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Today in HeroScape!

It’s National Virtual Vacation Day. You’re supposed to put on a VR headset and look at vacation destinations, but we can do better than that. Build your own virtual vacation destination using HeroScape terrain! What HeroScape map would make the best vacation destination?
 
On this date in 1515, the Portuguese fleet under Afonso de Albuquerque capture the Persian fortress of Hormuz, renaming it the Fort of Our Lady of the Conception. I love the idea of capturing a fortress from the sea. How would you go about recreating that in HeroScape?
 
It’s National Ride Your Horse to a Bar Day. Celebrate by playing an army of all mounted figs (doesn’t have to be on horses) while consuming your favorite adult beverage! Who are you playing and what are you drinking?
 
It’s Don’t Go To Work Unless It’s Fun Day. You have two options, 1) Take the day off and play HeroScape! Or 2) Take HeroScape to work and call it a ‘team building’ exercise!
 
On this day in 2013, Poecilotheria rajaei, a giant tarantula with a 20cm leg span, is discovered in Sri Lanka. Celebrate by playing an army with several units of Fyorlag Spiders today. If nothing else, it should give your opponent the heebie jeebies.
 
On this day in 1242, Russian Prince of Novgorod, Alexander Nevsky, defeated the Teutonic Knights (led by a bishop!) on the frozen Lake Chud, known as the ‘Battle on the Ice’. Use two sets of the Snow Fields of Valhalla to recreate the frozen lake and battle. Classic HeroScape knights are great for this battle, but which contemporary heros would you use to proxy the Russian prince and the bishop?
 
MSTP on Discord pointed me to the movie that depicts the Battle of the Ice!


I would be surprised if anyone owns enough Templar Cavalry to recreate that charge properly!
 
It’s Jump Over Things Day. Sounds pretty risky, but you can safely honor this ‘holiday’ using HeroScape. Play the Shaolin Monks or Abomination for the leap abilities on a map with lots of terrain and obstacles to leap over. What other units have jumping powers?

Today is also Rav Navami and while I usually avoid using religious holidays, this image of Lord Rama from the holiday website I use jumped out at me:

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Blue guy with a bow looks a lot like an Arrow Grut to me! (Maybe I just see HeroScape everywhere I look?)
 
It’s International Beaver Day. Honor it by playing the Vorid Glide Strikers featuring HeroScape’s own beaver character! Once again, I call upon Renegade to honor a sacred (and ridiculous) holiday by naming this guy!

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It’s National Dog Fighting Awareness Day. If you know someone that you suspect is involved in dog fighting, show them there is a way to pursue their passion without the cruelty. Invite them over to play HeroScape and let them play Dünd, Deathstalkers, and/or Marrden Hounds.
 
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It’s National Mature Women’s Day. Honor them by playing one of HeroScape’s mature women characters, like Sudema, Sonya Esenwein, or Empress Kiova. Which HeroScape woman do you think is the oldest?
 
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It’s National Mature Women’s Day. Honor them by playing one of HeroScape’s mature women characters, like Sudema, Sonya Esenwein, or Empress Kiova. Which HeroScape woman do you think is the oldest?
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Hmmm..... It's a toss up between Sudema and Sonya (both are probably centuries old). If I had to pick one, I'd go with Sudema.
 
It’s National Pet Day. Celebrate by playing Beasts, HeroScape units that bond with Beasts, and units that have mounts. Which HeroScape Beast or mount would you want as a pet? (Carefully consider the costs associated with keeping a pet like a dragon mount before you respond.)
 
It’s Big Wind Day. You’re supposed to go outside and enjoy the wind, but that seems impractical. Instead, play the HeroScape scenario Louder Than Words on the Howling Pass map from the Age of Annihilation Master Set. What is you favorite scenario with wind rules?
 
On this day in 1250, the Seventh Crusade was defeated in Egypt and Louis the IX of France was captured. Recreate a possible battle from this defeat using some of those 24-hex sand pieces from Lands of Valhalla; classic HeroScape Templars and knights, vs Khosumet and his army. Position walls, ruins, and/or fortress pieces on the map to give Khosumet the home field advantage. What other units will stand with Khosumet to defeat the Crusader army?
 
It’s National Look Up at the Sky Day. Make your enemy look up at the sky for the arrival of the Airborne Elite and the Vorid Glide Strikers! What other units would you pair with these two for the ideal, 400-point, ‘Look Up at the Sky’ HeroScape army?
 
Leonardo da Vinci was born on this day in 1452. I think several HeroScape designs were inspired by da Vinci, particularly the Vorid designs, and the concept art always evokes his work for me. What other da Vinci designs and concepts would you like to see in future HeroScape figs?
 
It’s National Angel Day. This is supposed to be about people named Angel (go figure), but we can celebrate it by playing an all Kyrie army (only the goodies). Which good kyrie unit is your favorite?
 
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It’s National Angel Day. This is supposed to be about people named Angel (go figure), but we can celebrate it by playing an all Kyrie army (only the goodies). Which good kyrie unit is your favorite?
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The nostalgic in me wants to say Concan, but lately I've been having a TON of fun with the Ullar Angels. Mielki is a beast, and I think Xiamara is very underappreciated.
 
It’s International Haiku Poetry Day. Did you know that HeroScape’s Kaemon Awa has his own haikus? Celebrate the day by writing a HeroScape Haiku and posting it here.
 
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