Weekender: Exclusive Halo Ground Command Interview & Flames Of War Heads To The Pacific
March 26, 2016 by crew
Welcome to The Weekender where we've been chatting to some more guests including Neil Fawcett of Spartan Games to talk Halo and Alessio of River Horse on The Hunt For Red October Board Game...
Competition Time
We're kicking things off however with a competition prize from Battlefront where you could be the lucky winner to snap up all SIX of their Premium Property buildings which would be great for the likes of Flames of War and of course Gale Force Nine's game, Tanks.
You can comment below or over on Facebook and Youtube in order to be in with a chance of snapping up this limited prize
Updates
So, what's been on the website this week?
- Dropfleet Commander Ships - We take a look at some PHR and Shaltari ships from Hawk Wargames.
- AdeptiCon Next Week - AdeptiCon kicks off next week so Dawn & Gianna will be running a live blog!
Halo: Ground Command Interview
We get stuck into an interview with Neil Fawcett from Spartan Games to talk about Halo: Ground Command.
This is their land based, 15mm (1:100th) scale game where you get to use all of the vehicles and infantry from the Halo-verse for both the UNSC and the Covenant.
John Chats Flames Of War
John joins us today to talk about his journey into the world of Flames of War with some more books added to his library. Gung-Ho and Banzai are coming soon...
Find out what he thinks of the books and the information that can be gleaned from them. The Pacific Theatre is calling for you World War II fans.
Alessio Talks The Hunt For Red October
Alessio Cavatore also joined us for another interview to talk about The Hunt For Red October which is their new board game coming soon.
We delve into how it's going to work and what you can expect when it hits the tabletop from River Horse.
The World Of Twilight
Last but not least we look at The World Of Twilight and their newest Kickstarter which looks at the Casanii of Anyaral.
This is a quirky looking game packed with all manner of interesting sculpts and a world just begging to be explored.
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Happy Weekend!
Alessio is a buzzy man – good for us 🙂
……Good Midnight from Mexico!!!!…. 😀
Great show guys. Halo looks great, johns board is awesome and the pre painted scenery is such a great timesaver.
Roll on Salute and the Halo demo games.
Good to see some Flames of War coverage.
Those buildings look very cool
AdeptiCon! It’s soooo close!
World of Twilight is at Salute every year. It’s where I first tried the game out a few years back. The minis most remind me of The Dark Crystal, which is definitely a good thing.
Getting a preview demo game of WoT on monday at club from one of those going to be on the stand… I’ll make sure he’s well prepped!
Oh man I can not wait for Halo!
Happy weekend!
Nice buildings from Battleground. Good details plus, most important, they are prepainted. I just hope it isnt the start of GW-like blink-and-you-miss-it limited edition releases in the future.
guys, when can we expect next flamestrike update?
I am so loving Flamestrike, BoW did a freaking amazing job of putting that together,
terrain looks great!
It’s the weekend… as of yesterday!!
Need more thgan 1 of the steelworks… At least 1 with damage…
Oh you bastards! When I’m checking out the “By Fire & Sword” you decide to bomb me with Halo Ground Combat.
How it’s going to be fair when comparing Polish Winged Hussars and frigging Pelican?
The grin on Neil Fawcett’s face makes me think of the child who got to look around Santa’s sleigh before the delivery run on Christmas Eve. He knows a lot of people are going to be so happy with what is coming. The minis look good and there is so much to come from the different generations of the game.
Gung Ho/Banzai – about bloody time honestly.
Halo looks epic. The first couple of Xbox games were superb. If Spartan can bottle that lighting, they will be onto a winner. I shall certainly pick up the starter box. And some armour. And perhaps a few air units…and so on.
Happy Easter Weekend everyone!
Are the Halo models going to be plastic like the Fleet Battles game? Also how about game size. Is it feasible to just have one battle group each for a small game? Is the game scaleable?
The Hunt for Red October game sounds interesting, may have to check this out when it hits Kickstarter. I’ll back it as long as the rules state that the Russian player must use Sean Connery’s accent at all times!
HALO PRE-ORDER AT SALUTE!? I’m doomed after all..
EXCLUSIVE MODELS?? Oh my..
I. Can’t. Wait.
I wouldn’t mind seeing how their warthog turns out, I have been looking at converting one for an attack bike I may just end up using this if it is good.
Also I really want some terrain :p
Halo looks fantastic, not too sure about the ‘Hunt for Red October’ though..
I do like the FOW buildings, very nice
Superb bulidings. GF9/BF Bring forth a lot of marvelous pieces. I would love for them to reproduce more woods though. Greatly looking forward a 15mm halo game ^^
Infinity week next week awesome!
HS3 week next week… even more awesome! Human Sphere 3 is so exciting!
The silhouette of your naval support is firckin genius! I wonder how much them pop-up banners I sometimes have to lug around cost.
OH OH i need buildings