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Publishers of tabletop 3D flight simulators for space and jet combat, plus other games like Minimus (a tiny RPG) and non-fiction works useful to gamers and SF writers. adastragames.com | discord.gg/uuYC48wE4c | ascbi.net

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AdAstraGames @adastragames.com · 9h
Apparently, those links expired this morning. I've extended the sale two more days: For the 3e PDF bundle: www.wargamevault.com/browse.php?d... for the Traveller bundle: www.wargamevault.com/browse.php?d...
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Wargame Vault - The Largest RPG Download Store!
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AdAstraGames @adastragames.com · 9h
Apparently, those links expired this morning. I've extended the sale two more days: For the 3e PDF bundle: www.wargamevault.com/browse.php?d... for the Traveller bundle: www.wargamevault.com/browse.php?d...
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Wargame Vault - The Largest RPG Download Store!
Wargame Vault is the largest wargame download store.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026
Reuters got some of the IPO docs. Anthropic is a total dog of a company. Spent $12.6bn to make $4.6bn in revenue in 2025, $7.33bn of which was compute costs. Operating loss of $8bn. Losses getting worse year over year. Amazing stuff www.reuters.com/business/fin...
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• Anthropic IPO could value the company at more than $2
trillion
• Anthropic lost $42 billion in 2025
• Al lab spent $7.33 billion on compute and infrastructure last year
• Operating loss widened to $8.06 billion in 2025 from $2.98 billion in 2024
• Execs, industry analysts have expressed concerns over harms of Al tech
Sept 28 (Reuters) - Anthropic is making a massive bet that Al will transform the global economy more profoundly than industrialization, electricity and the internet, according to its IPO prospectus seen by Reuters.
But the cost to get there will be staggering. Anthropic reported a net loss of $42 billion in 2025, and plans to spend $518 billion on cloud, computing and infrastructure obligations in coming year, according to the
prospectus.
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AdAstraGames @adastragames.com · 19h
When we put Squadron Strike 3e and Squadron Strike: Traveller 3e up on Wargame Vault, we created some discount codes -- they expire tomorrow, and not all of them have been redeemed! So, use these links while they're valid!
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AdAstraGames @adastragames.com · 12h
@ebonstorm.bsky.social This might be up your alley.
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AdAstraGames @adastragames.com · 19h
www.wargamevault.com/browse.php?d... (Squadron Strike: Traveller Complete PDF Bundle)
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Wargame Vault - The Largest RPG Download Store!
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AdAstraGames @adastragames.com · 19h
www.wargamevault.com/browse.php?d... (Squadron Strike: Complete PDF Bundle)
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Wargame Vault - The Largest RPG Download Store!
Wargame Vault is the largest wargame download store.
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AdAstraGames @adastragames.com · 19h
When we put Squadron Strike 3e and Squadron Strike: Traveller 3e up on Wargame Vault, we created some discount codes -- they expire tomorrow, and not all of them have been redeemed! So, use these links while they're valid!
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AdAstraGames @adastragames.com · 27/09/2026
We can generate these ships from that data export tab, as the new version of SpaceShipPDF nears completion! This includes extending the custom font of "defensive shapes" to cover Screens and Filters as well as armor. What's significant is these came straight from SpaceShipPDF! No editing needed!
A 3-up Squadron Strike of the Constitution-class cruiser with defenses on the left, hit locations in the middle, and four black and white ovals of 3-D firing arc diagrams on the right.A 3-up Squadron Strike of the D7-class cruiser with defenses on the left, hit locations in the middle, and four black and white ovals of 3-D firing arc diagrams on the right.A 3-up Squadron Strike of the War Eagle-class cruiser from Balance of Terror with defenses on the left, hit locations in the middle, and three black and white ovals of 3-D firing arc diagrams on the right.Weapon tables and the notes on the special rules for those that need them, plus the Basic Cloak cheat sheet.
