We made Alien into a tabletop game! | Battle Report: Aliens

Welcome to games night! This episode, we're in the Alien universe. Can Lewis and Tom find the xenomorphs before they find them? More importantly, will the ship's cat survive? With Lewis onboard, the odds aren't looking great on that one...

Chapters:
0:00 Intro
2:06 Turn 1
3:45 Turn 2
7:22 Turn 3
12:43 Turn 4
16:22 Turn 5
19:43 Turn 6
23:23 Turn 7
27:02 Turn 8

Filming by: Alex Turner
Editing and effects by: Lewis Gunn
Overlays, assets, and thumbnails: Yogsast Art team (Harry, Nina and Jack)
Terrain, built and painted by Alex Kolodotschko
Miniatures: Galeforce 9, Aliens board game, painted by Ben
Ruleset: Space Hulk (second edition, modified)
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Production music courtesy of Epidemic Sound

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[matthewskorupski]

These are the most effective troopers in the entire alien series.

[GbbForLife]

Ben’s laugh as the players screw each other over is great.

And of course Lewis makes his return and manages to still kill a pet.

[heli]

This is easily the third best Alien movie.

[Eeraschyyr]

Big props to Alex for putting the board together. It looks fantastic.

[cavecastscorch]

The child had just managed to scrape most of the goop off of themselves in the escape pod when something blotted out the light from above. They had been trying not to pay too much attention to the noise outside, but now they could make out the horrible screaming of those...things as well as something...mechanical? Suddenly, a massive glistening black mass is shoved into the escape pod. It writhes and screams as a large mechanical claw pins it against the floor. One of the soldiers is calmly piloting a cargo lifter, barely managing to hold the giant alien down as he winds up the other claw for a strike. The child is terrified, not only are they mere inches away from the creature, they are strapped in, and in their panic it is difficult to unlock the belts. As they finally unfasten the restraints, they feel a hand on their shoulder and a voice shouts over the din "Don't be scared! Everything is under control! Let's get you buckled up!" The child turns to look and sees a man, torn in half, with wires and tubes sticking out and covered in a white, milky substance. The child screams.

[mr.mcphoenix]

I love the idea that weyland yutani can’t meet the demand for beef at McWeyland’s and decided to go into alien husbandry for agrecultural reasons

[quietwoods]

I have to say, congratulations on making videos where the audience needs to know nothing about the rules. You communicate the importance of dice rolls, and we get to feel that tension without knowing all the nonsense mechanics. Impressive editing and storytelling!

[luketalbot]

The coop scenarios are always the most fun. It's kind of weird seeing them work together against Ben but that just adds to the charm

[Harry]

If this was an alien movie, the ship coming to rescue the escape pod (the one with Jenkins and Jorkins on) would have the little chest-burster babby clinging to the landing gear!

[mzjalic]

Using Space Hulk as a base for this game felt absolutely right! I mean this is really what Space Hulk was based on so it feels like it’s come around full circle for its purpose

[jamesroocie]

Btw the alien vids you guys have been posting are the whole reason I’m running my players through a Genestealer encounter in only war.

[glenmassey]

First encounter should have had an extra hazard since acid for blood. "That crap is going to eat through the hull." 😂😂

[ianmc]

This is hands down the coolest battle report I have ever seen. Between the board, the models, and the adapted rules just incredible.

[KJSGameing]

part 2 of this needs to be a Jurassic park 2 style game where the queen is loose in a city and the players have to lure her to a ship/ put her eggs on a ship and send her back into space before she lays too many eggs and kills all guards. Another great episode, always love watching these and often go back again and again

[shynarcissist]

I love how wacky they went with it 🤣 as soon as they decided to roll for acid i knew it was going to be a fun time

[itsjustme]

I did this 35 years ago. Aliens with a focus on the players as Colonial Marines working their way through their careers. I still have a bunch of the stuff I designed for it as well. Promotion system, training and campaign ribbons. It morphed into DND meets Aliens meets WH40K. Best experienced on a Friday night with pizza and alcohol!

[SrTNick]

So many of those various d6 rolls... "I can't lie to you about your chances, but you have my sympathies." Lol.

Fantastic match, Alien is one of my favorite movies of all time so it was a joy to see it hit the table.

[TheCoolCucumber]

This has got to be one of my all time favourite Battle Reports from Games Night!

The amount of adrenaline-fueled action straight out of Aliens, the horror of surprise facehugger attacks and alien queens emerging from the darkness, and the endlessly hilarious and exceedingly creative decisions from Ben, Lewis, and Tom had me hooked from start to finish. This would have genuinely made for a fantastic Alien movie; it's incredibly entertaining content that continues this channel's status as being the best board game report content on YouTube.

I can never get enough of the amazing work that Ben and Co. do on this channel. I love every single video they put out!

[anononomous]

0:21 "I'm almost certain it's something more sinister, so is everyone down for just telling the boss everyone was dead and going for a space pint instead?"

[LinxOnlineGames]

'Or something more sinister...' - 'It's cold outside, there's no kind of atmosphere, I'm all alone, more or less, let me fly, fly away from

Is what popped into my head...