Re: Space Hulk style 'adventure' game

Posted by MortiS-the-Lost on Sep 22, 2009; 3:35pm
URL: http://the-lost-and-the-damned.71.s1.nabble.com/Space-Hulk-style-adventure-game-tp1093670p3693697.html

Sorry to hear about your Girlfriend dude, give her a ‘get well’ from all of us here at tLatD. We’ve missed you here on the forums (well I have)

The Sci-fi gothic pieces are great, I particularly like the robed statues at the corners.

The stand up door a good piece but will need to be 2 sided, I’d suggest making a mirror image of the door in Photoshop and attaching it upside down to the top of the door so it can be folded over into a 2 sided piece, I’m guessing that’s what you had in mind.

I’ve always preferred stand up door pieces when using a card dungeon, because it gives adds an extra visual que by giveing the board a psudo-3D element and also give more flexibility to the layout.

The Chancery is easily the best of this batch, could I be so bold as to request a fantasy version?

Billiam Babble wrote

Is that only one set of floor pieces? - because it looks awfully large!

 

The floor plans are from the 1st ed Boxed Game, plus both expansions (Deathwing and Genestealer) and a few pieces from the special missions that appeared in WD. The unusual shape of Mark’s coffee table meant we couldn’t quite cram all the pieces on so a few bits were left out. The doors are the Space Crusade doors which IMHO look nicer than the square SH ones.

Billiam Babble wrote

Picked up a copy of White Dwarf and it doesn't acknowledge "Space Crusade" at all in it's retrospective on Space Hulk - bizarre!

Mark pointed out the same thing to me the other day, I guess despite obvious similarities SC doesn’t really figure into the history of SH. SH 1st came out before SC and the rules and overall game-play are very different. Also it might have something to do with SC (like HQ and BattleMasters) being a joint venture with MB Games, which has made it a bit of copyright grey area. You’ll also note the WD barely acknowledges that Fantasy Flight are publishing games based on GW’s backgrounds. If I was to write an article on the history of SH I’d certainly mention SC in a side bar if not the main article ... then again I’d mention the SH computer games too.

PS. ++ Mark is now the proud (if £60 poorer) owner of SpaceHulk 3rd edition but hasn’t got round to playing any games as of this post. I’ll see if we can persuade him to write a review for us here.