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…
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,…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
(Note: This article is relates to the pre-release play test rules for Beyond the Gates of Antares and is now out of date. It has been replaced by an updated article – Reactions in Beyond the Gates of Antares). Rick Priestley tells us more about Warlord’s forthcoming science-fiction project Beyond the Gates of Antares: For this…
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