As part of the playtesting and game development process for Beyond the Gates of Antares, the Warlord Mail Order team have started work creating a gaming table for the Warlord staff to get more of their armies into the action. There have been exciting chatterings coming from every corner of the warehouse – with all manner of weird and wonderful ideas being bandied about…

For playtesting purposes, we started with the absolute basics – empty cardboard boxes, generic trees, aquarium plants, and handfuls of lichen scattered about a neutral green gaming mat…

Shaping a Universe

With time (and a snifter or two of gin – to get the creative juices flowing, you understand…) Rick has been working on a modular pyramidal building design with inter-changeable towers, roof sections, and other extras…which you’ll have seen throughout our Playtesting Reports:

Warlord Figure Painter Andres Amian has been working on pieces of futuristic flora which can be seen lurking in the background of some of the photographs in the Beta Rules set…

However – and here comes the exciting part – as part of the process of developing the ‘look’ of the Beyond the Gates of Antares universe, we’re looking out into the community!

We’ve been eagerly watching the official Beyond the Gates of Antares Facebook page to see what you folks have created…

The Antarean universe provides a vast blank canvas – with all manner of biomes, environments, structures and architecture being present… there’s a near-endless field of design and modelling possibilities for your gaming tables and dioramas…

Your Chance to Contribute

We want you to send us your pictures –  we want your vision of Beyond the Gates of Antares – when you think about an Antarean battlefield, or Antarean scenery – what do you think of? …whether it be photographs of your gaming table, work-in-progress terrain projects, or even concept sketches… it doesn’t have to be a complete table-full of terrain – it could be some form of building or structure, a piece of scatter terrain, some form of defensive formation, alien foliage, or whatever else springs to mind!

We’re looking to gather as many ideas as possible – the more the merrier, and the whackier the better – so don’t refrain for sharing whatever ideas come into your head!

Post your pictures and ideas in the Facebook Page – and we’ll use them as inspiration… any pieces that we particularly like may influence the official scenery pieces for Beyond the Gates of Antares as we move forward… we will of course reward anyone whose creations inspire our future development – and who knows – if we really love your work, it may even make its way into the Beyond the Gates of Antares Rulebook on launch!

So – for the chance to perhaps have your work featured on our website, or even in the eventual Beyond the Gates of Antares rulebook – get sketching and hobbying – and post your ideas!

Don’t forget that the Beta edition of the Beyond the Gates of Antares Rules is absolutely free! It can be downloaded direct from our webstore! – and keep watching over the coming months as the game develops even further – with more races, units, rules and scenarios being added right up until the release and beyond!

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