There have been plenty of rumours swirling around the community about the potential Battlefleet Gothic update in line with all the other specialist games that have seen new releases. The rumour mill suggests the new game will be set in the Heresy Era, which I am conflicted about but that’s a story for another day. Historically I have seen many people in community and forums ask about what ships were around during the time of the Horus Heresy so that they could create their own fleets for that time. Often to try to create a fleet in line with their 30k army they are building. Unfortunately the lore being what it is there are conflicts and the information provided is loose at best. That being said, I have tried to put together a bit of a list of ships for both the Chaos and Imperial factions that were likely around during the time of the Heresy. A list is probably not required for the xenos races like the Eldar, Dark Eldar, Necron and Ork ships as they were likely the same as the lists in the standard BFG lists. Additionally, Tyranids and Tau were not present at the time of the Hersey so wouldn’t have fleets. Tyranids had not entered the galaxy at this time and the Tau were still savages (still are mind, filthy xenos) and did not yet have technology of space flight. So while the Imperium of man is generally afraid of new technology plenty of ship classes in service to the Imperial navy in the 41st Millennium were actually not present during the Heresy. So what were present? The known ships classes that were present in both the loyal and traitor fleets that I could identify were: Battleships
Additionally, there were named ships that several of the Space Marine fleets had access to, with several being Gloriana class. The Gloriana class was a massive class of ship and these included:
There were a few more named Gloriana ships as well:
There are also other named ships for each of the legions but these can be named in another post I think as there are a lot! There was also the even larger Abyss Class Battleships created by the Word Bearers and there were three of these called:
Apparently the old space fleet gothic ship was the basis of the Abyss class.
The lore suggests all three of these were destroyed during the HH. Lastly the Phalanx also existed at this time with the Imperial Fists. Now as I said there are some discrepancies, such as some sources saying the Murder and Carnage classes were actually created in the M34 rather than before but then other books indicate this not to be the case. Consequently, the list above it the likely list and the best I could find. Additionally, there are other named classes that do not appear in BFG and dont really have stats but these include:
The BFG community have put stats to these ships and can be found on the BFG page but I think these are unofficial ships. Awesome names and stats on some though. Do you have any additions or should some be removed?
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Stephan
1/8/2019 01:51:39 pm
Victory class battleship. It's an Imperial Fists ship class built at Inwit. I think seven were made, one being the Tribune that fought, and was lost, at Phall
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Tom
1/10/2019 03:27:08 pm
Ah you are right mate, the victory looks like it was around during the heresy. Ill have to add it into the lists. Thanks
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