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Fantastic job Judgedoug, the jungle terrain really sets them off.

Just putting some of mine together at the moment, think they are going to get the airbrush treatment..

Agreed cracking job on the starter set there Judge. I joked with him earlier that had he posted them last night he would have made the Ghar Community Colour scheme round up:

http://www.warlordgames.com/community-ghar-colour-schemes/

Judgedoug, those all look amazing.

I finally got my set last night. Im pretty sure I got the second to last set in NZ with Fartok in it too. After pre orders there were 15 sets left. After my purchase there is only 1 left which shouldn't take long to sell.

I love the colour schemes they have shown up. Especially the fact they are community painted.

I think the community round up is pretty cool too. Most of the work is of a good wargaming standard and is attainable to aspire to rather than amazing paint jobs that only the top 1% of painters can achieve. Sometimes the truly beautiful painting just serves to demotivate people from painting their armies.

Thanks everybody! Tonight I get to make the terrain board!

With the new force prices, I really have no excuse to not finish my Algoryn force....
On another note, how does the rulebook look? Is it basic or of higher than average quality? I guess I need to buy one of them as well. Oh my poor bank account

I'm late to this party, but congrats to Judgedoug and to Thraxas for some very handsome forces painted up in a remarkably short period of time. I don't know how you guys do it.

I'm still waiting on my set from NWS to arrive . . .

Nice job Judgedoug

Looks interesting but at the moment none of these factions appeal to me.

thanks again guys

Here's a shot of the demo board - need to put two coats of varnish tonight, and then a few puddles of vallejo still water.

 Nocturnus wrote:
With the new force prices, I really have no excuse to not finish my Algoryn force....
On another note, how does the rulebook look? Is it basic or of higher than average quality? I guess I need to buy one of them as well. Oh my poor bank account

I would say high quality.

If one is judging it by quality of presentation, cover, binding, paper-quality etc I think it's easily up there with the later GW hardback releases.

Rules are nicely laid out and in logical order, with explanation with diagrams etc. Plenty of art and photos of the miniatures throughout.

If you aren't planning on getting the starter set I would certainly say that the book is worth it as a standalone purchase.

The book is well worth it. It's what a £30 rulebook should be like!

Warlord Games will sell miniatures separately in the not so far future - kind of like the bits service of old

Rick Priestley

I made the units a range of sizes that works best in play - very large units get too big physically - they cover too much space - but you need some variation to facilitate the points values and give players some options.

The idea was always that individual models would be available direct - and blisters of troops would be available in whatever number best suited a blister - and as far as I know that is the plan. The squad boxes were based on the Beta lists - hence they are basic size. Future boxes might be different - depending on subject.

It's not an evil plan. Indeed, it may be an evil lack of plan. But I think it's more a case of a relatively small and busy team not being able to do everything at once.

Warlord team

Things are a foot chaps to address this we will have single miniatures available through the web shortly, not all but enough so you can add to you squads. Also keep your eyes open for Friday's newsletter...

http://www.warlordgames.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=235840#p235840 (and next page)

last preview shot before I set up the demo display for the game store tomorrow (and I'll post another pic or two then)

I call this one "Don't transmat me, bro"

Warlord have updated the BTGOA range to bring it in line with the current rules. This has seen 1 or even 2 models added to the squads. The support weapons now mostly have 3 crew rather than 2. At no extra cost. There are even a few new sculpts thrown in. On the flipside the order dice have been removed from the boxed sets.

http://www.warlordgames.com/updated-antares-product-range/

A few images:

So our group gave this a go Weds night using the full rulebook and not just the beta rulebook. So far rules seem pretty clunky. We would like to enjoy it but its dying fast. We all have many many years of wargaming, and many played Bolt Action/40k/ you name it but there's some things with the game that are odd.

I know they want to make money but I think a good move would be posting the "Getting started booklet" cause this might help. Or a actual how to play of a few turns of the game explaining everything at once as a real game would be.

 Fenrir Kitsune wrote:
The book is well worth it. It's what a £30 rulebook should be like!

Yes, this is really true. This is the first time in a while I have really enjoyed reading a rulebook. The fluff is a breath of fresh air and it is major fun reading through all the equipment, weaponry, vehicle info.

I wonder if the expanded units will be included in the skirmish forces. That adds 10 models to the boromite box, and and company amount to get algoryns (less for the others, but still extra models).

str00dles1 wrote:
So our group gave this a go Weds night using the full rulebook and not just the beta rulebook. So far rules seem pretty clunky. We would like to enjoy it but its dying fast. We all have many many years of wargaming, and many played Bolt Action/40k/ you name it but there's some things with the game that are odd.

I know they want to make money but I think a good move would be posting the "Getting started booklet" cause this might help. Or a actual how to play of a few turns of the game explaining everything at once as a real game would be.

My starter set came with a getting started rulebook that was easy to follow... unsure about the clunky rules, after reading them once I had them down. Definitely more granular than Bolt Action but about an order of magnitude less clunky that 40k 6 or 7.


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decker_cky wrote:
I wonder if the expanded units will be included in the skirmish forces. That adds 10 models to the boromite box, and and company amount to get algoryns (less for the others, but still extra models).

No, the skirmish sets were designed for a specific 750 point list, and are white label boxes.

str00dles1 wrote:
So our group gave this a go Weds night using the full rulebook and not just the beta rulebook. So far rules seem pretty clunky. We would like to enjoy it but its dying fast. We all have many many years of wargaming, and many played Bolt Action/40k/ you name it but there's some things with the game that are odd.

