Gates of Antares

[YellowStreak]

Gates of Antares is up for pre-order from Warlord.
http://store.warlordgames.com/products/ ... tarter-set

I'm seriously considering ordering it. Anyone else interested in giving it a go?

[Lovejoy]

Spev and Myself each pre-ordered a starter couple of weeks back, intending to split the forces (he Ghar me Concord) and have a book and a set of the other gubbins each. We are pretty excited. Your best bet might be to find another player and do the same, eh? Free shipping and a good haul of stuff.. Worth it for the money I think, considering the free postage. I figured that with the BA in space angle, you can't really go far wrong, and if the players are there in the community it'll be a good excuse to proxy 40k stuff for the forseeable future. I reckon it has legs. If you take the plunge We can give it a go tail end of the year maybe..

[me_in_japan]

I'm interested as long as I can proxy for it. That kinda makes the starter set a bit of a non-starter for me, but as and when I get a chance to check out a rulebook and/or play a test game, I could certainly be tempted to start playing it from time to time. Depends on if it's any good, really

[Primarch]

Honestly, I think I'm going to pass. The minis don't do anything for me and as far as BA in Space goes, I still have several unpainted armies for the vanilla version. On top of all that, if I had any spare cash right now, there are a load of other things I have my eye on.
And before anyone suggests it, my opinion on proxying is common knowledge.

The game could be awesome, but I'll be good and work at finishing projects off before considering starting any new ones.

[YellowStreak]

Had a quick game using the beta rules on the weekend. We had 3 x 5-man infantry squads, a 3 man command squad and a support weapon team/support drone each (proxied marines and SoB!).

While I'm sure we got some things wrong, overall I enjoyed the ruleset. Although at first glance it's 'BA in space', there are quite a few small changes (I wonder if some of these will be part of BA v2 sometime in the future?).
Some examples of changes in basic rules compared to BA:
• Infantry squads can sprint (3 x move) but must make an agility test or receive a pin
• Command squads can activate nearby unactivated and unpinned squads to do the same order as the command squad (this does consume the dice for the activated squad, but allows you to activate several squads at once).
• Units fired at within 12" can react and fire back
• Close combat consists of a shooting phase then a hth combat phase
• Units that are 'down' have to make a test to not stay down in the subsequent turn

It's piqued my interest enough to order the starter box. I'd say Eldar or Tau would most easily proxy into the aesthetic of the game for those who have them, although I intend to build at least one army from other non-GW non-Warlord sci-fi figures.

On that, if anyone has spare Tau drones to trade/sell, please let me know!

[YellowStreak]

If you take the plunge We can give it a go tail end of the year maybe..

Sounds good to me!