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Amazing artwork. This is what I spent my paper route money on.

Yes, remember, we don't need to buy their products. Don't buy any of the space sisters, And when you're at your own home you can change the fucking rules the way you want period

Hey Tom! R U planning on dropping in on BOYL next month?

Old hammer is the shit I love

Perhaps you could ask JB about "ArmourCast" and their background history ... i'm sur we would all like to know more about the OG Ork battlewagon / mole / Eldar titan... Thank you so much!

I love videos about artists just talking about their work and this is no exception. So bloody cool!

What a cool channel this is

Its official. Orks are there to fist you.

Battlefleet Gothic is a cool game if one that is slow and one you need to be far thinking to do well. I taught some of my friends in High School how to play it and we played for a while. Never was as popular as 40k with us but still alot of fun to have my own Chaos Marine and Imperial fleet. I loved building and painting the models.

Awesome interview, thank you!

Mike was with no doubt one of my GW heroes... so many many times I tried so hard to imitate his work, I stared hours and hours to his work. Moving back and forth on the White Dwarfs and his painting guides pages. Back in the day I was barely able to read english so for me the images were all I got. So, shortly put, even now that I came back to the hobby (in my mid 40's) and start painting again... I feel I owe so much to this man. Thanks Mike!

Am I the only one…whats with the subtitles?

what a fantastic interview, I was always curious what happened to him as he just disappeared back in '97. He was instrumental with his diorama's and love that Warhammer world still have them in their displays. Do you have a part 2 interview with him?

My only problem with this game was that it wasn't really Jutland in Space. It played more like Trafalgar in Space. It's still fun. Still play to this day.

When can we have a video chat with Jes Goodwin ? 😊

Love Mordheim. Found the interview a little odd though, John Blanche seems disinterested, whilst Tuomas Pirinen seems a little angry/aggressive at times.

I'm gutted I had my templates and models stolen they didn't get my rulebook so i still have that at least.

Mike's Green Knight is still one of my favourite painted miniatures

I remember the Green knight he painted and reading about int in WD was wow at the time

2d edition was Platoon Level, 3d edition was Company/ Battalion Level... The Learning Curve was The Grand Canyon...

Necromunda, Space Hulk, and Battlefleet Gothic... If you haven't played them, you need to go do it.

Once Upon a time, we fought planetary battles for a couple of summers... BFG was the initial game to determine how much of an army you fought in the World engagements with 40K scenarios with...

Best ruleset GW ever put out by far What I particularly liked about it was each faction was truly unique and had its own play style and tactics. The Eldar and Ork rules are incredibly thematic. 8:40 my absolute favorite image of Battlefleet gothic. My name is Tim, and I am a loader I come from a long family of loaders that have lived on this ship for hundreds of years In that time we have loaded 6 torpedos

Gaze into the fist of Dredd! Awesome t-shirt

The best battle report I have ever read was epic 3rd edition imperial fists versus Goth orks. Those were the days....

Hands down, my favorite GW game

Oh man, that Starship Troopers artillery piece from their toy line at :18 seconds brought back so many memories. Inspired my love of artillery to this day lol

Still my favorite GW game. Slowly rebuilding my Imperial fleet.

It really is a great book, not just for nostalgia value.

Such a coincidence: I grabbed the rulebooks last week and build two 500pts fleets to make a little starter set…

Can't even understand John in this video. Guy is barely enunciating his words.

Dropfleet Commander is my favourite game ever, so thanks to Andy for making it. Would love a dedicated interview on how that was developed. Even simple things like the rulebook being the same dimension as BFG really adds to the game. Seeing the ships with their rules profiles below was very reminiscent of building airfix ships as a kid with the stat tables below a profile picture. And can confirm - the ships do blow up just a bit too easily! But the signature / scan system is just amazing; as Andy once said it's the Hunt for Red October in space.

Started in 3rd edition as a curious 10 year old. I literally always had that rulebook in my hand, for like 2 years straight lol.

I did 30-odd illos for the early attempt at Battlefleet Gothic which mutated into Space Fleet. Most of them only appeared in White Dwarf.

Andy Chambers created what are probably my favorite rules and my least favorite. Even with the ones I didn't like I thought they were intended to be fun or at least improve something. These interviews have reinforced that. Just got to design the games he wanted to play and share them.

Do one of these on ManOWar please!

Great video :)

Speaking of scaling, one of my favourite elements of BFG is how well it scales up and down, it makes for an amazing fleet game but plays just as well with a cruiser and 2-4 escorts. One of my favourite elements of its scalability is how you can take a big fleet each side and break it down to give a crowd of people one ship each.

Another video with Andy making an "Up Front" reference! Was it a happy mistake with the experience chart and giant killer bonuses in Necronmunda and Gorkamorka or simply brilliant design? Their Specialist range of games were simply strokes of genius; sure we'd do a Nercomunda and/or Gorkamorka campaign then go back to 40k/Fantasy for bit before another campaign. I could (and probably many here) can recall stories of great battles...such as a Necromunda "Scavengers" game where the GM (we had a special events and stuff thrown at us) where "the monster" was a Genestealer that unsurprisingly tore into the sacrificial juve and the other gang voluntarily bottled leaving me to deal with a Genestealer. After losing a couple fighters my leader ended it with a melta gun. Then the Gorkamorka silliness where opposing mobs would shoot/punch each other in the face and couldn't hurt each other. Failing boarding tests and getting run over (to no ill effect due the the natural toughness of Orks) always got a few laughs.

Saw your post on Reddit recently. One of the most important TH-cam channels on the subject by far. Fantastic interview.

One of my regrets is selling my Battlefleet Gothic stuff years ago! 🤦🏻‍♂️

Another incredible interview. Documentary level stuff, again, cannot thank you enough for the work you do preserving these memories 🙏

This was my hobby hero....the Horus duel and dark angels cathedral were so amazing. I even copied the arbites 'rhino' that was open topped with an assault cannon turret

Still my all-time favourite miniature game. So sad that GW dropped this game, so much potential lost

I haven't played Battlefleet Gothic for about 20 years but I still have my Chaos and Imperial fleets. I had a Necron fleet too but I have no idea what happened to it and to be fair I hardly played with them because the Necron ships were overpowered to the point of not being fun to play or play against. Still probably my second favourite GW game behind Mordheim.

Oh man I'd do anything for a sealed copy of this game

I was one of the kids that wrote in! I got a very nice letter back with some more rules to playtest. Still one of the best ever 40k settings and games.

Massive props for this game Andy.. it was/is perfect

Given the huge success of the redo of Necromunda, Blood, epic, etc. they will definitely do an update to this at some point. Id wager not that far off too.

I wonder what Andy thought of the Computer game versions?