Space Crusade - Definition

Space Crusade is a board game produced by Milton Bradley in conjunction with Games Workshop and was first made in 1990. While produced in the UK and available in some other countries including Australia it was not ever sold in North America. In some countries it is known as Star Quest.

It uses many of the concepts of the Games Workshop Space Hulk and Warhammer 40,000 games but at a much simpler level of game play.

The Game Itself

The game is designed to be played with 2 to 4 players. One player takes the role of Chaos, all the aliens and monsters on the space hulk which were a mixture of Chaos, Orks and other evil aliens from Warhammer 40,000. Each of the other players controls a squad of 5 Space Marines in standard power armour. The minatures are not of the same high standard that minaturer gamers normally expect from companies like Games Workshop, but are of much better quality than normally found in boxed board games.

Contents of the Box

• 50 Figures
• 32 Blip Tokens
• 12 Rank Badges
• 6 Honour Badges
• 1 Alien Control Panel
• 24 Doors
• 6 Combat Dice
• 3 Marine Reference Charts
• 32 Reinforcement Counters
• 1 Primary Mission Token
• 1 Secondary Mission Token
• 4 Marks of Chaos
• 4 Piece Gameboard with Walls
• 3 Marine Landing Docks with Airlocks (extra boad bits where the pace marines start)
• 3 Commander Scanners with Slides
• 64 Alien Event Cards
• Rules Book
• 24 page Mission Manual
• Advanced Rules Book

Expansion Games & Sequel

Eldar Attack

A boxed expansion set that introduced Eldar with special abilities including psychic powers.

• 10 Figures (1 Eldar Exarch & 9 Warriors)
• 16 Weapons - for use on figures
  • 9 Shuriken Catapults
  • 2 Las-Cannons
  • 2 Shuriken Cannons
  • 2 Missile Launchers
  • 1 Shuriken Pistol
• 1 Force Wall
• 1 Psychic Screen
• 12 Equipment Cards
• 10 Exarch Skill and Equipment Cards
• 4 Order Cards
• 22 Alien Event Cards
• 1 Gameboard Section
• 8 Blip Tokens
• Reference Chart

Operation Dreadnaught

A boxed expansion set

• 12 Figures
• 6 Space Marines
• 4 Androids
• 2 Dreadnoughts
• 3 Dreadnought Heavy Weapons
• 3 Dreadnought Extra-Heavy Weapons
• 3 Tarantula Mobile Support Weapons
• 3 Tarantula Control Consoles
• 9 Extra-Heavy Marine Weapons
• 6 Bolters
• 6 Backpacks
• 6 Bulkhead Doors
• 1 Marine Reference Chart
• 2 Corridors
• 2 walls
• 1 Dreadnought Factory Gameboard
• 2 Combat Dice
• 8 Blip Tokens
• 3 Clips
• 3 Bases

White Dwarf

• White Dwarf 134 February 1991 had an article for using Terminators, Space Marine Scouts, Ork Mobs, Tyranids and Genestealer Hybrids in Space Crusade. Players could then use minatures for Warhammer 40,0000 and other related games in Space Crusade.
• White Dwarf 145 had a Space Crusade campaign called Renegade.

Advanced Space Crusade

This game appears to be named similarly to entice Space Crusade players into other games Workshop games. This game is set with Space Marines boarding a Tyranid ship and really has no greater relationship to Space Crusade than any other Warhammer 40,000 game.

External Links

• Description of Space Crusade game (http://members.aol.com/wergames/crusade.htm)