Beyond the Gates of Antares: The Ongoing News & Rumors Thread

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**Pacific**

Alpharius wrote:
That cover...

...Beyond the Rogue Gates of Antares Trader?

That was exactly my thought when I saw it as well

**Nocturnus**

Guildsman wrote:
Glad to see that GoA is continuing their fine tradition of producing 80s era sculpts in 2015.

Also, what sort of mechanism do Bolt Action and GoA use ruleswise to balance armies?

I remember reading a quote from Rick Priestly saying they would be adding points values. I have some of the Algoryn models. They are very nice and bigger than I expected. Instead of crapping all over this, why not remember that it's still in beta. I wish more companies would do beta testing like this.

**Dawnbringer**

-DE- wrote:
Eggs wrote:
It's not really any more than GW RRP though -

10 Tacticals - £25
5 Devastators - £28
1 Captain model - £15

£68 - for 16 GW models + 1 cherub thing
£70 - for 19 models + 5 Flying drone type things.

Edit - I was trying to figure out what it was I didn't like about these models. The basing is terrible. It does them no favours.

How about 2 x $39 AM Skitarii? $78 for 20 models vs $122 for 19 models. On top of that, the former are properly multi-pose with tons of extra parts, while the latter look to be single-part with no options. Dark Eldar Warriors, which look very close to the Freeborn, are even cheaper, at $29 per box. Throw in the fact that I can readily order GW at 25% off, and the comparison makes GoA a worse proposition still.

So you've successfully discovered plastic is cheaper than metal. Congrats...

**Alpharius**

Pacific wrote:
Alpharius wrote:
That cover...

...Beyond the Rogue Gates of Antares Trader?

That was exactly my thought when I saw it as well

To give credit where credit's due - it was reds8n's thought first!

I just gave it that snazzy title is all!

**Barzam**

Since nobody else seems to have heard about it, Gates of Antares plastic starter set is coming soon.

Strike Vector One: The Xilos Horizon is the starter set for Beyond the Gates of Antares. This set contains everything you need to start gaming including complete tabletop wargame rules, army lists, battle scenarios and two opposing forces: the Concord and the Ghar.

Launch Edition of the box game contains the hardback rulebook and launch edition miniature, available for a limited time
Developed from the award winning Bolt Action game system and dynamic turn system
Written by Rick Priestley, creator of Warhammer 40,000
In depth gaming universe with epic background
Quality multi pose plastic models within the game with an ever expanding range of plastic, metal and resin models available
Mature games system, perfect for small skirmish actions through to large scale battles
Builds on the existing Beyond the Gates of Antares range

The full contents of the starter set are:

20 Plastic Concord Strike Troopers
4 Plastic Concord Support Drones
3 Plastic Ghar Battle Squad Walkers
3 Plastic Ghar Assault Squad Walkers
Launch edition metal character model
Full Hard Back Rulebook
Plastic templates and shot tokens
Scenario booklet
Plastic Pin markers
Order Dice & Polyhedral dice

AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER OCTOBER 2015

**judgedoug**

Pic

**infinite_array**

Oh cool, I didn't realize the Maelstrom's Edge minis were also getting used in Antares.

**endtransmission**

Oh the Concorde troopers in plastic could be nice and those Ghar certainly look interesting from what I can see in the picture

The concorde force looks to be bigger than the metal strike force that currently sells for £70, so I may give it a punt.

If they had taken that image to KS, I can see it having funded quite quickly

**overtyrant**

These certainly aren't ME minis! I really really like the look of these! The fact that these are going to be plastic means I'll be buying at least one box!

**endtransmission**

A sprue pic from Facebook of the Ghar along with a wip render from a while back

**Guildsman**

Now see, that box is all wrong. It should have 80s style art, to go with the 80s style sculpts.

...That's rude of me. It's hard to make out much detail from the small picture. If these sculpts are new, and designed for HIPS, they might actually turn out nicely.

**judgedoug**

I love the three heads on that robot sprue.

**endtransmission**

Apparently there are the remnants of a human in that beast somewhere. They seem to be like Daleks in that they used to be humanoid, but no-one is quite sure why they became so twisted and sealed in their war suits

**warboss**

endtransmission wrote:

If they had taken that image to KS, I can see it having funded quite quickly

If they had taken more than a designer's name, a cocktail napkin's worth of fluff, and a half done mini to KS during the naive funding years, they'd have funded. I'm glad to see they've used the subsequent years well and will take a look at this starter on its own merits.

