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=windows-1252"> <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 border="0" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top" width="50%"> <h3>News!</h3> <h4><a href="https://plus.google.com/114498522000360328803" rel="publisher">New Blog on Google+</a></h4> <p>We're running our <a href="https://plus.google.com/114498522000360328803">new blog on Google+</a>, so check it out! Right now, Ken's previewing a major revision of the Squadron Strike ship design sheet that should make it both<a href="https://plus.google.com/114498522000360328803/posts/5URkjwfrtFY"> prettier and easier to use</a>.</p> <h4>Star's Reach</h4> <p>A new setting for Squadron Strike <strong>and</strong> Colonial Battlefleet. <a href="new.html#starsreach">Check it out!</a></p> <p>And yes, there's a beautiful new line of miniatures coming …<br> </p> <h4>Registration System Fixed!</h4> <p>Yes, the registration system is finally fixed.</p> <p>Go to <a href="http://services.adastragames.com">http://services.adastragames.com</a> to register your copies of:</p> <ul> <li>Attack Vector: Tactical 2nd Edition</li> <li>Squadron Strike Ship Book 2: The Three Face War</li> <li>Birds of Prey: Airborne Alert</li> </ul> <p>Don't forget to download your free registration bonuses by clicking <strong>Resources</strong> on the left of the page.</p> <p>If you bought an Attack Vector 1.5-to-2.0 upgrade pack that didn't come with a new serial number, don't worry. The download that says "1.5 Ships" actually links to the 2.0 versions.</p> <p>The Squadron Strike bonuses aren't there yet: we're updating all of the ships from the boxed set using the latest ship design spreadsheet. All of the ships will go up at once.</p> <p>For Saganami Island Tactical Simulator, the Pirate Platform is available!</p> <h4>Server Move</h4> <p>We've just moved the site to a new server, so you may notice a hiccup here or there. We apologize for the time it took to make the move, but it was a big job and we think that it will be worth the effort.</p> <p>You'll notice that our web store has changed; we've switched software from a system that we had to administer ourselves for a managed solution (we still put in all of the product information and so forth, we just don't have to do software updates or all of the tasks that system administrators are for).</p> <p>As always, thanks to friends who helped make this all possible!</p> <h4><a href="http://www.airbattle.com/Birds_of_Prey/BoP_Airborne_Alert_files/Airborne%20Alert%20cover_1.jpg"><img src="images/Airborne_Alert_cover-thumbnail.jpg" alt="Cover art Airborne Alert" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1em 1em; float: right;" height="202" border="0" width="155"></a>Airborne Alert Now Available for Ordering </h4> <p>The pre-order deal for Airborne Alert is over, but you can place a regular order now through our online store.</p> <p>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!<br> </p> <p><a href="http://estore.genreconnections.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=ADA31002">Airborne Alert</a> comes with two box miniatures for each aircraft in the set. In addition, the <a href="http://estore.genreconnections.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=ADA31002-Deluxe">Deluxe</a> version comes with four box miniatures for each aircraft. Check them out for the full list of aircraft and missiles in the set.<br> </p> <h4>About Ad Astra Games</h4> <p>Ad Astra Games produces <a href="http://estore.genreconnections.com/SearchResults.asp?Cat=22" target="_top">games</a> that combine fun with scientific realism.  Our award winning designs include <a href="http://estore.genreconnections.com/SearchResults.asp?Cat=39" title="Buy Attack Vector: Tactical at our Web store!" target="_top">Attack Vector: Tactical</a> and follow-ons such as <a href="http://estore.genreconnections.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=ADA11801" 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://estore.genreconnections.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=BITS1001FSW" 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>Mailing address:</p> <p> Ad Astra Games<br> Box 389<br> Pelican Rapids, MN 56572</p> <p>Shipping address:</p> <p> Ad Astra Games<br> 57 North Broadway<br> Pelican Rapids, MN 56572</p> <p>Phone: (218) 863-1784</p> <p>Fax: (218) 863-1786<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 valign="top" width="50%"> <div> <h3>New Pre-Order Page </h3> <p>All of our <a href="http://www.adastragames.com/preorder/" target="_top">pre-order items</a> are now in one place, with convenient ordering! </p> </div> <h3>Squadron Strike </h3> <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" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1em 1em; float: right;" height="136" border="1" width="100"></a></span>Any ship, any universe, fully 3-D! <a href="http://estore.genreconnections.com/SearchResults.asp?searching=Y&sort=2&cat=47&show=20&page=1" target="_top">Squadron Strike</a> 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://estore.genreconnections.com/SearchResults.asp?searching=Y&sort=2&cat=37&show=15&page=1" target="_top">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://estore.genreconnections.com/SearchResults.asp?searching=Y&sort=2&cat=47&show=20&page=1" target="_top">Order Now</a></p>  <h3><a title="Birds of Prey: Air Combat in the Jet Age" href="images/BoP_Cover_2008.jpg" target="_top"><img src="http://www.adastragames.com/images/BoP_Cover-thumb.png" alt="Birds of Prey box cover thumbnail" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1em 1em; float: right; clear: right;" height="200" border="1" width="155"></a>Birds of Prey </h3> <p><a href="http://estore.genreconnections.com/SearchResults.asp?searching=Y&sort=2&cat=38&show=20&page=1" 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 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. <a href="http://estore.genreconnections.com/SearchResults.asp?searching=Y&sort=2&cat=38&show=20&page=1" title="Full article on the What's New page" target="_top">Order Now </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=catalog&parent=121&pg=1" target="_top"><img src="graphics/SITS-cover.png" alt="Saganami Island Tactical Simulator" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1em 1em; float: right;" height="215" border="1" width="155"></a>Honor Harrington</h3> <p><a href="http://estore.genreconnections.com/SearchResults.asp?searching=Y&sort=2&cat=37&show=15&page=1" target="_top">Saganami Island Tactical Simulator</a>: the licensed game of Honorverse starship combat, based on the award-winning Attack Vector movement engine.</p> <p>Jayne's Intelligence Reviews (<a href="http://estore.genreconnections.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=ADA21951">Manticore</a> and <a href="http://estore.genreconnections.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=ADA21952">Haven</a>) offer unprecedented insight into the universe of David Weber's Honor Harrington books. </p> <p>We also produce Honorverse <a href="http://estore.genreconnections.com/SearchResults.asp?Cat=78" target="_top">patches</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://estore.genreconnections.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=BITS1001FSW" target="_top">Power Projection: Fleets</a> in the United States and we produce a line of <a href="http://estore.genreconnections.com/searchresults.asp?searching=Y&sort=2&cat=54&show=20&page=1" target="_top">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> <p><a href="http://estore.genreconnections.com/SearchResults.asp?Cat=39" 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/article/1760/attack-vector:-tactical">review</a> from The Wargamer.com.</p> <p> </p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <div class="footer" style="margin-top: 6em;"> <p><a href="index.html">Home</a> | <a href="http://estore.genreconnections.com/SearchResults.asp?Cat=22">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></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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