Space Crusade Board Game First Impressions
I don’t usually talk about games I have already played but I’m making a special case for Space Crusade.
One of my faves from my childhood.
SPACE CRUSADE is a cooperative effort between Milton Bradley UK and Games Workshop. It takes the role-playing elements from Milton Bradley’s HEROQUEST and merges them with Game Workshop’s dark vision of the future.
So this has the ‘Simplicity is Genius” tag that so many games fail to use. Yeah, it’s old now but this was released at a time of Warhammer and Dungeons and Dragons. It was easy to make an overly complex game back then and keeping it simple and accessible really worked..
Space Crusade is a 1 vs 3 game where one controls Chaos. Up to 3 players control 3 different squads of Space Marines. It’s very simple, move and fire or fire and move. Dice rolling for combat and a ‘Your Roll vs My Roll’ system for hand-to-hand combat.
The bad guys are trying to stop you from completing a mission. The Marines are moving around the map trying to do whatever they have to do to win.
Above is an area of the board where the bad guys have control, including the awesome, huge Dreadnought. Below you see the Imperial Fists (Yellow) and Blood Angels (Red) controlled by me moving through the map.
Space Crusade Summary
I love Space Crusade but I played this straight after Galaxy Defenders which is brand new and I preferred this (Although I didn’t have a very good experience with that other game.) I preferred it to Heroquest back in the day and I prefer it to most similar today (Either minis games, sci-fi games or Dungeon Crawl games.)
Would love to see a new release of Space Crusade with updated components, cards, scenarios etc Not sure who holds the license or anything but a decent update with 2014 technology would be great.
They did it with Heroquest so it might be possible. Although, it was a bit pricey so as much as I’d like to see it, I probably wouldn’t add it to my collection as an adult.
Jesta ThaRogue
