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A report from a spy of mine:

Played two games - first game as Termies in the first scenario called 'Suicide Mission'.

It IS a suicide mission, have to get to a room to flame it with your HF that only has 6 shots. If your HF dies or runs out of ammo before flaming the room, GAME OVER MAN.

Died horribly the first time to genestealer tearage, the second time we wiped out his team mates (3 normal shooty termies and 1 Sgt who got killed fairly early and they lost command points) and got stuck in a corridor with stealers to the rear and to the front. Death AND glory time! He flamed his own corridor, fried himself and the stealer.

Suicide Mission should sound familiar to anyone who's ever played Space Hulk, as it is the most basic mission.

And the models:

You have over fourty BA icons on the Sgt alone, so pretty hard to convert them to something else, but the Librarian is quite simple which is good. Card stock is very heavy and nice. The models clip together in about 2-3 pieces with the bases stuck to the legs. You get a Sgt with Power Sword and SB, 6 Shooty Termies, 1 LC, 1 TH/SS, 1 HF, 1 SB/CF, 1 AC and the Librarian.

12 missions increasing in complexity, multi levels too. Each marine is named and the diff weapons do diff things, but the shooty ones are all the same in game terms. Use overwatch VERY wisely!

A lot of fun!

YAY!

H.B.M.C. wrote:A report from a spy of mine:

Played two games - first game as Termies in the first scenario called 'Suicide Mission'.

It IS a suicide mission, have to get to a room to flame it with your HF that only has 6 shots. If your HF dies or runs out of ammo before flaming the room, GAME OVER MAN.

Died horribly the first time to genestealer tearage, the second time we wiped out his team mates (3 normal shooty termies and 1 Sgt who got killed fairly early and they lost command points) and got stuck in a corridor with stealers to the rear and to the front. Death AND glory time! He flamed his own corridor, fried himself and the stealer.

Suicide Mission should sound familiar to anyone who's ever played Space Hulk, as it is the most basic mission.

And the models:

You have over fourty BA icons on the Sgt alone, so pretty hard to convert them to something else, but the Librarian is quite simple which is good. Card stock is very heavy and nice. The models clip together in about 2-3 pieces with the bases stuck to the legs. You get a Sgt with Power Sword and SB, 6 Shooty Termies, 1 LC, 1 TH/SS, 1 HF, 1 SB/CF, 1 AC and the Librarian.

12 missions increasing in complexity, multi levels too. Each marine is named and the diff weapons do diff things, but the shooty ones are all the same in game terms. Use overwatch VERY wisely!

A lot of fun!

YAY!

Ouchies!!

CALLING ALL PHOTOSHOP MASTERS!
That genestealer looks like it is tripping up and needs a ming vase slipping out of it's grip NOW!.

can you get closer to the one coming up through the deck plating?

insaniak wrote:

Wrexasaur wrote:Colored plastics brings up images of brittle cups and the like, while gray plastics seems to have a lot more strength overall.

The difference between grey polystyrene and red polystyrene is that one has black pigment in it and one has red...

Exactly. The type of plastic GW uses is a tranclucent white in its raw form, they add pigment. Most pigments are designed to allow the manufacturer to control the plastics hardness and ability to resist to wear. But hardness is opposite to flexibility, so the rigidity that it brings makes it more inclined to break and snap rather than bend.

The terminator that has torn out a genestealer's head is just brilliant. The damaged armour, the stance, the dismembered corpse, it just radiates badassery.

I'm sold.

Incidentally, is it some grand coincidence that after 18 months of legal struggle to get the green light TearDown have finally been rejected weeks before the public announcement of Space Hulk?

If you don't know, TearDown created a freeware version of Space Hulk about two years ago, but were prevented from distributing it shortly after release when GW got wise to it. Ever since they have been improving their game and struggling for permission to continue from THQ (who paid for the license). After being turned down they are now trying to preserve the game minus the Intellectual Property violations in Alien Assault.

Perhaps in Alien Assault valiant space knights will fight chromosome thieves in space corridors? (sorry, had to)

Site if you are interested:
http://www.teardown.se/

Agamemnon2 wrote:

H.B.M.C. wrote:Exactly. You've got the only valid reason for not buying it I've seen so far - I can't afford it/it is too expensive for what I want to get out of it. And that's fine.

You forgot the most important one: "I hate [everything, even kittens and puppies]." That's the one I'm going for.

