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hero quest

commandercool [Edit] [Delete] 44 replies 11:36, 12 January '06

okay it had to be done. everyone's childhood involved hero quest in some form. please tell me your hero quest stories.

how long did it take you to figure out the rules on christmas day '89? how many hours did your elf survive before he was trodden on and snapped off the bas at the ankles? where did the closed doors go and why didn't you get more to begin with? who was harder, fimirs or chaos warriors? dwarf or elf?

fire away.

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  • never played this

    ... :(

    rapscalion-jones | 12 Jan '06, 11:37 | X
  • Mine didn't

    I was a D&D and the AD&Der so I didn't bother with such lesser things. PAH!

    iShotTheDeputy | 12 Jan '06, 11:37 | X
    • I don't even know what it is

      sorry

      rich_theman_hughes @iShotTheDeputy | 12 Jan '06, 11:38 | X
    • What about

      SMB&D

      BobbyGrindrod @iShotTheDeputy | 12 Jan '06, 11:39 | X
      • D&D

        was ace also. i, however, graduated from the school of hero quest into D&D. my thief was awesome. charisma 20.

        commandercool @BobbyGrindrod | 12 Jan '06, 11:40 | X
        • i never bothered with D&D

          i was always more into the cyberpunk rpgs. why would i want a sword when i could have a big fuck off machine gun?

          guntrip @commandercool | 12 Jan '06, 11:42 | X
    • AD&D

      My 21st Level dwarf could not overcome the desire to steel a diamond the size of his head embedded in a wall and was dutifully killed by the DM with a 3000 hit point cone of cold. B*****D!

      ramman @iShotTheDeputy | 12 Jan '06, 12:30 | X
  • space crusade > hero quest

    of course, both were really just warhammer / warhammer 40k watered down into board game format, but anyway..

    my dad had hero quest. he never let me play :(

    guntrip | 12 Jan '06, 11:39 | X
  • My brother had hero quest and space crusade.

    Lots of fun, but I found it all a bit confusing. Enjoyed painting the figurines, though!

    BobbyGrindrod | 12 Jan '06, 11:40 | X
    • Remember

      those games workshop top trumps? they were cool!

      BobbyGrindrod @BobbyGrindrod | 12 Jan '06, 11:41 | X
      • i used to

        hide in an out-of-bounds classroom at break in school and play those.

        we were so obviously the coolest kids.

        commandercool @BobbyGrindrod | 12 Jan '06, 11:42 | X
      • i still have these!

        i didn't like the blue 'space' ones

        the green orcs and goblins were best

        'Snotling' was great

        moribund @BobbyGrindrod | 12 Jan '06, 11:53 | X
  • I have no idea what this thread is about. Sorry.

    bamos | 12 Jan '06, 11:42 | X
    • if you haven't

      played hero quest, you have no soul.

      fact

      commandercool @bamos | 12 Jan '06, 11:43 | X
      • I haven't played it.

        It sounds like a boring 'strategy' game.

        The only decent one of those is C&C RED ALERT. because there's no 'strategy' involved. Those games were amazing.

        homesick_alien @commandercool | 12 Jan '06, 11:45 | X
        • wait

          this isn't a computer game is it?

          that's possibly worse.

          can't be worse than risk though?

          homesick_alien @homesick_alien | 12 Jan '06, 11:55 | X
          • DON'T

            insult Risk. You bastard. Risk rules.

            bamos @homesick_alien | 12 Jan '06, 11:57 | X
            • I hate Risk so much

              I always start off with every intention of trying, and then on my first go get annoyed, and try and capture Europe using my one soldier armed with a catapult. And then sit there watching telly for the next 8 hours, whilst my mates finish the game

              Judge_B @bamos | 12 Jan '06, 12:13 | X
        • best way to play C&C red alert was thus:

          multiplayer with a friend, on a rectangular map where the bottom quarter and top quarter of the map is all ore, and that's where each player starts off.

          absolute carnage for hours on end.

          guntrip @homesick_alien | 12 Jan '06, 12:22 | X
          • too right.

            and I was ALWAYS the commies.
            Good times.
            Red alert 2 > all of C&C games.
            It had YURI.

            homesick_alien @guntrip | 12 Jan '06, 13:56 | X
            • i never had red alert 2 :(

              but, yeah, always as the soviets, so i could build legions of mammoth tanks and just ramrod through my opponents forces.

              guntrip @homesick_alien | 12 Jan '06, 13:58 | X
    • Youre too cool for this thread.

