It seems to have a pretty big online following but stumbling across an opponent in the real world would be pretty unlikely. Better to give it a go if you have a bunch of friends you can rely upon to buy in with you.
I'd love to play Epic with Tyranids. I feel they're just built for that sort of scale rather than 40k skirmishes.
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edited June 2007
I actually have most of an Epic eldar army that one of my friends in high school got me to buy (pre-owned) so that he would have someone to play against.
we played maybe four games, max.
It was still fun, and I wouldn't have spent that $150 any other way.
most of it is unpainted though. I never got around to it, and the guy before me only did some of it, kinda sloppily (then again, TINY SHIT).
you've got an army with high mobility, high strength-weapons, and enormous range, and all anyone does is turtle in the deployment zone and pick things off with their 72' inch range S10 Broadsides
real fun to play against
Really? Wow that must suck, personally I have yet to have less than half my army at the end of a game against them and I have yet to fail wiping out a Tau army before the end of the fourth turn.
I play 'nids though, so maybe that's a factor.
I just use cover, cover, cover and get close enough to chew on the wimpy ET's inside.
Seems most people complain about The Necrons and Tau.
It's weird because I think the most deadly, annoying and overpowered of armies is the Eldar. How come no one ever complains about them. They can do loops around the board and pew pew pew
It's your typical dungeon crawler, but still fun. I think the thing I like most is when you make your character, you roll a fate. The fate can be anything, really. Like, bonuses to certain skills, diseases, etc.
For instance, my buddy made a tank. HUGE 8 food man, covered in hair, and all that, but he ended up rolling a fate of hemophilia.
Seems most people complain about The Necrons and Tau.
It's weird because I think the most deadly, annoying and overpowered of armies is the Eldar. How come no one ever complains about them. They can do loops around the board and pew pew pew
I complain about all of the above. If I'm not on a cover heavy map any one of those can destroy me.
Seems most people complain about The Necrons and Tau.
It's weird because I think the most deadly, annoying and overpowered of armies is the Eldar. How come no one ever complains about them. They can do loops around the board and pew pew pew
I complain about all of the above. If I'm not on a cover heavy map any one of those can destroy me.
Seems most people complain about The Necrons and Tau.
It's weird because I think the most deadly, annoying and overpowered of armies is the Eldar. How come no one ever complains about them. They can do loops around the board and pew pew pew
I complain about all of the above. If I'm not on a cover heavy map any one of those can destroy me.
Make some damn cover, Quetzi.
Sometimes people are dicks and they don't want to use all the cover I have sitting around. And it's not like 'nids have cheap tanks that can make impromptu cover (although I have thought about making a carnifex that soaks up wounds to march in front of my troops. Problem is, my troops are all faster than a 'fex).
Seems most people complain about The Necrons and Tau.
It's weird because I think the most deadly, annoying and overpowered of armies is the Eldar. How come no one ever complains about them. They can do loops around the board and pew pew pew
Their units cost about 18+ points each and die when a strong breeze hits them.
i am not letting the ig player set up cover ever again
haha.
Yeah.
Cover is the IG player's greatest resource.
Really? Whenever I play IG they are all, "No I want huge open plains."
mechanized?
No I think it is because of what I am playing most likely. I'd just never realized they liked cover, because everyone is against cover when I'm playing.
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i am not letting the ig player set up cover ever again
haha.
Yeah.
Cover is the IG player's greatest resource.
Really? Whenever I play IG they are all, "No I want huge open plains."
mechanized?
No I think it is because of what I am playing most likely. I'd just never realized they liked cover, because everyone is against cover when I'm playing.
even against nid's, IG should still want to entrench and just lay down fire
i am not letting the ig player set up cover ever again
haha.
Yeah.
Cover is the IG player's greatest resource.
Really? Whenever I play IG they are all, "No I want huge open plains."
mechanized?
No I think it is because of what I am playing most likely. I'd just never realized they liked cover, because everyone is against cover when I'm playing.
even against nid's, IG should still want to entrench and just lay down fire
Lemme guess - the Chameloline '"Everyone has a 4+ cover save all the time, so suck it" army?
IG would especially want cover versus Nids so they'd strike first in close combat
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edited June 2007
IG usually benefit from cover because of their mediocre armor saves. The opponent's armor saves usually aren't so important considering their standard guns can't penetrate armor anyway.
When they say that want 'huge open plains', they're talking about firing lines and choke points. They want clear lines of sight to shoot their targets, and force them to stay close together on their approach. If you've got staggered terrain , you can sneak melee shit right into their troops, or at least use 5+ or 4+ saves against their heavy weapons.
