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StarQuest

StarQuest is an adventure board game designed by Steven Baker and produced by Milton Bradley and Games Workshop in the UK.  It is in many ways the Sci-Fi version of HeroQuest.  First made in 1990, it uses many of the concepts of the Games Workshop's Space Hulk and Warhammer 40,000 games, but has a simpler level of game play.  StarQuest's less sophisticated level of play removes much of the complexity of the all encompassing Warhammer 40K rule sets and allows players of all ages to just have some fun gaming without having to read and abide by an encyclopedia of rules.  Because of this many players from different continents have adopted StarQuest rules as the basis of their own home brewed Warhammer 40K universe game rules. 

 

 

In Germany, Italy, Belgium and the Netherlands, this game is known as StarQuest.  It was know as Space Crusade in the UK, Finland, Ireland, France, Denmark, Australia and New Zealand.  It was never sold in North America.

 

The theme of the game involves 1-3 squads of Imperium Space Marines breaching the hull of a space craft filled with aliens.  The Space Marines must then fight off the aliens, attempt to complete a specific primary and secondary objective and then make it out alive.  The player on the alien side's objective is to kill as many Space Marines as possible and raise hell.  The one with the most point (generally the most kills) wins.  As much of the game is left to chance and the throw of the dice, a player can be invincible and racking out an enemy body count one moment and then running in fear the next.

 

All in all, it is one of the simplest, most fun and violent board games ever made.  Unfortunately, it isn't made anymore and the few copies of the game left are horded by a few collectors and can sell for US$500.  But if you are lucky, you may be able to find a set in a thrift store...in the UK or Germany.  You can also custom make your own boards, find some orcs and marines and borrow a copy of the rule book and you'll be on your way to playing a really fun board game!

 

 

Expansion Games and Sequels

 

Eldar Attack

A boxed expansion set that introduced Eldar with special abilities including psychic powers.  This expansion pack allowed one extra player to control the Eldar miniatures, thus allowing the game to be played by 2-5 people.

 

Of note, one of the alien events allows the player to select a game board and rotate it to any degree. While this has interesting gameplay due to the line of sight required for range attacks, in practice it usually ends up with players knocking over doors and miniatures in the process, leading to many players simply ignoring this particular event.

 

 

Mission Dreadnought

Another boxed expansion set.  This one gives the marine player access to additional space marine miniatures, boosting the squad to 6 space marines and the commander. Space marines may carry extra heavy weapons or the tarantula mobile turret.

 

The alien player gains extra heavy dreadnoughts, which are extremely powerful and capable of wiping out an entire squad. The last mission in the additional mission book allows the alien player to continuously construct additional dreadnoughts for more firepower from the dreadnought factory board.

 

The additional bulkhead doors and corridor tiles allows players to build more interesting board constructions, whereas the initial game is quite limited to either the square 2x2 mode or the long 4x1 mode.

 

 

White Dwarf

 

White Dwarf published two Space Crusade articles in the early 1990s. 

 

The first discussed new rules and use of Terminators, Space Marine Scouts, Ork Mobs, Tyranids and Genestealer Hybrids, allowing players to use other Warhammer 40,000 miniatures with Space Crusade.  The second article introduces one campaign named 'Renegade'.

 

"Space Crusade; Terminators, Space Marine Scouts, Ork Mobs, Tyranids and Genestealers Hybrids in Space Crusade". White Dwarf: UK Edition (134). February 1991. ISSN 0265-8712 scribd.com/doc/36518461/White-Dwarf-134

Space Crusade: New Rules

 


"Renegade". White Dwarf: UK Edition (145). January 1992. ISSN 0265-8712.

Renegade: A Five-Part Campaign for Space Crusade (Uses rules from White Dwarf 134)

 

Advanced Space Crusade

Advanced Space Crusade was a modular board game published in 1990 by Games Workshop and Milton Bradley. The premise of the game is that a number of Space Marine scout squads are boarding a Tyranid ship in order to sabotage its delicate internal "organs". The game is superficially similar to Space Hulk in that it uses 28 mm plastic Citadel Miniatures as play pieces, uses modular board pieces to represent the innards of the Hive ship, and has one player controlling the Marines while the other controls waves of Tyranids, but has no greater relationship to Space Crusade than any other game set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe. Without the license from Milton Bradley, many of the components of Advanced Space Crusade were released in 1993's Tyranid Attack, a substantially different game.

 

White Dwarf also published three articles for Advanced Space Crusade

 

Advanced Space Crusade: Preview (White Dwarf 131)

 

Imperial Guard (White Dwarf 132):

 

Ork Warbands in Advanced Space Crusade (White Dwarf 134)

 

 

Tyranid Attack

This appears to be a spin off from Advanced Space Crusade and released in 1993.

 

There were 3 White Dwarf articles regarding Tyranid Attack

 

Tyranid Attack: Preview (White Dwarf 158)

 

Eldar in Tyranid Attack (White Dwarf 159)

 

Dreadnoughts (White Dwarf 162)

 

 

Computer Game

Gremlin Graphics Software Ltd. released a computer version of the game in early 1992. It was available on Atari ST, IBM PC (MS-DOS), Amiga, ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 and Amstrad and later received an expansion, The Voyage Beyond. It is a faithful conversion of the boardgame, with a board that could be viewed in 2D or isometric projection views (Barker, 1992).

starquest.jimdo.com/vassal/starquest-space-crusade/

 

 

VASSAL Open Source Boardgame Engine

vassalengine.org - Open source boardgame engine

members.westnet.com.au/brick27/vassal.html Module

starquest.jimdo.com/vassal/starquest-space-crusade/  Italian Module - different icons

mediafire 0f019b8d0e164a6ed6baebe61b361f7ce04e75f6e8ebb871  vassalengine 1004 Icons and map as shown above

 

 

Miniatures

You can use an assortment of figures and other items to represent your StarQueset Space Marines and Aliens.  But if you lack imagination or want a really cool looking game and don't mind spending a lot of money, you will want to use the original StarQuest game pieces or use Games Workshop Warhammer 40K figures.

