Heroscape is back?! Update: the fund failed.

[darjr]

Update! It’s now up in pulse, their crowdfunding platform.

Hasbro Pulse

hasbropulse.com

Thanks @JEB

Now up on Hasbro Pulse! HEROSCAPE AGE OF ANNIHILATION: Vanguard Edition

More info: Heroscape’s new boxed set costs $250, but it could jumpstart the decades-old wargame

$249.99 is rather more than I expected, but might be a fair price, considering it's twice as much stuff as the original starter set and everything is more expensive than it was in the 2000s...

 

[darjr]

Welcome Back, Heroscape - Heroscapers

Reporting on HeroScape custom units, battlefield scenarios, rule customizations, release news, official unit overviews, community happenings, and much more!

www.heroscapers.com

 

[dragoner]

Ah so this was what the tweet is about

 

[vecna00]

First HeroQuest, and now this? Whoever is coming up with these ideas needs a raise!

 

[payn]

First HeroQuest, and now this? Whoever is coming up with these ideas needs a raise!

Yeap, looks like another Pulse run for me.

 

[JEB]

Awesome!!! One of my favorites of all time. After their failed repurposing of the game as Arena of the Planeswalkers, I thought that was it - that Heroscape just wasn't popular or cost-effective enough to survive. Glad I was wrong...

I hope this uses the same rules as the original game - part of the appeal was that they were pretty easy to get into. (Also, I want to be able to use all my old figures with the new stuff...)

 

[Jahydin]

I kind of laughed a little bit when I saw these dice on Amazon being advertised as being compatible with Heroscape.

Now I'm curious if they knew about the reboot...

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

I missed HeroScape back in the day but do like miniatures skirmish games.

Anyone have a link for a solid overview or review of the basics? When I search HeroScape on BGG I get a bucket of expansions but I have a hard time coming up with a concise review of the base game.

I need a Heroscape version of "Why HeroQuest is so Great".

 

[Mannahnin]

Mostly it's a very simple game, and the three dimensional hex terrain has great "toy" value and is fun on the table visually, without all the prep work that normally goes into miniature wargaming, because everything's sold assembled and painted. There is some work to be done setting up a battlefield, and that takes some time, but if you've got a dedicated gaming space you can leave it up.

It's lightweight and cheerful genre-bending fun.

 

[vecna00]

I missed HeroScape back in the day but do like miniatures skirmish games.

Anyone have a link for a solid overview or review of the basics? When I search HeroScape on BGG I get a bucket of expansions but I have a hard time coming up with a concise review of the base game.

I need a Heroscape version of "Why HeroQuest is so Great".

"HeroQuest is the greatest game ever made. And anyone who says otherwise, is wrong!"