Space Hulk Death Angel the Card Game - How to Play Solo

[@maxfeist9105]

That was the very best explanation I've ever seen.

[@ModernTablegamer]

Wow! Thanks Max!

[@Pelimuistelot]

This video should be included with the game. Very clearly explained and easy to understand. Great!

[@AxelStone671]

Rarely do I find myself clamouring for a re-print of a board game, Space Hulk: Death Angel is one of those rare exceptions. As always, a solid video playthrough Pete! :)

[@ModernTablegamer]

I agree. I remember picking this game up for around $30 US at the time and thinking that the game play from this box rivaled some $70 - $100 purchases I have made. Thanks for the feedback!

[@sopota6469]

Forget about a reprint, FFG lost Games Workshop's license so this design is stuck in some kind of legal rights limbo

[@farfarawaywargames]

This is the best Space hulk Death Angel tutorial on KZbin. Thank you.

[@bloodplague6]

Thanks for this video! I haven't played Death Angel in forever and couldn't remember how and reading the rules only helped for confusion. Thanks again 🤘🤘🤘

[@glenndoncer1186]

This should be the definitive tutorial on how to play the game. No need to even look at the manual. Great job...it had been 3-4 years since I got my SH:DA game out, but this made getting back into the groove infinitely easier.

[@ModernTablegamer]

Thanks Glenn. That makes me feel great! This is one of those games that I continue to bring out over and over again and I'm glad you are doing the same. I played this with my kids when they were in their teens and this is one of the games that got me into solo play as well.

[@glenndoncer1186]

@@ModernTablegamer I’ve got all the expansions and have never used them... today’s the day! 🙂

[@mygalacticempire]

Thanks for the well-structured tutorial! It will help greatly to get back into the game after not playing for a long time.

[@pouriyaafshar4998]

Man you are awesome in explaining games I have learned toughest one from you, you make real easy to understand, I wish you still do these kind of videos today

[@SheolAbaddonus666]

Thanks for this video. I just got myself a box, and I realized real quick that my brain is incapable of multitasking. Smoke was coming out of my ears and some say they could hear the dial up sound.

[@MissBrainProblems]

Thank you so much for this video! I mostly understood the rules by reading the book, but this helped clear up the last few points of confusion that I had. 😄

[@crono4752]

Best explanation of the game mechanics overall.

[@KSweeney36]

Wow!! Your video quality is ace. Watched it played standard. You could do all the solo modes he doesn’t. 😉

[@ModernTablegamer]

Rodney does a great job with Watch it Played so your comment means a lot! I plan on leaning toward the solo mode of games in the future. Thanks!

[@kevinfitzgerald9319]

Great video. I normally struggle learning from videos but this was very helpful

[@wishmeheaven]

Thank you very much. Incredibly explained. Instant subscribed.

[@stuggy6077]

Late to the party, just got this an the 4 expansions. Been watching many vids that are ok, but this vid is the dogs bollox as they say. Easy to follow and a great camera angle to see everything happening clearly. Off ta bed now to let the info sink in then ready for a newly learnt battle tommorow. Come on. Thanks' again for this graet tutorial of an awesome game.

[@DouTha34]

Many thanks for this video, it is very easy to follow, even for a not english native speakers, it will help me a lot with this game!

[@ModernTablegamer]

Thank you so much!

[@ausardash]

This game is my every night drug. Its so godly good. I never liked so much this games but this, oh God. And the 4 expansions too.

[@ModernTablegamer]

This is one I come back to again and again. I'm jealous that you have all 4 expansions. I picked up one.

[@minisatwar4881]

Thanks for this, rule book has some issues. Started to play the game again!

[@matthewporter5048]

Thanks, I just dug this game out of storage and want to play it

[@TheDTagz]

Nice tutorial, makes playing again an easy process.

[@ModernTablegamer]

Glad to hear that!

[@DaniCha]

Can’t seem to find a place to buy this one but I’m loving the play through. Thanks for posting!

[@ModernTablegamer]

Hi Danielle, From what I hear on this one finding a used copy is about your only chance. It’s really a great game and too bad it’s out of print. Thanks so much!

[@DaniCha]

@@ModernTablegamer okay thanks for letting me know.

[@NemoMangelk]

You are the best boardgame rules content creator.

[@ModernTablegamer]

Thanks for your kind words! I'll keep them coming!

[@tombolenbaugh4030]

I just got a copy and am looking forward to playing. Nice instruction video, very helpful.

[@ModernTablegamer]

This is one of my favorites! Thanks!

