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Okay, that was funny and informative!

Guys, I won't be back on until tonight and yet I wanna be here for it!

Have fun with it.

Charax wrote:
I can't wait to see the knots people tie themselves in to claim this isn't Epic

It's clearly a Horus Heresy/Alvin the Chipmunk crossover.

Charax wrote:
https://www.warhammer-community.com/2023/07/01/decode-this-curious-transmission/

I can't wait to see the knots people tie themselves in to claim this isn't Epic

This isn't Epic. This is going to be like "The Horus Heresy: Battalions" and won't have anything to do with the old Epic games. It will be a small counters games, with various marine models sculpted directly on the counters. We'll have cardboard chits for titans, but people will be able to 'sub' in AT models.





I just hope that they have kept to a similar enough scale/size that if they are focusing solely on the HH, that places like vanguard can continue to support us with other forces. I don't mind the HH, but its not what I'd like to see as a focus for an Epic game. But if GW are supporting marines, I don't mind buying into it to run 'official' marines against my already huge collection of Orks, Nids and others.

 Matrindur wrote:
Squeaky voice, image gets smaller and "The battle gets bigger" line at the end. How could this be anything but epic
https://www.warhammer-community.com/2023/07/01/decode-this-curious-transmission/

They also almost literally stole that joke from this very thread

And of course: oh, look at the time, it's 'Valrak was right'o'clock' again.

And finally: The Warhammer twitter account is at 124,200 followers, push it a bit an we might get another 'milestone' preview at 125k

Yep, we got a preview of the preview a hour before it started.

I mean, it's more ridiculous than funny at this point. Whatever.

Sarouan wrote:
Yep, we got a preview of the preview a hour before it started.

I mean, it's more ridiculous than funny at this point. Whatever.

Why so negative? It's functionally just a reminder, to get as many asses in their seats as possible at the actual reveal stream, because make-numba-look-more-good. Stirring up some hype, marketing 101. Hard to begrudge them that.

Dang. I saw a vexilla person actually holding a standard and not just having one on his back and got excited.

Tsagualsa wrote:


Why so negative? It's functionally just a reminder, to get as many asses in their seats as possible at the actual reveal stream, because make-numba-look-more-good. Stirring up some hype, marketing 101. Hard to begrudge them that.

If they didn't feth up the previous preview by letting down everyone on its content out of 40k, I guess they wouldn't need to make such a pathetic video to build numbers up.

I'm done with hyping their BS at this point.

Sarouan wrote:

Tsagualsa wrote:


Why so negative? It's functionally just a reminder, to get as many asses in their seats as possible at the actual reveal stream, because make-numba-look-more-good. Stirring up some hype, marketing 101. Hard to begrudge them that.

If they didn't feth up the previous preview by letting down everyone on its content out of 40k, I guess they wouldn't need to make such a pathetic video to build numbers up.

I'm done with hyping their BS at this point.

The current medical recommendation is that Adults should consume no more than 5000-6000mg of salt per day. Please be careful!

Sarouan wrote:
Yep, we got a preview of the preview a hour before it started.

I mean, it's more ridiculous than funny at this point. Whatever.

Well it got players excited doing it's job and showing gw knows more about marketing than you

Oh boy oh boy oh boy

 zedmeister wrote:
Oh boy oh boy oh boy

Ens Ens Ens

The hour grows near. Soon the circle will be complete.

Well, looks like I was wrong. That is pretty much Epic!

They just confirmed this is Epic scale and same scale as Titans and Aircraft

Epic got plastic Assault Marines before Horus Heresy did.

 zedmeister wrote:
They just confirmed this is Epic scale and same scale as Titans and Aircraft

Those statements are incompatible. Epic scale was 6mm, AT and AI are 8mm. You can't be both

It's 8mm. time to bin all the old epic armies

Charax wrote:

 zedmeister wrote:
They just confirmed this is Epic scale and same scale as Titans and Aircraft

Those statements are incompatible. Epic scale was 6mm, AT and AI are 8mm. You can't be both

It's 8mm. time to bin all the old epic armies

....once again, nope xD. Neither Epic was 6mm, nor AT is 8mm

Worth noting it’s confirmed the Warhound Weapons are plastic.

no land raider?

flips table

they do look quite nice models, will come down to price but if the models are not eye watering compared to 3d print they are nicely done

What base sizes are those? 40mm, 50?

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Worth noting it’s confirmed the Warhound Weapons are plastic.

And they suggested that there are more on that sprue as there isn't a shock lance in the picture.

leopard wrote:
no land raider?

flips table

they do look quite nice models, will come down to price but if the models are not eye watering compared to 3d print they are nicely done

I mean, they totally will. This is GW.

leopard wrote:
no land raider?

flips table

they do look quite nice models, will come down to price but if the models are not eye watering compared to 3d print they are nicely done

They said that they have a lot of releases planned for this, 'almost everything that's in the Heresy' was the wording. I'm sure Land Raiders will show up as one of the first releases.

So there we go, Epic (or Legions Imperialis) is confirmed.

A couple of things I have taken from it.
Scale - so a dreadnought almost the size of a 28mm marine, 8mm marines with a *lot* of detail. So they are taking the 'Wakes Emporium' route of how to do this game, I hope you enjoyed having your eyesight!

Minitaures in the box - combined with the round bases, there was no mention of rules but Im gonna say that rules out Epic SM/NetEpic type rules. There aren't enough minis in the box for even a half decent game of SM2, I dont think Epic 40k either - so I think this will either be based on Armageddon, or something else new entirely.

Well, I’m a happy camper!

Hopefully we’ll see Xenos in the future, but I think I might go Solar Auxilia.