Particulars on the sport are gentle for the time being, however we do know that will probably be in 40mm scale, which is sort of giant for a miniatures recreation — Warhammer 40K is 28mm scale, for reference. The lately launched Star Wars Shatterpoint makes use of 40mm fashions, in order that’s most likely a very good reference for the standard and amount of fashions that we are able to count on within the recreation i.e. fewer fashions on the desk, however extra element packed into every miniature.
Mantic shall be sharing extra particulars “quickly”, with the primary preview of the brand new recreation coming in March.
“We’re thrilled to workforce up with Mantic Video games to convey a brand new Halo tabletop recreation to followers in 2024”, stated John Pal, Head of Halo and Xbox Shopper Merchandise. “Mantic is a frontrunner in tabletop gaming, and their high quality and expertise present by in all their work. I’m most excited on this case about their ardour for the Halo franchise and for bringing Halo gameplay to tabletop gaming in an extremely genuine manner.”
On Mantic’s aspect, their CEO and founder, Ronnie Renton, stated that “We’re extraordinarily excited to be partnering with 343 Industries on bringing Halo to tabletops all over the place. Having a firefight play out on the desk whereas shifting Spartans out and in of canopy connects gamers to the motion in a brand new and particular manner. We’ve an exhilarating and aggressive recreation, from a passionate workforce of proficient sculptors, artists, and designers who’ve been constructing an unimaginable Halo expertise.”
As our resident 40K nerd, I’m thrilled to listen to that 343 is taking one other crack at a Halo miniature recreation. There have beforehand been a few makes an attempt at this — Halo Floor Command was a 15mm floor fight recreation that launched again in 2016, and earlier than that there was 2015’s Halo: Fleet Battles which was a Battlefleet Gothic-style spaceship fight recreation.
I missed out on each of those as they got here and went earlier than I received again into miniature gaming, however I’m excited to see what this new recreation has to supply, and dreading the prospect of including but extra unpainted plastic to my pile of disgrace.
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