News!
Airborne Alert Now Available for Ordering
The pre-order deal for Airborne Alert is over, but you can place a regular order now through our online store.
Birds
of Prey—Airborne Alert is a new folio product covering interceptors and
their targets, with a foray into early aggressors. This folio is a
collection of fourteen ADCs (plus two more in PDF form, when the
product is registered) and eight missiles, plus a set of rules for
large aircraft (defensive gunnery, critical hits for large aircraft,
missile fuses versus large aircraft) and an exciting set of scenarios
(roughly ten, including two sets of generic scenarios). The
registration gift PDF also includes the AIR-2 Genie nuclear tipped
rocket!
Airborne
Alert comes with two box miniatures for each aircraft in the set.
In addition, the Deluxe
version comes with four box miniatures for each aircraft. Check them
out for the full list of aircraft and missiles in the set.
The Short Victorious War
"What this country needs is a short, victorious war to stem the tide of revolution."
In the universe of Honor Harrington, size matters. Ship Book 3: The Short Victorious War for Saganami Island Tactical Simulator brings the dreadnoughts and superdreadnoughts of the Honorverse to your gaming table, with full class history write-ups, game stats, and a range of scenarios covering the opening phases of the Havenite-Manticore war.
The 44-page setting book covers everything from a compendium of the Honors and Medals of the Star Kingdom of Manticore to technical discussions of how armor works against the nigh-incalculable energies of Honorverse weapons, a doctrinal overview of the Havenite Republic's strategic aims, and a complete Order of Battle and naval Analysis of the Battle of Hancock.
Order The Short Victorious War from our online store! (Check out the list of the ships and the goodies in the package while you're there.)
Birds of Prey Takes 12th Place in 2008 BGG Wargamer's Award
Thanks to all those who voted and made this highly realistic air combat game the twelfth-highest vote getter! Against games with huge promotions and print runs, we're very happy about the outcome. (And Birds of Prey got more votes than the other air combat game in the top 20!)
Birds of Prey Nominated for 2008 BGG Wargamer's Award
The goals of this award are :
- To promote wargames at large
- To recognize quality wargames valued by the BGG community
- To showcase what are wargames to non wargamers
- To present a good selection of wargames produced in 2008 to people
curious about wargames
Please vote and please read the instructions!
Squadron Strike Miniatures Shipping Soon Shipped!
Our customers have the first three sets of Squadron Strike miniatures in their hot little hands. If you didn't pre-order, you can order them from our online store.
Pictures
(These are large images.)
Russian Ship Masters (unassembled)
Russian Ship Masters (mostly assembled)
Close-ups of Some of the Rapid-Prototyped Parts
Birds of Prey Expansions Up for Pre-Orders
Airborne Alert and Fighter Sweep, the first two expansions for Birds of Prey, are now available for pre-order items. Each folio-packed expansion includes fourteen Aircraft Data Cards, full-color box miniatures for those aircraft, and more. As special goodies, registering each product opens up access to a bonus PDF with more ADCs and even more exotic goodies!
Squadron Strike Miniatures Are on Their Way
The first three fleet boxes of Squadron Strike miniatures are now available. The British, Russian, and Japanese forces now have miniatures for all of the ships in Fleet Book 1! Order now or see renderings of the 3-D models of the 15 ship miniatures for Squadron Strike. These 3-D models are the basis of the art on the box miniatures ("Holocubes") included in the Squadron Strike boxed set.
About Ad Astra Games
Ad Astra Games produces games that combine fun with scientific realism. Our award winning designs include Attack Vector: Tactical and follow-ons such as Nexus Journal #1. Ad Astra's licenses include the universe of David Weber's Honor Harrington books (the "Honorverse") and the Traveller space combat game Power Projection: Fleets.
Our products have garnered favorable reviews in publications as diverse as Undefeated and Scientific American.
In addition to providing support for a consistently modeled science fiction universe, we also provide a discussion forum for all aspects of our games, as well as for basic science questions.
Contacting Ad Astra Games
Question on our games, including rules and the science behind them? Ask in our forum!
Mailing address:
Ad Astra Games
Box 389
Pelican Rapids, MN 56572
Shipping address:
Ad Astra Games
57 North Broadway
Pelican Rapids, MN 56572
Phone: (218) 863-1784
Fax: (218) 863-1786
For shipping issues, contact Scott Palter or Sam Pray at:
adastragames@gmail.com
For creative issues, contact Ken Burnside at:
design@adastragames.com
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New Pre-Order Page
All of our pre-order items are now in one place, with convenient ordering!
Squadron Strike
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 Saganami Island Tactical Simulator, 2nd edition,
Squadron Strike adds ships that go "Whoosh!" with system that allows
cinematic, vector, and "UFO" movement all in the same game. Order Now
Check out photos from the Origins 2008 "Trek vs. Cylons" cross-over game of Squadron Strike.
Birds of Prey
Birds of Prey 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 works the same 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. Order Now
Honor Harrington
Saganami Island Tactical Simulator: the licensed game of Honorverse starship combat, based on the award-winning Attack Vector movement engine.
Jayne's Intelligence Reviews offer unprecedented insight into the universe of David Weber's Honor Harrington books.
We also produce Honorverse patches and tee shirts.
Power Projection: Fleets
We distribute Power Projection: Fleets in the United States and we produce a line of Traveller starship miniatures.
Attack Vector: Tactical
The 2005 Origins Award winner for best miniatures game!
"Arguably the best space combat simulation available."
—Undefeated, Issue 9,
Page 22
Attack Vector: Tactical breaks new ground as a space combat game that combines fast, furious action with scientific rigor and tactical richness.
Check out this review from The Wargamer.com.