BattleFleet Gothic: You fell for the IN favor meme

Emperor class battleship or Dauntless class Light cruiser

Meant the Retribution class, not the Emperor class

Khaine with eldar seems to ALWAYS destroy something on a ship.

Not sure about orks.

Adeptus Mechanicus with IN seems to be the flavor favor of the month.

Slaanesh is great for countering eldar

IN:
Astartes: Good choice on brawlers and light cruisers, basically anything that usually gets close enough to board and/or LS.
Mechanicus: Arguably overall the best, pretty much always a good choice on any kind of ship.
Inquisition: Good for ships with hangars, since they effectively get an additional crew point (due to having one more crew category) and can use the Tarot to spot their targets from max range. A common pick for Mars BCs in particular.
Navy: Really kind of bleh. I guess maybe you could put it on light cruisers to spam them and get a whole bunch of extra Cobras, but any of the other three favours is prolly better.

Orks:
Goffs: Excellent choice. Improves ramming and boarding, which is your main gameplan anyways. Usually a good pick for all your line cruisers that aim to exchange broadsides, and a decent choice for light cruisers as well.
Red Suns: About tied with Goffs for utility. The traktor beam is great for dealing with Chaos and Eldar (not to mention hilarious), and the faster BRB recharge is a godsend. A good choice for light cruisers (because they're quick enough to easily get in range for the traktor) or a battleship (because it really likes having the extra speed, and pulling the right target into its path can turn an entire match)
Bad Moons: Decent, I suppose. I personally haven't had all that much success with the Shokk Attack gun, the cooldown just seems to long for it to really make a huge difference. The extra upgrade slot is nifty, though. I suppose it could be a good choice if you make something like a dedicated carrier that's gonna hang back anyhow.
Blood Axes: Not a fan, really. The NC just blows up too quickly to be of much use, particularly since the Orks already have excellent torpedoes and don't really need yet more stand-off weaponry. Being able to run silent can be nice for certain gamemodes, though.

Can't really comment much on Chaos or Eldar, since I haven't played those very much yet.

I've always considered the Lunar-class to be the iconic IN ship. The Imperial and Chaos cruisers were the only BFG ships that were in plastic, and were included in the started box, and out of those the Lunar is supposed to be the mainstay of the Imperial navy and the most common cruiser variant (the Chaos counterpart is the Murder-class).

Looking for a BFG themed desktop wallpaper, post pics (doesn't have to be from the game, stuff like is great)

>one set of macro cannons
>one set of lances
>torps

That's a lunar class cruiser.

Which admittedly would be one of my main contenders for the most iconic ship around.

>filename
that works

Also, don't the battleships get 8 torpedo tubes rather than 6?

Something nice for phones also please

Lunars are the workhorses of Imperial Navy. Their WW2 equivalent would be Cleveland class CL, shitloads built, some converted and seen service everywhere.

1080p variant

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>How to use IN favor, an Anons guide:
1) Take it on all your Dauntlesses
2) Upgrade all your Cobras and Dauntlesses with Cogitator Linkages
3) Bring as many Dauntlesses as you can
4) Hide in a nebula, or kite your enemy round in circles, spamming reload
5) Eventually emerge from the nebula with an entire armada of Cobras.

Doesn't really work on Data, Assassinate, Convoy, or Space Station Assault. So it's not exactly great. But when it works, it is the funniest thing.

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>40k shipsluts

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Tzeentch is the workhorse of most Chaos fleets. It works on anything long range and brawlers if you can get away fast enough. If you start a battle with enough Tzeentch ships you can completely outflank the enemy with tactical use of the proxy blip.

I've found one thing that try as I mgiht, I can't counter.

Every so often, usually just as I engage, the camera flips below the map and then I can't move my ships.

>Wat do?

>Chaos
CLs are all carriers all the time
Cruisers are your beatsticks. Slaughters are great
Never get closer than 9k to your enemy
Plan a route at deployment to lead them on a merry chase through nebulas and around asteroids.
Stasis and Probes (both kinds) are your best friends. Learn to love them
Slaanesh on everything makes both Orks and Eldar weep

>Orks
Taunt on every ship. EVERY. SHIP.
Stasis on the ones that have room.
Micro-warp + Double Big Red Button = surprise butt secks
Ignore strikecraft (grot launchers) on CLs, they make them too expensive. A carrier+zapp Cruiser is a reasonable choice however.
Never replace Torps. Boarding Torps are love incarnate.
Tracktor beams wreck entire fleets solo.
Buy upgrades that make you faster so you can actually catch Chaos and Eldar.

