Posting the models so that /tg/ can judge them
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>>46280549
Sculpts don't look terrible, though maybe a bit over-detailed. We'll see how they look at their proper scale when cast, I suppose.
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Actually
>>46280626
Ah, that's not bad at all. Proportions are nice. Might use them as a proxy for Imperial Guard, instead of the balloon-animal proportions Citadel has for them.
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And
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>>46280697
They do look a little goofy from further away, though.
Now that I think about it, they do have the 343-era FUCKIN ANGLES EVERYWHERE aesthetic, which I personally find grating.
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>>46280808
The models are straight up ripped from halo: reach
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>>46280690
They're 15mm scale.
>>46281005
Welp, what yall think familia
>>46281048
I like what's happening here.
>>46281048
don't say familia
I like them except for the reach not-mk5 mk5's
like seriously that's not muh sportans
I doubt I'll be able to convince anyone to play but I love Halo to much to not buy the minis.
>>46281037
by that picture I would have said 28mm>>46280626
>>46281904
get over yourself
So what is this? A risk clone? D20?
So in pretty sure you will be able to change the wraps loadout for the Warthog instead of buying a whole warthog, like you could buy the rocket launcher separately from the rest and turn your m machine gun hog into to rocket hog.
>>46286610
Spartan Games. Actual Wargame.
>>46288436
Yep can't wait for it.
I feel like this would work better as a 28mm skirmish instead of 15mm mass battle, Still I enjoyed spartan's other games so i'm cautiously optimistic.
>>46291087
Seems like there's models on two scales:
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>>46280626
One 15mm, and another for 28mm.
>>46280285
>so that /tg/ can judge them
Because that always goes so well...
>>46285462
Agreed. Unless you are really small yourself, your thumb is nearly 20mm wide.
>>46291087
No, not at all. The scale of Halo Battles in the games is usually a few dozen combatants per side. That's the ideal scale for 15mm, 28mm is way too big for tbat.
Any ODST yet?
FLOOD WHEN
URGE TO CONSUME
>Pre 343 designs
God bless
>>46291427
>That's the ideal scale for 15mm, 28mm is way too big for tbat.
>28mm Skirmish too big
>>46291804
Once you involve vehicles that can actually move, 28mm gets too big very quickly. Just because 40k makes you think that planet threatening battles only take a parking lot sized space to resolve doesn't mean its right.
>>46292868
40k is not a skirmish game. To my knowledge infinity, warmahordes, frost grave which are skirmish games don't have vehicles. Alsom these games don't use a 6by4 sized tables
>>46292868
Not every halo map is bloodgulch.
>mfw just figured out what my next terrain project is gonna be.
>>46291131
The game is locked for 15mm the bigger ones is to better show off the detail the cam can't show with the smaller ones
>>46291361
I mean it has been going well so far
>>46291449
They are confirmed, and I believe they should be in the starter box, but don't quote me on the last part.
>>46291493
Flood should be coming eventually, I'm cautiously optimistic about them.
>>46291557
Honestly I find 343 aesthetic fine in most areas except for scenery, I also didn't like the armors at first, preferring the halo 3 aesthetic, but they've grown on me.
>>46293504
Infinity has dropships, but those aren't represented on the table (though they can be), and are usually just used as a profile so Hackers can screw up drop troops.
And you're right, they use 4x4 tables at regular point games.
>>46293598
Damn, stuck at 15mm.
15mm feels really good for a small battles game, though. Better than 28mm but larger than 6mm for large battles.
>>46291804
Most battles in Halo aren't skirmishes, so making a skirmish game would be fucking stupid.
>>46293680
God 6mm just sounds awfully small, how do people even handle that.
>>46293713
>has never played a halo game.
>>46293742
Well, most of the battles MC is part of can be defined as skirmishes, but they tend to be part of larger campaigns, case in point the battle of instalation 04.
Btw, this are the currently confirm units:
>vehicle and armor:
Laser hog
Gauss hog
Rocket hog
Chaingun hog
Grizzly
Scorpion
Wolverine
Pelican
New unidentified vehicle
Covenant:
Wraith
Ghosts
Phantom
New siege engine
Scarabs and their permutations.
>infantry:
ODST
Several types of Marines
Cat-II Spartan 3s (coming with in 3 releases)
Spartan-IIs
Covenant:
Hunters
Jackals
Several ranks of elites
Grunts
Do we know anything about the prices these are gonna be?
