Spartan Games: 30% off Selected Halo Fleet Battles Products!

You read that right, Spartan Games is offering a 30% discount on select Halo Fleet Battles products. This weekend only apply the coupon code HFB30 at checkout and bam you have some amazing models at a great price. Remember this offer will end on Tuesday 4th October, 2016.

Homeword Hiigaran Miniatures

A few years ago I ran across some amazing miniatures from the Homeworld PC game, specifically Hiigaran style miniatures. They were produced by War Games Supplies (wargamessupplies@rocketmail.com) and available via their site Fate Amenable to Change (http://www.fate-amenable-to-change.co.uk/hiigaran/hiigaran.html). 

The ship designers produce the Hiigaran style miniatures specifically for the game "A Call to Arms" (ACTA).  As you remember ACTA was produced by Mongoose Published for the Babylon 5 TV series miniatures game.  They have also developed the ACTA Game Cards necessary to rapidly use these ships in your games.  

Collussus Class Super-Heavy Battleship

I ended up ordering several Hiigaran Battle Group Boxset to use in various games because they look amazing and are in scale with ACTA, Full Thurst, and Firestorm Armada. The Hiigaran Battle Group box gives 28 ships and everything you need to field a superior force. The box also comes with all turrets and flight-stands for all ships.

Hiigaran Battle Group Box

The box set comes with everything you see here and it is pretty cool! 

This is some of my left over ships that I did not build out my patrol fleet

I love the way my patrol fleet sits in this Blu Foam from Portable Warfare.

The patrol fleet consist of a frigate squadron (4) and a cruiser squadron.  One of which I have upgraded to a strike cruiser / heavy cruiser / command cruiser

To add a lot of teeth to this partol fleet I added a Collussus Class Super-Heavy Battleship. Why you ask? Well because it is a cool ship...

 Here is the bottom view of the battleship.  This really are some great models.

Flashpoint Amber: The Medusa Offensive

Spartan Games has done it again with this amazing new flash message traffic.  This just in updated from the front, The Medusa Offensive.

As war rages across the Firestorm Galaxy and each side looking for a major victory Spartan Games zoomed in on the Kurak Alliance Medusa Offensive in the Amber System, on the very southernmost spur of the Moore Systems cluster.

This amazing offensive is destined to bring about epic battles especially since it is protected by a bulwark of defenses.

The most formidable being the new Daedalus Space Station. No intel has been released for this station, but based on the others that we have seen it is going to get crazy in the Amber System.  So strap on your anti-grav shoes, we are going for a ride.

Spartan Games has also introduce some new rules for running mixed cruiser squadrons that are sure to change each sides strategies. Now up to one Cruiser in a Cruiser Squadron may instead be a Heavy Cruiser or an Escort Carrier, for the Points Cost listed in the relevant Statistics profile. Up to one Light Cruiser in a Light Cruiser Squadron may instead be a Standard Cruiser, Gunship or an Escort Carrier, again for the relevant Points Cost. In all cases, the minimum Squadron requirements must still be filled with standard Cruisers or Light Cruisers, and the Squadron cannot contain more models than its maximum Squadron Size.

Check out the full article on the blog site at: http://www.spartangames.co.uk/flashpoint-amber

Spartan Games: Flashpoint Messages

Recently Spartan Games announced in its blog that it will be sending out Firestorm Galaxy updates via what it has dubbed Flashpoint Firestorm. They will be using these rolling updates to discuss both Firestorm Armada and Planetfall games under the same heading since they are part of the same Galaxy, and definitely interrelated.

According to Spartan Games these blog updates will be used to discuss and deliver a wide range of information, improving communications, and keeping us up-to-date with Spartan Games Firestorm plans. Updates will include new and expanded narratives about the Firestorm Galaxy, new model designs, rule discussions, statistic discussions.

As part of their first update Spartan Games announced that long anticipated version 3.0 Firestorm Armada core rules update has moved to 2017. This will allow Spartan Games the flexibility that it needs to add core strength and balance of the 2.0 rules and statistics.

They also announce a new amazing model the Indomitable Class Assault Carrier, see below. 

There is more to come and I am super excited to see what they have in store for us next.