Fallen Frontier’s Starter Set Coming September 15th 2016!
August 8, 2016 by brennon
The time has finally come! The Fallen Frontier Starter Set, The Battle For Hextrom VI, is now available for pre-order from Scale75. And yes, as the title suggests the game will be out from September 15th 2016!
Inside this set you're going to get two factions totalling twenty-five miniatures, a Rulebook, markers, basic scenery plus sixty-two cards and finally six die and a ruler. Effectively this gives you everything you need to get started with this game.
Inside the set you're going to get the forces of Ares and the Riff alongside a whole bunch of troopers and some characters to lead them into battle.
Here is a better look at the selection of other accessories you get in the game too.
Effectively all you'd need to do is pick up one of the various battle mats that you can get out there, dump these crates and boxes onto the tabletop and then get started with your games. I love the design of the Riff from this game so I reckon from this set they'd be the army for me.
Additionally you can also get more Heroes and Combat Forces to get started in the game for the other factions too. This game feels like it's going to hit like a truck!
Did you back the Fallen Frontiers Kickstarter?
"Inside the set you're going to get the forces of Ares and the Riff alongside a whole bunch of troopers and some characters to lead them into battle..."
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So I backed this, and got the starter factions for the Ares, Sayx and Riff. The difference between the figures in the boxed game and the starter factions, and those through KS, is that the KS pledges got more variety in the poses for the models. The models, fyi, look like this for comparison of scale. [im[/img] So more natural proportions of the @scale75 minis (grey and green and not humans and blue is) in red is a @kingdom_death figure, far right @privateerpress and far left is a Rackham figure. So Kingdom Death is 35mm while humans for Fallen Frontiers… Read more »
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Very cool – will be looking to see how the models look once you’ve got some paint on them 🙂
So you really get just 2 different troopers sculpts(+ sergeant for the Riffs) per side in the starter set, or is it just the pictures here?
Because only 2 different sculpts would be bad in my opinion.
It would appear so. But believe me the sculpts are worth it. Hopefully they will add more diversity into sets in future. I will try and find out.
Maybe the sulpts are awesome but if a unit of 13 troopers has just 2 sculpts + sergeant i think that’s bad and i just don’t like it, but i will give this game a chance.
I checked, the expansion boxes have all the various poses from the KS. So it is only the boxed game. So by buying an expansion box, and mixing up the minis, the units will look a lot more diverse.
Ah good to know
Also…. typical games are meant to be about 600 pts, so what you get in the boxed game is about 300pts per faction. So you really don’t need to buy much more to get to typical sized games.
I’m so glad that Fallen Frontiers is getting some coverage on Beasts of War. I think that the game is great and the models are fantastic and definitely worth checking out. I was one of the first backers of the kickstarter and got every model from every faction, I’ll see if I can get some pictures of the models.
That does look really good and those models also look great.
I backed the KS along with a couple of friends. I went Riffs and have to say the models are fantastic. I’m tempted to say the best I’ve ever seen! Lovely detail and fairly dynamic poses.
Artwork is also very nice.
Haven’t played the game yet but will be giving it a go sometime in the next couple of weeks.
Backed the aborted kickstarter – but not the second other games filled the gap. Models are stunning, but really not sure I have the room for another game.
Great to see it is coming out and those Riff minis are still stunning. Hmmm may have a look at the game play ….
this looks very cool , I would also be interested to see the game play.
so much cool stuff out there these days.
I’ve yet to play it (I may get around to that in a few weeks time) but the rules in principle are simple for shooting and combat, with a roll to hit and then a roll to save. Where the game is different is that the game is highly focused on objectives. Taking objectives generates points that then are used to purchase cards from a deck (each side has a deck they construct before the game) and those cards are used for actions in the game. Then there is the turn sequence. A turn consists of 4 phases. The player… Read more »
great alien troops.
Even if I don’t like the game play I still have great miniatures to use with other sci-fi games.
The miniatures look great, but with so many multiples of the same sculpt it’s an easy pass for me.
In the KS sets each member of a unit was a different sculpt and I think it’s a real missed opportunity to put so many multiples in the standard game. It is likely to put people off.
Looks interesting…
A couple of new Sci-Fi miniature games on the market, Maelstroms Edge, Gates Of Antares, Fallen Fronteirs, HALO Ground Command…. I wonder if the market I big enough, who will fold?
But where is the one game we all are waiting for…. Star Wars! West End Games produced a SW game in the early 90s, but which (if any) company holds the licence now?
If anyone does currently hold it, it’s FFG. Events may be panning out at the moment to let them actually do it.
They already kind of have a skirmish game with their Imperial Assault miniatures. I think I would prefer a Galactic Civil War era game in that scale, but if they go Clone Wars, I think 10mm or 15mm would be ideal.
Imperial Assault the compromise that FFG came up with after GW stopped them from doing a proper Star Wars minis game.
This is one of those games that makes me regret not backing more games on Kickstarter, but I’m trying to be responsible, dammit!
thanks doctorether, good job sir
Played my first game of this at the weekend. Only a unit and hero on each side to get our heads around the rules. This game is very different from other games on the market and I think this is to its credit. Resource management plays a big roll in your strategy which gives it a kind of video game vibe. I’m not generally a fan of cards being incorporated into miniature games but the card play in FF generally affects your units behaviour. This gives the impression of giving orders or revealing a rouse. On my first turn for… Read more »
Ah that is great to know. I am painting stuff before I play so I can at least do a review video/perhaps bring it to the BoW studios.