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WARP RIFT

ISSUE 20

HORIZON

THE BATTLEFLEET GOTHIC NETZINE

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SHOWCASE

Legion of the Damned

GothiComp 2008 Finalists

Gothicomp 2008 is going full steam and by

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be voting on the entries in the Grand Finale.

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Tau vs Tyranids - Ehlijen

Tau vs Tyranids - Volandum

In this issues Showcase you will ind all

submissions which made it to the Grand Final

this year plus the ghostly Legion of the Damned

leet.

In this issue you will alse ind the two submissions

we received for the Tau Shadowsun Scenario

Competition. Let us and the authors know what

you think about them.

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JOINT OPERATIONS

MULTI-PLAYER GAMES IN BFG – RULES AND TACTICS

BY STEFANO BREVIGLIERI

What’s so good about it then?

Almost all of the great naval battles described in

the world of Warhammer 40k feature many leets

on each side. At Schindlegeist, the decisive battle

of the Gothic war, Eldar and Navy ships formed

a temporary alliance to stop Abaddon once and

for all; the battle for the Ilithrium Belt was fought

by two Navy leets against the might of the allied

Chaos leets, and the list goes on.

A multi-player game requires some planning

and a great deal of free time, for 3,000+ point

engagements are likely, but is deinitely worth the

efort. New tactics to develop, new lists to try out

and a lot of bickering among the admirals of the

losing faction … I’m conident all of you will ind

multi-player games highly rewarding.

• Do NOT get a bigger table, unless you’re playing

5,000+ points per side. he harsh truth is that tables

bigger than 6’x4’ tend to favour those leets that try

and avoid getting stuck in, such as the Navy and

Eldar. You don’t really want to spend a long time

planning what turns out to be a shooting gallery

for one of the teams and a hell of an annoyance for

the other. A 6’x4’ table will make sure everyone has

a chance to claim a couple of kills at the end of the

match.

• Count both leets as a single leet as far as Special

Orders are concerned, but each should have its own

Fleet commander, i.e. if a ship from Fleet A fails a

Command Check, no other ship, including those

• When using alternate deployment, instead of

placing one ship/squadron have all the players

in the team do so, to make sure small, elite leets

aren’t forced to lay down their cards too early when

facing allied “hordes” (Tyranids come to mind).

• As for the rest, the battle should work pretty

much in the same way as a 1 on 1 game. Although

some people might think it would be more fun to

forbid players to give advice to their allies, we all

know that “advice” in this case would be something

more like “send your escorts in a suicide run at that

battleship or it’ll break through my line!” than

genuine tactical wisdom, so let them speak if they

want to!

from Fleet B, can attempt to go under Special

Orders, but that ship can only use a re-roll

from its own Fleet commander, not Fleet B’s.

his prevents people from allying with Orks

to get “re-roll reservoirs” and ensures the

game is decided by clever manoeuvring and

iring, rather than one trick ponies powered

by lots of Special Orders.

How do the rules change from a normal game?

As far as scenarios are concerned, I advise against

using Raids or Surprise attack! for multi-player

games. he best missions for this purpose are

Fleet engagement, Conquest (from WD), Alien

intervention (it’s a multi-player scenario already!)

and Rearguard attack. Escalating engagement

is just as good if you take your total number of

ships and divide it into ive groups, as having 10

“blip” markers per side will slow the game down

horribly.

A set number of turns would be welcome too.

Either 6 or 8, depending on the scenario, is a good

idea in my book.

My thoughts on multi-player gaming were sparked

of by the latest 40k supplement for big battles,

Apocalypse. In that book only minor tweaks are

made on the rules, and yet Apocalypse games don’t

get bogged down by the number of things to do

during each turn. In BFG the same thing should

happen. Here’s a list of suggestions I’ve made for a

multi-player game in BFG, but feel free to change

them to your tastes:

• By the same token, capital ships from

diferent leets shouldn’t be able to squadron

together or mass turrets. Fighters launched

by a leet should still be able to protect the

other leet, and boarding torpedoes should

ignore the allied leet’s ships as they do with

their own.

