Space Crusade - The old Warhammer 40k game nobody talks about
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ต.ค. 2020
- Discovering the forgotten pearl Space Crusade that seem to almost never be talked about. A 1990 gateway board game for all the kids who wanted to get in to Warhammer and cool sci-fi games and a direct Warhammer 40k equivalent of HeroQuest. So follow along on this journey as we discover Space Crusade (or Star Quest) for the first time.
🏆 Support me on Patreon: / squidmarminiatures
🖌️ Late pledge squidmar bust and brushes: www.squidmar.com/latepledge
👍 Squidmars website for full list of gear I use: www.squidmar.com/gear
👕 Order Squidmar Merch: teespring.com/stores/squidmar...
🖌️EU/UK hobby store affiliate - Reference code for extra store credit: EMI7383
elementgames.co.uk/paints-hob...
Amazon Affiliate Links to stuff i use(As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases you do after following this link - at no cost to you):
Canon M50 (the cameras i use)
USA: amzn.to/2MWGIN9
UK: amzn.to/2PBlkyT
DE: amzn.to/2PA1Nio
CAN: amzn.to/2MTqaoT
Anycubic i3 Mega (the FDM printer i use)
USA: amzn.to/2FSRDly
UK: amzn.to/2xu0Hsz
DEUTSCHLAND: amzn.to/2JdquvX
CANADA: amzn.to/2YA95CW
HARDER STEENBECK EVOLUTION SILVERLINE (the Airbrush I use)
USA amzn.to/2ZO6HrI
UK amzn.to/2Ll5LGm
GERMANY amzn.to/2LmurOD
CANADA amzn.to/2NGv3S2
Phrozen Sonic Mini (the Resin printer I use):
Worldwide: phrozen3d.com/collections/res...
USA Amazon: amzn.to/2FuFsyl
Phrozen Sonic Mini 4k
Worldwide: phrozen3d.com/products/sonic-...
Emil On
Instagram / ageofsquidmar
facebook / ageofsquidmar
Twitter / ageofsquidmar
Painting miniatures for your warhammer & d&d games. Age of sigmar and warhammer 40k. Space Marines, Space Wolves, Stormcast Eternals, beastclaw raiders, ogor mawtribes, cities of sigmar, chaos space marines, painting scale models, miniature busts! How to paint NMM. How to paint warhammer, how to paint d&D figures. - แนวปฏิบัติและการใช้ชีวิต
Hey Guys! I've sneak started selling a new awesome t-shirt design: teespring.com/stores/squidmarminiatures feel free to check it out :)
Who remembers BattleMasters? That was really fun as well. When I got into WFB I used a lot of those minis.
The title is quite a lie as I played that game when I was 12 with my uncle😂
Great video though.
And I’m only 13 so I legit played it last year
Are you German? The Box is German!?
@@leonatus221 Swedish, got it from a german
do you have a box of Epic 40K (the micro sized 40K) ?
i never get tired of that box art. that marine doing a rambo scream as he unloads on genestealers is just pinnacle 40k.
Weeks ago my mom started a house renovation and found my old copy of Space Crusade, lost decades ago. It is in excellent condition with all its miniatures and components. I almost cried of pure joy.
My mum threw mine in the bin when I was younger because the box looked tatty she said..love my mum but if I hold anything against her it's that haha..love this game it started everything for me lol.
Necrons didn't exist at all back then. Even in the UK version, these were Chaos Androids. This was because they had already appeared, in almost the exact same pose, in an Epic box release previously as Chaos Androids. It wasn't until later that GW would pick them out, make them a separate race and create a full background and mini range for them.
your correct and yet they are the inspiration 'clearly' for necrons (I have both the originals from the set and the new ones)
@Black Dragon - If you are going outside 40K, the Terminator movie (1984) was first. :-)
@Black Dragon This was all before the Ad Mech had been expanded to a full force in 40K. At the time, they were characters in other 40K armies. The androids were robot bodies, that Chaos cultists summoned daemons to posses. They appeared in an Epic boxed set of robots and Stompas.
