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So they say you should never have any regrets, but I do. I regret selling off my massive BFG collection. Even tho' I had no people to play with, at the time, it was still pretty stupid.

This lingering 'whaaaambulance condition' puts me on eBay every once in awhile. Or, I look at the ships on GW's site and/or Forge World.

Well, a few weeks ago, a Still-Sealed copy of BFG showed up on the 'bay, and I went for it. I got INCREDIBLY lucky on the price, and IT AM BE MINE.







So, I'm staring this new plog, because I feel it should be separate from my 40K plog.

Things I have learned:

1) Dang, there's a lot of ships now. Even if you ignore fan-made ships, like the exceptionally well-done "Book of Nemesis", it is clear that BFG continued onwards, if slowly.
2) Still one of the best rulesets out there. Ever.
3) The 'Armada' Book might as well be the Ark of the Covenant.
4) Thankfully, everything's available in PDF...
5) ...except BFG Magazine #1.
6) Costs went up a LOT. The Tau got screwed.
7) The 'Warp Rift' guys are a fun-loving bunch...
8) ...but I reserve judgment on their BFG 'update'.

I built an Excel Spreadsheet, listing off all the ships and whatnots available, including ordinance markers, with their known costs. This allows me an at-a-glance idea of the maximum I should pay for an item. I'm starting with the "Canon" ships, those listed in The Blue Book and Armada, and will add in other ships as time, money, and interest permits. So, this is now a year-long project. We'll see where I stand, come December 24th, 2011!

As per my usual 'bent', this is not about fielding a competitive fleet. It is about Fluff and finding like-minded people to play in campaigns, even if I have to recruit them from the masses.

Next Episode:
Selecting the first four ships for the Imperial and Chaos fleets with an eye on 'balance', and commentary on GW no longer selling big bags of flight stands.

So your fleets will be set in the Tempestus Sector? Intruiging...

Great to see another BFG player! Pretty sweet that you got the box set; I still lament its passing . Even though the rulebook is out of date, a lot of it is still good, plus I prefer a book format for all the fluff they packed into it.

Looks awesome. If you don't need any of those ships (chaos or imps) you can happily send them my way.

You cannot fathom how much I despise you at this moment, been looking for that box since 2008, good job finding one though.

will be following this intently as BFG is one of those games i'd love to play but would have nobody to play against

Malika2 wrote:So your fleets will be set in the Tempestus Sector? Intruiging...

My 40K Imperial Guard Army is based out of there, so I figured I'd keep 'in theme'. Tempestus, of course, has a Hive Fleet, a known Craftworld, and plenty of Orky Goodness. The only real 'stretch' would be Tau, but that is going to be an issue for anyone away from the Eastern Fringe (tm).

(Cue: A Warp Storm)

Oh, look! Tau.

--B.

Ruckdog wrote:Great to see another BFG player! Pretty sweet that you got the box set; I still lament its passing . Even though the rulebook is out of date, a lot of it is still good, plus I prefer a book format for all the fluff they packed into it.

I have pulled down all the PDFs I can find, but they're all cut to pieces. Can you expand on 'out of date'? When I last played, I know they added rules for turret suppression, etc.

FM Ninja 048 wrote:You cannot fathom how much I despise you at this moment, been looking for that box since 2008, good job finding one though. Will be following this intently as BFG is one of those games i'd love to play but would have nobody to play against

The intensity of your hate warms me across the pond in this cold winter. I don't really have anyone to play against, either, but the opportunity arose, and I jumped at it. Very Pavlovian, really. The bell rang, and I chased after it.

If/when your looking to expand your fleet shoot me a PM. I have a bunch of BFG stuff that I have no chance of using, and we could probably com to a deal. Only stuff I really want to keep is my SM stuff, as it represents my Space Wolf army fleet.

So, some progress made while doing laundry and putting away Christmas boxes into storage.

I magnetized my Blackstone so I can rotate it. It even spins merrily.

Imperial:


Chaos:


Based:


Speaking of Bases, here's two prototypes:


And the only ship that survived the great purging of my original BFG collection, an Apocalypse:


Cheers!