Deathwing (board game)

In the 1989 two-player board game Space Hulk, one player takes the role of Space Marine Terminators, superhuman elite soldiers who have been sent to investigate a wrecked spaceship drifting in interstellar space; the other player takes the role of Tyranid Genestealers, an aggressive alien species that have made their home aboard the wreck.

[1] The expansion includes: Deathwing is not a complete game — a copy of Space Hulk is needed in order to play.

The game proved popular and also won an Origins Award for Best Fantasy or Science Fiction Boardgame of 1989.

[2] and a series of extra scenarios and rules appeared in the magazines White Dwarf and Citadel Journal.

[1] In the April 1991 edition of Dragon (Issue #168), Ken Rolston complimented the original Space Hulk game for its "fast pace of play and lots of action and mayhem."