Rogue Trader Fleet Lists (draft2010)

[horizon]

So with the new drafts we have a complete Rogue Trader list available. Anybody gave though on how a 1500pts would look?

Over the past years I assembled my Rogue Trader fleet piece by piece.

Here is what I would, on a first glance, deploy in a 1500pts game, more or less fluffy approach:

2x Veteran Rogue Traders

1x Rogue Trader Cruiser + crew skill + xenotech system
1x Rogue Trader Lunar Cruiser + xenotech
1x Rogue Trader Light Cruiser (Endeavour), possible with crew skill or xenotech

2x Recommissioned Escorts
3x Iconoclast Destroyers
6x Xenos Escorts
3x Tau Castellan Class Frigates (auxillary)

7x Transport
2x Fast Clipper (40pts of things that cannot shoot )

Reserve:
1x Tau Emissary Class

Should be near 1500pts.


I am looking for ways to build freighters and heavy transports because that is cool.

And I do need escort carriers, at least 2.

What are your approaches?

[zaxqua]

So with the new drafts we have a complete Rogue Trader list available. Anybody gave though on how a 1500pts would look?

Over the past years I assembled my Rogue Trader fleet piece by piece.

Here is what I would, on a first glance, deploy in a 1500pts game, more or less fluffy approach:

2x Veteran Rogue Traders

1x Rogue Trader Cruiser + crew skill + xenotech system
1x Rogue Trader Lunar Cruiser + xenotech
1x Rogue Trader Light Cruiser (Endeavour), possible with crew skill or xenotech
A little light on cruisers, don't you think?

2x Recommissioned Escorts
3x Iconoclast Destroyers
6x Xenos Escorts
3x Tau Castellan Class Frigates (auxillary)
2 or 3 xenos ships is fluffy. 9 is overkill and takes points out of the cruiser section.

7x Transport
2x Fast Clipper (40pts of things that cannot shoot )
fluffy. like.

Reserve:
1x Tau Emissary Class
Personally, I'd go for Marines or Admech Carrier, but if you want to be a xeno-lover, so be it.

Should be near 1500pts.


I am looking for ways to build freighters and heavy transports because that is cool.
Make a rectangular prism out of plasticard. Lather on greenstuff and bitz. For transports simple=good.

And I do need escort carriers, at least 2.
Triple that.

These are just opinions though, you can ignore them entirely if you want.

[horizon]

Thanks, I am going with I kitbashed so far.

Yes the fleet is very light. And fragile. But I am coming from a RT point of view. The bigger the ship the harder it is to maintain them. The Xenos can take care of their own vessels.

[zaxqua]

If I was a Rogue Trader, I would be very suspicious of xenos. Overall their more throuble then their worth. And bigger ships carry a number of benifits including, but not limmited to: better protection, intimidation factor, and ego-boosting. 

[horizon]

Not if you're a rogue trader breaking the Imperial law and trade with Tau. You want as less humans with warships to find out.

[zaxqua]

Ah, well, in that case...