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4/20/2010 - Ship
Book 3: The Short Victorious War has
been released. Ship Book 3
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.
5/22/2007 - Now
available for pre-order is a SITS
2.0 Upgrade package:
Working with David
Weber, we've worked to enhance the damage
allocation model of SITS, cleaned up the
movement engine and streamlined overall game
play. Games now run almost twice as fast as
they did before, by eliminating segmented
movement, streamlined damage allocation, and
reduced record keeping.
This upgrade package
is a PRE ORDER. It will include a
replacement rulebook, and replacement ship
books for Ship Book 1 (in the core boxed
set) and Ship Book 2 (Silesia). It also
replaces all the laminated play aid cards.
Ship Book 3 (with the DNs and SDs) will only
be released in the SITS 2.0 format.
The massive SD and DN minis
are now available and can be purchased singly
from the Ad Astra webstore in the Web
Shop Only section, plus you can get
'Wall of Battle' packs that include 8 minis
of the same type.
  2/1/2007
- Silver masters are back for the Havenite
SD and DN miniatures. These massive
minis come in 3 parts and are shown next to
some other minis and a US quarter for
scale. The could be available by the
end of February.
Also
now available is the Jayne's Intelligence
Review: The Havenite Republican Navy.
11/14/2006
- The Silesian Fleet Box 1 is now
available and the Andermani Fleet Box 1
will be in stock any day now. Clear
plastic flight boxes that should work with
the tilt blocks are in the works and
pre-orders are needed to get them
made. More info on the flight boxes is
on the Ad
Astra
Forum.
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Silesian silver
prototypes.
18 more 1:12,000
scale minis of the Honorverse,
focusing on the Silesian Navy and the
pirates that both prey and augment
them in time of need!The Fleet Box
includes:
1 Medium Merchant 1
Silesia Battle Cruiser 2 Jarmon 2
Telmach 4 Wroclaw 4 Cheslav 4 Gryf |
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Andermani silver
prototypes.
16 more
1:12,000 scale minis of the
Honorverse, focusing on the Imperial
Andermani Navy’s cruiser assets set
to patrolling in Silesia! |
In
addition, Ad Astra Games has the
first book in their Jayne's Intelligence
Review series at the printer and covers
The Royal Manticoran Navy:
This
soft cover coffee table book has information
on the Royal Manticoran Navy from David
Weber's Honor Harrington universe, ranging
from the founding and battle histories to
detailed class histories and size comparison
charts of the ships, to layouts of the
pinnaces and rank insignia! Much of this
material has never been published elsewhere,
and this book is an official concordance of
data on the Manticoran Navy, with material
written by David Weber himself! With 20 full
color pages of interior art!
Plus
Ad Astra has some specials going on
this holiday season to save gamers
money. Go here
for more information.
 8/7/2006
- Ship Book 2: The Silesian Confederacy
is now in production and will be available
at GenCon.
Silesia, a wretched
mishmash of corrupt governments, star-navies
for hire, piracy and trade opportunities.
Long fallen from its heights as an
enlightened confederation of planetary
governments, Silesia is the proving ground
that the Andermani Empire and the Star
Kingdom of Manticore send their newly minted
officers and crews to patrol.
Ship Book 2 explores
the history of Silesia, the customs and
uniforms of the Imperial Andermani Navy and
Confederacy Navy, while providing pirate
hunting scenarios, a sampling of Silesian,
Andermani and Pirate ships and the small
modular merchant.
This
product includes a ship book, a 48 page
scenario and background book, plus 40 full
color HoloCube™ miniatures
 7/23/2006
- July has a few new releases for the
Honorverse from Ad Astra Games and
they have a new ordering system on their
website. The 15 month 2006/2007
Honorverse "Ships of the Fleet"
Calendar is now available. Plus 2
new 'Battle Packs' of miniatures are now
available. Each 'Battle Pack' includes
the miniatures you need to re-fight one or
more of the famous battles from the book
series. Available are the On
Basilisk Station Battle Pack which
includes 1 Astra-Class Armed Merchant
Cruiser (PRS Sirius) and 1 Courageous-Class
Light Cruiser (HMS Fearless). The Honor
of the Queen Battle Pack includes the 1
Sultan-Class Battle Cruiser (EMS Thunder of
God), 1 Star Knight-Class Heavy Cruiser (HMS
Fearless), and 1 Chanson-Class Destroyer
(HMS Troubador).
More
miniatures including more Andermani and
Silesian ships are due out later this year
along with Ship books that cover those
miniatures.
1/2/2006
- I missed announcing the actual release of
these products in early December so just to
make sure it is noted, Saganami Island
Tactical Simulator is now available
along with the Manticoran and Havanite Fleet
Boxes of miniatures.
