Re: [NetEpic ML] How did you get into epic?

From: Kelvin <kx.henderson_at_...>
Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 09:05:16 +1000

At 11:00 AM 5/18/00 -0500, Peter wrote:

>How did you guys "find" epic, or did "epic" find you?

I started out with GW products way back in school. I was about 16 when a
friend brought along a book he'd picked up while on holiday in London. It
was Warhammer 40,000 Rogue Trader. We all read it and got hooked on the
game. But at the time I had no cash and so couldn't afford to buy any
minis for it. After a time I got less and less interested as I had no
minis to play with.

Flash forward 3 years and now I am at University. Someone at the Uni
Gaming Club is playing that 40K game again and I am interested again. I
play a couple of games and like them. Then someone brings along Adeptus
Titanicus. I play a game and again, I like it. More so than 40K. I
express interest in the game. He tells me not to bother buying minis as a
new edition is coming out. He shows me the promo flyer for "Epic Space
Marine". It looks very cool. He orders the main box (direct from England
as in those days it was MUCH cheaper for we Aussies to buy direct from
England). It arrives and I look at the rules. I see the Orks. They
REALLY appeal to my sense of play. Manic, brutal, warlike and fun. COOL.
I tell the guy who bought the box I'll take the Orks off him.

And so it all began. After that day I just kept buying Orks and got very
heavily into Epic Space Marine. Then all the army rules like Armies of the
Imperium, Warlords and Renegades came out. I bought more and more Orks,
some 2nd hand A.T. castoffs (I actually don't own most of my Orks. I got
them off people who said "pay me later for them" and then I never saw them
again.) and some new minis as they came out. With the advent of Titan
Legions I bought a Tech Guard force, then some Marines and finally bought
my friends Chaos army when he decided he didn't want it anymore. While its
been a VERY long time since I played Epic, I stil can't bring myself to get
rid of my Epic armies as I still have a special attachment to them.

Along the way I got heavily into 40K for a while, then into WFB but after a
while the rules abberations just honked me off too much and I moved on from
GW games (although I still like to play Blood Bowl and Necromunda as I
think they are pretty good games; Warmaster looks interesting too). I got
into Kryomek (until it collapsed), Warzone, then GZG games (go Full Thrust
and Stargrunt 2!) and finally into Fantasy Rules! 2nd Ed. But all the
while I still played and loved Epic until that fateful day when GW released
the demon that was Epic 40K (shudder). After that (even with NetEpic) all
interest in Epic died and now I am the only passionate player left round
these parts. (Well, there is Agro that some of you may remember from the
Space Marine list but he is a Power Gamer of the worst sort. No fun at all.)

Currently I regularly play Full Thrust (better now with the two Fleet
Books), Stargrunt 2, Dirtside 2 (though not as often as I like), Blood Bowl
and Fantasy Rules! 2nd Ed plus assorted sundry Role-playing and Trading
Card games like Babylon 5, Immortal, Cyberpunk and Aliens. But it all
really started with Epic.

<SIGH> It'd be nice to have a game of Epic again. Its been so long.
Anyone on the list coming Down Under soon? Brisbane is a lovely place in
Winter! ;-)


-Kelvin....

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