Carl if you could pass me the Necro info off line (KayJay77_at_...)
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> From: Carl Woodrow[SMTP:carl.woodrow_at_...]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 1998 10:09 AM
> To: Space Marine Mailing List
> Cc: Tyler Provick; Shervin Fatehi; Francois Bruntz; Chris Pinson; Alun
> Gallie
> Subject: [Epic] NEWSFLASH - Epic future under doubt
>
> I know a lot of folks on the list have been wanting to know when the Chaos
> army is finally going to be released. I can now reveal that the army will
> in
> fact be released in the UK this weekend (i.e. Saturday 20th). The army is
> featured in this months White Dwarf which is due out tommorow (thursday),
> which I was fortunate enough to be given a sneak preview of.
>
> One of the reasons that the release has been kept so quiet, but not the
> main
> reason, is that a decision was made by GW management a few weeks ago to
> discontinue the Epic gaming system immediately following the UK Overstock
> clearance sale. I am happy to say that the decision has now been
> overturned
> and the future for Epic looks a lot brighter. Although I am not informed
> as
> to why the decision was taken to discontinue Epic, I can only speculate
> that
> it was due to disapointing sales. I have been informed however that one of
> the reasons for overturning the decision was due to the likely backlash
> from
> gamers if the Epic system was dropped for the third time.
>
> Now that a decision has been made to continue with the Epic system it
> would
> appear that GW are going to continue supporting it in the medium term at
> least (i.e. at least the next 1-2 years). This would seem sensible as
> plans
> are definately afoot to release Epic scale WHFB within the next 12 months,
> although any firm news on this is still strictly unofficial and merely
> based
> on comments by GW staff after seeing not only plastic Epic scale spearmen
> but also metal Bretonnian Knights in Epic scale.
>
> Anyway...for those who cannot wait for WD the Epic Chaos army is as
> follows:
>
> Unusually for Epic the army comes almost entirely in one box which slots
> in
> somewhere between the standard infantry boxed sets and the larger army
> deals. The box contains not only the new infantry, but also a collection
> of
> 'metal' vehicles as well. The vehicles include Rhinos, Predators, Land
> Raiders and Command LR's and what could arguably be a Razorback or two. It
> is difficult to identify the immediate variants due to their somewhat
> 'chaotic' look. One thing I would say is not to take too much stock in the
> picture in last months WD of the 'spiky' rhino. The new LR's look awesome
> as
> do the new Predators.
>
> The infantry included (as I could see) are Noise Marines, Terminators,
> Thousand Sons, Khorne Beserkers, Standard Chaos marines, Cultists,
> Beastmen,
> Flamers, Daemonettes, Blood Letters and Hounds,Plague daemons and others
> that I cannot remember (I only saw them for a few minutes...sorry)
>
> Because of the size of the boxed set it retails at a whopping 25.00 UK
> pounds. This may seem a lot, but the box does seem to contain a great deal
> of infantry and vehicles for the money...it remains to see if most gamers
> can afford to splash out that kind of money in one go.
>
> Other releases are going to be the Khorne War Engines which are exactly
> the
> same as previously, the new Plague Tower and Catapult, and the Firelord
> (which also has not changed any). Finally the Slaanesh walkers round off
> this weekend releases.
>
> I have a few more interesting items concerning the future of some of the
> other gaming systems, namely Necromunda, but as this is predominately an
> Epic list I will refrain from going off topic unless there is a real
> demand.
>
> I hope this clears a few mysteries up :)
>
> Regards
> Carl
>
> Carl Woodrow
> Project Gene-seed and Dropship designer
> http://www.bigfoot.com/~Geneseed
>
>
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