This Great Game Was Cancelled By Hasbro (HeroScape) | Billiam
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Heroscape is a miniature war game canceled by Hasbro despite developing a devoted fanbase during its original production! It's a wild game and a frustrating story of corporate interference.
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I LOVED HeroScape as a kid. Traded figures with my friends who had different expansions. I still keep a few of them on a memorabilia shelf, and wish I hadn't gotten rid of the rest of it. 😢
Also, love the krabby figure at 12:06, we did the same as kids! used our little Pokemon figurines in the game, even made them (overpowered) custom cards!
Holy crap, didn't expect you here.
This was one of the things I loved about it. If you had anything of the same scale you could custom proxy it into the game
Good news! Renegades is bringing back new Heroscape with the first being the AOA units and stretch, and a company called Scale is preparing their own Heroscape-esque inspired game. A new age for the game.
@JcBravo8 It's weird that Renegade have essentially become Hasbro's clearing house for the properties they own but aren't sure about and don't want to slap their own name on, but I'm not complaining.
For anybody watching today, Heroscape is being rebooted and a brand new Master set and expansions are up for pre-order RIGHT NOW
Got mine! Can't wait for what's coming!!
I never actually played the game as intended but damn did I love setting up terrain and acting out giant battles with all of the minis. One of my favorite childhood toys for sure
I did the same shit! It broke my heart when my parents sold it during a garage sale. I never knew what they were called till now!
@@YaBoiJonesy If I had a dollar for every toy of mine that my parents sold at garage sales... I'd have about as much as they made selling it all lmao
Bruh same 😊
Same. I underestimated as a kid having to do all the learning and teaching "how to play"
but man it was such a cool idea. I actually got a two player set for warhammer for me and my nephew and I thought deep down how I wished it was heroscape.
@@Delfino711 lmao
Renegade Game Studios is bringing it back 100% official. March 1 will be a virtual con where they'll show off the first wave and pre-orders open.
I never had much of the physical products that Billiam reviews but I do vividly remember a lot of the commercials. This channel is my entire childhood recorded through toys that I only saw in commercials that I wish I had.
Mooooooood
Just needs to start dping offbrand chinese knock offs for true childhood
@@seth12786 omg, this is true for me also except bootlegs pissed me off as a kid. I remember getting a GBA and wanting pokemon sapphire but we got a knock off that was a game boy color game and the game was a weird mystery dungeon rip off that had no save file. Then we got a pokemon diamond game at 2003 that was also for gameboy color and was the telefang game jontron covered in his bootleg pokemon games episode.
same lol
Same!!! Poor kid :/
I've spent so much time playing this game with my friends as a kid. We had hundreds of pieces and characters. I wish it was still being made
It's coming back, iirc Wotc bought it a year back
@@cjmattrocks It's not, they did an extremely poorly advertised and managed campaign for a Kickstarter esque run of a new expansion, and because of their self determination to not do anything genuinely exciting with the franchises they have access to, WoTC shelved it due to a lack of interest or buzz, interest or buzz it is their responsibility to cultivate. The project and franchise as a whole have been shelved indefinitely and there aren't plans for another attempt at a reboot, even one as poor as the one from about a year ago.
@@Clarkzer0 it's back again
I LOVED HeroScape. It also got me into Warhammer and minature building. It really helped a lot with my ADHD along chess and RTS games.
How did it help with adhd? I mean, i play games and dnd and chess and my adhd can be annoying for it.
@@cdogthehedgehog6923 Habits.
@@userequaltoNull I can see it. The required repetition for doing turns and keeping track of when to do what could help train the brain to keep such things in mind for other tasks.
@@userequaltoNull How does having habits help adhd
Also it is kinda hilarious that for a very brief time frame of about 6 months 7 years ago you could get D&D Heroscape miniatures for way cheaper than their D&D counterparts. So I have heroscape ogres and wyverns in my D&D collection.
Can’t believe Hasbro would rob us like that 😞
With what they've done to mtg and dnd I'm no at all surprised lol
Really? You really can't believe it? It's inconceivable that the greediest hobby company on the face of the planet Earth would do something like that?
@@farkasmactavish "greediest hobby company on the face of the planet Earth"
That would be Games Workshop, RIP TTS
I can.
