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Phil Hendry on facebook posted these pics of his Ghar, and I loved them so much I wanted to share

Oooh, very nice!

That's an interesting choice for the skin color, I like it. And a great paint job

 judgedoug wrote:
Individual model poses are now available to order direct.

Nice! Too bad they didn't release the bodyguard models from the command blister. Would be nice to bulk up command squads.

EDIT! Just noticed they did release the Algoryn with Plasma Carbine.

Definitely prefer the look of those guys to the fleshy-pink of the official minis!

Albino Squirrel wrote:

evancich wrote:
After hearing the D6 interview, I got pretty excited. The gameplay sounds like a great update to sci-fi table top miniatures games.

I'd like to buy the book and a faction. But, from the site, I can't really tell how they play. I'm not too into the Ghar (but maybe I am, don't know) based on look and low model count. So, I don't think I want the starter box

Any chance somebody can map BtGoA to 40k factions for me?

For example, I assume:
C3 = IG due to large model count and mostly shooting and losing troops is no big deal

Algoryn = Eldar? I basing this on aesthetics alone

Nobody can map the Gates of Antares factions to equivalent 40K factions. They aren't meant to be analogues for 40K armies. This isn't Mantic.

But I'm sure someone can give a quick overview on how the factions play. I think I saw a good summary of that somewhere.

Someone pointed out above that in a lot of ways the Ghar (the fighting suits) are like Space Marines in terms of the background, aside from the fact that a Ghar suit is substantially more durable in game.

I quite liked that kind of subtle comparison.

Except, unlike the Ghar, Space Marines without their fancy suits are still super-human. Ghar, without the suit, are clearly not.

Anyone know when that Concord bundle with the X-Howitzer, Jetbikes and drop troops will hit retailers?

 Alpharius wrote:
Anyone know when that Concord bundle with the X-Howitzer, Jetbikes and drop troops will hit retailers?

I was waiting for that too, but the Warlord website said it's not a box set, just a bundle they make to order, so it seems it's only available direct.

The bundle is direct only. The X-Howitzer and Interceptor Bikes are going to be available to retailers separately. I don't know when the X-Howitzer will be released. It's on individual pre-order direct from Warlord Games now. The bikes are released and on sale now, I think. I'm still waiting for my FLGS to get them in. Drop Troopers are available to retailers, at least that's where I've purchased my two boxes of them.

In the past it's taken about a month from release on the Warlord Games shop to show up at my FLGS.

Ah, I was hoping it was a bundle and that I'd be able to pick up that bundle from either The Warstore on Miniature Market.

I guess I'll just pick up the various parts as they become available then...

 reds8n wrote:

That howitzer looks really good!

That Concord faction as a whole is impressive. I am not as much a fan of the Ghar, but the alternate scheme shown further up the page helps them, too. Great work by Warlord on these recent releases!

 Alpharius wrote:
Ah, I was hoping it was a bundle and that I'd be able to pick up that bundle from either The Warstore on Miniature Market.

I guess I'll just pick up the various parts as they become available then...

Just FYI, you still save money buying it from Warlord, and they have a free shipping promo right now.

Mini Market's got the bikes (3) for $25.60 and the Drop Troops (5) for $25.60.

Is the X-Howitzer going to be a $50 +/- piece?

 Alpharius wrote:
Mini Market's got the bikes (3) for $25.60 and the Drop Troops (5) for $25.60.

Is the X-Howitzer going to be a $50 +/- piece?

Ah I see what you mean. I guess you can get it cheaper piece by piece. Oh well, I ordered it already

Turning into an awesome effort all around.... Priestly is not screwing around this time around, all!!!!

The X-Howitzer is $40 on the Warlord Games shop.

Hmm those drones could be interesting with some conversion work, not sure what to do with those cute little aliens though...

Another couple of videos went live yesterday...

First - a video focusing on the Boromites;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMCKNT5xtMI




Second - another interview with Rick Priestley about the game;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFzbgv2gqak

Hopefully they will release the Drop Squad command unit soon. They are the best looking models thus far.

There is an extensive interview with Mr. Priestley regarding Antares on the newest Magabotato Podcast

http://www.magabotato.de/podcast/item/magabotato-interview-3

Although a german site this podcast is in english. At ~00:42:53 Rick is offering more info on the upcoming campaign book.

- The end (last mission afaik) of campaign book 1 is played out by the community in an online campaign

- Rick is using the results to write book 2

Quick question: I caved and bought some Ghar Battle suits, but I want to replace their claws with some sort of pew pew. Do the spare drone heavy weapons from the Concord sprue match the plasma blaster on the Ghar in size and/or style? Or would I be better off using some spare Medge Tempest heavy weapons?


