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> <h4><a href="images/SB3-Cover.jpg"><img src="images/SB3-Cover_small.png" alt="Cover art for SITS Ship Book 3, The Short Victorious War" width="155" height="207" border="0" style="margin:0 0 1em 1em; float:right;"></a>The Short Victorious War</h4> <p>"What this country needs is a short, victorious war to stem the tide of revolution."</p> <p>In the universe of Honor Harrington, size matters. <a href="http://www.genreconnections.com/shop/index.php?p=product&id=431&parent=98">Ship Book 3: The Short Victorious War</a> for <a href="http://www.genreconnections.com/shop/index.php?p=product&id=237&parent=121" target="_top">Saganami Island Tactical Simulator</a> 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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p><a href="http://www.genreconnections.com/shop/index.php?p=product&id=431&parent=98" title="Buy The Short Victorious War from the Genre Web Shop">Order The Short Victorious War from our online store!</a> (Check out the list of the ships and the goodies in the package while you're there.)</p> <h4><a href="http://www.airbattle.com/Birds_of_Prey_Air_Combat_in_the_Jet_Age/BoP_Airborne_Alert_files/Airborne Alert cover_1.jpg"><img src="images/Airborne_Alert_cover-thumbnail.jpg" alt="Cover art Airborne Alert" width="155" height="202" border="0" style="margin:0 0 1em 1em; float:right;"></a>Airborne Alert Goes to the Printers </h4> <p>Airborne Alert is at the printers, but you can still take advantage of the pre-order deal. <a href="http://www.adastragames.com/preorder/index.html#31002">Order now</a>, before we close the door on pre-orders.</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!</p> <h4>Birds of Prey Takes 12th Place in 2008 BGG Wargamer's Award </h4> <p>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!) </p> <h4>Birds of Prey Nominated for 2008 BGG Wargamer's Award </h4> <p>The goals of this award are :</p> <p>- To promote wargames at large<br> - To recognize quality wargames valued by the <a href="http://www.boardgamegeek.com">BGG</a> community<br> - To showcase what are wargames to non wargamers<br> - To present a good selection of wargames produced in 2008 to people curious about wargames</p> <p><a href="http://boardgamegeek.com/thread/454303" target="_top">Please vote and please read the instructions! </a></p> <h4>Squadron Strike <s>Miniatures Shipping Soon</s> Shipped! </h4> <p>Our customers have the first three sets of <a href="http://www.genreconnections.com/shop/index.php?p=catalog&mode=catalog&parent=127&CatalogSetSortBy=price_desc&CatalogSetView=Thumb2" target="_top">Squadron Strike</a> miniatures in their hot little hands. If you didn't pre-order, you can <a href="http://www.genreconnections.com/shop/index.php?p=catalog&parent=128&pg=1" target="_top">order them from our online store.</a></p> <p><strong>Pictures </strong><br> (These are large images.)</p> <p><a href="http://www.adastragames.com/graphics/SqSt_Minis/Japanese_Starships.jpg" target="_top">Japanese Ship Masters</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.adastragames.com/graphics/SqSt_Minis/British_Starships.jpg" target="_top">British Ship Masters</a> </p> <p><a href="http://www.adastragames.com/graphics/SqSt_Minis/Russian_Starships.jpg" target="_top">Russian Ship Masters</a> (unassembled)</p> <p><a href="http://www.adastragames.com/graphics/SqSt_Minis/Russian_Starships.jpg" target="_top">Russian Ship Masters</a> (mostly assembled)</p> <p><a href="http://www.adastragames.com/graphics/SqSt_Minis/reprototyped_parts.jpg" target="_top">Close-ups of Some of the Rapid-Prototyped Parts</a></p> <p> </p>  <h4><a href="http://www.adastragames.com/preorder/" title="Full article on the What's New page" target="_top">Birds of Prey Expansions Up for Pre-Orders </a></h4> <p>Airborne Alert and Fighter Sweep, the first two expansions for Birds of Prey, are now <a href="http://www.adastragames.com/preorder/" target="_top">available for pre-order items.</a> 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! </p> <h4><a href="http://www.genreconnections.com/shop/index.php?p=product&id=172&parent=62" title="Full article on the What's New page" target="_top">Squadron Strike Miniatures Are on Their Way </a></h4> <p>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! <a href="http://www.genreconnections.com/shop/index.php?p=catalog&parent=128&pg=1" target="_top">Order now</a> or <a href="http://adastragames.com/WordPress2/?p=119">see renderings of the 3-D models</a> 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.</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>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 width="50%" valign="top"><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" border="1" height="136" width="100" style="margin:0 0 1em 1em; float:right;"></a></span>Any ship, any universe, fully 3-D! <a href="http://www.genreconnections.com/shop/index.php?p=catalog&mode=catalog&parent=127&CatalogSetSortBy=price_desc&CatalogSetView=Thumb2" 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://www.genreconnections.com/shop/index.php?p=product&id=237&parent=121" 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://www.genreconnections.com/shop/index.php?p=catalog&mode=catalog&parent=127&CatalogSetSortBy=price_desc&CatalogSetView=Thumb2" target="_top">Order Now</a></p> <p><a href="http://adastragames.com/WordPress2/?p=101" target="_top">Check out photos from the Origins 2008 "Trek vs. Cylons" cross-over game of Squadron Strike.</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" border="1" height="200" width="155" style="margin:0 0 1em 1em; float:right; clear:right;"></a>Birds of Prey </h3> <p><a href="http://www.genreconnections.com/shop/index.php?p=catalog&mode=catalog&parent=126&CatalogSetSortBy=price_desc&CatalogSetView=Thumb2" 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://www.genreconnections.com/shop/index.php?p=catalog&mode=catalog&parent=126&Cahttp://www.genreconnections.com/shop/index.php?p=catalog&mode=catalog&parent=126&CatalogSetSortBy=price_desc&CatalogSetView=Thumb2" 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" 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=237&parent=121" 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><a href="http://www.genreconnections.com/shop/index.php?p=catalog&parent=123&pg=1" target="_top">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=125&pg=1" target="_top">patches</a> and <a href="http://www.genreconnections.com/shop/index.php?p=catalog&parent=125&pg=1" target="_top">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=327&parent=117" target="_top">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=119&pg=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><a href="http://www.genreconnections.com/shop/index.php?p=catalog&mode=catalog&parent=129&CatalogSetSortBy=price_desc&CatalogSetView=Thumb2" 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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