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1999
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Description
A space battle game set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe. BFG uses a variety of spaceship miniatures that are moved and fired by distance measuring. Battles have a Age-of-Sail-in-Space feel to them with more emphasis on broadside attacks than on 'air' superiority. The core rules contain scenarios along with campaign rules.
The starter box was out of print for couple of years, but due to popular demand (or a large surplus of miniatures in their warehouse), Games Workshop re-released it.
The starter box set is now OOP. The rules have been revised, and are available in book format and free PDF downloadable files.
As of 2013, the ships are no longer available from Games Workshop or Forgeworld.
The game is expanded by Battlefleet Gothic Armada Armada supersedes the BFG rulebook, often referred to as 'the blue book.'
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Tabletop Minions Discussion at 1:32:47
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- two books there's Mech Borg which is a role playing game and then there's steel somm I think is what it's called which is like a miniature game based off of The Forbidden somm engine and so I was just like well I don't want the RPG but I'll I'll buy the other one so yeah I in in theory I'll see it some towards sometime towards the end of the year
- if you like eisenhorn I strongly suggest Bloodlines and the rest of the Warhammer crime line H um
- I built and painted my scaven blood bow Team this week they were a lot of fun but yeah the age shows
- the stormcast Eternal res sculpts are uninspired I mean I it's a lot more of the same really you know what I mean and the rules previewed of a weird board gamey vibe that doesn't really click
- do you think that the price hikes and the lack of availability of models by GW is hurting lgs's more than GW itself
- stores are going to have to eventually get to a point where if they just can't get too much GW stuff they're going to have to start thinking about diversifying and starting to do some uh games like you know start bringing in models from like War Games Atlantic start bringing in like Star grave models and frost grave models and things like that from Northstar
- the reason I don't like plastic cement is because sometimes I have to go back and remove an arm or take the thing off of the base or something like that and if it's plastic cement it's really almost hard to do that because it actually is melting the plastic to the plastic
- GW price hike hit the critical level for me players around here buying 3D printers even the very hardcore 40K players that frowned at me when I mentioned 3D printers are buying 3D printers
- basically the only big company out there is GW I mean everybody else is you know like they're they're sitting on I think and this is admittedly it's a lot of the retail people but they've got like five or six thousand employees but again half of those well maybe not half almost half of those I think are are are retail employees so there's that but still even if you take half of those people out you've still got 2,000 employees let's say
- GW is weird in that they are like I said before I was talking about how Distributors are like the kind of the middleman between the stores and the manufacturers and the Publishers GW is one of those companies that yeah you can buy it from Distributors and you'll pay normal distributor prices but if you buy it directly from GW then you get it for a slightly better price but you have to jump through a bunch of Hoops to become like approved to be able to buy it from their store
- you know at some point maybe down the road we'll work with like a sculptor that we like and do like maybe some stls or something like that do like a partnership but I don't see us ever really selling plastic models that's really expensive and also very very timec consuming
- the stormcast eternals had 40 just Heroes just individual heroes in that line so there were twice as many heroes in stormcast eternals than there were entire War Scrolls in the iron in the iron Jaws or whatever so yeah you know there there was way too many of those guys
- I think it's twofold I think it's partially there's been some change in not leadership per se but change in uh people working there that are some of those folks are a little bit more interested in t in in in in tournament stuff like you go back 10 years GW did not give a crap about tournaments
- when a company gets that big it's not good for the game company it may be good for the shareholders it may be good but it's not it's bad for the games and it's bad for the players just in general when the choices have to be made because somebody on a spreadsheet was able to point at it and go this will make the line go up that doesn't necessarily make a better game it makes a better product as far as bottom line it doesn't make a better game
- GW always tries to make it sound like they're doing you a favor by raising prices by the amount that they are and not a little bit more pray I do not I've I've altered the deal pray I do not alter it further indeed
- see the thing is the cards are produced separately from the it wouldn't matter if you were in Denmark or even here in the states the they're printed at two different facilities sadly uh that's one of the problems with the cards but there's nothing we can do about that
- see that's not supposed to happen we paid a lot of money to get those things shipped out and it sucks that some places that it got to then also there was another fee that's I apologize about that
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Tabletop Minions Discussion at 1:30:33 sentiment: positive
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positive
Pros
- easy and inexpensive to get into
- fun game
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- Friends don't let friends Buy HP printers
- Wizards of the Coast would really rather that you just buy Magic by the case directly from them it seems
- They've been making a lot of really bad decisions in my opinion and if they go to business I will laugh and point
- I just don't understand why they don't want to do that
- I mean the machines that do the saddle stitching are a real pain to maintain they have a tendency to break down a lot
- The print books like the vast majority of people are buying the printed versions as opposed to just PDF only
- I don't know what the fourth dimension is
- I don't really pay attention to that stuff too much
- Most new Morheim players I talk to seem happy to download the PDFs for free from broheim these days and when I mention paper Printing and hard copies they think I'm crazy
- One odd thing about cyber punk red starter doesn't come with with gonks which I feel is like an essential mechanic
- Monac is a great game and the minis for the main monsters are beautiful and fun as heck to pain
- I attended a one-day charity Horus heresy event yesterday called Pride of the Legion a good day for a great cause but now I'm horse and this can be and need at least a day to recover
- If you want some great plastic modern soldiers look at the April issue of War Games Illustrated with the free sprew of warlord games special ops Troopers
- what's your favorite Warhammer mini does that mean which one that I own the most of because it's probably then going to be I don't know what they call them anymore they used to call them nurgle chaos Lord but nowadays he's that guy
- I think I have like six or seven of them it's great for kid bashing
- Does snarl not have a physical book to buy it doesn't
- the machines that do the saddle stitching are a real pain to maintain they have a tendency to break down a lot so some years ago they got rid of Saddle Stitch
- The newest Kill Team box set, 'Germination', is discussed.
