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Waaargh wrote:


Is that a heavy flamer for the scouts? Notice the small looking genestealer hands.

What you're seeing looks to be the standard Bolter Scout sprues, just done in red rather than gray.

Same with Genestealers in purple-blue.

For those curious, here are the rules of the first edition, along with a list of the game contents and whatnot: http://www.strony.toya.net.pl/~rycop/schowek/LostPatrol.pdf


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And yes, both sprues are "old", or from existing kits. Alas, what I mistook for tangleweed counters are instead those toothed sphincters with the tentacles, whatever they may be.

 JamesY wrote:
I had that, if I recall rightly you got tyranid warriors (the gopher teeth ones in the 2nd ed book), and loads of hybrids on the stealer side, and two squads of scouts and a squad of termis on imperial side. Amazing box at the time. I don't think I ever actually played the game though, just built and painted them. Might still have the scouts somewhere with the rt beakies.

You're thinking of Advanced Space Crusade. In fact, given the mix of models, the Tyranids and Terminators box which gave you a load of Space Marines and Tyranid models to expand the game.

 Kanluwen wrote:

Waaargh wrote:


Is that a heavy flamer for the scouts? Notice the small looking genestealer hands.

What you're seeing looks to be the standard Bolter Scout sprues, just done in red rather than gray.

Same with Genestealers in purple-blue.

It's like I'm psychic...

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 AndrewGPaul wrote:

 JamesY wrote:
I had that, if I recall rightly you got tyranid warriors (the gopher teeth ones in the 2nd ed book), and loads of hybrids on the stealer side, and two squads of scouts and a squad of termis on imperial side. Amazing box at the time. I don't think I ever actually played the game though, just built and painted them. Might still have the scouts somewhere with the rt beakies.

You're thinking of Advanced Space Crusade. In fact, given the mix of models, the Tyranids and Terminators box which gave you a load of Space Marines and Tyranid models to expand the game.

Or Tyranid Attack - it had those contents (well, two hybrids, not 'loads').

...

Erm... looking at the pic above - do the re-use the old tiles?

A good move by Gw. Presumably this was cheap for them to put together. Old models, old art, old rules The price of the game is a little cheaper than the price of the individual models. Gw has a vast catalogue of old games and miniatures waiting to be leveraged. Hero quest or space crusade were gateway drugs into 40k and fantasy for a lot of people. I would like to see gw produce a series of these games while the specialist games section is spinning up.

Chikout wrote:
A good move by Gw. Presumably this was cheap for them to put together. Old models, old art, old rules The price of the game is a little cheaper than the price of the individual models. Gw has a vast catalogue of old games and miniatures waiting to be leveraged. Hero quest or space crusade were gateway drugs into 40k and fantasy for a lot of people. I would like to see gw produce a series of these games while the specialist games section is spinning up.

Being cheap to put together was the whole design inspiration according to Jake Thornton http://quirkworthy.com/2016/03/16/lost-patrol-found-again/ The games could only use existing miniatures, and the budget for artwork and anything else was severely limited. Interestingly, several other games were designed for this series, but only Lost Patrol and Gav Thorpe's Gobbo's Banquet ever ended up getting published.

War of sigmar blog pointed out what looks like the new bloodbowl box in the background of that pic.

Reminds me of Blood Berets.
I like the old look better, but still worth a look if the price is right.

I got rid of my 40k stuff a couple of years back but with all these board games they've been putting out I'm going to have a nids and space marine army back without even trying.

beast_gts wrote:
GW did a load of 'little' stand-alone games using existing miniatures with some new boards & rules - Lost Patrol, Ultra Marines, Mighty Warriors, etc.

Spoiler:

I remember all of those, but not Lost Patrol. I first heard about it roughly a month or so ago when a blogger mentioned Jake brought it around to his place for a game.

Those are the tiles?

Well forget that...

 Dryaktylus wrote:

 AndrewGPaul wrote:

 JamesY wrote:
I had that, if I recall rightly you got tyranid warriors (the gopher teeth ones in the 2nd ed book), and loads of hybrids on the stealer side, and two squads of scouts and a squad of termis on imperial side. Amazing box at the time. I don't think I ever actually played the game though, just built and painted them. Might still have the scouts somewhere with the rt beakies.

