I think the races will have enough ships (apart from the DE, but they're going to be raiders anyway), here's the list of other races' ships with an asterisk next to the ships from non-big blue book or armada GW sources:

Orks:

Space Hulk

4 unique battleships, but we might make ork battleships work differently if we can.
Hammer battlekroozers

Kill kroozers
Terror ships

Onslaught attack ship
Savage gunship
Ravager attack ship
Brute ram ship
Rok

That's a lot

Eldar:

Flame of asuryan
Void Stalker

Dragonship cruiser (4 variants) (I'd like to make this a light capitol ship to help give some variety for the eldar and help show the craftworlds' advantage in cruisers)
Shadow cruiser
Eclipse cruiser
Wraithship lightish cruiser (4 variants)
Solaris light cruiser
Aurora light cruiser

Hellebore frigate
Aconite frigate
Nightshade destroyer
Hemlock destroyer
Shadowhunter escort (2 variants)

Definitely plenty here, might even rival the IN for choice if we get all the craftworld variants in.

Necrons:

Five ships. You're right here, but the necrons are interesting on a micro scale even without the variety, and they won't show up in many scenarios. Fan designs are a distinct possibility here, though.


Space Marines:

Battle Barge

Strike Cruiser
*Devastator Variant SC (more guns and stuff, fewer Thawks, IIRC)
*Assault Variant SC (more thawks, fewer guns, IIRC)

Gladius frigate
Nova frigate
Hunter destroyer
Sword frigate rapid strike vessel
Firestorm frigate rsv
Cobra destroyer rsv

The space marines have a very good selection of escorts and get most of their firepower from them, so their relative lack of capitol ships is not a big issue.


And we aren't doing 'nids, so that makes for one race with a real lack of ship types, and they have enough meta strategy without that that simplifying the choice of ships just helps the player not get overwhelmed (imho).



They're stats only for now, we still need to do buildings, planets and tech trees, and the ships need their costs figured out (we have a rough draft formula for price based on points cost, but that will probably need changing after playtesting). Also, we'll need the mod tools to really get torpedoes right and give the ships a minimum speed. And getting the graphics stuff will take some work, but I guess the mod is progressing pretty well. Cool!

So, i havent played solar empire for a while, but want his mod, is it complete? I cant seem to find a website that has downloadable mods on it. Anyone have a website or know how to get this mod if it is done. thanks

They do have some variety in the escorts, it's just that the necron fleet moves too fast to really bother with much differentiation. If you're playing necrons, then you're playing a much faster game, and you really don't have enough time to set up perfect attack runs. However, my opinions may not hold true in playtesting, in which case we'll add fan designs. I seem to remember a design for a grand cruiser floating around on the specialist games forums that is generally regarded as fair and has a model floating around.



I'm sorry to say that we are still a fair bit away from the first full release, but it will be playable before then. We'll figure a way to make it pretty obvious that it's ready to play. Generally, the forum thread is a good place to find the download, but because somebody else wrote the OP, we can't use that as an editable place for current info and downloads. When we have a playable version to download, we'll probably make another post here that you can download it from.

I'm still unsure on the time, seeing as I'm awfully busy (to be honest, I shouldn't be spending so much time on this thread) and we have various problems to deal with before the rest of the mod is ready to play.



That'd be awesome, but I could do that, it wouldn't take too long.

No tyranids. (Is said above in the long post by xthetenth) And the reason because is that tyranid ships do melee stuff and it just wouldn't work...(and they don't have a lot of ships)

We should amend the title of this post...Battlefleet Gothic[no tyranids]. It would save us quite a bit of typing   

I'd be fine writing the descriptions, seriously. I'll feel lazy otherwise.

I'd appreciate it a ton if you could write the descriptions, thanks.

I'm almost done with the features list for the first release, if you want me to put the race summaries and cool added features bit, just tell me, but I'd rather wait till I've written up the main gameplay elements.

hmmm? I don't remember those. What do you think they would be useful for?

Hey was just wondering which variant of Tau Explorer Class you were using. The more attack craft one (Vas'Ya Mark XXIII) or the less attack craft but uber gravitic launcher (Bork'An Mark XXIV). (or both?)

Also, are there any plans to put Tau Allies with them? Maybe the Demiurg Battleship or Kroot Warsphere could be their superweapon (super ship?) though they aren't actual Tau, it would still sort of work.

Cool (and btw mark 24 not 25.)

heh, I love how now that we have a feature list promised we all go into low productivity mode.   

Perhaps I should crack open the mod tools and try my hand at making some models. Make myself useful for a change

When are they going to release the real versions, anyway? Seems like we've been waiting for some time now.