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DAEMONSHIPS

“Twas in the Nefﬂeng Deeps that it came upon

us. We were ploughing the Warp in as ﬁne a

style as the old Oath of Praxus could be

expected to. Our navigator, Torkael, was loyal

as ye could hope for, no high-born navis

nobbilly was he, came from the distaff branch

o’ one of the clans ye might say. Still he hid

himself wi’a cloak and mask and if you

couldn’t stand the stink ye had no place on the

Oath for the old girl reeked like a hive sump in

summer. First sign of trouble was when

Torkael started blubbing and shrieking. We

couldn’t get any sense out of him but the

surveyors could just about make out

something big coming up on us. Captain

Orson steadied the lads and roared that he

didn’t care where we ended up but he’d be

damned if he’d stay in the Warp. With that we

made a translation back to real space and it

was a rough one without Torkael’s help. I was

watching the surveyor readouts and I’ll swear

the thing outside was almost on us when the

warp engines kicked in. I couldn’t speak or

think, such was the terror that ﬁlled me, then

the deck came up at me and the translation

turned me inside out. It took me a few minutes

to come to, there was some who didn’t. As I

say it was a rough trip!

There were stars outside at least, none of us

had any idea which ones they were but any

seemed better than what we had run from,

damned fools that we were. I went to Torkael,

he was all done in but he chattered at me for

a while before he went and he said what he

saw. He said it were a great horde of daemons

out of hell, harnessed to a chariot inside of

which was a horned thing with skin of blood

and a dozen arms tipped with black claws.

Then he looked me in the eyes and said that it

weren’t over yet and that I should get to an

escape pod straightway. Then he spluttered

and died. There was something about the way

he spoke, and before I could really think on it

I was in a ship’s boat looking out the port. I

was just beginning to call meself a damned

fool when I saw it.

It was like something fluid was moving

between me and the stars, making them go

fuzzy and blurred. Staring hard I could just

about make out an outline circling around the

poor old Oath like some beast o’the void. As I

watched a slash appeared, a great tear

through which I could catch a glimpse of the

infernal warp as a great crimson ship sheared

its way through. Then I felt the fear again, it

caught me and paralysed me and forced me to

stand and stare at the horn growing from the

pitted hull, at the barbed tentacles hanging off

it, at the way the hull bubbled into the shapes

of screaming faces. Then there was a roar that

shook the oath as the devil ship ﬁred its

engines, if its engines they were, for the roar

was the scream of a million suffering souls in

the furnace of hell. The thing turned toward us

and I could see the crimson ship but I could

also see through it to the daemon host and the

charioteer that Torkael had mentioned and I

cast off and ﬁred me engines. The ship’s boat

turned over and over as it fell away, I cared

not to steer, just to go fast as I could. The

acceleration knocked me all about, afore I

blacked out I saw the crimson ship rip through

the old Oath of Praxus, splitting her hull like

butter while the hooks sliced into the crew

faster than ye could blink, bursting them and

dragging them in the wake. Damn me for a

liar if ye will but I could hear the screams.

So, my ﬁne folks, that was how Clem came to

these shores. I will never see my own kind

again on account of I will never sail the

Immaterium again. I know that you young

folk all reckon us humans are mad crazed to

say what we do about the Warp and what

comes out of it but if ye had just one look at it

you’d know the truth. Still, take my oath,

you’re best served without it. Greater Good eh?

I’ll drink to that, that and my lost shipmates’.

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Who can say how the Daemonships came to be?

Some say they are created when ship’s crews

sacriﬁce themselves to the dark gods, seeking

immortality in return for daemonic servitude.

Alternatively, it is argued that they are ships of

the damned, condemned by acts so heinous as

to defy description, their crews and captains in

thrall to the dark gods forever. Those who

know something of the Warp claim that

Daemonvessels are ships lost in the Warp. For

centuries or even millennia, they disappear

from the real universe only to re-emerge with a

crew of daemonkind.

Tales of Daemonships go back to the earliest

days of the Imperium. Often the ships are mere

manifestations, appearing to spread terror but

disappearing as quickly with no tangible

evidence that they were really there. The great

orbital space dock above Sorraspair 3 was said

to be plagued by such an apparition prior to its

destruction by the Thousand Sons in M.37. The

legend says the apparition took the form of a

great battleship built in an ancient style, which

circled the station, its hull wreathed in bale

fire, transmitting a continual plea for

admittance.

There are rumours exchanged by Navigators of

spectral ships that ply the Warp. The Navigators

perceive these ships both as twisted parodies of

normal ships and as convocations of daemons.

There are tales of these Daemonships pursuing

their prey back to the material universe. This

has led to the theory that Daemonships can

only leave the Warp by following in the wake of

another vessel and that at other times they are

trapped in an endlessly shifting ocean of

madness. Typically, there has never been

enough reliable evidence to confirm any

hypothesis.

Although most of the tales of Daemonships

describe them as lone hunters captured

renegade navigators have, under close

interrogation, suggested that pacts can be

made with any of the daemons of the Warp.

