Grab Battle Supplies For Gates Of Antares With Templates & More
November 7, 2015 by brennon
With Beyond The Gates Of Antares launching today from Warlord Games they thought you might want some added extras to help your games run smoothly. With that in mind check out the Template & Token Pack as well as the Pin Markers you can get to add to your game experience…
Blasts & Markers
These templates and tokens are used for a myriad of things in game including working out where blasts have landed, who has been struck by special munitions and more.
The idea is that these markers will be hard wearing and noticeable enough to replace the paper ones that you get within the Gates Of Antares book. I think the tokens especially could probably hold up well to painting them personalise them a bit more.
I’m intrigued to find out what kind of troopers use those rather large looking templates which are almost moon-shaped. I’m sure some of you loyal followers of the game can enlighten me as to their uses below.
Pinned!
As with Bolt Action you’re going to need Pin Markers for Beyond The Gates Of Antares. These have been designed to look like little explosions but I reckon they could also actually be painted up as crystals to mark important objectives too.
The look reminds me of what you might see on a computer screen which would make sense for you as the general sitting back and directing your troops on the battlefield.
There are also Faction Specific Dice on the way too.
Will you be getting these for your collection?
"The look reminds me of what you might see on a computer screen which would make sense for you as the general sitting back and directing your troops on the battlefield..."
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The circular large template is a fairly conventional blast template that does pretty much what you would expect.
The curved ellipsis templates are used by batter drones (a type of buddy drone that accompanies squads and larger types of drone – essentially a unit upgrade)and represent on the board a type of kinetic shield that protects units behind it. Anyone firing from the convex side of the marker suffers a minus 2 accuracy penalty as the batter drone literally batters shots aside and throws off the attacker’s aim.
The smaller markers each represent an effect on the board caused by the types of special ammo that can be fired by X-launchers (these are basically magnetically accelerated field mortars able to fire a wide variety of advanced round). As an example, Scramble is basically an EMP style round that disrupts drones and vehicles. Scoot does something similar but with the nervous systems of living creatures, and both offer bonus pins (the Antares morale and unit effectiveness mechanic) in place of damage.
I hope that helps Brennon.