Tag: Epic
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Legions Imperialis Order Tokens
The Order Tokens provided with Legions Imperialis are very thin and are not designed to be visually distinct from each other. So here are some more distinct designs, for use with a 1″/25 mm hole punch and self-adhesive epoxy discs. In addition or Orders, I’ve included some status markers such as Flying/Hovering, Point Defence Fired,…
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Bring Out Your Lead 2023 – Part 2
Day 2 Following on from part one, more stuff from BOYL! First up is this 40k game with the ‘classic’ polystyrene ball and cocktail stick plants, ready to gouge lumps out of anyone who wasn’t paying enough attention. Then a game of Full Tilt, the jousting game that was included in an issue of White…
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Bring Out Your Lead 2023 – Part 1
Day Zero The afternoon before Bring Out Your Lead I headed into Nottingham to pick up some stuff from Curtis of Ramshackle Games. It turns out that Louise Sugden aka Sughammer aka Rogue Hobbies is based in the same building, and that there were a bunch of people hanging around before BOYL! There were visitors…
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Epic Remastered, Fog of War Batrep
The day after Counter Attack, I headed over to see Eric, the guy behind the Epic 40,000 Compendium. He’s also the main author (with my assistance) of the Epic Remastered site, the fan rewrite of Epic 40,000. We played a 1,500 point game of Epic Remastered, using the Fog of War scenario which gives each…
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EpicUK Counter Attack 2023
At the end of July I travelled up to Bristol for Counter Attack, an EpicUK Epic Armageddon tournament. I took the new Gargant Mob list, with a whole bunch of Gargants and Supa Stompas. This was an unusual even format, with a 2,500 point list used for the first two games, and a 4,000 point…
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Casual Epic at Exmouth Imperials
This weekend, Exmouth Imperials club had one of their semi-regular weekend gaming days, and I headed around the Exe estuary for an informal game of Epic 3rd edition with Bradley. We decided to try an Imperial fort being attacked by a few waves of Orks. The Imperial forces were roughly: The first wave of Orks…
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My 50th Birthday Megabattle, Part 2
Following on from part one… The forces of Chaos, led by Daemon Primarch Angron of the World Eaters, had advanced on the Imperial defenders’ lines in the morning. Now it was time to get serious! Turn Two With the defenders in sight, most of the Chaos forces started charging forwards… With Chaos advancing and the…
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My 50th Birthday Megabattle, Part 1
I don’t really celebrate my birthday, but 50 is a big deal. So I decided to go full nerd and organise an enormous multi-player game of Epic 40,000. The scenario was very loosely based on the First War for Armageddon, as Angron approached the River Styx and was ambushed by the Grey Knights. System: Epic…
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Paint Recipe: Epic Ork Infantry
Skin:Equal parts Plaguebearer Flesh, Nazdreg Yellow, and Warp Lightning. Clothes:Nazdreg Yellow, sometimes with some Contrast Medium. Base:
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BOYL ’22
The Tyranid invasion of a Daemonworld! System: Epic Remastered, aka Epic 3rd edition with some fan edits.Scenario: Custom, see notes and first photo.Game Size and Factions: A bit under 6k of Chaos versus 3.6k of recycling Tyranids versus 2.4k of Space Marines. Back in August, on short notice of a week, I set up a…