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So I'm still riding the miniature-miniatures train, and I've been playing this super-small version of BFG for a few years now. While Battlefleet Gothic was my first love (the very first purchase I ever made by mail order, and an original pre-order at that!) and I still I love my original metal Ork fleet to bits (literally), the truth is I'm only really playing this tiny ruleset these days. It's just easier. For a quick, fun, high-impact experience, it really does scratch the itch of 100,000+ casualties per battle, without terraforming my home or weekend. The battleships are about an inch long - it's not the size, it's how you use it!

The rules are so simple, I reckon someone here could reverse engineer them just by watching this battle report. It's rough-and-tumble, not a replacement for gritty BFG proper.

But the real ticket with this project is to be able to play massive narrative games, with dozen of battlegroups in a relatively small space. This video was really just a first test to see if I could film on a black background --- SACRLEGE --- but trust me, black boards are easy to replicate consistently at home, making the game infinitely expandable as my collection grows. Black cake-board + 1" mesh from the garden store + black spraypaint = grimdark space-vibes. My filming will improve, I promise.

You can also purchase the miniatures from the battle on my cults page if you want to try out the small-small scale.

I'm loving it!

 Easy E wrote:
I'm loving it!

Thanks, that's awesome!

This battle report has already tripled the views of all my other videos combined. Maybe the algorithm brushed past it in the street somewhere?

Good voice over

Nicely done!

Thanks guys! The feedback on this vid has been overwhelmingly positive on youtube. Even the analytics seem to love it, for being a tiny niche within a tiny niche at least.

I'm currently finishing off the Eldar exodites fleet, hoping to get them involved asap. They have a space-whaling theme, where they are the whales. Orks already done.

This is so cool!!! And reminds me of "minihammer", which has its own following but actually works better for mass fantasy games better than the old 28mm scale ever could.

And your video is awesome, too . Thank you for sharing!

 RiTides wrote:
This is so cool!!! And reminds me of "minihammer", which has its own following but actually works better for mass fantasy games better than the old 28mm scale ever could.

And your video is awesome, too . Thank you for sharing!

Thanks, appreciate you saying so. It's extremely satisfying modeling/printing ships at this scale. I was a one-ship-a-year kid when BFG first came out (because of the cost) so printing 12 battleships all at once, painting them in a weekend, and actually playing with them on the Sunday night is a dream come true.

Makes me smile that something like Minihammer exists, I genuinely think you're right about the scale. There are heaps of WFB models I love, but for actual play, the small scale just solves SO many awkward problems (like transport, storage, scale creep, misfit ranks, etc.). Good shout!

K.B. wrote:

 RiTides wrote:
This is so cool!!! And reminds me of "minihammer", which has its own following but actually works better for mass fantasy games better than the old 28mm scale ever could.

And your video is awesome, too . Thank you for sharing!

Thanks, appreciate you saying so. It's extremely satisfying modeling/printing ships at this scale. I was a one-ship-a-year kid when BFG first came out (because of the cost) so printing 12 battleships all at once, painting them in a weekend, and actually playing with them on the Sunday night is a dream come true.

Makes me smile that something like Minihammer exists, I genuinely think you're right about the scale. There are heaps of WFB models I love, but for actual play, the small scale just solves SO many awkward problems (like transport, storage, scale creep, misfit ranks, etc.). Good shout!

Yeah it's incredible

If I had a time machine and could change the scale of the wargames I put so much time into painting up hundred+ model armies for, I would!!

As it is, a lot of these are relegated to gaming with friends now, so it's cool to see people taking into their own hands and making it a scale that makes sense . Improved technology helps with this, obviously (3D printing!), and keeps the "mini" in miniature gaming, unlike GW's scale creep approaching toy-scale.

 RiTides wrote:

K.B. wrote:

 RiTides wrote:
This is so cool!!! And reminds me of "minihammer", which has its own following but actually works better for mass fantasy games better than the old 28mm scale ever could.

And your video is awesome, too . Thank you for sharing!

Thanks, appreciate you saying so. It's extremely satisfying modeling/printing ships at this scale. I was a one-ship-a-year kid when BFG first came out (because of the cost) so printing 12 battleships all at once, painting them in a weekend, and actually playing with them on the Sunday night is a dream come true.

Makes me smile that something like Minihammer exists, I genuinely think you're right about the scale. There are heaps of WFB models I love, but for actual play, the small scale just solves SO many awkward problems (like transport, storage, scale creep, misfit ranks, etc.). Good shout!

Yeah it's incredible

If I had a time machine and could change the scale of the wargames I put so much time into painting up hundred+ model armies for, I would!!

As it is, a lot of these are relegated to gaming with friends now, so it's cool to see people taking into their own hands and making it a scale that makes sense . Improved technology helps with this, obviously (3D printing!), and keeps the "mini" in miniature gaming, unlike GW's scale creep approaching toy-scale.

Yeah, even if they were to release BFG again, it's hard to see how such fundamental issues could be addressed any better than they did with Adeptus Titanicus. Those plastic models are cool, and the rules are functional enough, but the lifestyle....? I mean, it's hard to justify.


So the premiere video's been up for a week, which probably means Youtube will stop plugging it. Here's what happened:

- About 2,300 views, almost exactly 100 watch-hours. So about 400 full views. I'm told that's pretty good, but we'd need to do 20 times better to monetise! Ha.

- 90% of traffic straight from Youtube, almost entirely redirected from GW's own channel. Woah.

- Overwhelmingly positive reception, mostly from actual BFG players. Ten times as many subscribers as previously.

- Sharp increase in views of my other 1mm videos, which is bittersweet at best.


New video planned for this weekend, Orks vs Imperium, but hard to say if I'll get it done in time. Have spent most of these past few days designing and printing the Eldar Exodites. SPACE WHALES!!!

Cool stuff K.B., subbed on youtube

Aww thanks Crablezworth, I've always been a big fan of your stuff! I don't play AT, but I've made a few purchases in that format over the years based on your threads. Eye-candy is king!


And Youtube tells me after I posted the last stats here, views from Dakka spiked by 600% so thanks everyone for giving it a go. Fast heading for 3,000 views!

I also just finished filming the next report last night. Orks vs Imperium. I've never had so many issues filming one of these battle reports - over 8 hours of raw footage, something like 50GB of files, and the obligatory monsoonal storm right in the middle. Ouch.

Good news is: WARP DRIVE IMPLOSION.