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* [[Fan Nickname]]: The game's name is often shortened to "BFG". This term will not be used here to avoid confusion with large guns.
** Although large guns do indeed feature prominently. Let's see - [[Frickin' Laser Beams|lasers]], [[Energy Weapon|plasma cannons]], [[Tractor Beam|graviton pulsars]], [[Magnetic Weapons|macrocannon]], [[Death Ray|fusion beamers]], [[Macross Missile Massacre|guided missile launchers]]...and that's just the ''standard batteries'' ("only" sufficient to level continents). The Lances are more like [[Wave Motion Gun|Wave Motion Guns]], and the Nova Cannons...[[Earthshattering Kaboom|forget about the Nova Cannons]].
* [[Fixed Forward -Facing Weapon]]: Some ships have a nose mounted main cannon. Ork ships quite often have a large main gun, and the Imperium has the Nova Cannon, which is a massive mass driver that runs through most of the ship and fires building-sized projectiles at relativistic speeds.
* [[Fragile Speedster]]: Eldar ships go faster than anyone else's, but have next to no armour or damage resistance.
* [[Gaiden Game]]: One of several "Specialist Games" in the ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'' universe.
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{{quote| "The prow is armoured because the stern never faces the enemy."}}
* [[Rule of Cool]]: Reigns supreme.
* [[Sci -Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale]]: Very carefully averted. The actual models are [[Acceptable Breaks From Reality|completely out of scale with the rest of the game]], distances being measured being from the centre of the ships' bases so that you can have nice looking miniatures without also requiring a spare country to play the game in. Base-contact in the game is "close range", generally of the order of ''tens of thousands'' of kilometres. This is also the reason you need a command check to ram another ship - the captain not only has to order a potentially suicidal course of action and make it stick with the crew, he also has to hit a target equivalent to headbutting a pinhead from a mile away...
* [[Shout -Out]]
{{quote|War is Peace<br />
Freedom is Slavery<br />
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