draque wrote:I'm curious if anyone else here has heard of/played the Warhammer 40k game Space Hulk. I recently just picked up a copy of the newly released edition and I'm absolutely in love with the thing. I still haven't painted any of the minis, but I'm busily looking for new missions that people have created online, and trying to figure out some good multiplayer rules for a 1 vs. many game (one player as gene stealers, each other player controls a squad of marines).
I know that there are a lot of other board gaming nerds besides myself, so if anyone has rules/a link to a good multiplayer setup for the game, could you link me?
I bought it and it is gorgeous, just beautiful. I've been too sick to do anything with it other than punch out the beautifully debossed tiles and a few door-frames. I have read the rules a lot. I think I have the idea, slowly getting stored in my flu-muddled head.
But I'll tell you one thought I have had:
I have trouble with complex calculations. You know, stuff like comparing numbers and deriving a table result. Yeccch. I suck at that stuff.
I like the simple battle system in Space Hulk. Roll two dice, any sixes is a successful marine shot. Three dice, any sixes, for genestealer melee attacks. Marines only get one die in melee, or two or three if they have power weapons, because their specialty is guns. I like that. I can imagine adapting that notion for all the races of 40K (three dice shot for Tau? Two dice + reroll for Eldar maybe?) for an action-point variant of basic game play that is not on a hulk!
What about a skirmish on flat ground, on planet, where facing matters, and AP are spent and command points are used, for squads, using the simple battle mechanic (adapted a bit) for play? I think that could rock! Fast, brutal battles with wonderful strategy - your move in inches being derived from Action Points, for instance. It's something I am thinking about.
Fast, simple, easy, casual 40k. You could call it 'Casual 40K' or even "40K The boardgame"! I'm just sayin' is all. It would be more fun with less work, perhaps, and really easy for poor-calculating dunderheads like me!