Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you: No adverts like this in the forums anymore. Times and dates in your local timezone. Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance. Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely. Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net. If you are already a member then feel free to login now.

Johanxp wrote:

Greenfield wrote:

HidaO-Win wrote:
I think what my hold up a reprint is having difficulty finding somewhere to print high quality cardboard tiles or having the original files somewhere.

The sprues and rulebooks "should" be simple.

Not really. The game is old enough that the print files for the rulebooks were unlikely to be fully digital. Page layout would have been done digitally by the mid-90s, but photography would have been done on film. Artwork would also have been physical and would then have been photographed. GW may have had the facility to scan those images themselves but it's also quite likely that the final images were compiled with the layout files by the printers, who then would have produced sheets of film for checking, before these were turned into printing plates. That's a lot different from the modern situation, with all layout and image files being digital, and the print files being PDFs. I imagine GW must have some version of all these images and files, but they're unlikely to be complete and ready to go, and there could well be issues with opening the files given the age of the software that would have been used to produce the original layouts. I don't think any kind of reprint was ever likely; no idea why they chose to make it such a big feature of Warhammer+ for the past few months.

Internet is full of people that literally remade the game on they own, from board section to books, and GW is incapable of doing that?

They're perfectly capable of it but it would be complex and time-consuming. The prior poster said the rulebooks would be 'simple'; I'm merely explaining why that's not the case. Anything is possible, including scanning, cleaning up and reprinting copies of old books (as was done for the Rogue Trader reprint, because it would have been too old to have ever existed digitally). All of these things take time, potentially quite a lot of time.


Automatically Appended Next Post:

 1984Phantom wrote:
Old vintage plastic miniatures maybe belong to Wargames Foundry. If I'm not wrong, Heroquest old heroes (with many other old Citadel miniatures) are exposed at Foundry shop.

This isn't correct. A few early Citadel ranges, which were largely historical in nature, including some ninjas and some vikings, were passed from Citadel to Foundry decades ago, but that was all long before Warhammer Quest. All the ranges in question were metal, from Warhammer 3rd edition or earlier; no plastics, nothing from the big boxed games like HeroQuest or Warhammer Quest.


Automatically Appended Next Post:

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:


To get WHQ back in print, you need to find and update or recreate the original floor tile masters. And ensure they can be printed on cardstock of Just The Right Thickness. And then scan in and tidy up an existing rulebook, roleplay book and that. Then of course you need to find the original moulds, make sure they’re still compatible with the modern machinery*, and still in working order (accidents of usage and storage will happen).

The floor tiles are what's known as punchboard (i.e. it's all printed on a big sheet of cardboard, which is partially cut through so you can 'punch' it out). There's no 'masters' for these. There's the original artwork, and then scans or photographs of these, which are then laid out on a sheet to be printed, and the printed sheet is then adhered to the top of said cardboard sheet before the whole thing gets stamped out. There seems to be a perception on this thread that these floor tiles are especially complex, but that's not the case – they're just a print item. Good quality images is all that's required, and from memory all the card in the box probably filled less than a dozen sheets of punchboard, so it'd actually be a lot less work overall than the rulebooks and associated elements.

Punchboard has seen quite big price increases of late, but there's no 'master' and there's no additional technical complexity in restoring and reprinting something like that. I just, again, very much doubt GW would ever see it as worth it.

 Overread wrote:

 Psychopomp wrote:
A better example would be Bethesda Game Studios partnering with Amazon to make a full season of a Fallout TV show, but when it the show came out and was a massive hit, Bethesda turned out to have not prepped any sort of new Fallout game - or even a remaster/reissue - to drop alongside the show.

But we all know Bethesda only makes Skyrim remasters!

Why only yesterday they re-released Hexen and Heretic


Automatically Appended Next Post:
Anything for Warhammer Quest circa 1995 would be at least 3-4 years after Tom Kirby took over, so there should be no Wargames Foundry involvement by then.

Is it also possible GW doesn't fully own all the rights to this as we saw with the Chapter House legal shenanigans?

There was a rumour years ago that they’d physically lost the stuff to reprint the floor tiles.

No idea if I’m remembering correctly, or even if I am it was true in the first place.

The tiles from Dungeon Bowl was the key motivation for my picking up a couple of copies - one for the game itself, and another for use with WQ: Hammerhal ^_^ they are such good modern interpretations of the vast majority of the originals - and I am sure the superfluous elements could be easily removed if needs be.

 Clockpunk wrote:
The tiles from Dungeon Bowl was the key motivation for my picking up a couple of copies - one for the game itself, and another for use with WQ: Hammerhal ^_^ they are such good modern interpretations of the vast majority of the originals - and I am sure the superfluous elements could be easily removed if needs be.

Is there an official Shadows over hammerhal ruleset for these? (If so I'll have to find and pick this up)

 laam999 wrote:

 Clockpunk wrote:
The tiles from Dungeon Bowl was the key motivation for my picking up a couple of copies - one for the game itself, and another for use with WQ: Hammerhal ^_^ they are such good modern interpretations of the vast majority of the originals - and I am sure the superfluous elements could be easily removed if needs be.

Is there an official Shadows over hammerhal ruleset for these? (If so I'll have to find and pick this up)

Oh, not that I am aware of, sorry - my uses were entirely homebrew. But as the original WHQ was what got me into the hobby back in the day, I couldn't resist. Along with picking up a couple of door packs from WarCry Catacombs to bling out Hammerhal long before the DB release, just to add to the old school feel.

 Clockpunk wrote:

 laam999 wrote:

 Clockpunk wrote:
The tiles from Dungeon Bowl was the key motivation for my picking up a couple of copies - one for the game itself, and another for use with WQ: Hammerhal ^_^ they are such good modern interpretations of the vast majority of the originals - and I am sure the superfluous elements could be easily removed if needs be.

Is there an official Shadows over hammerhal ruleset for these? (If so I'll have to find and pick this up)

Oh, not that I am aware of, sorry - my uses were entirely homebrew. But as the original WHQ was what got me into the hobby back in the day, I couldn't resist. Along with picking up a couple of door packs from WarCry Catacombs to bling out Hammerhal long before the DB release, just to add to the old school feel.

That's fair, I really like the WHQ stuff and thought I had all the stuff since silver tower so Ty for that.