>Eldar
Starcannons are USELESS, except for fighting other Eldar. Don't use the Shadow Cruiser at all, unless you face other Eldar.
Pulsars are how you kill everything. Give them Saim Haim for insane attack power, or Biel Tan for better defence and critting.
Vaul Maneuver is insanely good. Take it on everything.
A single Stasis on one ship in your fleet will help get you out of sticky situations.
Put these things on Autocast on your Auroras: Lightning Strike, Vaul Maneuver, Pulsars, Torps.
Set engagement range to 3k, forward. Turn off "Move doesn't cancel attack orders".
Buy more Pulsar range, then more pulsar shield damage, then whatever.
Once you have more Pulsar range, you may need to fire pulsars manually when you get into that range. Get good at estimating distances.
Never put crew into gunnery. Pulsars only fire three shots, so critting doesn't really come up. Fill up spirit stones first, then Blade sworn.
You are not a ship: you are a plane on an attack run.
Pick target, line up, approach, fire, 180 spin, boost out. Wait 10secs for pulsars to reload, turn around and do it again.
There's also a funky all-Altioc-Solaris build, but that's really expensive and hard to make work.

One of his steam groups is /v/

Well known bug. Wait for patch I'm afraid.

>Set engagement range to 3k, forward. Turn off "Move doesn't cancel attack orders".

Don't actually do that. It will just guarantee that your ship will be instantly murdered the moment it gets taunted. Instead set the default behaviour to 12k broadside, which will make your ship automatically retreat once taunted. Just learn to aim Pulsars manually, you'll have to do it once you've got 9k-12k range on them anyhow.

Well that more or less explains everything

Thanks.

Well that's extremely annoying.

Vice Admiral Drawfag reporting in !
Currently back from a fencing session, and working on a RT campaign advancement.
The current work, included Herein, is hence on stand by for shading, and it will began anew on tuesday only.
though,I will be able, I think, to do some Admirals pacha tomorrow as requested.
Concerning ship waifus? I've began some reflexion about them, but any requests on looks and specifics ? Afterall, my work should get the approval of battlefleet Veeky Forums.

I don't know too much about the BFG memes, but I keep hearing about an Alfrid Lickspittle that's supposedly on the official BFG forums? Where do they normally reside?

I've been experimenting with all-Ulthwe and it's surprisingly nice. Being all but immune to lightning strikes and able to lay a continual DAANGER ZONE to deter pursuers is a powerful combination, plus it looks killer. Eldradu akbar.

>Annotated by Amberly Veil
Kek

Steamforums.

>ship wa....
Dude i dont want to say that fucking word. Your work is cool please don't make me hate you and have you ruin a good thing

Serious discussion. I am huge naval autist and I will read everything that describes warships of 20th century. Am I not the only one that gets semi- or fullboner by reading BFGs rulebook and fluff?

Why would you even get mad about something as trivial as that?

As a doctor in psychiatry and psychology, with several papers published about this topic, I can say with a 100% of precision that you suffer from SEVERE AUTISM.

Emperor or retribution class?

Today's new meme:

"I lost all my ships so I'll turn up to a 700 pt game, run away with two light cruisers for 3 minutes then disengage."

Did this eldar also get 400 pts of bonus reknown for that?

Retribution by far. Emperor is just awkward.

Vice Admiral, I had an idea in the last thread, wasn't sure if you saw.

see

God damn it. I like this game. I want to LOVE this game. But I just had four matches in a row with horrible bugs. The first was sideways map, then fatal error, then two no-skills-allowed.

It's like it WANTS me to hate it.

>Playin' as orkz!
>Fight a eldar gitwho sez it's 'is ferst toime
>Da git comes to close range and doesnt move all da toime
>Gets stomped
>Iz tells 'im dat 'e engaged in da classic blundah, which is ta foight boyz in close combat
>Later foight a chaos boy wif my loight cruisers wif da big boom kannonz i got from few 'umie croozers
>I asks 'im 'ow 'e loikez dem
>"I dont" sez 'e as two nova kannonz 'it 'im!
>Later i tell 'im da same fing, dat 'e engaged in da classic blundea which is ta foight boyz at close range

And i provided a pic for reference.

Has anyone else met the IN player who think's he's an ork?

No, tell me more about this person.

He has an IN fleet which is all gunships.

I've met him twice now. He starts on the menu screen with

>WE IZ DA BLOODAXE NAVY. WE AV LOOTED DESE.
>YOU IZ PUNY ORKZ. WE DA BEST.
>FOR DA EMPERAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRGHHHH

then goes at you with a massive knot of violence.

His BB is called the Phallus or something.

