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Post by redav on Jun 17, 2013 1:48:32 GMT
I've started getting back into HeroQuest and I always quite liked the artwork for the cards and stuff but it wasn't until recently that I realised that it was done by Gary Chalk.
It probably shouldn't be surprising but I'd never compared the artwork to his Lone Wolf works.
Does anyone else play it? Is there a preferred forum for other gamers?
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Post by capna on Jun 17, 2013 9:28:57 GMT
Hi, I dug this game out recently and had a few games and thought it was suprisngly good - I had assumed that my fondness for it was purely nostalgia. Best forums (and info) for any of these things is usually board game geek, and they have a heroquest forum at boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/699/heroquest#forums
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Post by Rusty Radiator on Jun 18, 2013 14:59:26 GMT
I ran a series of games after completing the ones in the manual. It was a bit of fun, but I remember we all got a little frustrated with the simplicity of it and how totally invincible the heroes were compared to the monsters. It got to be a bit of a running joke- no matter how fiendishly I arranged the scenarios and how many traps I added the heroes would still just breeze through everything. Advanced Heroquest I found more enjoyable, especially with all the different varieties of magic...
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Post by jdubs1211 on Jun 18, 2013 16:37:58 GMT
I ran a series of games after completing the ones in the manual. It was a bit of fun, but I remember we all got a little frustrated with the simplicity of it and how totally invincible the heroes were compared to the monsters. It got to be a bit of a running joke- no matter how fiendishly I arranged the scenarios and how many traps I added the heroes would still just breeze through everything. Advanced Heroquest I found more enjoyable, especially with all the different varieties of magic... Did you ever play of the expansion packs?
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Post by redav on Jun 18, 2013 21:03:23 GMT
It was a bit of fun, but I remember we all got a little frustrated with the simplicity of it and how totally invincible the heroes were compared to the monsters. Apparently this was due to the Europe version (which we had in Australia too) and how all monsters only had 1 body point. The North America version had monsters with multiple body points and slightly different monster counts on the same maps which made it harder. I'm hoping to start gaming with it again soon and thought I'd run the players through as the EU and then the NA. Did you ever play of the expansion packs? This is another good point. Whilst some point out that some seemed that they weren't play tested, they did add variety to the game. Plus, there were EU only and NA only expansions released. The three that weren't available here in AU no go for hundreds of dollars on eBay so I'm going to resort to printing scans of the tiles and try and source miniatures. At one point I thought I'd try and make my own Lone Wolf series of Quests but never got around to it. The other thing with it was that if you wanted to make quests outside of a dungeon, it would take a bit of effort to dress up tiles to do that.
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Post by Rusty Radiator on Jun 18, 2013 23:41:48 GMT
Hmm, interesting, I wonder why the disparity? Still, try Advanced if you can get it, it's verging on RP, but with board game tactics. GW at their finest.
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Post by redav on Jun 19, 2013 3:16:46 GMT
From what I can tell, maybe the first two releases to the EU market weren't play tested much or at all? Dunno, but lots of people use the NA rules. I've not read them but having monsters with multiple body points would certainly make it interesting.
Is the Advanced simply playing the Dark Company quests?
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Post by Rusty Radiator on Jun 20, 2013 5:18:25 GMT
When Heroquest launched in the UK it was a collaboration between MB and GAmes Workshop, a much loved and trusted (at the time) local purveyor of fantasy and sci fi. They were the company behind all the Warhammer stuff and great games such as Talisman and Chainsaw Warrior. Anyways, at the time there were many disappointed gamers such as myself that wanted something they could get their teeth into. So they brought out 'Advanced' versions of Heroquest and the sci fi equivalent, Space Crusade. They must have co-owned the copyright, as they did this independently to MB. Maybe they sabotaged the basic versions in Europe....?
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Post by sunmaster on Jun 21, 2013 15:00:05 GMT
Hi all I didnt know Gary Chalk did artwork for Heroquest...interesting. I was/am a big fan of Heroquest. I met the main illustrator for the box covers [Les Edwards] - and am a big fan of his artwork. I thought that Gary Chalk mainly did most if not all the artwork for Advanced Heroquest - as that was solely a Games Workshop production. Harjinder www.myspace.com/nodefrequency
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Post by redav on Jun 21, 2013 21:39:33 GMT
He was credited with artwork for both HeroQuest and Advanced HeroQuest. I was talking to a mate last night about both games. He has AH but it's not in a playable state these days. A decade or two ago the miniatures were absorbed into his D&D stuff and who knows what happened to everything else.
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Post by Rusty Radiator on Jun 22, 2013 0:52:28 GMT
Don't know why the European version was so lame- maybe MB took a leaf out of GW's book and launched a more complex version for the US....?
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Post by capna on Jun 24, 2013 17:52:58 GMT
I had the European version and I found it really hard! I never survived enough missions to be knighted. Then again I never used more than a couple of heroes which may have made it harder. Either that or I was truly useless.
Warhammer quest on the other hand was an easy game.
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Post by Zipp on Jul 6, 2013 23:16:31 GMT
Wat? Heroquest was Chalk? I never knew.
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Post by redav on Jul 7, 2013 3:14:20 GMT
Not the box, quest or rules art. Just the little graphics on the cards and stuff.
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Post by sunmaster on Sept 4, 2013 15:14:16 GMT
Hi, I dug this game out recently and had a few games and thought it was suprisngly good - I had assumed that my fondness for it was purely nostalgia. Best forums (and info) for any of these things is usually board game geek, and they have a heroquest forum at boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/699/heroquest#forumsHi I have HeroQuest too! great game. I have but have not found companions to play and complete The Frozen Horror and Mage in the Mirror - both were expansion sets released only in the USA If youre in London we can organise a game sometime! Harjinder
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