I was rummaging around my stuff and found my copy of Warmaster, read it a bit on the shitter and realized I would never be able to get anyone I know to play this game despite the rules and the ease of getting into with 10mm miniatures. This reminded me that I had a ton of Epic 40K stuff based about 8 years ago (my god how time flies) and that it was just sitting around un-played since about 2016 or so. Terrible! So I decided to bust it out and start painting and at the same time was looking on Ebay for some pieces I needed and scored a fully painted Tyranid army for a bit of dross. This army is HUGE and so I figured I would get the lads together to do a big game of Epic 40K: three small armies vs a massive Tyranid horde and see how long they can hold out turn wise.
This required painting as I have to supply three of the four armies and so it begins.
RULES
I’ve played almost all the Epic rulesets (not the newest one in the 30K time period) and I am pretty much done with the Adeptus Titanicus/Space Marine 2 ruleset that I used to play in college. It’s too fiddly and the games take too long to play big stuff and Epic is ALL ABOUT THE BIG GAMES. So I was pondering either Epic Armageddon or 1997 Epic 40K and went with the latter– the reason is that the game play is super smooth and I just won’t need to explain all that much. Your detachment adds up it’s firepower in range, rolls on the chart, shit gets killed. Assaults and Fire fights have their own fairly simple rules as well. This way even if we haven’t played in awhile and may have a couple totally new players, it just won’t be tough to learn.
The biggest challenge with Epic 40k is the detachment building as it is completely open compared to other versions of the game. Luckily, these dudes built THIS to help people put together detachments really fast. The interface is a bit fucked up for building an army, but it is a HUGE help to do this. Anyway, here are some pictures of stuff I’m working on for the game. I am a SLOOOWWWWW painter so some of these miniatures I bought. Not my Mentor Legion though, that is all mine (for better or worse for the miniatures).
My first mentor legion vehicle, one of what will be very many Rhinos…
I bought these off a guy in the UK and though in some pieces when they arrived, a super easy fix for each of them.
A Falcon I painted for the LOLS.
This is the entire Tyranid army, painted probably around 2012? It’s had multiple owners since the original artist.
My ‘good start’ on the first Mentor Legion detachment. Trying to find how they are supposed to look has been a tough one, but everything is turning out.