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Another one of my famous "my brother got me a crap-ton of stuff for my birthday"-posts, this time it's BFG-related.

So, my brother played his first game of Battlefleet Gothic and he liked it so much, that he's trying to get me into it as well. Truth is, I've always wanted a fleet as an extension for my 40k Orks, but I never got around to do it and BFG models are so expensive. He build himself a Space Marine fleet based on models from Firestorm Armada and a few months ago he showed me pictures from this faction and asked me if those wouldn't make good Ork ships.



I agreed, and guess what I got for my birthday? Directorate ships. A lot of them. So now I'm trying to figure out what I can do with them, because just leaving them like that is obviously not an option.


While most of my Ork army is red and I plan to paint the fleet red as well, I have a few Bad Moon units and the carrier ship will probably be painted yellow as well. Just because I want to actually paint a moon on it.

Also, it kinda makes sense that the riches Orks have the most ships, hence the carrier.

Another idea I had: Most Directorate ships look like segments build around a sphere at the core. Now I was thinking: Could this sphere be an asteroid? You know, like the next evolution for Ork Rokks, where the ship just grows around the asteroid in the middle. And then I had another idea and a few leftover parts and I had to try it out right away.

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There are rules for ramming in Battlefleet Gothic, right?

No comments so far, but I'll keep posting anyway.

I "finished" building the first 3... Waaagh Kroozas, I think. I'm not so sure about the rules yet, I just wanted to have cool looking ships first and worry about the playing part later. Since I had 2 Vanquisher class cruisers, I decided to keep the mostly similiar and gave the other one the same kind of buzz saw, but used different engines and symbols for the top. They kinda remind me of some kind of deep sea fish, which is not a look I would've thought would work for Ork spaceships, but it does.
I also used the leftover siege drills from my Centurion Meganob conversion with the Firestorm Tormentor and it came out pretty good imo.
The small ships are my first try on how a ship with an Asteroid in the middle would look. Probably can't say much more at this point until I painted it.



Now, the difficult part is the Killakrooza. I sawed out the front part like with the other ships to chef if I could put in some sort of drill or saw, but I'll probably go with lots of guns for this one. As you can see on the picture below, I want to add lots of shootas to the underside of the ship, but I'll have to check the rulebook first. My brother told me, there are special rules about in wich direction the ships can shoot.



As always, let me know what you think. I'll try painting these, before I keep working on the other ships.

Looking really cool! The turrets look a bit too big though

A small update. I'm currently painting the first two. I couldn't decide on the colors. Red is easier to paint, but the yellow just looks better. Also, how many YELLOW space fleets are there, right?

Dis looks good!But In spess everyone ears your WAAAAAAAAAAGH!Isn't day rite boyz?Der.Da boyz say you kan so you kan.

I like where this is going.

however they still look too clean for me.
Maybe keep going at the Rok idea, i think it will work great, or do more battle damages on those?

Like them much more than the official models!

M.

Wow...really well done! Will we be seeing more of this?

You definetly will. But they're on hold right now, because I have more important projects I need to finish soon.

Can't wait to see you back at this project! Maybe add some more spikes to the ships?

 Malika2 wrote:
Looking really cool! The turrets look a bit too big though

WOT!Are you saying dat deres such fing as too much dakka?(pulls out slugga) UNORKASY!*Dakka*

No I didn't say there was too much dakka (don't you ever worry about that!), I'm more talking about the proportions of the bits, which make it kinda look out of scale considering the scales we're talking about here.

I just went over my options with my brother and thought a bit more about my list. The 2 longer ships with the saws will be used as Gouga Light Kroozer and maybe the rounder yellow one as well.

The big one will be one of the Ork Battleships, I haven't decided on which yet though. That depends on what kind of gun I'll put in the front.

The Directorate Carrier will be the Waaagh Krooza, since it looks like it has the most launch bays.

Then I'll only have to figure out to convert/eqip all those smaller ships I have. They'll be Escort class, I just don't know what kind yet. Maybe I can convert some of them so they'll look like giant buzz saws.

Definitely perfect for Brute Ram Ships. If your after inspiration for this both me and Jihadragsta have made scratchbuilt fleets for Orks and his are really good. Personally I feel the lines are a bit to neat for Orks maybe bung some plates on to shift them about. If your looking for smaller weapons Epic Ork Gunz are perfect if pricy and Aoshima do a pair of Ordnance sets which are perfect for this. Tactics wise Orks are a poor fleet rules wise. They need to get extremely close but are pretty slow and the poor leadership is deadly in Gothic. I'd recommend Hamma Kroozas as they are the best craft the Orks have.

Hmm, might be cool to add all sorts of roofed little towers to the larger ships, kinda like the old Mega Gargant model. Or maybe something like this or that. These are also pretty gnarly to include. But it would of course be even cooler if you could get your hands on the original Weirdboy Tower or the original Mega Gargant.