Favourite Hero

[Davane]

I normally end up playing Morcar, but if given the choice, I tend to play more martial characters like the Barbarian. Charging in first, being the meatshield, and defending my teammates, is something I really enjoy doing, for some reason - especially when said heroes often end up as leaders and tacticians of the party. Ironically, I am slightly more defensive than offensive, favouring sword and board tanks, but with the absence of any real tank in HQ, I'd go Barbarian every time.

When it comes to custom characters, I will often go with a Warrior/Knight that starts with a Shield as a fifth character, swapping three dice of attack for three dice of defence. It's worth noting that the sixth character I often include in HQ, for those times when I am running a 6 player game, is an Archer, which starts with a 2 die ranged attack (technically, a Shortbow). I will often allow these characters to replace the Dwarf and Elf, respectfully, if they are really in demand, turning HQ party composition into something more akin to AHQ or WHQ...

[Kurgan]

... or maybe Gauntlet (Warrior, Wizard, Elf/Archer, armored Valkyrie).

[Super Saiyan Musashi]

I normally end up playing Morcar, but if given the choice, I tend to play more martial characters like the Barbarian. Charging in first, being the meatshield, and defending my teammates, is something I really enjoy doing, for some reason - especially when said heroes often end up as leaders and tacticians of the party. Ironically, I am slightly more defensive than offensive, favouring sword and board tanks, but with the absence of any real tank in HQ, I'd go Barbarian every time.

When it comes to custom characters, I will often go with a Warrior/Knight that starts with a Shield as a fifth character, swapping three dice of attack for three dice of defence. It's worth noting that the sixth character I often include in HQ, for those times when I am running a 6 player game, is an Archer, which starts with a 2 die ranged attack (technically, a Shortbow). I will often allow these characters to replace the Dwarf and Elf, respectfully, if they are really in demand, turning HQ party composition into something more akin to AHQ or WHQ...

Hrm..Pardon the plug, but if you like being the meat shield, and are open to custom classes, consider giving my Sentinel a try: viewtopic.php?f=35&t=2856

[Cael Darkhollow]

... or maybe Gauntlet (Warrior, Wizard, Elf/Archer, armored Valkyrie).

The Gauntlet valkyrie is really just the female Barbarian HQ hero!

I almost always play the game as Morcar/Zargon but I prefer to play the dwarf when playing as a hero.

[Kurgan]

It does look a lot like her! The miniature doesn't necessarily reflect the starting gear of course (the Elf is the only one who does I think).

When I really look back we tended to not have enough players so we ended up controlling 3 or 4 heroes at a time (never had less than 4 heroes in a game). So I probably played the four heroes the most, while my brother played Zargon the most. Nowadays I end up playing Zargon the most or I play a single Hero, and for that, as before, if I have a choice, I'll pick the Elf, or a custom Hero.

[ajjohnsen]

I prefer to play as The Evil Wizard since I own the game and made all the homebrew stuff (thank you Inn Members!!) for the game, so it makes the most sense for me to play the "Manager" role

If I were to play as a hero in my game though I'd go with the Wizard as he gets lots of spells and has more strategy than just rolling combat dice; not that there's anything wrong with that!