Ad Astra Games Pre-Orders

ADA 17301 British Fleet Box 1: The first ship miniatures for Squadron Strike! There will be at least 8 miniatures in this fleet box; the exact number will depend on production costs and the number of parts for each ship (posable rotating sections mean more parts).

In the full-sized image, the ships are, clockwise from top left: Invincible, Trafalgar, Valiant, Hermes. The Hermes is capable of entering atmospheres and landing on planets.

Preorder Target: 40

ADA 17302 Russian Fleet Box 1: Russian ship miniatures for Squadron Strike! There will be at least 8 miniatures in this fleet box; the exact number will depend on production costs and the number of parts for each ship.

In the full-sized image, the ships are, clockwise from top left: Kirov, Kiev, Slava, Moskva, Minsk.

Preorder Target: 40

ADA 17000 Squadron Strike: Never let your opponents say of you, "Brilliant, but his attack patterns show two dimensional thinking..."  Move your space combat gaming to new heights with Squadron Strike!

Building off of the streamlined 3-D movement engine of Saganami Island Tactical Simulator, 2nd Edition, Squadron Strike lets you build any ship, from any setting, in full 3-D glory—and then pit them against each other, in titanic battles for the fate of galaxies.

Squadron Strike takes between 5 and 10 minutes per turn with 6 ships per side, and combines fast play with more tactical depth and scalable detail than any other "construction ready" space combat game.  It's suitable for ages 12 and up.

In Squadron Strike, ships move in one of three movement modes, named for the number of Newton's Laws being obeyed; with these options you're not stuck with whatever movement mode the game designer liked - you can pick the one that works best for the setting you're trying to run in. You even have optional fuel rules (for both interstellar and tactical movement) to simulate the setting or TV series to whatever degree you like. You decide what reality level is appropriate for your level of fun.

You can design nearly everything in the game, from missiles, to beams, to fighters, to torpedoes.  An original setting includes pre-built ships and weapons for people who don't want to get deeply into the customization process, but if you want it, you have complete control.

You also get automated tools do complete SSD generation for you, in Excel format. You can also create fancier SSDs and use higher-end features with Web-based applications.

Squadron Strike comes with a complete, integrated campaign system, including web apps that automatically generate campaign maps, victory decks, and system maps. Just enter the campaign turn in the web app and the positions of the planets on the system map update automatically!

The boxed game will have two map sheets, a bag of tilt blocks, two bags of stacking tiles, box miniature sheets, a rulebook, an SSD book, and a setting book.  The ship design tools are available as a free download in Excel; the web applications (including a nicer ship design tool set, and campaign support) are behind a subscriber login.

Your serial number gives you a 90-day trial subscription to the Web-based applications in the subscriber areas; after that, the subscription area costs $20 per calendar quarter, or $60 for an entire year. The Web applications include the higher-end SSD creator, the various campaign tools, and a custom box miniature creator (you supply the illustrations, it creates a sheet of box miniatures that you can print out).

Preorder Target: 105 Copies

Squadron Strike Discussion

Squadron Strike Previews:

Firing Arcs  

Weapons Designer Preview

Movement Card Preview

Sequence of Play

Sample Weapons

NJM-1001 Basic Adapters: Complete set of four adapters and four small connectors. The basic adapters, sufficient for four ship miniatures. The large pieces fit on top of the plastic flight stand. The narrow ends of the small pieces fit into the mounting holes in the bottoms of the ship miniatures. The larger ends of the small pieces fit into the tops of the large pieces.

Preorder target met, slated for production! (You can still pre-order)

NJM-1002 Small Adapters: Eight small connectors, which go into the "mounting hole" of your miniatures. Mounted on their small connectors, you can swap ships among flight stands at will. (People with large miniatures collections find that they need more small connectors than they need base adapters.) Sufficient for eight ship miniatures.

Preorder target met, slated for production! (You can still pre-order)

NJM-1003 Ad Astra Angle Adapter Set: The angle adapter set, with (left to right) 4 90-degree, 4 30-degree, and 4 60-degree adapters. Sufficient to play a game with 4 to 6 ships. These fit between the large pieces (on top of the post of the flight stand) and the small adapters attached to the ship miniatures. You can stack them to create any attitude needed.

Preorder target met, slated for production! (You can still pre-order)

ALEA-1001 Magnetic Stacking Disk Ad Astra Pack: Used with the base converters, these serve as altitude tiles for the miniatures. 25 white, 12 light blue, 9 medium blue, 2 dark blue, and 2 black magnetic stacking disks.

Preorder target met, slated for production! (You can still pre-order)

ALEA-1002 Base Converters: 12 self-adhesive metal disks. Attach one to the bottom of the base of a flight stand to "magnetify" it!

Preorder Target: Available when the Magnetic Stacking Disks make their number.