Interstellar travel in Beyond the Gates of Antares, part I By Tim Bancroft This is an Beyond the Gates of Antares story intro. Interstellar travel using the gates of Antares is both fascinating and dangerous. The sentience that is the Antares transdimensional engine tickles the imagination of any vaguely curious citizen of the PanHuman Concord. The simple…
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…
There have been some interesting meetings around Warlord HQ lately… lots of hushed chatter, with rumours of waves-upon-waves of reinforcements being prepared for consignment – support teams, auxiliaries, and VEHICLES, VEHICLES, VEHICLES are moving ever-closer to release. All around Warlord HQ, display cabinets are filling with the staff’s painted armies, with games breaking-out weekly –…
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…
There are a few recurring questions which regularly crop-up around the Antares community from new players… “I’ve bought the Xilos Horizon starter set – how should I assemble the models?” “What should I arm my models with?” “What do I buy next?” Seasoned Antares veteran, and regular contributor to the Warlord Newsletter, Tim Bancroft is on…
Tim Bancroft strikes again! Tim is becoming a more-and-more regular contributor to the Warlord Games Newsletter – having shared a wealth of his own Antares Fiction, and some of his other musings on the game, the universe and so much more! Not only that, but Tim also co-hosts the Freeborn Shard Podcast alongside Justin Shearer…
Concord forces can now arrive in the elegant C3T7 Transporter Drone! View in Store The T7 series Transporter Drone is a variant of the M4 series Combat Drone and shares most of its characteristics along with its general appearance. It is armed with a plasma light support which also enables it to operate as 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…
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