digs into his stash of discounted collectible pre-paints.
One of the recent HeroScape expansion sets may be of interest not just to HeroScape fans.
The Road to the Forgotten Forest expansion set is primarily a terrain set, containing:
- 5 trees
- 2 stone walls
- 17 road pieces (8 single-hex, 8 double-hex, and 1 five-hex-straight)
- Dumutef Guard pre-painted figure (with army card)
- game booklet
The road pieces are grey plastic (with a brown wash over the cobblestone pattern), and interlock in the usual HeroScape system. The stone walls connect on only one side, and can be used to form a wall along the edge of a higher level, or (with the 5-hex straight piece) can form a walled bridge.
The five plastic pine trees are have non-interlocking hex bases (or, in the case of the big tree, a multi-partial-hex base) that are designed to fit onto the terrain system. They range in size from 3½ to 5¼ inches.
The trees are solid and look like they would survive a lot of gaming use.
The Dumutef Guard is a three-fingered, multi-tusked humanoid monster, sculpted in somewhat of a toy-like fashion (lots of round holes poked into his muscles), primarily painted with a splotchy brown wash. He's a little over 2" tall, and a bit over 3" wide.
The rulebook provides rules for the terrain in the HeroScape game system, and provides a map and two scenarios (for 2 and 3 players, respectively) for fighting over a bridge. The only fiddly point that I spotted was that the individual tree models are considered to have different heights for game purposes - but the heights aren't marked on the models, and the trees aren't that easy to tell apart once in play.