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WARP RIFT

ISSUE 22

HORIZON

THE BATTLEFLEET GOTHIC NETZINE

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WARP RIFT • ISSUE TWENTYTWO • JANUARY 2009

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ISSUE TWENTY-TWO – CONTENTS:

Hi there,

You can check out our blog at the following

location:

Welcome to the irst issue of 2009. he start of

the third year with me at the reign of Warp Rit.

Hopefully this year will just be as good as the

previous two years. I am conident it will be with

your articles. So keep them coming.

http://www.players.tacticalwargames.net/tiki-

view_blog.php?blogId=10

ENCYCLOPEDIA GOTHICA

Planetary Defences

Repel Boarders!

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he Specialist Games website still has not returned

completely. We are still missing the forum but

Cybershadow and Mod-Lex have created a

new website where we can already download a

bunch of Fanatic Online issues which have not

been transferred to the main Games Workshop

website.

Check out the Warp Rift forum at:

http://www.tacticalwargames.net/forums/index.

cgi?act=SF;f=89

COMMAND AND CONTROL

Chaos versus Imperial Navy

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his issue of Warp Rit contains some great

articles once again. Reg Steiner brings us some

additional systems to protect our precious planets

against the enemy leets. hen he shows us some

house rules regarding boarding and capturing

enemy ships! Aaargh! Beware of the scum in the

galaxy and repel those boarders!

We also have the irst battle report under the

guidance of Davide. A Chaos leet tries to crush

an Imperial planet. See how they fare in the battle

report. Davide added some views aterwards.

he story takes us to a desperate struggle between

the Imperial Navy and the menacing Orks. his

is Dominic’s second story for Warp Rit. And

inally we have a cool scenario to play some

serious battles, brought by Ruckdog.

“Greetings admirals out there, I am honoured for the

opportunity that Roy and Warp Rift staff have given me

to contribue at the expansion of this fantastic webzine.

First of all, my goals for Warp Rift are to create a new

Battle Report section, where you can read of adventures

and wars of others in our magniicent Battleleet Gothic

Universe. Then, we are going to expand the Tactical

Center with some Masterclass from the brave admirals

out there and with deep analisys of manoeuvres. I am

glad to serve in the ranks of Warp Rift, and hope that

you and the Emperor (or other deity) gonna love my

works. See you in Immaterium. Class Dismissed “

SHOWCASE

Souleater

OFFICER’S MESS

WAAAAAGH!

Davide ‘Kratz’ Ferrari

VOID STALKER

Minor Engagement

Send your battle reports at:

Good boarding,

Horizon

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PLANETARY DEFENSE BATTERY

BY REG STEINER

Introduction : During some of our larger games

and campaigns, we liked having objectives beyond

just trashing the other guy’s leet. Taking planets,

outposts, and moons can be boring pretty quick, if

the only challenge is, once again, getting past the

defending leet. To spice up a game, we needed new

challenges. I built this item into our list of possible

defenses to give players a new threat to get past.

hese things can get scary, as more of them are ‘piled

on’ a planet’s defenses. We had to make a limit of

defenses available for a planet, that wasn’t a base,

in our campaigns. No more than 20% of the points

available for a defender’s leet can be used to buy

defenses. Navy bases could have up to 30% of the

points available, for defense of the base. For a “one

of ” game out of the book, a player only has the points

listed in the base rules for that scenario.

For a really small game, of 500 or less points, a real

challenge would be a leet attacking a planet that

has only planetary defenses. A mess of mines, orbital

batteries, and a couple of these ‘ big guns’ make it

hard on such a raiding force! Try a couple of games

with these guarding a planet.

roll of: 5 & 6. 1D3 points of damage are subtracted

from the ship’s total. Critical Hits applied normally.

Enemy shields have no efect. Enemy ships in ‘Low

Orbit’ are hit on 1D6 roll of 3+ and take 1D6 of

damage, with Critical Hits now on 1D6 roll of 4+.

All other planet defenses remain unchanged. Use

the base rules for operating these defenses.

Critical Hits on Planetary Battery : For each hit

on the battery, roll 1D6 with 6+ means a critical

hit has occurred. Roll a further 1D6, and on 6+ the

battery cannot ire, until a successful repair during

the ‘End Phase’. Multiple critical hits causing the

battery to be non-operational must all be repaired

before the battery can again ire! he battery repairs

critical hits by rolling the number of D6 equal to

the number of structure points remaining, a 5 or 6

on a D6 repairs the damage.

Attacking the Gun Battery :

Lances : Lances hit on a 1D6 roll of 6+ if within

30cm of planet’s edge. Longer ranges cannot hit at

all. Lances ired from ‘low Orbit’ hit on a 1D6 roll

of 4+.

