Welcome adventurer to the original Warhammer Quest! Rest your weary legs traveller as I take you on a journey back to 1995. A fully painted boxed game and details await you after the jump.
Shown above is my Warhammer Quest set with expansions and few extra character packs.
Originally designed by Andy Jones and Gavin Thorpe Warhammer Quest was an adventure game set in the depths of the World that once was the Warhammer Old World. The game included four characters to use. A Wizard, an Elf, a Dwarf and a Barbarian. You and your friends would work together to complete the mission. Every dungeon adventure was different with 5 different boss battle end game rooms to randomly generate with 6 randomly determined missions for each room. That’s 30 different missions to play!
Four one piece mono-pose character models which were pushing the boundaries of plastic molding back in 1995. I think they still look great.
Rooms were generated randomly and certain rooms and dice rolls triggered events from collapsing floors to a room full of enemies. Floor pieces were held together with awesome detailed plastic doorways which gave a height and 3D effect to the playing area. The game also included blank event cards you could write on. The Role-play book included every monster in the Warhammer Old World so you could take your Warhammer Skaven Army and fill out the blank cards and fill your next adventure with a Skaven theme.
Using the Role-play book you can link your games by travelling to settlements, spending gold earn in the dungeon, or selling treasure to acquire more gold and levelling up your character. You kept the same character and treasure from mission to mission. Everything was tracked using a character sheet, pencil and eraser. Random events could happen in the settlements, I remember once our Dwarf had to marry the chief’s daughter before we could leave.
Hordes of smaller critters like rats, bats and spiders would slow the adventurers down.
The game seemed unlimited, but that didn’t stop Games Workshop releasing two Campaign Packs called Lair of the Orc Warlord and Catacombs of Terror as well as three new packs of treasure cards. The campaign packs included new floor pieces, rulebooks, event cards, treasure cards and new enemies to battle.
The Dungeons in the game were predominately Greenskins, including Goblins, Night Goblins and Snotlings.
Games Workshop also released individually boxed character sets which included the characters rules and card counters for the miniature in the box. These sets included a Warrior Priest, an Elf Ranger, A Chaos Warrior, A Witch Hunter and a few others.
The biggest Greenskins in the set are the Orc Warriors.
The monsters included on the game box tended to be static, flat, once piece, mono pose miniatures. But that didn’t seem to matter because it was all about just grinding your way through a horde of enemies and earning that gold and treasure. The same enemies would pop up time and time again in the same mission.
This Chaos Warrior was one of many Character Packs
Games Workshop have released a brand new version of Warhammer Quest called Warhammer Quest Silver Tower. It is now just set in a single dungeon instead of the entire Warhammer Old World. They are releasing an App to allow you to use any of the Heroes (or Villains) from their plastic character series. There are 9 missions to work through and collect all the pieces of a broken amulet. There doesn’t seem to be a role-play or level up system like the original. We can only speculate at the moment if this game will be supported with expansions and new dungeons. I hope they do though.
Twelve Skaven Clanrats also added variety to the enemies you fought.
The biggest and hardest enemies to fight were the Minotaurs!
Are you buying Silver Tower this weekend? Did you play the original? Let me know in the comments below.
Garfy
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Wow. Just wow! Great work Garfy. I wish they'd just reprint this version of WHQ. The new one looks OK but this is a real gem. Especially with what you have done with it.
Awesome. I still have my WHQ set but not the box (it went all squigy in the cold loft…) and this makes me wanna repaint all the mini, which are currently in a horrible painted by a 11 year old state… (Me)
Kinda pumped about the new WQ. Now that I'm older and have less time, i actually look forward to a full campaign/series of quests which i can see myself completing! Endless questing is good but not when there is limited time.
I have the original set and love it (mostly painted). I ordered the new one after my son (7) and I played at our local GW store. We both had a lot of fun and he was ready for more. Funny thing, when we go home my boy painted his first miniature (old school plastic 1 part High Elf spearman).
Yes I'm looking forward to spending hours adventuring with my boy and seeing the glow in him that I had as a kid exploring for the first time.
Your stuff looks great! Much better than mine, but I am happy to have my set completely painted as well. I'm still play Warhammer Quest, and have quite a few battle reports from different parties up on my blog: http://adventuresinminiaturegaming.blogspot.com/p/warhammer-quest-adventures.html
I'm also looking forward to Warhammer Quest: Silver Tower, though I see it as a different game, rather than an update of Warhammer Quest.
Very nice. I have the game, orc lair and all three card packs sitting on a shelf waiting for me to decide if I'm going to sell it or not
I never got into WHQ back when it was released (I was still too enthralled with 2nd Ed. 40k and Necromunda), but I did end up with a couple of the character pack models in my collection. Not sure what happened to the Bretonnian Knight model, but I do still have the Empire Noble and Wood Elf Wardancer kicking around.
Absolute quality! I have a painted set, which I am now all enthused to break out again and get gaming! One of the best family friendly games GW ever produced.
Probably one of the best painted versions of this that I've seen! I missed out on the original due to being a poor twenty something at the time, but over the last two years (pre-AOS) I've collected enough characters and monsters (600 ish) to pretty much cover all ten encounter levels.
As for the new version, I like most of the Tzeentch models, but find the rest unusable for what I want so I'll pass on the new set.
Looks great and nice to see a fantastic retro game, but can't wait to pick up the latest version this Saturday. Our gaming group already have several campaigns set up to play the hell out of the Silver Towerover the coming weeks. Gonna be a lot of fun. T
Warhammer Quest is a great game, I had the 95s Edition and if I could buy back one of the two , I would take the 1995 original. The models are beautiful, and I don't like the new Warhammer Age of Sigmar style. taste question.
Thanks for this awesome models 😉
Ben.
I'm painting mine to follow your style but man oh man if you ever part with yours please let me know as its beautiful!!
Alas, I sold it a few years ago. Sorry. It was such a good set. I miss it.
Noooooo!!!! Wish I could track down the buyer !!!!