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**DaveC**

Official update! it seems to confirm that the leaked rules are an actual draft of the real rules.
EDIT a poster from Heroquest.es got to speak to GZ and they confirm this draft is real but is from the Spring time rules are now fully finshed and awaiting illustrations.
Rules Videos in next few days. There should be weekly updates in future as the webpage manager has been given to go ahead to reveal stuff now.
Rumour is the box won't be printed until next February.

http://www.heroquestclassic.com/noticias/

NEWS!

Mentor Progress Report,
We know. Long time and I expect to hear from us more than we need an explanation. For better or worse, our policy has always been from the beginning to focus on the work you confiasteis us create the commemorative edition to celebrate the 25th anniversary of one of the best dungeon crawler in the history of the games.

When in November 2013 assured that the time window we had for the project was close, but still we could have the game ready for Christmas 2014, perhaps naive sin to estimate how close it really was. The problems we face did not help Kickstarter and dragging already if an initial one-month delay to the relaunch of our crowdfunding campaign, we dive head first into a project not without difficulties.

Believe me when I say that we did our best to adjust our roadmap and meet the timetable promised. We disclaim summer escape hell of Seville and skipped the holidays, but many gears, many pieces that have to fit, and are not willing to rush affect the quality . We want a product that is truly special, and if we have to miss a promise, we prefer to be one that you may have as soon forget the game at home and open your box.

No, unfortunately we will not be able to arrive in time for Christmas. The project is progressing smoothly and we are actually in the final sprint, but despite much we (and believe us, not make us any grace skip the Christmas season) is precisely now that we have to walk on eggshells taking care of all the latest details material production of our (your) HeroQuest.

We prefer not to give dates, but instead we will offer you a detailed picture of the current status of the project that we will be holding the next day, and now, frequent updates:

As you can see, the basic rule is completely ready (a leaked draft is spring) and (advanced) rules heroic walk not far from it too. The adventures are really advanced, and working with gradient is more literary than functional. As for the miniatures and scenery, we have almost finished and we have warehouse at the top of boxes waiting for their final home game in each.

The illustrators are working overtime, putting the finishing touches to images that already had to stay fully satisfied and not completing the layout for the regulation and adventure books beginning. Printing and of course the handling and shipping are at 0%, but given that we remain committed to working with companies in the country, once start time will be very fast.

Do you have to wait long to hear from us again. In a few days we will begin to post videos explaining the main aspects of the rules so, Resist! The wait will be worth it.

**Gorechild**

DaveC wrote:and now, frequent updates

Thank Christ! Hopefully they'll stuck to it this time, because 5 months without a single word from them has been fricking ridiculous

**Pacific**

Many thanks for posting the update DaveC!

Yes hopefully now we will have more regular updates; although realistically I'm not expecting any miniatures in my hands for at least another 2 or 3 months.

**jorigo**

New UP and old DOWN box cover.

**Pacific**

Thanks for posting Jorigo

Please bring any other news you read to this forum, would be greatly appreciated!

Absolutely love that box art

**Orlanth**

Yep, improvement I think. Less messy.

Though they may have problems if the box still says Heroquest 25 while it is legally cleared to say Heroquest Classic.

**DaveC**

Miniature/furniture videos

The miniatures/casts look very nice the skeletons aren't nearly as spindley as they looked in the digital renders.

Spoiler just because there are 10 videos and it was taking up a lot of space.

Video #1 - #10

Spoiler:

**jorigo**

You beat me by a few minutes

Expect more.

**Slinky**

All looks v promising!

**jorigo**

Videos 11 and 12 are up on the channel.

Spoiler... The Barbarian is neat.

**Orlanth**

I got a reply from Gamezone

Gamezone Customer Services wrote:

]Hello <name>.

Sorry, by system failure we have no record of your order. Tell us what date you made payment and method of payment (paypal, credit card) or send proof of payment to info@gamezoneminiatures.com, for verification.

And sorry for this confusion and any inconvenience.

Thank you for your support.

Hasta pronto
<name>

So there was a system failure.

