Gundam Assemble All Miniatures: Complete Guide to Every Mobile Suit

Bandai officially launched Gundam Assemble in October 2026 as a competitive tabletop miniatures game featuring roughly 5 cm mobile suits from across the entire Gundam franchise. Unlike display-only Gunpla kits, these miniatures function as tactical game pieces with matching unit cards that define their battlefield capabilities. With more than 30 products planned worldwide within the first year, the line spans starter sets, expansion packs, deluxe scenario boxes, and paint accessories.

Miniature Scale and Assembly

Every unit in Gundam Assemble finishes at approximately 5 cm or roughly 2 inches tall, a dramatic size reduction from traditional Master Grade or Perfect Grade Gunpla kits. The kits ship unpainted and unassembled, requiring players to snap or glue parts together and paint them before playing. Bandai offers no pre-built option at any price tier.

Early reviews noted the plastic quality as heavy-duty with chunky runners, noticeably cheaper than comparable Games Workshop miniatures but slightly less crisp in fine sculpted detail. The TP07B Zaku II release flagged mold lines along the legs, with reviewers recommending sanding sticks over standard hobby knives for cleanup. That Zaku splits into six pieces during assembly, and reviewers wished the arms detached separately to ease sub-assembly painting before final construction.

Bandai sells dedicated paint products including GUNDAM ASSEMBLE Colors brush-on paints formulated for miniature painting and the Mr.Brush BS Series with synthetic bristles sized for detail work. Paint packs bundle unpainted miniatures with a brush and four paint colors for first-time hobbyists.

Starter Set 01 Miniatures

Starter Set 01 (ST01) launched at $35 MSRP as the format’s complete entry point. The box contains six miniatures deliberately spanning eras rather than a single series:

• RX-78-2: The original Gundam from the Universal Century’s One Year War
• Char’s Zaku: The Red Commander Type Zaku II piloted by Char Aznable
• Wing Gundam Zero EW: From Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz
• Gundam Mepphyon: Also from Wing: Endless Waltz
• Gundam Vidar: From Iron-Blooded Orphans
• Barbatos Lupus Rex: Also from Iron-Blooded Orphans

This lineup stages crossover battles between suits that never shared a screen in the original anime. The set includes six matching unit cards, 18 tactics cards, 10-sided dice, a game map, game tokens, cardboard terrain pieces, a handbook, and quick reference sheets. Two teaching scenarios walk new players through the rules before they build custom squads.

Expansion Pack 01: Gundam Unicorn

Expansion Pack 01 (EX01) released around October 31, 2026 at $40, pulling mobile suits exclusively from Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn. The pack includes three miniatures:

• Unicorn Gundam
• Delta Plus
• Rozen Zulu (listed as “Torohachi” in early retailer transliterations)

Like every expansion, the three miniatures arrive unpainted and unassembled. The box includes three matching unit cards, nine tactics cards, and game tokens sized for those three units. It contains no board, dice, or terrain and plugs directly into a starter set a player already owns.

Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn originally aired as a theatrical OVA series set decades after the original One Year War in the Universal Century timeline. Pairing its cast with the starter box’s original series suits demonstrates Gundam Assemble’s deliberate era-collapsing design.

Expansion Pack 02: The Witch from Mercury

Expansion Pack 02 (EX02) released in the same October to November 2026 window at $40, drawing from Mobile Suit Gundam The Witch from Mercury:

• Gundam Aerial
• Gundam Pharact
• Gundam Darilbalde

This pack specializes in long-range engagement and introduces new token-based strategic options absent from the base starter set rules. The mechanical toolkit for the whole game expands with each release rather than simply adding more copies of existing options.

Mobile Suit Gundam The Witch from Mercury finished airing in Japan in 2023, making it the most recent source series represented in the October 2026 launch wave. These three suits reappear in a different context inside Deluxe Set 01, letting Bandai reuse miniature tooling across two product formats simultaneously.

Deluxe Set 01: Battle of A Baoa Qu

Deluxe Set 01 (DX01) launched at $100 as the premium entry, scaling the base game to full five-on-five battles. It contains 13 miniatures total, reusing the Witch from Mercury trio (Aerial, Darilbalde, and Pharact) but placing them in a scenario themed on the Battle of A Baoa Qu, a Universal Century engagement from an entirely different timeline era.

The set includes a full complement of unit cards, tactics cards, game tokens, two scenario objective cards, two separate game maps, cardboard terrain objects, 10-sided dice, a handbook, and two quick reference rule sheets. The headline five-on-five scenario centers on two battleship-class units squaring off, giving Deluxe Set 01 a scale and strategic depth smaller boxes cannot match.