Working on some ammo grottage to go with my Tankbusta nob:
It's not bad - I'm happy with most of it, save for the engine turbine bit. I'd be willing to leave it alone, but I'm just not sure - I'm considering getting greenstuff and capping it off as a huge rokkit shell or something.
alright, I bought a squad and commander of necrons, painted 'em up, got my interest piqued in warhammer again in that I was a better painter than I thought.
well fuck
I decided that necrons are cool as hell but I'd like to go with an army where there is more to 'em, more varied units. So I've decided between IG and Dogs of War (and although 40k got me into it I gotta say the warhammer mmo has gotten me more than willing to play an original warhammer army)
so in terms of varied units, fun to paint, and greenstuffability (not totally concerned with powerful here, I doubt I'll be playing anytime soon) between the two of 'em, which is better for it?
IG usually benefit from cover because of their mediocre armor saves. The opponent's armor saves usually aren't so important considering their standard guns can't penetrate armor anyway.
When they say that want 'huge open plains', they're talking about firing lines and choke points. They want clear lines of sight to shoot their targets, and force them to stay close together on their approach. If you've got staggered terrain , you can sneak melee shit right into their troops, or at least use 5+ or 4+ saves against their heavy weapons.
Yeah, pretty much. It's not even the chameleoline, it's more that IG is the static gunline army, and being in cover pretty much allows them to actually get an armor save in a game where most armies have AP5 standard.
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SO, that one you posted is also sweet.
it's one of the best gw games next to bfg and mordheim
this
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I don't know why, but it makes me think Tau-inspired. Maybe the fact that it's more accurate to the Orky form than the typical dred.
I'd love to play Epic with Tyranids. I feel they're just built for that sort of scale rather than 40k skirmishes.
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we played maybe four games, max.
It was still fun, and I wouldn't have spent that $150 any other way.
most of it is unpainted though. I never got around to it, and the guy before me only did some of it, kinda sloppily (then again, TINY SHIT).
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Like, it's pretty much replacing World of Darkness for me.
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Really? Wow that must suck, personally I have yet to have less than half my army at the end of a game against them and I have yet to fail wiping out a Tau army before the end of the fourth turn.
I play 'nids though, so maybe that's a factor.
I just use cover, cover, cover and get close enough to chew on the wimpy ET's inside.
I made a TD for iphone and windows phone!
It's weird because I think the most deadly, annoying and overpowered of armies is the Eldar. How come no one ever complains about them. They can do loops around the board and pew pew pew
I made a TD for iphone and windows phone!
It's your typical dungeon crawler, but still fun. I think the thing I like most is when you make your character, you roll a fate. The fate can be anything, really. Like, bonuses to certain skills, diseases, etc.
For instance, my buddy made a tank. HUGE 8 food man, covered in hair, and all that, but he ended up rolling a fate of hemophilia.
I complain about all of the above. If I'm not on a cover heavy map any one of those can destroy me.
Its funny how all the best GW games are the ones with the least support behind them.
Make some damn cover, Quetzi.
I made a TD for iphone and windows phone!
Sometimes people are dicks and they don't want to use all the cover I have sitting around. And it's not like 'nids have cheap tanks that can make impromptu cover (although I have thought about making a carnifex that soaks up wounds to march in front of my troops. Problem is, my troops are all faster than a 'fex).
at least this way GW can't screw anything up
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shit had potential.
Yeah.
Cover is the IG player's greatest resource.
still, it was fun getting my ass kicked
Really? Whenever I play IG they are all, "No I want huge open plains."
mechanized?
No I think it is because of what I am playing most likely. I'd just never realized they liked cover, because everyone is against cover when I'm playing.
even against nid's, IG should still want to entrench and just lay down fire
Lemme guess - the Chameloline '"Everyone has a 4+ cover save all the time, so suck it" army?
When they say that want 'huge open plains', they're talking about firing lines and choke points. They want clear lines of sight to shoot their targets, and force them to stay close together on their approach. If you've got staggered terrain , you can sneak melee shit right into their troops, or at least use 5+ or 4+ saves against their heavy weapons.
It's not bad - I'm happy with most of it, save for the engine turbine bit. I'd be willing to leave it alone, but I'm just not sure - I'm considering getting greenstuff and capping it off as a huge rokkit shell or something.
alright, I bought a squad and commander of necrons, painted 'em up, got my interest piqued in warhammer again in that I was a better painter than I thought.
well fuck
I decided that necrons are cool as hell but I'd like to go with an army where there is more to 'em, more varied units. So I've decided between IG and Dogs of War (and although 40k got me into it I gotta say the warhammer mmo has gotten me more than willing to play an original warhammer army)
so in terms of varied units, fun to paint, and greenstuffability (not totally concerned with powerful here, I doubt I'll be playing anytime soon) between the two of 'em, which is better for it?
Thats just my suggestion.
Finished ammo grot with his nob:
What do you guys think? I'm going to be painting them both relatively soon for a painting contest I'm in.