Spartan Games & Microsoft Team Up For Halo Miniatures Game!
February 9, 2015 by lloyd
We saw the teaser over the weekend and now it's become a reality. Spartan Games and Microsoft have teamed up to bring the Halo Universe to the tabletop with not just space combat but also ground combat too! Best part is, it's all coming out in 2015!!!
The Halo Universe is richly developed from its past life as a Bungie project and even now as one through 343 Studios. It's also one of the most well loved shooter franchises out there and Master Chief himself is a massive video gaming icon on par with the likes of Mario and Sonic nowadays.
Above you can see some of the ship designs that Spartan Games have been working on for both the UNSC Human Fleet and the Covenant one. The battles in space aren't ones that we've really encountered before in the Halo-verse so it will be interesting to see how they play out on the tabletop. With Firestorm Armada under their belt it's pretty easy to see Spartan doing something great with this.
But that's not all. As well as the spaceship battles Spartan Games are bringing you down to the installations of the Halo rings with a bump. Prepare the ODSTs and get ready for a hell dive as they're also working on a ground combat game as well! Spartans and UNSC Marines have been mentioned in the press release but no more than that right now. We're excited!
"All you green horns who wanted to see the Covenant up close; this is your lucky day!"
Keep your eyes peeled for future updates on this!
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Had no idea about this until I just got home from work. “Best Monday of 2015” (so far).
The only news that would’ve been better than this (barring huge windfalls and the like) would be if Starcraft had decided to get into the 28mm biz. I hope the ground-based game is 28mm but even if they go 15 or 20 I could still see me getting into it 😀
OH MY GOD. OH MY GOD.
OH. MY. GOD.
THIS IS NOT A DREAM. HOLY HELL THIS IS REAL. I’M JUMPING ABOUT.
I CANT CALM DOWN, THIS IS IMMENSE.
BREATHE… BREATHE… calm… right, I think I’m calm…
I’m done… Man…
Is this the advertised big news that was coming on Monday?
lol yes, rest easy mate this was it 😉
Cool 🙂
or is it?
Firestorm and Dystopian players, prepare to get jack all when Spartan plays with their game of the month idea.
Lol.
Oooooooooo looks sweet!
Spartan Games take more of my money!
Thanks for the quick info BoWLloyd! This will be interesting to follow. I can´t get anymore info from their website though, except: “Spartan Games is to produce Halo tabletop miniatures games.”
Finally I can see the blog post! For a minute I was about to download IE, thinking that the collaboration with Microsoft made it impossible to follow the blog in Google Chrome. 😉
Yep their blog post was shifting around a bit but it’s all sorted 🙂
If Spartan get this right, this could have a huge impact on wargaming
“assaulting ground defences with Spartans and UNSC Marines?” Does that sound like 28mm or 10mm guys and girls? Or both. 🙂
I have a sneaking suspicion that we are going to get three ‘different’ games out of this – fleet scale (ala Firestorm Armada), epic scale (ala Planetfall) and a ~30mm skirmish game ala Dystopian Legions / Spec Ops.
Well that is interesting news indeed.
Mannnn, I was /just/ about to buy into SW: Armada… now what?
Did nobody notice Spartan’s logo change to ‘the other Spartan’ helmet on their blog last week? None too subtle, but very funny. Great to see that they have confirmed it. To be fair I wasn’t expecting the fleet game first even though it seems obvious now, I just assumed it was going to be an infantry game.
Definitely agree they have a rich universe and IP to draw upon. Ships look fantastic, might actually give me pause for thought now when Hawk reveal a bit more on their DZC Fleet game. Too many choices; only just retired Babylon 5.
..Oh wait, you did! Good to know I’m staying current sheesh.
I know nothing much about HALO but it looks interesting – I have seen the live action game trailers and always wondered why no movie…
Agraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
Sweettttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt!
Please hurry up and complete…..especially the ground play stuff.
I soooo want to see a Warthog in 28 mm scale! And Spartan’s. And Elites!
And just to re-iterate….Agraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
@warzen when did you find out as you seemed to know more then you let on, on friday when i asked?
@warzan i should learn to read back before i post, when did you find out, as you seemed to know more then you let on, on friday when i messaged you?
I’m not at liberty to say mate 🙂
Ground game needs to be 10mm or 15mm to really catch my interest. The 28mm skirmish / platoon-sized battle sci-fi market is ultra-saturated these days. Besides, can you imagine the enormity of something like a Covenant Scarab in 28mm?
Spartan Games excels at doing naval / space naval games (Uncharted Seas / Firestorm Armada / Dystopian Wars) and small-scale model land wars (Dystopian Wars / Firestorm Planetfall) In 10mm or 15mm you can really get the cool toys on the table.
I did call it on the forum; )
But the scale is a surprise my guess would have been a ground combat game in 10, 15 or 28 mm
To start with
Ooooooh ****! Yup nergasm right here!
This’s intresting.
If done right, I think Spartan might have a huge success with this game.
Oh, man. When can I pre-order my M808B “Scorpion” Main Battle Tank?
This just in: Plastics!
Means it wont’ really cut into Spartan’s ability to produce their in-house properties, which was a big concern for me. So have at it!
LOL and I just posted that.. plastics eh… that could be very interesting
I’m Erion or erion just about everywhere I’ve ever posted.
I dont know, I love spartan I think there games are great and their models are soooo good. I don’t know if they can handle this (order wise) they will make a great looking / playing game… They might implode though thought over work… I REALLY hope not
I, too, had some genuine concern about Spartan’s ability to keep up production on their in-house games while supporting this License. Like, why would they even bother continuing Planetfall and Armada when they could be doing HALO instead. But Spartan Neil posted on the forums a few bullet points about materials (Plastics!) and long-term planning (in the works since early 2014) That have done a good bit to put those fears to bed.
What’s your name on the forum?? I’ll poke you lol.
I will have to read this . I wonder if planet fall was a test bed for rules … Seems likely
Oh, was thinking about dropship commander but now I think I’ll hold off and see how halo compares. Hope the scale for the ground forces is in epic category although I can easily see it being more a 28mm skirmish. If it is, it’s tough competition for the terminator game coming out, both are excellent ips.
Agreed on Ground Scale. I can already play a skirmish with a couple of Spartans vs. a few dozen covenant on my Xbox.
Give me a grand battle with the kinds of fantastic small-scaled models we all know Spartan Games is capable of producing. With Scorpion Tanks and Scarab Walkers and Warthogs and Banshees and…
My mind blew mere seconds before my wallet. Looking forward to this even if it turns out to be a poor game I want those ships! I’ve even promised the wife a new engagement ring during our monthly model purchasing negotiating session 🙂