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It seems the news has been circulating for a couple of months, but I just found out. Heroscape is returning

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HEROSCAPE AGE OF ANNIHILATION: Vanguard Edition

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I'm already all in.
 
Gabriel said:
It seems the news has been circulating for a couple of months, but I just found out. Heroscape is returning

hasbropulse.com

HEROSCAPE AGE OF ANNIHILATION: Vanguard Edition

For questions regarding this project or Has Lab, click here Limit of 5 per customer Not available to ship to Quebec, Canada. Standard shipping and handling to the contiguous United States included, otherwise shipping and handling charges will be calculated at the time of checkout. This...
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I'm already all in.
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Hey G Gabriel can you sell me on this, please?
 
The email for the return of Heroscape was pretty cool, since I did my darndest to collect most of the sets when it first came out. When I played it as the everyman gamer, I appreciated the options between simple and advanced rules and the modular hex-plate terrain was fun, and I'd imagine usable for other games? The downside for me was the set up. Those cool hex-plates can be a small chore to put up and take down IMO. The price for the new release on Pulse is too rich for my wallet right now, though I'd guess not too far from unfair for the amount of stuff on offer.

OTOH got a couple buddies to play some more Heroquest with my kid, and an interesting time was had by all. Seven year-olds are natural agents of chaos.
 
Brock Savage said:
Hey G Gabriel can you sell me on this, please?
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But a more serious answer. Heroscape is a fun light wargame where the star of the show is the modular terrain system the game uses. Each game of Heroscape, you build the terrain from the interlocking hexgrid terrain pieces, and construct a multilevel play area. To add to this are more traditional terrain bits like walls and jungle trees.

Heroscape terrain is extremely useful for any gamer who plays hexgrid based games such as Battletech or The Fantasy Trip.

Heroscape is also a pretty cool source of minis. Thematically, the models are extremely varied. The modern set does seem tilted a bit towards the monstrous, but even still it has elven fantasy, high tech cyborgs, bio monster horrors, etc. The classic materials varied from american revolutionary war figures to samurai to cowboys to Matrix-style secret agents as well as a pretty cool selection of dragons.

The modern set will not have painted minis, but it will have over 70 single piece or extremely simple snap assembly figures. The molding looks at least as good as the previously done Heroquest.

While this set promises to be fully backwards compatible, certainly implying that the rules of the game are still very much the same, the units in this new game look to be all new. There are only a few returning units from the old sets, and they seem relegated to stretch goals. So this Annihilation set, seems to be the same game system but brand new armies for the fight.

Heroscape is sort of the skirmish wargame version of Heroquest. There's not any setting or thematic crossover. It's just that they use the same core dice mechanic and are similar philosophically in their playstyle.
 
Thanks for the hot take G Gabriel I appreciate it. There was a period a while back where it seemed to be everywhere. Were Marvel and Battletech a couple of the big IPs involved?
 
Brock Savage said:
Thanks for the hot take G Gabriel I appreciate it. There was a period a while back where it seemed to be everywhere. Were Marvel and Battletech a couple of the big IPs involved?
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Nah. Battletech never had a Heroscape set or units. It's just that the terrain is useful for Battletech games.

There was a Marvel set. And as Skywalker Skywalker indicated there was a D&D set towards the tail end of the original line when Wizards handled it for the final year.
 
AND a new quest pack for HeroQuest is coming: Mage of the Mirror. This is still basically a reprint, this time of the old Elf Quest Pack, but considering the rarity of the original it's going to be new for a lot of people (including myself).

HeroScape still hasn't hit 1/4th of the backers needed yet. Hopefully some more enthusiasts will hop on it.
 
Gabriel said:
AND a new quest pack for HeroQuest is coming: Mage of the Mirror.
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I had the original. It was pretty awesome… for a while. The ogres were a boring chore to hack through (10 body points!!) and my family, who’d been playing HeroQuest weekly for ages quit the game entirely.

Luckily in the remake they fixed that. Some “purists” are whining about the change, but I cheer it on, not because it makes the game easier or anything, it just makes it less FUCKING BORING.
 
Well... The Heroscape campaign isn't going to make it.

Kinda bummed. I guess Heroscape is dead. There's not enough money in it for Hasbro to consider doing it.
 
Gabriel said:
Well... The Heroscape campaign isn't going to make it.

