There's a difference between Voss PATTERN and Endeavour CLASS.
Pattern is specific to a particular forge world. Pattern is what the ship looks like, the class refers to its functionality.
If a forge world produced a light cruiser with 6 hits, 1 shield, 20cm speed, 90' turns, armour 5+, 2 turrets, S2 broadside lances, FP2 L/F/R WBs and S2 forward torps, then that's an Endurance class regardless of what it looks like.
My Endeavour, Endurance, and Defiant class cruisers are not Voss Pattern. Interestingly, the ships depicted in the battlefleet Bakka fleet list aren't Voss pattern either.
Um, RC, all three Endeavour hull based ships are refereed to as the 'Voss triumvirate' in fluff, and the classes are actually NAMED after the motto on the 'Shield of Voss'. I think that would imply at least
some connection between that forgeworld and these ships.
"Above all else, Battlefleet Armageddon and, in particular, Voss forgeworld, is known for their light cruisers. Not only are these vessals characterized by thier distinctive prow, but by the midships sheilding they employ, in the form of huge plates mounted either side of an unusually narrow corridor'. - Armada, pg 115.
So, have you given up your +1 against boarding or are they Voss ships? Somehow the idea that 'extra training' has given them a +1 bonus seems absurd, since it's the same bonus that orks and khornate berzerkers get.
Are we sure about that? I mean that all of BFG falls under the realm of during the 3rd Armageddon war. With the retrofitting of all mars to use the targeting array and the ability to use upgrades on more than just the named ships I don't think we can assume that we are only referencing a particular galactic period so it's quite possible things have been exported or are just built as a different pattern elsewhere.
Well, as far as Voss' production goes it says so on pg 17 of Armada.
The Gothic War itself takes place almost 1,000 years before present. 1st Tyrannic War, about 150ish.
As far as how many and when... not clear. The text for the Endeavour
implies that ships that had been sent to other sectors were returned to Battlefleet Armageddon for the war. Bakka suffered it's near annihilation only about a century before at Circe, and we know approx how much of what got clear of that debacle, so there are none predating that incident. Since the lsit here is Bakka, thoguh wether pre- or post Circe is a good question. It's rather muddled by the presence of the Jovian (which could ony have come post) and the
Dominus Astra (which was destroyed at Circe).
Arguably, there might have been a few examples from Voss pre-Circe that were destroyed, but getting them post 1st Tyrannic war is unlikely.
While, yes, we could drag out the Lord Daros example, that it only took 11 years to build it, I might also point out that the text talks about how remarkable this was that it was finished so quickly. It implies it's a record rather then the norm, and even producing at that rate, the battlefleet would only have produced 10-20 cruisers since, meaning they're probably still understrength, even if they produced at speeds rivaling the IN record holder.
We are running with few options here. With what Nate has said so far we are killing the FDT mechanic but aren't allowed to create a new mechanic. That limits us to adding more turrets to make up for the low AC. Unless his hands are tied by GW, I don't think that just adding more turrets is the best route for this since it's rather spotty in increasing the capabilities as a whole.
Well, I can say that my idea worked, it was not FDT enhanced as D'Art dismissively, and erroneously, called it, but We're up frak creek now, arn't we?
Nate: you know, it would be interesting to see what BFG is doing NOW as opposed to a thousand years ago. All these fleets aren't just scattered in distance but TIME. Only Armageddon seems to be a list from what is the 'present' of 40k.