Normally, the time that a daemon can spend in

real space is severely limited. Without the

power of the Warp to sustain it, then it will be

diminished, gradually losing its stability before

translating back to where it came from. This

process can be prevented by ritual worship or

by binding the daemon in an object or living

thing. To know exactly how this is done is

forbidden knowledge but it stands to reason

that possessing a great ship would give a

daemonic host greatly enhanced stability. In

time of war, one could expect the Sorcerers of

Abaddon to add to the strength of his ﬂeets

with such apparitions if they are able to.

The incidence of sightings of Daemonships has

been tenuously linked to the incidence of ﬂares

of the warp storms comprising the Eye of

Terror. If this connection is veriﬁable it gives

great cause for concern for no less than seven

warp storms are currently in ﬂare, the most for

centuries. If ever it were possible for such

monstrosities to be bound to the service of

renegades and heretics then that time is now.

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USING DAEMONSHIPS IN

BATTLEFLEET GOTHIC

The basic proﬁle of a ship, which is upgraded

to a Daemonship remains unchanged. It does

not matter what broadside weapons you

replace with Daemonship components the

ship’s proﬁle is not changed.

The points cost to upgrade a Capital ship to a

Daemonship is as follows:

Battleship .......................................+50 points

Grand Cruiser ................................+30 points

Heavy Cruiser .................................+25 points

Cruiser.............................................+20 points

A Daemonship may not be commanded by a

Warmaster or a Chaos Lord even if it is the

largest ship in the ﬂeet. This is an exception to

the normal rule. A Daemonship may not have a

Chaos Space Marine crew. Any number of

capital ships can be upgraded to Daemonships

subject to these limitations.

Daemonships cannot carry Exterminatus

weapons and do not score any points for

landing troops in a planetary assault (the

daemons are bound within the hull of their

vessel, whilst able to board enemy ships

normally in the context of a BFG game they

would become unstable if holding a planetary

objective for any length of time).

Any Daemonship may have a single Mark of

Chaos with the same effects and cost in points

as described in the Battleﬂeet Gothic main rule

book.

Daemonship Leadership is rolled as normal

(1=6, 2,3=7, 4,5=8, 6=9)

SPECIAL RULES

Deployment by Warp translation

A Daemonship may be kept off table at the start

of a game. The rest of the ﬂeet is deployed as

stated in the rules for the mission being played.

The Daemonship(s) are actually lurking in the

Warp waiting to either be summoned by one of

the on-table Chaos ships or drawn to the ripe

souls aboard an enemy ship. In the End phase

of any Chaos turn, after the ﬁrst, they may enter

play from the Warp as follows:

Select a friendly or enemy Capital ship, only a

Capital ship contains enough supplicants or

victims to draw a Daemonship from the Warp.

Position the Daemonship within 20cm of the

chosen vessel facing in any direction desired by

the Chaos player controlling it. Next, roll 4D6

and a Scatter dice and reposition the

Daemonship accordingly, keeping the ship on

the same heading. If a ‘Hit’ is rolled on the

Scatter dice, then the Daemonship arrives on

target.

The arriving Daemonship is unaffected by

Celestial phenomena and does not trigger

attack by ordnance markers it may happen to

land on. If it would appear in contact with an

enemy vessel, reposition it by up to 1 cm so

that it is out of contact.

Spectral Daemonships

The Daemonship has now pierced the fabric of

real space and has started to manifest itself. It is

not entirely present in real space, however,

although it is real enough for enemy vessels to

track its location and react to its presence. It is

in effect a spectre. Any enemy vessel

attempting a special order when within 15cm

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Assembling Daemonships

Any Chaos capital ship can be converted to a Daemonship by replacing its bridge sections with

the new components provided, along with some or all of the Chaos vessel plastic broadside

components.

of it is at -1 Leadership. Apart from this, it has

no effect, can do nothing to affect enemy ships

and cannot be harmed in return. It cannot

launch ordnance, trigger mines, be affected by

Celestial phenomena, nothing, at all – OK!

At the end of any subsequent Chaos End phase

it may complete the translation to real space. It

does not have to and may remain a spectral,

haunting presence as long as the Chaos player

wishes. When the decision is made to translate

to real space roll a D6 - on a roll of 2 or more

it becomes solid. This ﬁnal translation cannot

be made if the Daemonship is in contact with

an enemy vessel. No actions can be undertaken

in the End phase during which ﬁnal translation

occurs (no sneaky teleport boarding attacks or

suchlike). From this point on the Daemonship

is solid and ﬁghts like a normal ship.

Disengaging and returning – ‘haunting’

A Daemonship may disengage at the end of any

Chaos Movement phase without having to

make any dice roll. It simply drops back into

the Warp leaving no trace.

A disengaged Daemonship may re-enter play

on any Chaos turn following the one in which

it disengages. This is done following the

translation rules detailed above.

If it was damaged when it disengaged it may be

repaired when it returns, roll a d6,

1,2 or 3 – no change,

4 or 5 +1 hull point,

6 +2 hull points.

Add +1 to the roll if it is a battleship.

Add +1 for each full turn the Daemonship

spent in the Warp.

A returning Daemonship cannot come back

with more hits than it could normally have. At

the end of the game a Daemonship which

disengaged (even just once) will count as

having disengaged for Victory points purposes,

unless of course it is destroyed or crippled

when the normal rules apply.

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