This Great Game Was Cancelled By Hasbro (HeroScape) | Billiam 

I never actually played the game as intended but damn did I love setting up terrain and acting out giant battles with all of the minis. One of my favorite childhood toys for sure

I LOVED HeroScape as a kid. Traded figures with my friends who had different expansions. I still keep a few of them on a memorabilia shelf, and wish I hadn't gotten rid of the rest of it. 😢 Also, love the krabby figure at 12:06, we did the same as kids! used our little Pokemon figurines in the game, even made them (overpowered) custom cards!

Also it is kinda hilarious that for a very brief time frame of about 6 months 7 years ago you could get D&D Heroscape miniatures for way cheaper than their D&D counterparts. So I have heroscape ogres and wyverns in my D&D collection.

I've spent so much time playing this game with my friends as a kid. We had hundreds of pieces and characters. I wish it was still being made

I never had much of the physical products that Billiam reviews but I do vividly remember a lot of the commercials. This channel is my entire childhood recorded through toys that I only saw in commercials that I wish I had.

Can’t believe Hasbro would rob us like that 😞

Those hex pieces are gold in the tabletop wargaming scene. Especially with Battletech, as that game uses hex bases. Also, Billiam, Battletech is another neat war game to try. It had a Saturday morning TV Show...and video games.

Bro, you just unlocked a core memory for me. I never had any of the sets, but one of my best friends did, and we played the crap out of it. Good times... Thank you for this awesome video.

I LOVED HeroScape. It also got me into Warhammer and minature building. It really helped a lot with my ADHD along chess and RTS games.

Holy Crap this is what its called?! Dude I have vague memories of playing this but I could never remember what it was called. That's insane. Thanks for bringing this sweet childhood memory out into the open for me!

I PLAYED THIS GAME WHEN I WAS A KID!! I kept trying to describe it to friends and they wouldn't believe me or thought I was just confusing settlers of Catan and a different game and you just vindicated me 🎉

My older brother used to have an entire huge tote of heroscape hexagons and figures. When he was sent away years ago because of my mother, he left behind all of that. I never understood how the game worked, but I thought the skeletal and robotic figures looked neat, and I would always associate heroscape with my brother. He died almost 5 years ago now, and a few years after that when I was evicted I couldn't take the tote with me (I hope my younger brother has it at least). When I saw your community post teasing this video, I got very teary eyed, and seeing the video now has brought back many memories of my brother. I don't know if you'll ever see this, but thank you for making this video Billiam, it helped me remember how he was, and how he'd want me to keep going forward.

Dear Billiam I know you like talking about Scooby Doo. But feel free to skip Velma. It is not worth your sanity. And I think everyone would agree, we are much happier to see you talk about something that makes you happy rather than suffer through Velma just to have covered all of Scooby Doo media.

I've played a lot of tabletop games but Heroscape is by far my favorite, simply because it fires off every neuron in my ADHD brain. I've spent thousands over the years gathering up terrain and figures, making custom stuff from things I bought at hobby and pet stores, painting figures, printing out cards made by myself and the folks on Heroscapers (thousands of playtested custom figures available). Just a few weeks ago my brother and I played a game on a large map. I was playing Godzilla, destroying trees and castle walls, stomping around and firing lasers. He was playing Guts from Berserk, Samus Aran, the Doom Slayer, Megumin from Konosuba (he kept using giant explosions on Ziller) and some airdrop soldiers. It can be as ridiculous as you want, and I love making it a game of wish fulfillment. My friends and I were really bummed out by the reboot failure, because I just wanted it to be affordable again. I was lucky and got in when it was still cheap. Here's to hoping they try one more time.

