The Pirate's Haven

[Monsieur Cartier]

IMO a rank system would spoil the organisation. Everyone can be tasked with doing something, but to make people more special or chief pirates would be mean. Not to mention cause mutinies. How many pirate captains have been murdered by their own crew? *slowly steps behind Will J*

BTW, sorry about the typo-tastic post I made earlier.

[Da Mighty Camel]

Yay, BFG-players!

Username: Da Mighty Camel
Location: Eskilstuna, Södermanland, Sweden.
Fleets: Orks! Waaagh!
Specialism: Orky stuff (ie. "When to push that red button").
Article potential: Scenery probably.
Local GW store/ Gaming club: Eskilstuna miniature gaming. No GW store though.

Kind of new to BFG. I have a 750pts Ork fleet and have played around 5 or six games. I tend to switch a lot between 40k, fantasy, Necromunda, Epic and so on so I have hard to focus on one game. :wacko:
I enjoy playing BFG, altough it is hard with my Orks so any tips would be welcommed. :yes:

[Will J]

You're right monsieur, we just don't need it at the moment, or probably ever. Bt if it ever gets big enough we may need certain people to do certain tasks. But not right now . For the moment we need ideas and articles !

Welcome Da mighty Camel! Hope you enjoy your stay.

[Da Mighty Camel]

I hope that as well. I might play some BFG on thursday, hope so.
I agree with monsieurcartier that the rank system could be kind of strange. Of course, we enhanced ones can always change our title if we want.

[Da Mighty Camel]

I have thought about getting an Eldar fleet for BFG, anyone can give me some tips for it? I plan to use to standard Eldar pirates rules and I think I will do a torpedo/lance-heavy fleet.
I love their models and I am an Eldar player at the heart so they have called to me for a long time now, time to answer that call.

[Will J]

Eldar are a little diggicult to get used to. I painted a 1500 pt fleet for a freind, and played a few games with them. Weapons battery heavy fleet will make fine puree out of them. They are VERY fragile, they go critical on a 4+. That said their firepower is impressive, and they are VERY fast and manouverable. A good looking fleet though.

[Da Mighty Camel]

Yeah, and looks are important to me.
As long as I stay at long range from the weapon batteries and use hit-and-run attacks then I think I will be fine. And Eldar escorts are great, fast and can lay down a hail of precission fire.

Ok, I have made 2 fleet lists for the Eldar (800pts). Give me your opinions on them.

Aurora class light crusier.
140pts
-Pirate prince with 1 re-roll. 125pts
265pts

Hemlock squadron x 2.
3/4 Hemlocks (one squad is 3. one is 4)
120/165pts

Nightshade Destroyer squadron x 2.
3 Nightshades.
120pts

Total: 785pts

This list packs a lot of torps and pulsars, a total of 7 ships capable of firing torps and 8 pulsar-firers. It doesn't have that long range but combined with the speed of the Eldar I plan to dart in, fire away and dart back again.

2nd list.

Aurora class light crusier.
140pts

Eclipse class crusier.
250pts

Hemlock squadron x 2
3 Hemlocks.
120pts

Nightshade Destroyer squadron.
3 Nightshades.
120pts

Total: 750pts.

This one sacrifices one squad of Nightshades and the Hellbores for a carrier. Tactic is similar though.

[Will J]

This really belongs in the BFG forum But I like the lists. The second one is very strong, add some aconites instead of a hemlock squad and it will serve you well.

[Da Mighty Camel]

I thought we could discuss anyting that belongs to BFG in this thread. :rolleyes:
I don't like Aconites. Sure, they got the awsome Eldar Weapon Batteries but 65pts for aa Escort that is not an Necron seems kind of overpriced. I will go for a squad of three in the larger games probably.

I postede the first list in the SG-forums as well. got some response and the first list now looks like this:

Aurora light crusier.
140pts
- Pirate Prince. 100pts
240

Hemlock Destroyers x 2
1 squad of 3, 1 squad of 5.
120/200pts

Nightshade Destroyer squadron x 2
3 Nightshades.
120pts

Total: 800pts

[Will J]

Of course we can post anything BFG related here, thats what we're for Just thought it might get more replies there, thats all . You sound like you know a thing or two about eldar, why not write a quick newbie's synopsis of the fleet? That would be really cool.

I will post some pics later today of the large scale (16 inch!!!) mock up i've built of the new merchant ship, and the work in progress of the BFG scale model. It will have some interesting rules combos (like the ability to swithch between solar sailing and thrusters!) But it will really be useful in objective based games, as its not that heavily armed, and is'nt really intended as a ship o' the line.