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| Quote (Primarch @ 02 2003 Nov.,1:45) | | ...its not in WD.... |
I repeat again it is in WD! Here's the whole of CS' Q&A with Jervis. Look at the first answer, 8 pages+ of White Dwarf over February, March and April....
| Quote (CyberShadow @ 01 2003 Nov.,13:23) | I have heard a rumour that the new mag will be monthly, and ?a subscription will be $60, about ?40. This makes it (surprise) ??4 each issue. The same as WD after the price increase. ?I also asked Jervis directly about the gap in the schedule, and ?other things, on the Epic Vault boards. He replied to my post (my questions in his post):
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+++ I worry that the Epic mag is cancelled, Epic will not make a huge splash (if any) in WD and the Fanatic mag will not be out until three months after the release. +++
There will be at least eight pages given over to Epic in UK White Dwarf for the months of February, March and April, and then Fanatic magazine will be out in May (and will have material for Epic in every issue). Support is likely to be much more patchy elsewhere, but in the UK and on the web it will be good right from the start.
+++ I worry that downloaded rules will not be counted as sales and so the stats will suffer. +++
This really doesn't worry me at all. We're not after high sales on Epic, and to be honest being able to say "XXXXX thousand ?rulebooks have been downloaded" tends to impress the sales teams as much as sales do, as they can see that the system is ?popular.
While on this subject, GW Francais is hugely pleased with the success of the downloadable BFG rulebook they have on their website. Thousands of copies have been downloaded, and there has been a *big* upswing in BFG miniature sales as a result. It's been a real success, and made some of the other GW sales businesses sit up and take notice of what GW Francais has done.
+++ I worry that Fanatic mag will not get the Epic readership orvolume of printable articles, and so the Epic section will atrophy (I would cut back in this situation if I was editor!). +++
I don't think this will be an issue. I can produce enough material on my own to fill the Epic quota in Fanatic magazine at first, and we'll soon get other people who can write articles too. If we can do it for BFG, Warmaster, Mordheim etc we can do it for Epic too.
+++ Also, does this mean that Epic will be fully supported (by Fanatic) continuously, all armies will see release that this will not depend on sales? +++
Yes and no. The important thing isn't so much the level of sales as the *forecasted* level of sales. In the past all of the problems we've had with specialist games sales have ben because we forecatsed too high a level of sales, leaving us with excess inventory sitting in ourt warehouse. We've learnt from these lessons and with Epic we've forecaste at a realistic level of sales ?(round about Warmaster levels, basically). Now, if Epic proves leess ?popular than Warmaster and we end up with lots of stock sitting in our warehouse then we could be in trouble, but this is *very* unlikely. It certainly hasn't happened with any of the other specialist games, and I can't see why it should happen to Epic.
+++ Now, if you could email my girlfriend to let her know that I am not 'buying toys', but keeping the economy alive and supporting a worthwhile cause, I would very much appreciate it! ?+++
LOL - only if you can convince my wife that as a 'famous game designer' the money I spend on toy soldiers is actually in the aid of vital work-related research...
Best regards,
Jervis Johnson, ?Head Fanatic
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I have been playing Epic since SM1 in '90. Have all versions of the game since, thru E40K. I collect all the Armies including Traitors, Squats and now F/W Tau & Kroot. And have 95% of all the G/W and F/W Epic models, ever produced. I have played hundreds of games of Epic. So I may be pessimistic about E-A, but I have been around the Epic block more than once, and don't just make my comments "off the cuff". I'll probably buy most if not all of the new E-A models and rules. But until I see it in my hands, I'll stand-by ... 
