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Whoa! You have my attention.

Edit - Do they really have to have a title of "Armada"? Now that's 3 space games (star wars, firestorm, and now the Battlefleet gothic RTS adaptation) that use it!

If you can pause it to plan actions, this may be difficult to resist...

Looks pretty, but being pretty isn't enough. Hopefully the gameplay is a hell of a lot more compelling than it is in Sins of a Solar Empire.

Squeeeeeee!!!!


I loved this game, very interested in this prospect.

About time. Time to fire up the Lunar Cruisers!

 RiTides wrote:
Whoa! You have my attention.

Edit - Do they really have to have a title of "Armada"? Now that's 3 space games (star wars, firestorm, and now the Battlefleet gothic RTS adaptation) that use it!

Saying both Battlefleet Gothic and Armada does seem a bit superfluous.

But yeah, I'm interested, see how it turns out. I seem to be disappointed more often than not when a table top strategy game gets turned in to a strategy video game.

BFG Armada might be in reference to the additional ships you got with that book? So we could see Grand Cruisers etc etc as well.

Oh hell yes! Between this and Mordheim I'll be spending lots of time on my PC!

If this is anything like Homeworld I probably wet my pants.
Several times over.
Even if it isn't...

The proportions for the foreground cruiser in the 1st and 2nd picture look "off"". The bridge superstructure seems to big relative to the body of the ship and the windows of the bridge appear too big. The 2nd picture seems to show a stubby cruiser instead of a longer one. Finally the ram part of the foreground cruiser in the 1st picture looks too bulbous.

I am using the actual BFG miniatures and the BFG rulebook ship class artwork for comparison.

As for gameplay I hope it is a slower paced game more like Homeworld rather than spamming clicks or hotkeys all over the place. If nothing else, a slower paced game gives more time to zoom in and watch the ship details.

 RiTides wrote:
Whoa! You have my attention.

Edit - Do they really have to have a title of "Armada"? Now that's 3 space games (star wars, firestorm, and now the Battlefleet gothic RTS adaptation) that use it!

Four games, Star Trek: Armada 1 and 2 were also semi-popular RTS titles

Also worth mentioning that the developer for this game has just one published game in their catalogue, the almost unheard of MOBA Stellar Impact... which I own, and it's ok, but nothing outstanding. A fully fledged RTS is a big undertaking unless they plan to make it entirely multiplayer only, dumping the single player campaign and AI that form the bulk of work in a typical RTS title

 RiTides wrote:
Whoa! You have my attention.

Edit - Do they really have to have a title of "Armada"? Now that's 3 space games (star wars, firestorm, and now the Battlefleet gothic RTS adaptation) that use it!

Actually, Armada is the name of a BFG expansion:

All I can do is..

Here's hoping that this isn't a freemium game chock full of microtransactions.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Here's hoping that this isn't a freemium game chock full of microtransactions.

I'm with you there, hope this isn't another bit of shovelware to add to the pile. Company is Tindalos Interactive. Never heard of them before.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Here's hoping that this isn't a freemium game chock full of microtransactions.

You read my mind there mate.

First thought:

It's about damned time.

Second thought:

For the love of cthulhu, don't be shovelware.

To this day, I'm surprised nothing was done BFG-wise with Relic, given their experience with Homeworld back in the day. Besides, Dawn of War 1 came out when BFG was still a going concern, but hey, better late than never.

I hope.

Fingers crossed this is awesome. I don't have high hopes but I do have hopes....

Wow I couldn't be more excited by this!

Is it PC/tablet/both?

 notprop wrote:
Wow I couldn't be more excited by this!

Is it PC/tablet/both?

My guess would be PC only?

One would hope its PC so it can be huge/galaxy spanning but we'll see.

I would love a game that includes a cross planetary system campaign and/or multiplayer aspect with resources/shipyards/etc.

Without a doubt this is bound to suck.

Make it turn based and function like actual BFG...now that would be cool.

 Xenomancers wrote:
Without a doubt this is bound to suck.

Make it turn based and function like actual BFG...now that would be cool.

No, it wouldn't. Battlefleet Gothic, like all tabletop games, is constrained by the fact that all its systems must be calculated manually. A computer game does not have this limitation, and there's no sane reason to use the dumbed down systems designed to allow space combat to be simuated using mental arithmetic when it can trivially handle a much stronger simulation. It's like saying that a video game should only play at 25 fps and 720x576 resolution because broadcast television wasn't capable of anything better.

If they're smart, they'll look at how Homeworld did space combat and just build off of that.

Either way: SWEET BABY JESUS.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Here's hoping that this isn't a freemium game chock full of microtransactions.

Yeah, I finally got around to playing WHQ on my iPhone and realized that I only got a third of the game- the other two-thirds cost twice as much as the game, so it ends up being pretty expensive to get all of the additional content for a repetitive dungeon-crawler.

In addition to that, WHQ seems to be one of the more well-liked classic-game-to-computer/device, so I'm really worried this game will be chock-full of microtransactions.

It's sad that I look at these new GW releases with such apprehension.

Please don't be bad.

PLEASE don't be bad.

Iracundus wrote:
The proportions for the foreground cruiser in the 1st and 2nd picture look "off"". The bridge superstructure seems to big relative to the body of the ship and the windows of the bridge appear too big. The 2nd picture seems to show a stubby cruiser instead of a longer one. Finally the ram part of the foreground cruiser in the 1st picture looks too bulbous.

Do. Not. Care. At. All.

If the biggest single issue that causes neckbeards to foam and rage is whether or not the aspect ratio of the superstructure is correct, the wailing will be completely drowned out by the primal, triumphal bellow uttered by the gamer base with its successful naval game from a beloved Sci Fi background.

Can you crash your ship into a planet is the question? =P

Iracundus wrote:
The proportions for the foreground cruiser in the 1st and 2nd picture look "off"". The bridge superstructure seems to big relative to the body of the ship and the windows of the bridge appear too big. The 2nd picture seems to show a stubby cruiser instead of a longer one. Finally the ram part of the foreground cruiser in the 1st picture looks too bulbous.

Don't know if you've noticed, but Imperium ships etc require more bodies to operate it than say, Star Trek or Star Wars. And it's not as if the bridges on the actual models are that small either lol.
As for the ram- nothing wrong with it IMO.

Loading the Nova Cannon..


Also- does "in development" mean anything to you?