Nice video! You`ve done a very good job with theming the henchmen. Very smart indeed! Haven`t played it for ages but still my favourite dungeon crawl. I particularly like the D12 system and also the realism of having to buy spell components in between adventures. If you have two fireballs then when they`ve gone, they`ve gone. It makes you think more carefully about when to use them rather than being able to hurl one almost every turn as in games such as Warhammer Quest. It was a shame they didn`t add more expansions but the one they did, Terror In The Dark I thought was very good

the art box is really nice ! i m french, i bought it in a game shop in Bristol in 1990. i still love this game and use MB furnitures

Played lots of Hero Quest as a kid. My Dad tried to get us on this Advanced one but it was a bit complicated for 8-10 year olds. Only played it a couple of times before going back to the original.

I always dreamed of this game. Alas as a kid I only ever got hold of a copy of basic hero quest. Wish I knew where it was now.

Best Dungeon Crawler ever created. And i am a big fan of that genre ;)

I really enjoy watching and listening your videos. Really entertaining! This one is missing from my GW dungeon / hero collection. Prices are kinda insane these days.

Excellent video. Love the painted minis.

Good to see AHQ getting some love (I might have to see if I can find my old copy out ...it's up in the attic ...somewhere...).

Can't believe you found a copy in such good condition!

AHQ has NOT removed monster variety. They are just not included jn the box. You can add every model of the GW Old World line of White Metal models. I made cards of the printed cards in the RPG rulebook included in the game. This game really is a square based skirmish game that needs a DM or AI cards and scenarios. Descent 1st edition is more like this game than WHQ.

I love this game!!!

Nice review mate. Little trip down memory lane, loved this in its day but dont think id play something so unsophisticated these days. By the way, the word you were groping for relating to coats of arms etc is called Heraldry. Cracked me up when you still didnt get it at the end. Cheers.

At long last Advanced Heroquest is getting some love lol. I've got this game sat on the shelf, will have to play it and compare the rules with the new fan rules. Me and my brother used to play this game when we were youner back in the day and lucky I collected Skaven and Chaos armies so had many of of the minis which was handy...........Love to see a playthrough, as this game is under-rated and overlooked, sometmes forgotten. It's hard and sometimes unfair but that's what you want in a game nothing too easy lol.

Just like to add something else I like about AHQ and that is the randomness of the dungeon levels. You can`t descend into the next level until you find some stairs inside a room to do so. These stairs only appear in certain types of rooms and even then you have to make a roll to mean that they are there. That means you have no idea how large each level might be. In one game you might find the stairs quickly and in another you won`t. I love that kind of level of randomness and never knowing. It`s not until you get to the bottom level of each game that the dungeon is mapped out for you

Great video. thanks

I like this video. You can really feel how much you love this game. It's awesome. I want to buy it now. :)

Nice overview. I remember playing this not as frequently as we did heroquest, but i dont remember why. Maybe the random levels before coming to the questfloor, idk anymore. All our players loved the charactercreation tho, which was the cool feature, heroquest hadnt. Unmodded at least 😉

Great video. I'm looking forward to the gameplay. I think i found mine in a 2nd hand shop but that was a few years ago. Unfortunately i melted the heros in pine cleaner!

I really like the intro in this video, especially the music. It makes me really want to forget about going to work today, grab a whip and start slaying vampires. Are there more songs like your intro song? I'd love to make a gothic playlist to have in my games.

I much prefer how WHQ does the random dungeon, with dungeon cards to represent every tile so you never run out and you know you’ll get to the objective room eventually, it’s not dependent on random dice rolls. I also much prefer the art and variation of the tiles in WHQ. It’s just such a shame it’s so expensive now. I wish I’d kept hold of my copy from back in the 90s. I never even really played back then either, I was too young to fully understand it and me and my friend just kept playing Talisman 3rd edition instead!

I'm glad you finally mentioned how you came by this copy. I was wondering how in the world it still wasn't punched out! The synchronized color schemes for the henchmen is such a good idea. They turned out really well. This has got me excited to break out my copy again.

