Space Hulk: Death Angel: Round 1: Phases 3 & 4

And here comes the deadlier half of a gameplay round.


Phase 3: Genestealers Attack
In this phase, the Genestealer swarms attack any Space Marine that they are currently engaged with. The player then rolls the die to see if the attack is successful. If the player rolls less than or equal to the number of Genestealers in a single swarm, then the Space Marine is killed. If the die comes up with a result that is less than favorable, the player can use a support token from the defending Space Marine to reroll, but only if he is facing the attacking swarm. It's hard being a Space Marine.

• Sergeant L. (Blue 4) is facing off against a swarm containing 1 Genestealer. Since the die faces go from 0 to 5, he has a 1/3 chance of dying horribly. He does not die horribly.

Phase 4: The Event Phase
I draw a card from the Event deck! Things could get better! But probably not.

Quick glance at this card and I can tell that there are good and bad effects.

• First, I resolve the Event's special ability. Two support tokens are placed on the Door Terrain card. This is the good thing. Here's why:

Normally, when the Space Marines are moving to a new Location, the Genestealers don't throw in the towel because the marines are leaving. No, they follow to the new Location. The Door card is able to remove 1 Genestealer for every 1 Support token on the card. The Door is the Bouncer in the Death Angel universe.

• Now on to the bad: the Genestealer Spawning. Both are Major Spawns, so Dark Corner and the Corridor card get two Genestealers.

• Next is Genestealer Movement. The two arrows indicate that any Genestealer swarms that contain the claw icon will be shifting positions. The swarm in the Ventilation shaft and the Corridor possess this symbol, so they will both shift up. Sergeant L. will face a new swarm of 2 Genestealers while Chaplain Raziel will face off against a single Genestealer. Oh, yeah, the Chaplain is also flanked by a swarm of 2. Sigh....

Things went from ok to worse.

And that concludes round 1.