The epic sci-fi combat of the Halo video game series is getting adapted to official tabletop form with the upcoming Halo: Flashpoint . The skirmish game sees players assemble teams of Halo Spartans or Banished Elites and send them into tactical turn-based battles. Those who have played similar wargames like Warhammer 40,000 --especially the smaller-scale Killteam format--will find Halo: Flashpoint's premise and gameplay familiar, but the game's creator, Mantic Entertainment, says it'll be easy to learn for newcomers to the genre.
If you want to get started with the new tabletop wargame, you can preorder the Halo: Flashpoint Spartan Edition box that includes enough minis and terrain for two players to engage in epic Spartan versus Banished skirmishes, plus all the necessary rulebooks, playing cards, and other gameplay pieces to learn to play the game. You can preorder Halo: Flashpoint Spartan Edition for $125 at Amazon ahead of its October 25 release . Halo: Flashpoint Spartan Edition $125 Inside the Halo: Flashpoint Spartan edition, you'll find: Halo: Flashpoint rulebook 16 Spartan models 4 Banished Elite models 20 Weapon cards 20 Player cards 3 Reference cards 12 D8 dice 8 Command dice Deluxe 2-sided playboard and standard playmat Pre-colored cardboard terrain and tokens Plastic 3D arena accessories The Spartan and Elite minis and 3D plastic arena accessories come unpainted, much like with other minis-based tabletop games.
The cardboard terrain elements are full-color but re.