Hasbro 2021 Remake: Public Unboxings ARE HERE!

[Kurgan]

Interesting. Maybe the next "Unboxing" should be someone doing a video of a play-through of a few quests with the app? Could do well on Twitch.

"Darkfire Crag" replaces Blackfire Crag, as expected...

[Kurgan]

Posted a HeroQuest News Roundup video.

Anybody else on the list finally get your delivery date?

[Kurgan]

Another unboxing... one of many, this time Robert Gagne...

From BigTCGFan

Edit: links fixed!

[Kurgan]

Update from Always Board Never Boring about availability on retail...

King Keneth covers the Mythic box...

[Kurgan]

Another unboxing/review this time from Omusl on youtube

[Kurgan]

More unboxings: David Stewart on youtube...

A nice run-down by AmalgamAsh

[Kurgan]

Gamestop sponsored a guy who shows the Knights (at 9:44) here

[HispaZargon]

Gamestop sponsored a guy who shows the Knights (at 9:44) here

Unfortunately the back of their skill cards is not shown.

[Kurgan]

Good point. I am sure it looks the same as their hero card, but interesting they wouldn't show it, those look to be final products not proofs (even have the linen finish on the cards).


So just thinking about the basic differences in the new Game System vs. the classic NA that buyers would notice...

New:
4 Extra Artifacts (Fortune's Longsword, Ring of Fortitude, Phantom Blade, Rod of Telekinesis)
4 New (to NA) Equipment cards (Hand Axe, Bracers, Potion of Defense, Holy Water)
(changed Orc distributions: 2 each of four designs instead of 2, 2, 3, 1)
Several monsters are armed with different weapons/armor and some of them are explicitly female
Abominations (fish men) replace Fimirs
Equipment Deck replaces Armory board (with extra copies of certain cards)
Hero character boards replaced by standard size hero cards with actions placed onto separate "rule" cards
1 "mystery tile" showing Zargon stone skull symbol on one side and Mentor eye seal on reverse
Elf hero is now female
Rule/Quest book: name changes to remove/alter direct references to Warhammer Fantasy lore sprinkled throughout, slight alterations to monster lore
(also reflected on monster cards & evil sorcerer spell cards)

Materials changes:
All tiles/cards (including GM screen) have light linen (textured) finish on both sides
Larger quad-fold board (larger, 1 inch squares) with "heroquest" logo on the side edge instead of the bottom
Slightly larger characters with round bases instead of square (on hard rubbery polymer instead of rigid plastic), standing taller due to base height, pre-glued
Skulls on Sprues, rats loose (no pegs, attach to furniture with glue if desired)
Larger 1 inch tiles
Larger plastic dice with square corners, and larger character sheets on thicker paper
Magazine style satin? (shiny) finish paper for rule/quest books in full color, stitched instead of stapled
Box is more square instead of rectangular and taller/deeper with linen finish and no "instructions" on the underside (brown instead of white) with inner white cardboard spacefiller
Miniatures are housed in styrene trays that are encased in smooth cardboard sleeves with repeat of box cover art
All plastic furniture (harder than plastic used on character minis) in solid color (brown or gray)

HasbroPulse bonus: 4 gender swaps of the classic heroes (with alt hero cards) & (limited edition) Sir Ragnar figure (in heroic red) in small box with mini-tray

I see from videos on youtube that the Companion App uses all the assets from the Remake GS but appears to have each hero in a "slot." So Slot 1 is the male or female barbarian. I assume the Mythic heroes are still in there, in their own slots (not sure if you can only have four or if you can have more, but you can have less than four). Treasure search apparently does nothing (tells you to draw a card). You have access to all (?) the Artifacts, at least you have the KK/ROTWL ones not just the GS.

[cynthialee]

Treasure Search Button will reveal any special treasure or quest object in most cases.

However....In Prince Magnus Gold though when you find the treasure chests the search tells you to take a card. It does not tell you that you have found the gold or that you have to be next to a chest and then use the pick up button it has off to the side for this room. Minor thing.
One thing I didn't like is that it doesn't offer the chance to steal the Princes gold and become outlaw of the kingdom.

The app lets you move the heroes as many spaces you may want every turn.
For what it is meant to do, the app is pretty cool. But there is no AI involved really. It just Zombie moves the monsters to the easiest target, which makes kitting really easy. No smarts to the system at all, monsters never take an attack, then move out of the way so another monster gets a go at the hero.