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The Manticoran
Fleet Box |
The Havanite Fleet
Box |
The Honorverse
minis inked and with some other minis
for scale (photo courtesy Tom Pope) |
 9/10/2005
- An early release version of SITS
was available at GenCon, it sold out
quickly, more copies were printed and those
too sold out. Because these were not
the final versions, those who bought this
special edition are encouraged to contact Ad
Astra with any problems or typos they find
so the final edition can be corrected.
They will also get corrected books once the
game goes into full release.
Also
another bit of news from Tom Pope, co-author
of SITS:
I've just gotten some
photos of the masters for the first set
of miniatures for Saganami Island
Tactical Simulator.
These are the silver
castings direct from the
"printer." From here they will be
used to make the production masters, which
will in turn be used to make the production
molds. The scale has been changed to
1:12000, making the largest ship just a hair
over 100mm in length and the smallest just a
hair under 30mm.
As soon as we have
solid dates on when the the final production
will begin, I'll post them here.
In addition, with the
final files of the game being sent to the
printer, we're starting to plan the first
expansion, which will include an additional
16 ship designs (including holocube counters
and miniatures), new rules and new
background material.
Here is an updated
table on the size of the minis using the new
scale
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1:12,000 scale
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Class
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Mass
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Length |
Beam |
Depth |
Length |
Width |
Height |
| RMN
Falcon DD |
70,000
tons |
352
m |
42
m |
25
m |
29.3
mm |
3.5
mm |
2.1
mm |
| RMN
Chanson DD |
78,000
tons |
365
m |
43
m |
25
m |
30.4
mm |
3.6
mm |
2.1
mm |
| PN
Bastogne DD |
88,000
tons |
380
m |
47
m |
27
m |
31.7
mm |
3.9
mm |
2.3
mm |
| RMN
Courageous CL |
88,000
tons |
386
m |
40
m |
31
m |
32.2
mm |
3.3
mm |
2.6
mm |
| PN
Brilliance CL |
120,000
tons |
428
m |
47
m |
30
m |
35.7
mm |
3.9
mm |
2.5
mm |
| RMN
Apollo CL |
125,000
tons |
434
m |
48
m |
30
m |
36.2
mm |
4.0
mm |
2.5
mm |
| PN
Conqueror CL |
145,000
tons |
456
m |
50
m |
32
m |
38.0
mm |
4.2
mm |
2.7
mm |
| RMN
Prince Consort CA |
260,000
tons |
497
m |
60
m |
50
m |
41.4
mm |
5.0
mm |
4.2
mm |
| RMN
Crusader CA |
260,000
tons |
497
m |
60
m |
50
m |
41.4
mm |
5.0
mm |
4.2
mm |
| PN
Sword CA |
290,000
tons |
515
m |
62
m |
52
m |
42.9
mm |
5.2
mm |
4.3
mm |
| RMN
Star Knight CA |
300,000
tons |
520
m |
62
m |
52
m |
43.3
mm |
5.2
mm |
4.3
mm |
| PN
Mars-B CA |
475,000
tons |
607
m |
73
m |
61
m |
50.6
mm |
6.1
mm |
5.1
mm |
| PN
Sultan BC |
858,000
tons |
706
m |
90
m |
80
m |
58.8
mm |
7.5
mm |
6.7
mm |
| RMN
Reliant BC |
879,000
tons |
714
m |
91
m |
81
m |
59.5
mm |
7.6
mm |
6.8
mm |
| Merchant,
Med |
conjectural
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1108
m |
183
m |
177
m |
92.3
mm |
15.2
mm |
14.8
mm |
| PN
Astra AMC |
7,600,000
tons |
1231
m |
203
m |
197
m |
102.6
mm |
16.9
mm |
16.4
mm |
6/19/2005
- A bit of interesting news from Ken
Burnside of Ad Astra:
SITS will
have the At All Costs
bookseller's promotional CD included -
this means it will have roughly the first
dozen chapters of the next Honor
Harrington novel 3 months before the
hardcover hits the street (November 2005).
Oh, and it will also
have a pretty cool game in the box. *grin*
The
other contents of the SITS
box are:
- Baen Books Honorverse CD-ROM with the entire series
- One 80-page rulebook
- One 48-page scenario and background book
- One 32-page ship book
- 40 full color HoloCube™ miniatures
- 8 laminated ship control cards
- 16 injection molded plastic tilt blocks
- 100 injection molded stacking tiles
- 2 2' by 3' geomorphic hex maps
5/19/2005
- Ad Astra is now taking pre-orders on Saganami
Island Tactical Simulator and an
Honorverse 15 month "Ships of the
Fleet" Calendar, which are
scheduled for a release at GenCon
this August. Also available for
preorder are the Manticoran Fleet box of
miniatures and the Havanite Fleet box,
both due for release in
September/October.  The
Honorverse
15 month "Ships of the Fleet"
Calendar shows the Terrestrial
Standard date in conventional format along
with associated dates in the Honorverse
universe, and runs from September 2005 to
December 2006.
