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Offline Archer

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Space Hulk?!?!
« on: August 17, 2009, 06:06:42 PM »
And so... Games Workshop releases the latest incarnation of a damn good game.

Supposedly, it uses the first edition rules
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Re: Space Hulk?!?!
« Reply #1 on: August 17, 2009, 06:09:38 PM »
new models are sweet....the $100 price does make do a double take.
and its a limited release!!!
What the heck!!!
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Re: Space Hulk?!?!
« Reply #2 on: August 17, 2009, 07:11:10 PM »
I will be pre-ordering....but probably from my FLGS. 

I did see that CLS Games is running the pre-order at $79, but with shipping, the local pickup option still provide a better value.   

If I see a screamin' deal on pre-orders, I'll check back in.   

Lookin forward to finally getting a copy of a classic game, but at a fraction of the E-Bay price.   

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Re: Space Hulk?!?!
« Reply #3 on: August 18, 2009, 07:34:37 AM »
The models alone are well worth the price IMHO.
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Re: Space Hulk?!?!
« Reply #4 on: August 18, 2009, 07:47:23 AM »
If you like/want the game now is the time to get it. Looks like a vast improvement on the classic game.

Some one slap me please.

GW is re-releasing a good game.
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Re: Space Hulk?!?!
« Reply #5 on: August 18, 2009, 05:45:46 PM »
FRAK!  I'm a sucker for these style of games!  MC:SotC, MC:FotC, Space Crusade, HeroQuest, Advanced HeroQuest, Doom, Descent (with all the trimmings), Aliens...I've got them all.  I don't know it I'm ready to shell out that much dough, though.  Even Descent doesn't cost that much money (close to it, though).
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Re: Space Hulk?!?!
« Reply #6 on: August 18, 2009, 08:29:34 PM »
(first putting on a rain poncho and grabbing an umbrella to deal with the soon to come hail of tomatoes...) Personally, I think Space Hulk is overrated. I owned all 3 and sold them for a tidy sum and bought 10 other games   If you like SCI-FI dungeon crawling Doom is a better game.  Or is you're dying for the hulk expierience, just use the 40K figs, the free pdf rule, and the doom tiles (or any other tile map based game) and save yourself a bundle.

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Re: Space Hulk?!?!
« Reply #7 on: August 19, 2009, 04:08:43 AM »
Good point with the proxy ideas.

I just like the way they did the new figs.

What is better about the Dooom rules versus Space Hulk please?

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Re: Space Hulk?!?!
« Reply #8 on: August 19, 2009, 08:43:46 AM »
Quote from: warzoneD on August 18, 2009, 08:29:34 PM
(first putting on a rain poncho and grabbing an umbrella to deal with the soon to come hail of tomatoes...) Personally, I think Space Hulk is overrated. I owned all 3 and sold them for a tidy sum and bought 10 other games   If you like SCI-FI dungeon crawling Doom is a better game.  Or is you're dying for the hulk expierience, just use the 40K figs, the free pdf rule, and the doom tiles (or any other tile map based game) and save yourself a bundle.

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No but seriously, you do have a point to a certain degree.  On the other hand, I expect them to pull the PDFs and tiles to prevent people from doing just that.
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Re: Space Hulk?!?!
« Reply #9 on: August 19, 2009, 06:11:10 PM »
Yep.

  I like the look of the new Termies for the game... and I would actually try to paint them as BA's.  I just don't know if I want to spend that much.... even if its a deal.
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Re: Space Hulk?!?!
« Reply #10 on: August 19, 2009, 06:50:20 PM »
Well, there are definitely similarities between Doom and Space Hulk.  The same feeling of "I'm gonna die!" on the part of the Marines, the same relentless waves of monsters and the same amount of plastic goodness with the added fun of variable map making.  

One of the biggest differences are the missions.  In Doom, the general theme is to get out of the level as fast as possible without dying too many times...similar to Aliens, but with respawning.  Space Hulk is more mission-oriented.

Like I said before, I'm a sucker for this type of game, so I bit the bullet and ordered it.
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Re: Space Hulk?!?!
« Reply #11 on: August 19, 2009, 08:03:26 PM »
We play Doom with more of a mission orientation.  Doom has a greater variety of foes too.  One can easily improve on either rule set I suppose (working in psyker rules an such).

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Re: Space Hulk?!?!
« Reply #12 on: August 20, 2009, 05:27:44 AM »
My friend and I tried Descent. It played well and had some SOTC aspects to it also.

Is Doom >> Descent???
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Re: Space Hulk?!?!
« Reply #13 on: August 21, 2009, 07:49:23 AM »
Sorry but I will stick with Legions of Steel -- better game with a wider variety of troops
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Re: Space Hulk?!?!
« Reply #14 on: August 21, 2009, 09:45:26 AM »
Sigh....

My FLGS was given an allotment of 10 games.   

All had been pre-ordered before I got there.

So, I ordered a copy over the Internet.

I feel so...dirty!   <cue the sad music>  I feel like I have been violated and victimized!   I hate following their carefully laid plan to force sales back into their own evil website.   

The horror...the horror....

Oh well, early September I will have at least one copy.   

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