Space Hulk: Death Angel – The Card Game FAQ
266 questions players ask · Updated Nov 13, 2026 · Full rulebook
ComponentsExpansion
- Can you use an artifact's activate ability after placing it on the Librarium Vault?
- What happens on the Librarium Vault when a Support token is needed but none are free?
- Do Terrain cards block attacks or range, or can Genestealers sit on them?
- What do the coloured blocks on Terrain cards mean?
- How many Support tokens are there, and what happens when the supply runs out?
- When a card deck runs out, are its discarded cards reshuffled?
SetupExpansion
- Does the Door location start the game with a Support token on it?
- Do Space Marines from the same combat team have to be dealt together at setup?
- How are the blip piles and the starting Genestealers set up?
- Do the starting Genestealers at setup come from the blip piles or the Genestealer deck?
- During setup, do the starting Genestealers move after they are placed, even if the card shows a move symbol?
- Can you redraw the opening Event card during setup if the first one turned over is unfavorable?
- How many Location cards go into the location deck at setup?
- Are the 1A, 1B and 1C Location cards used in solo play?
- Do players choose their combat teams, or draw them at random?
- How many combat teams does each player control in a three-player game?
- After you travel, do the Setup Location card's spawn numbers still apply?
- If there are not enough Genestealers to fill the blip piles, how are they divided?
- Can you mix base game teams, locations and Genestealers with the expansions?
- Can Deathwing Space Marines be combined with base game Space Marines?
Object of the Game
- How do the Space Marines win the game?
- Can you win by killing all Genestealers instead of completing the final Location's objective?
- If the last Genestealer dies and a Space Marine then dies on the same roll, do the Space Marines win?
- At the final Location, do you still draw Event cards once the blip piles are empty?
Playing the GameExpansion
- Can a Support token reroll Heroic Charge, or another ability that replaces an attack?
- Which Genestealers can Brother Claudio's Heroic Charge kill?
- Can Heroic Charge slay a Brood Lord?
- Can Heroic Charge be used when Evasion limits the squad to one attacking marine?
- Do an Attack card's special attack abilities apply to attacks granted by Event cards, Overwatch or Quick Instincts?
- Can one Attack card's repeated attacks target different swarms?
- Can Lexicanium Calistarius keep attacking with his Psionic Attack while he rolls skulls?
- How many attacks does Overwatch give, and how many Support tokens does it use?
- Can Overwatch be played and its Support token spent in the same round?
- Can Brother Zael reroll his flamer attack, and can he spend tokens more than once?
- How many Genestealers does Brother Zael's flamer kill?
- Can a Door or the Promethium Tank slay Genestealers protected by Power Field?
- Does Power Field stop a protected swarm from moving?
- Must Power Field target a swarm when it is played?
- Does Power Field cover every Genestealer at a location, including ones that join later?
- Does Power Field stop attacks and defence against a protected swarm?
- Must you remove the full number rolled when Intimidation's die is used?
- Does an empty blip pile count as the smallest pile for Intimidation?
- Does Blue's Intimidation work on Genestealers behind the team?
- Does a Support action give one token per marine or one per team, and onto which marine?
- Is placing the Support token mandatory when a Support card is played?
- Can a Space Marine spend several Support tokens on one roll?
- Can Support tokens buy an extra attack or reroll rolls outside attack and defence?
- Can a Support token reroll an attack granted by an Event card?
- Does the Gun Servitor Support card spend a token when it slays a Genestealer?
- How does the Door terrain card work?
- What does the Artefact terrain card do?
- Which marines can use the Artefact once it is recovered?
- With Trail of Destruction, which position counts as a marine's previous position when marines swap?
- In the Launch Control Room, do you need a Support token on the card before rolling to win?
- How does the Teleportarium's control panel work, and what is the risk?
- At the Generatorium, where do Genestealers spawn, and when is the Control Panel resolved?
- How does Onward Brothers! add tokens when a Door is activated?
- How does Sergeant Gideon's Block work, and does it still work once he is dead?
- When does Lead by Example's Support token arrive, and is its limit per team or per marine?
- How does Stealth Tactics work with blip piles and Support tokens?
- Can For My Battle Brothers discard a Genestealer protected by Power Field?
- Does For All My Brothers discard a Support token when no Genestealer is engaged?
- Can Strategize move any swarm, or only one engaged with the team's marines?
- Does 'your Space Marines' on an Action card include the other teams a player controls?
- Can another marine on the team use a special ability printed on a named marine's card?
- When a team plays an Attack or Move + Activate card, does each marine act?
- Can several teams choose the same Action card, such as Attack, in one round?
- Must every marine on a Move + Activate card move, turn or activate?
