Space_Hulk_Bible_1st_edtion.pdf

BIBLE

MOVEMENT

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CONTENTS

Background, Introduction & Example Key

GAME BOARD

Map, Sections, Doors and Entry Areas

Ladders and Pitfalls

Crates, Rubble, Air Shafts, Bulkheads

and Disposal Chutes

Lifts, Toxic Canisters and Cryogenic Tanks

TURN SEQUENCE

Command Phase

Action Phase

- Action Points and Action Costs

Section Effects Endphase .

- List of Actions

MOVEMENT

Illegal Moves and Facing

Turning and Blip Movement

Ladders, Pitfalls, Rubble and Air Shafts

BLIPS

Blip Movement and Conversion

Genestealer Entry Points

Ambush and Hybrid Blips

RANGED COMBAT

Targeting: Line of Sight

Targeting: Fire Arc, Sustained Fire

Overwatch

Move and Fire, Multi-level Combat

CLOSE ASSAULT

COMBAT F.A.Q.

WEAPONS

A thru Z List of Weapons

Weapons Chart

PSYCHIC COMBAT

Psykers and Warpspace

Psychic Combat

Psychic Attack Cards

FORCES LISTS

Terminator Forces

Space Marine Forces

Imperial Guard Forces

Eldar Forces: Aspect Warriors, Warlocks & Wrathguard

Eldar Forces: Harlequins

Tyranid Forces

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Operation Objectives: Expand bridgehead to establish jumping-off

point for final assault on command and engine sections of ship; control

communications corridors to hamper alien reinforcements of areas under

attack.

Combat losses have been extremely heavy. Of one-hundred Marines in the

initial forces, twelve remain healthy. Without substantial reinforcements,

further offensive operations are impossible – in fact, I cannot guarantee to

hold the ground we’ve got now.

Force Employed: Remnants of Leigon Asartes Blood Angels Terminator

Company – one-hundred Marines under the command of Brother-Captain

Mentage. (Note that because of proximity to engines, no heavy weapons

were issued.)

If current loss ratio estimates are correct, a Marine will kill 3.8 Genestealers

before dying himself. It is impossible to determine whether this ratio is high

enough, as the number of reserves reinforcement rate of the aliens is

unknown. Thus a war of attrition is extremely uncertain and decidedly

dangerous.

Action:

15.00.05 4 Assault launched. Objectives reached with little or no

opposition. No casualties.

The Marines have been showing their usual degree of compensation and

courage in battle – if anything, they are almost too fanatical in their

persecution of the fight, fiercely unwilling to retreat even in the face of

overwhelming odds. Such an attitude is to be commended under most

circumstances, but with the recent decimation of our forces and the apparent

inexhaus tibility of the enemy’s numbers, each Marine’s death brings us

closer to disaster.

15.10.00 4 Perimeter secured. Purge of areas within perimeter

commenced. Marines using Flamers to burn out alien concentrations.

Minimal casualties.

15.13.0 4 Aliens reported massing on edge of perimeter. Squads diverted

from purge to reinforce pickets. Purge continued at slower pace. Few

additional casualties.

Tactics: Our tactics, splitting the Marines into tactical units of five me – a

Sergeant, a Flamer Marine, and three storm bolter-armed Marines – seem to

be working as well as might be hoped, given the overwhelming numerical

superiority of the enemy, the impossibility of employing heavy weapons and

the extremely difficult combat terrain.

15.15.00 4 Aliens launching counterattack against corridor junction

78/54/23/11; destroying two Squads, breaking through perimeter. Enemy

casualties unknown, presumed heavy.

Storm bolters are reasonably effective against the aliens, assuming that the

Marines can hit his target before it reaches him – a dubious proposition at

best. Marines find it useful to systematically destroy any possible cover,

particularly doors, to increase the fire-corridor. Overwatch fire tactics are

also effective.

15.17.00 4 Marines launch pincer attack from adjacent sectors to seal off

breach.

15.19.35 4 Pincer attack repulsed. Aliens widen breach, infiltrating sectors

78/55/21 and 78/54/22. Marines in sector 78/55/22 encircled.

15.20.00 4 Marines ordered to fall back and establish new defensive line at

78/54/21-78/55/27. Heavy casualties reported during disengagement.

Flamers have proven quite useful in the battle against the aliens, as they can

wipe out a large number of the enemy before he is within attack range.

However, we have only enough flamers to equip each Squad with one, and

the enemy are becoming adept at outflanking the sole flamer and hitting him

from the rear. If more flamers were available – approximately twice as many

as we have now – I believe that the balance would swing to our side.

15.20.43 4 Captain Mentage killed leading break -out attempt from sector

78/55/22. Fifteen Marines lost during break -out; three surv ivors reach

defensive line at 79/55/21.

15.22.30 4 Defensive line established. Heavy pressure along entire front.

