Tabletop games
Warhammer Epic 40,000
Games Workshop Ltd., 1997
Warhammer Epic 40,000 is a tabletop game published by Games Workshop Ltd. in 1997. It is played with 2 to 4 players and in about 180 minutes.
- players
- 2–4
- minutes
- 180
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The box
- Publisher
- Games Workshop Ltd.
- Designers
- Andy Chambers, Jervis Johnson, Gavin Thorpe
- Artwork
- John Blanche, Wayne England, David Gallagher, Mark Gibbons, Des Hanley, Neil Hodgson, Paul Smith (I), John Wigley
- Year of release
- 1997
About the game
Epic is a collective term for a series of tabletop wargames by Games Workshop set in their fictional Warhammer 40,000 universe. Whereas Warhammer 40,000 involves small battles between forces of a few squads of troops and two or three vehicles, Epic features battles between armies consisting of hundreds of soldiers, dozens of tanks, and giant war machines. Due to the larger size of the battles, and particularly the involvement of the Titan war machines, Epic miniatures conform to a smaller scale than those in Warhammer 40,000. It is roughly one quarter, with a typical human being represented with a 6mm high figure, as opposed to the 'heroic' 28mm miniature used in Warhammer 40,000.
In recent years other companies most notably Warlord Games and Mantic Games have also begun to release games branded as "Epic" to denote a smaller scale.More from Games Workshop Ltd.
- Warhammer Quest · 1995
- Dungeonquest · 1985
- Judge Dredd · 1982
- Necromunda · 1995
- Rencontre cosmique · 1977
- Space Crusade · 1990
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