Re: [Epic] The ages of Warhammer was mixing (long)

From: J. Michael Looney <mlooney_at_...>
Date: Mon, 01 Sep 1997 09:40:45 -0500

Aaron P Teske wrote:
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> Ah! I see. I didn't realize that you were talking about present-day
> Earth; I *know* you didn't write that in any previous text. It makes
> much more sense now. Even so... I don't think it's that valid. GW
> hasn't advanced the timeline at all, really, they've just added more
> things in. This is my main problem with the people declaring different
> "ages", because it's based off rules rather than time.

I, who started the whole thing, was trying to come up with a rational explanition for GW's change
in there fluff. The following are know "facts" from GW

1) Space Marine 1st Ed was set in the Horus Wars. No question about it. None of this wimpy
1,000 man chapter crud. Straight ahead SM vs SM civil war. Warhammer 30K.

2) Some time between then and "now" there was something called "The Age of Apostasy"

3) At one time Squats were a part of the IG. This is not an assumption, this is a fact
((Warhammer 40,000 Compendium, page 31 see 3rd, 62nd, 17th & 5th regiment).

3.1) Beast men were at one time allowed in the IG ((Warhammer 40,000 Compendium Page 148) or for
that matter Epic 2nd Ed.)

4) Squats are no longer in the Imperium and beast men are Chaos only.

5) This is important one....
        "Nowadays there are no Squat Stronghold planets in the Imperium it self, the last having
secceded during the Age of Apostacy". (Codex: Imperial Guard, page 8, paragraph 6)

Which leads me to 2 simple statements
1) The current rules are set after the Age of Apostasy and
2) Warhammer 40,000 (Rogue Trader) and Epic Space Marine 2nd Ed are set IN the Age of Apostasy or
before.

This explains why the "old" WH40K rule's fluff was so much darker than the current rule's fluff.
We are comparing WWII Nazi Germany with, say NATO in the Gulf War. Both were major wars, to be
sure, but in general life is a little better now than in the 1940's

The three (at least) ages of the Imperium, and what rules go with what age, all straight from GW
sources.

There has been at least one major change change in the
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