This website is about the various wargames produced
by Games Workshop in the epic scale,
where a normal man is represented by a miniature of approximately 6-8mm.
It is mainly a collection of links and files that may come in handy.
Terrain and miniatures can be used across all of the rule systems with
little issue. There are some slight differences - e.g. Legions Imperialis
benefits from solid buildings on top of which you can put infantry models,
while Epic 40,000's movement rules interact better with hollowed-out
ruins.
Troublemaker
Games produces excellent miniatures in epic-scale, in principle for
their own
wargame City
Crushers (which I have not tried), but they make excellent proxies
for orks and imperial guard.
Although somewhat unpopular in its heyday, this edition of Epic is
arguably my favourite. It is highly abstracted and fast to play, with
solid core mechanics but not too much detail in the units, most of which
are characterised by a single special rule or two.
The
Epic 40,000 Compendium is a easily browsable collection of
essentially all official rules material ever published, including some
commentary and errata. The high quality of the Compendium is what
initially got me interested in Epic 40,000.
Epic Remastered is a
project that "reworks and extends" Epic 40,000 - currently the rules
seem very similar to the ones in the Compendium; essentially being the
official ones with errata and a few clarifications.
This is the only variant of Epic currently supported by Games Workshop.
Although it is set in the Horus Heresy setting, most of the models are
perfectly usable in the older rulesets. Almost all of my official models
are from Legions Imperialis. The unit rules are a bit too fiddly, with too
many individual weapons (much like 2nd edition, I am told), but the games
are cinematic, and I like the way that infantry, vehicles, and titans each
have distinct battlefield roles and feel very different. It is not
terribly well balanced, so it is perhaps not so fun if everyone just goes
for the most cheesy army composition (which, as of this writing, is a
horde of axe-wielding maniacs supported by heavy bombers).