 

Space Marines

The original rules called for 4 Space Marines and 1 Sergeant per squad with a total of 3 squads.  That makes 15 Space Marines total.  The interchangeable arms allow each Marine to use a bolter, assault cannon, missile launcher and plasma gun.  If you are playing Mission: Dreadnaught, you get two more Marines and 4 new Extra-Heavy weapons: the Las-cannon, the fusion gun, the conversion beam, and the Tarantula Mobile Support Weapon.

 

 

The original game weapons include:

 

Mission: Dreadnaught added:

 

Space Marines are easy to acquire and you have several choices to choose from. 

Option One


The Space Marine Tactical Squad will provide 10 Marines and a few heavy weapons (at least a missile launcher, a flamer, a meltagun, a plasma gun, and a bolt pistol)

 

Space Marine Devastator Squad provides 5 marines and a missile launcher, 1 multi-melta, 2 heavy bolters, 2 las-cannons and 2 plasma cannons.

 

This gives you a total of 15 Marines with various weapons.  If you have to have miniatures that carry the same weapons as used by the Marines in your game, you will need an additional 6 Marines and heavy weapons.  If you have to have properly geared Commanders, you will need a total of 9 Commanders, which is a bit silly.

 

 

Option Two

Warhammer 40,000: Assault on Black Reach
This boxed game contains a 112-page Warhammer 40K Rulebook, a 33-page Getting Started booklet, Dice, Templates, Range Rulers and almost 50 Citadel miniatures, including: a Space Marine Captain, 10 Tactical Space Marines, Five Space Marine Terminators, a Space Marine Dreadnought, an Ork Warboss, 20 Ork Boyz, five Ork Nobz and three Ork Deffkoptas.  For Space Crusade, it's the best bang for the buck as you get enough Space Marines (as long as you are willing to use Terminators to represent regular Marines) for 3 squads, a dreadnaught and plenty of Orcs.  You also get the rules to play Warhammer 40K, in case you are looking to expand.

 

 

 

Be aware that the Tactical squad in this set is designed to "snap together" and has less detail and versatility than the regular Space Marine Tactical Squad boxed set.  The Black Reach models come with a body, jetpack and gun.  The regular tactical set comes with various bodies front and back, separate arms and heads, separate lower bodies and weapons.  The regular tactical set allows for more unique models and poses.  Whereas the starter set allows you to quickly assemble your army and play Warhammer 40K or StarQuest.

 

 

Option Three


Blood Angels Death Company

You get five Marines with Blood Angel emblems.

 

Iron Hands Space Marine Squad

Comes with missile launder, flamer and bionic implants.

 

Space Marine Devastator Squad

This provides 5 marines and a missile launcher, multi-melta, 2 heavy bolters, 2 las-cannons and 2 plasma cannons.

 

This option allows for more unique looking squads.

 

 

Option 4

EM4 Space Rangers are more economical than the way overpriced Games Workshop figures and metal to boot.

em4miniatures.com/acatalog/Science_Fiction.html

 

 

Androids

StarQuest came with:

 

Original StarQuest Android

The original SpaceQuest Androids look very much like the new Warhammer 40,000 Necron.  But you can use a variety of figures to represent androids.

 

 

Necron Warriors

These seem to provide the most similar look to the origional StarQuest androids.  The StarQuest Androids were more than likely the spawn of the Warhammer Necron.

 

Tau Fire Warrior Team

I feel that these look like "Androids" and will work fine for StarQuest.  They however, do not look anything like the original StarQuest miniatures.

 

 

Dreadnaught

StarQuest came with:

 

Original StarQuest Dreadnought

Shown above is the dreadnought found in the original StarQuest game.

 

These are the dreadnoughts found in the Mission: Dreadnought expansion set.

 

 

Tau XV8 Crisis Battlesuit

This doesn't really look like the original StarQuest Dreadnaught, but looks like a dreadnaught.

 

 

Space Marine Dreadnought

 

This is not my favorite choice, but it does come in the Warhammer 40,000: Assault on Black Reach set, so you might get it as a bonus.  It also doesn't really seem possible for this to fit through a StarQuest door.

 

 

Epic Imperial Titans

Some of the Epic Imperial titans look similar to the original StarQuest Dreadnaught, but the scale may be off. 

 

A 40k scale Space Marine is about 30mm tall.  A Warlord class Battle Titan is about 55-70mm in height (depending on weapons fit). A Warhound is about 40mm tall.

 

 

Hellcat

Created for the game Kryomek, these may work fine.  I'm not sure how the scale corresponds to StarQuest.

scotiagrendel.com

 

 

Robocop ED-209

The one above is a Kotobukiya Robocop Trilogy - ED 209 and is about 11 CM tall.

epartyunlimited.com/kotobukiya-robocop-ed-209-model-kit.html

 

 

Bauhaus Vulkan Battlesuits

These are for the Mutant Chronicles and Warzone games made by Target Games, and is now owned by Paradox Entertainment

princeaugust 10526.html

WARZONE - Mutant Chronicles: Cybertronic Eradicator Deathdroid Vehicle

invisionfree 16329.htm   Vulkan Battlesuits

 

Note: Mutant Chronicles Collectible Miniatures Game comes with prepainted 54 mm scale figures. Warzone has figures in 25mm, 28mm, 40mm and 54mm scale.  The ones at warzone-chronopia are all 28mm scale according to their webmaster.

