Post by whitehawkstudios on Apr 10, 2008 9:05:26 GMT 10
I first met the Space Marines via my older bro bringing home SPACE CRUSADE (1990) -similar to SPACE HULK. I was expecting to play HeroQuest that afternoon and as any kid, was disappointed when the expectation was not met.
My bro and his friend spent a while reading the S.C. game rules and I thought there was no way that there would be a better game than HeroQuest! I loved trying to kill the archaic ghouls and beasts as a Barbarian. It was around the same time I first watched "Conan the Barbarian".
I was wrong... SPACE CRUSADE to me as a 10 year old kid was the most kick ass board game around as it had that suspense quality (much more than H.Q.- you saw your unidentified enemy slowly creeping up on you) where your space marines were edging further into the depths of a decaying space hulk. The board was made up by four different smaller boards that each represented a seperate section of the dead ship.
Like out of the ALIEN films (an obvious inspiration), you would scan the area when moving into a new section of the ship. Blips would come up on your scanner so you would never know if it was merely an ork or gretchen coming your way or a chaos heavy space marine with a rocket launcher. What was worse was if it was the DREADNOUGHT - a huge lumbering metal monster decked out with assault cannons, plasma guns, bolters and sometimes a rocket launcher. It would maybe make even an A.T.-A.T. shit itself :-P
If you're into WARHAMMER 40K and want your friends who aren't into the complexity and diversity that WH40K offers to play a great game, buy SPACE CRUSADE off of Ebay. You will have added another awesome game to your collection- WHITEHAWK.
Here's the link to download SPACE CRUSADE PC GAME. It's not big at all either which is good if you have dial-up.
www.abandonia.com/games/928/download/SpaceCrusade.htm
If that doesn't work go to www.abandonia.com and type in "space crusade" in the search. When at site : Click on the red arrow [ GET IT ] icon in centre screen to download.
S.C. must also be run in DOSBOX as it's an older game unsupported by windows XP. So you also need to download windows version of dosbox - www.dosbox.com When in dosbox read the instructions for running games.
While playing the game press CTRL + F12 to speed up game as it's very slow otherwise. ENJOY!!!