@@CyberSammael As an aside, androids possessed by Chaos is pretty rad, and is a concept that should be revived by modern 40K. At least in the form of a few models that can be added to a standard Chaos army.
(Admittedly, the lack of blood or carnal pleasure or ability to be affected by disease means most of the Chaos Gods would have little foothold in a robot body. But I think Tzeentch demons would feel right at home.)
Best descision they’ve ever made
Space Crusade and Hero Quest were actually how I got into the hobby all those years ago. I got Hero Quest for Christmas, and my best mate got Space Crusade. Next thing you know, we are collecting armies and playing every Friday and Saturday night.
My childhood, so many houres with the figurines, never played the games though, well, hard for a 8 yold boy. Awake me to the 40k universe, all hail space crusade.
ditto, I still have it in my loft but no idea how it played 😂
It is a pity that Heroquest gets all the limelight. When I was young I never had any interest in 'silly' sword and sorcery fantasy games, but Space Crusade was made for my 13yr old self. Still have my original copy which I repainted and magnetised all the minis to a modern standard 5yrs ago. Looking forward to introducing my nephew to it when he's old enough.
The same here my box is sitting ready for a paint up over Christmas time holidays. My nephew loves going into the loft as I have everything around the room just he is a bit to young for 40K yet so I thought some Space Crusade on Boxing Day might be just his thing.
I got both....Hero Quest and the Space Crusade...and i enjoyed both a lot.....but i lost both in a move
you cant get BROWD SWORDS in space hulk, crusade or whatever..........
"Silly swords and sorcery," not like the future, where they have chainswords and psy-cery. That's much more mature and grown up.
The “advanced versions” were utterly superb. Especially advanced space crusade. Getting to fight your way through the insides of tyranid hive ship. Loved it.
1993, I was 5 years old and my uncle let me play with his copy of Starquest. That cover was burned into my mind so well that I made drawings of it in school without even having a clue what a 'space marine' was. Eventually my parents got me my own copy of the game when I was a bit older (which is still the pride of my collection) and I played it in high school with my friends for days on end. It's what got me into wargaming as a kid and teenager and I still love it to death!
“Nobody wants to talk about”
Snipe and Wib have joined the chat.
Literally the first thing I thought about when I read the title.
Damn I loved Getting space crusade as a kid. That Dreadnought literally got me into 40k. Thanks for inspiring me to take another look at it!
Loved that board game myself. Still have a couple of the models knocking about
I sometimes field that dreadnought in casual 40k games. Just for fun 😂
Quite literally my favourite board game of all time, and what introduced me to 40K all those years ago. I've dragged my battered old copy all over the world with me, and am now playing it with my wife and daughter three decades later.
I had the Commodore 64 version, on cassette tapes. I spent longer waiting for it to load up than I did playing it. And I played it for hours 😂
I had a commodore 64 when I was a kid. Cant believe what we used to enjoy as games back then. Didn't you have to rewind the games?
@@rorybrown5074 yep. And there was often blocks of colours flashing on the screen while it loaded up, sometimes ... And I'm fairly sure I haven't imagined this, there was a sort of whistling noise too? Not to mention the fact that it often wouldn't work and the first you realised it was the clunk of the tape player stopping as the cassette had run out of tape 😂😂 It's like we were born a hundred years ago 😄
I have Atari 800XL. I remember one RPG games that you have to load again when you died or games that you have to load on each chapter. And my cassete reader had broken, It didn't stop when game finished load so I had to sit whole time and wait for exact moment when to stop it.
@@mcborge1 I had it too. It was cool. They called the Genestealers "soulsuckers" which was wierd.
When people complain about loading times today 😂
Die gute, alte Nullzeitkanone! Loved the game as a kid. This, heroquest and the Claymore-Saga brought me to tabletop games when i got older.
Ich hatte die Box auch. Hab allerdings als dummes Kind nie richtig was damit angefangen. Ich hab noch die Figuren und Karten. Die Handbüch zu behalten war schon wegen dem Comedyfaktor ein muss. Ich ärgere mich das ich das ganze mal bis auf einige Sachen entsorgt habe.