 

 

Walkers by DUST Tactics from Fantasy Flight Games

This is a little big for the inside of a space hulk.

fantasyflightgames.com

 

 

Other Dreadnought Models

FRP Games walkers Galactica Wars I

alfaroli.marco 4468450.html  Imperial Walkers

momirfarooq.com/site/models/swmindex.htm Star Wars Walkers

 

 

Papercraft Dreadnought Models

 

Built with quality board (paper, plastic or foam), these can actually turn out nicely (the right one may be a bit too large).

yahoo group bwc-archive Templates for paper vehicles, buildings, etc. (even a Space Marine template)

bolterandchainsword 213998 images of 28mm scale dreadnought and vehicle

dakkadakka 207830

 

 

Lego Dreadnought

starquest.forumfree.it 52135061

 

 

Chaos Knights

StarQuest came with:

 

Chaos Space Marine Attack Squad

You can spend a lot on Chaos Space Marines, but this set gives you plenty...unless you decide to get crazy with your missions.

 

Chaos Space Marines

If you plan on full out head to head Space Marine combat, you may want a larger force to occupy your space hulk.

 

 

Orks and Gretchen

StarQuest came with:

 

Warhammer 40,000: Assault on Black Reach

This set has both Space Marines and Orcs and is a nice "economical" way to go if dollar store toys soldiers just don't cut it.  You don't get Gretchin, but can use your imagination and save a few dollars.

 

 

Ork Boyz

Nice variety of Orcs.

 

 

Ork Gretchin

Don't forget the Gretchen.  This set give your 10 of the 14 you may need.

 

 

Genestealers

StarQuest came with:

 

Tyranid Genestealer Brood

These are now known as Tyranid Genestealer Brood in Warhammer 40K.

 

 

Xenomorphs

Proper scaled miniatures of the Xenomorphs seen in the Alien's movie look pretty scary.

 

 

Eldar

If you are using the Eldar Attack rules and expansion set, you will need some Eldar.

Elder Attack expansion included:

Eldar Dire Avengers Aspect Warriors

 

 

Eldar Guardian Squad

 

 

Wow.  StarQuest was a real bargain back in it's day with all of it's included figures.

 

 

Models/Figures/Miniatures

games-workshop.com (Citadel Miniatures Limited now part of Games Workshop)

forgeworld.co.uk  subsidiary company of Games Workshop

tiannastarfall spacecrusade

irondogstudios.com

demonwinner.free.fr

kofler.dot.at 40k

coolminiornot space crusade

Modelbits

princeaugust.ie 2420-1 - assault canons

Dakka Dakka

Bitz Barn - Model Bits

Bitz Barn 436 Ravenwing Assault Cannon

Bitz Barn 794 Catachan Command Squad Plasma Gun

Bitz Barn 7787 Space Marine Weapons Pack Missile Launcher

 

 

Paint

Reaper - $185 for 54 paints.

Privateer Press Formula P3 Paints

Testors

Citadel Paints

Tamiya

bolterandchainsword Space Marine Painter

 

 

 

Other Playing Piece Options

With a little bit of imagination, just about anything can be used to represent your Space Marines and Aliens.  Toy soldiers, even cowboys and Indians, of different colors will work fine and you can even use Monopoly Game Pieces. 

 

 

Paper chits (flat cardboard game pieces) with drawings of your figures will work, but can be difficult to move around unless they are thick enough to easily pick up. 

 

 

Here are the full size icons used in one of the VASSAL modules.  These, or something similar can be used on paper discs or plastic chips to represent various marines and aliens.

 

 

Standup cardboard or plastic cards with binder clip bases are a fine and economical step up from paper chits.  A medium 1 1/4" binder clip is just a tad too big to fit perfectly within a single game square.  But it's close enough if you don't have small 3/4" binder clips.

 

 

You can also glue your paper figures to a coin, model base or another piece of cardboard. 

 

PaperCraft Links:

starshipmodeler paper How to Papercraft Models

jas-ta.deviantart Space Marines, Eldar, vehicles

depositfiles l072eimma Ultramarine

depositfiles ta8jwnvvw Space Wolves

depositfiles otev9ud7n Dark Angels

depositfiles l3w6zcimn Blood Angels

depositfiles 0hoq3nump Black Templars

depositfiles a8k5kv4d3 Space Marine flats

depositfiles fuszkk78g Chaos Marine flats

depositfiles 2vdtdr1e6 Space marine

depositfiles e2c0luaty Grey Knights

depositfiles zubil0s03 Iron Warriors

depositfiles 3vqpah83l Salamanders

depositfiles tnk54zz4q Bases

depositfiles g59hl4y42 Terminators

depositfiles mddktvgar Tyranid flats

depositfiles 4di9cyndq Death Corps of Kreig

depositfiles 278ny38pl Chaos Defiler

Star Wars figures in "Wizards of the Coast" scale (34mm?)

4shared XGfS-b2w 28mm Space Marine figure; Not flat

papermodelers whole-bunch-o-40k-goodness Many 40k Templates

 

 

Lego Marines and Aliens

The 28mm Heroic scale used by Warhammer figures is off to begin with, but Lego scale is even more off.  That said, Lego Minifigs can make really fun and versatile game pieces.  See our Mini Castle Page for a scale calculator and scale charts. 

 

Note that a StarQuest square is exactly 3 Lego studs wide, so a 3x2 or 2x2 plate will make a fine base for a Lego Minifig.  You can also glue a 1x2 plate to a miniature base, 1 inch game chip, washer, US 5₵ nickel, etc. and attach your Lego minifig to that.  Minifig Stands are also available in Australia and in the US.  Lego also has "official" minifig stands (Minifig Stand, Hockey Stand).  Also note that different colored plates can be used both as a minifig stand and as an identifier for which squad your minifig is in.

