At a local tournament yesterday, I revealed the Frost Giant and his Army Card. I'll be back Wednesday for our regularly scheduled preview of Siege!

One thing to note since this is our first "big" figure revealed in this set, is the base. As you see, we've moved backwards from a double space peanut base, to a base reminiscent of Deathwalker 9K from the Rise of the Valkyrie set. All of the big figures in this wave have the larger single base, as opposed to the peanut base. With the D&D figures built around a base that was almost the exact same size as DW9K, and the movement limitations of double spaced figures on a Heroscape board, it didn't make sense to keep forcing figures onto the peanut base when it was bigger than they needed.

When we sat down to design the Frost Giant, the first thing we nailed down was the Dying Swipe ability. It was a really cool power that worked great when interpreted into a Heroscape setting.

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If you’ve been under a rock and missed the first preview, you can check it out here.

Today we’re going to talk about Eltahale, Jandar’s newest Hero.

When we start discussing a new wave, we bounce ideas on certain figures we’d like to see back and forth with Peter Lee, the designer we work with at WotC. When Pete initially presented his vision for D3, there were some really exciting sculpts, but also some that the 3 of us really didn’t care for. There were too many bad guys to begin with. We could have forced some units into the allied generals to give the wave a sense of balance, but we had some different ideas.



Over the next few days, Pete introduced to 3 brand new figures that we could add to this wave. They were previously sculpted, but were never released. The best part was, they fit perfectly into the design ideas that we were discussing....

Welcome to preview Wednesday! Sorry I'm a bit late this week!

Those that have been around the site know that we’ve been trickling out info for the past few weeks. Here are some highlights:

1. In this pack, the new Valkyrie General is revealed! He was introduced in the 2nd Dungeon Adventure: The River of Blood and now he’s ready to start summoning his minions to fight for his ruthless agenda! Valkrill is here…
2. We’ve revealed the names of the figures, and which Generals summoned them.
Pack 1
The Horned Skull Brutes fight for Valkrill
The Death Chasers of Thesk fight for Valkrill
Pack 2
The Ogre Pulverizer fights for Utgar
The Mezzodemon Warmongers fight for Valkrill
The Death Knights of Valkrill fight for Valkrill
Pack 3
The Frost Giant of Morh fights for Utgar
The Ice Troll Berserker fights for Utgar
The Master of the Hunt fights for Einar
Pack 4
Evar Scarcarver fights...

Scheduled for release late November 2010.

The dragon Moltenclaw and his minions invade Heroscape!

The hordes of evil must be stopped. Orcs, bugbears, demons, and frost giants have invaded! The hoards of the evil dragon Moltenclaw are summoned to the greatest battle of all time.
Can Moltenclaw’s Invasion be stopped?

Iconic characters and monsters from the worlds of Dungeons & Dragons® joins forces with the ultimate build and battle miniatures game to bring new dimensions of fun for everyone!

Bugbears and Orcs – contains a 3-figure bugbear squad: “Horned Skull Brutes”, a 3-figure orc squad: “Death Chasers of Thesk”, one treasure glyph, and three stat cards.

Advocates of Annihilation – contains one large Ogre Pulverizer, a 2-figure Mezzodemon squad: “Mezzodemon Warmongers”, a 2-figure Death Knight squad: “Death Knights of Valkrill”, one treasure glyph, four stat cards, and 2 exoskeleton markers.

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Heroscape's second Dungeon Adventure is here! This time, the adventuring team is more diverse, and is facing off against a new horde of evil opponents!

The River of Blood requires at least 1 Battle for the Underdark Master Set, and at least 1 set of expansion D1.

River of Blood

We're really excited to get this out to you guys, and we hope you have as much fun delving through the depths as we did building it!

Chris Dupuis