First TW:Warhammer, Now a BFG RTS

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**Hlaine Larkin mk2**

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Cathedral ships, ahoy! Focus Interactive have announced that they will publish a real-time strategy adaptation of Games Workshop’s Battlefleet Gothic. Armada is already in development and we’ll be taking a closer look in very near future but the first details emerged moments ago. Fleets will be drawn from four forces – Imperial, Chaos, Eldar and Ork – and ships will be fully customisable, from their weaponry to support sub-systems. Admirals and crew will gain experience from one battle to the next, but the initial press release doesn’t contain any details regarding campaign or mission structure. Giant images await below, in the Warp.

Click to see the full majesty of the pics, including the one at the top of the article.

These ships really couldn’t be any more goth, could they? Sure, you could add eyeliner and big hair but that would cross the gothic streams and we’d end up with Robert Smith measuring out space for a flamboyant arch around his bedroom niche.

Developers Tindalos Interactive have previous in the space-based RTS space, most notable with Stellar Impact, which pleased Brendan back in 2012.

I had a brief dalliance with tabletop Battlefleet back in the day, as I did with most things Games Workshop. Weirdly, despite my preference for dark futures, I preferred Man O’ War, mainly because I knew a couple of people who had stacks o’ ships for use in its seafaring skirmishes. As is usually the case with 40k, I love the aesthetics but I don’t remember the specifics of the ruleset well enough to intelligently ponder how much will be jettisoned in the move to computerised realtime. I’m looking forward to finding out though and will tell you all about it in due course.

'Cathedral ships, ahoy! Focus Interactive have announced that they will publish a real-time strategy adaptation of Games Workshop’s Battlefleet Gothic. Armada is already in development and we’ll be taking a closer look in very near future but the first details emerged moments ago. Fleets will be drawn from four forces – Imperial, Chaos, Eldar and Ork – and ships will be fully customisable, from their weaponry to support sub-systems. Admirals and crew will gain experience from one battle to the next, but the initial press release doesn’t contain any details regarding campaign or mission structure. Giant images await below, in the Warp.

Click to see the full majesty of the pics, including the one at the top of the article.

These ships really couldn’t be any more goth, could they? Sure, you could add eyeliner and big hair but that would cross the gothic streams and we’d end up with Robert Smith measuring out space for a flamboyant arch around his bedroom niche.

Developers Tindalos Interactive have previous in the space-based RTS space, most notable with Stellar Impact, which pleased Brendan back in 2012.

I had a brief dalliance with tabletop Battlefleet back in the day, as I did with most things Games Workshop. Weirdly, despite my preference for dark futures, I preferred Man O’ War, mainly because I knew a couple of people who had stacks o’ ships for use in its seafaring skirmishes. As is usually the case with 40k, I love the aesthetics but I don’t remember the specifics of the ruleset well enough to intelligently ponder how much will be jettisoned in the move to computerised realtime. I’m looking forward to finding out though and will tell you all about it in due course.

Personally I'm quite pleased to see this is in the works, BFG (along with Necro & BB) is one fo my favourite GW games so a PC version should be good fun, especially with multiplayer
It's also good to see GW is being more lenient with their IP and allowing various games being allowed instead of the previous ways

**Soladrin**

OH FETH YES.

**CthuluIsSpy**

Necrons or no buy.

Kidding, of course.
Though I do hope they include more than 2 races.

**toasteroven**

CthuluIsSpy wrote:
Necrons or no buy.

Kidding, of course.
Though I do hope they include more than 2 races.

The article mentioned 4 (Imperial, Chaos, Eldar and Ork), so that's something.

I do want this. It is filling me with hope. I probably shouldn't have too much hope.

**Overlord Thraka**

Please of please be good!

**CthuluIsSpy**

toasteroven wrote:
CthuluIsSpy wrote:
Necrons or no buy.

Kidding, of course.
Though I do hope they include more than 2 races.

The article mentioned 4 (Imperial, Chaos, Eldar and Ork), so that's something.

I do want this. It is filling me with hope. I probably shouldn't have too much hope.

That's good. A bit basic, but it should be a nice selection of ships.
I hope they introduce more esoteric races, like Tyranids and Necrons.
Seeing a tyranid craft in action would be impressive

**Hlaine Larkin mk2**

I'll admit the initial range of races is a bit small but there's still huge varity within those 4 fleets.
There is also room for future DLC etc containing some of the other races like Tau, Dark Eldar and various other factions, although I do wonder how they'll balance out Necrons

**Melissia**

Yay!

**Iron_Captain**

Please kick me again.

**Frankenberry**

Hopefully they look at space RTS that have come before and build it around the ones the fans actually liked rather than trying to reinvent the wheel.

Here's hoping, because I need a new 40k pc game.

**djones520**

CthuluIsSpy wrote:
toasteroven wrote:
CthuluIsSpy wrote:
Necrons or no buy.

Kidding, of course.
Though I do hope they include more than 2 races.

The article mentioned 4 (Imperial, Chaos, Eldar and Ork), so that's something.

I do want this. It is filling me with hope. I probably shouldn't have too much hope.

That's good. A bit basic, but it should be a nice selection of ships.
I hope they introduce more esoteric races, like Tyranids and Necrons.
Seeing a tyranid craft in action would be impressive

They're not putting all of their eggs in one basket. If the game does well, they have fodder for expansions down the line. If not, then they haven't wasted development time.

No word on a single player campaign yet, so the article said. I for one really hope that they do make one.

**Pilau Rice**

Some screenies

Looks pretty swish

**Sigvatr**

Where are muh Necronz? D:

**LordofHats**

I cared about this. Then I saw they were remastering Homeworld. I stopped caring

**Wyzilla**

Sigvatr wrote:
Where are muh Necronz? D:

They're too OP, and will be hit with the nerf stick before being sold as DLC.