New Algoryns Pop Up For Warlord Games’ Gates Of Antares
December 31, 2014 by brennon
Warlord Games have shown off some more Algoryn models for Beyond The Gates of Antares including an AI Team, AI Team with X-Launcher, AI Team with Plasma Cannon and Targeter Probes...
I'm quite a fan of the actual weapon teams and the little bits of technology in the form of the Targeter Probes but there's still something a bit weird about the stances of the Algoryn themselves. Of the AI Team at the top the only one from the line-up that I like a lot is the leader who is pointing.
I think maybe these would have been interesting to see as plastic kits, at least for the main units in the game so there was a level of customisation across the line. A lot of people really seem to like these new models and I think the Boromites are pretty great overall but I just think some of the Algoryn look a bit awkward.
What are your thoughts?
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So far i havn’t seen any models for this game that had made me take notice.
They all seem sculpted 20 years ago, with poor poses and clunky sculpting.
I must say, I agree. Nothing has grabbed my attention with this game either. It all seems a bit lacklustre.
Those look kinda like Tau Firewarriors from 40k.
I really like the Algoryn as a faction, and have no problem with the posing or artistic style of these models or most of the others from the growing Antares range, but it seems I am in the minority in this.
I belive this is going to be a fantastic game.
A hard Sci-Fi miniature game, based on the Bolt Action activation system, it can’t fail.
Aren’t the game set up in post-singularity setting? How’s that *hard* scifi?
It is hard Sci Fi in so far as there are no psychic abilities or other flavours of ‘space magic’ in the setting, and also no mad gods (or divine/infernal beings of any kind). All the abilities exhibited by the various factions are explicltly described as technology based and naturalistic in origin – there is nothing supernatural to be found in any of the factions. That said, not all the technology is entirely explained or 100% technologically credible (the Gates of Antares themselves being a case in point), but that is true of any setting with ‘energy shielding’ (so far… Read more »
Am I the only one who finds the name triggers an association with a former US Vice-President? Al Gore.
Damn his offspring continue to survive to the point of starting an entire race. They better have crazy theories about universal warming! Global warming is to passay and small for them now.
If only they’ve consider hard plastic, as I love the look and lore Rick Priestly and Warlord Games have developed for it, but given I grind away at a 40K Tyranid army and dabble in Mantic’s Warpath, I can’t afford to give it the attention it deserves.
i think that algoryns could be used to make Turians or Asari from mass effect…