Weapons Batteries : he planet’s defense battery

cannot be ired at, beyond 30cm, regardless of

attacking weapons battery’s range ability. Use the

“Capital Ship - Abeam” aspect to calculate attack

die, with a Blast Marker (planet’s atmosphere)

Reducing the defenses around a Hive City, or

Major Base, can now be quite deadly work. I used

the inspiration of what happened to the British

and French leets, trying to force the passage to

the Black Sea, during World War One. Perhaps a

ground assault ( a la 40K ) is a better idea?

column shit, when iring from

between 30cm and planet’s rim.

When the attacking vessel is in

‘Low Orbit’, weapons batteries use

“Capitol Ship - Moving Away” and

no column shit for atmosphere.

Torpedoes : Torpedoes cannot be

used against surface targets, except

for ‘Barrage Bombs’. Use these as

described in the Armada rules

book.

Attack Crat : Bombers and Assault

boats are used as if against a

vessel. Assault boats only achieve a

successful critical hit on a D6 roll of

6+.

Points Cost : 100

Structure Points : 3

Shields : 3

Turrets : 3

Armour : 6

Range : 30cm from planet edge

Attack Dice : 1D3

Using this Big Gun :

Attacking Enemy Ships : his battery hits on a D6

HEAVY GUN EMPLACEMENTS

BY REG STEINER

Introduction : he need for variety in our BFG

games can take interesting forms. I designed some

ground defense house rules that concentrated on a

very powerful guns system, and very powerful lance

system. All ine, except. he Ork players felt let out.

he systems I designed were meant for Imperial,

Chaos, renegade, and even Eldar players. he gang

of players “ganged up” on me to even the ield and

add a Ork weapon system for defending Ork held

planets. Once again, I took the simplest route. I

adapted the heavy guns Ork-kind already use on

their ships. Not to be out-done, ingenious human

engineers crated similar big guns to help defend

their own planets. But at least the Orks now have

a distinct weapon system for their own planets. As

well as human made copies doting the map.

protected by three or four each of these Heavy

Gun Batteries. Even small towns, or factories, or

mine operations, or other permanent sites have at

least two of these gun batteries for defense. Local

commanders and governors, and such, have taken

to adding other outlying defenses and bunkers to

further discourage attempts at ground attack. he

attacking leet has its work cut out, wherever these

new batteries are installed.

Orks Only Special Attack : Cost: +25 points

Once per game, but not if crippled, each battery

emplacement can attempt to grapple an enemy ship

using their special force ields. To use this attack,

the battery can make no gun attacks, and has no

shields this turn. A successful attack is made on a

D6 roll of 4-5-6.

Attack Efect : An enemy ship is pulled from high

orbit to low orbit, or from low orbit to the surface

(Crash!).

Any enemy ship so attacked uses its Leadership

score -1 (Surprise!) to regain control of the ship

and avoid a iery fate.

Success means the attacked ship rockets out of

high orbit, or from low orbit to high orbit, as a

consequence of breaking free of the grapple.

Range : 30cm beyond planet’s edge.

Attacks : 4D6 and hit on 5s or 6s. (Planets are very

stable gun platforms.)

Each hit does two points of damage, either to

shields or ships. Shields do apply, but two shield

points would be dropped for each hit.

Structure points : 6

Armour : 6

Shields : 3

Turrets : 4

Leadership : (random roll)

Cost : 150 points

Weapons Battery charts are not used. Attacks

against ships in low orbit get one extra D6 (now

5D6).

Heavy Gun Batteries Defending Bases and

Planets :

Failure means that: Escorts and Light Cruisers take

1D6 points damage; All Cruiser types take 2D6

points of damage; And Battleships take 3D6 points

of damage. If damage rolled did not destroy the

ship, the ship returns to low orbit but is unable to

ire this turn. Destroyed ships make a spectacular

blast and crater, somewhere on the planet.

he design for these heavy gun batteries is diferent

from other designs. Normally there is a single

huge emplacement housing the single, or double

barreled, defense weapon. hese gun batteries are

housed in a fortress. he design incorporates two

large turrets of two heavy guns each. Separated

by another structure housing plasma furnaces

and cyclotrons for electrical generation. Radar

and other sensors are also housed in the center

section. All structures are heavily re-enforced

and armored. Normal defenses include close in

weapons and anti-air weaponry, making a land

attack, or air attack costly. Additionally, any city

or fortress worthy of protecting is almost always

Other races have never been able to duplicate the

Ork force ields. Put together just like an Ork

example, exactly, and it still does not work.

he players in our group who use Orks, are very

pleased to have a distinctly Ork gun emplacement

and Ork special attack.

Critical Hits are on 6s only. Barrage Bombs and

Bombardment Canon cause critical hits on 5s and

6s. Each critical hit reduces gun strength by 1D6.

Repairs during the end phase are on 5s and 6s (not

just 6s) to restore gun strength, using the surviving

structure points for how many D6 are rolled.

Reduced gun strength because of crippling damage

(50%+) cannot be repaired in the end phase.

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