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Berthold Nüchter
Germany
Duisburg
NRW
I am the walrus
checkpoint
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So you own Space Hulk (1st edition) and played all of its 6 missions and are looking for more missions. Many missions were published by Games Workshop in the past for the 1st edition in the expansions Deathwing, Genestealer and Campaigns and in their magazine White Dwarf. Also many missions were published for the 2nd edition. Some new missions were also published with the base set of the 3rd edition. Many missions for 2nd and 3rd edition can be played with the rules and items of the 1st edition, but usually the content of the base set of the 1st edition lacks important board sections and you would need the excellent expansion Deathwing for many of them. You still have a chance to get the old and new missions or at least many of them. Mission books of all editions are being offered on Ebay and you can also find issues of the White Dwarf there, although the older issues are rare.
I have created a compendium of all Space Hulk missions for all editions that were published in the base sets, the expansions and the White Dwarf. The document lists all of these missions and includes additional information about them. Its purpose is to show which missions can be played with which edition and if expansions or additional items are needed.
The following missions can be played if you own just the base set of the 1st edition:
The base set includes the campaign Sin of Damnation with 6 missions.
The mission Pitfall from WD 114 can be played as well, as the magazine contains the necessary extra items.
It would also be possible to play the mission Delaying Action from WD 115. The magazine contains the necessary extra board section and other items. You may play it with two standard squads instead of the command squad for achieving a balanced game.
The mission Denzark’s Hammer is also playable. You should choose the version published in WD 120, as it contains the necessary extra board section and other items. The mission may be balanced with 2 standard squads.
You could also play the missions 1 - 3 of the campaign Return To Kalidus, published in WD 158. The missions may be balanced with 2 standard squads.
You could also play the missions 1 and 2 from the campaign Spawn of Execration from the mission book of the 2nd edition. Mission 5 is playable if you add some counters.
So there are not many additional missions that you can play with just the base set of the 1st edition and the older WD 114, 115 and 120 are hard to find. In total only up to 15 missions are playable with the base set of the 1st edition. If you are really looking for more missions you should consider buying a copy of Deathwing as this will expand your possibilities very much.
The following missions can be played if you own the base set of the 1st edition and the expansion Deathwing:
You can play the 6 missions of the base set 1st edition, the 6 missions of Deathwing and from the expansion Campaigns the missions Pitfall, Delaying Action and Denzark’s Hammer. There are many missions from Campaigns and the White Dwarf which could be played with the board sections and counters from Deathwing but are meant to be played with Genestealer Hybrids and the psychic combat rules from Genestealer. You would have to significantly change these missions if you want to play them just with Deathwing.
You could also play the missions 1 - 3 of the campaign Return To Kalidus, published in WD 158.
You can play all 18 missions of the 2nd edition, but the first 6 are already included in the 1st edition base set.
You can also play all 12 missions from WD 197, 199, 200 and 201.
The 5 missions from WD 203 are playable if you have a second base set.
From the mission book of the 3rd edition most missions have already been published before in a similar or nearly identical way in the base set and Deathwing, but the missions 8 and 12 are of interest, if you don’t own Campaigns or WD 114/115.
This gives you at least 42 missions or even 47, if you have a second base set. The expansion Campaigns is not really worth buying, if you don’t own or want to use the rules from Genestealer.
The following missions can be played if you own the base set of the 1st edition and the expansions Deathwing and Genestealer:
All 76 different missions from all editions and issues of the WD would be playable, if you just add a few items. You could play 5 more missions from WD 203, if you have a second base set.
If you are interested in more details about the missions or if you would like to know which of them can be played with other editions you could download the file with the compendium. It also contains a table which lists the contents of the different editions and expansions. The file does not violate copyright laws as it does not contain any graphics or original text. Trademark laws are not violated as well.
Here is the link to the pdf-version:
http://www.bertholdnuechter.homepage.t-online.de/Compendium%...
Here is the link to the doc-version:
http://www.bertholdnuechter.homepage.t-online.de/Compendium%...
If you find any errors or have suggestions please let me know.
[edited: corrected some errors]
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GÜNSTLING
New Zealand
Christchurch
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What an excellent resource. It must have taken quite a few hours to put together. I think I will print it out and put it in my space hulk kit. As all the missions are listed I can use it to track which missions I have played and have yet to play as part of my mission to try every space hulk mission.
The detailed inventory for each edition is also very useful. I hope an illustrated one turns up on the net one day.
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Juan Fernando Martín Ramírez
Spain
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From Spain: THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!
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GÜNSTLING
New Zealand
Christchurch
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Printed it out and read it during my lunch break. The only thing that I disagreed about was not getting the campaigns book if you aren't interested in using the genestealer psychic rules. One, it is very easy to adjust the missions to use the much simpler deathwing rules (just give the marines level 1 librarians with 10 psi points and replace the hybrid blip table with a non-psychic one). Two, the rules for traitor marines and power armour marines can be used to play the standard missions, instantly multiplying the number of missions that you can play with whatever version of space hulk or selection of expansions you have available.
It was interesting going through the list of missions and seeing which ones I had the marines to play. Another 7 or 8 terminators and I would be sorted for all of them (but I can't bring myself to buy more terminators librarians).
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Might have to have a crack at these, thanks!
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Graham McIntyre
United Kingdom
Nottingham
Notts
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Excellent work my friend. I have just picked up a copy of the game and Deathwing expansion (I was a Space Crusade player many years ago).
This resource is really great as I was wondering which issues of White Dwarf are worth getting 
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Berthold Nüchter
Germany
Duisburg
NRW
I am the walrus
checkpoint
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Version 1.1 uploaded. I fixed a few errors in the table "Comparison of the content of all editions of Space Hulk and its expansions" concerning the content of the Genestealer expansion.
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J D
United States
Clover
South Carolina
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Wow! This is exactly what I had determined I needed to make and was procrastinating on, but you have wonderfully done all the work, many thanks!
There are a good deal of fan made supplements and missions out there, is an unofficial mission version planned?
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Berthold Nüchter
Germany
Duisburg
NRW
I am the walrus
checkpoint
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Thank you. I don't plan to include unofficial missions, but may include the missions from The Citadel Journal in a later version.
Feel free to use the format for a compendium of unofficial missions.
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Berthold Nüchter
Germany
Duisburg
NRW
I am the walrus
checkpoint
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Version 1.2 uploaded. I added the information that some more missions of the 3rd edtion have been published before in similar way and edited the conclusions accordingly.
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Posted Sun Feb 6, 2011 4:04 pm
