![]() Cover of Current Epic rulebook, showing a Lucius-Pattern Warlord Titan and Space Marines | |
Designers | Jervis Johnson |
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Publishers | Games Workshop |
Players | 2+ |
Setup time | 5 - 30 minutes |
Playing time | 30 minutes - 3 hours |
Chance | Dice rolling |
Age range | 12+ |
Epic is a collective term for a series of tabletop wargames set in the fictional Horus Heresy and Warhammer 40,000 universes. Whereas 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.[1] Due to the comparatively larger size of the battles, Epic miniatures are smaller, roughly one quarter the size of those in Warhammer 40,000, with a typical human being represented with a 6mm high figure, as opposed to the 28mm minis used in Warhammer 40,000. Since being first released in 1988 as Adeptus Titanicus, it has gone through various editions with varying names.