Einer der Space Marines hab ich grad wieder gemerkt endete auf dem Base meines Schwarmtyranten. ;3
The fact that you got given this is amazing but when you said it included Mission Dreadnought and Eldar Attack I was flabbergasted. You are one lucky guy. To buy that now is not cheap and not easy to find in really good condition
i bought Space Crusade 1-2 years after Hero Quest...so many good memories!
played this bordgame many many many times when i was young.. last year my brother gave me the bordgame for mine B-Day.. what a blessing this classic!
Nice trip down memory lane. I always think it's funny how even in the 41st millenium, guns still fire bullets with brass shell casings!
My first Warhammer experience - I still have my copy though the box is showing its age. My uncle painted the models for me and I would play with my dad when we saw each other. Fond memories.
Those cards are so awesome looking!
Who remembers BattleMasters? With that huge vinyl hex floor map. It came with quite a bit of stuff
boardgamegeek.com/thread/2291495/battle-masters-fully-painted-and-storage-system-pi
@@nofuxgivens2797 Still got it in my cupboard. Lost all the cards and rulebook, sadly. But the mat, minis, trays and, most importantly, the tower are still there.
@@timtheenchanter6418 You can always reprint the paper parts out...
Say what you want but the 80s were a special kind of cool, stylish AF.
@@johnsloan79 for sure. They had too back then..advertising was tough. No internet searches. You might see boardgame ads on Saturday mornings and in the paper. Auto, beer, cigarettes and toy lines attached to Hollywood shows and movies took it all.
It's odd for me to think that these games have been around for decades and I just got interested a few months ago. How have I not been doing this my whole life?
welcome! enjoy the catch up! I wish I could learn it all again 😁
The important thing is, you're awesome NOW.
Wow that brings back memories.........I had that star quest as a kid. As soon as I seen the thumb nail it brought back the feels
I was lucky enough to hunt down loads of Hero Quest sets and even found a copy of Advanced Space Crusade. These bite sized portions of Games Workshop worlds were always my favorite way to enjoy their games. Now if I could just hunt down friends to play these games with...
Still got Heroquest and Starquest @ Home in good condition, loved to play those games when I was younger
in the 90s we spend each weekend playing it along with watching beavis and buthead and the original star wars trillogi.
damn miss that time
I own this game (here in Italy it was named Star Quest) since I was a kid, back in the early 90s. I love it and, with great pain, I have managed to acquire also the two expansions, both in Italian as well.
It was thank to this game and the concept of "space marines fighting different aliens and evil guys in space" that I fell in love with 40k in the early 2000s, when I first realized (thanks to some friends) that there was a bigger game behind that concept. Needless to say, I have been playing with Ultramarines ever since (just a couple of matches with Space Wolves and Blood Angels to feel what it was like to play with them), because when playing Star Quest they were my favourite chapter ^^.
Thanks for this video ^^.
Space crusade was my introduction to 40k and I was instantly hooked
One of the great parts of the box was the fact that I could use it beside the 2nd edition 40k box with the orcs and space marines. It gave me my first two army's, Orc's and Marines. I don't know what others did but it was my first steps into 40k and I am still playing today tho I will admit I miss the old 40k 2nd edition days.
Brings back memories. Still have Space Crusade and the dreadnought expansion pack along with my HeroQuest with Kellars Keep, Return of the witch King and Ogre Horde expansions. They were good days back then. I suddenly feel old.
My older brother had this in his room, when I was like 8 or 9 years. I always thought its so cool. I miss those times and my brother.
Space Crusade was amazing! I played so much of it when I was younger. The artwork was so cool! I had the base game and the expansions, they were so much fun.
So much memories! We played with all expansion and wrote mission logs on early Windows lap tops while we played.
The German version doesn't even have Space Marines. They are the Galaxy Safe Guard, or GSG, which are responsible for the highest possible level of non violence. Hence the Zero Time Canon (Minigun) , the Black Hole Blaster (plasma? ) and the Holo Thrower (rocket launcher). The Blood Angels got translated to GSG Tiger, etc.
