Reply To: Gates of Antares beginner

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Good to hear.

As your mate gave you some Concord, you can also use them to expand on your new Freeborn Army. You have the choice to upgrade one of your command squads to use HL armour that the Concord Strike troopers use (it’s a max size of 5 men, and many Freeborn players just use some of the spare heads left over from the plastic Domari squads to help differentiate them from Concord troopers). PLUS you can also use one of the weapon drones as a support option for your army (with a subverter matrix).

So you’ve already got a bigger army forming 🙂

One tip for the Amano Harran figure is that I personally found the pose to be a bit off. So I did a small conversion of sawing almost through the right arm from underneath the shoulder to repose the arm so that it looks to be at the right angle for Amano to be taking aim. Then I carefully sawed the head of and put it back turned so that it looks like he’s aiming down the pistol sights. It made the figure look a lot better in my opinion, but the only issue was the ornate headpiece now looked a bit weird, so I had to leave it off. But of course you could always leave the figure alone to show off all it’s finery.

After this, your first purchase should be an X Launcher (or two), these are pretty essential in dealing with some of the advanced armies (like Ghar and Isorians) by using the specialised ammo (scoot, net etc).

BTW the freeborn army lists are available for download at the Antares Nexus here…

PDF Army Lists

Good luck and I hope you enjoy the game with your mate (btw what army will he be using, I might be able to give you a tip or two)?