Warhammer Quest - The Quest for the Quest

I remember when this game came out years ago, it was 1995 and I had some gaming buddies, but at the time we were mostly into RPG's, not miniature games or board games, which this was a combination of the two... I remember thinking it was cool and thinking it would be neat to play, but I can't actually remember playing it.

Years later, as I got more into board games and miniature games and thought it might be neat to get into this or at least try it out... no go. The price was just through the roof, even today on ebay this game goes for several hundred dollars, and good luck if you can find it complete or not.

We ended up getting into Descent and it scratched the dungeon crawl itch we were all having. I have always kept this game in the back of my mind, thinking it might be neat to get one day, but again, the price is just too high to justify trying to hunt it down. I have seen some people list this as their "Holy Grail", I suppose it is more for nostalgic reasons than anything else, but still, the demand is high and getting a copy is not going to happen.

Well, tonight I had an idea... I managed to get high res scans of the entire game. Every tile, every card, every booklet, etc... everything! Basically I now 'own' Warhammer Quest, complete with everything except the miniatures. Luckily for me, Games Workshop still sells all of these minis as singles. They are newer molds and not the 'same' figures that were originally released with the game, but they will still be similar enough... I mean a "Goblin Archer" is a "Goblin Archer" who cares if it is exactly the same mold as it was 15 years ago... same for everything else, in fact, the newer sculpts actually look nicer on some of these.

So, now I have a plan... I can reprint all of the books form the original game and the expansion, I can print the actual game cards and other items as well as purchase and paint nice minis from Games Workshop... since there are not a lot of minis to 'complete' this game, it won't be expensive, and the lower amount of minis means I can put more time into painting them and making them each much nicer.

One other thing I found, on BGG, someone was making 3-D terrain for this game (see the image above to compare the original and the custom), now that is truly awesome!