@@farkasmactavish I was there. At the time, they hadn't completely sold their players out, though the D&D Heroscape series made it clear they had little faith to invest in brands other than their core. Some of the best MtG sets ever had yet to come out when Scape changed hands to Wizards, well before the days of Secret Lair bloat and 30th Anniversary Edition.
Those hex pieces are gold in the tabletop wargaming scene. Especially with Battletech, as that game uses hex bases.
Also, Billiam, Battletech is another neat war game to try. It had a Saturday morning TV Show...and video games.
I bought 5-8 Heroscape starter boxes and threw away all the figures because I only wanted it as Battletech terrain. Now, 5 years later, with a 4 year old son, I kinda regret the decision A BIT but I needed the space :D
@@VictorSteiner look on the bright side. 3D printers are a thing
@@botluckproductions I had two Prusas before I became a father (time left at that time) and used Dragonlock files to create my own wood hexes for Battletech. Cool but time intensive.
@@VictorSteiner That's fair. I use a resin printer. Between time and chemicals...yeah. At the very least, there are options to get similar figures. At least mostly
Battletech is older than WH40K, but way more accessible and much better designed as a war game. Now if only we could get redistributions of the Battletech spin-offs, like BattleTroops and BattleForces.
Bro, you just unlocked a core memory for me. I never had any of the sets, but one of my best friends did, and we played the crap out of it. Good times... Thank you for this awesome video.
I PLAYED THIS GAME WHEN I WAS A KID!! I kept trying to describe it to friends and they wouldn't believe me or thought I was just confusing settlers of Catan and a different game and you just vindicated me 🎉
Holy Crap this is what its called?! Dude I have vague memories of playing this but I could never remember what it was called. That's insane. Thanks for bringing this sweet childhood memory out into the open for me!
"I don't have the money for Warhammer, give me Poor-hammer" Iconic.
Dear Billiam I know you like talking about Scooby Doo. But feel free to skip Velma. It is not worth your sanity. And I think everyone would agree, we are much happier to see you talk about something that makes you happy rather than suffer through Velma just to have covered all of Scooby Doo media.
It might as well not be a Scooby Doo property; it doesn't have Scooby Doo.
It's not that bad the first few episode was the worst by the end it got alright people hate way to hard amd bandwagon without watching it all
@@usagiwerd6664 hey if it’s not good in the first few episodes it’s not worth my time
He did review all Scooby-Doo media Velma doesn’t count
@Crunchy hey that's totaly acceptable but if billiam watches it he gonna watch all of it and call eveyone out for the bandwagon of hate . So I don't want him proving yall wrong . Straight out not for me but by the end it was a scooby doo media and was very scooby doo style
My older brother used to have an entire huge tote of heroscape hexagons and figures. When he was sent away years ago because of my mother, he left behind all of that. I never understood how the game worked, but I thought the skeletal and robotic figures looked neat, and I would always associate heroscape with my brother. He died almost 5 years ago now, and a few years after that when I was evicted I couldn't take the tote with me (I hope my younger brother has it at least). When I saw your community post teasing this video, I got very teary eyed, and seeing the video now has brought back many memories of my brother. I don't know if you'll ever see this, but thank you for making this video Billiam, it helped me remember how he was, and how he'd want me to keep going forward.
Thats rough. Through i hope your younger brothe really has a memory there. And thr whatever your community , sounds rough, alo sounds he was a great guy , :(
An GL forward with anything
I've never felt more seen on a niche topic that only I ever seemed to know about in my local community/family/etc. This game started the ball rolling on so many things for me. I barely got the chance to fully play the game as intended; but it was fun, the mechanics of the board were fantastic, and the IP has so much potential. Some of my favorite memories surround this game, not just in playing but in how it game to me--through gifts from my parents. We didn't have a ton of money, so each time I was able to get new sets of this game it was a big deal...and it happened rarely. Eventually, I grew up and the game got cancelled. I still hadn't gotten everything, and I felt robbed. I continued to collect where I could, and have since gotten most of the things released that weren't rare release items. I supplemented my collection with D&D minis, which tracked given it literally went into the D&D IP before shutting down; and that catapulted me into actually getting into D&D, miniature painting, and other TTRPG communities. I write, paint, and I do all these things that bring joy to my life today because of this game that got cancelled too soon.
