Heroquest remake by Hasbro - The BIG discussion thread

[Leander]

Do you still play the new version?

Thanks to the app we played The Trial after many years of inactivity...two aduls and two children. Unfortunately, the experience became annoying soon as the weaknesses of the game started to take effect: tight rooms, small board....one hero waits in front of a door, killing monsters one by one...and heroes swapping positions.

The app's AI is pretty bad with poor decisions and mosters that do not use their full potential...monster 1 could attack, move away, monster 2 could move to attack the same hero...but nooooo.

There is no German narrator (sound) nor is there German cards of spells...I know that hiring a professional speaker might be expensive but just add screenshots of the German cards. You cannot press and hold furniture to know what's what....and having to roll for the monster you just attacked is odd as well.

I wanted to cast Fire of Wrath with the text "attack any one monster"...but the error "no line of sight" popped up...looks like a bug.

A real Zargon would not send his monsters in front of the door one by one...where to heroes attack the single square and two other heroes swap positions with the first two heroes. The Gargoyle, orcs, chaos warriors would wait in the boss room and lure the heroes in instead....but the app is not smart.

Therefore, many play with house rules or modular tiles...but if you want to play with the app, you are forced to be ready for the true Heroquest experience in all its glory but all weaknesses.

How do you handle line of sight? Can the wizard cast his healing spell on another hero a) that is standing behind a monster b) standing behind another hero?

[Kurgan]

I suppose if you are using the app you can try to work around its weaknesses, but generally under the NA rules you need clear line of sight to cast a spell, so a Hero who is "in the way" of the target can block the spell.

[SirRick]

Yesterday on Reddit, I saw an interesting comparison between the Pledge version of HeroQuest, and the Retail version.
I didn’t realize the retail version has a smaller box.

The internal layout is the same, just less wasted space. The trays for the minis and the furniture are apparently much better, and the pieces just drop in and are easy to remove (I believe the Frozen Horror trays are the same way from photos I’ve seen, but I haven’t received my copy yet).

People also claim the minis in the retail version are possibly more detailed or just assembled better compared to some Pledge copies looking rushed. I can’t confirm this because I was lucky and my pledge version looked just fine with the exception of a small number of bent weapons which were easy to fix (the Dread Warriors, and the Barbarian).

The only issue I see with the Retail version is if you want to sleeve your cards you can’t store them in the box without a custom storage solution. The Pledge version has that white cardboard platform, which I might use to store stacks of sleeved cards and tiles underneath.

So anyone who missed the pledge drive and bought the retail version, at least you likely have a slightly superior version of the base game.

[Kurgan]

There's a new box for the retail version. That is news! I think originally it DID have the bigger box like the pledge version. Right?

KK & ROTWL retail also have black backing to the tiles instead of just being rough white (plain card) on the back.

[SirRick]

There's a new box for the retail version. That is news! I think originally it DID have the bigger box like the pledge version. Right?

KK & ROTWL retail also have black backing to the tiles instead of just being rough white (plain card) on the back.

I think you are right. In the pictures I saw, the larger box had a barcode on the bottom side of the box, my pledge version does not have such a barcode, so there must have been a larger sized retail version at first.

Also I finally opened my KK and RotWL quest packs from my pledge stuff today, and was a little disappointed by the plain white backing on the tiles. It’s funny that you happened to mention it shortly after I noticed this.

[Kurgan]

My 1991 KK & ROTWL have white backed tiles (you can tell they are thinner and of a lesser quality print than the game system). It makes them easier to pick out of a pile of tiles when you're cleaning up (or selling it)...

I have seen online classic KK & ROTWL with the black backing (much like the Spiral Staircase and double block squaresin the GS), which I assume was the norm for the EU releases, so it's only fitting.

Again easy to pick them out from a pile, and hopefully easier to "push along" the board with your finger for the Death Mist/Rolling Boulder tiles that are intended to move.

[TheLastChaosWarrior]

My blocked square tiles I got in my ATOH expansion were printed way off centre, so much so I flipped them and used them for home printed traps instead.

[Kurgan]

Off center printed tiles (and even cards) were mentioned in the draft notes in 1992 from Lucapaschi's stash indicating it was a common problem back in the day with the machines Milton Bradley had access to.

[iKarith]

There's a new box for the retail version. That is news! I think originally it DID have the bigger box like the pledge version. Right?

KK & ROTWL retail also have black backing to the tiles instead of just being rough white (plain card) on the back.

I've got a big retail box. I intend to scan it as soon as I figure out HOW to reasonably do so!

[TheLastChaosWarrior]

What I HATE is the copyright stuff printed in the corners of the big tiles!
Very horrible to look at!