      I'll bet you were out playing football, fighting or playing kiss-chase with all the pretty girls.

      BobbyGrindrod @bamos | 12 Jan '06, 11:43 | X
      • While we were

        reading books and going on computers.

        BobbyGrindrod @BobbyGrindrod | 12 Jan '06, 11:44 | X
        • I think,

          if 1989 is the correct year, I was playing Subbuteo.

          So yes, I was cool.

          bamos @BobbyGrindrod | 12 Jan '06, 11:50 | X
          • there was room

            for subbuteo and hero quest in a child's life. and you could even shoehorn some lost valley of the dinosaurs if you were clever

            commandercool @bamos | 12 Jan '06, 11:51 | X
            • Lost Valley Of The Dinosaurs!

              WOW, now that is a flashback!

              monpot @commandercool | 12 Jan '06, 11:54 | X
              • also

                The Quest For The Ring? or something

                great board game

                moribund @monpot | 12 Jan '06, 12:08 | X
                • escape from atlantis

                  find the friendly dolphins! beware the sharks, octopuses and sea monsters!

                  commandercool @moribund | 12 Jan '06, 12:10 | X
                  • KEY TO THE KINGDOM!!!

                    that's what i meant

                    moribund @commandercool | 12 Jan '06, 12:15 | X
                    • Key To The Kingdom was bunk

                      It tried to excite you with all those cards for grappling hooks and stuff, they had no impact at all on the game!

                      Plus the game was just based on luck really. I once found the Key in the first place I got to, then my mate went to the whirlpool out of spite, and I couldn't make it in time. So I died. That was the worst 10 minutes of my life.

                      monpot @moribund | 12 Jan '06, 13:05 | X
                      • whatever

                        nerd :P

                        moribund @monpot | 12 Jan '06, 13:58 | X
              • i just remembered this!

                i had this, although i think i had it around '93 when the original jurassic park came out. my pterodactyl's wing broke :(

                guntrip @monpot | 12 Jan '06, 12:19 | X
                • i used to incessently

                  chew on the swamp monster until my mum threatened to ban me from playing.

                  commandercool @guntrip | 12 Jan '06, 12:20 | X
                  • 'i used to incessently chew on the swamp monster'

                    Best phrase ever. Peoople around me are asking if I am ok

                    Judge_B @commandercool | 12 Jan '06, 12:29 | X
        • Hero Quest was

          the best board game ever

          Chaos Warriors were clearly the hardest

          My barbarian lost it's sword early on, therefore it's combat points dropped from 8 to 6 :(

          I painted my figures :D

          The add-on packs OWNED!

          I officially made the most impossible map ever on the 'design your own' add-on

          moribund @BobbyGrindrod | 12 Jan '06, 11:52 | X
        • Anyone ever play the Space Hulk computer game?

          Jesus, that was NAILS. You'd be going down a corridor and suddenly a xenomor- sorry *genestealer* appears and then one by one all five of the little monitors for your guys would go bloody and fuzz up.

          SCARY AS FUCK!

          iShotTheDeputy | 12 Jan '06, 12:06 | X
          • i had one for Win 95

            not one for your nerves, really wasn't. best bit about that one was you could hear the other terminators firing (and dying) off in the distance.

            guntrip @iShotTheDeputy | 12 Jan '06, 12:20 | X
            • I gave my figures to stuart purr

              to paint, as he impressed me with some of his earlier painting-of-miniature-figurines work.

              HOWEVER, he broke one of my Chaos Warriors and yet had the temerity to charge me!

              I hate Stuart Purr.

              thewarn @guntrip | 12 Jan '06, 12:32 | X
              • Spacehulk = wicked

                but anyway, in a slightly unrelated way, I always wanted to be have a Space Marine suit when I was young.

                moker @thewarn | 12 Jan '06, 12:58 | X
                • I played Warhammer for a while

                  But I stopped when the disparity between how much I was paying and what I was getting became apparent. I think I discovered alcohol on the same day, come to think about it.

                  Parsefone @salford_superstar | 12 Jan '06, 13:46 | X
                • space hulk

                  on the playstation was brilliant

                  soapy @iShotTheDeputy | 12 Jan '06, 14:20 | X
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