I know they want to make money but I think a good move would be posting the "Getting started booklet" cause this might help. Or a actual how to play of a few turns of the game explaining everything at once as a real game would be.

Could it be that you're expecting it to be too like bolt action (or old 40K) and you're being thrown off when it isn't?

 judgedoug wrote:
My starter set came with a getting started rulebook that was easy to follow... unsure about the clunky rules, after reading them once I had them down. Definitely more granular than Bolt Action but about an order of magnitude less clunky that 40k 6 or 7.

By the looks of it, I'm seeing some of the more frustrating elements of Bolt Action going away as well. Shedding pins whenever you're given an order, as opposed to when you pass an order test? Yes please. Pins making a difference, but a 10% difference per pin on shooting rather than a 16.7% difference? And no huge differences on the 2d6 bell curve when it comes to those orders? Yes please.

Don't get me wrong, I love Bolt Action. It just gets frustrating at times.

 judgedoug wrote:


My starter set came with a getting started rulebook that was easy to follow... unsure about the clunky rules, after reading them once I had them down. Definitely more granular than Bolt Action but about an order of magnitude less clunky that 40k 6 or 7.

Wading through the book now. Core Infantry rules are smooth as silk, but there seem to be a lot of exceptions - Fast units do this, Vehicles do that. I suspect a little practice will go a long way.

The only rule I've hated so far is "look along the model's gun barrel for LOS" on heavy/support weapons.

I feel the rules expand on Bolt Action sensibly, and that the extra stats do the job. Some nice touches - units without pins don't need to make a command roll to activate, it's only once they start taking fire that they think about refusing orders.

There's a lot in the rulebook, and the background is nicely high-tech science-fictional (to the point where us meatbags may feel a little out of place on the battlefield). Love the notion of Antares itself. I finally worked out that the map is not of the universe, it's the locus of gates across the star's surface. And it's HUGE.

I do like that, just as in Rogue Trader, there's a feeling that this universe has vast unexplored areas for you to fill in with whatever you like.

Bolt Action also allows units to auto activate as long as they have no pins.

Here's the finished demo display board for GoA at the local game store (Dragons Den in Richmond VA) and a shot of my ugly mug

privateer4hire wrote:
Bolt Action also allows units to auto activate as long as they have no pins.

My middle-aged memory... Still a neat rule though.

It looks really good now with proper lighting, JD.


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Rick Priestley - Warlord forums

Ipaintedmine

I note that Fartok does not have the option to add Plasma Amps and Dumps to his armour is this an error or is it a reflection of the cobbled together nature of his armour.. see giving you and out there guys

Yea I just didn't give him the options - in retrospect I guess I could have - but there are plans afoot to produce further versions of Fartok as the Outcast revolt progresses - so having room for improvement is no bad thing! His suit is a bit beaten up that's for sure! He makes an appearance (together with the treacherous Karg) in the first supplement - in which we will have a new list for Outcasts too - so I'm happy to leave him where he is for now.

By the way... I have just put an errata together, and one thing I've added is that Ghar support and strategic units can be included in a force that includes any High Commander (regardless of whether he's a Command Crawler) which means Fartok can command an army that includes these - as he was meant to do to be honest.

I'm glad they're not going to let him fade away like a Fartok in the wind.



JudgeDoug, that's a great looking set up, but the customers have all fled. Maybe it's because in that pic you have the eyes of a killer.

 judgedoug wrote:

str00dles1 wrote:
So our group gave this a go Weds night using the full rulebook and not just the beta rulebook. So far rules seem pretty clunky. We would like to enjoy it but its dying fast. We all have many many years of wargaming, and many played Bolt Action/40k/ you name it but there's some things with the game that are odd.

I know they want to make money but I think a good move would be posting the "Getting started booklet" cause this might help. Or a actual how to play of a few turns of the game explaining everything at once as a real game would be.

My starter set came with a getting started rulebook that was easy to follow... unsure about the clunky rules, after reading them once I had them down. Definitely more granular than Bolt Action but about an order of magnitude less clunky that 40k 6 or 7.


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decker_cky wrote:
I wonder if the expanded units will be included in the skirmish forces. That adds 10 models to the boromite box, and and company amount to get algoryns (less for the others, but still extra models).

No, the skirmish sets were designed for a specific 750 point list, and are white label boxes.

That's what I feel should be posted on their website as a freebie. The getting started rulebook so you can try the game with other models before getting into it. There is a lot of what a previous poster said what fast does this this this but not this during this but does this. OR heavy armored has 50 different things through the rulebook. I understand it, but a lot of what can do what is spread out everywhere. I'm not a big bolt action guy so I don't expect it to be like it, nor do I care for how horrid 40k is now. After watching the 5-7min vids on the "how to play" on YouTube from warlords, and reading the rulebook, no one has any interest without a easier play through being presented here.

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
JudgeDoug, that's a great looking set up, but the customers have all fled. Maybe it's because in that pic you have the eyes of a killer.

Haha, the store had just opened. I left work early, ran home, grabbed the stuff, and sped to the store, so I was a little exhausted, and my buddy just took the pic while I was still in the midst of posing (hence the slightly hunched over and what-am-I-doing-with-my-hands pose). But also I hate everyone all the time and that's my normal murder-look


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str00dles1 wrote:
no one has any interest without a easier play through being presented here.

Gosh, I really don't get it. It's easier than 40k and Warmachine... maybe the same difficulty as DZC. We ran through a couple two-strike-squads-versus-one-squad-of-ghar to get the rules down and now are doing 500+ point games no problem.

I dunno . . . I saw the half-lidded eyes as seductive.



Come and play a game of Gates of Antares with me, baby.