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By comparison, Ork Roks are miniature versions of Hulks that ignore critical damage penalties but instead take additional damage. They carry a fairly small but comprehensive set of all-around weapons and can be a relatively cheap escort to a Hulk that serves to augment its already formidable capabilities while maintaining orbit around it. On their own, their movement is rather restrictive and slow and an Ork fleet may find them lagging the rest of the formation or maneuvering erratically. They are however super easy to make with a trip to Michael’s and a couple of spare Ork gunz. Similar to the Eldar, the Armada expansion brings a number of items to the Ork Roster that establishes it as an actual battle fleet vs just a raiding fleet. This includes massive Ork-infested asteroids, a series of battleships, and a BattleKroozer. The result is an Ork list that suddenly has a great deal of both character and depth.

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Far and away the coolest part of Tau is and has always been the not-Tau, bird-like Kroot. I’m sure many will disagree and say something like no actually it’s the cool battlesuits, but those people are objectively wrong. The Kroot are effectively space American natives who serve as mercenaries and ‘allies’ to Tau forces while the Tau hope to ‘civilize’ the Kroot. I’m sure at some point in the future the Tau will take the Kroot homeworld of Pech and relegate those who refuse to integrate to space Oklahoma but as of right now the Tau have other priorities.I do want to take a moment and thank some of our dedicated readers for pointing errors in our previous article – we did not account for the BFG FAQ (which I neglected out of sheer laziness) that does apply some changes to things like Nova Cannons and max ordnance among other things. I make note of this now and state simply that for detailed rule breakdowns, please refer to the actual rulebooks and FAQs that were linked in the original article. Meanwhile, we are just overjoyed that people are reading these articles and have hopefully renewed interest in this fantastically fun game. Core Fleet Expansion Ships Gravitic Hooks, which do absolutely nothing except dictate how many escorts you can bring in the fleet. The Orca escorts are fairly cheap and good vessels so the hooks are relatively important – but there’s an entire paragraph that tells you how meaningless they otherwise are in game terms but does successfully note that, yes, these exist. The single escort in the Dark Eldar roster is a customizable platform that for 50 points comes equipped with a base set of weapon batteries and can then be supplemented by one of: an increased battery putting them on par with an Eldar Aconite (but cheaper), a Phantom lance, a dual torpedo tube, or an Impaler module. Additionally, for another 20 points, the escort can be equipped with Mimic engines. While the roster entries are extremely limited, the customization options for the class give the Dark Eldar surprising flexibility in fleet construction. The 40cm move is amongst the fastest standard moves in the game outside of the Necron line…. The Necron Dynasty Fleets Why You Should Play Necrons There is just something inherently attractive about playing as a swarm of semi-sentinent, swarming, killy monsters that just want to get close and hug you. Unfortunately, the models for Tyrands are atrocious, but the good news is that if you’re a Tyranid player I can guarantee you have a pile of organic looking parts that would make just wonderful custom Tyranid ships. That makes these bugs not just easy to play, but fun and cheap to put together as well! Sigh– I’m not going to lie to you, I do not have the energy or will to talk about the Tau Merchant fleets. Instead I’m going to 100% phone this in since GW did the same thing when they wrote these rules. I promise that I will make it up to you by instead reviewing the far cooler Tau Protector fleets in the final, expanded play article. There is one exception to this – and that is the awesomeness that is the Kroot Warsphere which we will discuss based solely on said sheer awesomeness.

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If trying to pronounce those names doesn’t cause small capillaries in your brain to burst I don’t know what will. The models are awful, and there just isn’t anything exciting about these ships. Some of them have special rules all their own, but for the most part, your capital ships only serve to bring more Orcas to the fight. The Kroot Warsphere This cheeky little number is the Astartes version of the cobra-class destroyer. It has an extremely zippy 35cm movement and better armour (5+) but is otherwise the same… oh, except that boarding torpedoes. Insert sinister laugh here. There’s a reason why your piddly little destroyer costs 40 points.The Necrons are a fleet that was designed to be tough, aggressive, and more than a match for their opponents in a fair fight – something about being super old technological elitists. The caveat here is that Necrons are counter-balanced (maybe?) by always giving up victory points at any level of damage which then cascades from untouched, damaged, crippled, to destroyed or left drifting on the table. To get a feel for what this might mean, a Tomb Ship that is left as a drifting hulk may be worth up to 1,650 points to the opposing fleet and if you’re a Necron player you’d seriously struggle to overcome that kind of deficit short of utterly wiping your opponent – which is possible. For that reason a big part of playing Necrons is striking that balance between pounding away with your awesome weapons and preventing incoming damage via Brace for Impact (more on this momentarily). In a charming role reversal to the terrestrial 40K experience, Imperial Space Marines in Battlefleet Gothic get to be an unusual fleet that you genuinely don’t see as much as the Imperial Navy (in this writer’s experience at least). Partly this is down to model availability, but it’s also because they are, quite rightly, rather specialised. While Heretic Astartes make use of the regular Chaos fleets to which they’ve had access since the days of the Great Crusade, Imperial Marines post-Heresy were given fleets designed with one primary purpose in mind: planetary assaults. Indeed, they have unique bombardment cannons specifically for this purpose. Out of the four core rosters, the Eldar received the fewest new options by far at only two light cruisers and a battleship. However, the Corsair fleet was already a dynamic fleet and it didn’t particularly need anything further for flavor, but did need something to anchor a line of cruisers that would enable a full fleet style engagement – and that’s exactly what they got. In fact, so perfectly suited to the fleet are these vessels that unlike the other entries in the Armada list, some combination of these ships will usually always appear in a fleet-sized game. It’s a somewhat tedious way of playing and will feel like you’re constantly chasing, but it’s kind of fun in a “Man I hope this plan works” sort of way and carries some real schadenfruede potential if you ever hit on the bulk of the opponent’s fleet. Special rules Planetary assaults & exterminatus. Astartes vessels are literally twice as good in planetary assaults, earning 2 assault points per turn rather than the usual 1 when they spend their turn landing troops or bombarding the planet. In the Exterminatus mission, a battle barge can take the role of the exterminator without having to sacrifice its prow weapons and gains a +1 for its roll to exterminate the planet.

