Re: Custom game board for Space crusade
Posted by MortiS-the-Lost on Jan 26, 2012; 3:52pm
URL: http://the-lost-and-the-damned.71.s1.nabble.com/Custom-game-board-for-Space-crusade-tp7227162p7227305.html
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.
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 ...
URL: http://the-lost-and-the-damned.71.s1.nabble.com/Custom-game-board-for-Space-crusade-tp7227162p7227305.html
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.
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)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:
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 ...
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