What to ield

their Heroes can be used in a “steamroller” tactic

alongside Navy ships. A couple of Orca squadrons

would make a very ine, and cheap, addition to

Space Marine leets due to their appalling lack of

lances, while Space Marine escorts are fast and

shooty enough to deal with anything that gets

close to the Explorers; on the contrary, Defenders

become rather redundant if your team mate can

ield Cobras or Hunters, so see less of those. Space

Marines can focus on Battle Barges and escorts in

such a game, since someone else will be forming a

better cruiser line with his ships than with Strike

Cruisers. I’m not too fond of Adeptus Mechanicus

ships, but an Ark accompanied by TWO Battle

Barges would be an impressive sight. If your

opponents aren’t playing Eldar, that is. Be careful

if you take an Admech leet as an ally, for you’re

going to be outnumbered against almost any other

foe.

As long as the point total is the same for both

factions, the leets forming the opposing teams

don’t have to be equally sized. In a 3,000 point

game, if Team A comes with two 1,500 point Navy

lists, while their opponents ield a 2,000 point

Chaos leet and a 1,000 point Dark Eldar one, it’s

not much of a problem really.

he real decision comes next: do you both pick the

same leet or choose 2 diferent forces to face the

enemy, provided the igures are available? Each

choice has its upsides and downsides.

If you go for a “single leet” approach, your tactics

will be very similar and most of your vessels will

work together to win the game. What’s more, if you

can’t take everything you want you can ask your

team mate to do so. An Armageddon and Gothic

leet alliance is a perfect example of cooperation:

the Armageddon leet brings in multiple Mars

battlecruisers, the Gothic leet has the Swords and

Dauntlesses to deal with faster opponents.

Forces of Disorder

Finding a suitable reason to justify a Tyranid/

whatever alliance has always been terminally

diicult in any game. BFG is no diferent. he wisest

thing that has come to my mind so far is “your

admiral tries to take advantage of the destruction

caused by the coming of a hive leet”. If you can

cope with that, you’ll ind that siding with Tyranids

is a very clever move. You just have to make sure

your opponent takes a couple of Ld improvements/

re-rolls to avoid having the Special Order phase

gobbled up (literally!) by his Instinctive Orders

checks. Apart from that, Tyranid ships are very

scary, hard to kill and you can rest assured they

won’t disengage when the going gets tough, leaving

you high and dry.

With Necrons it’s quite the opposite. heir ships

are just as scary, hard enough to kill for my liking,

but for unknown reasons almost every Necron

If you go for the “two leets” approach, you have

to be more careful. One might think taking Dark

Eldar allies for a Tau leet (pah! hese Kor’Os must

be gullible guys indeed!) is a really good bet for their

extra speed… then as soon as the battle commences,

the nasty pointy ears are already hurtling towards

the enemy line, facing a leet twice their size, while

the Explorers and Merchants slowly crawl across

the table. It is essential, then, that players ielding

forces from diferent lists think very carefully of

what their respective weak spots are and what the

other leet can do to help them. For instance, Ork

carriers are very poor, while Chaos Devastations

are among the best carriers there are, so if the

Chaos player went ordnance-heavy the Ork one

could do without it altogether.

Forces of Order

As far as I’m concerned you may well want to ield

Tyranids with Space Marines, but for the purposes

of this article I’ll stick to the more conventional

(and likely) alliances.

Space Marine, Adeptus Mechanicus, Tau (don’t lay

me for having put them in the Order list, please!)

and Navy leets really work well in a joint operation.

heir speed values are rather similar, ranging from

20 to 25 for most vessels, and they fulil diferent

tactical roles. he Navy provides the team with

Nova cannon-armed ships, cheap escorts, strong

cruiser squadrons and lots of torpedo markers.

he Tau give impressive ordnance coverage and

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