Each Fleet Box contains
over a dozen miniatures for the 1900-1903
PD period of the Honorverse. These
1:15,000 scale, non-toxic white metal
miniatures are fully detailed, use the
conventional mounting points for spaceship
miniatures, and come unpainted. (NOTE:
This change in scale from the 1/18500
makes the miniatures a bit larger than
what is listed below - Star Ranger)
Manticoran
Fleet Box I Contents: 1 Reliant BC
(HMS Nike), 1 Star Knight CA (HMS Fearless
II), 1 Prince Consort CA, 2 Crusader CAs,
2 Apollo CLs, 1 Courageous Class CL (HMS
Fearless I), 3 Chanson DDs, 3 Falcon DDs,
and 1 Large Merchant.
Havenite
Fleet Box I Contents: 1 Sultan BC (PNS
Saladin), 1 Sword CA, 2 Mars-B CAs, 2
Crusader CAs, 2 Brilliance CLs, 2
Conquerer CLs, 4 Bastogne DDs, 1 Medium
Merchant, and 1 Astra Class Armed Merchant
Cruiser (PNS Sirius).
2/15/2005
- Ken Burnside of Ad Astra sends
the following information:
The solid model render
of the Reliant BC goes to the prototyper
today or tomorrow - it's done from the
renders in the zip file below. The
wireframe is from the solid modeller, the
two textured ones are from our production
artist, Charles Oines.
All the minis will have
"bottom mount" holes; we'll be
getting clear plastic boxes with flight
pegs in them for use in 3-D - but as is,
they'll work with all standard minis
bases.
All the Honorverse
miniatures are done to a consistent
1:18500 scale. We got permission from
David Weber to fix a bad math error made
early in the series and reconcile the ship
dimensions and masses - at 3.2 km and 8.5
million tons, his superdreadnoughts had a
density of roughly 0.002; we assigned a
standard density of 0.25, and resized them
to match their masses with David's
approval (future reprints of the series
will use our dimensions and include a
fronts-piece.)
We won't have pricing
for minis until we know how they come off
the prototyper, and make sure they come
off the master mold making process in one
piece - when I have that pricing info,
I'll pass it on.
Right now, it looks
like we'll release two fleet boxes into
distribution and keep the singletons as
mail order only items, to avoid
overloading the channel with SKUs.
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Solid model
render of RMN Reliant class BC |
RMN Reliant BC
and PN Sultan BC |
RMN Chanson DD,
RMN Star Knight CA and RMN Reliant
BC |
12/10/2004
- A web page for SITS has
now been created and here is what it has
to say about this game:
Saganami Island
Tactical Simulator uses the critically
acclaimed Attack Vector: Tactical Game
Engine to put YOU in command of the ships
of the Honorverse. Thrill to the long
range missile duel, dancing in 3-D vector
space, unleashing the fury of laser heads.
Or close in to "kissing
distance" and unlease the titanic
fury of grasers and lasers! Extensively
researched, SITS has new material on the
ships and doctrines of the Royal
Manticoran Navy and the People's Republic
Navy that have never been published
before. Mixing rich tactical depth with
easy to use Newtonian movement, SITS
builds on the novels details to set the
tactical parameters for the Honorverse
combat
Fully 3-dimensional,
SITS has two game scales - the tactical
game scale has 12 minute turns, and 1
light second hexes. The system scale has
25 light second hexes, and 1 hour turns,
making the pursuit to the hyper limit a
challenging tactical puzzle. Every warship
in the series will be statted out over the
release schedule of this product line, as
well as additional ships approved by David
Weber himself. Innovative rules allow you
to incorporate "The Honor
Factor" without unduly distorting the
tactical game engine.
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SITS offers complete tactical control. You
are in command of a hundred-thousand ton
cruiser plying the pitiless depths of
space.
* Fast, simple and highly accurate
Newtonian movement rules. Turns take 10 to
20 minutes, a typical game runs 3 to 10
turns.
* Accurate, intuitive 3-D movement system,
allowing combat to break the plane of the
map, and giving unprecedented tactical
depth.
Ken has also mentioned
that a related game, Saganami Island Fleet Training,
is also in development and would be released
sometime after SITS. SIFT
would probably debut the Attack
Vector: Fleet game engine
5/10/2004
- Ken Burnside of Ad Astra Games
announces:
"Ad
Astra Games LLC and Echo Valley
Productions have reached an
agreement in principle to produce a line
of games based on the New York Times
bestselling Honor Harrington series.
The first game in the line will be Saganami
Island Tactical Simulator, an
adaptation of the groundbreaking Attack
Vector: Tactical game engine
to the Honorverse.
We expect to be shipping it in 2005,
boxed game, price TBD."
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