Anyone out there?

[Colonel Pryde]

Is BFG a dead game? Anyone play it at your local hobby store? I purchased and played on and off a few years back when there was a community here in Hawaii, but it seems that the game just died. Theres no one to play with or talk to regarding this boardgame.I love the game and the rules, it's the most technical space warfare game that I have played.

So how is it on the mainland? Is there still a remnant following?

[schoon]

It's not dead, it's just pining for the fjords! (Sorry, couldn't resist).

It's an excellent game and it still has a very loyal following - though nowhere near as large as most of the main games.

However, I'm not sure I'd call it overly technical. As someone who used to play [url=http://www.starfleetgames.com/starfleetbattles.shtml]Star Fleet Battles[/url] back in the day, this is nearly "beer and pretzels." Don't get me wrong, it's a great game, but technical... not so much.

[Bean]

Really? I basically think BFGs rules are lousy. Its movement is silly, the my-whole-turn, your-whole-turn timing mechanism is inane for any game, but especially for space combat games, since most alternative rules-sets have managed to do away with them.

The only thing that BFG actually does well is the Weapons Battery table, and how it accounts for a variety of factors which make ships harder to hit. Otherwise, it's rules are basically bad--not interesting in a technical way at all.

I like the idea of a 40k ship combat game, and I would kind of like to play BFG. Around here, the problem is that there just aren't people to play with. My group of friends has, though, been considering picking up some BFG ships and using the [URL="http://www.groundzerogames.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemi d=50"]Full Thrust[/URL] rules instead of the BFG rules, since they are considerably better thought out.

[Colonel Pryde]

Yes, the my-turn your-turn thing is a dread and a failure. That puts the game completely on luck of the dice. Your opponent could sweep the deck on you with a streak of good dice rolls. I wish they would change this for 40k too. Othergames like CBT and Axis and Allies (CMG) have it where both players take casualties at the same time, keeps it fair.

I guess the game really isn't that technical I havn't played myself for some time now. The rulebook looks sure big, but only 20% of it has the actual rules, the rest goes to fluff and ship stats.

[Ugly74]

Used to play BFG when it first came out ... played it damn near every weekend... but there was only two of us... my opponent moved to Aussie for a couple of years so the ships got consigned to the bits box ... the eldar heavy cruisers make a great basis for an imperial jetbike conversion ...

[hellbringer]

I play!

or at least I did. I have a several thousand points of Chaos sitting around with nothiing to fight.

I'm fighting hard to get more people in my gaming group to play it.

[fracas]

after having my fleet languished in dry dock, and me wanting another fleet even, i decided to get my gaming group into BFG this past christmas. i got them 3 plastic cruisers each as gifts. this came to about 25 US$ each and now my fleets are launching to battle again. I decided this was money well spent rather than buying another fleet/army i wasn't going to play with much.


btw, BFG discussion is more active at portmaw.com

[Jordan Ashworth]

A few people play it at my local GW and a few other places I know has some players. Most times you can just ask staff a local hobby shops and GWs if there are any players. I found most times they are just as eager to play a couple of games and cut loose their ships.

[Ivarr]

We play from time to time...though admittedly, it has been a few months. Wish we played more. Need to get a league started again.

[Porty1119]

GW really needs to start supporting Specialist Games more...