[Epic] Re: Squats and E40 - from rgmw

From: Alan E & Carmel J Brain <aebrain_at_...>
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 21:09:28 -0800

Here's a post, reliability unknown but seems genuine.

> Chris wrote:
> >
> > Dear Group,
> > I have just returned from the East Coast GW retail conference.

Here's
> > the poop:
> > Squats-Dead... Period. They want this line to die. No one in
the
> > design studio is inspired to do them w/current history. Would like the
> > squats to die so they can re-invent them w/new history and stuff.
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> Out of curiosity, did they mention epic40k? Your lack of pointing it out
> seems to me that it probably did not figure very prominently in the
> discussions, in other words it seems that even GW acknowledges its
> death.
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        They perceive Epic 40K as a core game (ie.
Warhammer/40K/Epic40K).
They holy (unholy?) trilogy as it were. Robin Dews (who gave me this
info) is very unhappy w/his decision to release Epic an army at a time,
instead of little bits of everything, and then fleshing out the armies
over a year. Most retailers complain that people are waiting until
"their" army comes out to play. They are very unhappy w/Epic's sales
but are very committed to seeing it work. I think it's one of the
slickest rules the've made. It's certainly not a derivative game system
(as most of their stuff is). All of the armies will be out by March
(trying for sooner). Some pieces (like Eldar Titans) are being
rescuplted because the model wasn't liked.
        Any other Q's just ask!
Best,
Chris
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