Painting and building for the Antares Initiative with the October Wargames Association! By Mark Croft I’ll start with the easiest elements, the Ghar outcasts and tectorists, these came as white metal casts with a good level of detail and with minimal clean up needed, the poses are great and add some nice character to the army….
Scout Force from French Touch Group! By Jonathan Manon Here we are with the Month 2 article! With my others friends of the French Touch Group we are moving deeply into the wild of building our Scout Force! For my part, last month, I left you with my Ghar army list, units I choose and…
Amidst a universe vast beyond comprehension, a universe of human endeavour stretches eons into a dark and turbulent past, a universe of embattled civilisations possessed of unimaginable power. Across millions of worlds rival empires are locked in a struggle for dominance, driven by intellects that are as much machine as human, the omniscient integrated machine intelligence of a society and a time very different…
The October Wargamers took the opportunity to write up month one of their Antares Initiative experience separately giving us four individual takes on the The Drone Integration scenario as well as their faction choices and why. Take it away chaps… Mark Croft Reasons for Ghar Firstly the Battle Suits look cool, I love the way that…
The first month in Antarian space has been a challenging one for the villainous scum of The Noise Sector. Cast adrift from the main star cluster in unfamiliar territory we find our four games Asher, Mick, Mitch and Dan. With time-locked supply drops the frenzied crew has devoured any morsels of information they can land…
We recently contacted hundreds of clubs across the UK (and the rest of the world) to see if there would be interest in an Antares project and were stunned by the shear weight and quality of the replies! So here we go after a week of deliberation based solely on your applications we have a…
It can sometimes take a while to acclimatise to a new game – and one of the questions we see amongst the community quite regularly is that of tactics… how exactly do you go-about tackling the tough Battle Suits of the Ghar Empire? Luckily, Tim Bancroft… (or should that be ‘Training Sergeant Tar Romal’?)… has a…
We’ve had a few requests from the community for a copy of the ‘Drone Integration’ scenario – which is being used by out trade stockists to demo Beyond the Gates of Antares to new players.. What better way to introduce new players into the action than using the ‘Xilos Horizon’ starter set contents, and having…
To accompany The Battle for Xilos, we have created six new Antarean character models to represent the leaders and chief antagonists involved in the backstory. Perhaps you’ll be using one with your forces this summer in The Battle For Xilos Campaign? Our characters are presented in the same spirit as those in the Antares game…
View in Store The core of Fartok’s rebel army is the Black Guard comprising the most experienced and loyal of his fighters. This is mostly made up of veterans of Fartok’s Battlegroup Nine, although as the rebellion has gathered pace the Black Guard has grown with the addition of many other seasoned warriors freed by…
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