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Epic is a series of tabletop wargames set in the fictional Warhammer 40,000
universe. However, where Warhammer 40,000 involves small battles between forces of a few squads of troops and two or three vehicles, Epic features battles between armies consisting of dozens of tanks and hundreds of soldiers. Consequently, the scale of Epic miniatures is far smaller than those in Warhammer 40,000, with a typical human being represented with a 6mm high figure, as opposed to the 28mm used in Warhammer 40,000.

Gameplay-wise, the major difference between Epic and other Games Workshop games is that instead of a player moving and firing all of his forces in one massive turn, players take turns moving one or two units at a time, giving the feeling of a battlefield developing in real time. From a more practical point of view, the monetary commitment needed to play Epic is relatively small when compared with other Games Workshop products, with a competitive tournament army being available for about US$200.

Current (4th) Edition

The current, fourth edition of Epic is often referred to as Epic: Armageddon after the first rulebook released for this edition. One interesting feature of Epic: Armageddon is that, unlike previous editions of the game and other games produced by Games Workshop, the development of the game was conducted in an open way with 'trial' rules published on the Epic 'Playtest Vault' and feedback solicited from gamers via the associated playtesters forum. This colloboration with the community has continued with the development of further army lists. The Epic: Armageddon rulebook contains the core rules for the games, and army lists for Space Marines, the Armageddon Steel Legion Imperial Guard regiment and Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka's Ork War Horde as they were fielded in the Third War for Armageddon.

The second rulebook released for the fourth edition was Epic: Swordwind, which was released both as hardcopy and as a downloadable PDF from the game's official website. Epic: Swordwind contains army lists for the Biel-Tan Eldar, the Baran Siegemasters Imperial Guard Army and Warload Snagga-Snagga's Feral Ork Horde. There has been active involvement of players with playtesting the new armies for the game on the epic forums, with "army champions" co-ordinating playtesting and revision of the army lists. Unlike other Games Workshop games that use a generic army list for all deployments involving that army, Epic uses specific army lists that represent how an army was fielded in a a specific military campaign. There have also been officially released army lists for Da Cult of Speed, an Ork army favouring bikes and the White Scars Space Marines.

As of March 2006, there are many other army lists available as "experimental rules" from the Epic website, including the Adeptus Mechanicus Titan Legions, the Catachan Imperial Guard Regiment, Craftworld Eldar (Alaitoc, Saim Hann and Ulthwé), Chaos Space Marines (the Black Legion and the Thousand Sons), The Lost and the Damned Chaos cultists, the Necrons, the Orkimedes Gargant Big Mob (an Ork army favouring Gargants, the Ork equivalent of Titans), Space Marines (the Black Templars and the Blood Angels), the Tau Third Phase Expansion Force and the Tyranid Hamman's World Phase IV Subdual Army.

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