I've never felt more seen on a niche topic that only I ever seemed to know about in my local community/family/etc. This game started the ball rolling on so many things for me. I barely got the chance to fully play the game as intended; but it was fun, the mechanics of the board were fantastic, and the IP has so much potential. Some of my favorite memories surround this game, not just in playing but in how it game to me--through gifts from my parents. We didn't have a ton of money, so each time I was able to get new sets of this game it was a big deal...and it happened rarely. Eventually, I grew up and the game got cancelled. I still hadn't gotten everything, and I felt robbed. I continued to collect where I could, and have since gotten most of the things released that weren't rare release items. I supplemented my collection with D&D minis, which tracked given it literally went into the D&D IP before shutting down; and that catapulted me into actually getting into D&D, miniature painting, and other TTRPG communities. I write, paint, and I do all these things that bring joy to my life today because of this game that got cancelled too soon. I thought, or rather hoped, for a brief moments seeing Hasbro and WotC using the hex tiles in their Magic the Gathering boardgames that maybe, maybe something could be in the works for this IP...then years went by and I lost some of that hope again. Then, relatively recently, they made a crowdfunding campaign to bring the game back under a new company. I had gotten back some of that excitement and hope, but then I saw how they were doing it. They launched it on a private, Hasbro only crowdfunding site, with bare minimum or less promotion. They set their goal not based on money raised, but on backer volume--and the volume they requested was beyond what most popular crowdfunding sites can expect on any given campaign...and, again, this was not a popular crowdfunding site. So, predictably, it failed. It failed, and they had it set to an all or nothing model. So we got nothing, and we get nothing. All that work that the company trying to get the game made had done was wasted. Is wasted. And it's not their fault. The publisher, Hasbro, twice now has fumbled this wonderful IP. It truly is a shame. I plan on making a video about this some day, but in the meantime it is great to see content like this covering a game that could have been up there with all the other great table top games only to be doomed by corporate ineptitude.

I'm surprised you didn't mention the Magic the Gathering game that used the Heroscape hexes and ideas from a few years ago. I bought several of the sets because they felt like diet Heroscape but with a deck building aspect. I think it was Wizards' final attempt at doing something with the brand.

definitely feel like if I got into Heroscape as a kid I would have obsessed over it given what I was already obsessed with as a kid. Heroscape gives me the same vibes as old fire emblem and advance wars (or an amalgamation of the two) but in a figurine/toy setting.

"I don't have the money for Warhammer, give me Poor-hammer" Iconic.

Rob Daviau is a God of board game design. My mind was blown when I learned he helped develop Heroscape

This brings back memories of the early days of the Heroscape community. You've got the craft store terrain and custom minis. You just need the hunt for new expansions, going to every Walmart, Target and Toys R Us outside of reasonable driving in hopes of finding the newly released minis and terrain.

I remember having the Marvel one as a kid, but none of the others. I was honestly a little too young to fully grasp all the rules and stuff, so mostly I just liked building terrain for the rest of my action figures to be on lol.

Heroscape is what set me on the path to being up to my eyeballs in wargames today. I still have all the dice, cards, and minis but have no idea where all the terrain is 💔 glad that this game is still getting some love. I was surprised that you didn't mention the pseudo-revival that was Arena of the Planeswalkers, in which Hasbro made a flatter, more cardboard Heroscape game focusing on the main characters of Magic and with unpainted squads

Heroscape is one of my all time favorite games, thank you for bringing it the attention it deserves!

Man I loved this game. Did you know that recently Hasbro tried to kickstart a Heroscape revival? Unfortunately it didn’t hit its goal so it was abandoned. I blame it being a rather niche hobby to begin with and the kickstarter just being too expensive for casual fans. There weren’t very many tier options and I think each pledge had to be about 250ish dollars.

I'm surprised to see no mention of Magic The Gathering Arena of the Planeswalkers Game which was almost 100% an attempt at a heroscape like game. It actually had some really cool mechanics with the spell cards you could play on your turn.

Man its honestly really awesome to see you cover this game, its to this day one of my all time favorites and I occasionally still play tournaments for it! I'm still torn on the whole crowdfunding campaign as I think even if they didn't handle it the greatest getting some new terrain especially the jungle stuff at a less insane cost would have been great and overall the campaign was handled very poorly and had too high of a goal. Frankly I don't fully know what the cost of of printing the game would have been but I can't help but feel the 1 million that they raised would have been pretty close if not actually there, and that was them doing a campaign that had only the all in option with no ability to just get the new figures or buy extra of the terrain. At $250 only people who played the original would likely buy in, if they had a paired down version for $100 or so with less terrain and minis they might have had some better success and they could have gotten away with it with the amount of stuff that was going to be in that package. But the game will likely continue to limp along through people playing it online and people like me who 3d print the characters now that we have high quality scans of everything. But I can't help but feel like there is a gap in the wargaming market for a game like heroscape, something fast playing, easy to learn, but gains depth through its highly customizable nature.

