Weekender: Spartan Grabs Halo License & Bustin’ Ghosts On Kickstarter!
February 14, 2015 by dignity
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Happy Valentines day! Hopefully you're spending this Saturday with loved ones or getting some hobby done, maybe even a bit of both! This Weekender we're going to be talking about the awesome news that Spartan Games have grabbed the license to make wargames for the Halo Universe!
As well as that we'll be talking about the awesome new Special Characters for Dropzone Commander which we got to check out at Invasion 2015 too! Talking of events we'll also be putting a call out for bloggers at Salute 2015 AND another Game Designer Challenge!
Cryptozoic have also bought a Ghostbusters Board Game to Kickstarter and while we've had a few reservations it hasn't stopped people busting through the target and getting the thing funded! We said it would be awesome to see the boys with proton packs in a board game ages ago!
Last but not least we're chatting about a new article series coming your way next week from Oriskany. Once again he's back to rock our collective worlds with a really interesting series all about World War 2.5. Want to know more? Watch and find out!
Have a great weekend!
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Happy Weekend!!
Spirit of fire is in halo wars if memory serves.
Warren why not do what we do at my Local Club (2nd Legion) Play the 15mm game with 28mm Mini’s. Looks great but you need a tonne of stuff
And a ton of space 🙂
http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2014/171/0/1/size_comparison___science_fiction_spaceships_by_dirkloechel-d6lfgdf.jpg
Tons of space needs tons of ships…
..oh wait wrong space.
hey warren you could use the ghosts for your scooby doo game
Hey I just wanted to let you guys know that there are actually 3 other main armies in the Halo Universe that could easily be put into action. The Prometheans, the Flood, and the Sentinels.
All of which have their own ground and space forces.
Also there are 2 variants of the main 2 armies, for the UNSC there are the Rebels and for the Covenant their are the Rouges.
There is a rebellion against the unsc also. this happens before halo 1 but it is essentially the reason why Spartans are created. Rebel Humans with stolen or repurposed spacecraft. Masterchief actually fights them Before the covenant even make contact and they persist after the halo game timeline.
Well another interesting show…cannot say that I have ever played Halo… but on the scale issue well 6mm or 10 mm are the kings of the mass battle effect. 15 mm looks good but even then it’s just not aways perfect.
Will be at Salute but already going to be doing a parti game 1/3000th first world war Naval game based on Dogger Bank.
I chose PHR. Nothing to with luck and everything to do with good taste 😉
That make 2 of us.
And there is an other hades based command unit coming for the PHR – Which will be tournament legal unlike the special ones
Looking at what Spartan are aiming for with their own game universes – Firestorm and DW we may see Halo in both 10/15 mm and 28 mm as well as the space game.
Which would leave us with 3 levels of gaming 🙂
I heard Neil Fawcett (Spartan Games head honcho) say the land battle game will be in the scale you would expect, which I take to mean 28mm.
28mm will be sexy for sure, I just can’t help shake the feeling that with today’s manufacturing capabilities 15mm is the sweet spot for this kind of game 🙂
For a company known for producing smaller scale games, he might mean that it would be in a scale to expect from them? I’d personally prefer a smaller scale for it but I wouldn’t mind building and painting a 28mm scale warthog…
When they did this type of game for Dystopian Wars, they did it in 28mm (Dystopian Legions). They were going to do the same for Uncharted Seas (it was called something like Shore Clash) though it never got released. I think they’re doing the same for Firestorm Armada with Spec Ops.
I dont think 28mm is the right choice if from what I hear Halo is ,in thatit being the stage for some big armoured battles
On the Meeples & Miniatures interview with Neil from Spartan, he says the Halo space combat game is going to be in coloured hard plastic and the covenant assault carrier will be produced and be over 20cm long!
That should tick a few boxes.
Hey anyone at beast of war want to know about halo universe email me at [email protected] I will include pics, I only know about the games and live action minimovie’s but I been keeping up because halo 1 was my first videogame And I love it BIG FAN OF HALO.
