Battlefleet Gothic - Introduction

Introduction

Battlefleet Gothic is an extension to the Warhammer 40,000 universe, providing the ability for players to stage space battles between fleets of spacefaring ships. Players select spaceships from a variety of fleets representative of the various Warhammer 40,000 races. The game as packaged includes rules and background for space fleets of the following factions:

  • Imperial Navy (representing Battlefleet Gothic)
  • Chaos (representing Abaddon and his allies' fleets)
  • Ork Pirates
  • Eldar pirates

Subsequent additions and expansions published in numerous Games Workshop sources expanded the game to include fleets for:

  • Space Marines
  • Ork Waaagh! fleets
  • Craftworld Eldar
  • Dark Eldar Raiders
  • Tau Empire (including Demiurg, Nicassar and Kroot ships as well as Tau vessels)
  • Tyranid Hive Fleets
  • Necron Raiders

There are also numerous factions of humans that have ships represented in Battlefleet Gothic such as the Inquisition, Adeptus Arbites, Adeptus Mechanicus, Rogue Traders etc. as well as numerous types of transports that are represented using current Battlefleet Gothic models, Forge World models and the old space fleet models.

Battlefleet Gothic ships are represented by 2-10cm long models. The rules and miniatures were originally available in Games Workshop stores, although reclassification as a "Specialist Game" means the rulebook is now available in PDF format from the official home page. Additionally, Forge World has produced numerous lines of miniatures for Battlefleet Gothic, ranging from models to replace ordnance markers to entirely new vessels.

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