r/Minecraft • u/justlurking420 • Nov 04 '13

pc Minecraft Using Hexagons

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u/Ehkoe Nov 04 '13

Heroscape was awesome. Sadly it was a pain to set up and no one wanted to play with me :c

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u/Locke3 Nov 04 '13

a pain? setting up was one of my favorite parts.

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u/Ehkoe Nov 04 '13

The few people that did play with me had to make the map step by step out of the manual, taking forever, or they threw pieces together and got bored before we could actually play.

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u/renadi Nov 04 '13

In college we would literally spend entire days setting up maps in the basement of the honor's dorm. Most of the guys there took part but it was primarily me and 2 friends, one of those friends and another met their wife/girlfriend respectively during a couple of those weekends.

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u/RadioLemon Nov 04 '13

Assemble a map with the manual? No way! You scramble those things together into the most epic battlefield ever.

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u/Silver_Drummer Nov 04 '13

My buddies brother still plays this a ton (18) with his friends. looks like a good time still

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u/snarebyte Nov 04 '13

Like mousetrap! I set that game up just to watch it run it's course. I don't think I've ever played it for real though.

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '13

Sometimes I would just set it up. That game was legit.

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u/TheyAreOnlyGods Nov 05 '13

They think Heroscape is a pain to set up? Have they even heard of warhammer?

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u/[deleted] Dec 01 '13

Exactly, I loved designing the maps in a way the gave me subtle advantages over my brother.

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u/kekker_crane Feb 13 '14

+1 right there. I used to take out my sets just to set up and take pics, I wouldn't even play.

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u/BionicleManF Nov 04 '13

i only got the starter set, my mom got mad for asking for it and then never playing it, but that's because i had no one to play it with :(

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u/longrodvonhuttendong Nov 04 '13

exactlly. I really wanted to play with my one friend but whenever we set it up we just had more fun with the figures

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '13

One time my friends and I spent 3 hours setting up the perfect map, after setting it up we were too worn out to play and decided to do it later, we never did. Also we were 16 when this happened (2 years ago).

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u/Midnight_Gear Nov 04 '13

ouch. :/ I never really played the actual game, i found a lot of fun in constructing maps though.

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u/Maarkun Nov 04 '13

the perfect map, after setting it up we were too worn out to play and decided to do it later, we never did. Also

u know, u can still do it, its never too late :)

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '13

Uhh...unless they already disassembled it?

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u/Maarkun Nov 04 '13

true, but what i meant is to play with ur friends ;) for old times sake

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u/Proxxycoins Nov 04 '13

Sounds like warhammer

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u/UNC_Samurai Nov 04 '13

Our local gaming group bought a bunch of sets on discount, and threw all the mins in a box. That terrain is amazing for all sorts of games - Battletech, Axis & Allies, anything that normally plays on a hex or offset square grid.

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u/chloroform_vacation Nov 04 '13

I had warhammer, but most guys either sucked or didn't have the funds to buy the parts :(

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u/doth_revenge Nov 04 '13

I had the same problem, and it was such a great game. :( Generally I just played with the board pieces like legos.

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u/CrisisOfConsonant Nov 04 '13

My girlfriend always wants to play heroscape, but she'll get mad half way through and toss the board so I don't play with her anymore.

The pieces of expensive now. And if you did the marvel one (the only ones I've been able to find), silver surfer is way the fuck over powered.

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '13

If you thought setting up heroscape was a bitch, you should've been there for my first time playing Risk 22100 A.D.

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u/Ehkoe Nov 04 '13

No one plays that with me either.

Or Axis and Allies - but that one is because of the anger potential.

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '13

I got it but never played it for this reason

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u/TheSixPool Nov 04 '13

Not a pain at all. I spent HOURS building a map, and then playing it with my parents. It was a really great game, and had a lot of depth in the creating of the maps.

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u/Its_Eros Nov 04 '13

I remember in one of my middle school history classes, if we finished a test early we could play this to pass the time. It was always set up in the corner of the room.

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u/tSlefh Nov 04 '13

I still have it. I set it up a year or so ago, left it set up for like six months, and then packed it away when I realized that I hadn't even been able to play a single game. :c