[BFG] Chaos is coming.........

[Radu Lykan]

Having recently nearly finished painting all of my imperial cruiser hulls I decided to stop putting off my chaos fleet and break them out of the storage shed.
I did a quick test of the scheme I have planned

Quite happy with it, the bone colour is due to some old fluff I wrote, basically they have coated their ships in bone paste as part of a ritual that turns them into warp conduits, allowing daemons free roam in the "real" world. It's also easy to do and pops on a black table

With the tester done I got excited and set the bfg tray on the table and got to work.


I cleaned and built almost all of my cruisers, doubling the number of chaos ships I have built.
Unfortunately when I looked for the spray I found out the brother in law had borrowed it and that stumped me. Here is where I got to

[Major_Gilbear]

Nice Chaos fleet! Surprised that you only have one Styx class though...

[JamesValentine]

looking forwards to seeing the Heretics and Repulsives painted

[Hobby Services]

Nice Chaos fleet! Surprised that you only have one Styx class though...

I'm not.  Everyone wants one of them, no one really needs two.  Three Devastations are usually a better buy than two Styx, and you save heavy cruiser slots for the Hades and Acheron hulls that way.

Nice to see BFG resurging even in a small way.  The models still hold up well today, and (as your light crusier kitbashes show) they're pretty easy to work with.

[JamesValentine]

personally I'd want 2 styx amy day haha

[Hobby Services]

personally I'd want 2 styx amy day haha

I've tried both options a lot.  The 3 x Devastation fleet beat the tar out of the 2 x Styx every time I used them against one another, and the performance against most other races was even more skewed to the Devs.  The only exception was against Eldar where the extra 60cm gun batteries on the Styx was more useful, but even there they were very close to even on win/loss ratios.  The Styx (good as they are) just aren't tough enough to make up for being down an entire hull, and they suffer far worse from crippling and special orders that reduce firepower because there are fewer of them than the Devs.

You can play 2 Styx, but you're handicapping yourself.

[JamesValentine]

I just have this OCD for having 2 ships the same. my imperial fleet has 2 Armageddon, 2 dauntless (torps), 2 slaughter, 2 murder, 2 devastation...only 1 mars so far but I'd want 2 and 2 styx and 2 jovian some day.........some day when I win the lottery

[Bergil]

Painting the fleet is going to take an awful lot of bone paste 

[Hobby Services]

I just have this OCD for having 2 ships the same. my imperial fleet has 2 Armageddon, 2 dauntless (torps), 2 slaughter, 2 murder, 2 devastation...only 1 mars so far but I'd want 2 and 2 styx and 2 jovian some day.........some day when I win the lottery

Nothing wrong with that.  And nothing wrong with a slight handicap on Chaos - my win/loss ratio against Imps over the years suggests the minions of the ruinous powers could have used some tweaking.  Then again, somebody needed enough 60cm weapon batteries to keep the Eldar honest, right?

Of course sometimes the blasted nova cannons would all roll direct hits for 6 damage the first turn, so it didn't always go against the deluded followers of the corpse on the golden throne.  

Painting the fleet is going to take an awful lot of bone paste 

I know a necromancer who could maybe help out with that.

I really miss BFG being a "live" game.  Holding out hope for a modern re-write though.  Dreadfleet, Silver Tower, Space Hulk, Blood Bowl...it could happen for BFG too.

[Davout]

I regret not spending irresponsibly large amounts of money on the game when BFG was a thing. Looking forward to see these ships painted up. 

[Radu Lykan]

So, I painted some bfg


Styx - Eternox
Devastation - Advocate of Sin
Devastation - Unholy Scourge (originally holy scourge)
Devastation - Callous (originally callous crusader)


Hades -as yet unnamed
Hecate - Hell's Emissary
Murder - Kinslayer (originally kingslayer)
Murder - Inordinate Hatred


Acheron - Discordia
Carnage - Sacrilege (originally sacred warrior)
Carnage - Deacon of Darkness (originally deacon montane)


Heretic -unnamed
Fanatic - unnamed also it now occurs to me that I have forgotten to put a lance on the prow, will be rectified asap
Schismatic - unnamed
Pagan - unnamed

Any thoughts on the missing ship names? Hopefully soon I can get started on the rest of the fleet, on that note, anybody have any spare chaos weapon batteries?


My own OCD is based on 3 of each cruiser but as I want one of each with a mark of chaos they shall be getting different colour paint jobs which is why they haven't turned up here yet, hopefully soon

[JamesValentine]

well that's a few nerdgasms had just now. especially over the light cruisers.

Holocaust of Iron?

[Suber]

Truly great. Can't have enough of BFG

[Radu Lykan]

Repulsive grandcruiser squadron

[AWu]

My fav Chaos capital ship. I am a little jealous..