I thought, or rather hoped, for a brief moments seeing Hasbro and WotC using the hex tiles in their Magic the Gathering boardgames that maybe, maybe something could be in the works for this IP...then years went by and I lost some of that hope again. Then, relatively recently, they made a crowdfunding campaign to bring the game back under a new company. I had gotten back some of that excitement and hope, but then I saw how they were doing it. They launched it on a private, Hasbro only crowdfunding site, with bare minimum or less promotion. They set their goal not based on money raised, but on backer volume--and the volume they requested was beyond what most popular crowdfunding sites can expect on any given campaign...and, again, this was not a popular crowdfunding site. So, predictably, it failed. It failed, and they had it set to an all or nothing model. So we got nothing, and we get nothing. All that work that the company trying to get the game made had done was wasted. Is wasted. And it's not their fault. The publisher, Hasbro, twice now has fumbled this wonderful IP. It truly is a shame.
I plan on making a video about this some day, but in the meantime it is great to see content like this covering a game that could have been up there with all the other great table top games only to be doomed by corporate ineptitude.
I've played a lot of tabletop games but Heroscape is by far my favorite, simply because it fires off every neuron in my ADHD brain. I've spent thousands over the years gathering up terrain and figures, making custom stuff from things I bought at hobby and pet stores, painting figures, printing out cards made by myself and the folks on Heroscapers (thousands of playtested custom figures available). Just a few weeks ago my brother and I played a game on a large map. I was playing Godzilla, destroying trees and castle walls, stomping around and firing lasers. He was playing Guts from Berserk, Samus Aran, the Doom Slayer, Megumin from Konosuba (he kept using giant explosions on Ziller) and some airdrop soldiers. It can be as ridiculous as you want, and I love making it a game of wish fulfillment. My friends and I were really bummed out by the reboot failure, because I just wanted it to be affordable again. I was lucky and got in when it was still cheap. Here's to hoping they try one more time.
The Marvel set makes me think this could have been the Fortnite of war gaming lol
definitely feel like if I got into Heroscape as a kid I would have obsessed over it given what I was already obsessed with as a kid. Heroscape gives me the same vibes as old fire emblem and advance wars (or an amalgamation of the two) but in a figurine/toy setting.
I'm surprised you didn't mention the Magic the Gathering game that used the Heroscape hexes and ideas from a few years ago. I bought several of the sets because they felt like diet Heroscape but with a deck building aspect. I think it was Wizards' final attempt at doing something with the brand.
That was a great game.
What is it called? That sounds really fun
Was waiting for him to mention it. I was lucky enough to find a used copy for five bucks a few years back. You can tell that Hasbro really scaled down the production value, with most of the terrain being printed on cardboard (still with the kinda puzzle-piece edges of HS sets tho) and a total of three plastic terrain components, with mostly unpainted minis.
Solid game though.
@@CrimsenOverlordVideos For some reason a few years back in england a heap of them turned up dirt cheap in the discount supermarket chain Aldi, it's the reason I've played it and a few people I know have as well.
This brings back memories of the early days of the Heroscape community. You've got the craft store terrain and custom minis. You just need the hunt for new expansions, going to every Walmart, Target and Toys R Us outside of reasonable driving in hopes of finding the newly released minis and terrain.
I remember having the Marvel one as a kid, but none of the others. I was honestly a little too young to fully grasp all the rules and stuff, so mostly I just liked building terrain for the rest of my action figures to be on lol.
Rob Daviau is a God of board game design. My mind was blown when I learned he helped develop Heroscape
Heroscape is one of my all time favorite games, thank you for bringing it the attention it deserves!
Heroscape is what set me on the path to being up to my eyeballs in wargames today. I still have all the dice, cards, and minis but have no idea where all the terrain is 💔 glad that this game is still getting some love.
