#heroscape

Been working on painting some terrain for battletech. I'm working on restricting myself to just enough paint to make it recognizable since there's so much surface area to cover, and I think it holds up to the three foot rule well.

Ordo borealis! Not trying anything too fancy here, just trying to get them table-ready.

Been messing around with Frostclaws/Ordo Borealis/Gilbert (AoA updated points)/Concan/Eldgrim as a 500pt army to mixed results. Some of it I feel comes down to me piloting it (weird to do the initial rollout, I was trying to reposition the Ordo with Gilbert instead of just turboing the Frostclaws up onto elevation to lock that down before deploying everything else) but I feel like there's enough going on that it warrants further testing.

It sure is one of THE battles of all time. Kid me thought it was the coolest thing ever and my brother agreed, and together we'd combine our allowance and buy another little expansion every week in a terrifying prelude to my dangerous warhammer addiction.

Space valkyries discover portals that let them gain power and summon nerds from across the universe, and decide to fight each other over these portals with their summoned nerds abducted from throughout the timestream. When the starter box contains a dragon, an orc riding a T-rex, foolish samurai warriors, and a robot named Deathwalker 9000 you know they thought out the appeal of this. Are the rules any good for the board game? Eh, good kiddie fair, somehow still more fun than warhammer, not the best but not the worst. Were the minis any good? About on par with blind bag DnD stuff. But the tiles! You see these things?

Its a 3d fucking hex map! DnD players' dream! Many good wargame tool. Heroscape has its play all done on a big 3d map where height advantage gives you bonus attack and def and climbing costs extra movement and models with flying ignore this. And where water tiles are slippy so you gotta stop in them unless you're flying. Okay, interacting with the map was a thing, but a bit basic. It was mostly either ignoring the penalties or a slight increase in stats. BUT! Heroscape died a decade ago, and now its coming back. And whoever is making it now knows what they're doing, because-