 You've heard the announcement, you've seen the teaser trailer and now you want to know what is Halo Flashpoint. My name's Andy and I'm here to give you the lowdown on this amazing new game. Halo Flashpoint is a fast, exciting, tactical skirmish game that sees you take command of a highly trained fighter team. You'll fight to defeat your opponent, take vital objectives and secure victory across a choice of classic game mode scenarios, including slayer, oddball and capture the flag. This is a whole new kind of skirmish game, it's quick to learn, challenging to master and packed with innovative gameplay ideas, like the gaming space itself which is made up of cubes. Cube to cube movement, shooting and more means that we can entirely do away with tape measures. Whilst it's fast and simple, this system still rewards tactical awareness, movement and positioning are often the difference between getting taken out by an enemy dead eye or setting up to deliver the killing blow yourself. Spartans are equipped with shields and are heavily armoured so you'll need to deal with their defences to take them out, claim their victory points and force them to respawn. When attacking or defending, you roll 3 dice against the relevant stat for your character. You're firing from high ground, take an extra dice, if you have a clear shot against the enemy who isn't in cover, take 2 extra dice. This is a game of brone as well as brains so plan ahead, make smart decisions and watch your Spartan become a one man army. Every model comes with its own character stat card which shows all of its abilities and loadouts but of course you can pick up new weapons and cool items from the drops around the map. So now you can throw grenades and blast your opponents out of their scoring zone or maybe shoot them off the top of a tall building. With Halo Flashpoint there are endless possibilities and satisfying ways to get creative with your game plan. Your Halo Flashpoint battles take place on a 2 foot by 2 foot arena board that fits perfectly on most tables whether you're at home or at your local gaming store. This is a 3 dimensional game where height and cover bring huge tactical advantages to players who use them well. Both of our starter sets contain plenty of high quality pre coloured terrain that's simply sloshed together. The pieces are double sided and reversible so you can choose whether your scenario is playing out in the confines of a UNSC hangar bay or in a bright outdoor Spartan training area on a classified world, it's entirely your choice. It doesn't matter if you're a veteran tabletop gamer or a complete novice, anyone can get straight to the table with our preassembled miniatures in classic red and blue team colours. But if you've got a creative side it's time to get out your paint set and customise your team exactly how you want to see them. The starter box comes in two different versions, recon and Spartan so pay attention. If you're maybe new to miniatures tabletop games and you want to dip your toy in and see if this is something for you then choose the recon edition. It contains 8 Spartan miniatures, 10 weapon cards, a pack of terrain plus all of the dice, tokens and extras that you need to get playing right away. Or maybe you already love tabletop games and you want the full Halo experience, in that case make sure to pick up the Spartan edition. This has more miniatures, sporting more weapons, plus more terrain and some special deluxe components too. This edition comes with 16 Spartans with a whole range of weapons and armour to create your fireteams and is also your first chance to deploy and play as they've banished who we'll be seeing more of in the future. Over the coming days, weeks and months leading up to launch we'll be giving you even more details about what exactly is included in each box, how the game plays, information around the design process, more in-depth details on the different Spartans and elites, plus our plans around organised play so stay tuned for that. We want this game to be an amazing experience for everyone and we're already planning out years of awesome support and releases. So Spartan, come and join us on the Halo Flashpoint journey and enlist today.