Exciting news for Beyond the Gates of Antares – our first look at the next faction to be introduced into the game – The Freeborn. The Freeborn are merchants and traders, pursuers of wealth, influence and power within Antarean space. Their numerous fleets maintain a free-flow of commodities and technology between human worlds and beyond. The…
Rick says: For the last few weeks I’ve had my head buried inside the deepest, darkest and stickiest gubbins of the Antares army lists (NB. this article was first published in April 2015). Much of the wargames equivalent of spannerwork has been involved and I’d like to thank everyone who has lent a hand in…
Beyond the Gates of Antares players are in for a treat today with Commander Kamrana Josen – the first special character for the Concord. Check out the 3D digital render from sculptor Russ Charles and then read Rick Priestley’s background story for the Commander… [Click on above image to view a revolving image] Even in his…
12 Days of Christmas – Day 9 For today’s Christmas treat we have an exciting first look at the Concord Drop Troops. Often it is necessary to land troops directly through the planetary atmosphere, and this is where the Concord C3’s Drop Squads come into their own. They are equipped with grav-chutes that enable them to dive safely…
12 Days of Christmas – Day 2 Our next Christmas treat is a 3D render of a previously unseen race for Beyond the Gates of Antares – the Ghar Empire. We’re hard at work developing the look and feel of this malevolent race and knew you’d want to see the first models we’d completed! The…
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…
We’ve got even more eye candy from our up-coming science-fiction game – Beyond the Gates of Antares. This week we’ve got a preview of some hardware for the Concord Combined Command in the form of the Support Drones with Plasma Cannon and Plasma Light Support. Plasma weapons are the most powerful hand-held weapons available to…
Following on from the Concord Troopers we showed you last week, we have some new renders from our forthcoming range for Beyond the Gates of Antares – the Concord Combined Command. First up we have this Concord commander, with attendant C3 trooper armed witrh plasma carbines and micro-X-slings: And lending fire-support comes the Concord X-launcher:…
Beyond the Gates of Antares game designer, Rick Priestley explains more about the game setting and answers the burning question – what are the Gates of Antares? Rick: So far we’ve seen work in progress on the models for the Antares game, and I’ve talked a bit about the game system, but I’ve not made…
This time we have a bit of a round up of the work we’ve been doing on crewed support weapons for the Antares project. As you will see, all of these are digital designs, so what we have to show you are graphic renders rather than the traditional putty and plastic master models. When it…
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