I was surprised that you didn't mention the pseudo-revival that was Arena of the Planeswalkers, in which Hasbro made a flatter, more cardboard Heroscape game focusing on the main characters of Magic and with unpainted squads
Man its honestly really awesome to see you cover this game, its to this day one of my all time favorites and I occasionally still play tournaments for it! I'm still torn on the whole crowdfunding campaign as I think even if they didn't handle it the greatest getting some new terrain especially the jungle stuff at a less insane cost would have been great and overall the campaign was handled very poorly and had too high of a goal. Frankly I don't fully know what the cost of of printing the game would have been but I can't help but feel the 1 million that they raised would have been pretty close if not actually there, and that was them doing a campaign that had only the all in option with no ability to just get the new figures or buy extra of the terrain. At $250 only people who played the original would likely buy in, if they had a paired down version for $100 or so with less terrain and minis they might have had some better success and they could have gotten away with it with the amount of stuff that was going to be in that package.
But the game will likely continue to limp along through people playing it online and people like me who 3d print the characters now that we have high quality scans of everything. But I can't help but feel like there is a gap in the wargaming market for a game like heroscape, something fast playing, easy to learn, but gains depth through its highly customizable nature.
I had this as a kid! Unfortunately I was the only one in my family that was both nerdy and patient enough to actually want to *play* it, so these huge gameboards would sit barely used for like a week at a time
Man I loved this game. Did you know that recently Hasbro tried to kickstart a Heroscape revival? Unfortunately it didn’t hit its goal so it was abandoned. I blame it being a rather niche hobby to begin with and the kickstarter just being too expensive for casual fans. There weren’t very many tier options and I think each pledge had to be about 250ish dollars.
It was a good deal for the price but the price was too high.
If they had done it on kickstarter wirh a 100 dollar tier they could have made it happen.
Non painted models with ugly ass bright colors - Overpriced Everything; Not being able to purchase individual items for people that already have to many sets. They screwed up big time on the relaunch.
Large companies shouldn't attempt to crowdfund I'm glad it didn't hit it's goal
I remember just screwing around with my older brothers figurines I didn't even realize this is what it was. single handly the hardest nostalgia trip I've ever had
I remember having the marvel version of this... I didn't actually play the game, I just played with the figures
Heroscape is coming back in 2024.
I'm surprised to see no mention of Magic The Gathering Arena of the Planeswalkers Game which was almost 100% an attempt at a heroscape like game. It actually had some really cool mechanics with the spell cards you could play on your turn.
I recently found my box of heroscape and was looking at the rules to get my friends to play. Still meaning to do a game. I used to love playing this with my family.
So jealous
Oh my gosh… I REMEMBER THIS!
Okay I never actually played it, but I remember seeing an ad for it in Boys Life back when I was in Boy Scouts! It was an epic fold out ad that showed an epic battle unfolding! So cool!
From the bottom of my heart man. You provide me with such comfort within these niche topics. I mean it's like listening to a close friend speak endlessly about things that define them. Your channel is one in a million. I love watching
Surprised there was no mention of the MTG boardgame that used the line of sight, had a flattened board that mimicked the tile design, and shipped with 3-6 heroscape tiles
I had Heroscape when I was a kid too. I had forgotten what it was called until this video. Thank you for reminding me.
This was one of my favorite board/tabletop games of all time. When I got out of college, I found it in my childhood storage, asked my girlfriend and some friends to play it, and we all had a blast.
This video helped me end a search i didnt think would ever end, i moved into a house way back when i was younger, and a bunch of the tiles and units from this game were left behind but no instructions or anything that could've told me what they were, and now more than 12+ years later i know them again, thank you!
you're a real one for this video, heroscape ruled so hard when I was a kid
0:17 Maybe not but having an old-fashioned rice cooker to try to seal demons with is.
Poorhammer sure captures a lot of the good chaos of tabletop wargames, but for me a big appeal on the hobby is the customization of building and painting your own army. I'm a big fan of that part, especially when I lack the time to drum up players and set up a battle.
My family plays monthly heroscape games! During the peak, we owned almost every expansion set spare ONE. Then, we started buying multiple copies of the starter/expansion sets, and honestly it's a mainstay in our family engagements. We've even made custom characters with custom stats and figures over the years. This game is fantastic and if you've never played it, and find a set at reasonable price, i promise you won't regret it.
And now today Renegade game studios has announced they will be producing a new set.
I hope Billiam covers more Heroscape as Renegade Game Studios is reviving the franchise with new sets.
I was interested in the new Heroscape, I never had the original but it looked great. In Australia, the Hasbro distributer wanted around $750 for the campaign pledge!! Kinda ruled it out for me.
