Space Hulk

Games Workshop's 1989 two-player board game of Terminators against Genestealers.

Space Hulk is a two-player board game from Games Workshop, first released in 1989 and set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe. One player commands Space Marine Terminators sent into a space hulk; the other plays the Tyranid Genestealers that have made it their home.

Quick Facts

Designer: Richard Halliwell, Dean Bass
Manufacturer: Games Workshop
Years: 1989—present
Players: 2

Lore & Background

In Warhammer 40,000 a space hulk is a huge mass of ancient derelict ships, asteroids and debris that drifts through the galaxy, dropping in and out of the Warp seemingly at random. That makes them extremely dangerous to explore, but the Imperium takes the risk for the ancient technology and relics aboard. Besides Genestealers, hulks can hold Chaos worshippers, Warp daemons and Orks, who use them as their usual way of crossing space.