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AdAstraGames @adastragames.com · 27/09/2026
This greatly reduces the frustration of making ships with the newest Spreadsheet of Doom! It's great!
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AdAstraGames @adastragames.com · 27/09/2026
We can generate these ships from that data export tab, as the new version of SpaceShipPDF nears completion! This includes extending the custom font of "defensive shapes" to cover Screens and Filters as well as armor. What's significant is these came straight from SpaceShipPDF! No editing needed!
A 3-up Squadron Strike of the Constitution-class cruiser with defenses on the left, hit locations in the middle, and four black and white ovals of 3-D firing arc diagrams on the right.A 3-up Squadron Strike of the D7-class cruiser with defenses on the left, hit locations in the middle, and four black and white ovals of 3-D firing arc diagrams on the right.A 3-up Squadron Strike of the War Eagle-class cruiser from Balance of Terror with defenses on the left, hit locations in the middle, and three black and white ovals of 3-D firing arc diagrams on the right.Weapon tables and the notes on the special rules for those that need them, plus the Basic Cloak cheat sheet.
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AdAstraGames @adastragames.com · 27/09/2026
On September 8th, for Star Trek Day, we posted the three classic ships from Star Trek: The Original Series. For about 10 months, we've been working on getting the ship design tool chain functioning for 3rd Edition Squadron Strike. We've shown prior iterations of this screen shot.
A spreadsheet screenshot with purple cells with ship names, and six columns showing various bits of text, in white on gray, white on dark blue, white on light blue, white on rust-orange, yellow fixed width on charcoal and green fixed with on charcoal.
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AdAstraGames @adastragames.com · 20/09/2026
Four more sales of this will get us to our highest Wargame Vault sales month ever: www.wargamevault.com/en/product/5...
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Chris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
In recent years, the media has quietly begun to change the way in which it writes about Bobby Kotick, the former CEO of Activision Blizzard. PMG investigates how Kotick used the threat of defamation to reshape his legacy in the games business, one article at a time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKwp...
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Inside Bobby Kotick's Campaign Against the Press
YouTube video by People Make Games
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AdAstraGames @adastragames.com · 20/09/2026
Or four of this one! www.wargamevault.com/en/product/4...
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Wargame Vault - The Largest RPG Download Store!
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AdAstraGames @adastragames.com · 20/09/2026
Or three of this one! www.wargamevault.com/en/product/5...
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Wargame Vault - The Largest RPG Download Store!
Wargame Vault is the largest wargame download store.
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AdAstraGames @adastragames.com · 20/09/2026
Or four of this one! www.wargamevault.com/en/product/4...
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Wargame Vault - The Largest RPG Download Store!
Wargame Vault is the largest wargame download store.
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AdAstraGames @adastragames.com · 20/09/2026
Or three of this one! www.wargamevault.com/en/product/5...
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Wargame Vault - The Largest RPG Download Store!
Wargame Vault is the largest wargame download store.
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AdAstraGames @adastragames.com · 20/09/2026
Four more sales of this will get us to our highest Wargame Vault sales month ever: www.wargamevault.com/en/product/5...
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Wargame Vault - The Largest RPG Download Store!
Wargame Vault is the largest wargame download store.
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AdAstraGames @adastragames.com · 20/09/2026
My goodness, look at those teeny tiny toe-beans! Fortunately, human kittens give you some warning before they climb the drapes! Congratulations on the new ambulatory art project!
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AdAstraGames @adastragames.com · 19/09/2026
"You ARE talking to the manager!"
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AdAstraGames @adastragames.com · 18/09/2026
Since you like Trek, here are the ships we put together for Star Trek Day last week. The 3rd edition release is here: www.adastragames.com/products/squ...
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AdAstraGames @adastragames.com · 18/09/2026
I don't think I've seen an email from you. Are you still interested in the Lightning-class?
