History Headscratchers / SpaceHulk

* If Space Hulks have more radiation than they do air, why doesn't the Space Hulk Librarian model have a helmet?

*** ''Death of Integrity'' also justifies a lot of the potential [[PerfectlyCromulentWord headscratcherness]] involved in a Space Hulk operation. For example, the marines were prepared to simply destroy the hulk outright until the Adeptus Mechanicus objected and asked them to investigate it first. The Terminator armor was used because some particular areas of the hulk were so irradiated that without the additional radiation shielding such suits possess even a normal PoweredArmor-clad Space Marine would not last long. Thus the non-Terminator marines were used to secure some of the less irradiated areas of the hulk, and even scout marines (wearing voids suits) were employed to explore the outer surface of the hulk for entry points and to assist techmarines.

**** Think about this for a second. Terminators are the most hardass of the veterans of the chapter - scrubs simply aren't allowed into the veteran company, and you have to have proven yourself as one of the most badassed badass that ever badassed down badass street to even get a chance of a glimmer of a hope of wearing one of the few termie suits that are left in any given chapter. They're all bionic'd to the gills, have reflexes that would make a ninja look like a drunk sloth and are accurate enough to skullfuck a mosquito from orbit with a pellet gun, basically. In turn, the termie helmet itself is full of targeting aids and target ID and crap. Yet these guys *still* miss 40% of the time while firing down a bloody hallway - because they're actually firing in pitch darkness at sleeky, slinky thinks that move ungodly fast while clinging to the walls and/or ducking in and out of airvents, also are really fucking scary because they'll have your guts on the floor in the next 0.115 seconds if you don't kill them stone dead right just this instant. Oh, and for everyone that gets gibbed, three more take its place. What do you reckon the odds of Joe Average Guardsman (and his sanity) are in this scenario ? TL;DR it's not that termies are bad, it's that the conditions they're fighting in are really fucking awful (also stacked against anything *not* Tyranid).

** A friend who's been playing [=40K=] since Rogue Trader explained it like this: Assuming the Imperium has an actual reason to board a Space Hulk (which the Blood Angels ''don't'', they're stuck in an HonorBeforeReason scenario) you need to scout the Space Hulk first to figure out which rooms still have atmosphere and which don't, as well as which sections are and are not filed with deadly radiation. For Guardsmen this is tricky, but Space Marine armor conveniently has radiation shielding and self-contained atmosphere. Long story short, if you want a better example of how Space Hulk boardings are usually done, check out ''[[Literature/SpaceMarineBattles Death of Integrity]]''.

**** GameplayAndStorySegregation. According to the fluff Terminator armor was originally designed for use in boarding actions and is significantly tougher than power armor. Additionally while marines in power armor can carry storm bolters now back when the first SpaceHulk was originally made the fluff stated that storm bolters were only usable by terminators which would mean that the terminators did have a pretty significant firepower advantage over power armored marines. Finally going by the fluff (and the rules for the full game) Terminators should be a LOT tougher in melee against genestealers than they are in Space Hulk. The melee rules for Space hulk are designed to favor the 'stealers to make for a more interesting game.

**** A lasgun would be even worse (and by my calculations the Storm Bolter hits 55.56% of the time).

**** A lasgun would be even worse (and by my calculations the Storm Bolter hits 54% of the time).

*** In game a good 4 times out of 6 the bolters will miss unless the player has luck dripping off their head, that is bad accuracy.

** "Storm bolters are innacurate"? What?! At their respective effective ranges, storm bolters and lasguns are practically identical as far as user handling goes (interface with helmet's HUD, very low recoil, box magazines). One just has explosive rounds.