As a spotty youth I played a number of early Games Workshop successes, mostly Rogue Trader (aka 40k 1st Edition) and endless rounds of Talisman as well as one or two games of Space Hulk.
Alas these days only 40k is still in print, so when Dustan mentioned he’d put together a Space Hulk set I jumped at the chance to play it again! We had a game earlier this week and it was just as much fun as I remember, despite the fact my Genestealers failed to stop the Terminators from escaping the dank corridors…
Dustan mentioned there were numerous resources on the web for Space Hulk 1st and 2nd Edition. In particular the Board Game Geek Space Hulk entry includes a PDF file containing the 2nd Edition game tiles and counters as well as a handful of downloadable scenarios of unknown origin.
This Space Hulk fan site includes a lot of links and several older ‘resurrected’ SH sites, including The Space Hulk Bible which gives you the entire 1st Edition SH rules. The much simpler 2nd Edition rules are online too if you look carefully.
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I love this game, a friend of mine has the complete second edition with all the expansions and stuff. Hours of fun.
Space Hulk rocks! I think my two best GW purchases were Space Hulk (2nd Edition) and Warhammer Quest.
And I gotta say playing the Terminators in Space Hulk is hard – you really gotta plan for overwatch fire and provide covering fire, etc otherwise those genestealers will mess you up.
I’ve played Space Hulk and Warhammer Quest way more than any army vs army game from GW or any other manufacturer. Mostly because the majority of my friends aren’t gamer enough to go buy their own army, but still enjoy a game or two now and then.
A while back I found a brilliant space hulk game on the net, most of the missions and an AI for the genestealers. Quite fun actually. Wish I could remember the link.
If you enjoy Space Hulk you should check out Seige of the Citadel. Its a similar type of game, which also spawned a line of war gaming miniatures. It was produced by the now defunct Target Games, and spawned 2 other board games: Blood Berets, and Fury of the Clansmen, as well as the Warzone: Mutant Chronicles sci-fi miniature wargame.
I have a bit of a softspot for Seige of the Citadel as it was my original lead into wargaming, which lead to Mutant Chronicles, which then lead me to historical gaming, all in all a hobby that has provided me with years of enjoyment.
Personally I wouldn’t mind seeing a reissue of Talisman and a few of the expansions. Towards the end the expansions started to get a little silly but the first couple were good.
The marines are harder to play but if remember that your marines need a stealer free 6 square radius and try and lure stealers out by setting overwatch at 4 squares. then you should be ok. Oh cross fire and flame walls to block stealers will also help the marines survive.
I loved Talisman, we used to play the edition before it came out with models.
There’re issues with re-releasing talisman at least, because of the MB games connection. Or so the grapevine tells
I used to play StarQuest (called Space Crusade outside Europe) when I was young, it’s the spiritual successor to Space Hulk IIRC. It was amazing. Should suggest it to my gaming group next week.
Space crusade was pretty good, beter than heros quest. Space hulk first edition has the same flexability as spacecrusade, you could just about use the missions from space crusade to play spacehulk
Some guys calling them selves Teardown have made quite a cool game for it..
heres the download http://www.teardown.se/index.html
heres the forum http://www.teardown.se/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=22
oh man.
this is like the greatest and funnest board game ever invented.
I still have my 2nd ed copy in my cupboard.
i have a mate in another state and when he comes out, occasionaly we dust it off for a few games.
Love it and miss it.
Anyone in Sydney, Australia ever keen for a game lemme know..
b3nje-AT-hotmail.com