transports (two classes)
Tyranid
hiveship and droneship
NEW
SHIPS (NR), NO MODEL YET:
Chaos
Hellfire heavy cruiser
Ork
Hammer battle kroozer (model coming
before Thanksgiving)
UPCOMING
SHIPS (minis expected available
before Christmas)
Dark
Eldar fleet (consists of
"modular" cruiser and
escort, three classes total of
each)
Tyranid
fleet (NEW hiveship, cruiser, two
escort classes, the fleet rules are
fixed but will be released later in
the fall.)
New
"modular" Imperial light
cruiser, three classes total
7/17/2002
- The Re-launch of BFG
is slated for September in the
USA. Besides the new Annual,
additional new items will include a
Space Station (boxed), Orbital Dock
(boxed), Defense Platforms, system
craft and a monitor (all in
blisters). New ships include a
new Imperial Light Cruiser (Endeavor),
a new Imperial Escort (Rules in BFG
Mag #11), and a Hammer for the
Orks.
7/11/2002
- On the BFG-List Yahoo group, reports
are that the Battlefleet Gothic
2002 Annual is now available for
order from the UK Mail Order.
Make sure you ask for the "BFG
Annual" and not Warpstorm
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