I'm so happy that you did a video covering this game!!! Me and my brothers played it all the time as kids. Our oldest brother bought us almost all of the expansion packs. I also remember chewing on like 90% of the characters 😂
I won’t lie, the last week I’ve been trying to remember the name of a specific game I played at a friends house as a kid when lo and behold my man Billiam comes in swinging with this blast from the past! Thanks for helping me remember this game
This game seems really neat. It's great that the fans are still supporting it (and that the devs made it so that it could be 'modded' for lack of a better word).
Also, a 30-40min base game for a complex tabletop like this seems pretty rare. Even more so with the concept of doing longer games being a thing too. Pretty great!
If it wasn't so expensive to collect it'd probably be a good entry tabletop. I would love to play it someday.
I think you can play it on tabletop sim. You lack the tactile experience but it's still a way to play.
@@shadowmetroid18 oh nice!
I never got to play Heroscape and honestly it looks very cool. They should put out a digital version, I'd buy it.
I feel this about 40k too now that I think about it. Why do none of these wargames have virtual versions?
Cuz OTT makes too much money. But there is always tabletop simulator.
@@ninja34744 Honestly bringing up virtual warhammer brings up the obvious reason why: Doing a virtual tabletop version of the rules would bite into the true market value for getting you to buy the models and rulebooks and occasional other paraphernalia related to the game itself. At the end of the day, Citadel/Games Workshop is a model company first and foremost. TRPGs like DND or Shadowrun tend to get away with virtual adaptations as those tend to be more like computerized DMs for a scenario using the rulesets, or something like Battletech vs Mechwarrior or the World of Darkness set games which are drastic genre shifts despite focused on similar aspects of the source material.
TL;DR the reason we get Space Marine and Dawn of War is because Virtual 8th or 9th Edition would mean noone would spend a good 100+ bucks per edition. The fact that the start of 10th is doing virtual rules at the start for all factions is a bit of a miracle and 'where's the catch' sorta move tbh.
This game has a mod for it for tabletop simulator. Its good shit.
This brings back a lot of good memories setting up two tables side by side to play with friends in middle school. I would build one map to cover an entire table during the week, plotting out every tile placement, and then play games with every single piece we had on the weekends. I still have all my sets, but these days we use them for other games like D&D when we get them out of storage.
Can't wait for the full Heroscape playthrough to come out on Billiam B Sides!
Damn, I never heard about that resurrection attempt. I still have my Heroscape collection and would've jumped in to something like that. On a separate note Schleich makes great animals and dinosaurs that are pretty good size for HS. I used to get these from Target for custom characters.
Dude I had this as a kid! I totally forgot about it till now. It never came out of my closet unless I was using the “land” pieces for some other random game or activity 😂
This continues to reign supreme as the ultimate “Oh yeah, I vaguely remember that!” channel.
i played heroscape once and it's ultra friendly and approachable, it's great!
Holy hell I LOVED HeroScape as a kid. Thank you so much for covering it!
My childhood next door neighbor had a game similar Heroscape. I have no clue what it was and barely remember anything about it. I think it might have been Mighty Empires by Games Workshop though.
One of my buddies in elementary school got Heroscape when it first released. We played it several times and I remember really enjoying it. Then a few years later, another buddy introduced 40k to me. After I graduated college, I gained a crippling addiction to Guardsmen. Heroscape was a gateway drug to Warhammer.
I still have a couple sets of this game. It’s a pretty fun game.
thank you for this video billiam it's been so long since my friends literally gaslight me into thinking this didn't exist you have no idea how much i'm shaking and crying rn
FREAK YEAH, HEROSCAPE WAS NOICE
Wait...I remember this! I had a few of the toys and a landscape! Lots of really cool figures that could have done well as a show! For me, I made up my own lore regarding the characters as I played with them as a child! I NEVER knew it had connections to various worlds OR thought it was to played like a proper board game like Warhammer or ANYTHING like that! Idk what happened to the '20 sided die' or any of the other dice because I no longer have those and just have the toys sitting around in an old toy box (unless I threw them away!) and it's funny to think it had that because I would later go on to play DnD which had those EXACT dice that I would be using! I thought the WW2 gunners were literally characters in the world like the imperials from Warhammer! Also, I never knew they made other sets and had a hulk set! I HAD NO IDEA there were so many sets and that it was so HUGE!
