Space Crusade is a follow-up of sorts to Gremlin's underrated Hero Quest. Like its predecessor, Space Crusade is an excellent tactical turn-based wargame based on a Games Workshop boardgame, this time the more famous Warhammer 40,000 universe. A ship carrying high-ranking marines have been hijacked by aliens, and it's up to you as commander of 4 veteran marines to save the day. The game can be played from either 2D overhead (useful for planning movement) or 3D perspective for up-close-and-personal view of the aliens.
The game has many random elements from the board game that can get you killed by sheer (bad) luck no matter how careful your planning may be, but luck can be on your side if your defence die roll is high enough. There are also many random events that occur at the end of your turn that add to the fun, such as "Master Control" which gives you control over all the doors on the level, which you can use to trap or crush the aliens. The game gives you score at the end of each level, which makes an excellent incentive to replay to try to increase your score, either by accomplishing the mission in less number of moves, or fulfill secondary objectives. Two thumbs up!
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I wonder, why does the Space Marine in the title screen have grey hair in the DOS version, but blonde in all others? For the dad-gamers on their work PCs?
Having played the C64, Amiga and DOS versions of this game, I would say that the Amiga wins hands down on this one.
C64 version is sloooow and ugly, not surprising as the old bread bin was well past it's sell by date when this came out.
DOS version is cartoony looking and just doesn't feel right. Add the horrible music and lack of sound effects to top it off. I think this version suffered from being a little early in the DOS gaming years, a year or two later and it probably would have been a lot more polished.
The Miggy version just hits the sweet spot, looks great, sounds great and it has the expansion disk. It's one of those titles I will always go back to playing now and then.
Perhaps Gremlin missed an opportunity here. By keeping as true to the original board-game they missed the chance to make some improvements. The whole reliance on the roll of the dice is frustrating. If facing an enemy at point blank range then surely a 99% hit would be more appropriate than relying purely on luck. Missions are all very similar (shoot as many aliens as possible)
"ctrl+f10" to unlock cursor works when played with "dosbox"
click and drag the "crack" file to dosbox icon then type "crusade" and hit enter. when asked for words from manual , just hit "enter". when game starts hit "ctrl+f10" to move mouse.
to "unlock" the cursor/mouse just click "ctrl+f10" , you will now be able to move the hand around.enjoy!!!
I suggest you should use a program called D-Fend, it is a front end for dos-box that handles all the setup and install issues for an old dos game, use the wizard setup in the program, go through the steps and you will be playing most dos games with ease. The Dos version of Space Crusade is really good, but on newer computers the mouse control is twitchy, I was just playing the Amiga version which is my favorite with an Amiga emulator called UAE (ultimate Amga Emulator) once you set up the emulator right and get the roms in the right spot it runs great. I did not know that there was an add on disk for the Amiga version and I been playing it for years. I own an Amiga and used to play it back in the 90's. This game really has good replayability. Great game.
I bought the board game years ago from E-Bay, because it was never released here in USA. Back in teh 90's I searched high and low for it. I do own the board game of Hero Quest and the expansions for it I bought it from Toys are Us back in the early 90's. Those two games are excellent.
There is an easy installer located on:
https://www.old-games.com/download/3221/space-crusade
Here is a walkthrough for those, like me, that distrust direct links from sites I haven't used before:
1-Free users are limited to 2 dloads a day and they will auto download once you click their download link, quick links usually top right side of page, after 15 seconds give or take. (Keep note that downloading the game and manual will count as 2 separate downloads and max you out for that day)
2-At the bottom of the linked page you will see "How to run this game on modern Windows PC?" Click it to see the "Download - Easy Setup (2.28 MB)"
I hope this helps anyone having issues
If you like the game style of Space Crusade I have 2 recommendations:
1-Hero Quest https://www.myabandonware.com/game/heroquest-169
Direct Download Link: https://www.myabandonware.com/download/167-heroquest
2-Sorcerer's Cave (Free Creator's website:skookumpete.com )
Direct Download Link: http://skookumpete.com/Cave.zip
@PBU i have the same problem someone please post the solution
I can't seem to get the DOSbox version to work.
I used to know my way around DOS so I'm not brand new to it, but I just can't figure out how to mount the game
Great game, especially for Warhammer fans. The cross between X-COM and the first Jagged Alliance. *FIRST* use the crack file, and *THEN* run the game's exe. This will alleviate the code issue people are having.
I run the SC.bat version and the game starts just fine but i cant move the cursor in-game. It registers when i click but i cant move it. Does anyone else have a similar problem?
How do i run this? says "cannot start or run due to incompatibility with 64bit versions of windows". im running windows 7. Really want to play this game!
cant believe i found this the old games bring back a lot of memories
Thank you for this!
I can't get past the manual word for security
No idea how to run sc.bat or to use the crack when I've got D-Fend Reloaded running
I was just clicking the game to run from in there.
Any suggestions?
Using windows vista if that's an issues
Cheers.
use the crack
Hoe do i get this game to load
i need the manual for this game to get the passcodes. help?
Music Remade 2012: Follow Link for Youtube Vid. EVONY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLQlhzqgTzo
arrrrh just speed the game down and it works cool
but then i cant fire the guns only melee
Run sc.bat and you can just hit enter at the manual check.
How do I play it, if I don't have the Manual?
No comment nor review for this game at the moment.