Heroscape Review - Still Worth It?

Join us as we take a look at Heroscape from MB Games and see whether its worth shelling out truck loads of dosh to play it today.

[Lordfraggor]

Heroscape is in my Top 5 ever, put indecent amount of money in those old fashioned minis. This game is simply juicy.

[Samuel-kmyf]

Heroscape is my all time favorite game - no competition. I own multiples of all master sets, terrain expansions and figure expansions. Bloody brilliant and fun game!

[marshalturner]

Solid review! I just bought the valkyrie master set off of facebook out of pure nostalgia. Excited that the new re-release of Heroscape has just happened!

[mattd.]

I remember this game from when I was a kid. Had lots of fun with it back in the day.

[Archytas-Leroy]

I have two sets and play this at least once a year. Its a fun, customizable game.

[CraigSnodgrass]

Found the core set at a yardsale this weekend for $1! It's complete with what I think are a couple of booster packs. Never played it but looking forward to it!

[darkaiel]

I was just randomly browsing some of my favorite old tabletop games and found this. Great review, great reviewer! I look forward to more!

[michaelh.]

They should bring back Heroscape. One thing that Arena of the Planeswalkers did right was the base board already set up. Arena of the Planeswalkers base board plus Heroscape terrain. Fast to set up and overall really fun

[kimobruns]

Amazing video! So good to see Heroscape being still alive after all that time. Looking forward to see more videos! Keep the good work up

[petermillen]

Thanks for posting.
I watched the video totally confident that you would be giving a thumbs up. If you had not, I should have...been vexed.
Love, love, love, love Heroscape. Buy a base set, maybe some extra tiles and make or proxy anything else... I will not pay £100+ for three or four plastic toy soldiers. Join Heroscapers, and you have a lifetime for exploring the game.
I doubt it will ever be reprinted and if they did they would find a way to make all existing collections obsolete.
With practice you can set up, play and tear down in a single day.
Sorry, I am gushing.

[Olorin]

Normally I don't recommend doing this, but given how good this game is and how expensive/hard to find parts of it are, I highly, highly recommend checking out the tabletop simulator module for it. It's a fantastic way to play, unlike with more hidden-information type wargames like columbia block games.

[shardgunner]

heroscape came out when I was like, ten maybe, and I think it cemented my love of the Miniature world. Like, it got me interested in dnd mini’s, which led into the actual game, and I’m only interested in has to be heroscape. But nothing quite captures that childlike charm of this game. It’s just so flashy, and honestly a kids dream. What child doesn’t wanna see the army man fight a dragon . . .but there’s also robots and zombies. It was just the perfect storm at the perfect time for me. I’ll never get over this damn game

[desertdweller]

All good points on the pros and cons. I have a ton of Heroscape worth (now) thousands apparently. Just hard to find time to play it. Thinking to sell it, got offers too, but reluctant to let it go.

[themesongfan]

Heroscape is coming back! Hasbro has announced Heroscape: Age of Annihilation is coming! It will soon be worth it again!

[gix.y]

I loved this game growing up, not only would be play normally but we'd make up new games with it too. We had so many little addons and castles and whatnot I'm so devastated that it's almost all missing after moving so much over the years

[danielmarlett]

I have the base set and Orm's return. Unfortunately I was young and broke when this product was on sale but I had friends who bought everything so at least I got to try it out. Come on Hasbro, I want to give you my money.

[judgemario]

I have never played Heroscape, but I actually really enjoyed the Planeswalker game and expansions. I like the magic cards, which I get the impression are not part of Heroscape. I wish Planeswalker had the nice painted minis and more terrain tiles (I bought a bunch to add elevation to the game), but maybe it’s a good place to dip your toes into the Heroscape system since it’s still pretty cheap to get a copy?

I think I’m going to buy the Heroscape Valkyrie set to add to my Planeswalker game. I think they’re close enough that they’d probably work.

Happy gaming to you. Looking forward to the next review.

[zool]

I was fortunate to get this game as it came out and accumulated multiple base sets of each base set and multiple of each expansion. I would agree with the cons, the way we play its one 8 hour day to set up and build armys, one 10 hour day to play and 4 hours to put away. Due to the huge time commitment, it rarely happens.

[lostboy]

Hasbro pulse just announced they’re redoing this game. Fingers crossed they do it justice. Also a great video! Sub!

[nathanielpatterson]

I'd like to introduce everyone here to a video game called Battle Brothers. It's a hex based strategy game fans of Heroscape will enjoy.