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This thread has been way too quiet! @Pacific: didn't you already do a whole bunch of updates on this project?

Hey mate - I have tons! But wasn't really getting any views or feedback in this thread so I have stopped posting here.

So everything new now I just put in the Epic show your stuff thread under Specialist Games and also have a blog that I run on Bolter & Chainsword http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/topic/355088-world-eaters-of-the-great-crusade-an-epic-blog/

Think because this is a bit of a niche topic and most people aren't interested in it I get a lot more views and interaction in those places!

Forums are tricky places, your stuff is quite inspiring. I've noticed that social media nowadays tends to work a bit better than forums.

Such are the vagaries of the great void known as the Internet, even though forums are obviously the superior medium for proper plogs and discussions

 Sherrypie wrote:
Such are the vagaries of the great void known as the Internet, even though forums are obviously the superior medium for proper plogs and discussions

Don't get me started on that. At least it's 'honest' when compared against FB's algorithm which just pushes forward stuff 'at random' (yeah, I know there's a payment model behind it, but even that one leaves a lot to be desired of).

One thing Facebook, Twitter etc. lacks is the sense of community that you get on the forums.

After the Great Crusade forum fell I've found it difficult to find somewhere with the dedicated pre-heresy and crusade era focus, and Epic makes it even more niche. B&C probably comes closest but the users seem quite geographically dispersed and you don't seem to get any events or anything like that.

Maybe I need to get off my ass and organise something! Either a new pre-heresy forum or at least gaming event

What about Discord?

Was glad to see this as an active thread, though I see it was more happenstance than anything.

I went through this again via "blog" and man you've done some excellent work. It's inspiring and creates a wonderful feeling of nostalgia. I thank you for that.

I absolutely loved playing this game. I cannot understand why this isn't a thing anymore, a current thing. I have tried to get my game group interested in it a few times but they are usually chasing the brand new GW shiny that catches their interest. No disrespect to them, I'm just disappointed.

hen there's the availability of the models and the price they are commanding. I just looked up "Epic 40K" on eBay and their isn't an auction I saw that doesn't have multiple bids. That does beg the question though of "who's playing it"? Surely no one I know.

I'm hoping you do decide to post work here, but understand if you do not. Since getting back to Dakka I'm seeing the opinion that forums are slipping into the past. Being that I also am from the past my preference is to stay here.

 Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:
Was glad to see this as an active thread, though I see it was more happenstance than anything.

I went through this again via "blog" and man you've done some excellent work. It's inspiring and creates a wonderful feeling of nostalgia. I thank you for that.

I was kinda hoping Pacific would post some of his updates he shared on B&C on here as well.

I absolutely loved playing this game. I cannot understand why this isn't a thing anymore, a current thing. I have tried to get my game group interested in it a few times but they are usually chasing the brand new GW shiny that catches their interest. No disrespect to them, I'm just disappointed.

Have you considered trying out Aeronautica Imperialis or Adeptus Titanicus first? They could be potential 'gateway games'.

Then there's the availability of the models and the price they are commanding. I just looked up "Epic 40K" on eBay and their isn't an auction I saw that doesn't have multiple bids. That does beg the question though of "who's playing it"? Surely no one I know.

Luckily there are third party proxies and 3D printed designs out there!

Thanks Skalk and Malika a lot for the kind words! Really means a lot, I love Epic too and think its such a good game that deserves more people playing it - if me posting my stuff gets even one person more likely to play themselves then think that is time well spent for me!

As Malika says there is a really good community for Epic on FB. Or if you are not keen on that you can start yourself - I've been collecting two forces for a friend and I to play and we're hoping to pull in a couple of others for a mega-game of maybe 4-5 players. It's a lot of time spent by me preparing the minis and terrain but I enjoy doing it so it doesn't feel like a chore, and very little cost to my games playing friends too, other than their time.

Cheers Malika you have convinced me I will bring some of the B&C updates over here too

Hey guys, thought I would post some updates here for anyone interested!

This is two Beastmen detachments (transported by Gorgons). Miniatures are by Microworld Games, really lovely little sculpts and very characterful, I enjoyed painting them!

Thematically this is an auxiliary unit attached to a Great Crusade expedition. The Imperium was a lot less xenophobic during the Crusade and I think would have made use of abhuman regiments where available. You can imagine Crusade Iterators landing on some feudal-level world populated by this offshoot of humanity and convincing them to join up ("two legs good!")
I've added in a single legionnaire who I imagine being a kind of handler to the detachments (maybe this was a punishment for something and the equivalent of latrine duty?)
Any C&C very much appreciated!

Love 'em! Are those Gorgons AAV-7s?

Thanks mate. It hadn't occurred to me before, but I would say they definitely look a lot like them! I'm guessing, like the Rhino, the sculptor may have used that real-life vehicle as a starting point.