Thx for this man, I couldn't translate the German myself. But this is amazing. 😍
I completely forgot about the stupid names... used to play that a lot a a friend's house.
The Black Hole Blaster sure sounds non-lethal :D
@@jonashenriksson2182 if they die where you can't see it, it doesn't count.
Back home and cracked open my copy again.
Space Marines - GSG / Galaxy Safe Guard
Blood Angels - GSG Tiger
Ultramarines - GSG 19
Imperial Fists - GSG Musketeers
Enemies are all called Chaos Robotlings, mean machine monsters from the warp.
Bolter - Power-Laser
Rocket Launcher - Holo Thrower (creates holographic areas around the robotlings to confuse them)
Minigun - Zero Time Canon (slows enemies down)
Plasma Gun - Black Hole Blaster (They didn't even use a German name for this one, but came up with another English term.) The idea was to transport the robotling to another planet in a parallel universe.
Power Sword - K.O. Sword
Power Fist - Servo Glove
Got my game for my 10th birthday and man, was I proud of it. :)
This got me into Warhammer 40.000. I got it on a flea market for 1 German Mark (0,50 Euros) because it was full of broken miniatures and sand. I loved it.
I remember running into one of the Space Crusade boxes as a kid, one of the early days of December 1990, I was 6 years old. It was that time of the year for us to give my parents ideas for some of the Christmas presents we would like to have under the Christmas tree. I remember sitting down in the Toys alley with the box on my laps checking out the box content and finding it super cool (I was also very much into video games back then so this was just awesome to me). At some point my parents came back to me and I told them how awesome this was, and that this is everything I wanted. My dad looked at it, and had a pretty positive feedback (after all, he was also the one who introduced me to computers and video games). Unfortunately... the box was already open and they convinced me that something could be missing. That was also the only box the supermarket had available. Since the place was very busy, everyone rushing through alleys, kids everywhere, we didn't want to bother the supermarket staff into checking if everything was in there and decided to leave without the box. I remember it like it was yesterday, I think I'll never forget that moment... Fast forward 7 years, 13 years old me enters one of our only local toy shops and find out the store has a new range of products available, Warhammer miniatures! That day, I decided that it was finally time to make up for my missed opportunity, and left the store with a 1997 Edition of the GW Paint Set: 9 paints, 5 marines (incl. 1 sgt) and 2 brushes. And so began my adventure into the Warhammer hobby...
Man I remember that game. Had it for so many years. Eventually went in the bin. There is a company that has sold it for years so should be easy to find.
Loved the video! As someone from the states that has only recently found out about Space Crusade/Starquest, I really feel like we missed out here. Now you have to find a copy and do a video about the game that got me into GW. Battlemasters!
I remember playing that at my cousins house when I was a kid, its what got me hooked on 40k. Great content, looking forward to seeing the painting process!
I had this when I was small, loved it to bits! When I went back to mums to collect it along with my other old childhood toys I found out my step father had thrown it out. I was heartbroken. I also had mission Dreadnought too. The worst bit is he denied it, despite our neighbour watching him take it to the dump 😣
I had this and the dreadnought expansion "back in the day". Didn't know about the Eldar expansion! Thanks for the video, it was nice to see this again 👍
I love your vids thanks for making such great content. It really makes quarantine better every time I get to watch.
Thx so much mate! I'm glad to help :)
i`m 28 and i remember playing both Hero Quest and Space Crusade (star quest) as board games and on the old Amiga Pc from my brother.
I'm from Germany and I got this for Christmas. Never really played the game, but loved to play with the awesome miniatures. Even as a 9 years old I found the descriptions of the weapons to be silly. Years later I started with Warhammer 40K (Space Wolves) me and my friends only played a handful of games but spent a lot of time on painting and building landscapes.
Loved that game. That and Hero Quest was my childhood
Amazing! Looking forward to this. I’ve been meaning to paint up my space crusade set for years!
