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Hey! A fellow Epic 40k fan! You don't see many of these around. . .
Hedgehobbit, I've been a fan of Epic for many years until last couple. I have a website at www.system17.com that is constantly under construction and have a section dedicated to Epic 40k if you are interested. You'll find the link under Killer Classics on the left-hand side. I'm getting ready to revise that section so if you have any input please send it my way.
Anyway, I was an old Adeptus Titanicus die-hard and was very slow to give it up to move on to Epic Space Marine and Titan Legions. Hell, if they had continued to produce rules for the new minis I may have never moved on. I like 2nd edition now, because it does have a lot of flavor. But dealing with so many paper counters, rulebooks, army cards, etc can get to be a major pain in the ass.
But when Epic 40k came along, I was appauled as many probably were with the whole firepower system. I loved the minis (still think they are the best generation of Epic ever) and mostly bought them to use with the older systems.
Finally I picked up a couple of Epic 40k box sets after the game died for almost nothing on Ebay (simple because at the time no one wanted them. I'm talking about $17. . .), and when I finally looked at the game as a whole, I was simply blown away.
People complaign about the army lists being abused, but hey, you decide who you play with. In my opinion although you could spend years deciding on what to include in a 2000 point army, the fact you can make detachment with leftovers is still amazing to me today. How many of us have so much Epic junk you'll never use because you don't have enough to make a formation or detachment?? Plus the army book was so comprehensive unlike providing half-ass lists like for Epic Space Marine or just a few like Epic A (which I still think to this day hurts the game). You can just buy the Epic 40k box set and have a complete game for years without worrying about tracking down old supplements. Firepower mag wasn't bad, and it certainly wasn't necessary.
The minis included in the box set were awesome as well.
I was also lucky as one of the sellers included a ton of Eldar minis that I just fell in love with, and around that time I picked up a bunch of blisters for $1.50 with buy it now on Ebay. So it wasn't long before I had a ton of Epic 40k stuff.
The only thing I don't like about Epic 40k are the counters for determining initiative. Just let me roll a freakin dice and add a modifier or something.
I actually was in favor of going back to fixed detachments with upgrades when Epic A was in development, and still think it is probably the way to go, but I am glad to still have a game where I can make a detachment pretty much how I want. I think there is a lot of flavor in that, and that Epic 40k isn't anywhere near as bland as many people make it out to be.
Loved the (geex I just forgot the name of them. . .) the cards you get for every 500 points. . . oh well. I loved that they expanded those too for each race. Didn't make enough if you asked me.
I was dying for a new Epic A box set, and do think that the game would have created a lot more attention if they had done that. I mean, they put together one for Battle of Five Armies that is destined for a short life span. Epic 40k will probably be the last game of Epic I really enjoyed. Too little too late for Epic A, and having to wait till 2007 for some of the army lists is just absolute poo. You get just about everything you need in one set for Epic 40k, and I think that's amazing.
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Other than that, as long as you and your gaming crew agree, play as you see fit ... 