The Battle of A Baoa Qu is the climactic final engagement of the One Year War fought at Zeon’s heavily fortified space colony fortress in the original 1979 Mobile Suit Gundam anime. Originally slated for October 2026, several retailers pushed the release to November 2026.

Card Game Crossover Miniatures

Gundam Assemble miniatures predated the standalone tabletop game by over a year. The very first miniatures shipped in 2025 inside starter decks for Bandai’s separate Gundam card game, with players building and painting these skirmish-scale suits before the tabletop game had a confirmed release window.

The earliest card game pack-ins from ST-01 Heroic Beginnings included a simple trio:

• TP-01 Gundam
• TP-02 Guncannon
• TP-03 Guntank

Later card game starter decks continued the pattern. The Wings of Advance set (ST-02A) built around a Heero Yuy and Zechs Merquise deck shipped with three more Gundam Assemble miniatures on their original sprue runners:

• Tallgeese (called the standout sculpt by Goonhammer reviewers)
• Leo armed with a rifle
• Leo armed with a beam cannon

These miniatures could be snapped together, painted, and placed on the deck’s token cards during matches, letting painted mobile suit models stand in for flat cardboard counters. The crossover continued into the standalone era with products like the Premium Card Collection Gundam Assemble Set (PC01A) themed around Iron-Blooded Orphans, sold through the card game’s official storefront rather than the miniatures game retail channels.

Planned Releases and Product Cadence

Bandai committed to a release cadence closer to a trading card game than a typical model line. Reporting from mid-2026 detailed six further products landing across January, February, and March 2027 alone:

• Four more $40 expansion packs
• A $170 Deluxe Set 03
• The format’s first $55 scenario pack

More than 30 total items are planned worldwide within the first year. Bandai showcased starter set 01 and deluxe set 01 together at Gen Con 2026, and five items released simultaneously in October with monthly follow-ups planned afterward.

A dedicated Scenario Pack 01 announced for early 2027 as part of the wave carrying Deluxe Set 03 signals that scenario design will grow as its own distinct product category sold apart from new miniatures. Treating scenarios as standalone products independent of which suits a player owns is an unusual move for a plastic model company.

Gameplay Integration

What makes Gundam Assemble miniatures different from ordinary Gunpla is that they function as game pieces with matching cards defining battlefield capabilities. The game runs on a hex-gridded board with two players fielding squads of mobile suits and taking turns within a structure called the timeline. Every unit card lists a starting position on that timeline track, and actions push units further down before they’re eligible to act again.

The timeline divides into 10 rounds, with the first phase ending after those rounds and a second phase beginning. Fights resolve with 10-sided dice, and unit cards list timeline cost, effective range, and strength values. Many abilities are range-restricted and require line of sight to the target. Win conditions vary scenario by scenario rather than being fixed across the system.

Squad building distills down to picking one unit that creates threat, one unit that controls formation and positioning, and one unit providing flexible support. The format’s baseline minimum of three units per side means every model carries significant tactical weight compared to larger-scale war games fielding dozens of units.

Painting and Customization

Bandai encourages fans to paint, customize, photograph, and discuss Gundam Assemble miniatures. The official paint page emphasizes that unpainted miniatures can be painted in any personal style for display or game use. Painting events and contests support the hobby community.

However, Bandai also released IP protection guidelines prohibiting scanning, uploading, distributing, or selling 3D scan data of miniatures or any goods derived from, copied from, or substantially reproducing official miniature shapes and designs without authorization. The policy aims to protect the franchise from unauthorized copying, recasting, and commercial exploitation while still supporting legitimate fan customization and non-commercial sharing.

Frequently Asked Questions

What scale are Gundam Assemble miniatures?
Every miniature finishes at approximately 5 cm or roughly 2 inches tall, significantly smaller than standard Gunpla kits.

Do Gundam Assemble miniatures come pre-painted?
No. All miniatures ship unpainted and unassembled, requiring cutting, cleaning, assembly, and painting before play.

Can I mix mobile suits from different Gundam series?
Yes. The game explicitly encourages cross-series squads. A Universal Century Zaku can fight alongside or against suits from Wing, Unicorn, or The Witch from Mercury.

What’s included in Starter Set 01?
Six miniatures, six unit cards, 18 tactics cards, 10-sided dice, a game map, game tokens, cardboard terrain, a handbook, quick reference sheets, and two teaching scenarios.

How many miniatures do I need to play?
The minimum is three units per side for a standard match. Starter Set 01 provides six miniatures for two players to learn the game immediately.

Are expansion packs standalone products?
No. Expansion packs include miniatures, unit cards, and tactics cards but no board, dice, or terrain. They plug into a starter set you already own.