Ad Astra Per Aspera -- Through Our Endeavors, The Stars

<BODY> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//SoftQuad Software//DTD HoTMetaL PRO 6.0::19990601::extensions to HTML 4.0//EN" "hmpro6.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1"> <title>Welcome to Ad Astra Games</title> <link href="adastrastyle.css" rel="STYLESHEET"> <base target="_top"> </head> <body bgcolor="#000000" vlink="#FF0000"> <h1>Welcome To Ad Astra Games</h1> <table width="100%" border="0"> <tr> <td width="50%" valign="top"> <h3>News!</h3> <p><a href="http://www.adastragames.com/new.html" title="The What's New page" target="_top">Read All News Items</a></p> <h4><a href="http://adastragames.com/WordPress2/?p=55" title="Full article on the What's New page" target="_top">Squadron Strike Blows Past Pre-Order Goal! </a></h4> <p>With a goal of 105 pre-orders, Squadron Strike is now at over 125 pre-orders and is on track for an early- to mid-September release. <a href="http://adastragames.com/WordPress2/?cat=4" title="Full article on the What's New page" target="_top">read more</a> or <a href="http://www.adastragames.com/preorder/">order now</a></p> <p><a href="http://adastragames.com/WordPress2/?p=101">Check out photos from the Origins 2008 "Trek vs. Cylons" cross-over game.</a></p> <p><a href="http://adastragames.com/WordPress2/?p=97">Renderings of the 3-D models</a> of 5 of the 15 ships that come with Squadron Strike. These 3-D models are the basis of the art on the box miniatures ("Holocubes") included in the Squadron Strike boxed set. </p> <h4>Ad Astra Survives Flooding With Minimal Damage </h4> <p>Aside from losing some boxes of paper and having our Internet connection messed up for a while, Ad Astra Games survived the Iowa floods just fine. Thanks to all who sent well-wishes! We appreciate your support. </p> <h4><a href="http://adastragames.com/WordPress2/?p=55" title="Full article on the What's New page" target="_top">Squadron Strike </a></h4> <p><span style="clear:both;"><a title="Saganami Island Tactical Simulator: Space Combat in the Universe of Honor Harrington" href="http://www.adastragames.com/preorder/ADA17000.png" target="_top"><img src="http://www.adastragames.com/preorder/ADA17000_small.png" alt="Squadron Strike cover art" border="1" height="136" width="100" style="margin:0 0 1em 1em; float:right;"></a></span>Any ship, any universe, fully 3-D! Squadron Strike features the most flexible ship construction system in any space combat game, allowing you to construct the ships from your favorite books, movies, and TV shows. (Or, let your imagination run wild.) Then you can fight them in 3-D! Building on the movement system from <a href="http://www.genreconnections.com/shop/index.php?p=product&id=35&parent=16">Saganami Island Tactical Simulator</a>, 2nd edition, Squadron Strike adds ships that go "Whoosh!" with system that allows cinematic, vector, and "UFO" movement all in the same game. <a href="http://adastragames.com/WordPress2/?cat=4" title="Full article on the What's New page" target="_top">read more</a> or <a href="http://www.adastragames.com/preorder/">order now</a> </p> <h4><a href="http://adastragames.com/WordPress2/?p=53" title="Full article on the What's New page" target="_top">Painting Contest </a></h4> <p>Win valuable prizes! Show off your skills! Help us get lots of pretty pictures onto our Web store! <a href="http://adastragames.com/WordPress2/?p=53" title="Full article on the What's New page" target="_top">read more</a></p> <h4><a href="http://adastragames.com/WordPress2/?cat=4" title="Full article on the What's New page" target="_top">New Pre-Order Page </a></h4> <p>All of our pre-order items are now in one place, with convenient ordering! (Mac users and webmail users no longer have to struggle with the PDFs.) We've got a tsunami of new items for pre-order—Squadron Strike, new miniatures for Attack Vector: Tactical and Voidstiker, magnetic adpaters, new flight stands, and magnetic stacking disks to play our games with miniatures. <a href="http://www.adastragames.com/preorder/" title="Full article on the What's New page" target="_top">Check it out!</a></p> <h3>About Ad Astra Games </h3> <p>Ad Astra Games produces <a href="http://www.adastragames.com/games.html" target="_top">games</a> that combine fun with scientific realism.  Our award winning designs include <a href="http://www.genreconnections.com/shop/index.php?p=product&id=77&parent=37" title="Buy Attack Vector: Tactical at our Web store!" target="_top">Attack Vector: Tactical</a> and follow-ons such as <a href="http://www.genreconnections.com/shop/home.php?cat=258" title="Buy Nexus Journal #1 at our Web store!" target="_top">Nexus Journal #1</a>. Ad Astra's licenses include the universe of David Weber's Honor Harrington books (the "Honorverse") and the Traveller space combat game <a href="http://www.genreconnections.com/shop/index.php?p=product&id=17&parent=45" title="buy Power Projection: Fleets at our Web store!" target="_top">Power Projection: Fleets</a>. </p> <p>Our products have garnered favorable <a href="http://www.wargamer.com/reviews/attack_vector/">reviews</a> in publications as diverse as Undefeated and Scientific American.