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The rulebook focuses on one campaign in particular, the twenty-year Gothic War, one of [[Black Legion|Abaddon the Despoiler's]] [[General Failure|many, many]] diabolical attempts to take over the galaxy. This scheme involves the Gothic Sector being cut off from the rest of the Imperium by warp storms, a ''lot'' of spiky warships, and six ancient space stations known as the Blackstone Fortresses...
As with all of Games Workshop's [[Gaiden Game
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Being set in the ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'' universe, the game features a large number of the tropes on that page, as well as employing setting and gameplay tropes of its own.
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* [[Earthshattering Kaboom]]: The [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Planet Killer]] specializes in these.
* [[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
* [[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.
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