An eclectic mix of everything that fits nowhere else including miniatures, terrain, house rules, comics, lyrics and anything that doesn’t have a home elsewhere.

From Bel Of Lost Souls:

More whispers regarding the best Warhammer 40k boardgame ever made, Space Hulk.

Talk about the tubes is that when Games Workshop sets their mind on something they go all the way. Space Hulk is being described as a full bore rework with all the bells and whistles you could ever want.

Sources say to expect it in Q3 2009, and we have heard tales of modular plastic boards, an extensive set of large scale sprues with all the termys and genestealers you can shake a stick it, and all new fancy elements such as sliding doors and the like. There might even be a need for batteries (perhaps). Expect a full sized boxed game that will make all you cry with tears of joy.

My ears have heard September 2009 as the specific release date. We shall see.

There was talk of bringing back the timer, and also doing the plastic treatment of the corridor tiles.

The previous cost of the box was mostly in the punched coloured card sections, the plastics were really cheap and easy to produce.

IF they get rid of the cardstock stuff and do plastic instead, then they can sell sprue’s of the corridors individually so people can build them into cities of death terrain.

The only sticking point I see is that the new terminators are on a 40mm base, and the genestealers are on a 25mm base.
Which makes converting the rules of one square of movement for each action point a bit hard, as the genestealers are going to zoom across boards on a table.

Or maybe that will add to the stress levels of anyone playing as the terminators.

Looks like I did the right thing in keeping all my genestealers and terminators packed safely away.

At least this way I have 70-odd genestealers, plus hybrids, magus and patriarch all painted and ready to go.

The question is, will it be one squad of terminators with a heavy flamer, two squads of terminators with storm bolters (straight from the new 40k starter set) or something more?

I just have this feeling it may be a case of:
sprue 1 has 2 terminators, 4 genestealers and 2 corridor sections.
sprue 2 has 2 corridors and 2 rooms
sprue three has 2 corridors and 2 genestealers
sprue 4 has terminator sarge and doors
sprue 5 has 4 genestealers and bulkheads, end pieces and assorted markers for the game.

That way you could get 2x sprue 1, 2x sprue 2, 2x sprue 3, 1x sprue 4 and 1x sprue 5.

Of course there may be more corridor and room sprues, but that is just an example of the breakdown.

This is also assuming the corridors and rooms are flat. They may be done with half height walls, or walls only on one side or perhaps even full height walls, just to help with the feeling of the hulk…