 

 

brickshelf 393350 also see dakkadakka 222203

 

 

Custom Helmets such as these from Arealight can turn any plain minifig into a space warrior. 

 

Brickarms, Sidan minifig and other Lego customizers have weapons for your minifigs and will allow you to outfit your minifigs more realistic looking weapons.

 

You can also modify you Lego minifigs with paint or decals (How To) to create the look you are trying to achieve.  See flickr legodecals for some ideas of close to ready Star Wars and WW2 decals that can be easily modified with Imperial Eagles, rank, unit insignia, skulls, etc.  Then go to MinifigCustomizationNetwork and MinifigCustoms for templates.  Then search for what has already been made (Space Marines, Clones) and start customizing your minifigs.  Paint, sculpting and gluing on Warhammer model bits are also options if you want Lego minifigs that look like they were designed by Games Workshop.

 

 

 

Marines (Clones or Mandalorian Warriors or Space Marine).  Many of the Knight and Space minifigs will work fine for Space Marines.

 

 

Lego Android and possible Dreadnought

 

 

Plate, Modified 1 x 2 with 1 Stud (Jumper) 3794 1
Plate, Modified 1 x 1 with Clip Light - Type 2 (thick ring) 4081b 1
Plate, Modified 1 x 2 with Arm Up (5mm) 88072 or (6mm) 4623 2
Plate, Modified 1 x 2 with Handle on Side - Type 1 (free ends) 2540 5
Tile, Modified 1 x 1 with Clip 2555 1
Torso Mechanical, Battle Droid 30375 1
Arm Mechanical, Battle Droid 30377 8
Lever Small Base with Lever 298c05 2
  Lever Small 4593  
  Lever Small Base 4592  
   
Guns:  
Minifig, Utensil Binoculars Town 30162 2
Minifig Gun Revolver/Minifig Weapon Gun, Pistol Revolver 30132 2
   
Base:  
Brick Specialty 2 x 2 Round 3941 1

There are many ways to assemble a Star Wars Droideka Destroyer Droid from Lego parts and you can always purchase an official Lego Droideka.  This doesn't really mirror the original StarQuest Dreadnought, but it fits in well with a Lego Star Wars version of StarQuest.

 

Dreadnoughts can be made out of all kinds of bricks and plates.  A Clone Walker is an easy base to work with and can be had for almost nothing since these sets were bought out and horded by the many Clone Army builders who were stockpiling the clones and have piles of walkers to unload.

 

 

Lego Genestealers (Lord Greivious, Alien, Frenzy) are difficult to pull off, as the Genesealers are a step up from the Xenomorphs seen in the movie Aliens. 

 

These alien nightmares were horrible creations that tapped into the deepest and darkest parts of the human psyche and combines many of the things that cause great fear in all of us.  These bug like creatures climbed on the ceilings and hid in dark spaces, with sharp claws that can rip through metal and mouths full of long razor sharp teeth dripping with acid drool.  You can't hurt or kill them because they are covered in armor and will bleed acid on you if you shot them; you can't outrun them as they are faster than you; and you can't hide because they can smell you and tear through anything you may seek refuge in.  And as deadly and immortal as they are, they seek not to kill you quickly, but have their young slowly feed and mutilate on you from the inside out.  Legos are just too cute to pull this off.

 

 

Troll (dreadnought size), Orcs and Gretchen

 

Chaos Marines can be made from many different Knight minifigs as is, or customized as you like.

 

shop.lego 853301 - here we have a two UltraMarines, an Orc, a Gretchen and an Android all in one pack!

 

Lego Links:

Brickarms - Weapons, gear and customs

minifigworld Weapons

Brick Link - possible marines, orcs and genestealers.  Weapons, assault cannon

Brick Forge Halo helmets (Space Marine Helmet), body armor

http://www.arealightcustoms.com Custom Printed Star Wars Helmets and other gear

mmcb Custom  Lego Clothing and holsters

brickshelf 47467 - Resin cast Space Marine Armor

brickshelf 293592 Orc Decals

photobucket xv.jpg Marine Decal

brickshelf 155133 Marine Decal

minifigcustoms 5450 Orc Decal

brickwars-sets  Star Wars Sets

Starwars.lego.com Star Wars Lego Site

heroica.lego.com Heroica Lego Site

findmybrick Lego store

brickquest  Briquest - Heroquest Lego style

Teardown.se 434 Article on Space Hulk and Lego Genestealers

flickr jerac  brickshelf 163941 Well done Lego Space Marines and Orc, with dreadnoughts and vehicles.  Scale is larger than minifig scale

brothers-brick mini-hellfire-dreadnought  brothers-brick.com micro-warhammer-40k-diorama Micro scale Space Marine Dreadnought

fiveprime lego,marine Tags for marine and Lego

 

 

Mega Bloks

This Canadian copy of Lego, and other Lego compatible brick systems are available worldwide for a fraction of the cost of Lego merchandise.

 

Some of the Mega Blok figures look nice and are very economical when compared to Games Workshop miniatures or Legos.  Some of these, such as the Halo and Dragon Universe series, are larger in scale than Lego minifigs, which are in turn larger in scale than the Games Workshop 28mm miniatures.  You need to scale up your gameboard if you want these toys to "fit".

 

 

Game Boards

These are can be easily printed out on card stock and/or glued to plastic or board sheets.

 

Smaller boards and corridors can be used to breakup the 4 original game boards and make more interesting environments to explore and fight in.  Here are what the Eldar Attack and Dreadnought Expansion sets provided:

 

Here is an example of a mission layout with 4 StartQuest game boards and a smaller gameboard from the Eldar Quest expansion.

 

 

Custom

With a minimal effort (depending on the level of quality you are shooting for), you can create your own starcraft maps.  You can also download scans of the "official" game boards and print them out to recreate an "official" game environment.