HALO/MS/Spartan: see no reason why they could not produce a 28mm skirmish tabletop game where the minis could also be used in a Space Hulk style board game, in addition to a 10mm or 15 mm epic battle game allowing much larger forces and the big land/air/sea fighting vehicles to be included.Keeps everyone happy. This could potentially be much, much bigger than any other sci-fi game as the paradigm is familiar to so many players over such a long time period. The vast bulk has to be in hard plastic. Whether specials end up in resin is another matter. WW2.5:… Read more »
my 15mm gaming pretty crowded at the moment armada and fow ,and of course the excellent dropzone commander so if 15mm will probably give this a miss .now 28mm is a different matter be great see a genuine mainstream rival to 40k hitting the shelves and shaking things up .never really caught the gw 40k bug more into their fantasy (sob,sob).but would be willing to give halo a go at 28mm .Spartan do geat models and if their smart they would sell it at a slightly lower rrp than 40k
Great weekender ( as usual 😀 ). Given the massive size of the vehicles from the HALO universe, I am definitely in the 15mm camp. In those examples used, you would not see them on a 28mm scaled table, they would just be too big, 15mm would do them the justice they deserved.
Now off to Kick Starter and check out the Ghostbusters game, that is looking really sweet, but as warren said, got to get those mini’s right.
Why not 3 scales of HALO, combinable in campaigns?
Epic scale – battle fleet: spaces battles with ships attacking planets..
…dropping 10/15mm units/models for large scale battles, including assaulting objectives…
…which can zoom into 28mm skirmish mode in buildings/terrain inaccessible to the big vehicles/craft (although units can be dropped).
Play one, two or all three modes.
i hope for 3 lvls of gaming for halo – space, 15mm large battles and 28mm skimmish
Compromise Halo ground wargame 20 mm 🙂 I may be biased as it’s the only scale I’m not playing in!
20mm is a great scale
Although something like Halo in a similar scale to Ogre would look pretty cool
@johnlyons – I 100% apologize if I’ve come off as “that” guy who’s always picking apart details or “correcting” people. Lord knows I got corrected plenty by the community during the first article of the Bulge series, and also a Market Garden thread I ran in September. 🙂 I’m also the buffoon you had to straighten out when I thought the Chieftain was armed with a 120mm smoothbore instead of a rifle. I also opened a thread about the A43 Black Prince “super Churchill” variant, which mistakenly labeled A34. 🙁 (thank you, edit function in the forums!!) I DO love… Read more »
@oriskany You guys all keep each other accurate. @johnlyons meant it as joke as I’m sure you know. I think it’s excellent that we have this level of expertise in the forums and enjoy reading all of you experts.
And yes, very good show today. Really enjoyed it.
I feel like I need to give you a hug! You know I am totally pulling your leg when I mention your little black book 😉
You and me have a great back and forth when we get going, and I wouldn’t have it any other way. Because neither of us can be 100% right all the time and I love a debate, so long as it doesn’t end in handbags at dawn over the river Volga!
You better be heading our way at some point. We need to compare “Libraries” 😛
Trust me, @johnlyons , I WAS coming to Salute 2015 – had hotel reserved and was lined up as one of Warren’s historical commentators, etc . . . Suffice it to say I had to cancel. I’m still in mourning, and if I “needed a hug,” it would be for that. 😀 Thanks for the reply. I figured you and Justin were kidding, and others on the site like @brianparker confirmed this . . . but we all know how the internet is. I could by typing one thing and the reader takes away something totally different. Thanks again! And… Read more »
@oriskany – Its due to men and women like yourself that are willing to share your knowledge and dreams with the rest of us that we have such great content. It takes a lot for someone to write about history as errors can so often make the fool of you. All the more reason I respect your posts about history as you and others place yourself under scrutiny of the public. Keep up the contributions to BoW as I’m confident many of us do get some joy from them.
Awesome, @manpug ! Wow, thanks very much! 🙂
Battlegroup and Oriskany… a match made in heaven!
Battlegroup? Battlegroup? Do I hear Battlegroup? And 20mm? Yes gentlemen, do it and extensively! Your viewers will be delighted and it will open a completely different view on WWII gaming. Great game. Real WWII feeling.
Hello Beasts of War, what a great show! With Halo Lloyd is absolutely right: To have such a rich background and story is a great opportunity for a tabletop game. It’s much easier to get dragged in.
Great work from all the contributors as well, those latest articles all are a great read.
the SALUTE game design challenge…
might be cool to use the dice from Imperial assault or the Star Wars RPG in the rules.
I’d love to see halo ground warfare in 28mm, but i agree at the you’d lose so many iconic vehicles if you went that “big.” Maybe a “heroic” 15mm? Or would that just be called 20mm?
@warzan if you listen to the meeples and miniatures spartan interview, they say that the covenant assault carrier model is 26cm long!
Aha! Another M&M listener. I have to say that was quite some news on my Monday morning commute.
M&M was unknown to me till this last week, the Spartan games interview got my attention to them, but i will be listening to them again 🙂