Is this based off Hero Quest?

[PocketYoda]

As per title, if so this is a must buy for me...only one step down from Space crusade..

[B0Tzerker]

No this is based on Warhammer Quest, you may find the boardgame for sale on ebay, but it's a collectors item now. I own two, one opened and one factory sealed.

[PocketYoda]

What was the differences?

[B0Tzerker]

I don't know, I don't own Hero Quest.

[PocketYoda]

You can download it on C64 emulator i think

[B0Tzerker]

I'm not going to download it. To sum up Warhammer Quest, imagine dungeons and dragons simplified to a board game. Couple friends sit down, create their hero through rolling dice. One player is chosen as the dungeon master to read the story and manage the game. There's a couple of card decks to draw from that determine how the dungeon ends up looking and events your party has to deal with. Dice rolls manage number of monsters, fights, and movement.

[PocketYoda]

Originally posted by Rckm Sckm Skirmishers:

I'm not going to download it. To sum up Warhammer Quest, imagine dungeons and dragons simplified to a board game. Couple friends sit down, create their hero through rolling dice. One player is chosen as the dungeon master to read the story and manage the game. There's a couple of card decks to draw from that determine how the dungeon ends up looking and events your party has to deal with. Dice rolls manage number of monsters, fights, and movement.

Sounds very very similar to Hero Quest..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBr2IYiPWlM

Board game

http://cf.geekdo-images.com/images/pic1006545.jpg

[Dink]

the two games are very similar, hero quest was sold in store such as walmart and was simple and easy, warhammer quest was sold in gw stores and game stores and was a more complicated game.

[Royal_Tenenbaum]

Hero Quest was a Milton Bradely published version in the US I think. Same to a degree. White Dwarf had expansions and articles for it for years. You will love it.

[WeaselPants]

Heroquest is essentially a stripped down version of Warhammer Quest.

[bad_karma_1980]

And this game is a stripped down version of the boardgame. I have it on iPad, and it was fun for about an hour until it got bo-ho-ho-ho-hoooooooriiiiiing. Costs about 7-8 euros there. So hopefully this isn't just a port and they're adding something to it... Bt if they start talking about character packs and monster packs and such, I'm thinking milk cow......

[PocketYoda]

Originally posted by Dink:

the two games are very similar, hero quest was sold in store such as walmart and was simple and easy, warhammer quest was sold in gw stores and game stores and was a more complicated game.

Originally posted by Royal_Tenenbaum:

Hero Quest was a Milton Bradely published version in the US I think. Same to a degree. White Dwarf had expansions and articles for it for years. You will love it.

Originally posted by WeaselPants:

Heroquest is essentially a stripped down version of Warhammer Quest.

Thanks great info

[Gavener]

never new there wa sa game for this, i own two of the table top boxed sets, and there is a game on greenlight Stash, that is a lot like HQ and he says that it is what made him want to make a game

[Richard]

Incoming wall of text warning. Also feeling old for remembering when all this was released originally.

Heroquest was the original boardgame released in 1989, with a single map that the GM used rubble tiles and doors to create the layout specified by the adventure. It loosely drew upon the Warhammer fantasy battle universe for the monsters and game lore but wasn't too closely tied to it. It had a few expansions that added more monster types and board overlays that could be used to make much larger changes to the map. A videogame adaption was released back in 1991.

A variant based on the Warhammer 40k universe, Space Crusade, was released the following year in 1990, with a videogame released in 1992. It too recieved an advanced version, shifting to following Spacemarine scouts assaulting a Tyranid hiveship.

Also released in 1989 was the first edition of Space Hulk, also set in the Warhammer 40k universe, although unlike the others it was entirely made by GW. It had it's first videogame adaptation released in 1993.

Advanced heroquest was released later in 1989 with a map made of sections, such as variable length corridors, corner and T-junctions, large and small rooms and so on. By default the map was randomly generated each time a character moved into a position that they would be able to see into the new area. The game featured more complex RPG-like mechanics with meaningful character development. The only enemy models supplied were Skaven, but the rules included stats for most other types of monster that existed in the Warhammer universe at the time. The game had a much closer link to the Warhammer lore.

Warhammer Quest was a successor to heroquest and advanced heroquest, released in 1995. It retained the configurable map layout of advanced heroquest but utilized a completely new ruelset for combat and advancement. Additional character types could be purchased as seperate mini-expansions.

All of the games received expansions and adventure modules through White Dwarf magazine.

[Zaemon]

well this would be like hero quest if was multiplayer. thats the point..its fun to play this type of game with friends, why the hell is it going to be single player, please tell me the devs are reading all these and realizing they cant just take some old piece of nostalgia we all love and take the main point of it away...multiplayer!!! you play board type games with friends who plays board games by themselves!!..yeah im angry about his...please tell me all i read is false and it will be multiplayer!!!

[PocketYoda]

Originally posted by DFCRichard:

Incoming wall of text warning. Also feeling old for remembering when all this was released originally.

Heroquest was the original boardgame released in 1989, with a single map that the GM used rubble tiles and doors to create the layout specified by the adventure. It loosely drew upon the Warhammer fantasy battle universe for the monsters and game lore but wasn't too closely tied to it. It had a few expansions that added more monster types and board overlays that could be used to make much larger changes to the map. A videogame adaption was released back in 1991.

A variant based on the Warhammer 40k universe, Space Crusade, was released the following year in 1990, with a videogame released in 1992. It too recieved an advanced version, shifting to following Spacemarine scouts assaulting a Tyranid hiveship.

Also released in 1989 was the first edition of Space Hulk, also set in the Warhammer 40k universe, although unlike the others it was entirely made by GW. It had it's first videogame adaptation released in 1993.

Advanced heroquest was released later in 1989 with a map made of sections, such as variable length corridors, corner and T-junctions, large and small rooms and so on. By default the map was randomly generated each time a character moved into a position that they would be able to see into the new area. The game featured more complex RPG-like mechanics with meaningful character development. The only enemy models supplied were Skaven, but the rules included stats for most other types of monster that existed in the Warhammer universe at the time. The game had a much closer link to the Warhammer lore.

Warhammer Quest was a successor to heroquest and advanced heroquest, released in 1995. It retained the configurable map layout of advanced heroquest but utilized a completely new ruelset for combat and advancement. Additional character types could be purchased as seperate mini-expansions.

All of the games received expansions and adventure modules through White Dwarf magazine.

Wow awesome knowlegde.

I knew a lot about Hero quest and Space crusade, but the Advanced versions never came here to Australia as far as i knew.

Also i didn't know that Space crusade came before Space hulk, much preferred Space Crusade and its expansions, hero quest needed a dungeon master so one player never really could play so to speak..

It seems Warhammer Quest never really made it here either and if it did, i may have not been into it as Hero Quest and Space Crusade were bought at Shopping malls here, mostly by parents for children (board games) Warhammer was almost non existant to buy at that time, very rare.. probably more aimed at adults or older teens..