Hi,
Does anyone play epic anymore? I ask because I've got around 10k worth of eldar sitting over at my mum's house in London, and wondered whether it was worth having the stuff boxed up and sent over to me.
I got the rules when it first came out, and a friend at the time gave me this huge army, but I never got round to playing with it! Now I'm seeing 40k Apolcalyse and wondering whats going on, I mean wasn't Epic supposed to be 40k scaled up? Have the rules changed at all, or are the first ed rules still ok to use? :)
I've never played Epic 40K, though I wouldn't mind trying it out for themed battles. I've heard that it is relatively good, and if you have opponents to play then its deffinately worth getting your models sent to you.
I believe Apocalypse is really just a way for Games Workshop to encourage gamers to buy larger more expensive armies. Don't get me wrong, I'd love to play huge games of 40K with a group of friends that takes all day. But personally the rules for Apocalypse just seem unbalanced and seem to encourage gamers to buy more expensive models, as individual squads on the battlefield count for squat. The lack of a Force Organisation chart makes some possible army lists ludacris, and on a personal grudge level neither the Eldar or Necrons (my two armies) were pressented with any really new or exciting models. (Where was the Revenant Titan, or the Crypt Stalker?)
Personally I think that you're better of trying Epic rather than Apocalypse.
Cal
Got these links off a guy on the herdstone. They're certainly worth checking out: the ruleset is a pdf posted by a EA playtester, and the lists are wikipedia.
Ruleset:
http://www.savefile.com/files/1018169Army lists:
http://www.tacticalwargames.net/wiki/tiki-...ddon+Army+Lists All the rules are available on Specialist Games' website, but if you're like me and like having a rulebook in your hand, you can get Swordwind from GW which has the Eldar rules and army lists.
I just wish GW actually had the desire to support Epic, Warmaster, BFG and Man O' War.