I thought it wise to inform all you of this Some have checked their accounts and their backer status is ok, so it hasnt happend to everyone but it may have happened to you. I suggest all Dakka backers check their accounts if they havent already.

**Pacific**

Agree, those skeletons look very nice. The terrain also, love the prisoner chained to the wall terrain piece!

Very heartening that these videos have come along, although these damned Europeans drinking expressos before doing the camera shoot and holding the miniatures!

**Gorechild**

To save people searching for the last two....

Spoiler:

Really like the gobbo, think they'll be great fun to paint!

**DaveC**

There's more now #13 -#16

Spoiler:

**Gorechild**

Thats some ridiculously over exaggerated cleavage on the prisoner in video 16

Loving the Huntress model though, it's just like the 3d render, and I thought that was brilliant.

~~D'you reckon that the gobbo's have been cast in green resin/plastic? Or are these just green stuff versions that will be used in creating the moulds?~~
scratch that, It is resin, looks like the skellies are cream coloured, so they must be using the same colour for the monsters as they did in the original version. The Hero's being grey rather than red just threw me off a bit

**DaveC**

These are actual production miniatures so it looks like light green for orcs and goblins and bone for skeletons with heroes and furniture in light grey. Those clear plastic bases are the actual bass supplied as well.

**Gorechild**

Another....

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And some more...

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**DaveC**

Apparently all of the miniatures shown came from the reject pile and contain imperfections or miscolourations that GZ weren't happy with. Good to hear as I noticed some mold slip on one or 2 like the huntress.

**Gorechild**

They've uploaded a 10 minute long interview, it's obviously in Spanish though. I'll have a trawl on heroquest.es to see if i can find a transcript or at least an idea of what they're talking about

**DaveC**

21 (confirming they are QC rejects too now)

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**Chillreaper**

Okay. They're nice.

If I get a box full of minis like that at some point in 2015, I'll be very happy.

Is that goblin bowman in video 18 holding his finger up to check the wind direction? That's flippin' hilarious!

**Pacific**

Just ... wow, I could not be more happy with how these have turned out.

DaveC, do you have it confirmed that these are the actual miniatures? If so, I'm stunned by the quality of the casts. These look like a level above the likes of Descent/D&D etc.

Many thanks for bringing the info here guys

**DaveC**

Rorkor (he did the videos) posted on Spanish forum (but it may lose something in translation).

The throne is a green but others are approved models that can simply change the color of the resin in the final box.

I thought there was another quote but I'm having trouble finding it plus picking stuff out from Spanish through google tranlate is a bit hit and miss.

**jorigo**

Pacific wrote:
Just ... wow, I could not be more happy with how these have turned out.

DaveC, do you have it confirmed that these are the actual miniatures? If so, I'm stunned by the quality of the casts. These look like a level above the likes of Descent/D&D etc.

Many thanks for bringing the info here guys

These are actual approved models, but rejected minis with imperfections.

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**Gorechild**

spiders eggs? can't really see much detail on them...

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next batch is up

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**corgan**

I can very easily see the "horde" minis to be sold separately in groups like the ones already sold by Gamezone.

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This is 25,50 € for 30 minis.
Orcs, goblins, zombies and especially skeletons (my favourite so far) would be a nice alternative for building large and cheap units!

**Chillreaper**

Looking at these previews, I've decided that Gamezone is a front for a super secret division running Corvus Belli's black ops miniature games department.

It's the only theory that explains the detail that these guys are managing to achieve!

**DaveC**

Videos #29 - #34

In spoilers as this page is taking a long time to load now perhaps the other videos can be put in spoilers as well?

Spoiler:

**Pacific**

Chillreaper wrote:
Looking at these previews, I've decided that Gamezone is a front for a super secret division running Corvus Belli's black ops miniature games department.

It's the only theory that explains the detail that these guys are managing to achieve!

I agree, I'm very pleasantly surprised by how good some of these have turned out.

But then again Gamezone have always had some cracking sculptors working for them, so perhaps I shouldn't be that surprised!

**Alpharius**

That was a lot like actual work - spoiler those videos going forward please!