More Details Appear On Halo Fleet Battles From Spartan Games
June 16, 2015 by brennon
Spartan Games have shown off what's going to be inside the Halo: Fleet Battles - The Fall of Reach which is a lot. We really didn't think there were going to be so many ships involved but this is sounding more awesome by the minute...
Starter Set
The set helps you play out The Fall of Reach which was a huge turning point in the war between the Humans and the Covenant. It led to the Master Chief finding the Halo rings as he escaped aboard the Pillar of Autumn and was a deadly engagement between both UNSC forces and the Covenant Armada...
The set contains...
- A full colour 100+ page rulebook packed full of images and examples
- Fall of Reach campaign guide
- 49 highly-detailed plastic ship models
- 25 custom Halo Dice
- Fleet Commander Data Sheets
- Flight Stands and Overlay Cards
- Punch-out Scenery and Token sheets
- Quick Guide reference sheets
Plus, in a breakdown of the actual forces on each side we have...
UNSC (32 models)
- 1 Epoch-class Heavy Carrier
- 4 Marathon-class Heavy Cruisers
- 27 Paris-class Frigates
Covenant (17 models)
- 1 ORS Class Heavy Cruiser
- 2 CCS Class Battlecruisers
- 14 SDV Heavy Corvettes
So, you have plenty of ships to be fighting with. From what we've heard of reports at conventions and the like the game plays very nicely indeed. Spartan have always had a good handle on rules writing so that's a big plus and the models are looking very good too.
It's going to be fun seeing where this Halo journey takes them and if you want to find out more about the transition from digital to physical tabletop gaming then they published an article about that HERE.
Who will you play as?
"Spartan have always had a good handle on rules writing so that's a big plus and the models are looking very good too..."
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My prediction, is that SpartanGames is going to sell a lot of boxes of Halo Fleet Battles…. and then the ground battle system next year.
The future for Spartan seems very bright.
I don’t know about that “Spartan have always had a good handle on rules writing”, the Planetfall rulebook is a heck of a mess. It was a draft at best when it was sent to printers. By that I mean it was loaded with typos and lots of sentences that made no sense (the person editing it didn’t re-read himself after changing stuff). A lot of rules were also ambiguous or not explained at all.
Yeah there were large erratas released after, but it still felt like I was holding a half baked potato in my hands.
I’ll still buy halo :-p
Never played a Spartan game so I can’t comment on their rules, but I’ll be buying Halo fleet battles… and probably the ground battle game too.
Well hopefully the rules are good as I think they are the most important thing, Spaceship models I can get anywhere
That’s a lot of content in a starter, which is great for fans of the games. For me the design of the Halo stuff has always been a bit bland; I also can’t stand the muppet like aesthetic on some of the covenant creatures. I will pass on Halo and hold out for drop fleet which has some incredible design and rules written by an established writer of spaceship battle games apparently.
it wont be long now i can hardly wait
Pre ordered mine at Salute. This, Armada and Hawks Dropfleet Commander will certainly go a long way to scratching my space battles itch.
the ships look good.
My decision as to a space game is not getting easier
Aren’t gonna be any other factions?
What other factions their are only two and the flood do not have ships. I think it will sell a lot and then die out due to lack or factions this is just going to be one of those shiny things.
That’s what I was thinking…only two factions in the fluff so what then? Can’t see ppl playing this game for years…
The models are not pre-painted are they?
Dropfleet or Halo, decisions, decisions. Maybe a little of both, or maybe a lot of both. Like I said, decisions, decisions.