I loved heroscape as a kid you brought so many memories back
My High school friends and I made custom character cards using Hero Clix and other figs, this game dominated many of my weekends in the early 2000's.
I can't believe they put Humbaba in but snubbed Enkidu. Now how's Gilgamesh gonna beat the bull of heaven? 0 cedar trees out of 10
I miss this game SO much, i had the original main box i got it at a flea market when i was like 14, absolutely obsessed with it for YEARS, here i am 32 and wishing i still had my set.
Man, I remember seeing these in a storeroom of Toys R Us back when they hold YGO events.
Definitely feels like I missed out on this game, I love the idea of mashing different groups from species and timelines together to fight it out in a war-like setting. Also dinosaurs and dragons.
Definitely missed out on this. 😔
Literally started this game again with a friend a few weeks ago. Super fun of Tabletop Simulator where I can finally build the epic maps of my childhood dreams.
Rest in peace Scape. You were too pure for this world.
6:41 Inquistor Matheusduo: GENESTEALER!
Me & my brother got the Swarm of the Marrow set when we were kids. Never knew how to play the game, but we had fun making landscapes for our toys to play in. I still find some tile pieces & a figure lying around in our long-since stored away toy chest. I distinctly remember Major Q10 & Tor-Kul-Na, and I still have Sonlen among mini figures we've used for DND.
My Dad became a collector of HeroScape near the end of its production and bought countless boxes for a few bucks each from every local store that had one as they were all phased out. We, quite literally, have an entire wall of our basement with hundreds of HeroScape products. I can only imagine how much money is just a few feet away from my bedroom door. When we were kids he let us open and play with the Marvel set, base starter set, and a few booster boxes, my siblings and I loved this game. We even introduced it to a friend we were growing up with at the time who ended up putting countless hours into it just like us! HeroScape is awesome man, great video.
My brother still has the sets that he got when he was a kid. My brother and I share an apartment and we're both allergic to shopping for Christmas ornaments, so we decorated our tree with the heroscape figures.
Im not seeing the giant florida battle on your other channel. I am disappointed. I was excited to watch it.
thank you so much for this video
Billiam, idk if there any chance of you ever seeing this. But I've loved Heroscape with all my heart since I was a child. They are finally relaunching Heroscape. It doesn't have a lot of coverage, and I just thought if you could do a follow up it might inspire people to come back to the game. It's such a fun experience, and I'd love for kids of this generation to get a shot at playing it 💞💞💞
I just got into 40k within the last couple years and couldn't help but feel it was waaaay too familiar for some reason. Then you unlocked the memory, I was obsessed with this game summer of 05 but was homeschooling at the time so when school started nobody had time to play it and I dropped the game. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
I liked the ad as a kid. Never got into the game, but that ad with the world war 2 guy, the samurai, and the future matrix looking dude all getting sucked into portals and brought before a winged viking man was lit af
Heroscape was my first step into actual proper hobby-board gaming. I'd seen the game online for a while as a kid but it wasn't really available where we lived, so when we went on vacation to the US I picked up both ROTV and SotM-mastersets and treasured them dearly back home. I also started to look around more to find ways to expand my collection, and over the next few years I slowly grew my collection more and more, importing a couple expansions every year with the money I got for my birthday. I was also active on Heroscapers, so seeing that mentioned was a nice blast from the past. Through Heroscape I got a taste of modern board game-design and eventually started to look more into other more complex games, but I still kept my collection around for sentimental reasons, even if it stopped coming to the table a couple years back. I recently reached the point where I could no longer defend keeping it on mys helves just for nostalgia's sake, and thought it would be best to let it go to a more loving home, but it will forever be a game that I'll look back fondly on.
YESYESYES Heroscape was and still is my absolute favorite board game. Myself, my friend, and his brother all collected sets and essentially kept it all with 1 person. Between my base mega set, my friend's brother owning the Maro set, and my friend having a bunch of side sets we could make HUGE maps. Hell during our "nerd nights" where all our friends hand out we whip out heroscape and matches can literally go from sundown to sunrise.
We even used to keep a small set of tiles, enough to make a small map in my friends locker in middle school and during down periods we'd just do quick heroscape matches. So many fond memories of this game and now I just want to play some matches dangit.
