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Tango0117 Mar 2015 12:19 p.m. PST

"Three small tactical squads of Space Marines from the Ultra Marines, Blood Angels and Imperial Fists Chapters take on a Chaos Renegade (me) sitting in a Space Hulk recently emerged from the "warp" and brimming with deviant chaos creatures! Classic stuff, there is beer and pretzels too, what more could a man want for on a Friday night?

The "Good Guys" deploy into the Space Hulk and are immediately surrounded by a disconcerting sea of blips on their movement scanners. An early 'Random Alien' event turns out to be very useful to The Blood Angels player, revealing all my blips for miniatures on his game board. My cunning Chaos Space Marine "trap in waiting" was blown open so I decided in the best fashion of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid to "rush 'em"! [Note: Space Crusade has no concept of an 'over-watch' so you can rush in and hopefully fire off a devastating volley] (see below):…"

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Roosta17 Mar 2015 12:34 p.m. PST

That brings back memories… Hours of per Spacehulk fun.

thosmoss17 Mar 2015 2:12 p.m. PST

Breaks my heart a little to hear the late '80's called "retro" …

But then they were playing U2 in the grocery store today, and I thought it was because the store was cool, not that it was a classic song.

Tango0118 Mar 2015 11:54 a.m. PST

"Breaks my heart a little to hear the late '80's called "retro" …"

I feel your pain my friend!. (smile)

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49mountain19 Mar 2015 9:48 a.m. PST

Should have added some Black Templars for space hulk fighting. Close quarters does't bother them.

ExiledFoG21 Mar 2015 6:09 a.m. PST

Glad to see my blog post generated some nostalgia :)

Sorry for the wincing caused by the notion "retro", I too share the pain and grey hairs :)

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