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Hmmm... This is good for all those people who missed out on the first run, but for me... someone whose been sitting on an unopened box... waiting to sell it when the new Blood Angels codex dropped... This release isn't doing me any favors.

I suppose now I have to ask myself. Do I want to buy a 3rd Space Hulk box just to get a few new missions?

Why is it 25% more for a few bits of extra card?

 Fenrir Kitsune wrote:
Why is it 25% more for a few bits of extra card?

Inflation, Citizen. Company has inflated what it would like to make on the game and thus its price is higher.
Also, prepare to report to mandatory re-education center XY3. Such opening questioning of Emperor Kirby's decisions indicates possible Chaos taint or at the least low level heresy

So next year do we get the Dreadfleet re-release?

 Fenrir Kitsune wrote:
Why is it 25% more for a few bits of extra card?

Given what it was selling for on ebay after the 2009 release, you're lucky it's not a 100% increase

 Flashman wrote:

 Fenrir Kitsune wrote:
Why is it 25% more for a few bits of extra card?

Given what it was selling for on ebay after the 2009 release, you're lucky it's not a 100% increase

People who haven't seen the announcement are still selling them for 200%+.

Hmm, or a version of Dreadfleet with Space Marines in it? :O

 pretre wrote:
People who haven't seen the announcement are still selling them for 200%+.

So what you're saying is we should all eBay our copies of Space Hulk at ridiculous markup and then buy the new version when it comes out?

i have my pre order in already at my flgs for this release.

I don't understand why they don't make this as a "core" game that is always available as it makes a great bit of cash to take off people who may be taking a break from 40k purchases.

Then it ought to be expanded with different races. I would happily spend $100 on a force of equivalent "points" of DE, Orcs and Tau that have been individually sculpted to the same quality as those space marines and genestealers. Throw in a couple of new tiles - or even a whole new set for say a Roc or a craftworld.

It could be the gift that keep giving to GW if they play it right.

privateer4hire wrote:

 Fenrir Kitsune wrote:
Why is it 25% more for a few bits of extra card?

Inflation, Citizen. Company has inflated what it would like to make on the game and thus its price is higher.
Also, prepare to report to mandatory re-education center XY3. Such opening questioning of Emperor Kirby's decisions indicates possible Chaos taint or at the least low level heresy

Inflation is 25% in five years?

Your sarcasm/humor detector is broken. You might want to look into that.

Miiiight try to get a copy - on the other hand, potential lololol limited release. On the other, other hand I really want the dead Termie miniature

 fullheadofhair wrote:
I don't understand why they don't make this as a "core" game that is always available as it makes a great bit of cash to take off people who may be taking a break from 40k purchases.

Then it ought to be expanded with different races. I would happily spend $100 on a force of equivalent "points" of DE, Orcs and Tau that have been individually sculpted to the same quality as those space marines and genestealers. Throw in a couple of new tiles - or even a whole new set for say a Roc or a craftworld.

It could be the gift that keep giving to GW if they play it right.

An actual Space Crusade revival? :O

So after reading and research, any thoughts if this release will have warping issues like the 2009 release?

 Malika2 wrote:
Hmm, or a version of Dreadfleet with Space Marines in it? :O

Dreadmarine Spacefleet?

Who am I kidding, I'd probably buy it.

I think it would be hilarious if the "new boarding torpedo tiles" just ended up being the initial tiles you line your squads up 5-deep on before entering the hulk, that are shown in the previews.

Whoope de-do.

It's cool that Space Hulk is coming again, but it's just a repeat of the same stupid "limited release" formula that they trucked out last time, to generate the gut-reaction purchases, when they could just release it as a normally stocked item and have it be a gateway game, like Space Crusade was for may of us old guys.

I don't understand why they don't make this as a "core" game that is always available as it makes a great bit of cash to take off people who may be taking a break from 40k purchases.

Then it ought to be expanded with different races. I would happily spend $100 on a force of equivalent "points" of DE, Orcs and Tau that have been individually sculpted to the same quality as those space marines and genestealers. Throw in a couple of new tiles - or even a whole new set for say a Roc or a craftworld.

It could be the gift that keep giving to GW if they play it right.

That only makes sense of you are talking about GW from 15 years ago.

Wasn't Space Crusade a Milton Bradley/ Hasbro game, like Battle Masters?