4:29 is literally the most vivid recreation of the ONLY memory I have of this game ... twas about 2004/5 idr, but my friend had a birthday/sleepover and he got this as a present. Now all of us were Hype af to play it.... but after seeing there were not 1, not 2, but 3 instruction manuals...
this is pretty much what it cultivated into X,D
on the side ... you have no idea what old great emotions you elicited with those old school AIM chatroom noises
I found a pair of those concrete walls from the starter recently during set up of a 40k game at my local FLGs...the memories flooded back to my childhood.
Great vid Billiam! I remember my dad using HeroScape tiles for his HeroClix games. You should totally cover HeroClix too Billiam. It's completely marvel-centric but very similar and lot more characters as well as a really neat in-session character progression built into the base of each hero. My favorite that i still remember is how the Hulk starts each match as one of the worst units in the game, because he's actually Bruce Banner, and only turns into the hulk after a turn or two at which point his stats get crazy
As a kid I wasn’t allowed to play fantasy games. I had to give a friend at school money to buy me D&D books which were promptly hidden. I always saw heroscape at the store and wanted it. Always thought id just buy it when I got older…
I remember I got the starter boxset as a christmas gift way back in 2005, which is what got me into miniatures. Still have them as shelf displays.
I’m kind of shocked they didn’t make a Transformers expansion being a Hasbro product.
I remember playing this as intended a a few times as a child, but boy did they get a LOT of use in our later years as DnD minis. I always loved the design of all the dragons. Ended up giving them away finally back when I moved back in 2017.
I still have a huge collection of Heroscape. Once a year around Christmas, my cousins, brothers & I build a massive board and play Heroscape for an entire day. It's a good time.
I remember having a set when I was a kid but then never learning how to play it, just building and messing around with the pieces
Oh my god! That animated commercial! It has appeared in my memory for years, but I could never remember the product!!!
My boys and I had a ping pong table that we used for D&D, magic, and a MASSIVE heroscape game (the whole ping pong table was covered). We had hours of fun and I wish I could recreate that experience without paying a mortgage
The windows vista of Dungeons and Dragons..... yeah, that really hits the nail on the head doesn't it.
My Uncle and all of his friends played the hell out of HeroScape (and City of Heroes simultaneously). They actually would build and paint custom minis using Hero Clicks and extra HeroScape Minis and they created the cards for their own characters they wanted to play including their characters from City of Heroes that they also started a comic book for (Yellow Jackets forever, I miss those days). I remember building my own custom character so I could play with them even though I was like 8 and they were, ya know, 30. For my 9th birthday he actually got me the Marvel one so my friends and I could play. I wish I still had it all but all I have left is Thanos and Hulk, but I have a lot of the tiles plus a bunch my buddy gave me for my 21st birthday and now I use them for D&D.
Only played once, had an army that had the marrow commander with the roman legion squad. Took several hours for the custom game, but it was a great experience. We did a race from one end of the map to the other, but it was like 4 tables long, had a bridge with a several story drop into a swamp. The bridge needed to be crossed in order to win, but guarding the bridge was the t-rex dude. I ended up winning, mostly due to the army i drafted, but I would definitely play this again. Highly recommend.
When he said " I don't have the money for warhammer, give me some of that poor hammer" dam I felt that 🤣
I *looooved* Heroscape, man! It came out the same year I started high school, and my dad would gift me the original Master Set for Christmas in 2005 or 2006. I had to catch up on earlier waves by begging my parents to order a butt-ton of them from an online retailer, but looking at the prices today, I'd say I made a good call! My best friends and I would stay up at one house for entire weekends to party and hang around games of Heroscape. It was so much fun, but I haven't built a map and played in over 10 years.
I'm actually getting into Warhammer 40K now as an outlet for my love of miniature painting. It *is* expensive, but it's got me looking at that nearly complete Heroscape collection and seeing dollar signs... I would not mind letting it go if it meant funding another expensive, space-consuming hobby.
someone needs to let billiam know heroscape is BACK!!!
Man my friends at church had this! Seeing the video they had a LOT of the expansions too! It was our post-church go-to game for a while. I'm glad you did a video on it.
I loved this game when it came out. I still have a huge army in my closet to this day. Wish it came back