The Warforge Miniature Modelling and Conversion

Paper proxies in space!

This is for those of you who are like me - you want to play Battlefleet Gothic, but you don't have the time, money, or knowledge to get a fleet going. I was fortunate enough to con some of my friends into jumping into this game with me, so I decided that I needed something to use as a fleet until I get the models so that I can learn how to play and test different ships out.

This is where my Paper Proxies™ come into play. I've done some simple digging through the Battlefleet Gothic PDFs and pulled out pictures of ork ships, photoshopped them into a simple arrangement for print, and printed them out.

I printed each image out, then flipped the image and printed a duplicate out. The idea is really simple - glue the pages back to back so the ships line up on either side and cut them out. Then I am going to laminate the ships for a bit of extra durability and mount the double-sided, two-dimensional representations onto flying bases for gaming.

You can get the 'templates' I used to create these ships here.

The planets and markers and stuff are also getting the lamination treatment. They're from the specialist games website.

I think I covered every single ship but ork roks, which I could not find a decent picture of. It's obviously not perfect, but I think it's a damn good substitute to play with and learn - it certainly beats blank proxy bases where you and your opponent struggle to remember what ships are where. Since I have no battlefleet gothic models and do not know how large they are supposed to be, I am simply guessing at ship sizes here. Fortunately, the actual ships themselves don't matter, as the entire game is played by measuring to the stem holding the ship up; the ships are just representations of what is in that spot in space.

It's never been easier to have an ork fleet!