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Abortion, Every Day spoke to a woman whose state refused to let her cross state lines for an abortion. Don’t tell me Republicans will never criminalize travel—they already do. Pieces like this make me so proud to work with @kylietcheung.bsky.social
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She Wanted An Abortion. The State Wouldn’t Let Her Leave
Travel bans are already here—we just don’t talk about them
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AdAstraGames @adastragames.com · 17/09/2026
Also available as physical products! www.adastragames.com/products/att... www.adastragames.com/products/p/a... And with more ships for the Ten Worlds setting! www.adastragames.com/products/p/a...
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Attack Vector: Tactical (Deluxe) — Ad Astra Games
DO YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES TO COMMAND A STARSHIP? The Origins Award winning game of hard science space combat, now in its 3rd edition. If you liked The Expanse?????????s space combat, you?????????ll ...
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AdAstraGames @adastragames.com · 17/09/2026
"But what if I want something more scientifically realistic?" On Tsiolkovsky's birthday, pick up Attack Vector: Tactical, which is loads of fun, a gold bestseller on Wargame Vault, and has "behind the numbers" essays threaded throughout explaining the mechanics and their physical basis!
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AdAstraGames @adastragames.com · 11/09/2026
Squadron Strike 3e is now up for sale! Base Set Upgrade Kit: www.adastragames.com/products/p/s... Traveller Upgrade Kit: www.adastragames.com/products/p/s... Base Set PDF Bundle: www.adastragames.com/products/p/s... Traveller Full PDF bundle: www.adastragames.com/products/p/s...
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Squadron Strike: 3e Upgrade Kit (Color Rulebook) — Ad Astra Games
This is the upgrade kit for Squadron Strike 3rd Edition.  It replaces the following components from Squadron Strike: 2nd Edition. Rulebook SSD Book Tutorial Book Scenario Book
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AdAstraGames @adastragames.com · 16/09/2026
Remember, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves sat, mostly edited, for 2 years before it released. That's how we KNOW it's an authentic D&D movie!
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Fanbase Press @fanbasepress.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
@hoopladigital.bsky.social’s Fanbase Press BingePass is here! Have a library card? Access single issues of our award-winning titles with a single Hoopla Instant Borrow. www.hoopladigital.com/title/18433076
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ToughSF @toughsf.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The Milky Way scoops up 0.5 M☉ of extragalactic gas and dust, converts 1.3 M☉ into stars and loses 0.2 M☉ into dense objects every year. All you ever wanted to know about the Interstellar Medium in this book: staff.fnwi.uva.nl/a.dekoter/IS...
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AdAstraGames @adastragames.com · 16/09/2026
Would people be interested in watching this game if it streamed, or was recorded, edited down and posted on YouTube?
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AdAstraGames @adastragames.com · 16/09/2026
Sometimes, you take a break from teaching the games, and playtesting the games, to just play a known good scenario with people who are fluid with the game. We're doing a run of Gauntlet at 5 PM Eastern US time on Friday the 18th! Observers are welcome, though we won't be explaining much.
A side view of the initial setup of Gauntlet, with an Earthlike planet (11 hexes in diameter) hovering over a hex grid over a blue starfield. There are 8 box miniatures at different orientations and altitudes around the map, for an initial scenario setup that's rough for both sides!
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AdAstraGames @adastragames.com · 16/09/2026
We just sent the files for the rulebook covers and box wraps to the printers for these. In the other room, we're printing batches of the booklets, 10 at a time. Thank you all so much for your orders. We look forward to shipping them!
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AdAstraGames @adastragames.com · 12/09/2026
Both of the Third Edition bundles are up on Wargame Vault: site.wargamevault.com/product/5841...
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Squadron Strike!: Third Edition, Complete PDF Bundle - Ad Astra Games | Wargame Vault
Any Ship, Any Universe, Fully 3D! If you can think of it, you can build it in Squadron Strike! Squadron Strike uses a st
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AdAstraGames @adastragames.com · 15/09/2026
For the European crowd!
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Nesskain @nesskain.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Some Tarot cards I did for Blizzcon.
