A few years back I bought a copy of the Heroscape "Rise of the Valkyrie" master set at a carboot sale. York racecourse carboot I seem to remember... well it's been gathering dust on a top shelf ever since, the kids have been too small to play it, and although my wife likes to play boardgames - I got the game out once and set it up, my wife just looked at it and raised her eyebrows. It went back in the box.
I've been going semi-regularly to the
Sheffield Boardgames Club for about a year and a half now, I broached the subject of Heroscape with some of the other regulars - no one had played it, but a few were interested. So I finally got round to organising a Heroscape night at my house this weekend.
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| 4 players in 2 teams... troops deployed and ready for battle. |
There were 4 of us in total, Karl, Dave, Kes and myself. We played 2 games from the pre-set scenarios that come in the rules, one as 4 individuals - and one as two teams of two.
In the first game Kes had Mimring the dragon - but left himself vulnerable and got completely trashed by Dave with his flying Valkyrie and grenade throwing army squad, whilst Karl and myself floundered around with slow moving troops not getting anywhere near the action fast enough....
In the team game, on one side Dave had the dragon and Karl had squads of vikings and men in black... whilst Kes had robot warriors & a Norse Warrior and I had a squad of alien Marro soldiers and an Army General. Dave's dragon was an easy target and was dead by the end of the first round... and then it didn't take us long to finish off Karl's squads...
The rules seemed pretty straight forward, easy to pick up - and good fun. I feel that now we've got the hang of it, we could get more into the tactics and play more games in a shorter time. Great stuff, I'm glad I finally got it out of the box.
Heroscape is no longer in print, after doing a little bit of research I found a load of information at
http://www.heroscapers.com/community/blog.php?u=2 there is an online community there that produce homemade cards for various heroes (mainly using figures from Heroclix) which is quite interesting. Over the years there were 10 series of expansion sets for Heroscape - plus another couple of Big "master set" boxes. A search on ebay will find a load of this stuff.... and it is not cheap. I've got my eye on a copy of the 2nd master set "Swarm of the Marro" to add to this one.... maybe one day.....
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Karl and Dave reflect on their defeat. Kes gloats and points out something tactical someone could have done.
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| The next morning.... the kids enjoying some modular fun! |
