Here's the first line of a typical sticky in the Epic Armageddon section of the board.





As an interested and enthusiastic new player, the terms bandied about can be very confusing – and as far as I can find, there's no easy way of clarifying the contractions and terms. I thought I'd start up a glossary to help ease 'outsiders' (like me) in to the world of Tactical Command.

However, I must admit I'm clueless to quite a few of the definitions. If any kind 'veterans' could post the answers, additions, clarifications or corrections I'll collect them together in this thread. Ideally, I'd like to have a thread to which I can point people who express an interest in Epic, in order that they can quickly get up to speed on the various terms used on this very helpful and useful forum.

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TacComm – Tactical Command – A community forum for the discussion of numerous games, notably various iterations of Games Workship's Epic scale games; Exodus Wars and Battlefleet Gothic.

EpiComm – Epic Command – An term referring to an older, now-obselete version of the Tactical Command forum.

NetEA – Net Epic: Armageddon – A volunteer community of international Epic players that provides ongoing support and updates for Games Workshop's Epic: Armageddon, the latest version of Games Workshop's 6mm tabletop wargame

NetERC – Net Epic Rules Committee[?] – [???]

EpicUK – A volunteer community that provides ongoing support and updates for Epic: Armageddon, with a particular emphasis on tournament gaming in the UK. [?]

FERC – French Epic Rules Committee[?] – An equivalent to the NetERC, that caters to the French Epic community[?]

AC – Army Champion – an individual recognised by the NetEA community to be responsible for a particular army (such as Ghazghkull's War Horde, or Raven Guard). The Army Champion's role is flexible, but generally involves presenting a raw army list for players to playtest, then collecting and collating commentary, data and battle report results to develop the army list. Their ongoing goal is to produce an army list that is balanced with existing armies, and to present it in a timely organised fashion.

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EDIT:
1) EpiComms definition updated.

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Epicomms was an old label used when this forum was hosted by something called the Epicomms server or something. It should probably be retired.

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candidates for inclusion...

Epic:Siege
Epic:Raiders
NetEpic
2008 Rules Update (note the GW docs have Oct09 in the title)
2008? Epic Handbook (Marconz's doc)
EA Rulebook
EA Swordwind
GW FAQ document/NetEA FAQ (i'm not quite sure of the relationship between these two)
NetEA Army Book/Compendium (currently in draft)

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This would make an excellent wiki page when done. Just for a historical diversion.... EpiComms.... This was the original name for the forum, when we were using Proboards. When we moved to our own forum software, the forum was split into three main sections - Epic discussion, BFG discussion, and everything else. These were labelled EpiComms, GothiComms and BattleComms, respectively. With subsequent forum software changes, the ability to have three forums vanished, and the EpiComms label appears to have lingered in a few places to refer to the 'Epic sections' of these boards. I do see how all of the acronyms can be confusing, and the last thing that we want is put up more barriers for new players, so many thanks for bringing this up.

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[quote=Adam77]candidates for inclusion...[/quote]
Happy to pop those in – can you provide the definitions?

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Ok, best I can do, still some question marks to be cleared up...

EA Rulebook
Official rulebook published by GW in 2005?.
Updated edition available on GW website following the 2008 rules update.*
(*updated edition is labeled 'Oct09' and incorporates all errata from 'Epic_Errata.pdf')

EA Swordwind
Official supplement published by GW in 2006?
Available on GW website.
Official errata (following 2008 rules update) can be found in 'Epic_Errata.pdf'.

GW FAQ document
Official rules FAQ published by GW, available on GW website as 'Epic_FAQ.pdf'.
Updated following 2008 rules update?

2008 Rules Update
(Not sure about this) a set of errata (rule changes, clarification, rewordings) put together by the NetEA community, most of which were accepted by GW and given official status.
Published as 'Epic_Errata' and 'Epic_FAQ' documents on GW website.
Official EA rulebook subsequently updated to reflect errata document.

Epic:Siege
Fan produced supplement. Includes a selection of community created NetEA lists.

Epic:Raiders
Fan produced supplement. Includes a selection of community created NetEA lists.

2008? Epic Handbook
Revised EA ruleset based on 2008 rules update? and collection of NetEA army lists put together by tactical command forum user.

NetEA FAQ
A 'living' rules FAQ maintained by NetEA, available on Tactical Command forum.
Supersedes the GW FAQ?

NetEA Army Book/Compendium
A collection of all lists created by the NetEA community.
Lists supersede official GW lists.
Lists are denoted as either 'Approved', 'In Development' or 'Experimental'.
Includes list found in NetEA supplements (such as Epic:Siege).
Currently in draft.

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