Quedan menos de treinta días para que finalice el Kickstarter de Beyond the Gates of Antares en el que se han reunido ya 98,479 £ y consta ya con una comunidad de 928 en el propio Kickstarter. Le quedan aún 201521 £ libras para recaudar.

Ya han cruzado el meridiano del kickstarter y se acercan a la recta final donde las aportaciones siempre, o en la mayor parte de los casos, es mayor.

En estas actualizaciones volveremos a ver un vídeo de Rick, hay ejemplos de ejercitos, un avance muy interesante sobre otra de las miniaturas en este caso los Drones que tienen una gran presencia en el mismo, trasfondo y concepto sobre concord, ademas de los puntos y niveles para los clubs, que consiste en más recompensas al club en este kickstarter conforme mayor sea la participación del mismo. Simplemente GENIAL.

Recordad mientras dure el Kickstarter podréis participar de forma gratuita en el desarrollo y diseño del juego desde los foros de Dark Space Corp, una vez que finalice el Kickstarter solo podrán acceder a los mismos los que hayan participado en el Kickstarter.

UPDATE 34

Hey everyone, hope your weekend is going well so far!

Double update today as Ed so kindly asked :)

First up, more Q&A from the forums:

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Anyway, the point is: If you tell as many people as possible there’s a much better chance of us first: hitting our funding target, and second: hitting some of our stretch goals and ultimately giving you even more cool stuff to play with.

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UPDATE 35

Hi again!

A number of you have been asking for example faction forces, so here goes:

EXAMPLE FORCES

The following examples are selected to a total value of 240 credits and illustrate a possible combination of forces for the Concord, Isorian Shard, Algoryn Prosperate, Boromites, and Freeborn. To each of these we would add 20 WarDrones, and Hansa Nairoba as the forces overall leader.

CONCORD

The Concord Combined Command – or CoCom – has at its disposal a highly trained force of elite troops. As elite troops 240 credits stretches to a complete squad of ten CoCom troopers– although this could be divided for tactical purposes into smaller squads for deployment.

CoCom Squad

1 CoCom Commander = 30
6 CoCom Troopers with Plasma Carbines = 120
2 CoCom Trooper with Plasma Cannon = 60
1 CoCom Trooper with X-Launcher = 30
= 240

Alternatively, a CoCom force could consist entirely of Mercenaries hired from the Freeborn, or a mixture of CoCom troopers, Mercenaries, and some physically distinctive pans of the Corcord such as the Boromites. Here is an example of such a force. It comprises three separate squads of CoCom, Boromite and Freeborn Mercenaries led by a NuHu Contact team Leader.

1 NuHu Contact Team Leader = 30
2 CoCom Troopers with Plasma Carbines = 40
1 CoCom Trooper with Plasma Cannon = 30
1 Boro Engineer = 20
2 Boromite Miners with Mass Compactors = 20
1 Boromite Miner with Frag Borer = 10
3 Freeborn Troopers with Plug Carbines = 60
1 Freeborn Trooper with Fractal Cannon = 30
= 240

ISORIAN SHARD

The military of the Isorian Shard operates in the same way as the Concord, with a core of elite troops and the option of mixing in other pans or mercenary Freeborn. They are elite fighters and this squad could easily be deployed as two very effective units.

Isorian Squad

1 Isorian Battle Leader = 30
6 Isorian Troopers with Plasma Carbines = 120
2 Isorian Troopers with Fractal Cannon = 60
1 Isorian Trooper with X-Launcher = 30
= 240

An Isorian force could consist entirely of Mercenaries hired from the Freeborn, or a mixture of CoCom troopers, Mercenaries, and some physically distinctive pans of the Concord such as the Boromites. Here is an example of such a force. It comprises three separate squads of CoCom, Boromite and Freeborn Mercenaries led by a NuHu Ambassador.

1 NuHu Ambassador = 30
2 Isorian Troopers with Plasma Carbines = 40
1 Isorian Trooper with Fractal Cannon = 30
1 Boro Overseer with Chain Lash = 20
2 Boromite Miners with Mass Compactors = 20
1 Boromite Miner with Core Charge = 10
3 Freeborn Troopers with Plug Carbines = 60
1 Freeborn Trooper with Fractal Cannon = 30
= 240

ALGORYN PROSPERATE

The Algoryn are just one distinctive species of pans – they have established colonies and control a number of worlds forming the Algoryn Prosperate. Their forces are well trained and equipped. Here is a typical Algoryn squad:

Algoryn Squad

1 Prosperate Captain = 30
6 Algoryn Troopers with Plug Carbines = 120
1 Algoryn Troopers with Plasma Cannon = 30
3 Algoryn Troopers with Plasma Pistols + Grenades = 60
= 240

Alternately, an Algoryn force could include a mix of Freeborn mercenaries and Algoryn, and it could also include Boromites from the Asteroid colonies on some of the Prosperate’s outlying worlds. Here’s what that might look like.

