“I think we’re just getting started” – John-117, The Master Chief 

For everyone who’s ever fought their way off the Pillar of Autumn or set foot on Halo’s mysterious ringworld for the first time, Halo: Campaign Evolved – The Board Game brings those incredible memories to your tabletop!

This narrative adventure sees you battling Covenant forces, completing objectives, upgrading your arsenal and reliving some of the most memorable missions from Halo’s original adventure in board game form. One player takes on the role of the Master Chief against the Covenant, controlled either by the game’s ruleset itself or directly by a second player.

Whether you prefer solo adventures or facing off against a friend, Halo: Campaign Evolved – The Board Game has you covered.

What’s in the Box?

Before we drop feet-first into the campaign itself, let’s take a look at exactly what comes packed inside the box. From Master Chief and his Covenant foes to the mission books, map tiles and equipment cards you’ll need to complete your objectives, there’s plenty here to keep a gun-toting Spartan busy…

Halo: Campaign Evolved – The Board Game contains:

• 1 x The Master Chief (Plastic Miniature)
• 1 x Sangheili Zealot (Plastic Miniature)
• 4 x Jackal with Plasma Pistol (Standees)
• 4 x Jackal with Needler (Standees)
• 4 x Grunt with Plasma Pistol (Standees)
• 4 x Grunt with Needler (Standees)
• 1 x Elite Minor with Plasma Rifle (Standee)
• 1 x Elite Minor with Needler (Standee)
• 1 x Elite Zealot (Standee)
• 1 x Elite Major (Standee)
• 9 x Stat Cards
• 8 x Weapon Pickup and Power-Up Cards
• 5 x Map Tiles
• Rulebook and Mission Book
• Dice and Game Tokens

From the moment you emerge onto Installation 04, you’ll be exploring ancient Forerunner halls, scavenging weapons and fighting off Covenant patrols in scenarios inspired by some of gaming’s most memorable levels…

Relive Legendary Halo Missions

That’s a jam-packed box, and at the heart of it all is a narrative campaign inspired by Master Chief’s most legendary missions, including:

• Pillar of Autumn
• Halo
• Truth and Reconciliation
• The Silent Cartographer
• Assault on the Control Room

Many of these are multi-part scenarios, taking you from UNSC ships and Covenant vessels to ancient Forerunner structures buried beneath the surface of Installation 04.

Everything you need to play is included in the box, from modular map tiles, rules and mission books, to equipment cards, tokens, Covenant enemy standees and plastic miniatures of both the Master Chief and a Sangheili Zealot. It’s a complete standalone experience that’s quick to learn, while still offering plenty of tactical choices as enemy reinforcements arrive and mission objectives evolve.

As you progress through the campaign you’ll discover familiar weapons and equipment from the video game, including favourites like the Needler, Plasma Pistol, Sniper Rifle and M41 SPNKr Rocket Launcher. On top of this, Overshields, Active Camouflage and grenades all help even the odds when the Covenant starts to gain the upper hand…

Speaking of the Covenant, you’ll be facing plenty of classic enemies too. Grunts, Jackals and Sangheili warriors each bring their own challenges to the tabletop, meaning you’ll need more than just blind luck (or attempting to run by them!) to complete the campaign.

Once you have, there are even rules to go back and run it on Legendary difficulty for all the true Halo aficionados (and gluttons for punishment) among you.

But that’s not all. Halo: Campaign Evolved doesn’t just recreate Master Chief’s original adventure on the tabletop; it also includes additional content for Halo: Flashpoint players…including a few familiar faces making the jump between games.

Cross-Game Content with Halo: Flashpoint

Naturally, the Master Chief and Sangheili Zealot miniatures included in Campaign Evolved come with Flashpoint unit cards, letting them jump straight into your skirmish games!

Halo: Flashpoint players can also use plastic miniatures from their collection to swap out for the 2D standees – meaning an instant upgrade in both table presence and immersion when taking on Campaign Evolved’s scenarios.

