Heroscape Wiki:Reclaim Valhalla

Project:Reclaim Valhalla is an ongoing project to converted D&D Heroscape cards to proper Classic Heroscape cards to make it more compatible with the original game. As we all know, Wizards of the Coast attempted to converted Heroscape from the great army game that made it so popular into a sort of Dungeons and Dragons "lite". The use of D&D models was explained as a way to save money (despite the fact that, before Wizards of the Coast took over, Heroscape was outselling D&D), however what was NEVER explained or justified was why these D&D models were still D&D characters. Why were they not presented as being Classic Heroscape races and being from Classic Heroscape worlds? The real answer of course came out in the end, the attempt was to boost D&D sales by "hopefully" convincing Heroscape players to play and buy D&D instead, hence turning the game into a light version of D&D and then suddenly shutting it down.

The Heroscape community responded to this hostile takeover in a variety of ways, some gave up the game all together, others became apologist for Wizards of the Coast, some ignored the D&D line altogether and others even tried to promote and toady up to Wizards of the Coast, hoping to convince them not to cancel the game, which of course they did anyway. Some of us however, chose to fix what Wizards of the Coast did, some of us chose to Reclaim Valhalla!

This project will take various D&D units starting from Battle for the Underdark and Waves D1 to D3 and converted these figures into proper Heroscape characters while changing just as little as possible. The purpose of this project is not to create personal custom variants, but to simple show the cards as if Milton Bradley had still been making the game. For example: Brandis Skyhunter simply needs four minor fixes to become a proper TrueScape card. 1: His species needs to changed from "Half-Elf" to "Elf"; 2: Since "Ranger" is not a class in Heroscape it needs to be changed to "Archer"; 3: On the basic side his homeplanet needs to changed "Feylund; 4: Finally the card style needs to be done in the Swarm of the Marro swamp-style cards, as these figures are now to be seen as further expansions of that line.

Listed on this project page with be the pages connected to the Reclaim Valhalla project showing the corrected figure cards. Not every figure may be fixable (especially without changing the model) but everyone that can be will eventually be done.

Finished Cards:

Jandar

 * White Wyrmling

Ullar

 * Brandis Skyhunter
 * Erevan Sunshadow
 * Sharwin Wildborn
 * Fen Hydra

Vydar

 * Black Wyrmling

Eniar

 * Durnipia
 * Red Wyrmling

Aquilla

 * Darrak Ambershard
 * Mogrim Forgehammer
 * Blue Wyrmling
 * Wyvern Predator

Utgar

 * Shurrak