You're thinking of Advanced Space Crusade. In fact, given the mix of models, the Tyranids and Terminators box which gave you a load of Space Marines and Tyranid models to expand the game.

Or Tyranid Attack - it had those contents (well, two hybrids, not 'loads').

...

Erm... looking at the pic above - do the re-use the old tiles?

It's got to be one of them. I definitely had more than two hybrids, but 20+ years ago I've probably misremembered a few things.

This game is definitely the existing scouts and stealers in coloured plastic though.

1 Terminator Librarian
4 Terminators
10 Scouts

6 Tyranid Warriors
8 Genestealers
2 Genestealer Hybrids

That was the contents of Tyranid Attack, and that's because that's how the sprues were layed out (2 Terminators + 4 Stealers per sprue, 2 Hybrds + 1 Libby per sprue, 2 5-man Scout sprues, and then a bunch of Warrior sprues).

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Those are the tiles?

Well forget that...

The whole schtick of the game was that the jungle constantly changed/moved, broadly using LOS to determine 'live' sections, so myriad smaller sections is a better fit for that.

That's not my concern. My concern is the tiles aren't useable elsewhere.

That's not a criticism of the game - the tiles aren't designed for other games, only for the game they were made for, and it is foolish to criticise something for not being something it never intended to be - but I don't like them, they don't serve my purposes, so I'll pass.

The tiles shown are from the original game, chances are these are just place holders on display until they can knock out a new set graphically more up to date.

I remember those small-box games (I have Space Fleet), but I don't ever remember Lost Patrol.

Overall though, it looks like a pass for me - after all, I still have my scouts from Space Crusade and after all these years they're only partially painted anyways.

If they were to redo a Tyranid attack or Space Crusade at the quality they redid Space Hulk though, I'd be all over that. Especially if they were to give the Warriors a retro (but updated) look with the smooth heads and visible organs.

 BrookM wrote:
The game revolves around a squad of scouts who have crash landed into a hellish jungle.

Oh boy, another board game on the way. Not really interested.

Quite happy that Games Workshop is doing more than just Warhammer (and LotR)

The four "box lid" games came out in 1991-2, while Lost Patrol was released in 2000, apparently.

Looks interesting. I love scouts, and could always use more, so might pick it up for that, but then again, I've been meaning to do one of these boxed games as a standalone set away from my main 40k army. So may just do them up as whatever they are meant to be for the game. Looks like blood Angels.

 AndrewGPaul wrote:
The four "box lid" games came out in 1991-2, while Lost Patrol was released in 2000, apparently.

Yeah. I thought they were closer together, but the Internet says otherwise...

Hopefully they took *some* time and effort to update the rules as I'm sure they need them, to modernize them or actually create a game people want to play.

So far most of the GW board games are just advertisements for models, which is pretty lame for those of us that like board games.

The point of them is not to be board games... it's to be feeder products for a miniatures manufacturing company.

yeah and that's dumb, they should put effort into them so they can be *both*. Just like all these shovel-ware video games they keep releasing with the 40k logo.. All it does is dilute the brand for the people that ACTUALLY want to play a board or video game.

Odd choices for a re-boxing focused game... the scouts are not really regarded as their strongest minis, and frankly the genestealers are a bit out of date compared to the spacehulk and DWOK stealers. Not to mention being a bit flogged in their boardgames anyways lol.

I dunno, one would figure they would choose stronger models as enticement. I would understand if they were re-boxing old-stock but these are clearly fresh pulls due to the colored plastics used. Odd! And, with relief at this point after 2 DWOK boxes, a pass for me lol.

BoC and DW:OK are both good games. They're hardly devaluing anything.

And they both have top notch minis to boot. I can see no problem with LP if it matches that criteria.

I'm always up for more stealers, but this...

the squad of Marines must navigate a jungle that moves and changes as they travel the board

... just shouts RANDOM RANDOM RANDOM at me. Tempered a bit by the fact Jake Thornton's been tinkering with it. Reading his blog, I know how much he dislikes that element of Dreadfleet!