Halo: Flashpoint Battle for Zeta Halo – New USNC, Banished, Spartan Killers On The Way

A big wave of new releases and updated rules is coming to the tabletop for Halo: Flashpoint. Check out what’s on the way!

It’s shaping up to be a big summer for Mantic Games and their officially licensed Halo tabletop miniatures game! Flashpoint has been out for some time, but this summer it’s receiving a wave of new miniatures for both Spartans and the Banished.

Reinforcements

The Battle for Zeta Halo is a notorious conflict in the history of the Halo universe. Sets of new models are coming to reinforce every force involved in that battle. Each one is accompanied by a Zeta Halo expansion booklet with new keywords and scenarios.

ParaCorporals, Medics, Marines, and Spartan Tomas Horvath from Halo Infinite are all included in this expansion. This pack of pre-assembled plastic models adds much needed support and heavy hitters for your USNC force.

Meanwhile, the Banished receive their long-anticipated support. This set of pre-assembled plastic models includes a Sangheili Enforcer alongside the much-anticipated Unggoy Grunts and Kig-Yar Jackals. I’m not gonna lie, the Needler is one of my favorite weapons in all of science-fiction and these look like they’ll be a lot of fun to paint up.

PaJega ’Rdomnai, Hyperius and Tovarus are also joining the fight on your tabletop. This pack of three Spartan Killers are coming in MasterCraft Resin. This trio of special characters will make deadly opponents for your Spartans and their allies.

Community Led Rules Update

Halo: Flashpoint has been on our gaming tables for well over a year now, and in that time Mantic’s game devs have not been idle. Over the past eighteen months they’ve been collecting player feedback and organized play data. Accordingly, that information has informed numerous changes to the game’s rules. This 1.5 Rules Update will start rolling out with an updated version of the Spartan Edition box set introducing new players to the most current version of the rules. Existing players will be offered a free update pack as part of the new release bundle set to ship in early September. The Halo: Flashpoint web app will be automatically updated with these rules changes, as well.

All of these new and updated products are now available to pre-order through Mantic’s webstore and are scheduled to ship in early September.

All respect to Master Chief but I’m still more of a Master Shake kinda guy.

Author: Simon Berman

Simon Berman has been a wargamer since 1993 and has worked in the tabletop games industry since 2008 as a staff writer for the first three editions of WARMACHINE and HORDES. These days he's the General President of the Brush Wielders Union, a worldwide organization of miniatures painters of all skill levels, a freelance games writer who has contributed to a number of roleplaying games like Eclipse Phase, Dune: Adventures in the Imperium, and The Hammer and the Stake. He runs his own small-press publishing company, Strix Publishing, and paints more miniatures than he can keep track of. Simon lives with his wife in Tacoma, Washington along with a number of cats and a pack of savage wiener dogs.