He's mad as fuck.

i have seen it, Admiral user, and it is dully noted. I do know I need to read the different tactical LOGH files, but I am not really getting the reference. Nonetheless? i do think I'll give it a try. It is, though, at the end of the current queue.

That sounds fucking amazing

He's the only time as Orkz I've tried to dodge being rammed.

Mad bastard.

>tfw no BFG version of HMS Pinafore

>Orky version of HMS Pinafore
>WEZ SAIL DA OCEAN 'O STARZ AN' OUR KILL KROOZA'S A BEUTIII!
>WEZ PROPPA ORKS AN' TROO AN' ATTEMPTIV TA OUR FOIGHTIIIN'!

>leveling fleet
>havent battled in anything but cruiser clash and im level 7
feels good.

WE'Z KLEVER BOYZ AN' TRU,
AN' ATENTIV TO OUR DUTY.

how about pic related with spire on the top of a dauntless ramming foul xenos? scale might be a bit wierd though. either way love your work Admiral

>His BB is called the Phallus or something.
theres an user here with an IN fleet all called something phallic, pretty sure his BB has phallus in the name. Someone likely has the screenshot of his fleet

Hell yeah, couldn't ask for more

No user, you are not.

You don't think it's him do you?

user if you're in here. Speak up now.

>I IZ THE WAAAGH BOSS OV DA SEE, HED BOY OF THE GITZ NAYVEE

this idea is already in the queue, Admiral user. to make it work? i was thinking a a large panel where we see the UImperial line Ship ramming, giving the scale, and a an insert picture zooming in on the top of the prow, with Spire in the classical FUKKKEEN XENOS position.

>MFW I just ram>retro>ram chained the Terminus Est from full to dead with my battleship before the fight's 1 min mark.

The motherfucking gothic class cruiser. Shit's named after the sector.

Full art.

>OIM POOR LIL GRETCHIN, POOR LIL GRETCHIN, IZ ALWAYS GETTIN' KICKED AROUOOOFFF!!!
>OY YA GROT! GET TA WORK YA LAZY GIT!

>FOR 'E 'IMSELF 'AZ SEID ET!
>AN IT'S GREATLY DUE TA 'IZ SIZE!
>FER 'E EZ OUR WAAAGH BOSS 'E REMAINS A WA-A-A-A-A-A-AAAAAAAAGH BOSS!!!

It mildly annoys me that the Ork ships in armada are called "Cruisers" etc. instead of "Kroozas"

only chaos gets to pull this bullshit and warp away.

>just as planned

Gothic cruiser has no macrocannons, so it doesn't really work as a mascot for a game with is all about 1700/1800s naval warfare IN SPACE. The Tyrant cruiser works better, or maybe the Lunar.

This, desu senpai. Lunars are the workhorse, the mainstay, and the backbone of most any fleet. Gothics ain't much good unless you have some macroweapons to trash their shields. Well rounded, well balanced, the classic Imperial prow and impressive torpedoes.

Lunar-class cruiser shipslut version fucking WHERE

Id go with macro cannon waifus.

Is it called Battlefleet Lunar?

Not panicking would be a good first step

What ships, upgrades, favors do you tupically run?

Go with the Overlord. full macro broadsides, lance turrets on top demonstrating range and angle advantage, torps and proud erect ramming spike in front.

The Gothic Sector is just one sector, user. The Imperial Navy is everywhere.

Did he ask what was the most iconic ship of the IN or the most iconic ship of BFG?

The Gothic is neither, senpai.

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>tfw slamming down whiskey, smoking pot and listening to the LoGH soundtracks while duking it out online as my Slaaneshi fleet.

I fucking love this game guys, it's been so many years since a brand new game has captivated me like this.

So, just making sure here, you CANNOT actually kill the blackstone fortress the first time you fight it, right?

Because this is the third time I synced a massive torpedo volley to hit it at about 5%, and had it still warp out (with, I notice -1 hp).

Nope
One user save scummed it 3 times iirc

Well, me too. Cause I called bullshit.

I wish there was an easier way to screw around with ship builds.

Mucking about with a grot ship launcha on my cruisers. Don't know if the utility is worth trading the gun for.

>that mek squig

I love it

>Eldar players now just hid in asteroid fields and wait out the clock till they win.
This game is fucking broken.

throw a beacon in there you dingus

You cant beacon the whole map silly

Silent running doesn't last forever, famalam.

If you are eldar one favor allows you to stay off the radar completely so long as you remain still

Battlefleet Gothic isn't about 1700/1800s naval warfare though.

Every ship is self powered, torpedoes, turrets and aircraft are all common. This is before you even get to exotic weapons.

Any similarity it has to that era of naval warfare is superficial.

less retard short detection ranges when?

The answer is never because the devs are retarded.