[@DaniCha]

Where did you buy it?

[@tombolenbaugh4030]

@@DaniCha I had it on my Wish List on Noble Knight Games. They got a copy in at a decent price and I picked it up. Looks like they have a couple copies in stock now: www.nobleknight.com

[@kosterix123]

Thank you so much ! Now I can finally play it.

[@ModernTablegamer]

I hope you enjoy this one. It's one of my favorites!

[@Mercury2wo]

Beautifully produced video. Clear instructions. Well edited. +1 subscriber to your channel based on this video.

[@ModernTablegamer]

Wow! thanks so much for the kind words and welcome to the channel!

[@treytechie]

Superb tutorial! Keep up the good work and please don’t close your channel!

[@ModernTablegamer]

Thank you! I appreciate it!

[@ultimate_gloom3576]

Thank you for the video. Just got this game on the mail. Keep up the good work!

[@ModernTablegamer]

Thanks! I’m glad you were able to pick this up since it is unfortunate that it’s out of print. Have fun with it!

[@adityac90]

I'm glad you're back! I remember watching and greatly enjoying your Pax Porfiriana tutorial back in the day. Space Hulk is one of my all-time favorite solo games.

[@ModernTablegamer]

Thanks so much! I am playing Space Hulk solo much more lately and I love it.

[@tjans1979]

Wonderful, wonderful video. Your quality is top notch!

[@ModernTablegamer]

Thanks Travis! Glad you liked this one

[@TheDungeonDive]

Great video. Well made and presented.

[@ilsevanlegos7529]

Amazing explanation, well done!

[@kosterix123]

Excellent instructional video. Structured, clear with examples and to the point remarks. Rodney should study under your guidance! (unfortunately the game is not for me, not only because of the unfair die (did a pearson chi square) but also because I can never figure out what good abilities are for marines, even without the aliens that game aspect is too stress inducing.)

[@ModernTablegamer]

Hi Kosteri x, thanks so much for the kind words :). When I play this one, I expect to lose. I usually pick any combat team except for the green combat team. My win loss percentage is about 40% / 60% and that's the best I get.

[@kosterix123]

@@ModernTablegamer I recommended your specific video to others. Suggest you do a statistical test on your die. SHDA dice all have a skew. There are some posts on bgg about how to do this and takes 10 minutes. Once you know, use it to your advantage, then your win % should increase. It can be viewed as "gaming the system", but the system was bad to begin with, after sufficient skill win rates should be >85%.

[@gokupepper]

@@kosterix123 or maybe use a totally different die and mark it. Make things as they should be?

[@4fun507]

Thank you, so clear and easy to follow, it made my first play a breeze to figure out.

[@kevinrahman-porras5220]

This is an amazingly useful video. Good stuff!

[@JohnnyLeyenda]

I really wish I could still get this...or regular Space Hulk for that matter, dang out of print games!

[@ModernTablegamer]

Yeah, I completely agree. I passed up buying a copy of the Space Hulk board game a few years ago at a game store after it was reprinted and now I’m kicking myself.

[@BoardGameHero]

Good stuff! Thanks for the video

[@ModernTablegamer]

Thanks so much and glad you like it!

[@TheJankmaster]

Watching again with the cards to see if I can make it through. :) if a marine dies while holding the top or bottom slot...what the? Thanks in advance

[@ModernTablegamer]

Yeah, this is where I just slide the terrain and genestealers to the next position inwards. Filling in a gap for a dead space marine is probably the least intuitive part of this game IMO. BTW, how did it go?

[@TheJankmaster]

@@ModernTablegamer I think I stopped there because I was starting to feel like I was too far off from “correct” lol. I cleared a blip pile and had a rigged door, but was unclear on the order of potentially settling it off to kill lurking gene stealers. If that is triggered by one team’s clearing the blip pile..I am not sure how the other team activating out of sequence would happen before the travel. I think need to actually read the rules. Having the one semi-play through shows me that the video is not a replacement for the rules. (Not a criticism, just trying to keep the rulebook pristine. Was hoping for the best.)

[@jeromelovesgames9806]

I know this is from a year ago, hopefully you’re still active. When traveling, if there are only a couple of Marines left, and you’re drawing 4 terrain cards, do the terrains stack?

[@victorgonzalez2927]

That little red die is the bane of SHDA players everywhere!

[@ModernTablegamer]

Agreed!

[@TheJankmaster]

Great video...when do you replenish your action cards? In solo play, is it every 4th turn?

[@ModernTablegamer]

If I recall, you replenish action cards each turn. You choose new action cards for your combat teams each turn. You just can't use the action cards you used the last turn. Hope that helps and thanks so much!

