Heroquest remake by Hasbro - The BIG discussion thread

[Kurgan]

For Reaper Mini there is the Ghoul Queen (no skull face)

Female Vampire

Dark Elf Priestess

Female Necromancer

Female Wraith

Mummy Lich

Etsy has some custom skull headed female HeroQuest resin printed figures...

Check ebay, as some figures can be out of stock but still in the wild...



WizKidz "Slaad" kind of remind me of the abominations. More lizard-like, but similar look...

[Kurgan]

Want cute, big-headed (but not funko pop) figures to more closely match the Goblins/Warlock?

Try the Bonesylvanians... and Mouselings for everything else (thanks reaper).

[nathanielz]

About reaper mini bones, are they 28mm scale? They seem smaller than HQ, or maybe I'm mistaken...

[Kurgan]

They're the same "heroic" scale (which seems to be all over the place with miniatures these days). They're not really smaller than the Classic originals. Sometimes they're bigger or smaller, but many examples exist that are similar.

The GW Classic Heroquest Miniatures have the well known exaggerated Head/Hand sizes, while the Reaper Miniatures tend to have the "late 1980's body builder/supermodel" physiques. Otherwise they're pretty comparable if you are selective.

As you can see, they're almost as close as the difference between the GW (Game System, AtOH, WOM) and non-GW (EQP, BQP) style miniatures. Compare for example the Elf from the GS's head to the heads of the Elf Warriors/Archers from BQP. Obviously the Ogres and "Men at Arms" (Mercenaries) were GW designs.

Yes, there are some examples of them being "smaller" (the goblins in general are much smaller, and the Mummies are slimmer), while others are larger (the Orcs in general, for example). Reaper Ogres are way bigger (and look cool, like giants) than the HQ ogres (which look like fat, hillbilly mutant Orcs).

The "Winter Wolf" Reaper mini is comparable to the "Giant Wolf" even if its pose is not as dynamic (the Warg is even closer in terms of scale, but different size head), while the "wolf familiars" are tiny. A good judge of scale is based on price, the more expensive, the bigger (unless it's a multi-pack which will have a number in the name).

Examples below (yes, those are custom bases on the RBs, even if you trimmed them, it would be pretty similar):

[Credulous]

Okay I don't see 4 million happening at this point which is a real shame as joes quest pack is what I'd be interested in now.
But I'm sure it could be a decent expansion just toss in a few more orcs and a couple treasure cards.
Oh well let's see what the day brings.

indeed. At this point, 3.4 looks highly likely. 3.6 less so (But that figure would be a great Kessandria...).

I would say 3.6 is looking very likely now, having been watching the numbers tick up. Even if it slows down overnight whilst US sleeps. 3.8 and 4.0 will take some real momentum over last 24 hours but it has sped up massively today.

[Kurgan]

Two extra (less cool looking) Abominations unlocked, I see. Not too surprising...

They claimed in the Q&A (reading off a script) that the unmet goals won't be made available for purchase. So what we get is what we get. I guess they don't have to worry since they're just digital 3d models at this point.

I frankly don't care about the others. Sure, having more quests is always cool, but frankly I'm not convinced they would have come up with anything cooler than what the community here can produce. No offense to that epic guy. I agree that the Dread warriors isn't too much of a stretch (with the he-man swords instead of those huge maces), but beyond that I predict it won't go anywhere. We're not getting the Dragon Chess piece, sorry guys.

As cool as it can be to have a special figure for every named character in a quest, us Classic players always used the Chaos Warlock (or the Orc with the notched sword) and never worried about it.

Don't pledge your life savings to "Max out" this fundraiser, it's not worth it, even for all the money you can scalp them for on Ebay... (please don't).

Then again as others have speculated, for all we know the final Goal has ALREADY been met, and they're just pretending its going along like this, to keep us refreshing and so forth... it's part of the theater of the whole thing.

[Oftkilted]

Day 1: $1,000,000 (actually hit 1 million 30min before 24 hours)
Day 2: $267,000 in Sales
Day 3: $151,000 in Sales
Day 4: $102,000 in Sales
Day 5: $65,000 in Sales
Day 6: $52,500 in Sales
Day 7: $39,698 in Sales
Day 8: $43,647 in Sales
Day 9: $38,097 in Sales
Day 10: $34,048 in Sales
Day 11: $26,248 in Sales
Day 12: $24,049 in Sales
Day 13: $21,848 in Sales
Day 14: $20,448 in Sales
Day 15: $15,799 in Sales
Day 16: $19,899 in Sales
Day 17: $134,741 in Sales
Day 18: $25,445 in Sales
Day 19: $19,599 in Sales
Day 20: $17,949 in Sales
Day 21: $15,399 in Sales
Day 22: $14,049 in Sales
Day 23: $198,837 in Sales Total sales as of Day 23: $2,347,191

