You can find all these rules here: Specialist Games Fourm I would say it purely depends on the players. Some consider it to be fairer others think it takes away from the Eldar fleets appeal. I have found these are usually agreed with the players prior to use as it does change the way the Eldar play quite a bit. Now where the major diversion comes is typically with regards to the Eldar/DCraftworld Eldar ‘ Move, Move. In my experience the following rulesets are the ones used to play a standard game and the ones used in tournaments still: That’s about it for rule sets but I suppose the main question is what the general agreed set of rules to be used. In total there were 33 Warp Rift magazines made but I am unsure if it has discontinued.
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I also understand that this going through an update too.Īdditionally, there was Warp Rift magazine that was a fan made community magazine that contained artwork, new ships, stories and fleet lists. Probably the biggest rule alteration though is that of BFG:XR, with is an extended rules addition which adjusts fleet lists, some of the rules for fleets, like changing holofields for eldar and adjusting points cost. There are also some gloriana class rules. This book has been prepared to provide unique named ships from the heresy and rules on legion lists. More recently a 'Red Book' has been prepared which is purely a Battlefleet Heresy rule set as well. BFG France: Pirates, Nomads and Raiders.
BFG France: Dark Eldar – More ships and rules.BFG France: Demiurg, Fraal, Rak A Gol fleets.BFG France: Craftworld Eldar - FAQ 2010 integrated + campaigns + legendary vessels.Some cool artwork too for those interested.Ĭommunity in France really embraced BFG and they created a great range of rule sets as well. These are fan made rules for Tau vessels and there are some short stories included. There is now also a compendium 2.0 that is in development (creator is on the FB page) that will bring together more ships created by the community. These for the most part pre-date the Yellow Armada book but some overlap. This is a collection of ships from the various battlefleet gothic magazines. This now has become more of a fleet list rule set but also includes revised points costs for ships and fleets that several big members of the community created. Many players enjoy them and many don’t but its down to the players I would say. It provides an alternative to the original rules. These are probably the most widely used rules from the fan made community. So there are a number of fan made rules but the main sets are:Ī book created by the awesome Polish community which introduces new ships and scenarios very similar in look to the original books. The community is one of, if not the most, active community in generating their own rule sets and while this has been awesome it has created some levels of confusion in what rules to use.
The beauty of the BFG community has been its willingness to generate their own content for a system that is no longer supported (just look at this site for instance). But no rules that directly relate to the BFG game. While not official canon it still has a few ships. Is a fantasy flight games RPG book which allows you to play D&D style games on a void ship.
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BFG Adeptus Mechanicus a more fleshed out PDF then the Ships of Mars.BFG Space Marines - A big improvement compared to the rules in Armada Yellow book.
In addition to the FAQ there are rules that were part of the large Compendium that are a generally regarded as official but technically aren’t but these include: So it is generally agreed these rules are used. That being said tournaments, such as Adepticon, use these rules as part of their ruleset for the games. The bad news was that it was never officially recognised by GW. It was well received and made fleets like the Space Marine fleet much better (actually playable to be honest). The good thing was that this FAQ was made in close relationship and with a lot of feedback from the community and Games Workshop designers. The main one is the 2010 FAQ which was completed by the BFG rules committee, also known as the High Admiralty. Badab war from Forgeworld also had Space Marine fleet lists included. There was also Imperial Armour Volume III: The Taros Campaign (1st edition), which contained the 'official' rules for the Forgeworld Tau ships.