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Those look terrible. I know that's on purpose, but deliberately ugly is still ugly.

Interesting, I disliked them before and now with that paint scheme they are better, they do grow on me.

The older Zbrush-'grey sculpt' pics did not do the concept a favour, but the paint schemes together with the fluff make them quite a lot less gobo (I thought they were intended to be like that) in a good way.

In comparison with for example Kev Adams' greenskins they looked bad. But these are more like shaved Gremlins or The Fraggles unearthed. Without their suits now bathing daily in Sunblocker 2000. And their eyes are not coping with the outer world succesfully either...

Let's see how this is going to continue with the other Ghar models. Looks quite cool imho

That paint scheme was clearly inspired by the transients living at the Ashby BART station. The one in the middle also has that bug-eyed, two-toothed Futurama look that helps immerse players in a new gaming universe without feeling at all like they are wasting their time and money on a product that even its own creators barely like.

It's also a huge pet peeve of mine when only one out of the squad is even aiming his weapon, with a second one in a very context-dependent shooting-over-a-crate pose. I guess I just came into gaming too late to appreciate models with this much 'character', but those are some embarrassing minis to my eyes. I can't believe a few pages ago people were praising GoA over GW for it's realistic proportions and lack of hokeyness.

Even the fluff feels dated and half-hearted.

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 judgedoug wrote:


It looks like the Retailer edition of Gates of Antares will have a limited edition Ghar miniature (whereas the Warlord direct has the limited edition Concord miniature)

Also a FLGS with a Warlord retail account that orders the Gates of Antares store bundle also receives a giant poster of the cover art signed by Rick Priestley to display.

Do you have any additional info on the limited edition Ghar miniature? Where did you hear about that? I am more interested in the Ghar than the Concord.

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
That paint scheme was clearly inspired by the transients living at the Ashby BART station. The one in the middle also has that bug-eyed, two-toothed Futurama look that helps immerse players in a new gaming universe without feeling at all like they are wasting their time and money on a product that even its own creators barely like.

It's also a huge pet peeve of mine when only one out of the squad is even aiming his weapon, with a second one in a very context-dependent shooting-over-a-crate pose. I guess I just came into gaming too late to appreciate models with this much 'character', but those are some embarrassing minis to my eyes. I can't believe a few pages ago people were praising GoA over GW for it's realistic proportions and lack of hokeyness.

Even the fluff feels dated and half-hearted.

Whoa there Bob, there is no crate required for that pose. Assuming you're referring to the unarmored Ghar all the way on the right.

Albino Squirrel wrote:

 judgedoug wrote:


It looks like the Retailer edition of Gates of Antares will have a limited edition Ghar miniature (whereas the Warlord direct has the limited edition Concord miniature)

Also a FLGS with a Warlord retail account that orders the Gates of Antares store bundle also receives a giant poster of the cover art signed by Rick Priestley to display.

Do you have any additional info on the limited edition Ghar miniature? Where did you hear about that? I am more interested in the Ghar than the Concord.

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AlexHolker wrote:Those look terrible. I know that's on purpose, but deliberately ugly is still ugly.

I don't get this! They're so goddamn adorable
If anything, I went from being "meh to somewhat interested" to "head over heels in love" because of those Ghar dudes. I love them and I hope they make a stuffed teddy bear Ghar version so I can call him George.

Preston Jon, I Stand corrected.

JudgeDoug, I hope they bring you years of happiness. I don't understand the appeal, but I will try to stop judging.

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
JudgeDoug, I hope they bring you years of happiness. I don't understand the appeal, but I will try to stop judging.

Gosh, I hope they bring me happiness, too. I don't understand the appeal either, but I love them, so very much, and I don't know why. They're so ugly that they crossed back around to cute, I dunno. Their faces are alskdjalkfjsd aslkljasdfjkdjklsdsdjfkl

 judgedoug wrote:

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
JudgeDoug, I hope they bring you years of happiness. I don't understand the appeal, but I will try to stop judging.

Gosh, I hope they bring me happiness, too. I don't understand the appeal either, but I love them, so very much, and I don't know why. They're so ugly that they crossed back around to cute, I dunno. Their faces are alskdjalkfjsd aslkljasdfjkdjklsdsdjfkl

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Or like if Brundlefly had stubby chibi-style limbs?

Really not sure about these ghar outcast. Really liker the walkers, but these guys are way tooo silly, and looks, like bad sunday morning cartoons vilains

I think they look cool with the showcase paint job. I actually find it funny they looks like untrained little dudes who are wary/frightened of the situation. They probably all wish they had one of those suits or something right now.

 judgedoug wrote:

Albino Squirrel wrote:

 judgedoug wrote:


It looks like the Retailer edition of Gates of Antares will have a limited edition Ghar miniature (whereas the Warlord direct has the limited edition Concord miniature)

Also a FLGS with a Warlord retail account that orders the Gates of Antares store bundle also receives a giant poster of the cover art signed by Rick Priestley to display.

