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|Released=1999
|Scale=10 cm
}} '''''Battlefleet Gothic''''' is a spin-off game of the well -known ''Warhammer 40k Universe'' universe. It deals with the space combat aspect of the game, and can be integrated fairly seemlessly seamlessly with the usual tabletop ''Warhammer 40k''. It has much following in Europe, but is underadvertised in the United States. It is produced by [[Games Workshop]], and has its own line of books, miniatures, and magazines.
The game uses miniatures of a 10 cm long scale.
==The Game==
[[Image:Battlefleet Gothic.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''Battlefleet Gothic Boxset''box set]] The ''Battlefleet Gothic '' system is similar to the [[Epic (game system)|''Epic'']] system and it is part of the "Specialist Games" group.
There are four phases of a turn:
* Movement: - This is when the players move their ships. Ships also use "Special Orders" during this phase, which allows ships to move faster, reload, or other special abilities.
* Shooting: - This is when the players fire their weapons.
* Ordnance: - This is when the players operate their ordnance. Ordnance is used separately from the ships and is a category that ranges from landing parties to torpedoes.
* End: - This is when damage is applied to ships or they can repair themselves.
===Fleets===
* [[Imperial Navy]]: most commonly [[Battlefleet Gothic]]
* [[Space Marines]]
* [[Chaos]]: - Abaddon and his Dark Crusade * [[Ork]]: - Waaagh! fleets and Piratespirates* [[Craftworld Eldar]]: - Craftworld fleets and pirates* [[Dark Eldar]]: - Raiders and pirates* [[Tau Empire]]: - Tau, Demiurg, Nicassar , and Kroot * [[Tyranid]]: - [[Hive Fleets]]* [[Necron]]: - Raiders
===Weapons===
Ships use three types of weapons for combat. They are Batteries, Lances, and Ordnance.
* Weapon Batteries are various - Various weapons that fire mass attacks at enemies.
* Lance weapons are focused Weapons - Focused attacks used for precision strikes against enemy ships.
* Ordnance is direct - Direct attack against ships, normally torpedoes or landing ships that are send to make physical contact with enemy ships.
==Expansions==
''Battlefleet Gothic '' is a combination of the old "''Space Fleet" '' game and the "''Epic" '' gaming system. There is a box set available for purchase and the rules can be downloaded from the "Specialist Games" website.
The Boxed Set box set for the ''Battlefleet Gothic '' game contains:
* ''Battlefleet Gothic '' (rulebook)
* Getting Started guide and comic strip
* 4 Imperial Cruisers
===Armada===
[[File:Battlefleet Gothic Armada.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''Battlefleet Gothic: Armada'']]
The "Annual update" for ''Battlefleet Gothic '' for 2003 was ''Battlefleet Gothic: Armada''. This book introduced new fleets for the Imperial Navy, which are Armageddon, Bastion, Cadia , and the Reserve of Segmentum Obscurus.
This book also collects the various rules on the many different fleets so that gamers could officially use them:
* Tau Kor'Vattra Fleet List
There are two new campaigns introduced in ''Armada'':
* The Third Armageddon War
* Abaddon's Thirteenth Black Crusade
===Invasion===
[[Image:Battlefleet Gothic Invasion cover.JPG|thumb|right|150px|''Battlefleet Gothic: Invasion'']]
''Battlefleet Gothic: Invasion '' is a cross-over crossover between the ''Battefleet Gothic '' game and the standard ''Warhammer 40,000 '' game. In the expansion are rules and scenarios that expand on the gaming system.
This game expansion is based on the fighting between a fleet and either a planetary defense or a space station defense. It emphasizes "Boarding Actions", i.e. fighting of troops between ships and/or bases, and uses different scenarios to emphasize the varied combats or events that can happen such as:
;Space
* Retrieval: - The fleet is sent to retrieve an artifact from the remains of a battle.* Defensive Ring: - An attack made against a refueling station to distrupt disrupt an enemy's hit -and -run tactics.* Port Maw: - An invasion of the mighty Port Maw after a power outage.
;Ground
* Boarding Party: - A standard raid in which an outnumbered opponent attempts to board and destroy an enemy's flagship.* Deadline: - A raiding party has a limited time to get rid of a large defense weapon while the two fleets battle each other.
==Sources==
* [http://www.specialist-games.com Official ''Battlefleet Gothic '' gaming site]
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