Halo: Ground Command Announced By Spartan Games
March 25, 2016 by brennon
Spartan Games have announced the coming of a game based in the Halo-verse. This will be Halo: Ground Command which is a 15mm (1:100th) battle game where you'll be able to use all the classic Halo vehicles the UNSC and the Covenant have to offer.
Here's what Neil Fawcett had to say...
“We’re pretty stoked about the arrival of Halo: Ground Command and we can’t wait for players around the world to experience the fun we have been having as we created the models and core rules,”
“Halo fans are used to seeing ground warfare from a first person perspective, but with this game we step back and embrace the whole battlefield where we see entire Battle Groups engaging with each other. Players can deploy units of Troopers, Grunts, Elites, ODST, Elite Rangers, Warthogs, Scorpions, Wraiths, Ghosts… the list goes on!”
"This is a true wargame that brings together tanks, soldiers and flyers in a hobby format we are sure will see gamers create stunning battlefields upon which they can fight epic games using their stunning armies.”
“As we created the rules we made sure that the Halo canon was adhered to, generating those cinematic moments of excitement, and always looked to keep the gameplay fast, intuitive and bloody.”
The game is going to embrace some awesome game mechanics including the reaction engine which means no unit is ever totally safe. The game should launch with a two player starter set as well as upgrade boxes for the UNSC and the Covenant.
Watch out for The Weekender on Saturday 26th March 2016 for a full interview from us going into more detail about the game.
Will you be watching this one?
"The game should launch with a two player starter set as well as upgrade boxes for the UNSC and the Covenant..."
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Would be awesome if they had this at Salute.
They had a bunch of the models (early prototypes of course) at GenCon last year so it should be at Salute as mentioned below too. If it is for sale at Salute, then they really did move fast on this one.
Keep a close eye on this weeks Weekender for some more info 🙂
From what I heard it will indeed be at Salute. I managed to avoid the fleet battles game (just!) but I sense I am going to fail my Save Vs Shiny when I see the ground combat minis at the show!
Very tempted – same as @siygess, I managed to resist Fleet Battles, but tomorrow will be an interesting viewing I think – want to see the minis and how the game plays, and them could be forced to part with £ 🙂
All in! I have Salute cash and that will be going towards this!
Which brings the total of games by Spartan to eight. About as many as GW had at the height of Specialist Games, while being 10x smaller than GW. Last year it was DW that had almost no releases, who will it be this time round?
Uncharted Seas and Armoured Clash are all but dead games anyway. Dystopian Legions isn’t much better off.
I did not count those. Right now Spartan has Firestorm Armada, Taskforce and Planetfall, Dystopian Wars, Legions and Fleet Strike (announced this week), Halo Space and now Halo Land.
I was under the impression that Taskforce used the same models as FA so didn’t consider it a separate game in terms of release schedule. Dystopian Legions is close to being a dead game. Fleet Strike is a new one on me. Is there a link to some info on it?
No info beyond it being in preorder section of the shop. As for sharing miniatures, that’s true, but Taskforce (and by extension- Fleet Strike) has almost completely separate rules to FA, so there will be a need to have people actually write the stats/new expansions for the game regardless.
Oh yes, my poor Dystopian Legions. They really don’t seem to care much for the games they release. It’s like they just throw it out and hope some people will pick it up. For a game that had a two player box set released a year ago they did very little to follow up with it. It’s a sad sight when a game has a new release of rules and all, but nearly nothing new in the model range. Hell, the first edition rule book had pictures of really cool models, yet they still to this day have yet to… Read more »
I’m doomed if this is out for Salute 😎
lol 😉
I’ll take that as confirmation then. Ta lloyd!
Thankfully only on display..for a minute I though I need to rearrange my budget.. 😉
Needless to say I’m looking forward to this.
I have never played HALO so it does not call to me like the Aztec gold in ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’. But I will keep an eye on it.
love halo so will probably surrender to shiny syndrome and dive into this .However cannot help but think they missed a trick not doing this in 28mm has this is one of the few licences that could give gamers an alternative to 40k due to its huge back story and iconic factions and characters
Can’t argue with you there, would love to see this in 28mm
28 mm would mean they’d be competing with existing franchises.
At this scale there’s probably less competition and it’s much easier to add the big vehicles and skimmer.
28mm is great scale if you want to do skirmish with 10 models apiece, and it’s utterly useless if you want to have buggies, tanks and whatnot.
How is it utterly useless when r0k is like that already?
40k*
Thanks for bringing up the one example on how utterly impractical doing large scale battles in 28mm is.
In your opinion maybe – and that’s just it, your opinion. In my opinion it would work fine
I too would have loved it if this was 28mm.
But mainly too add 28mm covenant and oust to my collection.
I’m buying two stater boxes!
The prototype minis they had on show for this last year looked really good, looking forward to seeing the end product and finding out a bit more of the game behind it. The Covenant Grunts were adorable
Finally! Can’t wait to hear more! 😀
Been looking forward to this since I saw them at GenCon
looks great.
He said in the Weekender it’s gonna be on pre-order at Salute..I’M DOOMED AFTER ALL.
Need to re-allocate the funds now, this is going to be totally epic. Heck..I will have to dig out my old Xbox and play Halo: The Fall of Reach tonight 😎
I’ll deffo buy a Warthog just to paint! 🙂
Yes 28mm would be nice for small battles, up close and dirty combat…