FPS on the Tabletop: The Halo Flashpoint Review

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The Esoteric Order of Gamers

Күн бұрын

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@sitrucsimian5450 Ай бұрын

Time to download your halo and bellboy reference sheets. Your a gaming lifesaver.

@EsotericOrderGamers Ай бұрын

Awww, thanks, that's nice to hear.

@peterixon8708 Ай бұрын

Pete, as usual, you don't just deliver a great review, you go give us game assistance products that make playing easier. Thanks mate. Your efforts are much appreciated. Good job painting them so quickly too. Nice components with th game and I do like the insert. Interesting the change to 'survive test'. Something else caught my ear; 'crouch' in Deadzone works similar to 'avoid' in Test of Honour.

@EsotericOrderGamers Ай бұрын

Thankyou, what a lovely comment, I really appreciate it. I guess changing the melee reaction options from one to two was a quick and easy bit of simplification.

@brence1984 Ай бұрын

This seems like an easy enough IP for non-tabletoppers to get into while the FPS feel (picking up upgrades, weapons spawning etc.) is different enough from say games like Killteam and the likes. Especially when you look at the Halo IP and what could be done with it.

@EsotericOrderGamers Ай бұрын

I'm very curious to see where it goes, and very much looking forward to having some aliens to fight against!

@DarkLadyMarie 23 күн бұрын

Fun fact! They never stopped making Halo games! You should check out the RTS games that got made

@vo1non Ай бұрын

Keep up the great work!

@mordecaitoth6703 Ай бұрын

I'm super excited to get my hands on the Spartan edition. The Oddball scenario looks like a lot of fun. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and making reference cards!

@EsotericOrderGamers Ай бұрын

I was kinda hoping I'd get to show off the Spartan edition, but it wasn't to be!

@ERBarratt Ай бұрын

Great video. I've played it (a lot) already and it's right up there with Deadzone which is amazing by itself. Captures the feel of multiplayer brilliantly and the models are proper chunky bois.

@EsotericOrderGamers Ай бұрын

NIce! I must get more games in, and I'll definitely do a battle report video.

@MikeysPropshop Ай бұрын

Mantic games make great games and have good components. I like their Hellboy and the walking dead games.

@EsotericOrderGamers Ай бұрын

Hellboy is just excellent. There are some fan made graphic re-designs on Boardgamegeek that make it even better!

@SirJamesIGamerfuzion Ай бұрын

thats a nice shade of blue which contrast blue did you use ?

@EsotericOrderGamers 18 күн бұрын

Now it would have been very smart of me to make a note of that wouldn't it ... 🤣

@chickbowdrie Ай бұрын

They’re called Spartans :-) Thanks for the rules references!

@EsotericOrderGamers Ай бұрын

I remembered eventually!

@chickbowdrie Ай бұрын

@@EsotericOrderGamers I did notice that about a minute after you got my post you started calling them Spartans... That's the way youtube works right?

@EsotericOrderGamers Ай бұрын

@@chickbowdrie It’s hard to have a proper conversation 😀

@eaglesfly5236 20 күн бұрын

Well it ties in nicely with the newish TV series.

@EsotericOrderGamers 18 күн бұрын

Ah yes - though I never got past season one ...

@tomfreeman8401 Ай бұрын

As a big Deadzone fan this game had me skeptical - would it kill the better skirmish game because of a flashy IP, but I have to say I have been proven wrong. It plays a lot differently because the Spartans are a lot harder to kill, and with respawns the game is much more focused on the objectives, like capture the flag and oddball. I played Oddball yesterday and it was tonne of fun! He dragged the oddball near his respawn point and so everytime I picked it up he respawned and stabbed me in the face. It plays different, more like a videogame multiplayer, but well designed and a lot of fun.

@EsotericOrderGamers Ай бұрын

Thanks - I have to play more games, I've been swamped with stuff to do at the moment!

@dreadknot69 Ай бұрын

Love the review but your overhead cam jiggle is giving me vertigo. :)

@EsotericOrderGamers Ай бұрын

I just set up a new green screen studio in the garage, and I definitely have some bugs to iron out! Apologies.

@Sheepdog416 Ай бұрын

Great Video! Vanguard Terrain on MMF has a few sets of 3d printable terrain that fit the 3x3 squares perfectly.

@EsotericOrderGamers Ай бұрын

Oh, that stuff looks great!

@CityRoastGames Ай бұрын

FYI - I dont think the video you linked on painting the terrain is useful for this. HF uses cardboard terrain. Not sure how it will take paint. Appreciate the video you did for DZ terrain...but I dont think it can be used in this case. If you end up painting the cardboard....let me know. I would be interested to see how the cardboard holds up.

@EsotericOrderGamers Ай бұрын

Perhaps I wasn't clear enough, but I was referring to the plastic terrain that Mantic sell (and that came in the 1st edition Deadzone set) - it is exactly compatible with this game. No, I would not paint cardboard! This cardboard terrain is just stuff to get you started. If you want more flexibility in your terrain setups you'll want to get (and paint!) some of the plastic terrain. And I'm guessing Mantic will probably release some Halo-themed terrain in the same style.

@logiclust Ай бұрын

This took 15 years too long to come out

@EsotericOrderGamers Ай бұрын

Mic drop

@logiclust Ай бұрын

@ I remember working on a table top Destiny, realized how manipulative Destiny was and stopped playing it

@Nazgull2k1 Ай бұрын

Soooo... its a 4 man mirror match with preassembled identical pieces for each player? I dont see this game going anywhere. At all. Just you opening the box had me bored, and the games demos Ive seen havent inspired much confidence either. They could have done SO much with this.. and they literally did the absolute bare minimum.

@nerdstuffandreviews7578 Ай бұрын

The recon edition definitely feels like the bare minimum, I agree. The Spartan edition doubles the Spartans for both sides, having 8 different guys in both red and blue, plus some covenant. That version seemed like the actual game in comparison to the recon box.

@EsotericOrderGamers Ай бұрын

As I mention right upfront, this is the smallest introductory set, the recon set, and there's a lot more on the way. So the contents of this set do not define the game. The game system is good. I'll release a battle report later so you can get a feel for it.

@toddwarren871 Ай бұрын

they literally did way more than just the intro box. maybe next time watch the video.

@nerdstuffandreviews7578 Ай бұрын

The attitude/assumption is unwarranted Todd. I wasn’t referring to Peter’s video content, that was great as always…and which I did watch in its entirety. I play Deadzone and consider it my favorite skirmish game. As far as the recon set itself, my opinion is that it IS the bare minimum that Mantic could have done as a starter. My feel is that the Spartan version will give a much better feel of the game system as a whole.

@EsotericOrderGamers Ай бұрын

I think he was replying to the initial commenter - but it's hard to tell, because despite KZbin's billions they can't seem to implement a proper thread system in the comments! 😖

@cronkitepercussion Ай бұрын

Mantic loves to borrow from other companies; GW, Dust...

@EsotericOrderGamers Ай бұрын

The Deadzone rules are pretty original actually. And Dust? What have they borrowed from Dust?

@toddwarren871 Ай бұрын

Pretty Sure Deadzone is older than Dust. And Dust is dead., so good luck with that. Also, no duh.

@EsotericOrderGamers Ай бұрын

@@toddwarren871 I don't know what Dust has to do with anything by Mantic 🤣, but btw Dust was first released in 2009 by Fantasy Flight Games, Deadzone 2013.