**JohnnyHell**

INTERIOR GoA HQ
A tagline or title is needed to capture the feel of the retail box art and studio models. Brainstorm goes as follows...

"In the neon, disco brightness of the far future, there is only static grass..."
"Nah. Accurate, but no."

"In purplest day, in bluest night, no paint can cover sculpts so s...."
"Woah."

"We will, we will, rockman you?"
"Get out."

"When it's time to party we will party really very hard!"
"Better... but maybe not the feel we're going for."

"Strike Vector One: The Xilos Horizon?"
"Meaningless. Gibberish. BRILLIANT! Now, let's price them higher than GW and get out there and sell, sell, sell!"

**Jerram**

I like those Ghar, hopefully they produce the Algoryn in plastics and the prices are reasonable.

**Barzam**

The GOA figures are actually very nicely sculpted, despite some peoples opinions of them. The figures in this set look very nice and this gives me hope that we'll see some of the metal infantry packs replaced with plastic.

The newsletter this was announced in also showed a Concord officer holding up the severed head of a Ghar. I'm guessing that will be the special metal figure.

**Warhams-77**

Finally

And the set looks pretty good

The Preorder mini:

Cover of the box:

**BobtheInquisitor**

Oh my gawd YES! So many more drones to add to the collection! And some decent-looking humanoid types.

Man, I am running low on excite-juice after this, Dropfleet Commander, Halo Spaceship somethings, STAW Akira Class, Terminator Plastycs, Mantic's Enfacer Faceship, Medge Pledge Managerpalooza, and WGF's upcoming sci fi stuff.

Of course, they could still screw this up with the pricing and availability.

JohnnyHell wrote:
INTERIOR GoA HQ
A tagline or title is needed to capture the feel of the retail box art and studio models. Brainstorm goes as follows...

"In the neon, disco brightness of the far future, there is only static grass..."
"Nah. Accurate, but no."

"In purplest day, in bluest night, no paint can cover sculpts so s...."
"Woah."

"We will, we will, rockman you?"
"Get out."

"When it's time to party we will party really very hard!"
"Better... but maybe not the feel we're going for."

"Strike Vector One: The Xilos Horizon?"
"Meaningless. Gibberish. BRILLIANT! Now, let's price them higher than GW and get out there and sell, sell, sell!"

You sir, deserve a medal: the Samaritan's Alabaster Cross of Zycanthus.

**Baragash**

Do you think the box art was specifically designed to troll Rogue Trader (and a few other GW pieces)?

I hope so

**BobtheInquisitor**

The cover of the box does remind me of the clubbing scene back when raves were new and exciting. Forever more shall the beats of Real McCoy's One More Time punctuate the flash and blasts of Strike Vector One.

(Strike Vector One also being a favorite of that young dancer with the glowstick tongue piercing.)

**Mr Morden**

I do kinda need this model to start a human force in Tau service

**Strombones**

I could get behind multipart plastic concord guys. Still gonna have to see what other plastics come out before I consider investing.

Over all not bad. Exponentially better than ME. But I've read the beta rules and wasn't too impressed.

I'll keep an eye out.

**Desubot**

I need crab robot in my life right now.

**insaniak**

The crab robot does look pretty cool.

It looks like the bases are flat discs, which isn't fantastic.

**AlexHolker**

The Ghar looks dumb. Three legs with small feet might look alien, but it also looks like it would be incapable of walking without falling over. It needs bigger legs, more legs or a design more suited to shifting its center of gravity to maintain stability while moving.

**BobtheInquisitor**

I am comfortable with the baseless assumption that it mostly hovers for locomotion, and simply uses the legs for stability when still or meandering in variable gravity environments.

**Manchu**

I kind of want to try it but maybe I should wait for strike vector two?

**Pacific**

Guildsman wrote:
Now see, that box is all wrong. It should have 80s style art, to go with the 80s style sculpts.

...That's rude of me. It's hard to make out much detail from the small picture. If these sculpts are new, and designed for HIPS, they might actually turn out nicely.

If you see them in person they're actually really nice little sculpts, much better than anything we had in the 80's

And besides, what's wrong with the 80's anyway?!! Other than it's music, fashion and films?!!

**Manchu**

Pacific wrote:
Other than it's music, fashion and films?!!

All of those things were great. Also, there were some great miniatures back then, too!