July 2011, 8 players met up at Tabletop Gamers Association (in Perth, Western Australia) and played a huge game of Epic. We split up into 2 teams of 4 players, each player bringing a 3000pt army for a total of 12,000pts per side.
The Imperial army consisted of:
• Codex Marines
• 2x Minervan Tank Legions (Guard)
• Steel Legion (Guard)
The enemies of the Emperor army consisted of:
• Speed Freeks (Orks)
• Tau
• Rebel Guard (Minervan Legion)
• Chaos Titan Legion (AMTL)
Even though the game was for fun, we placed objectives in case we managed to get to the 3rd turn. Deploying the armies took a while and then we were into it with the Emperor’s Enemies winning the strategy roll...
My Quake Reaver before the Terminators...
And after the Terminators had finished with it...
Before mega engagement...
After mega engagement...
The board at the end of the 2nd turn (when the game finished).
The game lasted for about 6 hours and we only got to the end of the 2nd turn. We worked out the points of broken/destroyed units which left teams on the following scores:
Imperium – 3250
Emperor’s Enemies – 4200
The non-Imperials won the game by 950pts (not that any of us really cared about who won, we all just had a great day hanging out with good people and blowing stuff up).
Great fun! My thanks to Duro, Alistair, Scott, Dave, Jason, Simon, Julian and Connor.
Next year, we’re going to need a bigger board!