With the first wave of releases for the Algoryn and Boromites now complete, we’ve put together an army deal for each force to kickstart your Antares battles! Each contains an ideal starting force (chosen by Rick Priestley!), with dice for each unit, and reduced from the price of the individual sets. 1 x Algoyn AI…
New for our Beyond the Gates of Antares science-fiction game – Boromite reinforcements! This week, they receive three new sets – the Work Gang, Lavamites and Mag Light Support team: Boromite Work Gangs are armed with Mass Compactors, which are extremely powerful at short ranges and, given that they are used for asteroid mining, they easily…
On 19th November 2014, I had the privilege of sneaking-into one of the playtesting sessions for Beyond the Gates of Antares. I joined gamescribe Rick Priestley, and his loyal playtesting companion – Nick Simmerson. Aim of the Playtesting Session Today, we had a brand new scenario to try-out – featuring a Transmat Station (essentially a…
Here’s more eye candy from our up-coming science-fiction game – Beyond the Gates of Antares. This week we take a look at the ferocious Lavamites – creatures enslaved by the Boromites to aid their mining processes. Fitted with implants, the Boromites are able to direct them in a drone-like manner. During mining operations, the Boromites…
Boromite Overseer team As humanity spread rampant across all of Antarean space, colonies arose upon a vast variety of worlds – each uniquely dissimilar to Earth. Over generations, these isolated populations evolved to suit their situation – breathing alien atmospheres, enduring unimaginable pressures and gravities. In many cases, these evolutionary advancements were artificially accelerated by…
We’ve got even more eye candy from our up-coming science-fiction game – Beyond the Gates of Antares. This week – how about some fire support for the Boromite forces in the form of the Mag Light Support? Magnetic weapons (or ‘Mag Weapons’ for short) propel a metallic, metal-coated or metal-cored projectile by means of a…
On the evening of Wednesday 10th September 2014, some of the Mail Order Team descended upon John Stallard’s Gaming Den to sample the latest incarnation of the Gates of Antares. Different staff-members have been involved in the playtesting process at different stages, so there was a mixture of new players, players who had perhaps played…
The Boromite guilds create huge fractal cannons to defend themselves and sometimes try to take what they believe is rightfully theirs too. They weaponise their industrial machinery, trusting in solid engineering. The Heavy Frag Borer has a fairly short range, being primarily a mining tool, however when it hits it locks on to it’s target…
As I write this, the Warlord Games team have just returned from this year’s Salute, the annual wargames show put on by the South London Warlords (no relation!) at the Excel exhibition centre in London. Salute is the highlight of the year for many of us, and this year was special for me because we…
Beyond the Gates of Antares is our forthcoming Science Fiction wargame – we call it Antares for short. The first model releases are currently in preparation – we hope to have them available for sale around the middle of 2014. You’ll find plenty more about the models, the game and background to Antarean space via…
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