And even better, the new Judgement expansion includes bonus board game missions featuring some of the game’s most feared opponents, the Hunters, to add even more gameplay content to your experience.

Two fantastic tabletop Halo boxes in their own right, but even better together. You’ll find some fantastic bundles that include both sets (while stocks last!) right HERE.

Wrapping Up

Halo: Campaign Evolved – The Board Game has been designed from the ground up to capture the action, exploration and 1-vs-many firefights that made the original adventure so memorable for a whole generation of gamers – us included!

Available to order now and shipping in early December, Halo: Campaign Evolved is your chance to relive some of gaming’s most iconic missions from an entirely new perspective.

After all, when Cortana says we’ve got a new mission, who are we to argue?

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Judgement, the third big-box expansion for Halo: Flashpoint has been revealed and is up for pre-order right now.

This Covenant Faction Set brings one of Halo’s most iconic forces to the tabletop, introducing a huge collection of Covenant miniatures, new scenarios, terrain, rules and even cross-game content for Halo: Campaign Evolved – The Board Game.

Want to see them in action? Check out the latest trailer for the whole release wave before we dive into what’s in the Judgement box.

Seen enough and ready to join the Covenant?

Judgement – The Covenant Faction Set

Following the brutal arrival of the Jiralhanae in Rise of the Banished and the heroic ODSTs of Feet First Into Hell, it’s now time for the Covenant to take centre stage. The Winter Contingency has been declared, and a Covenant invasion force descends upon a UNSC-held firebase investigating mysterious Forerunner structures…

Featuring fan-favourite units inspired by events from Combat/Campaign Evolved and Halo 2, Judgement includes everything from towering Hunters and deadly Sangheili Rangers to the High Prophet of Regret himself.

Let’s run through everything you get. Buckle up, and forgive us the massive bullet point list, because there’s A LOT in this box:

• The High Prophet of Regret
• San’Shyuum Prophet
• 2 x Mgalekgolo Hunters with Assault Cannons
• Sangheili Honour Guard with Fuel Rod Gun
• Sangheili Honour Guard with Energy Sword
• Sangheili Ranger with Needle Rifle
• Sangheili Ranger with Plasma Repeater
• Sangheili Major with Pulse Carbine
• Kig-Yar Sniper with Beam Rifle
• Kig-Yar Minor with Plasma Pistol
• Kig-Yar Minor with Needler
• Sangheili Minor with Energy Sword
• Sangheili Minor with Pulse Carbine
• Sangheili Minor with Plasma Rifle
• Sangheili Minor with Needler
• Unggoy Minor with Plasma Pistol
• Unggoy Major with Disruptor
• Unggoy Major with Needler
• Covenant Faction Order Dice Set
• Covenant Faction D8 Dice Set
• Full-Colour Folding Game Board
• Full-Colour 3D Card Terrain & Instructions
• ‘The Great Journey’ Expansion Booklet
• Tokens and Weapons Cards
• Unit Cards and Special Order Cards

That’s 19 plastic miniatures (including some big ones like Hunters), a brand new UNSC/Forerunner-themed combat zone, exclusive faction dice, new gameplay scenarios, and all the cards and tokens you’ll need to add the Covenant to your games of Halo: Flashpoint!

Lead the Covenant with the Prophets and Honour Guard

“When you first saw Halo, were you blinded by its majesty?”

From the High Prophet of Regret to the Covenant’s ruling Hierarchs, the San’Shyuum command an empire united by faith in the Great Journey. Ever at their side stand the Sangheili Honour Guard, elite warriors sworn to defend the Prophets with unwavering devotion.

Floating above the battlefield in their ornate anti-gravity thrones, the Prophets bring the Covenant’s leadership to Halo: Flashpoint.

And for anyone who battled through Halo 2’s campaign, seeing the Honour Guard arrive with their distinctive crimson armour and deadly weaponry is sure to trigger a few happy memories!

Hunters Join the Battlefield

Cortana: “Hunters! We haven’t seen anything like this before.”

Few Covenant units have ever inspired quite as much instant panic among videogamers as the first time you run into a pair of Hunters. Formed from colonies of Lekgolo worms encased within towering suits of armour, these living battering rams have been smashing through UNSC forces since the very beginning.

In Judgement, Hunters make their Halo: Flashpoint debut armed with devastating Assault Cannons.

They’re massive, they’re tough and, true to Halo tradition, they’re guaranteed to be the centre of attention – either as the actual brunt of your fireteam’s assault, or a distraction that’s simply too big and lethal for your opponent to ignore.

Sangheili Rangers Deploy from Orbit

Lord Hood: “Something’s not right. The fleet that destroyed Reach was fifty times this size”

Bridge Officer: “Sir, additional contacts, and lots of them!”

Made famous by their appearance during Halo 2’s assault on Cairo Station, Sangheili Rangers are now deploying onto the battlefields of Halo: Flashpoint. They’re specialists in aerial combat and space assaults, capable of striking where the enemy least expects it.

If you want highly mobile Covenant forces in your Halo: Flashpoint fireteams, the Rangers have you covered.

Veteran Sangheili Major Takes Command

Most notably from ‘The Truth and Reconciliation’, the Sangheili Major was an early (and harsh!) lesson that not all Elites are created equal. Clad in their distinctive red armour and deadlier than their Minor counterparts, these seasoned warriors lead the backbone of the Covenant infantry.

Complete Your Covenant Fireteams

It just wouldn’t be the Covenant without a smattering of the ever-popular Unggoy, Kig-Yar and Sangheili!

New players jumping in with Judgement will get these classic units they’ll need to round out their fireteams. Better still, among these familiar faces are some brand-new Jackal miniatures in the box too, one armed with a Plasma Pistol and the other carrying the feared Beam Rifle.

(Ed: Ah, Halo 2…you’re a  glorious, glorious game…but we’re still not over the sniper alley in ‘Outskirts’!)

An Expandable Battlefield for Big Team Battles

The Combat Arena in Judgement is a first – it directly expands on the arena(s) found in the Spartan Edition starter set, giving you a combined play area and scenery collection that’s fully ready for Big Team Battle scenarios!

Because of how it’s been designed, it will work alongside both sides of the Spartan Edition board, so you can have either (1) a large firebase that crosses onto a small outdoor area, or (2) a massive field outpost with a smaller interior firebase section to deploy from, or assault.

And the accompanying card terrain features reversible UNSC and Forerunner structure designs (yes – including energy bridges).

We think this card Forerunner terrain will look fantastic not only on this combat zone, but especially paired up with the Zeta Halo mat and its full-colour printed forerunner platforms…

New Halo: Flashpoint Scenarios

‘The Great Journey’ booklet uses the fireteam building rules as listed in the main rulebook, enabling you to deploy the Covenant in Halo: Flashpoint. It also contains two exciting new scenarios:

• Big Team Battle Scenario – Last Man Standing (Elimination) – balance survival, nerve and aggression in a tense fight to the death.
• Standard Scenario – Land Grab – test your wits in an area control scenario set amid a shifting battlefield!

Includes Content for Halo: Campaign Evolved – The Board Game

As if all that wasn’t enough, Judgement also includes cross-game content for Halo: Campaign Evolved – The Board Game, which is packed with narrative missions for 1-2 players.

1. You’ll be able to swap many of the 2D standee types in the board game for your existing Halo: Flashpoint miniatures collection, such as those from Judgement.
2. Your Judgement box also includes two brand-new scenarios for Halo: Campaign Evolved – The Board Game, featuring terrifying encounters with the Covenant Hunters.
3. And finally, the new Master Chief (with Assault Rifle) and Covenant Zealot miniatures from the board game come with the stat cards to use them in Halo: Flashpoint.

Two great tabletop Halo boxes…even better together, which is why they’re paired up in some great value-saving bundles.

The Covenant Have Arrived

From the first time you ever encountered a pair of Hunters, to learning just what havoc a Jackal sniper (and their buddies) can cause, the Covenant are imprinted into many of our fondest gaming memories. Now they’re making a huge entrance into the tabletop skirmish world in Halo: Flashpoint.

And it seems that the world agrees, as our website temporarily crashed under an unprecedented weight of web traffic yesterday just after the reveal. Thank you to everyone who persevered – your orders are safely locked in. And for everyone else, it’s now calmed down a bit and you’ll be able to checkout without any issues!

So get ready to field the High Prophet of Regret, unleash a pair of Hunters on unsuspecting UNSC fireteams, and recreate classic Halo combat on the tabletop. Judgement delivers one of the most varied and characterful forces yet released for Halo: Flashpoint, and it’s available to pre-order now.

Your Great Journey awaits.

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“Attention all combat personnel. Please report to your action stations. This is not a drill. I repeat, this is not a drill.”

The moment has finally come. Ever since Halo: Flashpoint launched, one question has echoed across battlefields everywhere:

“When are the Covenant arriving?”

Today, it’s time to finally answer that question. You’ve led UNSC Marines into combat. You’ve commanded Noble Team on the scarred surface of Reach.

But now, for the first time in Halo: Flashpoint, the Human-Covenant War truly begins…

Judgement – The New Big Box Expansion

The Covenant do not arrive quietly. They descend from the heavens in overwhelming force, led by fanatical devotion, ancient technology, and the promise of the Great Journey.

Following on from last year’s introduction of Warmaster Atriox and the Jiralhanae in Rise of the Banished, and Buck and Dare with their Orbital Drop Shock Troopers in Feet First Into Hell, it’s time to unleash Halo: Flashpoint’s third major expansion box – JUDGEMENT.

These big boxes are the highlights of the Halo: Flashpoint release calendar – packed with stunning new miniatures, fresh tactical options, new scenarios, new terrain and more.

Judgement sees a Covenant invasion hitting the table, as the High Prophet of Regret commands them into righteous battle against humanity:

Introducing the Covenant’s Prophets, Hunters, plus Sangheili Rangers, Honour Guard and Majors to the game, this is a jam-packed box on the miniature front alone.

Obviously, your new Covenant force will need a human location to invade – and we’ve got just the thing for you, with terrain featuring UNSC designs on one side and Forerunner designs on the reverse! Plus, this new combat arena includes a board that directly extends the Spartan Edition’s board for Big Team Battles:

Add to that exclusive faction D8’s and order dice, plus brand new scenarios, and more cards and tokens than you can shake two sticks and a rock at*…and you’ve got the biggest and best expansion box released to date.

Let the Great Journey begin.

*more on that theme later…

Halo: Campaign Evolved – The Board Game

Halo has always been about memorable missions.

From escaping the Pillar of Autumn to desperate last stands against impossible odds, the series’ greatest moments have always been driven by narrative. That’s exactly what Halo: Campaign Evolved brings to the tabletop.

Halo: Campaign Evolved – The Board Game delivers exactly that, letting Master Chief take on the Covenant in missions inspired directly from the story that started it all. You can actually play this one with either 1 or 2 players, with either the game’s rules or a human opponent commanding the Covenant forces.

The board game includes a small army of enemy standees…and Halo: Flashpoint players can swap a whole bunch of these out for miniatures from your existing collection and new ‘Judgement’ box!

And that’s not all: both Halo: Flashpoint’s Judgement and the Campaign Evolved Board Game contain cross-game content – cool extra things for anyone also enjoying the other game.

The board game contains a new Master Chief (with Assault Rifle) miniature as well as a Covenant Sangheili Zealot miniature – with the cards you’ll want to unleash them in your Halo: Flashpoint tabletop skirmishes.

And if you’ve got the Judgement box…it comes with two special scenarios to unleash your Hunter miniatures in the board game. All of this makes Halo: Campaign Evolved not only a fantastic board game in it’s own right, but also the perfect companion set to both Judgement and Halo: Flashpoint.

Sergeant Major Avery Johnson

“When we meet the enemy, we will rip their skulls from their spines and toss them away laughing. Am I right, Marines?”

“Mm-hmm, damn right I am.”

Come on now…there was never any chance we’d let the Covenant invade without humanity’s favourite Sergeant Major turning up to lead the defence!

Joining Halo: Flashpoint as a brand-new character miniature, Avery Johnson brings legendary leadership and the kind of outrageously motivational speeches that will keep the UNSC fighting when the odds look impossible. If you’re building a UNSC force, Johnson is ready to lead them from the front.

Halo: Flashpoint ‘The Weapon’ Score Tracker

Master Chief’s latest AI companion returns once again as your handy score tracker for games of Halo: Flashpoint!

Keep track of your points in style, and bring some serious in-world flair to your tabletop with this hand-cast recreation of Master Chief’s Data Crystal Chip.

John-117:“She looks just like her.”
Dr. Halsey: “If you say so. I see something else. Something more innocent, from a simpler time.”

Firebase Entrance Deluxe Gaming Mat (Exclusive Early Access)

What’s even better than the folding board in the Judgement box that links up with your existing combat arenas?

A Firebase Entrance in glorious, rubber-backed, full-colour neoprene – that’s what.

This isn’t supposed to be out until 2027…but we’ve getting a batch flown in especially early for the Covenant Wave bundles. It’ll sit perfectly alongside the Field Outpost or UNSC Firebase mats – giving you the perfect location for your Big Team Battle scenarios!

Halo: Flashpoint UNSC Man Cannons Scenery Set

Available for the first time outside of the currently-sold-out Noble Team expansion, the UNSC’s Man Cannons provide extreme and surprising mobility for anyone that dares approach them at a run. Allowing your units to advance a full eight cubes in-game, they’re incredible in double-mat Big Team Battle scenarios – such as the one you’ll find in the new Judgement box!

Halo: Flashpoint Deluxe 1-Player Acrylic Token Set

Upgrade your battlefield with a premium set of acrylic game tokens that replace those you’ll use as a player in-game. (Note: a mission tokens set will follow in the future).

They bring extra durability, table presence, and a satisfying premium feel to every Halo: Flashpoint game. So whether you’re a seasoned Spartan or just beginning your first deployment, they’re the perfect way to enhance your experience.

Everything Revealed Today

Wow. It’s been a big day for new reveals, so here’s a quick summary of everything you’ve just seen:

• Halo: Flashpoint: Judgement
• Halo: Campaign Evolved – The Board Game
• Sergeant Major Avery Johnson
• Halo: Flashpoint Score Tracker – The Weapon
• Firebase Entrance Deluxe Gaming Mat
• UNSC Man Cannons Scenery Set
• Deluxe 1-Player Acrylic Token Set

And what if you want to pick up several of the above, with a FREE Sergeant Johnson, bundle savings, AND early access to that new combat zone?

As always, we’ve got you covered – click below to see all our special bundles for the Covenant Release Wave, available while stocks last.

The Covenant Have Arrived

From towering Hunters and fanatical Prophets to narrative missions, legendary characters, premium accessories, and brand-new places to fight, this is the best Halo: Flashpoint release wave we’ve ever assembled.

Dive in and command the Covenant for the first time ever, relive the missions of Campaign Evolved, strengthen your UNSC forces with Sergeant Johnson, and massively upgrade your tabletop experience. There’s never been a better time to join the fight.

The Human-Covenant War starts today…and you’re leading from the front.

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