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AdAstraGames @adastragames.com · 15/09/2026
We teach and play the game online. I have (and do) run Traveller ships for some of the teaching games. Our Discord server is in this account's profile. Come on in! Be aware: this is a minis wargame with imported Traveller ships. It is not a new way to play your Traveller PCs!
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AdAstraGames @adastragames.com · 13/09/2026
Initial play! Scenario setup was "hey diddle diddle, car crash inna middle." Three D7s versus three Connies and a Republic-class CL. Turn 1: We started at range 26, and would end at range 18-19. I chose no fire on turn 1, and wondered if I'd regret that. The CL and one CA were within Photon range.
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AdAstraGames @adastragames.com · 13/09/2026
Rather than play out another turn where I'd be pursuing him and shooting him with longer ranged guns, my opponent conceded, and the Federation task force let him leave Federation space.
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AdAstraGames @adastragames.com · 13/09/2026
With one ship alive only by luck, and another minus its bottom shields, my opponent turned away and started accelerating and activating the FTL drives to get out on turn 4. I took potshots at the rear defenses of the Destruction and shot off its Aft screens.
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AdAstraGames @adastragames.com · 13/09/2026
In return the Loyalty got largely stripped of weapons, and the Destruction got its bottom shield hammered off and lost most of its thrust. Phaser-Fs have the Precision Fire trait, which lets them roll twice on Hit Location and take the result they want.
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AdAstraGames @adastragames.com · 13/09/2026
Fortunately, I got a lucky Screens roll on a shot that would've blown up the Arizona, but both Photon Torpedo mounts were off-line and I almost ran out of Hull preserving my Pivot 3 box. On turn 3, my return fire was split. Two ships targeted the Loyalty, and a lucky SI check keept it alive.
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AdAstraGames @adastragames.com · 13/09/2026
This denied him an optimum three-ships-on-one-ship strike on the Arizona CL; he unloaded two ship's worth of fire, and that was 14 Phaser-Ks and 10 Disruptors! The Arizona's shields got ablated off early, and then the Disruptor Cannons struck. One triggered Continuous twice, a 1:25 chance!
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AdAstraGames @adastragames.com · 13/09/2026
Turn 3: It was time for the Feddies to pay the piper. No maneuver I could make could avoid closing the range -- Photon Torpedoes shoot through the forward shield and this is Star Trek: Boldly Going Forward, Cause We Can't Find Reverse. I could pitch up and to the left and did so.
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AdAstraGames @adastragames.com · 13/09/2026
Unfortunately, my unanswered Photon Torpedo strike got 10 of 14 torpedoes hitting, when statistics say that I should've gotten about 7. This battered down his shields, and he didn't remember to roll for Screens few times. His Screens rolls weren't great; his lead ship, the Loyalty, got hit hard.
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AdAstraGames @adastragames.com · 13/09/2026
Turn 2: My opponent turned on turn 1 and bled some speed; I could scootch down and to my right and keep the range at 12-13, and did so -- the Klingon's Disruptor Cannons and phasers go to range 10. My opponent figured he'd weather some fire, but get a close range murder-ball the following turn.
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AdAstraGames @adastragames.com · 13/09/2026
Initial play! Scenario setup was "hey diddle diddle, car crash inna middle." Three D7s versus three Connies and a Republic-class CL. Turn 1: We started at range 26, and would end at range 18-19. I chose no fire on turn 1, and wondered if I'd regret that. The CL and one CA were within Photon range.
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AdAstraGames @adastragames.com · 12/09/2026
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Squadron Strike: Traveller, 3rd Edition Complete PDF Bundle - Ad Astra Games | Wargame Vault
The Third Imperium Needs All Hands On Deck!Squadron Strike: Traveller does big ship Traveller universe naval combat in w
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AdAstraGames @adastragames.com · 13/09/2026
Yes! Email us at design@adastragames.com and we'll send it right over.
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AdAstraGames @adastragames.com · 13/09/2026
We're putting these on the table to see how they do tomorrow.
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