I was born in 1991 and remember playing this game with my brother at my cousins house about the late 90’s to early 00’s. Nostalgia overload!!! 💀🧝🏻‍♂️🧟‍♂️🧙🏻‍♂️🤴🏼👸🏼💀☠️👻

cool!

Finally some AHQ! Thank you :) I absolutely love this game. I house rule it a Little bit but the atmosphere is old school amazingness. I am very glad to see video's on this game. I would love to see gameplay from the "One vs many" version in the 1995 Warhammer Quest roleplay book. I think the quest is called "The doom of Grishnack".

Got to get a copy of this. I got all the mini's in a Heroquest set, contemplating printing the floorplans.

Came originally for your dungeon tiles based upon HeroQuest. I am making my own set and I'm still deciding ultimately what material I intend to use. I played, but did not own that game as a child and, being an American, Advanced HeroQuest was largely just not a thing here in the US. About ten years ago, I bought a mostly complete copy of HQ for a fair price. It had fraying cardboard edges on the furniture bits and box had blown its corners. I repaired these and bought what I was missing, but … I also saw a listing for AHQ from a UK shop for a song along with the AHQ paint set. Shipping was dreadful of course, but I proudly own both now. I didn't really play the game because, as you say, it's a completely different game, the rules are quite wall-of-text and not particularly good, and it's really just an attempt to get you to buy a bunch of Citadel minis which you can't buy anymore. Still, I appreciate having Skaven to add to my HQ game, and the random dungeon generation is nice too. On the whole, I'm glad I bought it.

I had Troll Slayers Oath from White Dwarf. Photo-copied it from my mates magazine

Play with Reforged rules: ahqreforged.blogspot.com/p/what-is-ahq-reforged.html The only way to play AHQ :)

Thanks for the great overview of AHQ. Was wondering if you've had a gander at the Reforged rules. They almost seem like they could function as a full blown RPG, an alternative to WFRP

89? Really, I could have sworn 87 or so. Sure I was playing this before I was married in 88. Could be wrong. Memory is getting old. Thanks for the trip down memory lane though :)

Thank you for the review. All of the info I wanted and not dull. I only played the MB Heroquest. Which song were you using? So familiar. From a game?

Some elements sound like an improvement over HeroQuest but it sounds overally complicated just for complicated sake. I still believe HeroQuest the superior, more family friendly and lay person game. Dungeon crawlers don't have to be over complicated to be enjoyed. The basic combat and the board I think are better and you can still heavily modify it for your own enjoyment if you are that way inclined. HeroQuest leaves alot open for the players to muck around with and let their imagination fly. Advanced HeroQuest is just not as player friendly although hit definitely sets a theme for more advanced uses who ended up going into Warhammer table top games. I will always cherish my HeroQuest game and it's expansions. Many people on line have given me great ideas in improving it without overally complicating it. I even have my own ideas of expanding it and that's what makes it an all time classic and great board game.

How much did the artwork improve on those white dwarfs.

I have some questions about the game and how its played. 1. Can the monsters move out of the rooms once they have been "opened" by a hero? 2. Do the "wandering monsters" show up every time a hero searches for treasure or just the one time? 3. When do the objects show up to the hero in the room? when they enter the room or just look thru the door? 4. Are there rules of engagement? can a hero disengage from a monster if they have exchanged an attack? 5. Can a hero move around a room without engaging with a monster?

Whatever was happening with the framerate at the start was less scary than the game content thrown willy-nilly into the box, not even baggies. :)

The best thing about advanced heroquest is a cup of tea and biscuit.

Yeah; they totally missed the appeal of the original here. If I'm in the mood to put in this much effort, I'll just play D&D.

This is a weird mix of improvements over the original and steps backward. The art design is so ugly on this (that box art says it all), where everything in original Heroquest looked amazing. I'd miss the nice solid gameboard even though these flimsy dungeon tiles allow for more dungeon shapes. And where's the furniture? Doors that seem better but actually all break immediately. Overall I'd rather play original Heroquest for the loving design of every element and if I want more complexity, just jump up to AD&D.

Advanced Heroquest was vastly superior to Heroquest !!