</p> <p>In addition to providing support for a consistently modeled science fiction <a href="http://www.adastragames.com/universe.html">universe</a>, we also provide a discussion <a href="http://www.adastragames.com/discus.html">forum</a> for all aspects of our games, as well as for basic science questions.</p> <h3>Contacting Ad Astra Games</h3> <p>Question on our games, including rules and the science behind them? Ask in our <a href="http://www.adastragames.com/discus.html" title="Ad Astra's discussion forum (To post, you must register using your real name. Anyone can read; no registration needed.)" target="_top">forum</a>!</p> <p>US Mail<br> Ad Astra Games<br> 136 Fletcher Ave. <br> Waterloo, IA 50701<br> (319) 233-3754<br> </p> <p>For shipping issues, contact Scott Palter or Sam Pray at:<br> <a href="mailto:adastragames@gmail.com">adastragames@gmail.com</a></p> <p>For creative issues, contact Ken Burnside at:<br> <a href="mailto:design@adastragames.com">design@adastragames.com</a></p> <p>AOL Instant Messenger:<br> AdAstraGames</p></td> <td width="50%" valign="top"><h3><a title="Birds of Prey: Air Combat in the Jet Age" href="http://genreconnections.com/preorders/BoP_Preorder_Sheet_2008_02.pdf" target="_top"><img src="http://www.adastragames.com/images/BoP_Cover-thumb.png" alt="Birds of Prey box cover thumbnail" border="1" height="200" width="155" style="margin:0 0 1em 1em; float:right;"></a>Birds of Prey </h3> <p><a href="http://adastragames.com/WordPress2/?p=12" title="Pre-order Birds of Prey using this interactive PDF" target="_top">Birds of Prey</a> is a revolutionary game of dogfighting in the jet age. Air combat is the ultimate three-dimensional environment and Birds of Prey captures that three-dimensionality like no game before. With a consistent flight model that doesn’t care whether you’re turning in the horizontal or in the vertical (”looping”), Birds of Prey avoids the rafts of special rules that made other air combat games difficult to learn and prone to player error. <a href="http://adastragames.com/WordPress2/?p=12" title="Full article on the What's New page" target="_top">Read More</a></p> <h3 style="clear:both;"><a title="Saganami Island Tactical Simulator: Space Combat in the Universe of Honor Harrington" href="http://www.genreconnections.com/shop/index.php?p=product&id=35&parent=16" target="_top"><img src="graphics/SITS-cover.png" alt="Saganami Island Tactical Simulator" border="1" height="215" width="155" style="margin:0 0 1em 1em; float:right;"></a><a title="Box cover for Saganami Island Tactical Simulator: Space Combat in the Universe of Honor Harrington" href="http://www.genreconnections.com/shop/product.php?http://www.genreconnections.com/shop/index.php?p=product&id=53&parent=64" target="_top"></a>Honor Harrington</h3> <p><a href="http://www.genreconnections.com/shop/index.php?p=product&id=35&parent=16">Saganami Island Tactical Simulator</a>: the licensed game of Honorverse starship combat, based on the award-winning Attack Vector movement engine.</p> <p><a href="http://www.genreconnections.com/shop/index.php?p=catalog&parent=64&pg=1">Jayne's Intelligence Reviews</a> offer unprecedented insight into the universe of David Weber's Honor Harrington books. </p> <p>We also produce Honorverse <a href="http://www.genreconnections.com/shop/index.php?p=catalog&parent=19&pg=1">window clings,</a> <a href="http://www.genreconnections.com/shop/index.php?p=catalog&parent=19&pg=1">patches</a>, and <a href="http://www.genreconnections.com/shop/index.php?p=catalog&parent=54&pg=1">tee shirts</a>.<a href="http://www.genreconnections.com/shop/product.php?productid=16134&cat=253&page=1"> </a></p> <h3>Power Projection: Fleets </h3> <p>We distribute <a href="http://www.genreconnections.com/shop/index.php?p=product&id=17&parent=45">Power Projection: Fleets</a> in the United States and we produce a line of <a href="http://www.genreconnections.com/shop/index.php?p=catalog&parent=46&pg=1">Traveller starship miniatures</a>.</p> <h3>Attack Vector: Tactical </h3> <p>The 2005 Origins Award winner for best miniatures game! </p> <p>"Arguably the best space combat simulation available."<br> <span style="text-align:right;">—<i>Undefeated</i>, Issue 9, Page 22</span> <p><a href="http://www.genreconnections.com/shop/index.php?p=product&id=115&parent=38" title="Buy Attack Vector: Tactical at our Web store!" target="_top">Attack Vector: Tactical</a> breaks new ground as a space combat game that combines fast, furious action with scientific rigor and tactical richness.</p> <p>Check out this <a href="http://www.wargamer.com/reviews/attack_vector/">review</a> from The Wargamer.com.</p> <p> </p></td> </tr> </table> <div class="footer" style="margin-top:6em;"> <P><A HREF="index.html">Home</A> | <A HREF="http://www.genreconnections.com/shop/index.php?p=catalog&parent=62&pg=1">Products</A> | <A HREF="universe.html">Universe</A> | <A HREF="discus.html">Forums</A> | <A HREF="playtesting.html">Playtesting</A> | <A HREF="downloads.html">Downloads</A> | <A HREF="new.html">What's New</A> | <A HREF="support.html">Support</A></B></FONT></P> <P class="copyright">All contents copyright © 2000, 2006, 2007, 2008 Ad Astra Games.</P> <P class="copyright">Any unauthorized reproduction or third party alteration of the content, including redirection or addition of hyperlinks, will be prosecuted as a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.</P> <P>Web site problems? 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