Heroscape is back?! Update: the fund failed.

[Marc Radle]

Still not clear on if the minis will be painted or not. From what I’m hearing, that video upstream is using pro painted minis, but the actual game will come with unpainted minis …

I hope that’s not true though

 

[Haplo781]

Dear Hasbro,

While you're reviving old games, can you open up the D&D OGL to cover every edition of D&D, and do the same for DM's Guild originals?

 

[GreyLord]

Fully painted miniatures, unlike the HeroQuest minis which are unpainted. I was wondering if they were going to be able to provide fully painted minis for any kind of reasonable price point.

I wonder how they're going to price and bundle this. The original game was an amazing value in miniatures - I believe it was 30 minis (with three of them being large minis) and something like a hundred of the hex tile pieces and it was something like $40-50 bucks retail. There's no way that price point for a mass market game will work for the more boutique Avalon Hill release (I strongly doubt this is going to end up on the shelves at WalMart the way that the original game was sold, so production scale is going to be smaller and individual sales priced accordingly).

For reference the Heroquest release is $135 on Avalon Hill's Pulse store and it has 35 unpainted minis and around 35 furniture/door pieces.

(At least they're using the smaller bases on these - I love Heroscape as its own game, but a lot of the minis also make great sci-fi minis and that slightly too large base sometimes gets in the way).

it's gone up!

When I bought it, I think for everything it was $125, and that included a LOT of extras as well.

 

[Retreater]

I bought the base game on a clearance sale when it first came out. I still have everything up in my attic. I think i played it once. I wasn't even aware that it was well-regarded.

 

[payn]

I bought the base game on a clearance sale when it first came out. I still have everything up in my attic. I think i played it once. I wasn't even aware that it was well-regarded.

I barely remember it, though it seems like a fun gift for my nephew for some holiday.

 

[Marc Radle]

Oh man, I played this with my son when he was young so often! We loved playing it!

In fact, he’s an adult now and we both are excited to get this new version and play again

 

[wicked cool]

hope we get the modern stuff. Heroscape at the end was only rebased D&D miniatures. realistically this and onslaught wont be competing .

 

[Marc Radle]

Still not clear on if the minis will be painted or not. From what I’m hearing, that video upstream is using pro painted minis, but the actual game will come with unpainted minis …

I hope that’s not true though

Just watched a GenCon interview with one of the folks involved with this at Avalon Hill … he confirmed that the figures will NOT be painted. He said the different groups / factions will be cast in different colors and they really improved the level of detail in the sculpts so gamers will have great looking figures for the game and folks that want to paint them will have high quality minis to paint.

I have to say not getting painted minis is kind of a bummer, but I’m still excited about the game …

 

[darjr]

Yea, same. But if that’s what it takes to get back I’m ok with it.

 

[Jer]

Just watched a GenCon interview with one of the folks involved with this at Avalon Hill … he confirmed that the figures will NOT be painted. He said the different groups / factions will be cast in different colors and they really improved the level of detail in the sculpts so gamers will have great looking figures for the game and folks that want to paint them will have high quality minis to paint.

Just came here to post this myself. A link to the interview for posterity (the question of painting is at 1:21). Also there are some closer shots of the Heroscape display in there (along with some shots of the HeroQuest expansions that are now out and upcoming).

I have to say not getting painted minis is kind of a bummer, but I’m still excited about the game …

It is kind of, but it also will make them cheaper (probably significantly cheaper) and it sounds like we're getting more detailed sculpts than the old game since we have to paint them ourselves, so that's at least a good thing. I suspect that if they were painting them they'd be both lower quality sculpts and a lot more expensive.

(Also a little voice at the back of my head keeps saying "this makes them more compatible with HeroQuest" and my dream of a post-apocalyptic Thundarr the Barbarian style HeroQuest moves one step closer to reality. I tried with the old Heroscape figures, but the difference in base sizes just made it too hard to mix the figures on the same board...)