Just to mix things up, we’re planning out some STAR WARS games in the near future using the original Star Wars mniature rules, as well as, the HEROSCAPE ones.
Category Archives: Heroscape
MARVEL HEROSCAPE: ZOMBIES!
“How did it happen?”
“Who knows.”
“Might have been A.I.M. or S.H.I.E.L.D. or STARK or even that rubbish that Reed was talking about with an alternate dimension crossing over with ours.”
“Who cares.”
“The point is that the Zombies-”
“Don’t call them that.”
“What?”
“Zombies. Don’t call them that. They are Walkers.”
“Yeah, whatever. Anyway, the point is that those Dead Things showed up and started eating everyone.”
“Yeah, that sucks.”
“Cap got wind that the Red Skull was headed out to the old ruins of a small biochemical lab in the middle of nowhere. Apparently Red Head thought he had found a cure for the Plauge of Zombies. Before we knew it, it was a full on slugfest between the New Avengers and the Sinister Six. All the while, Zombies are swarming everywhere picking up the pieces like vultures.”
“And then Batman showed up.”
“Yeah, but let’s be serious. It was Bruce Wayne. Secret Identities don’t matter now. Everyone is just trying to survive them ugly Walking Dead types.”
“At one point, Doctor Doom was facing off against The Hulk. Batman was there, too, but didn’t help Hulk. Amazingly enough, he teamed up with Metal Face.”
Hulk and Doom battle it out while Batman watches. Zombies swarm on the streets below.
“In the end, the Zombies overwhelmed the New Avengers. Spider Man and Iron Man went down first, torn to pieces by those blood thirsty fiends. Captain America – good old Steve Rodgers – made a last stand against the horde of zombies. He fought hard, but damn if the monsters didn’t chew him to bits. Thanos and Abomination didn’t blink an eye, using the heros as a distraction while they moved on towards the biochemical lab. Thanos was the only one who had no fear. He claimed that he would be Rejected By Death thanks to the powers of the Infinity Gaunlet.”
Red Skulls shouts a warning seconds before a horde of zombies rampage through the streets. Iron Man and Spidey are torn to shreds, and Captain America lasts only a few moments more. Abomination and Thanos flee towards the biochemical lab.
“In the end though, Silver Surfer ended up flying into the biochemical lab and sailing off with the tube of stuff that Red Skull was after. Who knows if the formula is really going to turn out to be something that Reed can use to cure the disease. All we can do is wait … and hope.”
“Johnny, we got to go. Let’s move.”
“Alright, Ben…..”
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HEROSCAPE KOBOLD CUTTERS
D&D HEROSCAPE CUSTOM: TAER
The Taer is a Nuetral Evil Frost Giant-Kin. Basically, it is a man-sized ape related to the Frost Giants. Although I would love to see the WotC guys make this as a D&D HEROSCAPE unit, they probably will not. I have about 8 of these guys in my collection, so I made a custom HEROSCAPE card to use it within my games. It is no way official and has not be given any official “thumbs up” from the Heroscapers community.
This card is roughly based on a combination of other HEROSCAPE cards, plus the abilities from the D&D Miniatures game. I believe I pulled the basic stats from the Sasquatch figures from Wave 10. I figured that between 90 and 100 points sounded good, so went for 90 points.
D&D HEROSCAPE
I got a chance to play another game of Dungeons & Dragons Heroscape with a friend of mine the other day. We chose the scenario involving two 400 point armies invading the Black Dragon‘s Lair and trying to escape with the Treasure. The tricky part was that you had to grab the treasure, and then eliminate all your enemies in order to win. Each turn, acid would drip from the ceiling, and possibly do 1 wound to your guys. The only way to avoid the acid damage was to be standing in water, or to have the Treasure which provided protection from the acid thanks to a Cloak of Acid Resistance.
I took a mainly Drow army. I had Pelloth, 2 units of Deepwyrm Drow, and an Ogre Warhulk. This left 10 points, and I said “What do you suggest I take for 10 points?” He immeadiately told me to take a non-D&D model from a previous Heroscape set. This model was called Isamu. Shrugging, I agreed. I figured that Isamu probably sucked since it cost 10 points. But, that would give me a full 400 points, so who cared? Right?
