Spartan Games has announced the third set of models for its Halo: Fleet Battles miniatures game, including two Fleet Boxes and a set of tokens.  These expansions are all scheduled to release in late September.

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The Covenant Fleet Box will include 20 plastic ship models (unpainted and requiring assembly), with two ORS Heavy Cruisers, two CCS-Class Battlecruisers, and 16 SDV Heavy Corvettes.  The larger ships feature plasma-based weaponry, as well as the ability to launch bomber and intereceptors during battle.  Also included are two new character cards:  the Xytan’Jar Wattinree Commander Card and the Minister of Etiology Heroic Character Card.  Also included are 12 ship bases, 18 ship overlays, 2 token sheets, 1 statistics sheet, and 5 Covenant Command Dice.  MSRP is $96.25.

For the opposing side, the UNSC Fleet Box offers 36 plastic ship models (unpainted and requiring assembly), including two Epoch-class Heavy Carriers, four Marathon-class Heavy Cruisers, and 30 Paris-class Frigates, as well as the Fleet Admiral Terrence Hood Commander Card and the Cortana Heroic Character Card.  Also in the set are 16 ship bases, 24 ship overlays, 2 token sheets, 1 statistics sheet, and 5 UNSC Command Dice.  MSRP is $96.25.

Also available is the Battle Group ID + Token Pack.  This add-on set includes colored acrylic markers to identify which group ships belong to and higher quality tokens to replace other game counters.  MSRP is $21.00.

Spartan Games has maintained an aggressive release schedule for the game, with Wave 3 following only a month after the Wave 2 releases (see “‘Halo:  Fleet Battles’ August Expansions”).