Heresy would be perfect for a modern BFG plastic starter box, since they could do "Chaos" vs "Imperial" in terms of the aesthetic but also be providing players with that same value-based "army in a box" buy in that the Calth box game does, since you could use both styles of ship in the same Heresy-era fleet. Most of the vessels you'd see in the Heresy-era would be the same as the Imperial Navy BFG ships, with some "clean" variants of the Chaos BFG ships, and maybe a tiny amount of BFG-style Marine vessels. That's a total irrelevance when it comes to the Heresy though, since the whole point of the Heresy was that all the Imperial forces were mushed together broadly under the command of the Legions. I'm hoping a resurgence means fleets are more affordable and a reasonable sized playerbase develops, I've heard good things about Dropfleet Commander but it doesn't scratch the same itch for me. Seconded! One of my favourite parts of BFG is that it showcased the Imperial Navy as the primary Imperial force, I don't want more blue marines vs red marines. SilverMK2 wrote: Please god not more HH stuff! I don't think I have to choose one spaceship game or the other. By that time I'll probably have a couple of solid DFC fleets and be freed up, so to speak, to check out another spaceship game. It'll take a wee while for Dropfleet Commander to arrive too, what with the sheer amount of work implied by 1000% funding and all the stretches and addons, and the concessions to FLGSs, but I'd guess it'll be here long before the new BFG. Add in the fact that the rules are authored by the guy who brought us BFG in the first place, in an older and arguably wiser incarnation, and I'm getting pretty fired up about it. For some reason they interest me even more in the form of spacecraft, and the spacecraft on display for Dropfleet Commander impress me a lot. Gonna be honest, I know very, very little about Dropzone Commander's fluff, but the basic themes of the factions are enough to interest me. But if they're only at that stage now, how long will it be before we get a physical box o' ships to hold in our hands? Two years? Three? GW has announced the Specialist Studio, mentioning BFG specifically, and put out the call for games designers. I know there are excellent BFG proxies available from some sources, but as with other SG proxies they're still a bit limited. I'm a fan of SGs, and still regret selling off my BFG ships, but at the mo I'm going with Dropfleet Commander.
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