- When a teammate's move swaps a marine into a new space, has that marine used its own move?
- Can a Move + Activate swap the first and last marines in the formation?
- Can a terrain card be activated again in the same round?
- Can one Space Marine activate two Terrain cards in one turn?
- On a Move + Activate card with a 'you may spend' Support token effect, who can spend the tokens?
- In what order does an Event card resolve?
- Who draws and reads the Event card, and how many are drawn each round?
- Can an Action card's 'when your Space Marine slays a Genestealer' ability trigger during the Event phase?
- Can an Action card's special ability be used again later in the round or in a later round?
- Can a team pass or skip its action in a round?
- Can a team play the same Action card in two rounds in a row?
- In what order are the chosen Action cards resolved?
- Do a team's Action cards stop being used once its marines are wiped out?
- Can players talk about or describe their Action cards before choosing?
- Can you decline a special ability on an Action card?
- Can a plain defence roll save a marine from a swarm of five or more Genestealers?
- How do attack and defence dice work?
- Does a skull kill a Genestealer when a marine is defending?
- Can a marine attack a Genestealer in an adjacent position within its range?
- If a marine is attacked from both front and back, how many swarms attack, and can tokens be spent on the rear one?
- Do special abilities still work when a marine is flanked, or does facing limit them?
- Does Counter-Attack work against a swarm attacking from behind?
- How long does Counter-Attack last, and does it continue after a non-skull?
- Can Armour of Contempt's defence roll go above five, and does its bonus apply when attacked from behind?
- Can Brother Adron's Cyclonic Volley hit Genestealers in his own position?
- Is one Action card chosen per team or per marine?
- How does the Evasion Action card limit attacks?
- After a Gun Jam, can the team play an Attack card or repeat its last action?
- What is a defensive roll?
- Does Armour of Contempt add +1 per Support token, or only once?
- Can a Support token on a Target Lock swarm stay there and be used on later turns?
- Can spending Beachhead's Support token stop an Event spawn at that marine's position?
- Can Apothecary Nestor's Narthecium be used several times on one marine?
- Can Deathwing action cards be used with base-game teams of the same colour?
- How do Support tokens work with Brother Leon's Full Auto, which lets him attack up to three times?
- When a Space Marine moves to a non-adjacent position by a card or ability, what happens to the marine already there?
- Which Genestealer swarms count as engaged with a marine?
- When a Location card is discarded, do the Genestealers already on the board leave play?
Other RulesExpansion
- Can a Space Marine spend a support token to reroll a die when it is attacked from behind or flanked?
- Can a Space Marine spend a support token to reroll its own attack or defence die?
- How many support tokens does a Support Action card give, and where can it go?
- Can the same terrain card be activated more than once in a game round?
- In what order do the steps of a Move + Activate action happen, and must a marine move?
- Does 'your Space Marines' on an action card include marines of other colour teams?
- Can a support token reroll a failed special attack roll, such as a Psionic Attack?
- Can a Move + Activate action turn a marine that was only swapped into a new position, or one from another team?
- Can a Space Marine's position change more than once in a turn if other marines move past it?
- Do Rippers move with a Space Marine that a neighbour swaps into a new position?
- Does Hull Breach slay Genestealers on the opposite side of the formation from the marine?
- If Brother Hephaestus activates a Promethium Tank from an adjacent position and rolls a 0, which marine is slain?
- Do event card effects still resolve with no Genestealers in the formation, or after the formation travels?
- Must you still discard a support token for For My Battle Brothers! when no Genestealers are in the formation?
- If no marine has a Support token, does For My Battle Brothers! do anything?
- Can Interrogation and Angel Watch combine so Chaplain Uriel rerolls indefinitely?
- Can Secret Route place support tokens on a Door whatever the marines' facing, and can it place them on the Launch Control Room?
- Where do support tokens placed by a Door or other terrain come from, and can they move later?
- How many support tokens does a terrain activation place, and can tokens pile up on one Door?
- Can a support token reroll a die from a special ability that says 'instead of attacking'?
- Can a support token reroll a die rolled for a card effect, terrain activation or Heroic Charge?
- Does spending a support token to reroll an attack let the marine attack a second Genestealer?
- Do support tokens stay with a Space Marine when the formation moves or shifts?
- Can you discard a support token without spending it on an attack or defence?
- Can one Space Marine activate more than one terrain card in a single Move + Activate action?
- What is the Artefact terrain card for, and can it be discarded to make a Genestealer attack miss?
- If one team activates the Artefact, can the other team use it?
- Are the top and bottom Space Marines of the formation adjacent to each other?
- Does a Promethium Tank detonation destroy Genestealers on both sides of the formation?