This vid gave me fond nostalgic memories, This was the box that started it all for me, i remember being 10 and spotting this game in a second hand store for $5 with all the pieces together, no idea what it was at the time but found some cheap craft paints and went ham, no idea how the game worked but boy did i enjoy slapping one thick coat on them and completely messing up the eyes. Shortly after i started collecting lizardmem and when i looked into 40k a few years later and checking out the range i vividly remember thinking “huh, whats this bulky thing, thats not what a dreadnaught looks like” thanks to my first impressions from space crusade. Good times, loving these retro vids
I got this as a christmas present together with Hero Quest in the early 90íes. Until this day, this was the best christmas I ever had.
Still have mine and expansions, plan to play with my kids. I loved this so much, played a great deal with my brother and cousins back in the day.
Usually there is hardly any information of these older kits and often peaces are missing, so if you dont mind please do document your game, with all the peaces, so people can reproduce missing peaces and get idea if they are missing something, since they might be missing the manuals that lists everything and even then you dont know what it might look like. This way older games can be kept intact over the decades and not so many are lost, witch some will with out doubt (house fires etc)
@@Hellsong89 I might do it on instagram
Keep up the great videos, you're doing an amazing job! :)
That game was the entrance into the rabbithole...my first minis painted and still in my display no matter how dilletantly painted, they got a special place in my heart
I loved this, playing this at a mom's friend's house with their son was what got me into 40k all those years ago
I loved this game. I have very fond memories of playing at lunch during primary school in the early 90s. It was definitely my entry way into GW products. The art work in the rules book and the event cards was brilliant. Very thematic and action orientated.
The "beaky" armor of the rogue trader era, was called Mk6 armor, and I loved it. Starquest introduced the new Mk7 model, looking more aggressive. I replaced my Starquest original models with squads of Mk6 rogue trader armor, in squads of 8 members.
I have Spacecrusade and the dreadnaught expansion, and the Sinclair Spectrum game, absolutely love these games. Great vid 👍🏻😁👍🏻
I remember holding this box in the store as a kid, droolin all over it. Cost was well over 100 guilders (50 euro) and I never got it unfortunately..
But I still consider myself lucky as I do own Hero Quest and even today people envy me for having that.
Wonderful! I used to play that as a kid. Thanks for taking me down memory lane...
I have Space Crusade, lord of war and héro Quest ^^ sweet memories
i've been trying to decide which chapter to paint up my marines for literal months, but space crusade was how i go into this hobby in the first place and the fists were always my favourite. i have some yellow to paint
Nice vid. Brings back the memories. I had both Hero and Space and the C64 game. Spent many a hour with Space Crusade.
Very cool stuff. A simpler game like that could almost push me into moving from just building and painting into gaming!
I had this and it was great value because you got so many miniatures including the really cool dreadnoughts which I used playing 40k for years. Still got em in mother’s loft.
Ha, I'm in the middle of painting my space crusade minis now!
Amaaaazing game, was very lucky to be gifted a copy from my oldest friend a couple of years back. One day it will all get painted up and we will play again. A real blast from the past and sooo ahead of its time.
For me Starquest was the beginning of my Games Workshop hobby. I fell in love with the blood angels, long before they had the death company! I just liked their logo, they were red and their commander had this white armor. Really nice! Later on I really liked the first version of the Imperial Guard miniatures. When the officers looked like cuirassiers from the early 1800s. I set up my army that time with some allied Imperial Guard troops. At that time this was legit and not unusual. Unfortunately I did not play Warhammer 40k that often. At that time the internet was not really a thing and finding people in Austria to play with was not that easy. There were no shops too where you could have played the game. But still I have all my miniatures and still not all of them are painted :P
I played this so much when it came out at my after-school!
Loved it, and glad to see space hulk keep it Up!
Great video really enjoyed it from the UK, very much looking forward to seeing where you go with these old school minis. 👍
This was my first GW game and I did not even realise that it was or that there was something like Warhammer or Rogue Trader. It was glorious and I am very sad that I lost it somewhere in the sands of time :(
Can't beat that new squidmar video feeling.
So much character in these old games, great to see some spotlight on them :)
I played this game quite a bit as a kid. Nice to be reminded of it.