Kinda bummed. I guess Heroscape is dead. There's not enough money in it for Hasbro to consider doing it.
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Really?! That’s weird.

I wonder if part of the problem is the platform? For example, I completely missed the HeroQuest campaign on HasbroPulse, despite my presence on social media and game forums. If it isn’t on Kickstarter, it misses a lot of eyes.
 
JamesV said:
The email for the return of Heroscape was pretty cool, since I did my darndest to collect most of the sets when it first came out. When I played it as the everyman gamer, I appreciated the options between simple and advanced rules and the modular hex-plate terrain was fun, and I'd imagine usable for other games? The downside for me was the set up. Those cool hex-plates can be a small chore to put up and take down IMO. The price for the new release on Pulse is too rich for my wallet right now, though I'd guess not too far from unfair for the amount of stuff on offer.

OTOH got a couple buddies to play some more Heroquest with my kid, and an interesting time was had by all. Seven year-olds are natural agents of chaos.
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I found that setup is much faster if, instead of doing it exactly like the scenario, you get a kid who loves building toys to build something with the pieces. If the same kid is slightly ocd, they will also be great for taking it apart and putting it away.

When my kid was younger, we played Heroscape a fair amount and I picked up sets cheap when I could. It's has some tactics but it's not overwhelming for grade school kids and non-gamers. Some of the figures make cool rpg monsters.
 
Gabriel said:
Well... The Heroscape campaign isn't going to make it.

Kinda bummed. I guess Heroscape is dead. There's not enough money in it for Hasbro to consider doing it.
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For what it's worth from the cheap seats:

I didn't play Heroscape back in the day, but wasn't interested in this reboot.

The genre mash up character types weren't something I was much into, and while I'm fine with hex-based games, the look of the tiles (combined with the bright colors of the plastics used in the minis themselves) felt like more of a game aimed at kids and was offputting for me as the elder Millennial. Just wasn't my vibe.
 
I'm curious as to why it went away in the first place. It seemed to be huge for a while, and not just a flash-in-the-pan type of thing.
 
New expansion named Rise of the Dread Moon up for pre-order coming out in mid-July.

Hasbro didn't bother telling me spit, but BBTS sent me news about it.

10 new Quests. New Elven furniture. Plus the regular release of the Guardian Knight for those who missed the extremely limited release of it near the relaunch of the game.
 
NinjaWeasel said:
I'm looking forward to Rise of the Dread Moon. I hope it lives up to my expectations!

I spotted these on DTRPG today:
AxianQuest Heroic Skills
AxianQuest Wondrous Artifacts

Not sure whether to pick them up or not. I might wait for a few reviews first.
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I was looking at the description for Heroic Skills and it reminded me of how the computer game Dark Quest II (based heavily on Heroquest) does it's skill system. They're not the same abilities, but the same general idea.
 
Gabriel said:
I was looking at the description for Heroic Skills and it reminded me of how the computer game Dark Quest II (based heavily on Heroquest) does it's skill system. They're not the same abilities, but the same general idea.
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I hadn't heard of Dark Quest I let alone Dark Quest II.I'll have to check them out. Thanks for the tip off!

I've just recently started looking at ways to expand HeroQuest: additional rules, additional monster stats, other miniatures and tiles that look the part, etc. So I am very tempted to pick these cards up. Hopefully there will be more (good quality) unofficial content out there before long.
 
News is over a week old, but it looks like Renegade Game Studios (the same ones making all those Hasbro based RPGs) is going to pick up Heroscape

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Renegade Game Studios Welcomes Heroscape, Expanding Licensing Partnership with Hasbro

Renegade Game Studios Welcomes Heroscape, Expanding Licensing Partnership with Hasbro“Renegade to bring Heroscape back to the table!”San Diego, CA – June 8, 2023 - Renegade Game Studios is excited to announce that they are finalizing expansion of their licensing relationship with Hasbro, a...
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I heard about that, and I was very much interested, but then I also heard today that Renegade Game Studios had been threatening to take action against The Polyhedral Knights and demanding they change the name of their Renegade City RPG. I've put Renegade Game Studios on my "Dickhead List" and now I'll just take a pass on Heroscape (and anything else they make) instead. Not that what I do should stop anyone else from being excited mind you.
 
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