[@Warghoul]

Thanks!!

[@ukaszwolski9229]

Thx to You i finly can play this game 🙂 manul is rly bad and chaotic

[@ModernTablegamer]

Thanks Lukasz! I'm glad it helped!

[@wolvz7081]

I’ve had this game for years and never got round to playing it until now. I used this video to learn the game rules and didn’t bother with the rule book expect for the Summary page so thanks for that. Great work. One question that I couldn’t work out but you may of mentioned it. Do I do the Event phase before Travelling even if I have zero Cards in the Blips pile? Long boring story, I activated a Teleportation terminal on a location that cleared both my Blips. I then did the rest of my actions, Genestealer attack then the Event phase but there was nothing to spawn from the Blips piles. So I traveled as the blip decks were empty. Felt like I’d gotten a breather. Did I play right?

[@ModernTablegamer]

@Benjamin Hall thanks for the feedback on the video. So to answer your question, you travel right after the phase where at least one of your blip piles are empty. So if a blip pile emptied during your action phase, then you would travel right after that. Place all the new location terrain, fill blip piles, and resolve any “upon entering” text on the location card. Then you would start the genestealer phase, followed by the event phase. So hopefully that answers your question. I’m going off memory soon after waking up :). Hopefully that helps.

[@wolvz7081]

Thanks. Played it again tonight and feel I got it all correct this time. Still lost heavily but that’s Space hulk for you. Great video and feedback. 🙏

[@lorn6294]

21:17 flanking, you mention it moves across and behind the marine, so does that mean if it is already behind the marine it doesn't move?

[@pedromagalhaes5305]

Correct me if I’m wrong but I think that at 7:05, after spawning the genestealers, you should have moved them, or at least mentioned the move icon, because it is also part of the activation area of the event card.

[@ModernTablegamer]

Hi Pedro. Good question. At 7:05 During the initial spawn in the set up of the game you just use the major and minor spawn area of the event card to see where your first genestealer spawn will take place so I didn't get into too much detail of the event card at this point... maybe I should have :) . Since Genestealer movement doesn't happen until the event phase of a player's turn,I cover this in-depth during the event phase section at 18:58. I hope this helps! Thanks!

[@pedromagalhaes5305]

Thanks for answering. After looking more carefully to the manual I can see that you’re actually right :) Let me congratulate you on the great tutorial, it allowed me to learn the game much more easily than going through the manual. Thanks :)

[@ModernTablegamer]

Thanks Pedro!

[@djbone94]

i love this game... But hell ! It's a very hard game !!

[@ModernTablegamer]

Indeed! I’ve lost many more times than I’ve won :)

[@djbone94]

@@ModernTablegamer better than me. I have never won

[@Mark-sn6kh]

After watching this... I decided to put my copy up for trade and sale on BGG. :P I've had it for years and never opened it. Nice presentation on what is a poor instructional manual for this game.

[@israeljesuslopez3833]

Hi, each time I played this game I have more questions.... I was reading the rulebook and watching this tutorial and I have this inquiry. Relating to the moving + acting card, you have the gray card, which means only the grey team is allowed to move and activate. So, you switch one grey for one orange card. Once moved each card, you are allowed to change the facing either for the gray and the orange marine, right? Also, in the onward brothers (move+activate card) states "each time 1 of your space marines activates a Door, your may place 1 additional support token on the terrain card. This means I am allowed to set two support cards in the door each time one of my orange marines activates the door, right?

[@ModernTablegamer]

Good questions. I did some re-examination of the rule book to refresh my memory on this. anyone, feel free to correct me here but this is what I believe the intent of the rules are. When you take move and activate, you first move the space marines of the combat team (let's say grey), when that is done, you may change the facing of either space marine of the grey combat team and then you may activate each marine in the combat team if able. So in your example, just the grey team would be able to change facing for your first question. For When you activate a door for instance with the onward brothers card, you would place two support tokens on a door instead of one. However, a terrain card can only be activated once per round. Hope this helps!

[@israeljesuslopez3833]

@@ModernTablegamer it makes sense! Thank you so much!

[@CutronaSalvatore]

At 07:04 shouldn't have you moved those Genestealers matching the "tail" symbol before starting the game?

[@IainMabbott]

This game has pretty much the worst rulebook of any game in my collection so thanks for this! Haven't played it for a while and could definitely do with a refresher.

[@ModernTablegamer]

Ha! that was one of my thoughts when I prepped for this one. There are some sections that really seem out of place in it. Thanks for the comments!

