![]() ![]() The game relied heavily on community feedback during its development and the living rulebook was made available for free via GW’s Fanatic Games Division website. Unlike 40K, this game us es 6mm scale models, allowing far larger armies to be fielded, and an alternating activation system where each player performs an action with a formation and hands initiative over to the enemy or gambles on retaining to do a second move (when retaining, orders are followed with a -1 modifier), meaning that the delay between each players actions are never long. In 2003 Games Workshop published the fourth edition of their science fiction, mass combat system, Epic Armageddon. I’ll be posting information about the game, some photos and battle reports and a guide to army building. ![]() ![]() You are what the industry calls pre-sold, you just didn’t realise it. In fact, this weekend I’ll be flying 4,000km to CanCon for a major Epic Tournament, which is about as strong a personal endorsement as anyone can give a game.Īs a reader of the tactic and tournament-orientated 3++ website, you already love strategy, planning and the warmachines and creatures of GW’s dark future. I started playing it fairly casually with some friends and it took a few games to realise that Epic is actually GW’s most strategic and tactically rewarding game. I’ll be completely upfront about this: The goal of this mini-series about Epic is to get you interested enough in Games Workshop’s other game set in the grim darkness of the 41st Century to actually give it a try. It’s time to have another look at Epic Armageddon, and on the brink of 40Ks 8th Edition being release d I’ve updated this post from 2014 with some of the new developments for this old game. They have no reason to object -their own armies feature Warhounds, Thunderhawks, scores of Leman Russes, countless Tyrannid monstrosities, Shadowswords and Reaver Titans, and yet the armies are balanced, the matches close right to the final moments, the game streamlined and the system tournament-ready. A couple of weeks ago I bought 2 Eldar Revenant titans to use in normal pickup games, and none of my opponents minded or even raised an eyebrow. ![]()
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