- How is attack range measured in the formation, and do terrain cards change it?
- Does a terrain card between a marine and a Genestealer swarm block attacks or change range?
- Which swarm can a marine attack, and must it pick the closest?
- Can special abilities be used when the marine faces away from the attacker?
- Can an 'Each time' special ability be used more than once in a round?
- Can a flanked Space Marine still defend against an attack?
- Does a single Attack action let a marine keep rolling after each kill?
- Does Power Field keep working after Lexicanium Calistarius is slain?
- Is a support token from a card placed before or after the card's text resolves?
- Does Cleansing Flames destroy Genestealers behind the chosen marine as well as in front?
- How do you activate a terrain card such as the Promethium Tank?
- Does Intimidation shuffle every engaged Genestealer, and how is the smallest blip pile chosen?
- When Teleportarium activates, must every marine discard a token or roll the die?
- When Trail of Destruction is charged and a marine rolls a 0, which marine is slain?
- What does Launch Control Room do when activated?
- When Brother Zael attacks, does he miss on a roll of 4 or 5?
- Can Brother Zael's Flamer Attack kill Genestealers in two separate swarms?
- Does Brother Claudio need to be engaged with a swarm to use his ability?
- When a formation has one Space Marine left, where do its terrain cards and Genestealers end up?
- Must a Space Marine spend a support token to reroll before dying, or can it let the marine die?
- Can a support token on one Space Marine be spent to reroll for a different marine?
GenestealersExpansion
- When an event's movement icon matches one Genestealer, does the whole swarm move?
- What happens when a swarm is told to move past the top or bottom of the formation?
- Which way do Genestealers move when an event calls for movement, and do they wrap round the formation?
- Does a swarm already behind a Space Marine move when an event would move it further?
- What does it mean for a Genestealer swarm to flank?
- Do event and location spawns take Genestealers from the blip piles or from the Genestealer deck?
- When an event spawns Genestealers on a terrain card, do they appear on both sides of the marine or only on the terrain's side?
- When terrain of the same colour sits on both sides of the formation, or one marine has two terrains, which terrain gets Genestealers?
- When an event spawns on several terrain cards of one colour, what order do the spawns follow?
- If a blip pile lacks enough Genestealers for an event spawn, how many spawn and does the rest come from elsewhere?
- If an event spawns onto a terrain colour with no card in play, what happens?
- What happens to Genestealers on a location when the Spore Chimney is destroyed?
- Where do event spawn amounts come from, and what sets them for a location with no printed numbers?
- What do the coloured bars on terrain and the colours on event cards mean?
- Do Genestealers spawned by an event move in that same event, and can you skip a box?
- When do Genestealer swarms in the same position and on the same side merge?
- If a shift puts two swarms together during the attack phase, do they attack separately?
- When a marine has Genestealers both in front and behind, how are the attacks resolved?
- If a Power Field swarm merges with another swarm, is the merged swarm still protected?
- In what order do swarms that move in the same Event Phase move, and do they merge as they move?
- If a swarm merges into another during the Event Phase, can the merged swarm move again in that phase?
- Do Brood Lords with two movement icons move twice in one event?
- How can a Strategize card move a Genestealer swarm?
- With Strategize, can you move one swarm into another and then move the combined swarm?
- Is there a limit on how many Genestealers can be in one swarm?
- What does the icon on a Genestealer card mean?
- When you slay a Genestealer in a swarm, can you choose which card is removed?
- What happens when the Genestealer reserve deck runs out?
- Can you win at the final Location by eliminating every Genestealer?
- When an event says to pick a Space Marine and spawn behind him, must you pick one whose blip pile can fill the spawn?
- Can a Brood Lord be slain while other Genestealers remain in its swarm?
- With a Power Field swarm containing both Brood Lords, can a skull kill both Brood Lords and win?
- How do Brood Lords enter the game, and can both end up in one swarm?
- Does a swarm containing a Brood Lord roll with a penalty when it attacks?
- Do two Brood Lords in the same swarm stack their -1 die penalty?
- Does a Brood Lord's -1 change the die face, so that a skull stops counting for Block or Counter Attack?
- With Second Wind, does a Brood Lord swarm count a natural 0 after its -1 modifier?
- Can Intimidation or Temporary Sanctuary shuffle a Brood Lord back into a blip pile?
- How many Genestealers does Intimidation shuffle?
- Does an Adrenal Genestealer attack again after rolling a 0, and does a 0 that does not kill repeat?
- How do Adrenal Genestealers attack and move?
- Does a Hormagaunt effect that places a Tyranid from the Tyranid deck count as a spawn?
- Do Rippers trigger when a Space Marine is displaced, or only when it moves or changes facing?
