Current Epic Army Lists

[Chaos and Evil]

Thoughts? Measured debate? Intelligent rebuttal?

The easiest way of considering it is that when Jervis first wrote the list, he essentially was saying "40k gets it wrong, Epic can and should be more true to the background".

[CarrotandStick]

Your excellent, well-considered and polite rebuttals are noted, accepted and confirmed by a fellow Tau 40k enthusiast whom I spoke to recently as sensible and fitting with the fluff.
You never know until you ask, right?
Also, I would have asked over at TacComs but they still haven't approved my forum registration. :confused:
Cheers for the comments, may the dice karma favour you.

[CyberShadow]

The membership approval is my fault. It would seem that your membership is caught in the spam filter. What is your membership name? I will get it approved.

[CarrotandStick]

Same as here, CarrotandStick. Nice and uncomplicated. =)
Spam filter for registrations? Epic that popular a target?

[CyberShadow]

Try it now.

I think that I have blocked around 575 spam applications in the last three weeks!

[Exitas-Acta-Probat]

i noticed in the titan list there is no option for warhounds to take cc weapons.
why is this? is there some reason in the fluff or from playtesting that meant the option was left out?
it seems perfectly plausible to me.

[Lord_Goober]

It's because Warhounds have never had the ability to take close combat weapons in their history IIRC.

[CyberShadow]

Correct. Games Workshop or Forge World have never produced a Warhound with close combat weapons. The Warhound is a Scout Titan, if it gets in close combat, it is doing something wrong.

[AxelFendersson]

Also, a Warhound with close combat weapons would be horrifying.

[Exitas-Acta-Probat]

thats what i thought - it would be the perfect tool for rushing in round a larger engine and tearing its kneecaps off.

[Exitas-Acta-Probat]

in fact there is a reference to a warhound with close combat weapons in titanicus, the black library book by dan abnett. a warhound with a trident weapon arm kills a lone warlord titan with it - of course this doesnt make it official in anyway but its the idea that counts...

[Exitas-Acta-Probat]

long time no post warseer - i hate to post three times in a row but my taccomms account hasnt been activated yet so i shall throw this thought to you chaps. (and yes, im still going on about titans...sorry)
titan void shields are its primary defense in pretty much all the fluff ive read on them, so why do they go down so easily? it just seems strange to me. your thoughts?

[Novrain]

Because the stuff being fired at them is generally fairly nasty? Anything from At to MW get stopped by it, that is faily hardcore.

Also balance I would imagine!

[Hena]

It makes the rules simple to use and keep track of.

[CyberShadow]

long time no post warseer - i hate to post three times in a row but my taccomms account hasnt been activated yet so i shall throw this thought to you chaps. (and yes, im still going on about titans...sorry)
titan void shields are its primary defense in pretty much all the fluff ive read on them, so why do they go down so easily? it just seems strange to me. your thoughts?

Sorry for the delay in getting your account approved. You wouldnt believe the state of the spam filter.... spam everywhere. It needs a serious clean! If you drop me a PM with your account name, I will get it approved right away.

[madd0ct0r]

worth putting a link to army forge in the first set of listing posts?

[Teurastaya]

Those are official (GW) rules for Black Legion? I want to start Chaos army for Epic, but I get really confused over how many rulesets are there:/

[Irisado]

Those are official (GW) rules for Black Legion? I want to start Chaos army for Epic, but I get really confused over how many rulesets are there:/

GW didn't put the Chaos rules back up on its website for some reason. You can find the links to the Black Legion rules in the fourth post of this thread.

[GlynG]

worth putting a link to army forge in the first set of listing posts?

Good idea. Added.

I've now generally deleted all the original posts and files (which, guiltily I wasn't keeping up to date) and replaced them with the current Epic Compendium collecting all the lists together.