1 Prosperate Captain = 30
2 Algoryn Troopers with Plug Carbines = 40
1 Algoryn Trooper with Fractal Cannon = 30
1 Boro Overseer with Compression Carbine = 20
2 Boromite Miners with Mass Compactors = 20
1 Boromite Miners with Core Charges = 10
3 Freeborn Troopers with Plug Carbines = 60
1 Freeborn Trooper with Fractal Cannon = 30
= 240

FREEBORN

Freeborn forces belonging to one of the great houses – or Vardo – form a fighting army in their own right, able to go into battle on behalf of their Vardo. But the Freeborn also hire their troops out to anyone willing to pay for them. Indeed – one of the chief commodities traded by the Freeborn is its own military. Here is what a typical Freeborn mercenary squad might look like.

Freeborn Mercenary Squad

1 Freeborn Captain = 30
6 Freeborn Troopers with Plug Carbines = 120
1 Freeborn Trooper with Fractal Cannon = 30
3 Freeborn Troopers with Plasma Pistols + Grenades= 60
= 240

Alternatively, here is a 120 credit force that could be added to the Boromite WarGang – there are many Boromites amongst the Freeborn, some operating mining and construction projects on behalf of their Vardo.

1 Freeborn Captain = 30
3 Freeborn Troopers with Plug Carbines = 60
1 Freeborn Trooper with Fractal Cannon = 30
= 120

CONCORD, ISORIAN, FREEBORN OR DETERMINATE BOROMITE WARGANG

The Boromites spread throughout the Spill long before the Seventh Age, and can be found mining the asteroids of systems throughout space. As such there are Boromites in different armed forces – even amongst the Freeborn – and here is one possible make up for a Boromite Wargang. This comes to 120 credits, and could be doubled if you are really fond of Boromites, or mixed with another 120 credits of another faction to make a mixed force.

Boromite Wargang

1 Boro Overseer with plasma pistol and chain lash = 20
6 Boromite Miners with Mass Compactors = 60
3 Boromite Miners with Core Charges = 30
1 Boromite Miner with Frag Borer = 10
= 120

UPDATE 36

Hi brilliant backers! Thank you very much for being a part of this, we're constantly humbled by the shear amount of creativity within the forums and the support you guys are giving us, we'll make it yet!

Today's update is the one you've been waiting for - Kev has started on our WarDrone model! We'll be modelling a number of WarDrones as we refine towards our plastic version. The others will be used for faction specific WarDrones or specific function WarDrones like the Hunter or Targetter WarDrone. This is stage 1, and just like Hansa, Kev will be taking us through his creative thought process as he builds it(him?).

Talk soon!

Rik

UPDATE 37

Welcome to the Concord

As always Rick's written some background for the concept and we've used the smaller version in this update, the main Kickstarter page has a link from this to the full version with with full text.

Head over to the forums to discuss

UPDATE 38

Hello everyone

We've been working on many things during the last 30 days since we launched our Kickstarter and one of the things we've been wanting to do is to give incentives to clubs & stores to back us. So we racked our brains and came up with a plan. Today we reveal the start of that plan in the form of Global Club Stretch Goals!

It's a simple system that tracks backers and gives points based on pledge amount + a bonus for when you backed us(the earlier the bigger the bonus!) + a bonus for certain levels of backers in your club. Those points are then pooled together to form stretch goals with which we award rewards, those rewards are Global rewards in that EVERY backer gets to take part in them. Here's a graphic that explains it:

To view the league go here .

Please bear with us, we're still developing the page - as you'll notice. The next phase of this plan will be to roll out the Individual Club Rewards and we're hoping to do this later this week. If you happen to spot any issues please PM a moderator on the forums.

If every backer joined up right now, we'd smash through the 1.5m goal and give all the previous rewards instantly to everyone! Hurrah!

If your club isn't in the drop down list on your user profile, simply go here and follow the instructions

See you later for our Boromite update :)

Rik

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