Agamemnon, you seem to be fairly upset with everything regarding GW and what it does. Why is there so much ire?

They had red plastic for the characters in Warhammer Quest. Never experienced any breakage on those models and honestly, they got abused. Even the models with the swords and such sticking out were never broken. Good quality plastic.

Those minis are jaw droppingly amazing!
I just wish it was not a ltd ed release or else I'd save up and get it, but asking for £60 out of nowhere is too much for me at the moment. I wish they had given some pre-release notification as I'd have pre-ordered it and saved over that time to buy it (though to be fair if I wasn't getting Arkham Asylum for 360 I could afford it).

I don't have a problem with cardboard tiles, certainly not when the artwork on them is of that high a quality. I guess if you wanted plastic/modeled rooms/corridors you could buy the Anphaeleron base sections from forge world, though that would cost a lot. I like the cardboard tiles as for people like me who aren't great painters it is one less thing to worry about and they are a lot easier to store. If you think that £60 is a lot for a game with cardboard tiles you should see how much a complete copy of Warhammer Quest goes for on ebay! (another game I want to own).

If I was collecting Blood Angels this would be a must buy, but as I'm saving up for the new Space Wolves in Oct the termies wouldn't fit in (and I don't fancy doing that much re-sculpting to make them look like Wolf Guard). It does however get me very excited for the Space Wolf models as long as they are as good as these .

And then you have the Wolverine wanna be

Lormax wrote:They had red plastic for the characters in Warhammer Quest.

You sure about that? Every Quest model I've ever seen is grey plastic. All of mine are, 'cept for the painted ones. Sure you're not thinking of Heroquest? I've got a green plastic Chaos Warrior from Heroquest.


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Miss Dee wrote:And then you have the Wolverine wanna be

The caption beneath him should be:

"Come get some!"


I have no experience with Lightning Claws in Space Hulk beyond the original Space Hulk computer game. In that game you didn't fight in HTH - the computer took over during those bits - which usually meant a lot of dead Termies. But not if your Termy had Lightning Claws. Guy could hold a corridor by himself for half an hour with those things. Beastly!

I wish they bring quest back I miss my ogre

i will be ordering one set for sure...

but if these are 40k scale, and made of half way decent plastics... i might order 2.

any word on the scale of the models yet?

Miss Dee wrote:I wish they bring quest back I miss my ogre

Quest is great fun. I just got a box of Skellies, Ghouls and some Goblin Fanatics to add a little more variety to our campaign. We've got a party of 6 heroes going - Barbarian, Warrior Priest, War Dancer, Elf Ranger Mage, Witch Hunter and Wizard. We're having a blast.

And that reminds me... I must get an Ogre for us to fight.


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Envy89 wrote:any word on the scale of the models yet?

Reports indicate that they are normal scale. I haven't been told this, but I know my deep-cover spy would have mentioned something if they weren't.

have one as a pc its fun to play

H.B.M.C. wrote:A report from a spy of mine:

Played two games - first game as Termies in the first scenario called 'Suicide Mission'.

It IS a suicide mission, have to get to a room to flame it with your HF that only has 6 shots. If your HF dies or runs out of ammo before flaming the room, GAME OVER MAN.

Died horribly the first time to genestealer tearage, the second time we wiped out his team mates (3 normal shooty termies and 1 Sgt who got killed fairly early and they lost command points) and got stuck in a corridor with stealers to the rear and to the front. Death AND glory time! He flamed his own corridor, fried himself and the stealer.

Suicide Mission should sound familiar to anyone who's ever played Space Hulk, as it is the most basic mission.

And the models:

You have over fourty BA icons on the Sgt alone, so pretty hard to convert them to something else, but the Librarian is quite simple which is good. Card stock is very heavy and nice. The models clip together in about 2-3 pieces with the bases stuck to the legs. You get a Sgt with Power Sword and SB, 6 Shooty Termies, 1 LC, 1 TH/SS, 1 HF, 1 SB/CF, 1 AC and the Librarian.

12 missions increasing in complexity, multi levels too. Each marine is named and the diff weapons do diff things, but the shooty ones are all the same in game terms. Use overwatch VERY wisely!

A lot of fun!

YAY!

Curious to see how they handle jams (assuming they still exist) since the game no longer appears to use sustained fire dice

Would have been cool to have an assault cannon termi as well...

CT GAMER wrote:Would have been cool to have an assault cannon termi as well...