 

forumfree.it 1249312521.jpg  starquest.forumfree.it 41581376  starquest.forumfree.it 34647851

 

Here are some custom gameboards made by a StarQuest player.

 

d'Usagi3 292 French Site

 

Thick Walls

Some players have modified their maps so that the walls take up the space of entire game spaces.  This makes the walls stand out more without them crowding rooms.

 

The boards show here are from a Vassal Engine module (Download  Discussion)

 

Incubation_Forum t95 - converting maps

 

 

3D Gameboards

Three dimensional game boards are even used by some Starquest and Space Hulk players.  This can add a whole new dimension to your game play.  See hirstarts.com/molds/moldssci.html

 

The_Ammobunker 7349062  The_Ammobunker 7349062/5 3D Styrofoam boards

 

Castle Kits

 

Hirst Arts Fantasy Architecture Inc

 

creativegamescapes.dreamhosters.com

 

teamsnakeeyes.blogspot.com/2011/02/raffle-sin-of-alacrity-modular-space.html

 

vitruvianzeke.com/ProjectHulk/ProjectHulk.html  This one uses magnetized blocks

 

akozz-wh40k.blogspot.com/2009/09/space-hulk-terrain-shops-review.html

 

parasiticstudios.com/gallery74.htm

 

hirstarts.com/molds/moldssci.html - 3D Plaster moulds

spacehulk.beckerf.de/html/3d-spacehulk.html - 3D DIY gameboard

worldworksgames.com 3D terrain

mazeforge.com Wood

jakestabletop starship - Foam Core Star Wars Miniature Game

 

 

Lego

You can  do a lot with Lego.

 

Legos can be use to create all sorts of terrain.  Spacecraft playscapes can be simple  or complex and elegant. 

 

Brickquest uses modular rooms and corridors similar to Space Hulk.  The 4x4 Lego scaled spaces are larger than the 1 inch StarQuest gameboard spaces, by about 33%.  So you will need a larger play surface for a comparable gameboard, while it will be somewhat easier to move and position your minfigs and/or miniatures. 

 

   

Lego already has a game line similar to HeroQuest and uses a smaller scale with microfigs.  This scale would allow for a more play area on a given table top while making gameplay more difficult.  But if you are concerned about miniature detail, these microfigs can be purchased for very little.

 

Halo the board game uses a 3D setup that looks like large Legos. 

 

brikwars 6053  Lego Space Station

 

 

Print Your Own Boards

There are several companies that sell paper terrain for wargaming or the files to print your own.  And things have gotten pretty fancy over the last few decades now that people own computers and printers.  You can print your own boards and glue them to foam boards for very professional results.

 

Fat Dragon Games

 

Space Base (1inch) BUNDLE

 

World Works Games

 

Stones Edges

 

community.wizards Death_Star_3d_maps

paulsstarwarsminiatures 3d-death-star-imperial-base-continues

 

germy.co.uk/papermodels.html - Free downloads of buildings

germy.co.uk fprp 25mm Science Fiction Floor Plans

 

Ye Olde Inn

imperiumbattles.com/SCAccessPage.html - Brandy's Lament crashed Spaceship game board

 

 

Tile/Map Editors:

Space-hulk-arsenal Space Hulk Pieces and Space Hulk Editor

warseer.com 217976  TileSystem 3.0.6 and lastest Space Hulk tileset

shawnriordan tilesystem.htm  Tile System Version 3.04; Doom Tileset

wizards 20061121t  Dungeon Tile Mapper

d'Usagi3 633  MapEditor pack by Cyril Grima - French, uses extra boards shown above

Battlemat heaven - Poster Razor

michaton  MapEditor including packs for:

 

 

Other Gameboards:

 

 

Other Related Gameboard Links:

incompetech Custom Hexagonal printouts; also allows you to print our square and circular gridsss

oldscratch.smackwell.com 1204914595  Cleaned boarders for StarQuest Gameboards

Home Brew 3 rd edition Space Hulk Tiles 

the-lost-and-the-damned td6188813 Space Pirate Ship

community.wizards 20567445 Star Wars Maps - Mos Eisley Meltdown

 

Daves Games - buildings for WH 40K

Miniature Scenery  - buildings for WH 40K

 

warchestuk bespoke-space-hulk-boards Custom Wood Space Hulk 3D map

 

Dwarven Forge  Sci-Fi Passage Set

JR Miniatures Resin Buildings
ainstycastings.co.uk - Resin Scenics

 

the-lost-and-the-damned td5893696 Ladders and Levels

 

 

Walls and Doors

Being able to open and close doors adds a level of suspense when you are clearing rooms.  You can't just lob a grenade into an adjacent room then run is and shoot everything when the door is closed.  You have to walk up to the door and open it or in some cases bust through it first and then who knows what is going to jump out at you from the other side!

 

Spacecraft Doors

 

You get 4 walls and 24 doors with the StarQuest set.

These can be opened by Space Marines and open and closed by the alien forces

 

 

Bulkhead Doors

 

These heavy duty doors must be attacked in order for breach forces to pass through them.  They have an armor level of 4, so you must roll higher than 4 with a ranged or hand to hand attack to destroy them.  These come with the Mission Dreadnought Set.

 

 

Airlocks

 

You get three airlock doors and 3 docking boards with the StarQuest set.  These aren't really necessary, but it's fun to line up your squad, dock, open the airlocks and yell "GO GO GO!"  And then rush in with your attack force.  The docking station is also where your team needs to go before the Alien team runs out of Alien Encounter cards as anyone left on the Space Hulk after that time is lost.

 

 

Eldar Psychic Walls

 

The Force Wall and Psychic Screen are used by Eldar to stop range weapons or to enter a space hulk.  Rules and game pieces for these are found in the Eldar Attack expansion set.

