Warp Rift #17.pdf

Warp Rift

The Battlefleet Gothic netzine

Rogue Traders *** Patrol Fleets *** Magnetize *** Painting Guide *** Officer’s Mess ***

From the Nexus Publishing House

Warp Rift is not endorsed, nor does it endorse, Games Workshop, and it is not an official publication of Games Workshop. Any words, phrases or

images are used without permission and no challenge is intended as a result of such a usage, including the use of these words, phrases and

images without the appropriate symbols of copyright. Additionally, these pages – including content, design and images – are copyright (except

where copyright should infringe other such rights). Licensed names, images and logos are copyright their respective companies or authors. No

part of these pages may be ‘borrowed’ or reproduced, and no articles or rules should be considered ‘official in any way.

Please register your support for this publication.

Download your copy direct from the official web site,

at:

www.epic40.co.uk/bfgmag/

Submissions

Warp Rift Publication Team

All types of article are desperately needed, to keep this publication

alive. In some cases, submission includes inclusion on the web site

at: www.epic40k.co.uk , or through www.tacticalwargames.net .

Please include a note with your submission if you would like this

clarified. Submission via e-mail implies approval for publication.

Roy (Horizon) Amkreutz –

Void Stalker II

Iain (Cybershadow)

–

Watcher in the Dark

Ray Bell

–

Admirality

Reg Steiner

–

Tyranid War Veteran

Credits:

Send your submissions to:

Cover Picture – Mechmaster

Additional Graphics & Pictures – Giulio Taverna, Christian

Schwager, Mechmaster, Thanatos, Pablo Fiasco &

Abaroth, Yannic, Roy Amkreutz, Peter Greblord, Lord

Chronos, Unseelied

horizon@epic40k.co.uk

warprift@epic40k.co.uk

Warp Rift:

Issue Seventeen

March 2008

+++ The Labyrinth +++

Back to Warp Rift: this issue sees an

expansion into to the realm of the Rogue

Traders. This list/article has grown steadily

at the forums of www.tacticalwargames.net

mainly headed by Yuber Okami, Yannic and

myself. But lot of other people added their

ideas and opinions as well. For this we

really like to thank them for doing so. If all

goes well the next issue of Warp Rift will

feature some Legendary Traders.

From Cypra Probatii we received an

article dealing with small fleets. A very nice

asset to play some small and fast games.

The Dry Dock is heavily filled with the

already mentioned Tyranid Painting Guide.

But it also features an article on how to

magnetize your Imperial Cruiser, very

useful for people who just cannot decide on

which cruiser class they like most.

In the Officer’s Mess we have a story

written by one of our younger readers. As it

is one of his first stories I bet he would

really like some constructive feedback on

how to improve his writing skill.

A TYRANID WAR

Chapters 5 - 6

Hello,

First of all I would like to make an

apology to Giulio Taverna. I accidentally

mixed up his first name in the header of

the Tyranid Conversion Article in Warp

Rift 16. Hopefully this issue will see his

correct name heading the follow up article

to his conversion guide: The Tyranid

Painting Guide in the Dry Dock section.

This month the Tyranid War story

continues with chapters 5 & 6. This time

Pen and Lynx ran into the Old Warrior and

Orks. Download it at from the same page

as Warp Rift.

Chapters 1 – 4 can be directly

downloaded here:

In the world of Battlefleet Gothic people

are still waiting to see some escorts re-

appear in the online store of Games

Workshop. Including among the missing

escort vessels are the following: Space

Marine Gladius, Nova and Hunter vessels.

The Tau Defender, Orca and Dhow. The

Necron Jackal and Dirge.

Hopefully, and this has been posted at

www.portmaw.com , ithe escorts are just

being repackaged into blisters and that

they are not removed permanently.

http://www.epic40k.co.uk/bfgmag/wr16t

yranidwar.pdf

(note: this is the unzipped variant)

Issue Seventeen – Contents:

Encyclopedia Gothica

Rogue Traders

Tactical Command

Patrol Fleet Rules [Cypra]

As better news I can personally

mention that the missing Bridge part,

Dorsal Lance Turret and Nova Cannon of

the Adeptus Mechanicus Battleship have

been added to the package. In the

beginning no one received the metal strip

containing these three pieces. Luckily I

received an Adeptus Mechanicus

Battleship containing this strip! I already

read one other person received the bridge

as well. Good news.

