Space Hulk-coming soon!

[Con]

Had to do it (cant resist WH40K)

One of my first pre purchases in years

Con

[Steelgrave]

I'm interested, despite never having played anything Warhammer or Space Hulk related. But I'm wondering, is there really a need to pre-purchase? From what I'm seeing, they are not offering much in the way of rewards (a banner pole and a skin), whereas the price might well drop after a couple of months.

Am I missing something incentive-wise here?

[Gusington]

No. But I just pre-purchased anyway :)

[Steelgrave]

Hey, I did the same thing for Civ V BNW so I ain't judging  8)

[undercovergeek]

I'm interested, despite never having played anything Warhammer or Space Hulk related. But I'm wondering, is there really a need to pre-purchase? From what I'm seeing, they are not offering much in the way of rewards (a banner pole and a skin), whereas the price might well drop after a couple of months.

Am I missing something incentive-wise here?

But its spaaaaaaace marines!!!

And preordering is almost like owning it and playing it except not been able to play it so its more like torture tbh

[bob48]

Patience, grasshopper.

[GJK]

I've never played Space Hulk but have recently secured a copy of the table top version of Blood Bowl and LOVE it so I'm guess SH will be quite fun as well.  To be honest though, I far, far, far prefer to play the table top version of BB vs someone else than playing BB on the PC game online.  Somebody posted upstream that they didn't care for the table top version - I'd be worried about buying the PC game version then.  Maybe it's just me though....

[Arctic Blast]

Looks a little like Dungeon Siege.

Not even in the slightest bit like Dungeon Siege.

Think Aliens, and now make Space Marines and Tyranid Genestealers the two sides. That's Space Hulk.

[Toonces]

Oh hell yeah I'm in!

[Gusington]

I've been interested in Blood Bowl for a long time too.

[agathosdaimon]

I played much 40K as a teenager - though never had space hulk, but this looks very nice. I did have the battle isles game - what was it called "incubation" i wonder if this will be similar.

I have played the first Space Hulk pc game though - that is an excellent game, super hard and quite scary with how genestealers can just come through a wall at any moment. That game played in realtime though which amped up the intensity. As a turn based game though i wonder how it plays in terms of sudden shocks. In the original board game, could the aliens just  tear a hole in a corridor wall and pour through?

[Arctic Blast]

I played much 40K as a teenager - though never had space hulk, but this looks very nice. I did have the battle isles game - what was it called "incubation" i wonder if this will be similar.

I have played the first Space Hulk pc game though - that is an excellent game, super hard and quite scary with how genestealers can just come through a wall at any moment. That game played in realtime though which amped up the intensity. As a turn based game though i wonder how it plays in terms of sudden shocks. In the original board game, could the aliens just  tear a hole in a corridor wall and pour through?

No. You will see the Tyranids coming as 'blips'. The problem is, you don't know how big a swarm each of those blips represents until they're revealed. And in the board game, only the Marine player is timed. So it's a race against the clock as well...you can't just sit there for 5 minutes planning out a perfect strategy.

[GJK]

I've been interested in Blood Bowl for a long time too.

Blood Bowl freakin' rocks.  We have a local BB league here in Austin and I've played with them a couple of times now and had a great time.  I'm going to venture off-topic here a bit (wee bit), but a buddy at my FLGS said that FFG has acquired the rights to go ahead and reprint Blood Bowl and the other non-WH40K stuff from GW (Space Hulk?).  I can't confirm this online- has anybody else heard this rumour?

[agathosdaimon]

I played much 40K as a teenager - though never had space hulk, but this looks very nice. I did have the battle isles game - what was it called "incubation" i wonder if this will be similar.

I have played the first Space Hulk pc game though - that is an excellent game, super hard and quite scary with how genestealers can just come through a wall at any moment. That game played in realtime though which amped up the intensity. As a turn based game though i wonder how it plays in terms of sudden shocks. In the original board game, could the aliens just  tear a hole in a corridor wall and pour through?

No. You will see the Tyranids coming as 'blips'. The problem is, you don't know how big a swarm each of those blips represents until they're revealed. And in the board game, only the Marine player is timed. So it's a race against the clock as well...you can't just sit there for 5 minutes planning out a perfect strategy.

That sounds good!
in the old dos Space Hulk there was a time limit too i recall and even pausing the game to give orders had only limited time - 

[Sir Slash]

Space Hulk. Reminds me of an old girlfriend from... well you don't want to hear that story. I meant the graphics and scenes from the trailer looked a little like Dungeon Siege. Hope it's a winner.