I had this as a kid! Unfortunately I was the only one in my family that was both nerdy and patient enough to actually want to *play* it, so these huge gameboards would sit barely used for like a week at a time

I recently found my box of heroscape and was looking at the rules to get my friends to play. Still meaning to do a game. I used to love playing this with my family.

The Marvel set makes me think this could have been the Fortnite of war gaming lol

I remember just screwing around with my older brothers figurines I didn't even realize this is what it was. single handly the hardest nostalgia trip I've ever had

Renegade Game Studios is bringing it back 100% official. March 1 will be a virtual con where they'll show off the first wave and pre-orders open.

From the bottom of my heart man. You provide me with such comfort within these niche topics. I mean it's like listening to a close friend speak endlessly about things that define them. Your channel is one in a million. I love watching

I remember having the marvel version of this... I didn't actually play the game, I just played with the figures

Oh my gosh… I REMEMBER THIS! Okay I never actually played it, but I remember seeing an ad for it in Boys Life back when I was in Boy Scouts! It was an epic fold out ad that showed an epic battle unfolding! So cool!

Poorhammer sure captures a lot of the good chaos of tabletop wargames, but for me a big appeal on the hobby is the customization of building and painting your own army. I'm a big fan of that part, especially when I lack the time to drum up players and set up a battle.

I was interested in the new Heroscape, I never had the original but it looked great. In Australia, the Hasbro distributer wanted around $750 for the campaign pledge!! Kinda ruled it out for me.

This was one of my favorite board/tabletop games of all time. When I got out of college, I found it in my childhood storage, asked my girlfriend and some friends to play it, and we all had a blast.

you're a real one for this video, heroscape ruled so hard when I was a kid

Surprised there was no mention of the MTG boardgame that used the line of sight, had a flattened board that mimicked the tile design, and shipped with 3-6 heroscape tiles

0:17 Maybe not but having an old-fashioned rice cooker to try to seal demons with is.

Dude I had this as a kid! I totally forgot about it till now. It never came out of my closet unless I was using the “land” pieces for some other random game or activity 😂

I'm so happy that you did a video covering this game!!! Me and my brothers played it all the time as kids. Our oldest brother bought us almost all of the expansion packs. I also remember chewing on like 90% of the characters 😂

This brings back a lot of good memories setting up two tables side by side to play with friends in middle school. I would build one map to cover an entire table during the week, plotting out every tile placement, and then play games with every single piece we had on the weekends. I still have all my sets, but these days we use them for other games like D&D when we get them out of storage.

For anybody watching today, Heroscape is being rebooted and a brand new Master set and expansions are up for pre-order RIGHT NOW

I had Heroscape when I was a kid too. I had forgotten what it was called until this video. Thank you for reminding me.

I hope Billiam covers more Heroscape as Renegade Game Studios is reviving the franchise with new sets.

I never got to play Heroscape and honestly it looks very cool. They should put out a digital version, I'd buy it.

This game seems really neat. It's great that the fans are still supporting it (and that the devs made it so that it could be 'modded' for lack of a better word). Also, a 30-40min base game for a complex tabletop like this seems pretty rare. Even more so with the concept of doing longer games being a thing too. Pretty great! If it wasn't so expensive to collect it'd probably be a good entry tabletop. I would love to play it someday.

I won’t lie, the last week I’ve been trying to remember the name of a specific game I played at a friends house as a kid when lo and behold my man Billiam comes in swinging with this blast from the past! Thanks for helping me remember this game

And now today Renegade game studios has announced they will be producing a new set.

Damn, I never heard about that resurrection attempt. I still have my Heroscape collection and would've jumped in to something like that. On a separate note Schleich makes great animals and dinosaurs that are pretty good size for HS. I used to get these from Target for custom characters.