- Do terrain cards stop a Genestealer from attacking a marine on the other side?
- Can one support token stop a Ravener swarm's bonus attack when the swarm has several Raveners?
- If Genestealers spawn or shift onto two terrain cards in the same position and side, do they form one swarm or two?
- Do the Genestealer pictures on a card, and how many there are, affect the game?
- Do Brood Lords, Adrenal Genestealers and Tyranids count as Genestealers for action and event card text?
- Can a swarm removed by Psyonic Field be shuffled back into a blip pile by a later move ability?
Travel
- Does travel happen when only one blip pile is empty?
- When does travel happen if a blip pile empties in the middle of a phase?
- If a blip pile runs out during an Event, do the remaining spawns still happen before travelling?
- When travel happens in the Event Phase or after Stealth Tactics, when is the next Event card drawn?
- After travelling mid-round, does the round restart or continue with the next phase?
- Can you travel twice in the same round?
- What steps are performed when the formation travels?
- When one blip pile empties and you travel, is the other pile kept?
- Do new Genestealers spawn when you travel to a new location?
- When travelling, do Genestealers engaged with Space Marines move to the new location?
- When travelling, can Support tokens on a Door slay Genestealers in any swarm, and how many?
- What happens to Support tokens on a Door when you travel?
- Does activating a Door trigger travel?
- What happens when a blip pile runs out while at the final Location card?
- When are discarded Genestealer cards reshuffled into the Genestealer deck?
- If a blip pile empties and is refilled in the same phase, do you still travel?
- How does the Teleportarium's die roll work when some Space Marines hold support tokens?
- If a Location's Terrain card says to go further than the Marines left, where is it placed?
- Which position is number 1 when placing terrain cards on the formation?
- If a blip pile is already empty when the Event phase starts, does the formation travel before the next Event card is drawn?
- Does Hibernation Cluster add Genestealers cumulatively from earlier rooms?
Slain Space Marines
Shifting the Formation
- When a Space Marine is slain, which part of the formation shifts to fill the gap?
- When a Space Marine dies, do the Terrain cards and Genestealers shift with the formation so no gap is left?
- When a Space Marine is slain, what happens to the Genestealers engaged with him and to the formation?
- When a Space Marine dies and the formation shifts, does the empty gap stay as a position?
- After a shift, can more than one Terrain card sit in the same formation position?
- Can a Space Marine activate both Terrain cards it faces after a shift puts two of them in one position?
- After a Space Marine is slain and swarms shift onto each other, do they merge at once or only after all attacks?
- Does a Move + Activate that moves a Marine to a non-adjacent position, such as Yellow's or Red's, shift the formation?
- Can a Move action swap two Marines so that another Marine is passively placed to keep the formation, and can that happen more than once a round?
- When only one Space Marine is left, are all Location and Terrain cards moved next to him?
- With one Space Marine left, can the Marine move between locations or turn around?
- Do Genestealers move if they are not engaged with a Space Marine, and what happens when a marine dies during the Genestealer Attack phase?
Playing with 1 to 3 players
Space Hulk: Death Angel – The Card Game: Deathwing Space Marine PackExpansion
- Can Angel Watch and Interrogation combine so Chaplain Uriel rerolls as many times as he likes?
- How do you set up the Deathwing Space Marine Pack's cards?
- Can Deathwing Space Marine Pack teams be mixed with the base game teams?
- If Brother Exanimare dies from a Hull Breach during Trail of Destruction, do you still resolve the rest of the card?
- Does Red's Gun Servitor support ability slay more than one Genestealer, and is the Support token spent?
- Can Red's Gun Servitor ability be used on a Space Marine from another team?
- Can Hellfire's kills be split across different positions?
- Can Brother Librarian's Force Barrier block attacks from both sides of a swarm, and what does it cost?
- What does Beach Head's position mean, and does it cover both sides of the Marine?
- Does Interrogation apply to Event card effects, and to Resupply?
- Does an Angelwing assault attack any swarm adjacent to the Marine?
Space Hulk: Death Angel – The Card Game: Mission Pack 1Expansion
Space Hulk: Death Angel – The Card Game: Space Marine Pack 1Expansion
- How does the Orange team's Purposeful Advance move work after both marines have moved and activated?
- With Brother Adron's Cyclonic Volley, can you choose any swarm within range, and how many Genestealers can it slay?
- Can Cyclonic Volley be rerolled with a Support token?
- Can Target Lock place a Support token on a swarm, and is it in addition to the token on a Marine?
- Can a Support token placed on a swarm by Target Lock be spent to reroll when that swarm attacks the Marine from behind?
- Can Space Marine Pack 1 be used together with Death Wings?