Not so much. Isamu (assuming I have the name right…) is a fancy looking assassin with red clothing, a sword, and knife. He can move through other figures without taking a hit for leaving engagement. He also has a cool ability that if you roll a 9 or more on a d20, he avoids all attacks and can move 4 spaces. This combination of abilities ended up winning me the game!
My friend took a collection of Heroes. His tactic being that Heroes have nifty abilities plus they all have more than one wound so they wouldn’t die like dogs to the Acid Drip each turn. I believe he had: Darrak Ambershard, the Ice Elemental, a female rouge, and a warforged wizard. Something like that.
Anyway, Pelloth died right away, killed by ranged attacks from the Warforged Wizard. I lost a lot of Drow to the Acid Drips each turn as well. However, I was able to get about half of them into water to protect them. It didn’t help much as the rouge was able to bounce around, make her own darkness, and kill them. Also, Darak was hiding out in shadows and nearly impossible to wound.
Somehow, I managed to get Isamu to a treasure tile, and avoided the trap. I was lucky enough to pull the Treasure Chest, and so he was protected from the Acid Drip. It turned out he was the best model to carry the Treasure, thanks to his awesome abilities.
My Warhulk faced off against the Ice Elemental towards the end of the game. They traded shots back and forth, but the Warhulk ended up winning. He’s really tough with all of his wounds, and he packs a powerful punch. The only drawback is that his chain weapon tends to wound my guys as well as the enemy. Keep your friendly models away from the angry Warhulk, boys and girls.
In the end, Isamu faced off against Darrak and the Warforged Wizard. Isamu kept avoiding attacks, and moving away. My tactic was to position him away from shadow spaces and to keep him at least a level above his enemies. It was very close, and shots were traded back and forth … but in the end Isamu eliminated both of his enemies.
It was a good scenario. However, we downloaded it from the Wizards of the Coast website and there were two problems: (1) The colors did not match well to the original book, so it was a little confusing when building the game board. The colors of the Dungeon Pieces looked fairly the same as the Rock pieces; and (2) the map did not match throughout the building process. Level One from the Level One build was not the same as the Level One shown on the Level Two Build. So it was a little confusing.
Either way, it was fun. And … Red Ninja wins the day!
Playing Around With Hexes
Bridge Battle Map
I was messing around the other night with my Heroscape stuff, trying to figure out how to build a big bridge out of the Castle sets. I’m going to do a rebuild soon, but this was my first shot at it.I think that using the big hexes for the base at the sides will turn out better.
Heroscape Map
Peek a Boo
HEROSCAPE BITZ AT MINIATURE MARKET
I was looking around the internet today and discovered that Miniature Market is selling bitz for Heroscape. I missed out on buying squads of the Drow, however I picked up a bunch of tiles for fairly cheap. Although the bitz are selling out fast, I thought I would share the love.
And don’t forget to use the 5% off discount good until 1/31/10 … I posted it a few days ago.
HEROSCAPE BITZ AVAILABLE AT AUGGIES
I was reading Heroscapers and then surfed on over to WordPress.com to look at the Heroscape blogs. I found this blog post and discovered a new store that I didn’t know about. The store is Auggies and they have HEROSCAPE bits, too!
Nice!
THREE MORE D&D HEROSCAPE CUSTOMS
Here are three more custom cards for miniatures. You can use them with the D&D HEROSCAPE set. Enjoy!
More D&D Heroscape Customs + PDF Download
Beholder
This is a card for the Beholder miniature. I found this on the Heroscapers website. I didn’t make it. I was trying to find this, but wasn’t able to get it. My wife bought me a package of D&D Miniatures for Christmas and it was in there as one of the blind buy miniatures! Pretty cool.
Download a free PDF with additional scenarios for the D&D Heroscape game here.
Elemental: Earth
Mindflayer
