Custom game board for Space crusade

[Vamper]

When I use to play Space Crusade as a young'n, I wondered why the game board is square, when the Space hulk is shaped like this:



So I made my own board that was shaped like the hulk. (this was made almost 20 years ago when I was about 13-14years old on a black n white 9pin dot matrix printer, on coloured paper with crayon used for weathering, stuck down onto card from a Corn Flakes box.)





Features:
- It has a small ship/escape pod in the top right corner, for use with missions like "docking claw jammed, run to escape pod to get off hulk."

- control room up front: "get marine into control room to gain ability to open and close any doors."

- Engine room up the back with blue fuel tanks and red oxygen tanks: "can only use melee weapons in engine room to avoid accidental detonation of fuel and destruction of hulk." or mission like: "set timed explosive in engine room to destroy hulk and make get away."

Funny thing is, I never got to play it, shortly after making it, i discovered the amazing free time eater: computer games and then girls, cars and clubbing.  .

Ren.

[MortiS-the-Lost]

First of all, that's an Awesome ship-board
could you perhaps upload some JPGs or a PDF of the original files?

ok now, with no offence intend I'm going to answer the initial question.

   

Vamper wrote

When I use to play Space Crusade as a young'n, I wondered why the game board is square, when the Space hulk is shaped like this:

firstly that's not a picture of a Space Hulk, that's a picture of the Space Marine's 'Mother Ship' (which as I discussed in This Thread is probably an Imperial Gothic Battleship or Firestorm Cruiser)

A Space Hulk is not one ship, but a massive conglomeration of lost ships and wrecks fused together. They drift in and out of the warp through space and during the millennia the lost ships join together into one enormous body. Many times they are so huge that they have their own atmosphere and gravity.


 ^ This is an illustration of a Space Hulk taken from the game GorkaMorkA

The other reason the board is not shaped like a ship is that you hugely underestimated the scale of the ships in the 40k universe - the Space Crusade board represents not the entire Space Hulk but rather a small section of it (mission texts talk of moving from more 'sector' of the hulk to another) each mission representing the marines capturing, destroying or advancing though important areas of the hulk.

Imperial ships are the size of cities and some are even larger again ...

 ^ those are TOWERS on the back of the mothership!


^ Ships such as these from Battlefleet Gothic are around 7 kilometres long and some are much larger   

Check out Jeff Russell's Starship Dimensions website for more of an idea of the sized involved - the pixel equals 10 meters (-X10) tab has 2 BFG/WH 40k ships about a 3rd of the way down

Space Hulk are even larger again ranging from the size of a small moon to a large planet!

the small ship you've made however would make for a nice Assault Vessel ...

[messyart]

But despite all that, it's an impressive hint at the creative person you'd grow to be.

:3 I like it

[General Biakal]

safe. as. fuck.

[MarkRG]

You have done a great job of it. I  may try something like this for my self. It would make A nice short game, sadly time is always against us.

[tallyho]

Agree. Great job.

[Vamper]

Hello,

Thanks guys, glad you like it. I don't have the original file, however I'm happy to scan them in and post as PDF. Can someone suggest where/how to post PDFs? (i checked photobucket.com they won't host PDFs.)

Mortis, thanks again for awesome pics and clarifying the ships. I just assumed that was the hulk since that's what the text near that picture is talking about. (and that the hulk was just the one ship, like in the movie Event Horizon.) Fascinating to find out its heaps of ships mashed together! that also explains why in Space Crusade there is a variety of aliens (Ork, Necrons, Tyranids, etc) all on the one ship. This 40k universe is really intriguing!

Ren.

[messyart]

When you go to reply to posts, there's that list of options right above.
Hit "More" at the end and select "Upload a file"

:3

[Vamper]

Ah sweet, thank you. Is there any limits on file size and number of files?