Well I eventually bit the bullet and decided to go for Heroquest. I had this game when it first came out and absolutely loved it. I even took it to Wales with me when I worked there as a summer job. It was so popular in the Hostel that I ended up making two new characters one was definitely a thief, I know for definite as I found rhe card I made. I think the other was a druid. I must admit this was a nostalgic journey, really helped by the cheap price I managed to get it for.
I haven’t really watched any YouTube discussions or unboxing videos so I was going in a bit blind and was honestly a little worried that it was going to be something similar to what GW did to Necromunda (I just hope they keep their mitts off Mordheim).
I shouldn’t have worried, apart from the miniatures it looks really, really similar.
The one major difference is in the furniture and doors is that they are all plastic rather than the card and plastic of the original.
The miniatures have some total differences. The Fimir have gone and are replaced by Abominations… basically fishmen.
There are four heroes and thirty one monster miniatures.
- 8 orcs – there seem to be 4 male and 4 females.
- 6 goblins
- 3 abominations
- 4 dread warriors
- 1 Dread sorcerer
- 1 gargoyle
- 4 skeletons
- 2 zombies
- 2 mummies
I am really tempted to paint everything 🙂
The miniatures are made of a soft plastic, not like the original hard plastic of the original.
Hopefully the kids will enjoy it as much as I did.
Bogenwald 
Excellent! 🙂 There seem to be more than a few of us that have Heroquest in our past!
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Loved this game when it first came oot!
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What a nostalgia trip! We spent hours as kids playing that game. I didn’t realize it had been re-released. Thanks for sharing this!
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Midwinter Minis has been doing a ‘paint the box’ series for this version of HeroQuest. It does look nice, as do the expansions too.
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We played quite a bit of Advanced Heroquest. You could scavenge the pieces from Heroquest to use in the game too. I backed the new Heroquest when it came out. I’m not sure if your game has it, but they had male and female options for all the heroes, which my daughter really appreciated. They keep releasing expansions to the game, so it must be doing well. I think most of the expansions include new characters too, which should keep it interesting!
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I have Advanced Heroquest too. Had that since it came out.
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AHQ had more role-playing aspects to it, but less monsters overall. I wish they would have expanded it more.
I just got the latest HQ expansion in the mail today. They have a Berserker and an Explorer class. I forgot that the tiles are thinner now than the older sets, but I guess they have to cut costs somewhere.
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Aww man I’m envious. My best mate when we were kids had the game and I always wanted it.
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