Really nice video and I had to lough as this was one of my first GW-Games :) .... Also when I saw the German Box and the German RuleBook (which I still have on the attic ^^) gave me some giggles :D
I remember my brother got this as a christmas present back in the 90's. It came on the heels of us playing Heroquest, which I remember enjoying even if I didn't fully understand all the rules. But when I saw the figurines/game pieces in Star Quest I was blown away by it all. I didn't know what a Blood Angel, Ultramarine or Imperial fist was was but I was Intrigued and excited at the prospect of playing it... but we just never did. I was quite young at the time, but the complexity of it all seemed to prevent my older brothers from wanting to initiate a game with me.
It was really popular in Germany. Brought many to the hobby. Those were actually the first minis I ever painted at age of ten
Hi from Germany.
We actually still have Starquest at home including the expansion
Man this is awesome. Nostalgic AF
Nice, that you've the german box. It was my first introduction to the universe, round about 12 years before getting to know the real deal.
A friend of mine and me had a deal, he was to wish hero quest for christmas and me starquest. We'll in the end we only got to know star quest
Me and my brother still have this from the 90s! :)
Had Hero Quest AND Space Crusade. Loved them both. They are what got me into fantasy/sci-fi stuff. Also had both computer games.
Nice retrospective! I love the graphic design of the tiles, doors and walls!
My next door neighbor had this and I was soo jealous as a kid. We played it all the time.I've tried finding a complete set here in NZ but have never been lucky enough.
I had these games and they were my gateway through epic to 40k and here I am 30years later still playing waaaagh!
Achja, die guten alten Neunziger, hab das Spiel immer noch, macht auch heute noch genauso Spaß :D
I still have it and played it last weekend with my kids. They loved it.
I had Space Crusade on my Amiga 500 as a kid. I played it a bunch, Had no idea what I was doing but I still enjoyed it. That was my first introduction to Warhammer, Though I did nto realise it untill many years later.
Loved this as a kid. Great gateway game, although the original Space Hulk with the timer to keep the sense of urgency up was probably the best.
These were some of my first miniatures, picked up loose at a garage sale, back then had no idea there was a game to accompany it!
Those models look amazing for their time! Great video!
I had these game when I was a kid.. (I was born in 1979) and in Spain this game was called "Cruzada Estelar" in english "Star´s Crusade" I also had all the game expansions with the Eldars... what an awesome game!
Another game I bought to play with my son and had it painted up. Another excellent family game. I still have the game and expansions (which I painted myself, though not as well as the originals). I also played this with my two younger sons from a second relationship. I bought new marines and helped my sons paint them up with their names on the back banners.
Myself and a friend would frequently open up this game in the heady early ninties, but we didn't play Space Crusade, we adapted the game to play our own version of a tabletop version of the film Aliens. We made character sheets for all the Marines. Such memories
The Talisman 2nd edition expansion, Timescape also included a plastic Space Marine. It was released in 1988. I would love to see a Talisman video covering the older editions.
My very first 40k box. My uncle had it for years and gave it to me when I was 8. Got space Hulk and space crusade with all the extras it was awesome
I still have my copy with mission dreadnaught. 😜
And me 😀
@Mr. Oats wish it was
Me too, plus speccy game 😁
I have this in my attic and still on it's sprues!
I remember this game. Such a blast. Both this and hero's Quest were the best
Cool video. Brings back memories.
This was THE game when I was younger. Loved it, along with Hero Quest.
The digital game of Space Crusade is a real blast to play through, especially in multiplayers with friends! I've always wished for a remake of it.
It's amazing to see just how well older sculpts can hold up with modern painting styles/methods, but my dude! Dem mold lines! XD
I love Space crusade i played a lot when i was a kid in the Commodore Amiga and now in the Commodore Amiga classic mini , even after so many years I never get tired of the game.
Starquest was what got me into 40k. I still love the old 40k lore, the artwork and the models. Got both extensions later as well.
Had this and Hero Quest. Still probably in my parents attic. Great to see it again. Might try and dig it out!!