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These have all the strengths and weaknesses we covered in the last article, with the added advisory that they’re a little more expensive here thanks to the extra leadership and boarding action fierceness. It’s also worth remembering that the cobra-class destroyers can fire boarding torpedoes. A unique weapon option is the Impaler module – a modified, much heavier version of a short-ranged assault boat. However, unlike a typical assault boat, if it makes a successful run on an enemy ship it rolls 2d6 for the result and applies the potentially much more damaging critical hit. It does gain some additional defense, as it gains a 4+ save from the first fighter squadron to intercept it, and can only be removed by ship turrets on a 6 – however, it is shorter ranged as it must be removed if it has not made a successful run by the Dark Eldar players next turn.Similar to the Eldar Corsairs, a fleet must include a Dread Archon if it is over 750 points who provides all the same benefits and re-roll options as the Eldar Pirate Prince. The Dark Eldar Corsairs list can be comprised of up to 12 customized cruisers and any number of customized escorts – the customization helps to add some flavor to what is otherwise a single cruiser option and a single escort option. Space Marines get a whole pile of special rules, pretty much all of which can also be applied to Chaos fleet vessels crewed by Heretic Astartes: Are these things great or even good on the table? Highly debatable. But are they awesome? Unequivocally. While fairly primitive, the Kroot have a Tyranid-like tendency to evolve by eating their victims and selecting for genetic material they want to evolve towards. Their presence in BFG is via the totally-not-an-egg, egg-like Kroot Warsphere which is also the only Tau vessel that has a Warp Drive. Despite their primitive nature, the Kroot likely developed the know-how for a battleship-sized vessel by eating enough Orks to gain the capability to slap metal plates together in a semi-coherent form to create a spaceship.

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Now that we have gotten through basics of getting started and the core fleets to Battlefleet Gothic it’s time to take a look at the first major expansion, Armada, and the absolute monster amount of new ships and flavor it brings to the game. And also the Tau, I guess. The Armageddon class is basically the Victory ships of the Imperial fleet and are meant to be mass produced. Largely refurbished or salvaged Lunar class vessels – they’ve been upgunned to provide some additional punch at longer ranges but are otherwise functionally equivalent to the Lunar class cruisers. Basically all Tyranid ships are all customizable with the aforementioned weapon options and they can be squadroned expansively at anywhere between 0 and 12 vessels. Tyranids also do not use shields or turrets, but rather use spore clouds that act similarly but with some minor differences. When squadroned, Tyranid vessels can combine their spore clouds similar to turrets but won’t gain any benefits to shielding. Now, weapon systems. You get broadside batteries with a respectable firepower of 12, and an equally respectable range of 45cm. You also have two systems in the prow: the capacity to launch 3 Thunderhawk gunships, and 6 torpedo tubes. The big draw with this vessel, though, is its dorsal battery of bombardment cannons. These chonkers weigh in at firepower 8, can fire left/front/right, and will dispense serious punishment to enemy capital ships. Make sure your target is within 15cm and closing or moving away for maximum effect, or you’ll be wasting a lot of your damage potential. Gravitic Launchers, which function as torpedo tubes and could have just been named “torpedoes” since the special rule just refers you to the Tau ordnance section. There you find out that Tau have torpedoes missiles that function exactly like torpedoes but can alter course 45-degrees each ordnance phase and can vary speed between 20 and 40cm – which is actually pretty cool.Notably the Necrons do not bring Ordnance to the table. They have a number of special abilities and capabilities that are different from the rest of the fleets out there, but they do not rely on any type of squadrons or torpedoes to bully opposing fleets – just brute force and speed. Special rules