Day 24: ?
Day 25: ?
Day 26: (total for 24, 25 and 26 = $53,809) to total at $2,401,000
Day 27: $17,836 in Sales Total of $2,418,836 as of 7pm GMT-4
Day 28: $14,899 in sales Total of $2,433,735 as of 7pm GMT-4
Day 29: $63,646 in sales Total of $2,497,381 as of 8:15PM
Day 30: $46,297 in sales Total of $2,543,678 as of 8:25PM
Day 31: $18,049 in sales Total of $2,561,727 as of 8:25PM
Day 32: $17,848 in sales Total of $2,579,575 as of 8:25PM GMT -4
Day 33: $12,950 in sales Total of $2,592,525 as of 8:25PM
Day 34: $16,646 in sales Total of $2,609,171 as of 8:25PM
Day 35: $20,801 in sales Total of $2,629,972 as of 8:25PM
Day 36: $28,648 in sales Total of $2,658,620 as of 8:25PM
Day 37: $97,943 in sales Total of $2,756,563 as of 8:25PM
Day 38: $36,447 in sales Total of $2,793,010 as of 8:49pm
Day 39: $30,398 in sales total of $2,823,408 as of 8:25PM
Day 40: $46,197 in sales total of $2,869,605 Pledged as of 8:25PM
Day 41: $76,495 in sales total of $2,946,100 pledged as of 8:25PM
Day 42: $109,343K in Sales total of $3,055,443 pledged as of 8:30PM
Day 43: $58,896 in sales total of $3,114,339 (~392 MT copies)
Day 44: $194,287 in pledges total of $3,308,626 in Pledges as of 8:30PM GMT-4 (~1295 MT copies)

Pledges tripled from yesterday. We should see any last international bumps as tomorrow is the end of the crowdfunding period.

The sales trends continue to rise reaching a moving average of ~$97/k Day over the past 5 days (since the 39th.)
8 Day average ~$81.25k/Day (counting from the 35th)
There is 1 Days left in the campaign.

Overall the numbers are continuing their upward climb over the past 5 and 8 days.

The Alt Abomination is unlocked, next unlock is the Dread Warrior alternate Sculpt at the $3.4M Stretch Goal will require ~$91.4K, or ~610 Mythic Tier pledges.

The alt-sculpt Dread Warlock unlocks at $3.6M in $291.4k or 1943 Mythic Tier pledges

The alt-sculpt Gargoyle unlocks at $3.8M at ~$491.4K or 3,277 pledges at Mythic Tier

To reach the final stretch goal with Quest Book by Joe Manganiello with the Dragon Miniature and Game Tiles would require $691,374 or 4,610 pledges at Mythic Tier level.

[Kurgan]

I admit, I will miss these tally fundraising tracker posts from you, Oftkilted.

[Oftkilted]

Thanks! It’s been interesting looking at the number trending. And tracking it based on number of Mythic Tier sold. There will be one last one in the final hours before everything grinds tk a close ... so who knows what will happen?

Day 2 sales were $267k and day 44 was nearly 200k.

It isn’t impossible that we see another 4610 mythic tier pledges tomorrow! This is actually the first crowdfunding I’ve participated in. It’s been ... interesting watching it. Either way I’ll have miniatures to paint. I suppose that I’ll have to make that determination on whether i want to try and remove the miniature from their bases ... given that they’re not sprue cast.

I’m oddly nostalgically fond of the square bases. And yet the circular bases have their own merit.

[arntisdale]

Speaking of too many toys....
That Darkest Dungeon does look cool, I've looked through the campaign page quite a few times.
I would like to have that one, but after checking out the minis I thought there's no way my wife will like this one!
... and there's the fact that I'm not sure I'll ever have time for it between HeroQuest, Descent 1st Ed, Gloomhaven and everything else.

Have you played Decent 1e yet? I picked up the base set for like $30 years ago, then got all the expansions and quest book in one go for a song off gumtree a few years after that, all still sealed except the core lol. I picked up a few metal lieutenants, but missing most of them. I love the look, but my problem is length of play, my only other player ATM is my kids and one gets bored and the other takes 10 years to have a turn because he wants it to be perfect and maps are already kinda long. (Both are on the spectrum and we all have ADD so it's hard to co-ordinate lol)

It's been a bit since I busted it out though might need to again. We've been playing a bit of the Doom boardgame (the later one, although I also have the old one unplayed) and that's going ok except for the turns being drawn out... And the younger one insisting that pickups need to be turned in to a Kirby plush who is acting as a shopkeeper in a demon infested space station.

We do manage to play HQ sometimes, but I do need to spice things up with random events like bookcases falling over onto enemies to appease the youngest haha.

I have indeed played Descent 1e! It's up there on my fav games list! I got the base + all expansions, don't have any of the lieutenants, but I haven't got to RTL yet. I'm working through the main campaign + expansion campaigns. I've played a few times with my wife & mom (I am, of course, the overlord), which was tedious because neither of them are really gamers, but we we're able to leave it on the table. My best sessions are with my uncles. I usually schedule up a weekend with them once and a while and we play for about 2 days, taking breaks for all the usual stuff. I'm headed up to see them next weekend, woohoo!!!

It's definitely not a game for the lightweight gamer. Thankfully I can count on my uncles to do some hardcore dungeon diving for hours at a time. We've had some pretty epic games! Times when they thought they were doomed and then pulled it off, times where they thought they had it then I got 'em. It's been 10 months since I last played with them because of this covid crap. Not that they didn't want to play, it just took me this long to convince my wife that I'm safer hanging out with my uncles than I am going to the store....

Anyway....
Descent is AWESEOME.