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With the recent release of the bell of lost souls genestealer cult codex, and the rumours I have been hearing of a spce huk revisit, it has been ticking over in the back of my mind that I should dig out my old copy of 1st edition space hulk with its expansions. The genestealer expansion with its hybrids was always a fun game, with the random weapons causing no end of shock, or in some cases, hilarity.

Of course, my memories focus on one game where some VERY lucky rolling for a hybrid with a las-pistol. Starting the turn by killing one of the terminators with the pistol, followed by killing I think 5 more terminators with a lightning arc psychic power leaving one sole librarian.

The hybrid died in the next marine turn, and the librarian went on to finish the mission, closing all the bulkheads and killing in excess of a hundred stealers that game.

So with that in mind, I saw the new plastic ghouls for the vampire counts and I thought that with a few swaps with some gaunts and stealers we may have some nice looking hybrids. Then it would simply take a few weapons pulled out of the bits box and a few bits of tech and clothes added with the green stuff to leave me with some awesome hybrids ready for hulk fighting.

The added bonus is they would make for interesting enemies in necromunda, 40k and kill team games. And for the boss for kill team, even though there are normal monsters, one of the hybrids converted to have a tentacle mouth and a few pieces of carapace shell along with a big weapon would certainly make for an iconic character to fight against.

Wether you use the BOLS rules or use ‘counts as’ to get them into other games, the fun is in resurrecting a long dead foe for your games.

Anything that adds flavour and enjoyment to your games has to be a good thing. If rumours of a new hulk game coming turn out to be true, this may be a good way to get an early start. (or may just want some interesting models to paint for the next golden demon contest)

Many years ago I discovered a boardgame called space hulk, along with its expansions I spent many a weekend locked in strategic games against friends. After that much time spent with it, when the second edition arrived I added it to my collection. The bonus being the vastly improved models for the game.

Now more recently I discovered a version of it for my mobile. I had seen the old computer game version but I didn’t really enjoy the PC game all that much. But playing a version of the original? With just the strategy being what I was wanting, I played through the whole campaign as both sides. Now, sitting on a train to work for 45 mins gives me plenty of time to listen to music, or play solitaire on the iPod. But want something to push my mind a bit further, I went for a game a I knew would get me thinking. The strategic map top down style of the game (and this is the only component that runs on my phone) is very reminiscent of the boardgame. Anyone who has played and enjoyed the game will probably like this version.

It can be quite challenging to beat on some of the maps, even with a background in the boardgame version it can still be difficult to win. I certainly recommend checking out a copy for yourself.

Check out a copy for yourself here