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Made in de
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Since Space Hulk is all the rage again these days (or at least was two months ago), I took a look into my board game collection and sorted some stuff out. I stumbled over this little jewel here.



I'm not sure if and how this game was released outside of Germany, but the German version is quite hilarious if you take a closer look.
As a board game, Starquest was marketed to kids of course. In this game, one player would assume the role of the bad guy, controlling all the evil forces and up to three other players would play the "Galaxy Safe Guard".



From the looks of it, it was clearly some sort of 40k game, but with a lot of changes. Every GSG player had 5 Marines, each with a different weapon, while the "evil" player too control of a combined force of Necrons, Genestealers, Orks, Gretchins, Chaos Marines and the fearsome Dreadnought.



It was played on a board consisting of 4 seperate pieces with walls and doors. I'm never going to play this game again, but I'm sure the board will prove quite usefull in the future.



Now, the funny part is, how the grimdark 40k setting was changed to make game safe for children to play. First of, all the enemies were summed up under the name of "Robotlings". Genestealers became "clones" and the Necrons became "Androids". The funniest change however was the one about the Space Marines. The iconography in the game was pretty obvious. They were Blood Angels, Imperial Fists and Ultramarines.
But now they've become the GALAXY SAFE GUARD, or GSG for short (which btw. is also the name for an anti-terror unit in Germany). They now were known as the GSG Tigers, the GSG Musketeers and the GSG-19. But the best part were their weapons. Because the GSG is a special unit formed by the human federation, who now lives in peace and prosperity, they do not kill. That's why the use special non-lethal guns.


The "black hole gun" opens a portal which sucks the enemy robotlings in another dimension where they can't hurt them, while the "null-time cannon" froze time around them. The GSG commanders also had special non-lethal weapons, like the "k.o.-sword".



The game itself used special attack dice and a "radar blip" system, not unlike Space Hulk. There was also a lot of gear and equipment. I never got a hold of the "Eldar expansion pack" though.

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Ahh... Space Crusade. In the English version, everything was normal - guns killed, the bad guys were real, and Necrons were still 'Chaos Androids'.

The German version is stupid-funny though.

Thanks for showing us pics, but can get get a few more of the whole board?

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Made in de
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That would require some effort on my part. I'll do it later.
   
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Hilarious. Thanks for sharing.


 
   
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I always loved the Lego looking floors on that board section.

You've got to be glad you weren't a Dutch Imperial Fists player around the time of Space Crusade though... they were called Fist Masters...

The two expansions were good fun, especially Operation : Dreadnought, which Wikipedia is calling Mission Dreadnought (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Crusade)

   
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By special request of H.B.M.C., here are a few more pics.








Oh yeah, I totally forgot. Did I mention I have actually two boards.





   
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Who's the fat man with the assault canon? Some sort of servitor?
   
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cadbren wrote:Who's the fat man with the assault canon? Some sort of servitor?

An Ogryn Bodyguard, converted from a fantasy Ogre for my Ad Mech Necromunda Gang.
   
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Interesting. Thanks for that. Having two does give it more use. Odd how they went for the four boards with pre-set room way rather than the Space Hulk/Tyranid Attack method. When was this game released?

Doom board sections are better IMO.

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H.B.M.C. wrote:Interesting. Thanks for that.

You're welcome.
When was this game released?

I have no idea. I got both my games of flea markets, and one of those for less than 10 deutsche Mark.
Doom board sections are better IMO.

Never saw them in person, just he picture on the back of the box.
   
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With all the models?

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H.B.M.C. wrote:With all the models?

I assume you're talking of me buying it for 10 bucks "with all the models".

Yes, pretty much. A few weapons were broken off and a few door-stands were missing, but the rest was there iirc.
   
 
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