My family plays monthly heroscape games! During the peak, we owned almost every expansion set spare ONE. Then, we started buying multiple copies of the starter/expansion sets, and honestly it's a mainstay in our family engagements. We've even made custom characters with custom stats and figures over the years. This game is fantastic and if you've never played it, and find a set at reasonable price, i promise you won't regret it.

Can't wait for the full Heroscape playthrough to come out on Billiam B Sides!

I so wish this still existed.

This continues to reign supreme as the ultimate “Oh yeah, I vaguely remember that!” channel.

One of my buddies in elementary school got Heroscape when it first released. We played it several times and I remember really enjoying it. Then a few years later, another buddy introduced 40k to me. After I graduated college, I gained a crippling addiction to Guardsmen. Heroscape was a gateway drug to Warhammer.

I remember having this game as a kid. I never knew that it had a dedicated fanbase.

My childhood next door neighbor had a game similar Heroscape. I have no clue what it was and barely remember anything about it. I think it might have been Mighty Empires by Games Workshop though.

Wait...I remember this! I had a few of the toys and a landscape! Lots of really cool figures that could have done well as a show! For me, I made up my own lore regarding the characters as I played with them as a child! I NEVER knew it had connections to various worlds OR thought it was to played like a proper board game like Warhammer or ANYTHING like that! Idk what happened to the '20 sided die' or any of the other dice because I no longer have those and just have the toys sitting around in an old toy box (unless I threw them away!) and it's funny to think it had that because I would later go on to play DnD which had those EXACT dice that I would be using! I thought the WW2 gunners were literally characters in the world like the imperials from Warhammer! Also, I never knew they made other sets and had a hulk set! I HAD NO IDEA there were so many sets and that it was so HUGE!

Me & my brother got the Swarm of the Marrow set when we were kids. Never knew how to play the game, but we had fun making landscapes for our toys to play in. I still find some tile pieces & a figure lying around in our long-since stored away toy chest. I distinctly remember Major Q10 & Tor-Kul-Na, and I still have Sonlen among mini figures we've used for DND.

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i played heroscape once and it's ultra friendly and approachable, it's great!

Great vid Billiam! I remember my dad using HeroScape tiles for his HeroClix games. You should totally cover HeroClix too Billiam. It's completely marvel-centric but very similar and lot more characters as well as a really neat in-session character progression built into the base of each hero. My favorite that i still remember is how the Hulk starts each match as one of the worst units in the game, because he's actually Bruce Banner, and only turns into the hulk after a turn or two at which point his stats get crazy

My Dad became a collector of HeroScape near the end of its production and bought countless boxes for a few bucks each from every local store that had one as they were all phased out. We, quite literally, have an entire wall of our basement with hundreds of HeroScape products. I can only imagine how much money is just a few feet away from my bedroom door. When we were kids he let us open and play with the Marvel set, base starter set, and a few booster boxes, my siblings and I loved this game. We even introduced it to a friend we were growing up with at the time who ended up putting countless hours into it just like us! HeroScape is awesome man, great video.

I still have a couple sets of this game. It’s a pretty fun game.

Currently use the huge amount of sets of these I own for DND

Billiam, idk if there any chance of you ever seeing this. But I've loved Heroscape with all my heart since I was a child. They are finally relaunching Heroscape. It doesn't have a lot of coverage, and I just thought if you could do a follow up it might inspire people to come back to the game. It's such a fun experience, and I'd love for kids of this generation to get a shot at playing it 💞💞💞

Literally started this game again with a friend a few weeks ago. Super fun of Tabletop Simulator where I can finally build the epic maps of my childhood dreams. Rest in peace Scape. You were too pure for this world.

Man, I remember seeing these in a storeroom of Toys R Us back when they hold YGO events. Definitely feels like I missed out on this game, I love the idea of mashing different groups from species and timelines together to fight it out in a war-like setting. Also dinosaurs and dragons. Definitely missed out on this. 😔

FREAK YEAH, HEROSCAPE WAS NOICE

Holy hell I LOVED HeroScape as a kid. Thank you so much for covering it!