>>46293728
They have half a dozen figures a base and field a couple dozen infantry bases that fit into formations alongside based vehicles and larger stompy vehicles.
For huge battles, 6mm is damn good. For small battles, 15mm is the way to go. And for skirmish, 28mm is good.
I'm actually excited because a game like this at this scale could put 15mm into the mainstream for wargames, outside Flames of War. Everyone else is busy trying to imitate GW with 28mm, or go their own way with 32-35mm.
>>46293983
Nope but pre orders will go up at salute 2016, I hope is not too expensive, this will be my first foray into wargaming.
>>46293742
Any noteworthy battles have at least thirty, fourty, fifty enemies running around and at that point, 15mm is the ideal scale.
Well according to an interview in beasts of war they planning on a aerial battle game too.
>>46295019
XWM, but Halo? Huh...
>>46295032
Yep, if it is anything like they been doing so far, we shouldn't be getting much news until salute and then until next year, which I'm fine with since that will give me time to check ground commander and see if I'll be committing to it.
>>46295019
Oh for...
Well, I suppose Firestorm and Dystopian Wars will see a significant wave of releases somewhere in 2020. Or Neil will let his inner fanboy win, and finally chop the non-Halo franchises.
>>46295516
I doubt that they will just give themselves to Microsoft
>>46296986
They're all fucking fanboys, and the company as a whole has all the professionalism of a school field trip, so while it might not be that drastic, it's clear Neal is hoping this will be the Next Great Thing That Will Propel The Company To Glory Everlasting.
>>46297028
Well, if they get the extra money they will have more resources to dedicate to their other projects. And the ip can certainly bring back the money.
Fighter game confirmed, the scale so far seems to be 1:1000
>>46299530
Wow, that tiny? XWM is 1:270, though the fighters in Halo look like they can get a bit bigger with regards to Longswords and the like.
>>46293963
Why no Brutes for covenant?
>>46300681
Early era of the war? Brutes weren't know about until First Strike.
>>46300681
gotta save something for future expansions :^)
>>46300619
Apparently they want to have this really big frigate model 54 cm long (maybe as the landscape?) and then have twenty or thirty bases of covenant fighters trying to take it down
>>46300740
Weren't Brutes involved in some of the first actions of the war on Harvest?
>>46301084
Yes, in fact they were the ones to officially make contact on the behalf of regret before he was even a prophet, so yeah
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>>46280581
...Why are the barrels of those Assault Rifles so huge?
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>>46293598
>The game is locked for 15mm the bigger ones is to better show off the detail the cam can't show with the smaller ones
So I can't use my Halo Mega Bloks as Proxies?
>>46300681
Maybe they holding them for later, maybe they just forgot to mention them, hopefully they just forgot.
Boring.
The spaceships are cooler
>>46301146
Idk why they are so big, but it certainly felt off, possibly to avoid it breaking off too easily
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>>46301174
We need a halo central, anyways, I wonder how fleet battles is doing in the market.
>>46301234
I don't think anyone's heard of it.
It's getting a ton of models though.
>>46301244
Tag they did Mendon wanting to keep a monthly release schedule for add long as possible or until they catch up with the games, then take a small break and continue.
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>>46293680
>15mm only
damn. i was thinking them uscm looked nice enough to use as like counts-as Elysians or something.
>>46293680
I was hoping to fight Space Marines vs Covenant if they were 28mm.
>>46303565
Well, now your Space Marines can fight really small Covenant.
Can't wait to hotglue those elites.
>>46280285
>Halo: Ground Command
I'm very excited for this. Any idea when this is being released and any pricing?
I'm gonna spend a stupid amount on this likely...
>>46304716
The pre orders go up at salute 2016, abs it should be out by August at latter's (they are looking at a June July release window)
>>46280285
This should have been done 10 years ago.
>>46293504
No, 40k has convinced you that it is not a skirmish game, but all of its mechanics are skirmish game mechanics.
>>46306579
Probably about when development for the first run of the Clix game began. So many mis-steps...
>>46306836
So even if they were the same size you wouldn't be able to use enough units for the covenant to do their thing without serious rework?
>>46293728
6mm scale has some of the best fucking wargames ever made man.
