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Post subject: What Are the Ship Lengths in BFG?  Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2003 12:48 pm |
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After a conversation on another website, I was wondering if anyone had any hard facts as to how big the ships are in BFG?
We have surmised on a length of around 3-4km long for Imperial cruisers. I dont think we had any hard facts, however.
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Post subject: What Are the Ship Lengths in BFG? Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2003 2:27 pm |
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Ahhh, this old thread. This comes up occassionally, mostly with regards to a typo in a book stating that the vessels were 30Km long. Around 3Km is the generally agreed length.
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Post subject: What Are the Ship Lengths in BFG? Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2003 4:27 pm |
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I don't think there are any agreed upon ship lengths for BFG.
Even the fluff is a little misleading...
Most people agree that about 3km is average with some ships being larger and others smaller.
I've never really thought about the question except for the idea of what a ship hulk would look like if it crash landed on the surface of a planet and my Epic forces fought over it.
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Shadow Hunter
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Post subject: What Are the Ship Lengths in BFG? Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2003 4:29 pm |
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The assumptions came up with torpedoes being around 30M, normal cruisers around 3-4Km, Battleships around 5-7Km, and Escorts around 1 Km.
They used Star Wars and Star Trek to base the assumptions on (the Enterprise being about 750M long, and Star Destroyers being around 1Km)
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Post subject: What Are the Ship Lengths in BFG? Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2003 8:55 pm |
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Yep, ShadowHunter speaks truth here.. the book 'Execution Hour' gives us some lengths, including the recognized 3km = Cruiser, and presumably so does the sequel, 'Shadow Point', which I have yet to read...
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Post subject: What Are the Ship Lengths in BFG? Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2003 9:52 am |
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Doesn't Execution Hour use a bigger figure for torpedoes at some point? I think it was 100m, but I'm not too sure on that point. If I'm remebering correctly, it does beg the question how they are all stored on a relatively small ship like a Cobra.
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Post subject: What Are the Ship Lengths in BFG? Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2003 8:42 am |
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I'm reading Execution Hour again (what a book!) and Rennie describes the torpedoes as "thirty-metre-long plasma torpedos (pg.19)."
The Dictator Class Cruiser Lord Solar Macharius, to its "aft lay the engine section, comprising fully one third ? ?of the ship's three kilometre length (pg.19)." It is absolutely mind-boggling to fathom such a ship...
If you were in a car travelling at 100km/hr (62mph), you would go from one end to the other end of a Dicatator class ship in......... 1 minute 48 seconds!!!
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Post subject: What Are the Ship Lengths in BFG? Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2003 8:58 am |
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I just found my 100m reference as well, so he actually uses two different lengths 
See page 96,
"firing the hundred metre long missiles out of their silo tubes"
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Post subject: What Are the Ship Lengths in BFG? Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2003 9:07 am |
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*looks up page 96*
huh... I'll be damned... Could it be that Rennie confused the English to Metric conversion? If true...
*shakes fist at the English system*
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Post subject: What Are the Ship Lengths in BFG? Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2003 2:08 pm |
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I think there might be a bit of confusion over ship lengths in general and torpedoes in particular. I think I remember (and I'm more vague on this point) seeing a quote saying torpedoes were skyscaper size somewhere (main rulebook??) as well. If true, that's a lot more than 30m or even 100m.
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Post subject: What Are the Ship Lengths in BFG? Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2003 9:18 am |
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Its not surprising us guys are so confused over lengths when they are given two different stats in the same book.
I cant remember what it says in the rule book about lengths, but I do remember that drawing of loads of slaves trying to load a massive torpedoe. It looked more than 30M.
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Post subject: What Are the Ship Lengths in BFG? Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2003 1:37 am |
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| Quote (Shadow Hunter @ 28 2003 July,09:18) | | I cant remember what it says in the rule book about lengths, but I do remember that drawing of loads of slaves trying to load a massive torpedoe. ?It looked more than 30M. |
I just got the Annual while waiting for the arrival of the boxed game, and there are two drawings in it where the slaves are indeed pulling a HUUGE torpedo. Easily 100+ meters.
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Post subject: What Are the Ship Lengths in BFG? Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2003 1:59 am |
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The latest Fire Warrior interview gives the length of an Imperial battleship as 10 miles (16km). Not a GW source, but they must have been supplied with all the neccessary background material for the game.
http://actionvault.ign.com/features/int ... tpt1.shtml
BTW looks like the game might make it onto my Christmas list 
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Post subject: What Are the Ship Lengths in BFG? Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2003 3:39 pm |
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| Quote (Shadow Hunter @ 04 2003 July,16:29) | The assumptions came up with torpedoes being around 30M, normal cruisers around 3-4Km, Battleships around 5-7Km, and Escorts around 1 Km.
They used Star Wars and Star Trek to base the assumptions on (the Enterprise being about 750M long, and Star Destroyers being around 1Km) |
Star Destroyers are 1,2 km long IIRC. Super Star Destroyers are 7.2km.
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Post subject: What Are the Ship Lengths in BFG? Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2003 6:42 pm |
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Hi!
I wonder why there is such a tendency for sci-fi backgrounds to make ships so huge?
Is it even logical from a space dynamics point of view to make them like this?
Imagine the inertia of a kilometer and a half ship!
Primarch
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