Not sure GW, on their own, has the manufacturing and distro of a big company like Hasbro (over 4 Billion in assets) at this point.

No, but it was an awesome gateway game into the greater 40K universe. I know Tyranid Attack (Advanced Space Crusade) single-handedly got me into 40K instead of the competitors back in the mid-90's. I picked it up from a game store when I was 12, and it started a 20-year game hobby with GW.

Space Hulk could do that in ways that their starters like Dark Vengeance/Black Reach/etc. can not do.

I sold my last space hulk for $200. I still regret it! I am buiying it so I can play with my kids and get them into it!

 PhillyT wrote:
I sold my last space hulk for $200. I still regret it! I am buiying it so I can play with my kids and get them into it!

I wouldn't regret in for long

No, are you saying it wasn't a Hasbro game?

It was an 'awesome gateway game' in large part due to the distribution it got, from a BIG damned company. Unless GW partners with a company that can push comparative numbers today, nothing they do is gonna be an 'awesome gateway game' at that level. They just don't have the assets to do that on their own.

No, Space Hulk would be a good gateway game because it's something you can have on the shelf in any game store next to all the GW 40K product, and unlike Starter Sets, it is a complete game in a box, rather than something that immediately needs to have more purchases to make fun.

For instance, I can't imagine the forces inside Dark Vengeance giving the lasting fun that you can get from the Space Hulk box.

For those with a Space Hulk copy already...won't it be enough to just get the WD for the "WD-exclusive" scenarios and be done with it? Even then you could just leave it at that and have pretty much lost nothing from the whole experience.

I missed Space Hulk in 2009 how do I pre-order? I am in the US and have a GW store nearby.

Man. I really wish I had known this was coming for a few months. I missed space hulk in 2009, and have regretted it. I don't have the hobby money right now (x wing). If they are still available at christmas, I will get one... but that seems extremely unlikely.

Think I might pick a copy up for my Birthday...
Anyone know how easy it would be to World eater-ify these guys?

Like many others here, I have the 2009 edition so there is no need for me to pick up a copy. I am going to get a copy of Planetfall by Spartan games with my hobby cash instead.
I am hoping though that GW will take the hint and start supporting SH again. Would love some expansions!

I was really hoping it would have new models at least for the marine side but ideally for both. I bought two copies and traded components for a third to make my BA 1st Company "Deathwing" army because at the time I was so happy that the BA were finally getting new models for the first time in years. Reissuing practically the same thing will make my army less unique but I'm more disappointed that this one doesn't offer me much of anything as a (largely former in the interim) 40k customer. I played the space hulk game and frankly wasn't impressed (just like a decade earlier when I got into 40k) so the added tiles, cards, or missions don't do anything for me. The only use I've gotten out of my tiles is as a display base for the one tourney I attended in the past 5 years.

I'm happy for folks who actually want to play the game but I suspect most of the copies will be snatched up yet again by speculators trying to make a short or long term buck. There is obviously nothing illegal or wrong about that in moderation but the last time around it was frankly ridiculous. Folks on bartertown thought they hit the jackpot and tried getting $150-200 when it sold out on the gw website despite it being available for many weeks/several months at other online stores.

In the end, though, this rehash isn't for me sadly. Oh well...

 fullheadofhair wrote:
I don't understand why they don't make this as a "core" game that is always available as it makes a great bit of cash to take off people who may be taking a break from 40k purchases.

Then it ought to be expanded with different races. I would happily spend $100 on a force of equivalent "points" of DE, Orcs and Tau that have been individually sculpted to the same quality as those space marines and genestealers. Throw in a couple of new tiles - or even a whole new set for say a Roc or a craftworld.

It could be the gift that keep giving to GW if they play it right.

Because they need something that they are pretty sure will fill the coffers before the next reporting period.

If they did a standard release - there wouldn't be a rush on the game. If they do a limited release (even if that limited might be an unspecified number like 100,000...) there will be a rush of purchases both from those who want the game to play as well as large number of speculators (though considering how easy it is to buy an unopened box of the 2009 version...they may be more reluctant this time around). If they managed to move 10,000 or so units, that would make a pretty good chunk towards added profit for what appears to be largely a rehash of the same product that is bought and paid for from 5 years ago.

Heck, wouldn't be surprised if they also had some sort of super duper collectors version with a foil box that cost twice as much (as GW is want to do).