What Is Halo: Flashpoint? - The Tabletop Miniatures Game from Mantic Games 

Took the words out of my mouth. The second a dedicated box comes out for them, I’m buying 2

I'm buying 3, cause Elites are cool!

I’m picking it up just for that ❤

lol nice!

They did something 343 devs couldn’t do, and just like that ima buy it

Could do an Alpha Nine set, which is Buck's current ODST-turned-S IV team after Bad Blood. Gretchen (Dutch's wife and also former ODST) fill in for the Rookie.

I would much *much* rather play ODSTs over Spartans for sure. I'll probably end up playing either way, though.

@@wyatttyson7737Or even simple Marines. That'd be awesome.

Agreed, I'd be all over a covenant force box, I'll take 5 please!

I need to play the elites in 40k

@@williams7713I just ended up painting my Tau as covenant lol

Their GCPS troopers are like, 85-90% there as UNSC marines. They are my favorite scifi guard models, I just wish they were more in scale with 40K and I’d have a guard army of them.

no it tf does not, its so damn boring and has few points of interest

I hope that's the plan, that if this gets popular enough we get a proper legion or 40k style army builder. Halo has the potential for it, I just hope the fanbase is still here!

I already see small tweaks to make it more a hero game. Shields, more HP, more equipment to get. Cool.

1/100 wasn’t a weird model scale it was very smart for referencing Halos vehicle heavy gameplay. Would like to how the could fit anything bigger than a ghost fit in this game. Also, the reason why spartan games ceased to exist was basically that the owner was hospitalized with cancer and almost died. Which put the company on the backburner and with Microsofts heavy licensing fees basically killed it. Microsoft even forced the owner out of sickbed just so he could be present when the molds and product left in the spartan inventory was liquidated/destroyed.

@@gottagainzlmao8940 That is not correct. The company was living on borrowed time and money long before the owner's health issues. 10 years of barely scraping by, constant incompetent decisions (making more new games instead of focusing on existing ones, Dystopian Legions being a huge proprietary 35mm scale instead of the normal 28/32mm scaling which killed nearly all of their potential crossover sales to people wanting the models for other games), quality control issues that persisted across all their model ranges (which at one point, they blamed on a contract casting company, and then took production in-house and it actually became a lot worse because they had no idea what they're doing), never doing errata for their rules and many, many other bad choices. Their final nail in the coffin was taking out a massive loan to get the IP and make the models for two Halo games at the same time and then completely botching that with terrible design choices on the Halo: Ground Command models, which led to their worst quality control problems yet. The single peg mount for 15mm scaled models was just flat out dumb, and it was the source of 100% of the parts breakages on infantry models, and in some cases, 100% model breakage within a pack. They weren't even able to get packs to retail because they had to replace so much broken product. The fact they even made it to 10 years before final collapse is an anomaly, but the owner just kept taking out loan after loan to prop the business up with the next big exciting game. And he did that until they had 8 games, with a 9th and 10th in planning, to somehow be managed by a company of barely a dozen people.

@@wolfehoffmann2697 Interesting, I worked for Spartan Games for a small time and at one point, they were doing OK. Sadly, Neil did suffer from new toy syndrome, instead of focusing, he also didn't deligate very well, he had to have oversight on everything. Just part and parcel of people being different and unique. Microsoft's licensing fees were incredibly high - 20% of every sale (that's every BOX or BLISTER) went to them and I think he mentioned just to get 343/Microsoft to the table required £150-200k. They were also very hands on and required Neil to be on 4am Zoom Calls constantly just to change a vent on a ship, or if they didn't like how a rule played. This then led on to other problems etc. Sadly it all got too much and then the illnesses came.

I just want full out halo battles, I would live to be able to have battles similar to ones in the lore

Yeah, why flat out lie to call it a whole new game when you've been designing and hyping this system for over a decade? And this is from Mantic directly, why not just be honest with the player base about what to expect for game support and longevity?

Thank you - feedback like this is awesome to hear!