I've finished up a unit - World Eater Field Police (Consul-Opsequiari)

These are from an old piece of RT-era lore which has been brought back into the modern 30k books. The official example of them is with the Space Wolves (basically a police unit to make sure they follow orders!) but I thought it fitted with the World Eaters during the tail-end of the Great Crusade too. In Epic Space Marine, I'm using these as 'counts as' Commissars (which you get free with Imperial Army companies, and don't really make sense in a 30k/Great Crusade setting), with a small extra rule that means you can use them to allow Marine units to automatically pass morale tests if you want to - with a chance that the marine unit might lose a squad in the process of 'reinforcing orders' or the Field Police unit itself might get destroyed!

I love them! So nice to see some old Rogue Trader vibes in those field police (hey I’m old okay). Some lovely work here, do love me some Epic!

Thanks Ragsta!

I completed a Goff Ork clan - again these guys are a mix of Vanguard miniatures 'Skinners' range for the boyz, with some classic GW minis for the Nobz and vehicles.

Soon jealous of your collection. Love everything. Those beast men sculpts are amazing.

Speaking of Orks, have you also considered adding some of Wake's Emporium's Orks in the mix?

Thanks Camkierhi those are very kind words

Malika - not yet mate as I'm quite happy with the Vanguard minis (and throwing in the odd classic GW one). And I have just made a quite large Vanguard order for a Snakebite clan! Some of them look great though, do you know how well they scale alongside Vanguard?

If I'm not mistaken the models by Wakes Emporium are slightly bigger, but you could always resize them when printing them.

The 'Big Guns' of the 12th Legion, Shadosword Company and Devastator Company.

The miniatures are classic GW for the Shadowswords, the Devastator Company and command are from Vanguard Miniatures.

Bloody awesome.

Glad to have caught this before it slipped into the realm of threadcromancy.

The detail you put on your models is stunning. The time you dedicate to excellent looking models is impressive as well.

No change in my Epic world, short of accepting that absolutely positively no one I know has an interest in rewinding the clock that far. My models aren't going anywhere though, and perhaps one day I'll see them on the table again. Until then, my continued thanks for sharing your work here.

Thanks so much for the kind words Skalk Bloodaxe and Camkierhi!

Skalk I hope you can have some time some day to get involved in some Epic, even if it is painting a few minis! And from what I have heard there might well be an official release at some point next year. Then all of a sudden, what was out of fashion becomes in fashion again and everyone wants to play it! At that point, like my dad's fashion, you can appear to be ahead of the curve

A quick update of a pair of Steam Gargants of the Snakebite clan. These are a lower-tech version of the Gargant as employed by most Clans, but is no less deadly.

These miniatures were created by a chap on the Tactical Command forum who helpfully sold me a pair. They're currently my main Gargant force, although I am looking for one more larger Ork Titan to have as a centrepiece for the force, and to go against the Imperium's Reavers and Warhounds.






An Ork spotter reports enemy movements from the vantage point of the Gargant


An Imperial Army weapons team decides discretion is the better part of valour, while Zuggit the Ork attempts to show off with a wheelie in front of his mates. Sadly the manouever was to end in tragedy for Zuggit.

Great stuff on the Gargants. Lovely dioramic photos as well.

Those Gargants look great, nice one. Just been looking back through the thread as well, great work!

Those Steam Gargants are awesome, going to have to see if I can cobble something together for them...

Meantime, I added a Death Skull clan to Waagh Bozzhog and got a couple of army shots:

https://skinflintgames.wordpress.com/2022/10/21/orktober-teeny-weenie-greenie-meanies/

Love those gargants and the bases are so characterful.

Thanks a lot for the kind comments guys!

Skinflint Games that is definitely an Ork horde and a half! Very impressive. Are you keeping going with those guys? Sometimes it can be hard to know when to stop I have found!

Some more updates of some more Orks! I'm currently working on a Snakebite Clan as well, along with some support units for them. I do enjoy painting Epic, but doing 100+ Orks for one clan is quite hard work, so this might be the last one for now (although I would like to do some Deathskulls as well).


Some gretchin lurk near a swamp


A Cult of Speed catch up and surround a World Eater patrol, hooting and hollering as they race along


A Mekaniak's mad inventions: Shokk Attack guns and a unit of Tinbotz

Realised I am a few updates behind here for anyone viewing this blog!

World Eater Berserkers and Termite carrying units





The Termite carriers and Tunneling vehicles are from the GW classic range. The Berserkers are from a company called Steel Crown Miniatures. Sadly they have stopped trading, H&S Miniatures now occasionally carry them (when they have them in stock).



Then finally, they are led by a Centurion

Great updates, they look fantastic!