Battlefleet Gothic (was Re: Off topic Rugby thing.)

On Aug 14, 1997 at 9:28:51 AM, Oerjan Ohlson <f92-ooh@nada.kth.se>
wrote:

> On Wed, 13 Aug 1997, Christopher Weuve wrote: 
 
> > (the never released) _Battlefleet Gothic_ 
>  
> IIRC, "Space Fleet" was "Battlefleet Gothic Light" - ie, BC was a
working 
> name for what SF should've been (and was, once you'd bought all the 
> relevant White Dwarfs). 

_Battlefleet Gothic_ was a moving target, and SF may even have used part
of 
the cover art originally slated for BG, but _Advanced Space Fleet_
(i.e., SF 
plus all the WD enhancements) was never really BG.  ASF/SF was played on
a map 
with squares, with certain moves allowed from any position, sort of like
a 
chess pieces that could select from several movement options.  The
playtest 
version of BG was a minis game (no board) using vector movement.

The last concrete news I heard from an actual GW employee (IIRC) about
this 
was at a Baltimore Games Day several (four? five?) years ago.  When I
asked 
him, Jervis Johnson said that they were kicking around the idea of using
the 
_Man o' War_ system for BG.  I still occasionally go to GW -- the
ubermanager 
of a couple of the US stores was assistant manager of the store I used
to live 
next to -- and I always ask.  I remember suggesting to him that the
command 
bunker in Nottingham should call up JT and see about licensing FT as BG,
not 
that there was a snowball's chance in hell that they would ever do such
a 
thing...

-- Chris Weuve	 [My opinions, not my employer's.]
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