![]() The name of each vessel printed into the card is one thing that is lacking from the Man O’ War cards (Man O’ War ships don’t generally have bases to write names onto anyway), and being able to tie every ship directly to it’s damage record would make life easier. It took several hours and a lot of tinkering with layout and format, taking on board feedback from some of the guys in the Battlefleet Gothic Facebook Group, until eventually I had a set of personalised ship cards for every ship in my collection, complete with ship name. I have a fair bit of experience with this kind of thing and plenty of experience using Excel, so just went for it. In the end I decided that the only way to get what I wanted was to generate my own set of cards. They didn’t match the clear image I had in my mind about what I wanted the cards to look like, though they did include some nice elements. I had a good look around on the net at the cards that some other people had generated, and without wishing to offend anyone, the cards I found didn’t quite tick all of the boxes I wanted to. There are Fleet Record sheets that come with the game, but these are more like a single page roster sheet which can be used to record hits suffered, but not the effects of critical damage, which is not really the kind of thing you want to forget about in the heat of battle. Once my thoughts began to shift to space battles and Battlefleet Gothic in particular, I immediately thought it would be fantastic to have something similar for BFG, which in many ways works very similarly to Man O’ War with regards to battle damage records etc. Needless to say when I was on a Man O’ War revival trip a few months ago I printed and laminated cards for my entire collection, and they have proved to work extremely well in games. Fast forward one and a half decades and some genius came up with the idea of creating a smaller ship card (the old ones were quite big, and could take up half as much space again as the playing area), which are slightly bigger than playing card sized and laminated, so that you can mark damage onto them with wipe clean markers. This is something that originated with my in games of Man O’ War, which back in the day provided a card ship template on which counters could be placed to record damage, fires, outbreaks of Nurgle’s Rot etc. Now that we have ascertained that numbers of models will not be a problem, another thing that I have been looking at and has been discussed on the Battlefleet Gothic Facebook Group page is the concept of ‘Ship Cards’. As I have gone in for the Dropfleet Commander Kickstarter, I am set on the idea of generating rules for those models when they arrive for use in Battlefleet Gothic, and vice versa for the BFG models in Dropfleet Commander as well, fully invoking the ‘Rule of Cool’ to allow me to make full use of all my space faring ship models. After all, as long as you know what each of the models is, and that your model selection remains consistent, that’s all that matters. You can buy Battlefleet Gothic ships second hand via ebay and other routes, but they tend to fetch a premium, but there are also some companies out there who produce ships that could be considered for stand-ins. ![]() This comfortably doubled the size of my Chaos fleet in one fell swoop! I return I received ten Cruisers, eleven Escorts and a nicely converted Grand Cruiser model. The Imperial Fleet was about one third larger than the Chaos Fleet, but because both fleets were upwards of 15 ships including most classes of vessel, this shouldn’t cause a problem.Ī few months ago, I did a trade with a chap for everything that remained of my once sizable Epic collection (the large Space Marine and Ork armies I had were traded away a couple of years ago to fund my Ogre Kingdoms army – over 4000 points of gut plate!) which was over a dozen plastic Knight models and a Warlord Titan, plus some classic metal Space Marine Dreadnoughts. Thankfully I collected two fair sized fleets for the core factions in the game – The Imperium and Chaos. ![]() Because not many of the guys at our club have any miniatures for the game, we would be reliant on the collection I could muster up for any early demo games. The first stop on my journey was the ship yard to assess the readiness of the fleets.
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