Monday 7 September 2015

Rapid deployment strategy

     A few years back while I was getting back into wargaming properly after finishing uni, I found myself building a space marine army and wanting a fleet to go with it. Instead, I got distracted, joined a gaming club and left most of my GW stuff in the rear view mirror, as new projects were so much more interesting. Then I decided at the start of this year to pick up the idea again to make a properly slow burn project out of it, buying a ship every month of so whenever I saw one cheap enough, putting them into storage until I had enough to get going with. 

    So here is my space marine battlefleet gothic fleet for the Aurora Knights chapter. A Battlebarge, three Strike Cruisers, a squadron of Firestorm Frigates and a squadron of Cobra Destroyers. That should keep me going for a while. . . .

battlefleet gothic space marine fleet

bfg battlefleet gothic space marine battlebarge conversion

bfg battlefleet gothic space marine battlebarge conversion
 The battlebarge, the big beast of the fleet. As it's the only one the chapter has (I have fluff and everything for this chaper) I figured it would be best to upgun it with extra turrets from a sprue I'd picked up somewhere or other.

bfg battlefleet gothic space marine strike cruiser
  One of the Strike Cruisers. The work horses of the fleet

bfg battlefleet gothic firestorm frigates
The Firestorm frigates. I'm really hoping these ae going to have a real pumch.

Now to get a game in. Thanks for reading.

7 comments:

  1. Lovely. I do like the look of BFG ships. Just. Nice and... Crunchy. Turrety. You know what I mean?

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    1. Thanks Herbert, and yeah I do. I got into Firestorm Armada for a while but I found the ships just turned me off.

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  2. Cool stuff, Mike. BFG was one of those game that I just never got around to - though I think the models are some of the best spaceship models on the market!

    Can I just take this opportunity to point out that I've moved blog - so you're blogroll won't update with my new details. If you'd like to continue to follow me here are the details:
    http://nevermindthejankers.blogspot.co.uk/

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    1. Thanks Roy. Moving my follow now.

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    2. Thank you. Messing up my blog followers feeds wasn't something I anticipated when I swapped addresses.

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  3. I don't know the game, but they certainly look fabulous!

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