Friday, October 15, 2004

Heroscape is Decidedly Fun!

NP selling teh other copy to you R00d, howsabout $23? It cost me 44something, so we'll split the cost with you covering the rounding up, sound good? Good, its a deal.

Fun game! I played the first retarded mission designed for children, but with all the special rules instead of none, and last night the baddies decidedly destroyed the good guys.. the T-rex rampaged through the Vikings and made short work of them with his tricky lil 16+ roll = dead figure before combat specialty. The second game tonight came down to one Viking warrior with the benefit of the +1/+1 from the dead heroes cutting a swath through the T-Rex and all three samurai. He was kicking ass!

It is encouraging that there is a game like this being made and mass marketed at Toys R Us and others. It is a legitimate wargame, albeit nominally dumbed down and a bit more "toy" oriented than a traditional wargame, but still, nice to see something like this out there for public consumption.

SIDENOTE: Anyone want to partner up for buying a game store? Anyone want in at the ground floor of the gaming empire that will be created?