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Name: Epic: Extreme
Armies: Ork Flyboyz; Ratlings; Nurgle Pox machine; Adeptus Mechanicus Hells' Bores
Team Members: Vanvlak and any volunteer
Estimated Completion Date: 2048
Status: Preliminary work (notes)

Ork Flyboyz: includes only flying Ork vehicles and troops - fightas, bommas, choppers, megachoppers, Flying Gargant, stormboyz, Grot fliers, Grot barrage balloons, Grot Flying Fort, Landas - Landas can only carry bombs or Parasnots

Ratlings: the name says it all: Ratling snipers; Ratling Mainstream Guard with Applecart transports; Round head scout cars, led by Ratling Larder.

Nurgle Pox Machine: may include only zombies, Nurgling hordes, Pusbombs, Walking spew mortars and Pox Engines; led by a champion of Nurgle.

Hells' Bores: Breakaway Ad Mech specialists with Hellbores, Moles, Termites, Siegebreaker Bore, Ordinatus Trenchwhale, skitarii shovellers.


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What, no Ogryn drop box regiment? :)


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PostPosted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 1:52 pm 
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nealhunt wrote:
Name: Epic: Nemesis
Armies: Space Wolves, Thousand Sons, other "Chaos v X" pairs
Team Members: Dobbsy and nealhunt, eventually adding other champs as needed
Estimated Completion Date: at least 6 months
Status: Half-way done with content on first mini-supplement.

Notes: The plan is to start with "mini-supplement" pairs that contain 2 opposed army lists and 1-3 scenarios. Unless Dobbsy has some PoD plans cooking, the mini-supplements will be pdf only. Eventually, we plan to combine 2-3 mini-supplements into a larger package.

Ahh sorry Neal, I had foreseen the SW v TS supplement as a stand alone and a bit larger than a "mini". I figured the other Nemesis supps would do the same. I was hoping it would be some where around the size Moscovian mentioned for printing (75 pages?), but whether or not I can fill up that many pages is yet to be seen. :D And of course, I guess it would depend entirely on who would want to buy it. However, as it needs to be available as a PDF as well (due to GW stipulation IIRC) I guess starting it out as a mini could work too if it will be added to a larger tome. I did have plans for a specific front cover for the theme though. How will that work in a "compiled" supplement?


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Siege is 60 pages, and is about the practical minimum for a printing.

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The_Real_Chris wrote:
What, no Ogryn drop box regiment? :)

Oh dear, am I too late to ad those?
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 2:46 pm 
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Here's what I've got on the plate at the moment:


Name: Epic: Black Crusade
Armies:Chaos Black Legion, Lost & The Damned, Cadian Shock Troopers, Ulthwe Eldar, (Possible Marine variant or Daemonhunters)
Team Members: Chroma, Steve54, LordInquisitor
Estimated Completion Date: unknown
Status: Preliminary work, some photos and writing

Notes: Need good standalone photos of a lot of Chaos units, especially Cultist units.


Name: Epic: Hive War (working title)
Armies: Tyranids Phase IV "Core" list, Catachans, Iyanden Eldar, (Possible Ork or additional Guard variant)
Team Members: Chroma, (any one else want to volunteer?)
Estimated Completion Date: unknown
Status: Army lists in progress

Notes: Need good standalone photos of a lot of Chaos units, especially Cultist units.


Name: Epic: Total War
Armies: None, book of scenarios, variants, special rules, and campaign play
Team Members: Chroma, (any one else want to volunteer?)
Estimated Completion Date: unknown
Status: Scenarios in progress, campaign systems being examined

Notes: Needs playtests of many scenarios


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PostPosted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 4:30 pm 
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Keep the ideas coming, but also be aware: 2 years. That's what I have. The price point on the books is almost guaranteed to go up from $25 to ??? on the next book (I had to beg and whine for some some assistance from the printer). After the 5 books are up all bets are off.

The last thing I want to see is the money wasted. 2 years will FLY by. Trust me.


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PostPosted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 10:05 pm 
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Name: EPIC: ???????
Armies: Apocrypha of Skaros, Rogue Trader (still on the drawing board, though it's coming together more and more), and one or two opponents.
Team Members: Well, there's me...yeah.
Estimated Completion Date: 2015? Hopefully sooner, but I'm not sure how busy I'll be for the next few years.
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I'm in on Total War (Chroma) and Gods of War (E&C) if you want help.


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PostPosted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 10:38 pm 
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Gods of War? What happened to God Machines? :(

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PostPosted: Wed Sep 29, 2010 12:24 am 
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Evil and Chaos wrote:
Name: Epic : Gods of War (Temp name)
Armies: Adeptus Mechanicus Titan Legion, Ad-Mech Skitarii PDF, Knight Household, Attilan Rough Riders, and a metric ton of Ork lists. Possibly a cameo appearance by an Eldar Titan list too.
Team Members: E&C, plus relevant army champions (Nealhunt, Tiny-Tim, Rug).
Estimated Completion Date: ~May 2011
Status: Less than half-way done with content (Less than a tenth, in fact, but content writing has begun)

Notes: Reinforced Binding, Transport (~10 army lists).


Could you shoe-horn Legio Mortis in there? Seeing as you could probably just do the same list as AMTL, but with different weapon options.


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Dobbsy wrote:
nealhunt wrote:
Name: Epic: Nemesis
Armies: Space Wolves, Thousand Sons, other "Chaos v X" pairs
Team Members: Dobbsy and nealhunt, eventually adding other champs as needed
Estimated Completion Date: at least 6 months
Status: Half-way done with content on first mini-supplement.

Notes: The plan is to start with "mini-supplement" pairs that contain 2 opposed army lists and 1-3 scenarios. Unless Dobbsy has some PoD plans cooking, the mini-supplements will be pdf only. Eventually, we plan to combine 2-3 mini-supplements into a larger package.

Ahh sorry Neal, I had foreseen the SW v TS supplement as a stand alone and a bit larger than a "mini". I figured the other Nemesis supps would do the same. I was hoping it would be some where around the size Moscovian mentioned for printing (75 pages?), but whether or not I can fill up that many pages is yet to be seen. :D And of course, I guess it would depend entirely on who would want to buy it. However, as it needs to be available as a PDF as well (due to GW stipulation IIRC) I guess starting it out as a mini could work too if it will be added to a larger tome. I did have plans for a specific front cover for the theme though. How will that work in a "compiled" supplement?


Quite honestly I think a 75 page supplement 'can' work, but you also have to think of the market as well. Fellow Epic players, while they may not like everything in a supplement, would probably prefer to get more bang for their buck. Printing costs, shipping costs, and convenience all point to larger supplements. I won't demand anything from anyone. If you want yours to be stand-alone then go for it. However, just keep these factors in the back of your mind when it comes to printing the actual books.


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