2015 is shaping-up to be a very exciting year for Beyond the Gates of Antares – over the coming months, we’ll be ramping-up the amount of Antares-related articles, new rules and scenarios, new units being shown-off, and new insights into the back story from the man behind the game, Rick Priestley. We’re starting to see painted…
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…
Out today for Beyond the Gates of Antares, we have more reinforcements for the Algoryn – the AI Assault Squad: As well as Mag Repeaters, Algoryn Assault AI are equipped with forearm mounted distort and plasma shell projectors called Distort Spinners or D-Spinners for short. The projectors hurl small spinning discs – distort shells which disrupt the space around…
Out today for Beyond the Gates of Antares, we have reinforcements for the Algoryn Prosperate – the Armoured Infantry squad as well as X-Launcher and Plasma Cannon teams, and Targeter Probes: The Algoryn are a proud warrior race confronted on all sides by merciless and powerful enemies. Every aspect of their society is geared towards…
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…
Algoryn command team The Algoryn military is one of the most efficient and effective fighting forces in the entirety of Antarean Space. The whole of Algoryn society is geared for war and survival in a hostile universe. The Algoryn Command Team blister contains one A.I. (Armoured Infantry) Commander, clad in Reflex Armour and armed with…
Following the amazing NuHu preview, we have another render of a forthcoming Beyond the Gates of Antares model to show off, this time an imposing Algoryn commander. ALGORYN BACKSTORY There are millions of independent human worlds belonging to small, self-governing empires or federations. Some of these societies are relatively primitive whilst others are as technologically advanced as…
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…
Here’s another update from the development of our science fiction game, Beyond the Gates of Antares, written by none other than Rick Priestley. Firstly we have the fully painted command squad for the Algoryn Armoured Infantry. An entirely new set of 3D renders for the game now – the troopers forming the squads of the…
More new painted miniatures from our forthcoming science fiction game, Beyond the Gates of Antares. This time we introduce the Algoryn AI team with X-launcher… An X-Launcher is a portable magnetic launcher that hurls explosive missiles, bombs, or special munitions packages, such as Arc, Blur, Scramble, and Scoot. They are bulky weapons, and their regular…
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