Trashdome - Summoner Wars VS Heroscape

I love both but Heroscape made a big impression on me and is responsible for getting me back into gaming. I don't play it as much now as I used to, but the kids are only 2-3 years away from getting into it, so I'm expecting to have a lot of fun with Heroscape in the future.

Vote: Heroscape

I love Summonder Wars and I haven't played Heroscape, so I thought I'd balance out the voting.


Vote: Summoner Wars

Sagrilarus wrote:

Summoner Wars is ok, but as with all card-driven games suffers from getting to choose from a list of potentially cheesy-ass options. In Heroscape you get to do what you want.

Vote: Heroscape. I've blown $250 on it and don't regret one penny.

I suppose if I had spent $250 on Heroscape I'd vote for Heroscape. I'm only down $20 on Heroscape and about $55 on Summoners War.

Well timed match up because I am gearing up for some HS soon and just played a game of Summoner Wars out of the Blue.

SW is fun, but it does feel like a filler, and 2 player fillers are in a sense pointless (unless you are waiting for the 3rd player to arrive?). I’m yet to be convinced there is much there – units simply fall too easily. For us it plays very tit-for-tat, I summon some units, move and make 3 attacks (prob 2 kills) then the other guy summons, kills 2 of my attacking units, and repeat. Board-play strategy is either eluding me or there isn’t much there.

HS is hands down the best value in gaming there ever was and ever will be. As I have said before, the game should be a mickey mouse but it isn’t – for all it’s stripped down rules and simplified play, when compared to the ‘big boy’ miniature games it loses practically nothing. WH40K doesn’t feel like it has any more real gameplay then heroscape has, nor does any of the others. HS feels like a full on minis game, unlike say battleball which does feel like a mickey mouse version of Bloodbowl.
In fact HS is possibly the only ‘light’ game that has succeeded in matching its elders, it really is a brilliant design.
Yeah, setting up the terrain sucks (I hated lego as a kid, and I can’t design battlefields for shit.) but I wouldn’t trade my copy for one with a flat board even in a fit.

Bridges, castles, volcanos, trees, fucking icecaps – who would have suspected we’d get all this awesome shit when the game first appeared,. I was surprised when we got the first wave.

This is the game that will pull the next generation of ATers.

This vote is too easy.

VOTE:HEROSCAPE

Preach it, Skelly.

VOTE: HEROSCAPE

And now we hear that they they've pulled the plug. RIP Heroscape. You are Legend.

I own both---and played both. Summoner Wars is fine enough but the one I'll remember playing with my son in years to come...Heroscape, without a doubt. No contest, here.

VOTE: Heroscape

I tried Heroscape a couple of times but couldn't get into it. I liked Summoner Wars the first time I played (and every time since).

Vote: Summoner Wars

Summoner Wars = 8
kookoobah
scissors
KingPut
metalface13
Jason Lutes
Josh Look
Hatchling
dysjunct

Heroscape = 11
Stormcow
Sagilarius
superflytnt
msample
Ken B.
wkover
notahandle
Death and Taxis
Mr Skeletor
clockwirk
Merkles