WIZARDS OF MORCAR discussion

[Vorimir]

Maybe they can go with a small box based in the "The dark company" expansion. They can work the quests to be played in a normal way and add some black color mercenaries as enemies and some Doomguards. It can fit a 35 euros box.

[Kurgan]

I would love to see black plastic figures in remake HeroQuest (they existed officially in BattleMasters, but the black plastic HeroQuest figures were all given away at conventions that were leftover from the factory process, apparently taken as souvenirs after the franchise ended).

The only problem with them is that it's hard to see the detail on them (fine for painting, some prefer to work with black vs. white or gray) without careful lightning conditions as many play without painting their miniatures. At least the Battlemasters figures had colorful stickers on the shields and the contrast of the movement trays and unit flags.

[LucaRocks]

Some type of beastmen would be a no brainer. Wouldn't have to be the GW ones but something like that. Black plastic would be oOK by me. Just not too dark. They could also call them something else if Beastmen is copyrighted.

I nominate the big guy on the back of the old HQ monster cards to be the basis of the new type of Beastmen.

I would also like that monster in the old dragon strike board game... maybe not here but some day ... The Man Scorpion. Or the Demon King mechanic from Keys to the Kingdom. They had some gnarly monsters too. I think there was a web witch and a flying werewolf lol! Great stuff!

[TheLastChaosWarrior]

Why do people care about the colour of the plastic? They get painted anyway?
And I have just painted my copy of the Dragon strike Man scorpion!!!!
I'm giving it a Rogue-like infinite dagger throw attack twice per turn as a ranged attack and double attack with poison damage if it causes damage as a melee attack.
For me the miniature will always be known as Scorpion King!!!

[Kurgan]

Because many don't paint their figures... and are nostalgic about the original unit colors. Now that AH has felt free to kind of break through those constraints who knows, though making them all white/biege/gray is the most boring and just looks like "we couldn't be bothered" (even though as many have pointed out back in the day we might have imagined an "all gray" set coming meaning "really powerful/special" monsters).

Most board games that had plastic pieces presented them in a variety of colors (unless we're talking chess or checkers, but even there red was a popular choice not just black and white), while hobby kits intended for painting kept them to black/gray/white (I guess you could add silver for bare "white metal" minis though metal has largely been edged out by plastic even for wargaming mostly to save on costs). So when you've seen enough of these hobby kits it just looks unfinished.

[LucaRocks]

I also don't want the minis painted. Or only a select few. I feel that the monochromatic colors adds to the flavor of the expansion as well .

For FH, for example, I got a custom Heroquest game board mat that look properly icy. Having the minis in that blue color makes it feel like we are in a new place, believe it or not. Just like KK or ROTWL being heavy on green or white minis kind of changes the flavor of those expansions.

[TheLastChaosWarrior]

Yes I have a FH Ice themed board mat as well, and am waiting arrival of my swamp themed one for JoD and MotBm.
I love themed board mats.

[LucaRocks]

Not to go too off topic but which JOD board did you get?

There's a seller on Etsy who made minis for the spawnlings. I might have to pick those up too!

[wallydubbs]

It seems like originally there was a design behind the colors: Heroes Red; Undead White; Green skins Green; Forces of Chaos Gray. The remake followed this to an extent, but they placed Frozen Horror mercenaries as Gray, while the Frozen Horror monsters were a frosty light blue. They ended up doing the Elven Miniatures the same color. One thing they did change, that I'm glad they did, was make the Female Barbarian and Male Elf Red.
But they changed up a few things with later expansions, though you can understand that there IS a pattern as the new Orc & Goblin Archers are indeed Green. The Cultists are Gray, as they should be. The Skeleton Archers and Skullblights are Undead. The Serpent & Blightcrawler are "Blightcreatures" using the Neon Green color, but to avoid confusion between Cultists and Blightweavers we have a color difference.
There's some confusion in Against the Ogre Hoard as the 2 space Ogres are a tan color but the Ogre Warriors are Gray, possibly to correspond to Ogres from Mage of the Mirror.
The miniatures accompanying Prophecy of Telor and Spirit Queen's Torments were only a translucent Blue or Orange to accompany the box art. I think it was just a cheap escape so they didn't have to reprint the figurines in the old and different plastic colors.

[gootchute]

I was going to comment this in the interview with Baker thread but it is locked for some reason.

I wonder if WoZ will have his original epilogue written for WoM, since he mentions losing the AtOH one but not that one?