Happy Battlefleet Gothic,

Roy

Showcase

Eldritch Path

Visit the following websites from two of our

art /CG/Photoshop suppliers here:

Officer’s Mess

Battle of Kyshar

Christian Schwager:

www.solitudo.com

Dry Dock

Magnetize your Imperial Cruiser

Mechmaster:

http://www.mechmaster.co.uk/

Tyranid Painting Guide

Encyclopaedia Gothica

Fleets of the Galaxy

Additional rules

Rogue Traders

By Yuber Okami, Yannic and Horizon

Thanks to all the other participants in the discussions at www.tacticalwargames.net!

The 40th millennium is a dark and grim

age. A time in which most people meet

outsiders with suspicion if not outright

paranoia, and where travelling and trading

have become a dangerous business.

Nonetheless trade still is vital for the

survival of the Imperium of Man, whose

merchants fleets are stretched to their

limits just trying to provide the military and

civilized planets their needs. But even the

mighty fleets of the Imperium cannot cope

with such a Herculean task.

First of all, Rogue Traders can provide

civilians with transport capacity, as they

don't need a military escort, thus not

diverting the Imperial Navy from its other

tasks. Second, being (to a certain degree)

independent from the administratum, they

can commerce with alien races,

independent human worlds and other

heretics, bringing some of their exotic and

much sought products to the Imperium,

which is something the Imperial fleet is

banned from.

Last, but not least, some Rogue Traders

end up becoming corsairs and even

conquerors. That way, the Imperium can

wage war without declaring war. If the

conquest goes as planned, the rogue trader

will claim bounty or even conquer worlds

for the Imperium, if it goes badly the

Imperium can always say the rogue trader

was a criminal acting on his own. So for the

Imperium it's all benefits. The Rogue

Trader, on the other hand, can even carve

an empire for himself and his descendents,

or can blow up in a last glorious bid, as

many of them finish their career.

This is the reasoning which paved the

way for the Rogue Traders: independent

merchants, explorers, and even sometimes

conquerors. Rogue Traders are sponsored

by the Imperium but are not under their

direct control, a situation which benefits

both sides, as Rogue Traders who succeed

add new resources to the Imperium, while

the ones who die in the darkness of space

cost very little to the Imperium of Man.

But human ambition tends to surpass

common sense, so there are always people

trying to become Rogue Traders.

+++ To Bring Forth Ye Light +++

Ship Characteristics

Trade Galleons

helping Imperial forces to retake the

system, Rogue Trader Emil Bosquera was

awarded the vessel, which was finished to

his own tastes as a Trade Galleon.

Trade Galleons are the largest vessels

used by Rogue Traders. A Trade Galleon

rivals an Imperial Cruiser in size and

firepower. Since Rogue Traders constantly

upgrade and change their personal Trade

Galleon, these vessels may become quite

eccentric. Therefore it is impossible to

designate a standard class of Trade

Galleons, and the term Trade Galleon is

usually applied to any large vessel in

service of a Rogue Trader.

A large percentage of Trade Galleons are

based on the Gothic or Lunar class cruiser

frame. A famous example of this is the

Archis Nova: originally intended to be a

Lunar class cruiser, it's building was

abandoned when traitors seized power in

the system where it was being built. After

The infamous Rogue Trader Nicius

Ravenclaw actually managed to buy an

unfinished hull from the planetary governor

of Corinth. This hull, only know as Hull 354,

was thought to be cursed by local

dockworkers and was never finished.

Ravenclaw towed Hull 354 out of the

system with his two Lorcha’s Vexator and

Sabazius. After three decades, Hull 354

returned to Corinth Fleet base as the

Domitor Astra. Most of the local

dockworkers still think that the ship is

cursed, but so far she has performed

outstandingly and has enabled Ravenclaw

to claim several big prizes, including the

renegade grand cruiser Doomhammer.

Captain von Grefenhofen’s report of an

encounter with the Fra’al in system

XW3457

They [the Fra’al battlecruisers] came out of

the dust cloud like a pair of hawks

swooping down upon the Domitor Astra. At

the moment the enemy fired their Ether

Cannons, the Domitor Astra simply

translated sideways to avoid their deadly

beams. Stunned by this manoeuvre, the

alien ships where unable to respond to the

battery fire from the Domitor Astra. One

took a hit in the engine cluster, making her

spin out of control; the other had her

shields collapsed and was easy prey for our

guns.

On the other hand there are many Trade

Galleons of unique or obscure origins, such

as the Blessed Voyager, a cruiser from the

Dark Age of Technology luckily discovered

by Rogue Trader Julius Kaeron when he was

sent off-course by a warp storm. Other

famous ships of this type include the

Helion's Talon, an infamous pirate vessel

witnessed several times cooperating with

Ork pirates, and the Andromeda, a ship

noted for dealing with forbidden tech in the

Gulf of Damocles.

Plik z chomika:

Inne pliki z tego folderu:

Inne foldery tego chomika: