Halo: Flashpoint – Zeta Halo Pre-Orders Update
3rd Aug 2026
Dan Mapleston
Since our last update, something very big has happened in the world of Halo!
In the unlikely event you haven't heard (Ed: seriously?!), the series has burst back onto screens in style across the whole world with Halo: Campaign Evolved. Naturally we've been playing through (after work 😉) and have loved revisiting all the classic missions where it all began.
A big congratulations to our friends over at Halo Studios on the global launch, and we're very proud to be playing our own part on tabletop in bringing the Halo Universe to life for fans around the world!
As some of you already know - Halo Campaign Evolved: The Board Game is coming out later this year...and you can expect to hear much more about that in September.
Last Chance for Zeta Halo Pre-Orders and Deals
We know you're chomping at the bit to unleash Grunts, Jackals, Marines and more - and they're coming soon!

With this wave, we believed we'd manufactured enough stock to see us through until the end of the year. And then we bumped up the numbers a bit more (to be safe!), and then placed the biggest factory order yet - more than any previous release wave so far...we know how much everyone loves their Grunts, after all.
A perfectly reasonable plan. Obviously this would be enough. Right? Right???
And yet...even with a whole five months of 2026 still to go, many of the upcoming releases are selling through much faster than we'd expected. Message received loud and clear - everyone is really enjoying Halo: Flashpoint!
While this could be seen as a 'nice problem to have', we do want to manage expectations around availability if you've not pre-ordered:

(Note - this graph was correct on the 3rd August - true remaining web stock will be lower.)
Deals & Bundles Deadline
Finally, so we can start prepping to fulfil all your pre-orders from later this month, all of the Zeta Halo web bundles will become unavailable to order from Monday 31st August. (The exception is if stock runs out before then, in which case they'll have to come down early).
To pick up all the savings and extra items like the FREE 1.5 rulebook and FREE unit update cards then make sure to jump on board before then!
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Version 1.5 Rules Updates Roll Out from September 1st
Halo: Flashpoint's 1.5 update is coming very soon, and the Zeta Halo releases have been designed to play with the updated rules from the day they go live.
The general ruleset updates, and all the points for the new units, will go up on September 1st on the Halo Index Web App.
So the lucky few of you that managed to grab a pre-release box at Gen Con will have a few weeks to get them painted up in time!

Hang on...what's the 1.5 update, we hear some of you asking? Let's recap.
The 1.5 update is a consolidation of all the keywords and any tidy-ups resulting from any FAQs/Errata, all brought into one updated new rulebook. And even better, the rules previously found in the War Games expansion for custom fireteams are also now there - giving everyone a much better reference tool, and a fully-updated entry point for new players.
At the same time, the design team and playtesters have done a big and thorough balance check across the whole game to keep everything fair (and futureproofed...hint, hint!). This means that your current collection will be ready to go toe-to-toe against all the cool future releases we're working on behind the scenes.
You can find out more about the 1.5 update with the earlier blog HERE.
When Do the Zeta Halo Releases Ship?
At the moment we are expecting the new releases to arrive towards the end of August, ready to start shipping in early September.
So get your pre-orders squared away, and prepare to gear up. The battle for Zeta Halo begins soon on tabletops around the world!











