Halo Flashpoint

This all-in-one game box from Mantic Games is highly recommended. Halo Flashpoint is a miniatures game, based on the computer game set in the Halo universe. You get pretty much everything you need for the game in the Spartan Edition release and is very good value. We added a couple of extra buildings, but everything you see here comes in the pack.

It's a great option if you don't have the time, or the energy, to put on a full wargame, as everything packs away back into the box!

There are six scenarios in the rule box. We played the first one - Slayer - which is based on bagging as many kills as you can. This was great fun. As you play, you pick up speed with the rules and you can create a really fun dynamic. Painting the Spartan teams was also highly enjoyable.

An Orc Waaagh! is (not) Declared

A vast horde of unkempt, unwashed, gasping, belching, sickening Orcs went full throttle against the rotting, putrefied, pox-ridden, and highly contagious, XIVth Legion - The Plague Marines of the Death Guard. 

The awesome firepower of the XIVth proved too much for the Orcs who died in their thousands, but they don't care as they enjoyed themselves immensely. Unfortunately there wasn't even time to declare a Waaagh! Next time the Orc horde won't be so reckless....

Orktober Fest!

Once again we meet the sophisticated pretty boys of the Galaxy in the month dedicated to their history and culture - 'Orktober'.

In this scenario, a force of Adeptus Mechanicus has been alerted to unwanted Ork activities in the wastes of some God-forsaken planet, and they have been sent to rid the locality of the scourge of this Ork infestation.

Unfortunately, the Orks were on guard and met the Ad Mech with such fanaticism that they completely destroyed the Martian odd-balls unit by unit.

Some say this is 'science fiction', although we contend that this is SCIENCE FACT, as this encounter actually did happen, albeit 38,000 year in the future (!!).

Adeptus Mechanicus Vs Death Guard II

Somehow forces of the Adeptus Mechanicus managed to meet a patrol of Plague Marines of the Death Guard on a heavily forested jungle planet and they fought it out in the hot and humid conditions for mastery of the battle grid.

The Ad Mech played for the objectives more effectively than the Plague Marines who, ill-advisedly, concentrated on killing as much as they could. The Ad Mech's strategy was the successful one in the end.

These are two of the weirdest factions in the game and provide an interesting array of different troop types, weapons and strategies. Moreover, they are great fun to paint.