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Me and my good friend are starting BFG and I was wondering:

What would the Acronym be in the Imperial Navy? e.g. British ships have HMS, American ones have USS and WW2 Japanese ships had IJS/IJN

Just to make it perfectly clear, what would go in front of the ship name?

I don't think any of the fleets use prefixes on any of the ships.

There are lots of examples in the BFG rule book, and none of the ships names have prefixes.
The ships have rather sort of "religious" names like Divine Right, Flame of purity or Sword of retribution.


Check the fleet section of the book, for each vessel class, you have the name of famous ships.

No I mean what would go before the ship name?

For example, instead of the Ardent would it be HMS Ardent, INV Ardent or something like that

to my knowledge there isnt an official prefix. if you want one make it up?
His Divine Majesty's Ship?

There is no prefix, an Imperial name is enough to identify the ship as Imperial.

Most navys dont use prefixes like those. The "IJN" for instance was added to fit more neatly with english writings and was never used by the Japanese. Its much more common to have some sort of hull numbering or markings now to differentiate ship types.

Radu Lykan wrote:
to my knowledge there isnt an official prefix. if you want one make it up?
His Divine Majesty's Ship?

I seem to remember HDMS from a Black Library novel. And that's pretty much the only one I can ever remember seeing, the Imperium does not seem to use SS/USS/HMS type prefixes. But I've also never seen anything that says they never use them and given how ingrained in our tradition it is I think most of us expect them.

Given how big the Imperium is I would guess there is no one prefix, instead it would go which sub-sector fleet the ship belongs to and may vary widely.

IE The BGS DIvine Right for Battle Fleet Gothic but the BKS for Battle Fleet Koronus. etc. And then there would be all sorts of crazy excpetions,with Ultramar insisting on using GSS for Guillman's Star Ship, and the Merikins sub-sector using USS which they have used since before the Imperium and no one knows the meaning of.

Merika!

My Admech ships are perfixed in binary.

lpphoenix wrote:
My Admech ships are perfixed in binary.

I would probably recommend hex instead, if you want something that's a bit more info-dense and looks techy.

0b11111111 (binary) = 255 (decimal) = 0xFF (hex). A lot of text encoding uses one or two bytes (8 bits, like the samples at left) per character... Or if it's a ship class 8 bits gets you either 1 number from 0-255 or on 'letter' to play with.

But I'm just being pedantic now.