My High school friends and I made custom character cards using Hero Clix and other figs, this game dominated many of my weekends in the early 2000's.

I loved heroscape as a kid you brought so many memories back

I can't believe they put Humbaba in but snubbed Enkidu. Now how's Gilgamesh gonna beat the bull of heaven? 0 cedar trees out of 10

Im not seeing the giant florida battle on your other channel. I am disappointed. I was excited to watch it.

Sitting here staring at my box full of Heroscape figures and tiles wishing I had someone to play with.

Heroscape is coming back in 2024.

5:45 Lúcio is the one with a buff aura and only a speed buff aura as part of his crossfade ability (his passive is running along walls), Mercy just heals and her passive makes her heals heal her as well.

My brother still has the sets that he got when he was a kid. My brother and I share an apartment and we're both allergic to shopping for Christmas ornaments, so we decorated our tree with the heroscape figures.

I miss this game SO much, i had the original main box i got it at a flea market when i was like 14, absolutely obsessed with it for YEARS, here i am 32 and wishing i still had my set.

thank you for this video billiam it's been so long since my friends literally gaslight me into thinking this didn't exist you have no idea how much i'm shaking and crying rn

I remember I got the starter boxset as a christmas gift way back in 2005, which is what got me into miniatures. Still have them as shelf displays.

Cool walkthrough on heroe scape. Here’s one of the best things we found to help with the never ending problem of not enough field to play on . The hex is 1.75” across so, we printed hex patterns on colored craft paper and laminated them. This allows for a huge base so that the rest can be used for terrain shaping. A real time saver in general.

I *looooved* Heroscape, man! It came out the same year I started high school, and my dad would gift me the original Master Set for Christmas in 2005 or 2006. I had to catch up on earlier waves by begging my parents to order a butt-ton of them from an online retailer, but looking at the prices today, I'd say I made a good call! My best friends and I would stay up at one house for entire weekends to party and hang around games of Heroscape. It was so much fun, but I haven't built a map and played in over 10 years. I'm actually getting into Warhammer 40K now as an outlet for my love of miniature painting. It *is* expensive, but it's got me looking at that nearly complete Heroscape collection and seeing dollar signs... I would not mind letting it go if it meant funding another expensive, space-consuming hobby.

I liked the ad as a kid. Never got into the game, but that ad with the world war 2 guy, the samurai, and the future matrix looking dude all getting sucked into portals and brought before a winged viking man was lit af

4:29 is literally the most vivid recreation of the ONLY memory I have of this game ... twas about 2004/5 idr, but my friend had a birthday/sleepover and he got this as a present. Now all of us were Hype af to play it.... but after seeing there were not 1, not 2, but 3 instruction manuals... this is pretty much what it cultivated into X,D on the side ... you have no idea what old great emotions you elicited with those old school AIM chatroom noises

Oh my god! That animated commercial! It has appeared in my memory for years, but I could never remember the product!!!

As a kid I wasn’t allowed to play fantasy games. I had to give a friend at school money to buy me D&D books which were promptly hidden. I always saw heroscape at the store and wanted it. Always thought id just buy it when I got older…

Man my friends at church had this! Seeing the video they had a LOT of the expansions too! It was our post-church go-to game for a while. I'm glad you did a video on it.

Blows my mind that Rise of the Valkyrie retailed at $40, damn Hasbro and damn the Federal Reserve 💀

Loved this game as a kid! You should do a video showcasing all the different characters!

YESYESYES Heroscape was and still is my absolute favorite board game. Myself, my friend, and his brother all collected sets and essentially kept it all with 1 person. Between my base mega set, my friend's brother owning the Maro set, and my friend having a bunch of side sets we could make HUGE maps. Hell during our "nerd nights" where all our friends hand out we whip out heroscape and matches can literally go from sundown to sunrise. We even used to keep a small set of tiles, enough to make a small map in my friends locker in middle school and during down periods we'd just do quick heroscape matches. So many fond memories of this game and now I just want to play some matches dangit.

not only do I have an extensive Heroscape collection, but I have flocked all my tiles, and I have created various detailed "Tile Toppers", and furthermore, created various detailed crossover units that bridges the interlocking Heroscape Hextiles terrain to the Magnetic Nin-Gonost dungeon tiles. that's right. I based my immense terrain system on not one, but two defunct terrain systems. I've collected various people's collections over the years, and now with 3D printing, the sky is the limit. In the last few years, my new upgrade has involved making new Tile Toppers by mounting old Kenner Playsets to tiles and detailing them for use with Star Wars: Legion. Heroscpe is a great product whether you use it for its intended game, or adapt it for something else.

