Once upon a quest

My first game ever with figurines had been HeroQuest. My first love had been Hero Quest, those miniatures, those epic adventures that, to me were just seen in movies or fantasy books, where finally REAL, I was able to touch them, use them play with them, the 

The barbarian was a Clancy Brown look-a-like.    

That game gave a strong imprint to my life: miniatures, fantasy and games started to be more frequent in my everyday discussions; play started to be a costant part of my life, get better rules and better experience in game a sort of mission. Long story short: a game nerd was born. 

After the great HeroQuest and it's awesome illustrations, miniatures and board, came the moment of it's heir: Advanced Hero Quest.

The barbarian was a punisher look-a-like. I guess.

I admit that the cover art was a bit less catchy and epic of it's daddy; well, to be honest, this cover art was a tad sloppy, and definitely it would loose in a confrontation, but the inside was electrifying and mysterious at the same time, less miniatures (just heroes, skaven and companions) but the ramaining materials was just shocking and shockingly used, the origin of the dungeon crawling: without this game today maybe we would not have games like Binding of Isaac or enter the Gungeon.
Advanced Heroquest was introducing me into a dungeon randomly created with group of monsters randomly generated for an infinte number of hours of dungeon crawling (a new word  to add to my personal vocabulary). 

But only growing up I discovered the existance of games Workshop products, we can say that I was pleasantly ignorant of where those epic products where caming from, and I was happy. 

Then I grew up, and I discovered another piece of the 3D dungeon crawling  ( at that age there were nothing like Kickstarter and Coolminiornot, so you had to be faithful to a brand to get games, that's why we were all playing Dungeon & Dragons and Warhammer! )
Warhammer Quest came in shops! 

The barbarian here is  hmmm dunno, maybe Geoff Taylor's cousin look-a-like.. 

Warhammer Quest was the bridge between two big pillars of my life, Roleplay games and miniatures, this was nearly perfection for a young me, full of figurines and chances for adventures, this game was funny, hard and with some expansions (now we would say DLC) that came with White Dwarf. Aaaaah, those were days!

And this new Warhammer Quest? Beh, well... After years of silence, GW come back to make tabletop games and not only strategic games, which is good, but on the other side I have the impression that the restyling of Warhammer for some reason do not fit in the Warhammer Quest name.
I am not talking about the contant of this box (that sounds actually very tasty) or the quality of the product ( for what I saw it seem tasty as well ) but is just this background, this new background less fantasy, for us gamer of the old guard, has something weird that hardly could fit with the classic idea of a dungeon crawler...
Well, will I buy this new Warhammer Quest Silver Tower? Yes, sure. And you?