 

 

Custom Doors

 

You can print or draw doors on card stock or plastic and apply a base.  A binder clip (medium 1 1/4" shown) makes an easy to find reusable base for you door.  Easy.  Commercial propose made Card Stands or Game Stands are also available and are a little more elegant than a binder clip or tape and cardboard.

 

 

Door Links:

makeprojects Shrink-Film-Gaming-Minis

greathallgames OtherParts.htm

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the-lost-and-the-damned Extra-SpaceHulk-Doors Doors

fatdragongames fdg0092

 

 

Game Cards

StarQuest and it's expansions came with several game cards.  This are pretty important for proper game play.

 

StarQuest

StarQuest came with:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Eldar Attack

Eldar Attack Came with:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mission Dreadnought

This expansion didn't come with any game cards

 

 

Custom

johnliu.net/spacecrusade-resource/2011/2/15/space-crusade-resources-reloaded.html

 

These cards designed by Mikael Brodu makes a pretty nice single sided English set.  It is compete with cards for three other Space Marine squads (Raven Guard, Salamanders, Grey Knights).

Sample Jpeg 

StarQuest Set 

Elder Attack Set

French Versions

 

 

ArtsCow and other printing services will be happy to print out professional quality cards for you.

boardgamegeek artscow-pictorial-how-to-guide-to-making-a-deck-for a game

 

 

Blips and Reinforcement Tokens

This adds a level of unknown to the game.  Blips allow the Space Marine player to be aware of "life forms" on board the ship, much like using the scanners in the movie Aliens.  Knowing that there are 5 "things" on the other side of a wall and that they are moving towards you can make life very interesting.  In StarQuest, small double sided squares are used to represent the position of "Blips" on the ship.  The blips can be a small Gretchen, a genestealer, a dreadnought, or even just a decoy!  Once a play gets in line of sight of a "Blip" the identity of the blip is revealed and game play gets interesting.

 

StarQuest

StarQuest came with:

 

Note that the reinforcement tokens some in three types.  The Green ones represent the Green plastic Orcs.  The Blue represents the Blue plastic Chaos warriors.  The grey ones represent the Gray plastic Dreadnought and Androids.  Flip the reinforcement token over and will have an alien of that type.

 

The blips all look the same, so as to hide the indentity of what it might be.

 

 

The Blips include:

 

The Reinforcements include:

 

 

Eldar Attack

Eldar Attack came with:

 

 

The Blips include:

 

 

Mission Dreadnought

Mission Dreadnought came with:

 

 

The Blips include:

 

The Reinforcements include:

 

 

Custom

With a little imagination and agreement on rules, you can create all sorts of Blips and Reinforcements.

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the-lost-and-the-damned.664610.n2.nabble.com/Space-Crusade-The-Rise-of-Chaos-td5934242.html

 

 

DIY tokens can be easily formatted on a templated document and printed on card stock.  You can also print out your tokens on regular or self adhesive (sticker) paper and affix them to the back of plastic chips or bottle caps.  Flip the chip or cap over, and the hidden alien is revealed.  The bottle caps can even be spray painted red to look like red blips.  If you have the option to twist off your bottle caps, this prevents the cap from getting deformed by the bottle opener.  Plastic chips stack better.

 

 

Deck of Card and Tokens

If you are looking for even less token hassle, you can use blank tokens (plastic chips, bottle caps, pebbles, beans etc.) to mark alien character location and then use a deck of cards with the aliens on them.  To use this method of play, simply, draw a card and then replace the token with a figure or chit once a token enters the line of sight of a player.

 

And if you don't want to make special cards, you can use a regular (or pinochle) deck and a chart that shows what each card represents in the game.

 

Regular Deck with Jokers

  
Card Suit Alien Points  
Joker Black Dreadnought 25  
Joker Red Chaos Commander 10  
A Spades Android 10  
A Hearts Android 10  
A Clover Android 10  
A Diamonds Android 10  
K Spades Chaos Hvy Wpn 10  
K Hearts Chaos Marine 5  
K Clover Chaos Marine 5  
K Diamonds Chaos Marine 5  
Q or J Any Orc 3  
# Any Gretchen 2  

 

In the example chart above, you will have way too many Gretchen (36) than the original game intended.  So you will need to:

 

Or

 

Or

 

 

 

Regular Deck

  
Card Suit Alien Points  
A Spades Dreadnought 25  
A Hearts Chaos Commander 10  
A Clover Chaos Hvy Wpn 10  
A Diamonds Remove    
K Any Android 10  
Q Any Chaos Marine 5  
J or 10 Any Orc 3  
# Any Gretchen 2  

 

In the example chart above, you will need to remove some cards from your deck or have way too many Gretchen (36) in your stack.  To avoid this, you will need to:

Or

 

Or

 

 

Pinochle or Double Deck
Card Suit Alien Points
A Spades Dreadnought 25
A Hearts Android 10
A Clover Android 10
K Spades Chaos Commander 10
K Hearts Chaos Hvy Wpn 10
K Clover Chaos Marine 5
K Diamonds Chaos Marine 5
Q Any Orc 3
J or 10 Gretchen Gretchen 2

 

For the Pinochle example above, you will need to perform the following for a "stock" StarQuest mix of aliens:

 

 

You can of course create different tables for different scenarios.  Examples include:

Orc Invasion
Card Suit Alien Points Total
A Spades Orc Dreadnought 25 1
A, K, Q, J Any (not A/Spades) Orc 3 15
# Any Gretchen 2 36
         

Necron Hulk
Card Suit Alien Points Total
A Any Dreadnought 25 4
K, Q, J,10 Any Androids 10 16
# Any Decoy 0 32
         

Chaos Ship 1
Card Suit Alien Points Total
A Spades Chaos Dreadnought 25 1
A Hearts Chaos Commander 10 1
A Clover or Diamonds Chaos Hvy Wpn 10 2
K, Q Any Chaos Marine 5 8
J, # Any Decoy Sprit 0 36
         

Chaos Ship 2
Card Suit Alien Points Total
A Spades Chaos Dreadnought 25 1
A Hearts Chaos Commander 10 1
A Clover or Diamonds Chaos Veteran
(play like Commander)		 10 2
K Any Chaos Hvy Wpn 10 4
Q, J Any Chaos Marine 5 8
# Any Decoy Sprit 0 36

 

 

Rank and Honor Tokens

Increasing your commander's rank has real game benefits as you are able to draw more game cards the higher you climb in rank.  The badges tokens are really unnecessary and can be replaced with a notepad.

