Description
A cooperative game where the players attempt to clean out an infestation of hostile aliens from a derelict spaceship.
Set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe, players take on the roles of Space Marines pitted against hordes of Genestealers.
Players choose from six different combat teams, each consisting of two Space Marines with different abilities. Each player receives three Action cards for each of his combat teams. After all of the Space Marines have fallen into formation, prepare for the first wave of Genestealers.
Game play is quick and easy to learn. Each game is played over a series of rounds, broken up into phases.
During the Choose Actions Phase, each player must secretly determine which of the following Action cards they wish to play on their Space Marines: Support, Attack, or Move + Activate. You can’t pick the same Action card next round, so choose wisely.
Action resolution keeps all players involved while the overwhelming odds inspire them to work together to survive. The Action Resolution Phase consists of each player revealing and carrying out their chosen Action.
The lowest number card goes first, which means Attacks are resolved after Supports. Support tokens enable Space Marines to re-roll, so make sure to cover your fellow Blood Angels.
The Genestealer Attack Phase happens after all the Actions have been resolved, so hopefully you thinned out the swarms since you have to roll higher than the number of Genestealers in the swarm to successfully defend.
Finally, an Event card is drawn to spawn more alien adversaries.
Once all the Genestealers have emerged from the darkness, its time to move forward, drawing a new location card. And then it’s back into the fight!
Space Hulk Death Angel Solo Playthrough
Space Hulk: Death Angel Review
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SHDA Campaign (for solo play), with XP!
This is a 14 location long campaign, designed for solo play. With adjustments, it can probably be used with 2+ players. Experience points are introduced, along with a customisable story.
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Space Hulk Death Angel Condensed Rules
Version 2.9 of the basic ruleset.
Rules in chronological sequence, with reminders and notes where appropriate to eliminate the need to flip back and forth in the manual for something you remember reading, but can’t recall where you saw it!
No setup instructions (the manual’s got it covered).
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Wolf Guard – A fanmade expansion for SH.DA
Version 1.30 with art
The game still needs some balancing but the teams are already completely playable.
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Space Hulk: Death Angel – Additional FAQ
Space Hulk: Death Angel – Additional FAQ v1.4.
Compiled from the answers from the game designers. Including FAQ from the following expansions:
– Mission Pack 1
– Space Marine Pack 1
– Tyranid Enemy Pack
– Deathwing Space Marine Pack.
No Rights Reserved.
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Death Angel Cards in Detail
An “iconography study” explaining the layout and icons used on all cards types, and how to read and understand them. v2.0 is now 6 pages.
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Raven’s Fan Expansion #1
Raven’s Fan Expansion #1 — *UPDATE #1*
Includes Orkz, a Warp Demon, two new Terrains, a number of new Locations, Settings cards, Equipment cards, and two Grey Knight Marine Teams
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Raven’s Fan Expansion #2
This expansion contains a number of Space Marines for other chapters, the Necrons as an enemy with Locations for a Tomb Ship, and other odds and ends.
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SHDA Compiled Custom Space Marine Teams
This file contains a WIDE variety of custom marine teams with their Marine cards, Action Cards, and Team tokens. It also includes Action Card Summary Sheets for ALL the new marine teams compiled here (both from the BGG forums here, and of my own creation)
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Space Hulk Death Angel rules reformatted for easy reading
The original rules are set in a tiny font against cross-hatched lines, and are hard to read, so I reformatted them as a two-column Word doc. This new version has a few more pictures, some minor reformatting, and a note on card sleeves.
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Detailed Cardlist for Death Angel
Detailed list of cards in game, by type.
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Space Hulk: Death Angel game flowchart
PDF with rules of the game in flowchart format (fixed couple errors)
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