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Hello all

I just tested my timer and its 3mins 10 secs that means the blood angel player gets more time

i got 3:03 on mine and my buddy got 2:57. seems i got his 3 seconds

My SH timer lasts about 2:55 and it certainly didn't look new when I first saw it either.

yeah mine is kinda scuffed up , straight outa the bubblewrap sleeve

3 mins exactly.

Hopefully Beasts of War will have the second version of their sound-effect console finished soon and it will include a 3 minute timer.

Mine was almost 4 minutes! As the genestealer player, I quickly made my own timer application :p

3:17

My timer seems to sometimes get jammed with about 20-30 seconds left in it (which is obviously unacceptable), and you then have to tap it to get it started again.

Because of that it seems to vary between around 2:50-3:20.


So I'm using my iphone timer all the way.

My timer is 2:55.

The timer quality is the one big fail of this edition. I know that sounds a bit negative.

I have to say that I see why they went with the egg timer (1. It was characterful and 2. It was CHEEP like the budgie!) but lets face it, when was the last time any of us came across an egg timer (especially in a board game) that actually worked properly? In all honesty, I have to agree with a comment I saw on Youtube from miniwargames.com - its only really there to stop people being really slow with their moves so I reckon that as long as you are playing with sensible people then it isn't really necessary.

Either that or you know use a stopwatch

I do not know if the Space Hulk Stopwatch works on the iPhone or other smartphones, but it is a nice application that has been updated recently.

Board Game Geek - Space Hulk 1E and Space Hulk 2E - Files - Space Hulk Stopwatch by Thibault Bloch
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/filepage/42038

That timer is way to slow on the PC's I've played it on so far., 1 second on the timer is almost 2 real seconds.

I use my PDA and it plays the motion tracker sound from aliens when 3 mins is up. Works great.

Just use a kitchen timer.

Orangecoke wrote:I use my PDA and it plays the motion tracker sound from aliens when 3 mins is up. Works great.

What program is this? Would sound a lot better than my horrendous beeping kitchen timer.

I think the best thing about the egg timer is that both players get visible access to it, though this is definitely outweighed by its negatives

They sell digital timers at Radio Shack. They have calculator
faces and you can set them to count up or down.