New Year, New FAQ's

 

New FAQ's released today, 6 months in with the New(?) 9th Edition. Click the above image to check out the articale over at Warhammer-Community

Surprisingly, the C'tan Shard of the Nightbringer has only gone up 20 points, really did expect more lol

It's nearly xmas!

 Christmas is around the corner but my wife should note that it's not December yet so you can't put the decorations up! She will though lol

Games Workshop are bringing a bunch of new stuff out just in time for the festive season as revealed over on the Warhammer Community website. As previously mentioned, this includes the new the BattleForce box sets:

Not only that, it also includes the new Blood Angels Codex Supplement (yay!), Blood Angels Dice (yay!), Blood Angels Datacards (yay!) and the Blood Angels Combat Patrol box (Dear Santa....):

Not only that, there is also a newDeath Company Intercessor kit and a Assault Intercessor kit:

And it just keeps coming, as the new Gladiator Implusor is also going on pre-order along with all of the above!

I need another job to go along with my day job lol Time to write that letter to Santa...

Looking Back - HeroQuest

 Writing previously about SpaceHulk, got me thinking about HeroQuest. 

When I was growing up there was a little store in my town that sold video games for the good old ZX Spectrum, Amstrad etc. and in the corner of this store was a column of metal fantasy figures hanging in rows. This was my first introduction to Citadel Miniatures and the Fantasy Genre. 

I can't remember which came first, SpaceHulk or HeroQuest in what we started with gaming wise but it was definitely influenced by these little metal miniatures.

This was an exciting board game for the teenage me. Totally different from anything I had played before, full of a bits and pieces, doors and miniatures. It came with 4 heroes: a Barbarian, a Dwarf, an Elf and Wizard which I was excited to paint (would hate to see how badly I had painted them now).

On top of that the monsters were also miniatures, brining substance to creatures I had only read about previously. These monsters were  Orcs, Goblins, Fimir, Chaos Warriors, a Chaos Warlock, a Gargoyle, Skeletons,  Zombies and Mummies.

Doors, chests, bookcases, I all remember being part of the kit; what I don't remember is much of the game play itself (I'm getting old, what can I say). I also remember there being a number of expansions to the original, though I don't remember having played any of them.

Not long after, in the same year, came Advanced HeroQuest.

Of course, having the original, we had to get this. It was a more dynamic version of the original with the main game board now gone and replaced with interlocking tiles. That aside though, game play pretty much stayed the same from what I remember.

Fast forward to 2020 and there is a new version coming via a Kickstarter(?) project from Hasbro themselves over at Hasbro Pulse and available in the UK via Zavvi priced at £150. I love to get this but sadly I can't justify it :(

It looks like a fantastic update to the original, the miniatures look far more detailed, the old part cardboard doorways are now full plastic along with the furniture.