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I have an idea for a Halo tabletop wargame. Basic rules and whatnot.

Is this a good idea Y/N?

Yes just make them off IG codex or something

Dammit, I meant an independant game.

Cheese Elemental wrote:Dammit, I meant an independant game.

Hmm , list some example of what you have in mind?

Well, there's more than enough fluff in the novels and comics to draw ideas from, and a lot of stuff that isn't present in the games, too. Factions would probably just be UNSC, Covenant (Loyalists and Seperatists?) and possibly Flood. Most games could be set around the 2524 (start of the Human-Covenant war) to 2553+ (end of the war) era. The Flood seen in the games are not the only Hive; this can be seen in Halo Wars, where a completely different and much more advanced Hive is inhabiting a Shield World.

Fairly 'standard' statistics for units would be in the rules; Morale (M), Strength (S), Resilience (R, taking into consideration both physical endurace and armour), etc.

The different factions would have very different playstyles; the UNSC are disciplined and strong-willed, focused on tactical use of infantry and more heavy use of vehicles and aircraft, as opposed to the Covenant, who have a LOT of bodies to throw at the enemy and some very skilled specialist infantry (Jackals as snipers, Hunters as anti-tank, etc) as well as more shielding technology and faster (but lighter) vehicles.

Don't they have a Heroclix version for halo? And a miniatures looking board game?

alchemistfalling wrote:Don't they have a Heroclix version for halo? And a miniatures looking board game?

They HAD Halo Actionclix.

Then Wizkids was closed.

But there's also the Halo Interactive DVD Game(probably the one you're thinking of) and Halo Wars Risk.

Platuan4th wrote:
They HAD Halo Actionclix.

Then Wizkids was closed.

But there's also the Halo Interactive DVD Game(probably the one you're thinking of) and Halo Wars Risk.

I know the BT license went to Catalyst Games, the HeroClix went to someone else... anyone know what happened to the HaloClix license?

Oh, man. I have a whole bag full of those HaloClix. As far as I know, they've been discontinued, according to my FLGS manager.

I got an Arbiter with a sword and camo!

Rebase them... Then use rules like Star Grunt 2....

I said I wanted to make rules for an independant game, not use existing rulesets.

CCotD wrote:
I know the BT license went to Catalyst Games, the HeroClix went to someone else... anyone know what happened to the HaloClix license?

All Clix games were sold to the same company as the company was required to purchase the right to the Clix mechanism in general and the product names(Heroclix, Horrorclix, and Actionclix, perhaps Mage Knight as well) went with it(from what I understand). So they own the Actionclix brand,whether or not the new company obtained the Halo license from Microsoft is another matter.

Cheese Elemental wrote:Oh, man. I have a whole bag full of those HaloClix. As far as I know, they've been discontinued, according to my FLGS manager.

Of course they've been discontinued, the company is closed.

It's a bad idea. Everybody will wanna be Master Chief and justmake an army out of a single chief.
DOn't do it.

A lot of SPARTANs died in the novels...

Chief is a lucky bastard, is all.

No, according to the novels, chief is THE lucky bastard.

He's always had that luck factor.

chromedog wrote:No, according to the novels, chief is THE lucky bastard.

He's always had that luck factor.

Indeed. All the Spartans are good. But the Master Chief was lucky (or had the ability to predict the future), as well. This was tested by his ability to correctly predict the results of coin tosses in the novels.

Chief doesn't HAVE to show up.

He wasn't in Halo Wars. He's only one man, after all.

Indeed, depending on when in the War the game is set.
At the beginning you would have the fleet and ODST.

The Spartan program was several years into a war humanity was losing. They were also only used for certain tasks, so you could impose a limitation (like the 0-x choices per xxxxpts kind of thing).

Smaller games wouldn't have spartans (or the chief) available at all, larger ones would allow one or more.

Yeah, in Halo Wars there were only three Spartans assigned to one army, and this is back when they were still fairly numerous.