New Apocalypse, Epic in 28mm?

[Aulenback]

Ahoy, all. Warhammer Community is showing off the upcoming re-envisioning of Apocalypse-scale 40K games.

Prepare for the Apocalypse! - Warhammer Community

It’s almost here – apocalyptic warfare in the grim darkness of the far future! Here’s what you can look forward ...

www.warhammer-community.com

Prepare for the Apocalypse - Part 2 - Warhammer Community

Apocalypse is coming, and massive battles in the 41st Millennium will never be the same again! Yesterday, we began preparations ...

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So, models are grouped onto particular movement trays, maneuver and act in "detatchment" tactical groupings, take blast markers which affect performance and morale, orders are assigned in advance [mind you, they are using tokens to show orders, rather than 'order dice']....

http://www.net-armageddon.org/sites/default/files/gw/m1320000_EPIC_updated_rulebook-sections_1-4_Oct09.pdf

It sounds a LOT like the previous edition(s) of Epic, only in 28mm scale instead of 6mm scale. Doesn't it? Or is it just me?

 

[Punktaku]

The piece I saw on this said it was both. Rules for 6 mm and full scale will be together in this release. Which is an interesting idea.

 

[Aulenback]

The piece I saw on this said it was both. Rules for 6 mm and full scale will be together in this release. Which is an interesting idea.

That is an interesting idea! Hmm....

 

[Punktaku]

Can't find the source, tho. It was on facebook...

 

[Aulenback]

Looking through the advert/promo short video, both blast markers and orders are on small tokens [so hold onto your old Epic blast markers, for use here too, in EITHER scale, since they were more visually appealing], and the "movement trays" do set models up into the "five square" format of the old epic bases:

Might be time for a rummage and re-paint of my old Epic scale Alpha Legion forces....

 

[MusingWarboss]

Intriguing.

 

[Punktaku]

I think I have a TON of those things..

 

[Galtarr]

The piece I saw on this said it was both. Rules for 6 mm and full scale will be together in this release. Which is an interesting idea.

Source? doubtful yet hopeful... might not sell my epic just yet then.

 

[Punktaku]

Source? doubtful yet hopeful... might not sell my epic just yet then.

looked for it but couldn't find it again. Maybe BoLS? I thought maybe it was through email, but nothing in my trash, so I'm thinking one of the Facebook communities.

 

[Punktaku]

Reading back through the facebook posts, the links shared are the same ones @Aulenback posted. The community is calling it Epic28, but I didn't see that referred to in the posts themselves. guess it was just wishful thinking. I was really impressed they had come up with that idea (2 games in one).

I must've just read more into it than was actually there... sorry guys. guess ill go back to spamming stuff I did over 20 years ago... umm, grognards... !?

 

[Space Truckin]

Any sign of templates?

 

[Fold]

I can’t see GW doing this for 6mm specifically, since they moved their epic scale titans to a bigger scale. And I can’t see them doing it for the larger scale as that would entail manufacturing a huge range of new models.

Fairly easy to convert any system to another scale though!

 

[Punktaku]

i’m beginning to think that’s what the original posts i saw on FB were implying: that this is the old Epic Scale adjusted up to 28mm and renamed “Apocalypse”.

 

[Aulenback]

That is what a few of the other 40K sites have implied as well -- BoLS, Spiky Bits -- nothing concrete, and nothing conclusive, but what little description GW has released, about detatchments, blast markers, orders being given during the initiative phase and then carried out by detatchment, very much sounds like Epic "Armageddon's" last set of rules.