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Squadron Strike Blows Past Pre-Order Goal!
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. read more or order now
Check out photos from the Origins 2008 "Trek vs. Cylons" cross-over game.
Renderings of the 3-D models 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.
Ad Astra Survives Flooding With Minimal Damage
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.
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. read more or order now
Painting Contest
Win valuable prizes! Show off your skills! Help us get lots of pretty pictures onto our Web store! read more
New Pre-Order Page
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. Check it out!
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!
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Ad Astra Games
136 Fletcher Ave.
Waterloo, IA 50701
(319) 233-3754
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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 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. Read More
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 window clings, 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.