I still have a huge collection of Heroscape. Once a year around Christmas, my cousins, brothers & I build a massive board and play Heroscape for an entire day. It's a good time.

When he said " I don't have the money for warhammer, give me some of that poor hammer" dam I felt that 🤣

Hi , Billiam and Savanah , my first vid of yours . I was watching some board game vids , then a Heroscape , then yours . Wow , you're real energetic , man , but I STILL liked the vid ! Lol The Fla. and PC references were funny , and I been there lots when I was younger , long ago , alas .... I only live about 1.5 hrs north of PC in Alabama . ANYWAY, I am Heroscape fan too , but I was a grown man when it came out . A grown man with a decent job . Man , I bought every single set made in the original run . The last things were that lame D&D "starter set" and finally I broke down and bought that jungle terrain set online cos its the one thing I missed in stores . BUT , it was only a little higher cos it was way back then . I think there were 9 (maybe 7)4 pack expansion Waves , 3-4 Large Figure packs , Lava and Ice terrain set , that Castle , the special dice and deluxe banner guys for each Lord , or Gods , or whatever they were supposed to be , a couple of Bridge/Tree and the two PROPER Starter Sets . Well been a long time since I've had anyone to play it , but I still break it all out and set up some cool battles doing my best for whoever's turn it is and dig checking out all the figs , cards and special abilities of the figs . I remember there's one who looks like a robot and he can walk into a crowd and SELF DETONATE creating a circle of devastation ! (Course , it can only do that ONCE ! lol ) Lotta fun , but not for casual gamers that get excited over , say , Parchesi or Monopoly . While not "hard" there IS a lot to be learned and sorta retained and that can be daunting . Brought back a few memories... thanks . Y'all have fun !

Only played once, had an army that had the marrow commander with the roman legion squad. Took several hours for the custom game, but it was a great experience. We did a race from one end of the map to the other, but it was like 4 tables long, had a bridge with a several story drop into a swamp. The bridge needed to be crossed in order to win, but guarding the bridge was the t-rex dude. I ended up winning, mostly due to the army i drafted, but I would definitely play this again. Highly recommend.

Heroscape was my first step into actual proper hobby-board gaming. I'd seen the game online for a while as a kid but it wasn't really available where we lived, so when we went on vacation to the US I picked up both ROTV and SotM-mastersets and treasured them dearly back home. I also started to look around more to find ways to expand my collection, and over the next few years I slowly grew my collection more and more, importing a couple expansions every year with the money I got for my birthday. I was also active on Heroscapers, so seeing that mentioned was a nice blast from the past. Through Heroscape I got a taste of modern board game-design and eventually started to look more into other more complex games, but I still kept my collection around for sentimental reasons, even if it stopped coming to the table a couple years back. I recently reached the point where I could no longer defend keeping it on mys helves just for nostalgia's sake, and thought it would be best to let it go to a more loving home, but it will forever be a game that I'll look back fondly on.

My Uncle and all of his friends played the hell out of HeroScape (and City of Heroes simultaneously). They actually would build and paint custom minis using Hero Clicks and extra HeroScape Minis and they created the cards for their own characters they wanted to play including their characters from City of Heroes that they also started a comic book for (Yellow Jackets forever, I miss those days). I remember building my own custom character so I could play with them even though I was like 8 and they were, ya know, 30. For my 9th birthday he actually got me the Marvel one so my friends and I could play. I wish I still had it all but all I have left is Thanos and Hulk, but I have a lot of the tiles plus a bunch my buddy gave me for my 21st birthday and now I use them for D&D.

>Makes your own gamepieces >wizards sends the pinkertons