Nevertheless, your job is to set up the most favorable context for a ton of different dice rolls. Genestealers, once they get into melee range, are almost guaranteed to bring down a standard Terminator, so the stakes are high for these shots. Weapons can jam, and it takes a command point (a special reserve of extra action points shared among your whole squad) to unjam them. There’s still quite a lot of tension, but it's entirely luck-based. But these twists are really there for flavor, and don’t substantially change what you’re doing. Certain mission objectives do change things up, like having to march across a huge map while fending off Genestealers from every side, or gathering your forces after a bad teleporter insertion. It’s basically a meat grinder on autopilot a board game where the dice roll themselves and there is always a clearly right and wrong way to approach a situation. Trouble is, once you’ve mastered setting up these kill zones, there’s also not a whole lot left to do. Figuring out how to take these positions, and escape from them once you’re ready to move on, is a tough but rewarding tactical puzzle.

With those odds, it’s probably curtains for Mr. So if you have two Space Marines covering a doorway, one from the front and one from the side, every Genestealer coming through the door is going to get it from the front and the flank. For some reason lost to board-game logic, the Space Marines can barely shoot during their own turns, but can lay down unlimited, sustained fire during the Genestealer turn.

While the narrow corridors are death traps, you can turn the tables at the intersections by setting your Terminators on Overwatch. Congratulations, Space Marines, you’ve thrown away your only advantage over fast-charging, melee-killing Genestealers: massed firepower! Regaining that advantage is the story of Space Hulk. Good thing they’re also incredibly slow, using two of their action points (of only four per turn) just to turn themselves 180 degrees. These beefy bastards are so wide, in fact, they can’t fire their guns past each other, so only the guys in front and back can engage. Trouble is, the Blood Angels are kind of dumb: they sent a squad of bulky Terminators into a spaceship full of corridors so narrow that only a single Terminator can get through at a time. The Blood Angels chapter of the Space Marines is sent to cleanse a Tyranid Genestealer-infested starship, the space hulk. Space Hulk is basically WH40K-meets-Aliens, but it fails to really make the most of that concept.

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