 

 

Space Marine Rank and Honor Badges

Rank determines the number of Order Cards you receive at the beginning of your game.  If you win a campaign, you are promoted to the next rank.

 

 

 

Honor Badges (actually "Honour Badges" as it this was a UK game) allow for more Equipment Cards at the beginning of each mission.

 

Honor Badge Table

Honor Badges Equipment Cards
None Four
One Five
Two Six
Three Seven
Four Eight

 

Four Honor Badges can be turned in to move up one rank (but not to Captain Senioris).

 

Space Marine Combat Effectiveness Table

Points Scored Award
10 or less You have done very badly.  In an attempt to redeem yourself you re-enter the Alien spacecraft on your won.  You are killed by die gloriously.  In your next game you must start off with a new Sergeant and no Honor badges.
11-30 An acceptable performance.  You are awarded one Honor badge.
31-50 A commendable performance.  You are awarded two Honor badges.
51 or more A heroic performance.  You are awarded three honor badges.

If you win the game you are automatically promoted one rank.

 

This is from the Combat Effectiveness Table on the back cover of the StartQuest Mission booklet.

 

 

Alien Rank and Marks of Chaos

Alien rank and Marks of Chaos work the same way as Space Marine rank and honor.

 

Alien Rank

 

Marks of Chaos

 

Marks of Chaos Table

Marks of Chaos Extra Reinforcement Tokens
None None
One One
Two Two
Three Three
Four Four

 

Alien Combat Effectiveness Table

Points Scored Award
29 or less You have done very badly.  The powers of Chaos are displeased with you and transform you into a Chaos Spawn.  In the next game you must start off with a Chaos Renegade.
30-60 An acceptable performance.  You are awarded one Mark of Chaos.
61-80 A commendable performance.  You are awarded two Marks of Chaos.
81 or more A heroic performance.  You are awarded three Marks of Chaos.

If you win the game you are automatically promoted one rank.

 

This is from the Combat Effectiveness Table on the back cover of the StartQuest Mission booklet.

 

 

Eldar Honor

Eldar don't have rank or medals.  They instead gain recognition when they prove their bravery.  As their recognition increases, they gain skills and are presented ancestral weapons from their warlock.

 

  Equipment Cards Exarch Cards Order Cards
Avenger 4 5 1
Executioner 4 6 1
Dark Stalker 5 6 2
Nemesis 5 7 2
Avatar 6 7 3

 

Once an Exarch has become known as an Avatar, he can progress no further.  If he gains any more recognition he must leave to join one of the higher spiritual groups or follow one of the other Warrior paths.  At this point, your Exarch must leave the game and you must begin with a new Avenger Exarch.

 

Eldar Combat Effectiveness Table

Points Scored Award
10 Warrior Squad  
25 or less You have disappointed your ancestors and disgraced yourself.  you must abandon the Path of the Warrior and commit yourself toa less demanding Path.  In your next game you must start off with a new Avenger Exarch.
26-40 A brave performance but you have not impressed your ancestors.  you must do better on your next mission.
41-60 An impressive performance  the soul gems sing your praises.  You gain one level of recognition.
61 or more A momentous victory for the Eldar race.  You gain 2 levels of recognition.
   
Points Scored Award
5 Warrior Squad  
15 or less You have disappointed your ancestors and disgraced yourself.  you must abandon the Path of the Warrior and commit yourself toa less demanding Path.  In your next game you must start off with a new Avenger Exarch.
16-30 A brave performance but you have not impressed your ancestors.  you must do better on your next mission.
31-50 An impressive performance  the soul gems sing your praises.  You gain one level of recognition.
51 or more A momentous victory for the Eldar race.  You gain 2 levels of recognition.

 

 

Objective Tokens

 

These are used at the end of the mission for positive reinforcement and to help tally up your score.

 

 

Scanners

StarQuest has these cheesy plastic scanners that allow you to keep score.  These can be replaced with a piece of paper and 6 sided regular dice to keep track of your commander's hip points.  These plastic panels do have special slots for your rank and honor badges.

 

A control board such as the one above is a little more practical and easier to store than the scanner that comes with the game.  These are in French, but ones in you language of choice would be easy to fabricate.

 

 

Custom Rank and Medal Tokens

If you have lost some of your rank and medal tokens, you can easily print out new ones on card stock.  You can also just write or draw on generic poker chips to create more "fun" play pieces to work with during the game.

 

 

You can use simple plain plastic chips to represent Honor badges and Marks of Chaos.  And you can of course get as fancy as you like by writing numbers on the chips or gluing on images of medals and such.  More details on custom tokens can be found at boardgamegeek 507240 and boardgamegeek 466460.

 

 

 

Dice

You have to have dice to play this game.  Included are 6 special dice.  Three are red and three are white.  The whites have a "1" on a single side and a "2" on a single side, while the other sides have a target with a "0" to represent a miss.  The red ones have a "1" on a single side and a "2" on a single side like the white ones as well as "3" on a single side, while the other sides have a target with a "0" to represent a miss.  The red dice are more likely to produce a hit and is able to hit with a 3.