- It's been a minute since I've liked both sets of models in a kill Team box.
- Kill team germination is coming this week can't wait
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Tabletop Minions Discussion at 31:51
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- please explain painting Optical camouflage on spaceships I know rule of cool I don't know it just looked neat I guess that's the same thing
- all the stls that you buy or whether you buy the stuff through uh only games like if you get them printed like if you don't have a printer yourself they can do print on demand as well with those with those same six figures basically it's a 50/50 split
- it's literally you take off the little silicone kind of cover that goes over the whole nozzle thing so you don't burn yourself on it I guess you take that off you pop off the plastic thing there's a little clip little metal clip you uncp it and then you pull the nozzle out and the nozzle is magnetized so it doesn't like fall out as soon as you uncp it
- I saw a thing on Facebook about a machine that you just dump all your old pla into and it'll melt it all down and then create a new pla spool which I'm like well that sounds like an awesome idea
- I think they're that scared of 3D printing I think they don't want to do it
- I don't think that's really that's not the point is to to beat Games Workshop
- you create a game like Vince and I do or like fat dragon games does or like lots of different companies you create a game because you want to do it you're not out there to be like the best you're out there to put out a game that you enjoy and then hopefully people will pick up and enjoy as well
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Tabletop Minions Discussion at 48:23 sentiment: neutral
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- If you see something and you want it, get it right away.
- It's kind of like when Nova used to be in the old place when it was in several years back it was in Crystal City. Technically, there was like one restaurant within three blocks of the place and that was it.
- The benefit to this being in downtown Milwaukee is that it's in the convention district and there's a lot of restaurants and bars and all kinds of places around there. So uh it's going to be real nice.
- I think that the number of people obviously that go to conventions in comparison to the number of people who are in the hobby it's a very small percentage that go to conventions and I think there's a lot of folks that are just not that are either unable to due to distance or you know cost or social anxiety or just you know they just never have the the um the you know like they they got you know, several kids and two jobs or stuff like that. You just don't have the time to take off and go to a convention or whatever. So, I think that that happens a good deal.
- The reason they moved out of the old place was because they just literally had outgrown it. um when they moved to Shamberg I think adept to con was about 5,000 people maybe six and then over the years being in Shamberg like last year they hit 10,000 people so
- I have found that you get less of that overlap with speed paints. They they maybe don't I don't feel like they dry quite as quickly or something. I don't know what it is, but they don't seem I don't have a problem. They What do they call it? tide marks, coffee stains, something like that. And it's because you've taken a transparent color that dries so quickly that when you bring the other transparent color over and you have them kind of overlap a little bit, so there's not like a space in between where you, you know, on this thing, then you get double transparency, which means it gets darker. So you get this line where you stopped and then had to go and get more and then come back.
- The benefit I think what happens is almost every single convention gets to a point where it can no longer be in a convention center and hotel combo. It gets to the point where they need a convention center and then hotels around the convention center. It's the way Gen Con does it. It's the way that, you know, Adepticon's doing it now.
- It's like you're colorizing an old black and white movie or something like that. Um, but it does make things quicker and simpler and it still looks pretty good in most situations.
- Am I doing it right? I mean, I don't know. It's up to you.
- Would love if GW re-releases Mheim, but I fear this will also cause most people to overlook unofficial fan-made Mheim content, but who knows, maybe GW will open to unofficial content.
- Horus Heresy is basically a civil war story. So, it's all about we're not even paying attention to the aliens right now.
- It's because they were spending 50% of the time working on stuff for Warhammer Fantasy, but it was only 18% of sales and they were like, 'Well, this isn't going the right direction.'
- It's been a long time since GW's made a Kill Team box where I liked everything in the box.
- I find that I have the best um luck with OSL when I'm using my airbrush.
- The difference is is if you are like, 'Well, I would rather do something a little bit different and tweak things differently that way.'
- Overall, Army Painter Speed Paint wins for me, but there's um always a couple of the contrast paints I love, like the Blood Terror Red. It's just a gorgeous deep burgundy.
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BoardGameGeek Discussion at 38:40 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- large-scale, thematic space battles
- fits GW hobby suite with miniature hobby elements
Cons
- complex setup and rules could deter new players
- older editions can be difficult to source
Thematic elements
- fleet-scale sci-fi combat with ships and arcs of battle
- space navy battles within the Warhammer 40k universe
- epic sci-fi warfare with tabletop roots
Comparison games
- Dreadfleet
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- fleet customization — Fleet composition and loadout choices affect performance
- fleet tactical combat — Movement and combat on a space-themed board with ship stats
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Quotes (from this video)
- "AI is a double-edged sword."
- "Shatterpoint has a bunch of great minis and a solid Marvel license that translates well to board-game combat."
- "They're licensing, way, way more licensing."
- "I absolutely love their stuff. The quality is phenomenal."
- "It's incredible how much progress has been made."
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BoardGameGeek Discussion at 0:00
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- Referenced as a classic miniatures-based space battle title.
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- No detailed pros/cons provided in the transcript.
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- Hallelujah.
- Wow, the paint just keeps coming out.
- I would really love to go sometime.
- This is the worst towel rack—it's not good.
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