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volume wrote:

Second - another interview with Rick Priestley about the game;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFzbgv2gqak

Warhams-77 wrote:
There is an extensive interview with Mr. Priestley regarding Antares on the newest Magabotato Podcast

http://www.magabotato.de/podcast/item/magabotato-interview-3

Priestley sure gives a lot of interviews. The interview he gave with Adam Corolla went about where I thought it would, but his interview with Jenny Scordamaglia was a pleasant surprise. Between all these interviews and his no-doubt upcoming Twitter feud with Kanye West, I hope he has time to play the games he's creating.

via Facebook

Our good friend Vincent Rospond at Winged Hussar Pubs is putting together the first of what is hoped to be a series of books set in the same Antares universe as my Beyond the Gates of Antares game.

Winged Hussar Publishing, LLC
21 hrs ·
A couple of exciting posts coming up, first we have reached an agreement with Warlord Games and Rick Priestley to produce novels and short stories for "Beyond the Gates of Antares" in the late Autumn of 2016. More to come on that later. ..

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
Quick question: I caved and bought some Ghar Battle suits, but I want to replace their claws with some sort of pew pew. Do the spare drone heavy weapons from the Concord sprue match the plasma blaster on the Ghar in size and/or style? Or would I be better off using some spare Medge Tempest heavy weapons?

Size-wise you could probably work it out. Style wise they are quite different.

I've been using Dark Eldar bits myself for "bomber" conversions:

Is there a release date for the Ghar Support Force?

I pre-ordered but can't find any date to expect it by...

 Nostromodamus wrote:
Is there a release date for the Ghar Support Force?

I pre-ordered but can't find any date to expect it by...

According to the product page, "Please note this is a pre-order product and is due to be released late February".

 Albertorius wrote:

 Nostromodamus wrote:
Is there a release date for the Ghar Support Force?

I pre-ordered but can't find any date to expect it by...

According to the product page, "Please note this is a pre-order product and is due to be released late February".

D'oh! Missed that! Thanks!

 reds8n wrote:
via Facebook

Our good friend Vincent Rospond at Winged Hussar Pubs is putting together the first of what is hoped to be a series of books set in the same Antares universe as my Beyond the Gates of Antares game.

Winged Hussar Publishing, LLC
21 hrs ·
A couple of exciting posts coming up, first we have reached an agreement with Warlord Games and Rick Priestley to produce novels and short stories for "Beyond the Gates of Antares" in the late Autumn of 2016. More to come on that later. ..

Definitely something I'll buy.

From tonight's newsletter

This week, we also had an update from Paul Sawyer of the design studio, giving an insight into what might be heading our way...

"Andres has painted the Algoryn Intruder Skimmers, Ghar Tectorists, several Isorian phase troopers, Isorian targeter probe shard, Boromite Matriarch and is currently working on the  Algoryn Mag Mortar.

Wojtek is at work on a couple of characters for the forthcoming supplement - one for Isorians and one for Boromites. He's almost finished the Boromite engineers and auto-workshop.

Steve is making a couple of tweaks to the Freeborn special character for the supplement but is otherwise hard at it on US Airborne 3-ups...

Russ is skiiing in France. Yeah, we thought so too...

Me? I'm to be found sat waiting for the postman - the 3D prints of the plastic C3M4 combat drone are due with us any day and is the last stage before the tools are cut..."

Mr Paul Sawyer has put a few previews up on the Facebook group. First is the Freeborn character introduced in the next supplement, Amano Harran:



"Amano has made a name for himself amongst the worlds of the Determinate, and his ship – the Nebula – has become almost as famous as its captain. Utilising some of the most advanced technologies of Antarean space, it is often assumed that the Nebula is equipped with alien derived space drives as yet unknown to the human civilisations of Antarean space. That may indeed be so, for Amano’s travels have certainly taken him to worlds beyond the ordinary congress of human space..."

Also the following studio update:

"Andres has finished painting the Algoryn Mag Mortar and is now hard at work on the Freeborn Sky Raider squad as well as batter, medi, camo, shield, gun and compactor drones. The webteam have been taking pics and videos so expect to see something soonish.

Wojtek has completed Boromite Engineers, mag cannon and mag heavy support teams. He's working on the Isorian X-howitzer and crew currently before turning his attention to a Boromite special character which will also be making it's entrance in the supplement."

Thanks for posting it here, Thraxas. The Freeborn faction finally, looking forward to more kits