[@JohnnyLeyenda]

To be fair most Games Workshop games have overly complicated rulebooks, I see FFG took inspiration from them! Hahaha

[@JohnVold]

@17:33 I believe the text on that card only applies to your yellow squad, so it wouldn't matter for that attack example since it was against a grey soldier. See boardgamegeek.com/thread/2313820/question-about-red-movement-card-clarification-you Otherwise, great video!

[@ModernTablegamer]

HI John, You're absolutely right. Thanks for the clarification and I'll add the note in the video. Fortunately I rolled a 2 when defending with Brother Scipio so I can make a pretty clean edit in the video. Thanks again!

[@KevinSpecialK]

What if there isn't a room card matching the event card location spawning location. I found information if there are multiple but none if there aren't any. This happened when I was fighting the Lair.

[@teypan]

At 18:05 shouldn't the location and swarm on the right side (second up from the bottom) shift up too? They are both on the empty space left by the dead marine.

[@ModernTablegamer]

Hi Bruno, good question! You got me thinking on this one. After double checking the example on page 29 of the rules, I believe what is show in the video is correct (but I’ve been known to be wrong before 😄). It shows that the Genestealer remains in the slain Space Marines position and the terrain and genestealers from the smaller segment shift up to combine with what was already there (one genestealer). So everything from the adjacent position of the smaller segment just shifts to merge with whatever remains in the slain space marine’s position. Hope that makes sense.

[@teypan]

​@@ModernTablegamer I think so, thank you! I have been thinking about this rule for some time to be honest, as I keep finding contradictory information online. The one thing that I still find confusing is that when a marine dies at the top or bottom of the formation, the terrain and Genestealers in the empty space shift down or up, respectively, which makes me wonder why you wouldn't shift them when this happens in other parts of the formation.

[@kosterix123]

1:50 it's easier to shuffle the 9 cards then draw until you have a 2,3,4 6:00 not for a door/ventilation duct, but for a card that has the same battery image in its top left. 23:00 the door thing is unclear from your explanation and from the manual. A pity you didn't film the next location and how that works. In the genestealer phase, let's say the bottom two marines have a swarm each. If the next-to-last swarm has attacked and killed a marine, the formation shifts up, so the last marine shifts up, and the swarm next to where the last marine was shifts up as well - to join the next-to-last swarm. But that moving swarm hasn't attacked yet, although the swarm it now belongs to has attacked already. Does the swarm attack again? I think so, but unclear. Rulebook is bad: Activate and Slay are undefined. Anyway, the marines are falling like flies, this game may be good, but it's not for me. I posted a nuanced review on bgg which caused a lot of hateful comments from people and then without warning a total eradication of my bgg account. Thankfully I still have my review. Note: do not ever post anything negative on SHDA on bgg.

[@israeljesuslopez3833]

Any card sleeve would you recommend me to protect my cards?

[@ModernTablegamer]

HI Israel, for this game I originally picked up Fantasy Flight card sleeves. These were the best sleeves I've ever used, but I've heard FFG stopped their accessory line. The other sleeves that I have used are Mayday games sleeves and their premium sleeves are really good too. Sleeve size is always the thing that I can never keep straight. For SHDA these should just be standard US size cards. Hope this helps1

[@Boardgamegyrl]

Is this a card version of Space Hulk by Games Workshop?

[@kosterix123]

Make more!

[@ModernTablegamer]

Will do!

[@kosterix123]

@@ModernTablegamer subscribed and upvoted, I'd hate to see such talent go to waste.

[@teypan]

Hi, thank you for the video. I am about to play my first game of SHDA, and I am really excited. I do have a question about Move+Activate, as I keep finding conflicting information online. To the best of my knowledge, if you move card-A and card-B, they switch places, you can then change the facing position of both cards and activate two terrains (as long as they are different ones. Does this make sense to you? Source: boardgamegeek.com/thread/1749114/changing-facing

[@ModernTablegamer]

HI Bruno, what you say makes sense. Yes, when you take a move and activate, this only applies to the space marines that are in the same combat team as the action (space marines that are the same color as the action). You can move one or both of these space marines. When you move, you trade spaces with an adjacent space marine in the formation. After moving is complete, then you have the option to change the facing of either of the space marines in the combat team (even if they didn't move). Then each space marine of the combat team can activate terrain that is in the same position and that they are facing (terrain can only be activated once per turn). Hope this helps and thanks for the comment!

[@teypan]

@@ModernTablegamer it does, thank you! Great video, I subscribed.