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[edit] Space Hulk / Space Crusade?

Wait, wait, wait, wait! I live in northern Europe, and this article sounds highly weird. I played a board game called "Space Crusade" on a few occasions way back when. The one described in the article seems much like it, but the aliens were Chaos forces, with the Genestealer Tyranids thrown in, not just Genestealers and hybrids!

Furthermore, there's a third computer game, essentially the board game I'm familiar with in computer form. There was an expansion pack for it, too: "Space Crusade: The Voyage Beyond."

So what's going on here? Are there two different games, one called Hulk and one Crusade? Both Hulk and Crusade apparently have two expansion packs, but their stated names and contents are different. -- Kizor 19:26, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)

On further remembrance (is that even a word?) I've recalled that the enemy also included Ork forces. Seems like a hodge-podge of different Warhammer 40K foes - though Chaos was the worst. -- Kizor 19:40, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Space Crusade is a very very old games workshop game, I think it might have been their first one in the warhammer 40,000 universe actually. It is sort of similar to Space Hulk from what I know (SC was before my time) in that its based in a 'dungeon' style space ship. Someone must have seen the similarities and thought it was just a regional mix up. --Josquius 20:26, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Space Crusade is a simplified version of a combination of Space Hulk & Warhammer 40K. It seemed to be aimed at a younger audience and was not sold directly from games workshop but through Milton Bradley that distributed through normal toy and game channels. Space crusade had 4 square boards with roooms printed on them that fitted together in different combos by plastic clips. Space hulk has dozens of corridors and rooms that clip together like a jigsaw puzzle allowing for more combinations (infact it was designed to be run with a rolling board so you can have a much bigger hulk than you hav board pieces or table space)
As noted above the aliens in Space crusade are a mix-up. The same thing happened with Battlemasters which is Milton Bradleys simplified version of Warhammer Fantasy Battle - all the aliens got lumped together under Chaos. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Waza (talk • contribs) 02:20, 22 November 2004
Above post is correct. Space Crusade was nowhere near the beginning of the WH40K franchise, however ( 1990 vs. 1987 ). I have also removed the comment that this is the first appearance of Genestealers in Warhammer 40,000 as it is incorrect - they appear ( although a little different looking ) in the original Rogue Trader bestiary. Boy, do I feel old. - 219.194.176.36 08:52, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Tile-based game

This should be categorised as a "Tile-based game." Since, you know, it was based on tiles —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 131.107.0.86 (talk • contribs) .

It is now :-). You are encouraged to be bold and make this kind of change yourself should you wish. Cheers --Pak21 17:59, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Typo?

It says in the second edition that a blip could be 0-6... Was this meant to say 1-6, or, is this game just really weird like that? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Emhilradim (talk • contribs) 21:28, 26 October 2006

Yeah, I seem to remember some of the blips had 0 on them, representing scanner malfunctions etc. They could be used by the Genestealer player to confuse and distract the Marines. the wub "?!" 09:13, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
This is correct. By coincidence I have a 0 blip here on my desk. Pdarley 22:30, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
The 0 blip was a streamlined version of the old Ambush counters introduced in the Deathwing expansion. I still remember one of the mission quotes: "By the Throne brother, save your ammunition!" "Stone Thrower just killed a rat." :) Oni no Akuma 09:29, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Space hulk dilemma

Sorry to be a pain but on the cover of one of the white dwarfs there is a picture of a death wing terminator fighting tyranids, but it looks as though the Tyranids have tau like back packs and that they are holding their sycthing talons instead of them being attached to their bodies can someone please help.62.255.33.221 12:23, 24 July 2007 (UTC)Dengar777  ;-)

Sorry if I'm mis-understanding you, but I don't see what you're asking. Are you asking if that White Dwarf image was from Space Hulk? If so, then yes, I believe it's from one of the Space Hulk computer games. Oni no Akuma 09:34, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] New computer version

I've added a link to a fan conversion I found on SourceForge. It plays fairly well, although I always preferred playing the 'stealers to the marines. :) Oni no Akuma 16:59, 27 July 2007 (UTC)