With more releases and information spilling out into the eager hands of playtesters worldwide, Beyond the Gates of Antares is popping up all over the web on wargaming forums, videos, blogs – and it’s making an appearance at gaming clubs as players get to grips with the universe and the rules! A regular contributor to the…
13th of June 1944. The Britsh have broken inland and are moving towards Caen. Armoured and mechanized elements of the 4th County of London Yeomanry (4CLY) and of the 1st Rifle Brigade, together with two Observation Post (OP) tanks of the 5th Royal Horse Artillery are advancing in column along the Route Nationale 175. Suddenly,…
This month, Andy Singleton and Jez Allum paid a visit to Warlord HQ to tour the premises and get a flavour for the Beta Edition of the Beyond the Gates of Antares rules set. Andy After an early start and a long train ride out of the Volley Fire Painting Services paint mines and into Nottingham,…
Every week we receive messages from customers, clubs, shops and event-planners from all across the globe, reporting back from the community, to let us know of battles being waged on tabletops worldwide! As part of this, we’ve received regular reports and updates from the ever-enthusiastic and hard-working Charles Torok of the San Antonio B.A.G group –…
On Wednesday 18th February 2015, Warlord article writer, Sam Phillips came down to Warlord HQ to sit in on a Beyond the Gates of Antares playtest session with Rick Priestley and Nick Simmerson. Rick and Nick have been rigorously playtesting the Antares game system since its inception – and have more recently been working on additional rules,…
We’re always hunting online for interesting and exciting projects in the community – and as part of this, TabletopBattle leapt out at us… TabletopBattle are a group of gamers who are working together with NAWD (North Australian Wargames Designers) to create a Timeline of WWII (from the invasion of Poland through to the final attack on…
With the impending release of our second Theatre Book, ‘Ostfront’ – we cornered our resident Italian rulessmith, Alessio Cavatore and forced asked him very kindly to create some rules to make use of the exclusive ‘Cross of Iron’ miniature supplied FREE when the book is purchased direct through the Warlord webstore or at the many…
Alessio Cavatore has updated the Bolt Action Errata and FAQ document, addressing our new range of Theatre books, in particular how to include special named characters in your force, as well as various other clarifications including a section on Paratroopers. You can check out the results in our free PDF download. Download PDF
Rick Priestley has been hard at work (amazing what the threat of his rum ration being cancelled will do) playtesting Beyond the Gates of Antares, ably assisted by everyone on the playtester forum, and has produced 6 starting scenarios to help you set up some exciting and close-fought battles. We’ve put them together into a downloadable…
The Demo Gamers is an Australian Bolt Action-based blog full of great content. This article in particular caught our eye as something a little bit different… We enjoy playing Bolt Action wargames and want to share that fun with others. So how does one do this? Running a Public Participation game is different to running…
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