HeroQuest vs. Advanced HeroQuest

Hi all

Off the back of Airbornegrove's remarkable Heroquest stories and the bizarre but thoroughly cheerful QUESTing videos he mentioned, I've suddenly become quite curious about Heroquest.

Having meandered around eBay for a bit, I see that there are HeroQuest sets and there are Advanced HeroQuest sets - so my question is:

What's the difference?

Weazil Heroquest is the original concept. It is played on a game board that becomes multidimensional through the placement of doors. Movement is by 2xD6 and all combat is on the unique Heroquest dice. However a normal D6 could be used. With simple conversion of hits on a 4,5,6. Heroes defend on a 5,6 and monsters defend on a 6. It comes with a complete quest book, as well as many other supplements and there are programs out now that let you make quest using the same graphics as the originals.

As for Advanced Heroquest, I have actually never played it. However I have read up on it extensively. It is a more Warhammer upgrade of Heroquest. Most of the stats are the normal Warhammer stats. The adventure is driven by random movement through a dungeon. Reading it and looking at the pieces gives me the impression of Warahmmer in a random generated Spacehulk board.

So I guess my final impression if you are really used to playing Warhammer and love the feel Advanced Heroquest is probably your option. Heroquest is completely self contained with it's game board, and though simpler per se it allows for the possibility of player applied depth. For me I am partial to Heroquest!

It would be worth giving these websites a look. Hope that helps.

http://aginsinn.yeoldeinn.com/

http://www.yeoldeinn.com/

http://yeoldeinn-heroquest.blogspot.com/

http://www.heroscribe.org/

http://greywolf.critter.net/ahq.htm

What he said!

I have vague memories of a couple of abortive games with my old mate when he got a copy when we were 11 or 12 or so - placing corridor tiles as they were revealed, lots of flicking through the rule book and lots of skaven killing my men-at-arms before the call of playing 2 player on Armalyte on his C64 got the better of us!

They are totally different games, released at exactly the same time.

Heroquest is a kind of family boardgame designed and published by MB games. Think Talisman but with more miniatures combat. Played out on a pre-drawn board placing doorsto change the map.

Advanced Heroquest is a rules-lite dungeon-crawl based on the warhammer engine (it has WS / BS / S / T etc) but isn't 100% compatible with any hammer, published by GW. Played on a dungeon tile system. Various quests (including one featuring Gotrek and Felix) were published in White Dwarf.

Also of note is the Dungeons & Dragons Fantasy Adventure Boardgame (Parker Bros. 2003), which is based on DnD3e artwork, but plays much like Heroquest - and has a good range of placcy monster figures.

IMO, if your going to play Advanced Heroquest you may as well just pick up a copy of Warhammer Quest as that's far more involved and you get to use a Chaos Warrior as a ''Hero'' whats not to love about that heh.

Warhammer Quest is freakishly expensive, though. AHQ can be got for a lot less.

I have a copy of Warhammer Quest that I've been thinking about getting rid of, it's not 100% complete, but it has all the important bits in it (rules, floorplans, cards etc).

I'll post it in the marketplace if anyone is interested.

I loved both these games. I remember being invited to a friend's house to play Heroquest when I was about 12 or 13, I absolutely loved it, it was a real gateway into proper wargaming/roleplaying.

I've still got my copy of Advanced Heroquest, bought for a tenner under one of those promotions Games Workshop used to do. I used to waste hours playing solo quests (like the sad bastard I was) carving my way through hordes of ratmen like a medieval terminator.