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Do the Various races in 40k have ships other than thsoe in BFG?

Probably, battle fleet gothic is only a very small game so wouldn't be able to show everything.

It's generally implied that the ships in Gothic are just the tip of the iceberg. They also mention that there are like a squillion transport ships, space tugs and whatnot that are so useless in a fight that they aren't worth giving more than one generic profile.

Almost certainly. A good example of this is in FFG's Rogue Trader RPG, there's a section for customizing your own ships and most of the types are very different from the fraction BFG shows.

So, its possible to have ship bigger than a retribution?

Perfectly possible, but unlikely. There are a few examples, such as the Planet Killer and (in the HH novels) Horus' flagship, but they tend to be unique designs that tend not to crop up after their first outing.

This has always bothered me

BAAAAGH.
What is that?

Gorskar.da.Lost wrote:BAAAAGH.
What is that?

Looks like a big dark eldar ship.

Sweet Baby Jesus.
That ship's on a par with the Super Star Destroyer.

corpsesarefun wrote:

Gorskar.da.Lost wrote:BAAAAGH.
What is that?

Looks like a big dark eldar ship.

So Dark eldar have chaos crewmen?
Like these blurbs of text hint at...

Oh sure if you READ the text its a chaos ship, but who is that boring?

Gorskar.da.Lost wrote:Sweet Baby Jesus.
That ship's on a par with the Super Star Destroyer.

Much bigger, each one of those little ships is a cruiser/equivilent

There is no face that I can make to describe how awesome this picture has now become.

Gorskar.da.Lost wrote:BAAAAGH.
What is that?

Chaos warship from Bloodquest IIRC.

Gorskar.da.Lost wrote:Sweet Baby Jesus.
That ship's on a par with the Super Star Destroyer.

More on par with an Eclipse class Star Destroyer.
Super Star Destroyer was smaller.

chromedog wrote:

Gorskar.da.Lost wrote:Sweet Baby Jesus.
That ship's on a par with the Super Star Destroyer.

More on par with an Eclipse class Star Destroyer.
Super Star Destroyer was smaller.

the SSd and Eclipse were long, but thin, so they would have the same amount of displacement to a retribution and emperor respectively.

Space hulks can actually get as large as a small planet, generating their own gravity well. Since a Space hulk is just a collection of ships and other space junk that have collided and merged, they're not really purpose made, but they still work.

There's also lots of different designs, and ships for different purposes. BFG mainly covers frontline military vessels. Then there's the ships that have no known origin, like the Blackstone Fortresses, and one-off ships, like the Planet Killer.

-Loki- wrote:Space hulks can actually get as large as a small planet, generating their own gravity well. Since a Space hulk is just a collection of ships and other space junk that have collided and merged, they're not really purpose made, but they still work.

There's also lots of different designs, and ships for different purposes. BFG mainly covers frontline military vessels. Then there's the ships that have no known origin, like the Blackstone Fortresses, and one-off ships, like the Planet Killer.

Plus who knows what toys the necron's have in storage that hasn't become active yet. But agreed ships of such a scale for most races are unique one off's or incredibly rare due to their size.

Also, the BFG Tyranid book says that the main Tyranid hive ships (which never really get seen, due to only being used in the final stages of an invasion) can dwarf Imperial battleships. So that earlier image, a hive ship could probably reach that size.

I have to smile at that picture, can anyone else who is familiar with the rules for BFG imagine what the rules for turning that beast would be? Or trying to come to a full stop? It would be a torpedo magnet and next to useless in the game. But I guess it's cool imagine.

ComputerGeek01 wrote:I have to smile at that picture, can anyone else who is familiar with the rules for BFG imagine what the rules for turning that beast would be? Or trying to come to a full stop? It would be a torpedo magnet and next to useless in the game. But I guess it's cool imagine.

Rule of cool all the way, it would be like the death star in ROTJ, it would just sit in the back lines taking potshots with a battery of incrediby over powerful guns that it nodoubt has

ComputerGeek01 wrote:I have to smile at that picture, can anyone else who is familiar with the rules for BFG imagine what the rules for turning that beast would be? Or trying to come to a full stop? It would be a torpedo magnet and next to useless in the game. But I guess it's cool imagine.

probably would cost too much anyway. turning it would be very tedious and whatnot.