I mentioned him. He's in there.

Librarian.
Sergeant.
Heavy Flamer.
Assault Cannon.
Thunder Hammer/Storm Shield.
Lightning Claws.
Storm Bolter/Chainfist.
5 Storm Bolter/Power Fist.

The number if Storm Bolter Power fist is more of a Guess as the set has 12 Terminators, and after all the rest there's only 5 slots left.

Wannabe Writer wrote:. I wish they had given some pre-release notification

This is the pre release notification.

And... there's been like a gajilion threads about this release for months now.

FRom memory jams were on a double with a stormbolter.

Alex Kolodotschko wrote:CALLING ALL PHOTOSHOP MASTERS!
That genestealer looks like it is tripping up and needs a ming vase slipping out of it's grip NOW!.

There you go. There's also one on the first page that's holding a skull with wires coming out of it, kind of looks like a handbag. But, I couldn't be bothered changing that one at the moment to change the skull into an actual bag.





Note: not paint shop pro, just paint

There is an AC termie.

The scale is the same as 40k, and the models are incredible. The collective nerdgasm when the box in the shop today was oipened...

Contents of the Space Hulk box are listed on the GW website in the article called Space Hulk Is Back!

Here's an excerpt:

"The sheer quantity of stuff is amazing - the box weighs almost 4kg. But it's the quality of the miniatures that completely blew us away.The game includes 35 miniatures - all completely new sculpts for Space Hulk. For the Blood Angels there are 9 Terminators equipped with power fists, storm bolters, lightning claws, a chain fist, a heavy flamer, an assault cannon, 2 Sergeants and a Librarian. Opposing them are 22 Genestealers. And a Broodlord.

Oh, and the Space Hulk itself is massive. We counted 10 rooms, 24 corridors, 8 T-Junctions, 6 corners, 8 end sections, 9 crossroads (including an offset one) and 20 doors (all with detailed plastic stands). All the floor sections are debossed and varnished on very dense card as are all the counters.

Adam Troke has written a introductory article on Space Hulk: First Contact that contains more details and a full contents list.

This is a one-off, limited edition product, with a single print run. If you have any interest in owning your own Space Hulk, I strongly suggest you advance order a copy today. Do not wait, because when they're gone, they're gone (although one of the Studio team did hint at a doing 50th anniversary edition in 2039). And DO NOT put this on your wish list, forget about it and expect to get one..."

Alpharius wrote:

yeah, the jaw bits look different? is this a bio morph?
Panic...

H.B.M.C. wrote:

Lormax wrote:They had red plastic for the characters in Warhammer Quest.

You sure about that? Every Quest model I've ever seen is grey plastic. All of mine are, 'cept for the painted ones. Sure you're not thinking of Heroquest? I've got a green plastic Chaos Warrior from Heroquest.

reds8n wrote:

Wannabe Writer wrote:. I wish they had given some pre-release notification

This is the pre release notification.

And... there's been like a gajilion threads about this release for months now.

FRom memory jams were on a double with a stormbolter.

A pre-release notification of two weeks aint much of one for a limited time only offer. I was hoping there'd have been a month or so, at least so that two pay days could pass before release.
While rumour threads were discussing Space Hulk, they don't allow you to actually pre-order the product do they.

One question where is the facehugger.... Opps wrong game.

Wannabe Writer wrote:

A pre-release notification of two weeks aint much of one for a limited time only offer. I was hoping there'd have been a month or so, at least so that two pay days could pass before release.
While rumour threads were discussing Space Hulk, they don't allow you to actually pre-order the product do they.

Well they did say they'd be making an anouncement on/around this date quite some time ago....and whilst threads don't let you buy the thing, they do give you the info about timing and at least a vague idea of the cost.

...Arkham Asylum is good though.

And of course they might not actually sell out of the thing prior to its release.

Miss Dee wrote:One question where is the facehugger.... Opps wrong game.

Here : http://images.dakkadakka.com/gallery/2009/4/22/28818_md-Ripper%20Jack%20Swarm.JPG

Wow, the Space Hulk models look pretty impressive and much better than their other terminator and stealer counterparts. I wonder if GW is using some kind of newer mold technology and whether or not this has an impact on its manufacturing life.

I gave an e-mail to Neal, he's able to offer Space Hulk for $89 and he won't charge until its shipped which seems like a good thing since who knows how limited this run will be.