CWF Game Cast

At Battleground Games in Abington gamers have started to return to the realm of Battlefleet Gothic.  BFG is a great game, created by Andy Chambers, and my absolute favorite Games Workshop production.  I highly recommend reading the Wikipedia article for an overview behind the game.  Also don’t forget to get the rulebook for FREE at the Specialist Games website (yes this is legal).

In addition to BFG veterans getting back into the game there have been some new players eager to join the fray.  I’ve been playing BFG for almost a decade having started back in 2000, or thereabouts, at Danger Planet Games in Waltham.  One of the new players has a Tau fleet utilizing the special Tau torpedoes.  Sunday he played a 1k game against a friend’s Space Marine fleet resulting in a draw.  After watching the game I remembered that other fleets, excluding Tau, can use Appendix I of the Armada book to field special torpedoes too and wondered the value of doing so.

I created a study to determine the value of spending 20 or 30pts for special torpedoes.  This study is not scientific, I’m not a scientist, and I’m not a mathematician but I hope this study will be useful to you BFG fans.  I rolled 10 dice 10 times for a total of 100 rolls.  I recorded the results of each roll and then tabulated the totals.  This provided me with the percentage that a given result will be rolled on the Special Torpedoes table (see page 156 of Armada).

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written by ^Raven^

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40k, Battlefleet Gothic, Battleground Games, Danger Planet Games, Games Workshop.

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GW seems to be mending their less than friendly customer relations. Good product, better customer relations, better content in WD. Win, win, win. Right?

WD #334 was a really good issue. It had some great Apocalypse and High Elf coverage plus a useful LoTR article that can be helpful in other systems. All was good for a month until WD #335. What the hell went wrong with issue 335?

GW is still utilizing the flavor of the month approach to sales, last month was all Apocalypse and HE all the time, and now it is some Apocalypse but mainly Space Orks and some LoTR all the time.

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written by ^Raven^

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Games Workshop.

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This was originally a page on this blog. We have since re-evaluated it and determined it works better as an article.  This has the added benefit of allowing us to tag it so you can find this more easily.  If you originally linked people to GW Army Release Dates please link them to this article instead.

This is a republishing of content that was made available here back in 2006. The information comes to us from Warseer.

We have taken the liberty to cross off projects that have been released. We have also amended the release date where available. If we have missed anything or don’t have the correct release dates please let us know. You can use our Contact Us form to submit that information. You can also use that form to send us new information on release dates.

All release dates below are unofficially official. The actual date of release may differ but all titles in this list are scheduled for release.

WFB 7th Ed (Sep 06)
WFB O&G (Sep/Oct 06)
W40k Eldar (Nov/Dec 06)
WFB Empire (Mar 07)
W40k DA (May/Jun 07)
WFB Campaign
W40k Orks (Aug 07)
WFB Campaign (Nagash - new minis for some races - inc CD Character (could be the 2 handed axe mini that was actually seen by one of my sources?))
LotR (as yet un-named) (Sep 07) Harad?
WFB VC (Oct/Nov 07) March 08
W40k CSM (Dec 07/Jan 08)
WFB HE (Mar 08)
W40k Dark Eldar (Q3 08) or could be Blood Angels
WFB Skaven (Q4 08) (could change places with DE)
W40k Space Wolves (Q1 09)
LotR (allegedly “the Hobbit”??)
WFB DE (Q2 09)
W40k ?/CSM (maybe chapter specific)
W40k Campaign
WFB Chaos Dwarfs (Q3 09)
W40k ?/CSM (maybe chapter specific)

written by ^Raven^

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40k, Chaos Dwarfs, chaos marines, Dark Angels, Dark Eldar, Eldar, Empire, Games Workshop, high elves, Lord of the Rings, Miniatures Games, Nagash, Orcs and Goblins, Skaven, space marines, space orks, Space Wolves, Vampire Counts, Warhammer Fantasy.

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The latest Fantasy Wargames newsletter is now available at my site.  News and views on Games Workshop, Ebay, 40K and the Ebay auction of the week.  Something for everyone!

All the best

Kerry

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40k, Ebay, Fantasy Wargames, Games Workshop, space marines, Warhammer Fantasy.

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