Craig Van Ness Q&A Thread

[Trav11111]

Oh! I want to change my question (or have both answered). How close were we to getting Penguins with Machine guns?

[Craig Van Ness]

Originally Posted by MementoMori

Time for a lighthearted silly question:

If you could make a perfect crossover between Heroscape and any other boardgame, what would it be?

Mine would be PandemiaScape (Pandemic + HS) or Assault of Valhalla (Imperial Assault / Descent + HS)

MementoMori,
Candyland Scape- just kidding

Axis and Allies Scape- Heroscape with tanks, machine gun nests and halftracks. Maybe smaller wars change the greater war.

Settlers of Scape- What does a Euro game look like that has this story, maybe some light battling with building and resource collecting.

PandemiaScape sounds fun.

This is a fun question. It could be fun to see if you could create a scenario that delivers on one of the combinations. You might have to add some components.

[Craig Van Ness]

Originally Posted by capsocrates

Make sure you don't miss this one.

That extra turn on the x order marker is nasty!

[Craig Van Ness]

Originally Posted by Agent Minivann

Back in the day there were occasionally blurry pictures of something like a shelf with unreleased and unannounced heroes and squads. Did you ever lurk those discussions and get a kick out of the wild speculation that was tossed around?

Yes. All the designers checked out those threads. It was fun seeing all the posts and the crazy speculations.

[lonewolf]

Originally Posted by heroscaper2010

I have a game mechanic question. Was there any thoughts of creating units with a range of 2 or 3?

Like a Hydra?

[Sheep]

Originally Posted by lonewolf

Like a Hydra?

Special powers and attacks don't count for my question. I'm talking a pure stat of Range 2 or 3. Sorry for any confusion.

[Nukatha]

I always found it interesting that the glyph of Ivor only buffed units of range 4+
If my memory is correct, the only time that came into play by not affecting a ranged unit is the Obsidian Guards, whose base range becomes 3 in liquid lava.

[Tai-Pan]

How involved were you in Arena of the Planeswalkers?


I kind of picture the decision to not have commons as being the kind of thing you might want to avoid by taking things into your own hands....

[CJofCourse]

Originally Posted by TREX

Indeed. That would be most interesting for producing customs. I mean we have our ways anyway, but still.

^ I'm sure I can speak for anyone who's tried HS customs ever, we would love to hear how you would cost customs, and if you have a formula, or if there were any official formulas.

And, can we get a sneak peek at what Soaring Rhino is planning next?

And, would you ever consider buying the licences to HS? Even if just to say that you have them? And what would you do with them?

And finally (last one, I promise*), in relation to the last one, would you ever consider reprinting older HS sets?

*(in this post)

[Augray]

[quote=CJtheMighty;2110915]

Originally Posted by TREX

And, can we get a sneak peek at what Soaring Rhino is planning next?

I can answer this one. Yes. We are putting together a video that will introduce the first game.

[Sheep]

Originally Posted by heroscaper2010

Special powers and attacks don't count for my question. I'm talking a pure stat of Range 2 or 3. Sorry for any confusion.

Originally Posted by Nukatha

I always found it interesting that the glyph of Ivor only buffed units of range 4+
If my memory is correct, the only time that came into play by not affecting a ranged unit is the Obsidian Guards, whose base range becomes 3 in liquid lava.

That's exactly where I'm going with my original question. Why wouldn't the Glyph of Ivor just affect units with a range of 2 or more? Unless of course, there was no thoughts of creating units with a range of 2 or 3? Or units with a base range of 2 or 3 were just ruled out from the beginning?

It'd be interesting to know the answer and thought process behind that.

[CJofCourse]

Originally Posted by Augray

I can answer this one. Yes. We are putting together a video that will introduce the first game.

Sweet! Looking forward to it!