From SanderS: More Heroquest! (175 points)

 Hoi,

If you have followed earlier Challenges you might have noticed that I am a major fan of the old Heroquest game. Both the game and it's expansions itself as the rule engine behind it really are simple and well balanced and very usable for other themed games. I use the rules for 3D gaming in the GI Joe, He-Man and many other universes by creating custom cards using Heroquest statistics etc. 

So when Hasbro decided to re-release the game I was mildly interested where they would take it. Since I already own two old boxed sets and most of the expansions I never was going to buy my own new set and am only interested in some of the new expansions like Mage of the Mirror, but my friend Martijn wanted one painted up for the gaming club so I set to work. The furniture I have finished well before the Challenge started  so that's not part of this post. The miniatures however are a different story; I was loath to start with the painting of them because most of the figures are not very good at all. Shady poses, low on detail and floppy soft plastic are some of their faults. But I wanted to get them done so people could enjoy the game at the club, thus inspired I set to work.

Let's start with the monsters or evil Dungeon Dwellers. The classic Heroquest baddies are the likes of the Skellies, zombies and mummies.

My favorite baddies remain the Orcs and Goblins, for some reason Hasbro has seen fit to include female Orcs and Goblins, a nice touch in itself but why are they in totally unsuited clothing?

The hardest to kill are the Chaos Warriors or Dread Warriors as they are now called. I have painted the four miniatures included up as warriors of each Chaos God respectively. 

The worst figures in the box are the "Abominations" and abominations they are. While Hasbro was able to get the license for the MB part of the game, they were unable to obtain the rights to the parts of the game that were intellectual property of Games Workshop and so were not allowed to use the Fimirs as evil minions. They solved that by creating these fishy types of monster. Why would these creatures live in a Dungeon environment? Martijn always gives me all freedom to paint the stuff up any which way I like so I decided to go for a "Finding Nemo" theme.

 

Next up are the two big monster "End Bosses" the Gargoyle (Blood Thirster anyone?) and the Evil Wizard. I must say I liked painting the Evil Wizard a lot, he might actually be my favourite figure in the box.

Last but not least the Heroes that resemble the players on the board. The wizard and Barbarian are most recognisably Old School HQ and the Dwarf looks the part too. As a nice twist they changed the gender of the Elf to a well armoured female Elven warrior. 

Now if I am not mistaken there are 35 miniatures in this lot and times 5 points that makes 175 points for the leader board.

I seem to remember playing Heroquest a couple of times back in the day, and had seen it had been re-released. It's a shame that Hasbro went with a horrible material for the figures, but you've done a great job bringing them to life.

Tamsin