Operational reserve (twenty heavily wounded Marines, assorted support staff

and non-essential ship’s personnel) ordered to bolster defensive line.

Quite possibly, the Sensorium is the best weapon at the Marines’ disposal,

allow ing them to determine the location of the enemy before they launch the

inevitable assault. It must be noted, however, that the aliens seem to be

aware of our location at all times.

15.25.00 4 Marines repulse heavy assault along entire line. Casualties

heavy.

Hand-to-hand battle against the monsters is inadvisable. The aliens are

much faster than we are, and, significantly stronger; more often than not,

they are more than a match even for a Marine if full Terminator armor.

15.32.45 4 Reserves arrive at defensive line. Defensive line stabilized.

Marine Casualties: Two officers killed; three missing and presumed

dead. Eight Marines killed; twenty -eight missing and presumed dead;

fourteen support staff and non-essential ship’s personnel killed.

Summary: We are losing. After the initial successes of the invasion, we

dramatically underestimated the fighting skill and numbers of the enemy.

Without reinforcements, we should either admit defeat and withdraw, of

choose much more limited objectives and extend the projected timescale for

the reduction of the vessel. Even that will not guarantee success.

Enemy Casualties: Seventy -two confirmed killed; one-hundred-and-

fifty -three probables.

The Blood Angels Company has been decimated, and is in real danger of

being wiped out in its entirety. To a man, the surviving Marines (myself

included) are extremely loath to give up the fight. Death is, of course,

infinitely preferable to dishonor.

Analysis: The operation was a complete failure. While the objective was

easily reached, Marines were unable to hold, and were annihilated in

counterattack. If not for the prompt and courageous actions of the wounded

Marines and support staff, the assault vessels could easily have been

overrun.

I have reported the situation to High Command, and await further orders.

May the blessing of the Eternal Emperor fall upon you.

//End File//

INTRODUCTION

BACKGROUND

The Genestealers are a race of aliens who seek to

conquer the universe. They travel in huge, ancient,

nearly derelict vessels, commonly known as space

hulks, until they find a suitable planet to ‘colonize.’

A victim of the Stealer truly suffers a fate worse than

death. Injected with the Stealer’s egg, the victim

becomes an unknowing carrier of the Stealer’s DNA

pattern, and his children are born as Genestealers.

These creatures, in turn, infect other humans, until the

entire planet is taken over.

The Emperor of Human Space has recently become

aware of the Stealers’ activities and is taking

immediate steps to isolate and stamp out the attack -

but at a terrible price-the Emperor’s Inquisitors

ruthlessly sterilize tainted planets, wiping out their

populations to the last man, woman, and child.

Though thus far 100% effective in stopping the spread

of the Stealers beyond the infected planets, this

solution is not without its drawbacks. In addition to the

obvious loss of life and resources, if news of the

scorched earth policy spreads, local governments may

naturally become reticent about telling the Imperium

that they have been infiltrated, making the job of

crushing the invasion all that much more difficult.

Therefore, great efforts are being made to search out

the invading vessels and attack and destroy them

before they have a chance to infect any more planets.

Enter the Space Marines.

Space Hulk chronicles the assault upon one of the

giant vessels by a Company of Space Marines from the

Blood Angels Chapter of the Legiones Astartes. One

player takes the part of the Space Marines, the

toughest warriors of the Imperium, and the other plays

the Genestealers, terrible alien invaders from another

galaxy. The fight is to the death.

HOW TO READ EXAMPLES

Example diagrams appear throughout these rules. In the

text, letters are used to refer you to labeled portions of the

diagrams. Movement trails are used to show where

models began its move, or to show spaces the model

passes through, during the action displayed in the

diagram. Pictures of figures show where the models end

up. For example: in the sample diagram below the

Genestealer started in the corner square and moved into

the square below. The straight arrow indicates the

direction in which model has moved. In other diagrams,

curved arrows are used to show that the model turned 90

or 180 .

INTRODUCTION

This volume represents one crazed fan’s attempt to

gather together all of this classic GDW game’s rules.

Inside you will find rules for all types of weapons, game

board features and alternate forces as well as a

thorough examination of the game’s basic rules

through the addition of new diagrams. The text is

drawn mainly from first edition of Space Hulk , its two

expansion sets, Deathwing and Genestealer, and from

Space Hulk Campaigns as well as relevant articles

from White Dwarf and Citadel Journal . There is a fair

amount of embellishment in the wording of the rules,

but I have taken pains to preserve the spirit of the

game.

Key For Example Diagrams

This book also contains forces lists and rules to play

other troops from the Warhammer 40K universe in the

claustrophobic halls of the hulk. This material in

particular draws from a mixture of official and unofficial

sources. You’ll find the Forces section of page 68.

Lastly, DO NOT SELL THIS BOOK! It is intended as a

free resource for fans of this long out of print game.

- editor

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