Do you have any additional info on the limited edition Ghar miniature? Where did you hear about that? I am more interested in the Ghar than the Concord.

Retailer Newsletter
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Oh. So it sounds like the special Ghar miniature is just one per store or something, for ordering the retailer demo pack. That's sad.

Albino Squirrel wrote:
Oh. So it sounds like the special Ghar miniature is just one per store or something, for ordering the retailer demo pack. That's sad.

I didn't copy paste over the contents. It's one per copy ordered if the store orders the launch pack (so six figures, six retail box sets)


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 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
Or like if Brundlefly had stubby chibi-style limbs?

You're getting close. I don't quite understand it myself.


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 Swastakowey wrote:
I think they look cool with the showcase paint job. I actually find it funny they looks like untrained little dudes who are wary/frightened of the situation. They probably all wish they had one of those suits or something right now.

That's the fluff apparently:
The Ghar themselves would not choose to fight without the protection of their machines. Without access to mechanical sensors their native senses are poor and their bodies weak and vulnerable. Only creatures that have failed their masters and been reduced to the status of outcasts fight in this way. Their most useful role is to absorb enemy fire and expose enemy positions – a kind of reconnaissance by self-sacrifice that is judged a fitting end for Ghar who disappoint their overlords.

I love the tripod-guys, but the rest of the Ghar range just doesn't do it for me. Far too cartoony.

As I mentioned to JudgeDoug earlier today, I am just going to strop pretending I can resist Antares. The Ghar sealed it for me.

Just to confirm something: are the order dice the same for this game and the ones for Bolt Action? Because that would reduce the annoyance of needing to buy their dice no matter what models you're using.

Yep, they're the same.

Honestly, you could use regular d6s for order dice as long as (a) you made a little conversion chart and (b) you and your opponent use d6s of the same size and shape (e.g., rounded v square edges) so they cannot be distinguished when drawing. But is that honestly preferable to just buying a pack of order dice?

We just use D6 dice for ours and remember how we activated our units.

The dice are just fancy extras.

I had, once upon a time, a very high hope for this game.

I'm incredibly turned off by this, from the sculpts to the blob bases put into plastic round bases, it's like someone dredged 1987 for it's worst scifi concepts and sculpts.

It's a brand new game that looks like it should have been advertised in an old dragon magazine.

 MeanGreenStompa wrote:
I had, once upon a time, a very high hope for this game.

I'm incredibly turned off by this, from the sculpts to the blob bases put into plastic round bases, it's like someone dredged 1987 for it's worst scifi concepts and sculpts.

It's a brand new game that looks like it should have been advertised in an old dragon magazine.

I think you are giving 1987 a lot of credit there... have you actually seen models from 1987?


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1987 people:



Not:

Hmm, Naked, hairless space monkeys!

Im really impressed with the evolution.
Makes me want to get off my ass and grunge up a alien race for them.

Mind you, I was pretty vocal on the gakky sculpts in the beginning, but in the spirit of Salvage Mogul, I can see where they are going with this.

!@#$ing amazing in concept, I hope the future give them a better lead, to be quite honest, they are looking like that they are trying to out infinity- Infinity.

Questionable, but then they said that they were going to have more races.... The spunks donmt look half bad if they are a little more vicious then they look. They kinda look like Morlocs, or something.

I could see myself getting the armored Ghar for non-Antares gaming purposes. I really like them as a small, elite force, especially for skirmish gaming where just three of them could make up an entire force. I think they might look far better in a non-white color scheme, especially black/red or a dark metal.

I wrote an overview of the Beta rule set for anyone wondering about the mechanics:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/664369.page

Thank you, I was just about to ask.

 Manchu wrote:
I wrote an overview of the Beta rule set for anyone wondering about the mechanics:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/664369.page

Cheers for posting that Manchu, very useful.

BA is an absolutely cracking ruleset, so that this is based on it is a solid tick in one regard.

Has anyone got any pics of the plastic Concorde sprue?

Have seen the ones of the Ghar but not the others yet.

Concord sprue (from the starter set)






The pinning markers from the set




Jetbike

AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER 1st OCTOBER 2015

The Launch Edition is being made available first to you the people who have supported Beyond the Gates of Antares from its very beginning or have shown an interest by downloading the Beta rules PDF. Your orders will be shipped as a priority from Warlord Games with extra preorder exclusive goodies - so far this includes a signed print of the box cover art & a free PDF download of the Ghar & Concord army lists.

Source: Gates of Antares newsletter

I'm digging that jetbike!

Those plastics are pretty phenomenal. Looks to be the same quality as the last few Bolt Action infantry releases - the Grenadiers and Fallschirmjager - which are both top notch.