Agreed. It's nice to have, especially in games like Warhammer where there is heaps of info. I'm curious to see how this game feels to play. I would hope it isn't repetitive.

Thank you!

My biggest concern is it even deadzone-"esque"... it looks like and sounds exactly like deadzone at the moment... a few new rules / keywords but ... I guess I was expecting something different... I don't dislike deadzone at all... but... Halo the Deadzone Reskin isn't the same as an all new Halo game... but yeah... models and terrain look great and I guess if I already have a lot of deadzone terrain there is MORE reason to pick this up!!!

Oh I get your completely. I was hoping for something else but for now I'll take this. Hopefully if it does well then we'll get some kind of full fledged Halo tabletop game. I'd definitely be down for that.

Yes! We need some narrative/coop play to make this a more full experience. I would easily pay for an expansion like that.

I would like some more banished or covenant figures like grunts or Jakals I think it would be cool to maybe make small campaigns

Thanks, glad you like it!

Warhammer is not a beginners game. These rules (deadzone) are brilliant.

These are based on Deadzone, which is a very friendly game to beginners

Look at games from OnePageRules, Frostgrave/Stargrave, and Gaslands for cheaper and easier alternatives to Warhammer. OnePageRules can be played completely for free (unless you count the cost of printing paper minis) and Gaslands can be played with matchbox/hotwheels and some stuff from around the house. xxxGrave gamebooks cost about $30 and are figure agnostic so you can use whatever you have/like which could help keep costs down. Each system I mentioned above all have medium- to light-weight rules and OnePageRules Grimdark Future has been considered by a lot of people to be a Warhammer Lite.

cube hello!

Hell yes!!! Glad to see you getting this brother 🍻

Hell yes!!! Glad to see you getting this brother 🍻

3” cubes is right 👍🏼

Just search for Deadzone board ideas, they are all 3" cube boards

How are you gonna do this, I wanna make terrain too but idk how to mark the squares

@@Orihutcherson There are plenty of companies that make print files for tiles at 2 inches and 4 inches. I am going to have my printer guy scale the tiles to be 3x3. Apart from that, I also have a friend who designs stls that is going to slowly make some basic urban road tiles sized at 3x3. I am still working out how I want to make more natural looking terrain with the lines without them ruining the look of the board.

@@TheMiniatureManager yeah that’s what I meant, I want to make a natural terrain type board and I just wonder if making 64 individual tiles is too impractical

Also @ManticGames - if you have any specials you'd like to add to the order, ill message you my order number ;)

Hi Christian, we've got a hard plastic terrain pack on the website (haloflashpoint.com) - complete with a bunch of new components that have been designed with Halo universe textures.

They have alluded to the covenant and flood potentially coming in the future.

banished are already here! no doubt they will make more if this sells well

I’m sure we can come to an arrangement 😉

Not between fireteams no, but there will be more options in future for swapping fireteam members in and out to build out some interesting gameplay synergies...

Thanks! Cubes are 3" on each edge, so you very quickly start to see the board in 3D between the gridlines on the mat and the edges of the surrounding buildings! Effectively you're counting spaces for movement and shooting, and introduced nice simple rules for cover. We've basically eliminated the 'argument phase' that's common in skirmish games with tape measures!

Had to be done!

Sure seems like it

And Infinity terrain 😂

Deadzone ruleset as the foundation + Halo universe + game updates. It's a fantastic mix, and really 'feels like Halo' - we're very proud of how it plays and will show loads more in the near future!

​@@manticgames longshot, but will we see the Prometheans added down the line? Just want a massively overpowered warden eternal, and be interesting to have the random warp mechanics of the promethean soldiers

That's the idea! We want a proper miniatures game with great highly-detailed (and paintable) models, but equally something that can be played right out of the box and is accessible to everyone that wants to jump on board!

Yes, the reaction's been awesome! And don't worry, the Elites are just the start - this is a new game system, rather than a one-off boxed game. We have so many cool things lined up that we want to do...

Hi Tim, for the hard plastic terrain set we've got some new Halo-themed elements - but you'll be glad to hear that it's all compatible!