AuthorNateHA-Flybywire Hi all! I've been blessed to be part of the BFG community since the very beginning, and for some reason the GW demi-deities showed favour to my random scribbling's early on and invited me to an extended peek behind the curtain. Everything changed after 2010, and by 2013, everyone at Games Workshop that was passionate about the game was gone. I still remember a lot about that time, but I'm not the only purveyor of knowledge so if I miss some details or you have a question, feel free to drop me a line or hit me up on the General Discussion forum in the BFG Discord. Thrown wrenches and /or crowbars are acceptable, as long as it in fun. All that being said, I hope this all makes for some great reading. Game on and enjoy! Why are there no official Chaos Light Cruisers?
Okay everyone, here’s why Chaos light cruisers are heresy, verboten and otherwise must never be spoken of. First, apologies to everyone who loves these things, mainly to the awesome 3D STL artists out there who created some truly beautiful Chaos CLs. I also apologise to the fans (like me) of Rogue Trader by Fantasy Flight Games, who in their many supplements created two Chaos CLs. For the latter, I’m not pointing any fingers, but it’s probably Horizon’s fault. Joy When BFG was first designed, a lot of the ship themes were ported over from Spacefleet, with the intention of creating two distinct fleets instead of one set of models with different paint jobs and iconography to tell good guy from bad, the way Spacefleet was. To do that, the concept was to make Chaos ships older and slightly less resilient, but faster and longer ranged due to the here-tech most of these ships incorporated. Imperial ships on the other hand would have slightly better weapon loadouts and increased prow armor to make up for the typical range shortfalls. On average, this made Imperial ships more expensive than their Chaos counterparts, making it hard to even out model numbers on the table. The Dauntless was created to balance this out, and the Slaughter was created to ensure the Dauntless didn’t swing the balance pendulum too far in the opposite direction. Quick trivia: the Slaughter was inspired by the Spacefleet Thunderbolt cruiser. Andy C., Matt K. and the gang pretty much stuck by this line of reasoning for the life of BFG as a supported product. As a rules purist, I mostly did the same even as the game grew far beyond its original roots. Truth in reporting, all the HAs haven’t been in agreement with this, and Ray Bell actually gifted me one of his personal Chaos CL models to turn me to the dark side. So there it is. No Chaos CLs ever! Except for mine, and yours, and his, and his, and hers. Just because it didn’t make it into da’ rulez doesn’t mean you can’t play with it if you’re opponent agrees. It’s a game so game on and enjoy!
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