HeroScape: Hasbro / Milton bradly's Heroquest of the new milenium?!

[frankthedm]

ages ago the Fantasy board games Heroquest and battlemasters brought fantasy dungeon crawls and wargames to the young [and minis to the rest of us]. Now Fantastic Past, present and scifi future will clash on childrens tables.

Pages 5, 6 and 7 have the minis from this hex based wargame.


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[rounser]

Collectable, with a modular board, eh? (To indulge in narcissism, It looks reminiscent of an old idea of mine [which combined Talisman/Heroquest type games with collectability] which I shared on this board a few years ago... )

Mind you, it's by far from the first time a modular minis game has been done (thinking Advanced Space Crusade, Space Hulk and Advanced Heroquest here) though beforehand it's always been presented in one box.

 

[tetsujin28]

All I get is 'Please try back in a few minutes. Thanks.'

 

[Kae'Yoss]

Advanced Space Crusade ... and Advanced Heroquest

Never heard of them. What was the difference between them and normal SC and HQ?

 

[Bagpuss]

I think they were just addons to the original game, added extra board features and miniatures.

 

[Kae'Yoss]

I think they were just addons to the original game, added extra board features and miniatures.

Ah, should have known. We had 2 addons for StarQuest (that's how SpaceCrusade was called here) and 4 for HeroQuest.

 

[glass]

I think they were just addons to the original game, added extra board features and miniatures.

No, Advanced HeroQuest was a complete game, with its own (modular) board, miniatures, and much more complex rules than original HeroQuest (using d12s).

I don't know about Advanced Space Crusade, but I'd imagine it was a similar situation. Unlike basic HeroQuest, basic Space Crusade had a modular board, too.


glass.

 

[TheAuldGrump]

Though add ons were created for Heroquest, the first two merely adding new board sections to cover existing onws and repeating a subset of the miniatures from the base game. The later add ons added new figures, including some nifty plastic ogres. These latter sets go for a discouragingly high price on E-Bay.

GW later did a game called Warhammer Quest which had a nifty means of randomly creating dungeons, and seperately available heroes and scenarios, each containing miniatures and the rules to use them, and the latter including new board sections.

Other modular board games included Legions of Steel and Mutant Chronicles.

The Auld Grump

 

[Flyspeck23]

I don't know about Advanced Space Crusade, but I'd imagine it was a similar situation. Unlike basic HeroQuest, basic Space Crusade had a modular board, too.

Advanced Space Crusade was a game involving Tyranids and Space Marine Scouts. Never played it, though.

The board (IIRC) was modular too.

 

[Imperialus]

sweet. I remember spending hours playing heroquest. I was liveing in Argentina at the time so I never got any of the quest packs but we used to make our own. There was a little wargames shop that stocked a few lead minis that fit the board quite well so we used them to add anything and everything to new dungons. I remember one where the heros had to fight a bunch of napolionic infantry who we said had time traveled back to the heroquest world.