Heroscape is Making a Comeback

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While much of the tabletop gaming community is currently focused on the upcoming Dungeons and Dragons movie, there have been a few interesting updates from Hasbro and Avalon Hill to which fans may want to pay attention. Debuted and distributed by Milton Bradley in 2004, Heroscape was a sort of scaled-down take on wargaming that appealed particularly to younger audiences. Discontinued in 2010, it was recently announced that Heroscape will return in the near future with the Heroscape: Age of Annihilation expansion.

Heroscape’s main draw was its customizable hexagonal boards. Sets came with sheets of plastic hexagonal tiles which could be snapped together and stacked to form custom battlegrounds. It also featured a mish-mash of heroes of various fantastical backgrounds joined together in loose alliances, all of whom fulfill differing combat roles and add quite a bit of variety to the game. In a sense, Heroscape somewhat emulated more involved games such as Warhammer 40K and its many factions and locations.

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Unfortunately, aside from the fact that more content is forthcoming, there isn’t much info about Heroscape: Age of Annihilation at the moment. That said, it has been confirmed that the game’s new minifigures will be unpainted, which may well be to the chagrin of tabletop gamers who aren't fans of the arts-and-crafts aspect of the hobby. Still, after spending more than a decade completely defunct, the return of Heroscape in any form should be cause for celebration among both old-school fans and newcomers alike.

Interestingly enough, this isn’t the only long-dormant tabletop game to have been revived by Hasbro in recent years. As a result of crowdfunding efforts