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Has anyone played Blasters and Bulkheads? I know there is a version 2.0 out. I hear it is basically star wars, and star wars minis work perfect for it?

Rules any good?

Worth buying? I

How longs and average game take?

How many points is an average game?

Can you custom a lot of stuff or is there your generic "storm trooper" figure with stats/points cost?

What dice does it use?

Is it measure only or could you grid it up?

The rules are fairly simple, but I find they work pretty well. For a tenner, it's certainly worth a buy. It's definitely primarily intended to be "off-brand Star Wars", but you could do Rogue Trader, Star Trek or anything else pretty easily. It uses D6. By design, it's for tabletop, but I suppose you could convert the ranges to counting squares and it't work fine.

The game we played was about half what the rules recommend as a normal game, and took us a little over an hour; that was with a couple of heroes and two or three goon squads on each side.

Everything is custom. There's a couple of sample warbands at the back of the book, but it was pretty easy to throw together stats for Stormtroopers, Darth Vader, Han and Luke.

There's some better information here:
http://dropshiphorizon.blogspot.com/search/label/Blasters%20and%20Bulkheads

I'd agree with just about everything said above. We played the previous version a few years ago and liked it. I think we only didn't end up sticking with it because we were at the time looking for a post-apoc ruleset with a more robust campaign system. It provides basic statlines and types that will cover most bases, but also the mechancics to stat up virtually anything.

We later used two years in a row it in a slightly modified form as the basis for two of our annual Zombie apocalpyse games.

Here are the batreps for those two games.
http://chicagoskirmish.blogspot.com/2013/11/doom-comes-to-sunnyvale-our-3rd-annual.html

http://chicagoskirmish.blogspot.com/2012/10/carnage-in-new-chicago-our-2nd-annual.html

Reportedly the new version tightens up the art and the rules and grows it a bit beyond the not-star-wars theme of the original edition, though I've heard that it's still a great not-star-wars ruleset. Overall, it's a great ruleset for pulp-sci-fi where you really need your heroes to shine. Definitely worth buying.