![]() ![]() Games Workshop Imperial Guard Collectors Guide. Space Marines, Elder and Orks (the less varied models from base game). Battle Titans with the six Warlord Titans was still available, but all other plastics boxes were replaced with the following in a box a similar size to the the titan's box. Six sprues of each type.The buildings in the game used the same moulded plastic rooves as first edition but different designed sides still on the same heavy cardboard.ฤก991Coinciding with the new edition all the plastic Space Marine miniatures were repackaged, there were no new models but they were sold now in larger boxes in a combination of different armies. These and other new races were greatly expanded in the latter supplements.The miniatures in this game were Space Marines (same sprues as in 1st edition) and Orks and Eldar (same sprues as in the Orc Horde and Eldar Legion box sets. The new edition included Orks, Eldar and Titans in the base rules. It radically revised but still fundamentally the same system, unlike the latter version of the epic range. 1990Second edition was subtitled Epic Conflict in the War Torn Universe of the 41st Millenium and brought the setting into the standard era of Warhammer 40,000. This site shows very good details of individual models, it does not show how the packs were sold. (Amounts given in brackets are per sprue).Epic Imperial Gurad.Epic Squat Warriors.Epic Space Marines.Epic Ork Invasion.Epic Chaos Horde.Epic Eldar War Host.Epic Stompers (1 Ork Dreadnaught, 2 Eldar Dreadnaughts, 1 Ork Dreadnaught, 4 chaos Androids, 2 Marine Dreadnaughts, 1 Ork Shock Gun, 2 Chaos Dreadnaughts, 2 Marines in Terminator Armour, 1 Mole Mortar)A great side for seeing details of epic models is from. All except the Stompers set which had 6, contained 10 of each sprue. The contained mostly infantry and smaller vehicles, like bikes, but much more variety on the sprues. New rules (AT)#109) Reavers and Warhounds: new titan classes (AT)#110) Space Marine! Rules for infantry (AT)#110) Eldar: rules (AT)#111) Chain Fist!weaponry and close combat (AT)#111) Craters (AT)#112) Conqueror! 1990 to 1991The second wave of miniatures were sold in the same boxes as the Ork Horde and Eldar legion. 1989 to 1991White Dwarf Magazine had numerous articles on Adeptus Titanicus (AT) and/or Space Marine (SM)#109) Land Raider! Eldar Legion - 140 Eldar Gurdians and 16 Falcon TanksThere were also numerous metal miniatures released. Ork Horde - 140 Ork Boyz and 24 Battlewagons. ![]() Battle Titans - 6 plastic warhound titans that same as came in the Adeptus Titanicus box set.The other two plastic box sets that are similar size to half the miniature sprues in original Space Marine box in that each sprue has 20 identical infantry figures and a small number of identical vehicles, with 8 sprues per box. The first wave of these were three boxes of plastic minatures. Some additional miniatures were released for the first edition game system. ![]() There were 12 Space Marine chapters though in games mechanic they ware not distinguished at all.Imperial: Blood Angels, Ultramarines, Dark Angels, Space Wolves, Whitescars and Salamanders.Traitor: Emperors Children, Death Guards, Thousand Sons, World Eaters, Sons of Horus and Night Lords. The game could be combined with the previous published Adeptus Titanicus.14 Buildings, molded plastic rooves with thick colour card walls.8 sprues of miniatures in two colours (Dark Blue and Dark Green), each sprue contained 2 Land Raiders and 4 Rhinos and 40 space marines in the original 'beaky' marine style.Stickers to make flages for the banner poles which fitted on the infantry bases. It featured Space Marines verses Space Marines in a civil war. 1989First edition subtitled Epic Battles in the Age of Heresy was set in a much early time period that Warhammer 40,000. I hope to refine and add to this history of Epic, but I will display this work in progress as I feel it is at a stage where it can be helpful, is of interest, and could spark some interesting discussion. At one time I knew most of this stuff off the top of my head, now I had do do a lot more research. I am sure that I have virtually all the entries on this list, but much more details can be done on the description. I decided to gather them all here, most are part of their main epic system, some are other games that use the same scale miniatures.This turned out to be a much biggger job than I expected. Games Workshop has had numerous games that use 6mm minatures based on their universe, what they refer to as 'epic scale' miniatures. Games Workshop Imperial Guard Collectors Guide. ![]()
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