 

 

If you lost your dice, have no fear.  You can use regular dice and ignore the 4, 5 and 6s for red rolls and 3, 4, 5 and 6s for while rolls.  This is also called D6-4 and D6-3 in old D&D terms.  You simply subtract 4 from while throws and 3 from red throws.

 

 

Or, you can take a white and red marker and "black out" the higher numbers on the dice sides you aren't using.  If you are using gaming dice that require filling in the numbers with crayon, you can use the same color crayon as the dice to "black out" the extra numbers and use a contrasting colored crayon to make the numbers you plan on using stand out. 

 

 

Paper dice are an economical way of making custom dice.  This has already been done for Doom Dice and other unique dice.

 

 

If you are somewhat anal retentive, you can print out stickers to cover the sides of your dice.

 

 

If you are a true DIY projectionist, you can drill out dice and apply press fit laminated stickers that have been punched to the right size.  See boardgamegeek 529328 for details.

 

 

dicecreator. open-source-dice-making shows you how to make custom printed dice.

 

 

Lego Dice are an option if you are going for the Lego look.   See brickprinter for custom engraved tiles.

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And if you are a lazy perfectionist, you can purchase Space Crusade or StarQuest dice online or have them custom made by someone like:

 

 

Links

General

Boardgame Geek - Space Crusade

Wikipedia - Space_Crusade

Unboxed Space Crusade  Board Game Blog

lillepind.dk/crusade/expansions.php - dead link

John Liu - spacecrusade - Downloads

Space Crusade France  French instructions and White Dwarf expansions.

General Freyberg'sBattle Group Site info on Imperium Battles and Space Crusade

GameHobby.net Space Hulk & Tyranid Attack Index+Space Crusade & Advanced Crusade Index

 

Headless Hollow Game Sheets

the-lost-and-the-damned td5800312 Expansion Downloads

Heroscribe Icons - useful for making mission maps

star-quest.de Dead; German web.archive

 

 

Expanded Rules

the-lost-and-the-damned td5934242 Chaos Rules

Fantasy Flight Games 19 Doom Rules

Space_Hulk_Bible_1st_edtion Space Hulk Rules

John Wheldon  Space Hulk Solo Rules - including rules and other downloads

actioncom/chars.html Dead link; German web.archive Chaos Terminator Cards, alien event cards, blips

 

Rules Crusade - Skirmish style wargame based on 40K/Necromunda/Gorka Morka/Space Hulk/Mordheim based on Space Crusade

 

Starquest On Line Jimdo  Lot of downloads, Rules, Cards - Italian

 

actioncom2 StarQuest-Ressource-Center Weapons List - German

actioncom2 Chaos-Expansion-Pack Chaos Cards, Alien Cards, Random stuff - German

actioncom2 Sororitas-Sisters-of-Battle  Sororitas-Sisters-of-Battle - German

actioncom2 Tyranieden-&-Symbionten Tyran - German

actioncom2 TAU-&-KROOT  Tau - German

actioncom2 Storm-of-Khorne Storm of Khorne - German

actioncom2 Voyage-Beyond-Expansion SCGAME.htmlVoyage-Beyond - German

actioncom2 Eldar Eldar - German

actioncom2 Dark_Eldar Dark Eldar - German

actioncom2 Necron Necron - German

actioncom2 Double-Expansionpack Ultramarines, Black Legion, Legion of Damned - German

 

 

Le site d'Usagi33

d'Usagi3 102 Casus Belli Space Crusade Scenarios - French

 

d'Usagi3 598 Librarian Cards - English

d'Usagi3 606 Librarian Cards - French

d'Usagi3 607 Rules of Veteran Marines - French

d'Usagi3 560 Advance Space Crusade Rules - French

d'Usagi3 85 Official translations of extensions that appeared in White Dwarf for Space Crusade, Blips - French

d'Usagi3 74 Eldar Attack Rules and Cards - French

d'Usagi3 39 Tyranid Attack - French

 

d'Usagi3 175 Space Crusade Orpayan rules (with or without Grid) - French

d'Usagi3 187 Space Marine Rules - French

d'Usagi3 191 Tyranids Rules - French

d'Usagi3 196 Eldar Rules - French

d'Usagi3 608 Imperial Guard Rules - French

d'Usagi3 498 Junker Cards - French

d'Usagi3 855 Necron Rules and low quality Cards - French

 

d'Usagi3 13 Space Crusade 2 Rules, Maps, Blips - French

d'Usagi3 82 Sisters of Battle (Adepta Sororitas) Rules and Cards - French

d'Usagi3 83 Tau Rules and Cards - French

d'Usagi3 84 Codex Space Crusade, version 1.3-French

d'Usagi3 86 Advanced Space Crusade Rules, Maps and everything - French

d'Usagi3 87 Solo Rules - French

d'Usagi3 88 Combined Rules - French

d'Usagi3 96 Imperial Guard Rules and Cards - French

d'Usagi3 97 Squat Rules and Cards - French

d'Usagi3 92 6 Alien Event Cards - French

 

 

Game Cards

oldscratch 1204914594/20

starquest.jimdo Orc Cards

 

gameshive. sc-resources.htmtm WD good scans of cards

imageshack spacecrusaderedesignhom.jpg

the-lost-and-the-damned 6018853.html Overwatch Cards

the-lost-and-the-damned. 5834742.html German Terminator Cards

the-lost-and-the-damned 6203817.html Event Cards

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trentdavis.net  HeroQuest Card Creator

 

 

Info Cards

languedeserpent.free.fr panneau-de-controle-pour-croisiere-spatiale - Control Cards - French

boardgamegeek card-redesign-and-3-homebrew-marine-chapters  picasaweb - Marine weapons - French

 

 

 

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