Hi Everybody!

[Mezillious]

Hi Doctor Nick!

How's it going guys?
I guess I should have read some introductions before starting my own so I'd know what to say. Oh well.

I played a little bit of space crusade when I was a kid in the early 90s and always thought it would be a fantastic game to play with a bunch of people. Now, for my 30th birthday I tracked down a complete game on ebay a couple of months ago and have been having weekly game nights since. I'm very interested in the possibilities for expansion for space crusade and any other games of a similar style.

Space Hulk doesn't really do it for me as much because as I understand it, it is basically for 2 players and I prefer my games to be a bit more social.

I'm currently working on adding a 5th player using the chaos marines but am yet to try it out.

I have a casual interest in minatures and have begun a small collection of chaos marines, mostly because I was amazed at how cheaply I could buy individual figures from ebay! (About $3 each for a chaos/space marine)

I guess thats about it, I'll look at some others and see if there's anything else I should add.

Mez

[General Biakal]

welcome!! got any pics of your chaos marines? hopefully some of the stuff you see here will inspire you to get a legal force togetherand get some war done!

[MortiS-the-Lost]

Welcome aboard Mez!

Mezillious wrote

Space Hulk doesn't really do it for me as much because as I understand it, it is basically for 2 players and I prefer my games to be a bit more social.

Same here, I'm big fan group of gaming I think it's because I started out with Space Crusade's sibling HeroQuest.

Mezillious wrote

I'm currently working on adding a 5th player using the chaos marines but am yet to try it out.

Cool, an extra player should be pretty easy to add, but using the SC chaos marines will narrow your choice of heavy weapons (Rockit Launcher, Heavy bolter), of course another way to go about it would be get hold of some cheap Space Marines from eBay, choose another colour of Spacemarines to paint them in (I've thought about adding Dark Angels and/or Space Wolfs), then it's just a matter of scanning and copying the existing cards and recolouring  the artwork to match and coming up with a few special rules to make the new chapter unique - I'll ramble on about this some more in a thread later, I look forward to discussing Space Crusade ideas with you

++EDIT++
Just read your post on the SC Vs SH thread, I see you already have a soultion to the Chaos Spacemarine's lack of heavy weapons ... I'll get to replying soon

[CatBlack]

Just thought I'd say hi!

Hi!

I've just started collecting mini's myself after I fell in with a mad crowd! (most of whom are also members) and have found ebay my major source of the kinda things I want to play too.  It's amazing what you can find on there.  

Hope you enjoy the forum!

[Mezillious]

General Biakal wrote

welcome!! got any pics of your chaos marines? hopefully some of the stuff you see here will inspire you to get a legal force togetherand get some war done!

Yes, I've been looking at the codex and trying to assemble a force that is within the guidelines there, I have one question although i'm not sure where to ask it: To make a squad of Chaos Havocs, I basically use regular Chaos Marines and give them a bunch of heavy weapons right? I haven't been able to find models of havocs apart from teh boxed sets and they appear to be no different apart from their weapons.

I'll put up some pics this afternoon of what I have so far.

[Marchomer]

Welcome Mezillious!  ('m a bit late!)

[MortiS-the-Lost]

Mezillious wrote

 To make a squad of Chaos Havocs, I basically use regular Chaos Marines and give them a bunch of heavy weapons right? I haven't been able to find models of havocs apart from teh boxed sets and they appear to be no different apart from their weapons.

Yes Havocs are the Chaos Spacemarine equivalent of Spacemarine Devastator Squads.

[Billiam Babble]

Hey Mezillious

You sound the sort of retro-nut we're always looking for!

 Well met and all that.