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Today we glance again over twenty years on the meanest – tiniest EPIC Adeptus Astartes to kick ass on the Horus Heresy tabletop.
EPIC scale’s 6mm vary had it’s origins means means again in 1988’s Adeptus Titanicus – which was focussed solely on titan fight within the Horus Heresy.
Humble Beginnings
In reality it was Adeptus Titanicus that was the breeding floor for a lot of the unique Horus Heresy lore. It began as titans solely, simply because the 2018 version has began, but it surely didn’t keep that means. Before lengthy the tiny 6mm vary had expanded all through the Nineteen Nineties to incorporate the entire Grimdark’s main factions – from thier mighty Titans to primary infantry.
EPIC at all times makes us wax nostalgic, so at the moment we’re going again to 1996 to see what the Space Marines appeared like again within the day – ten years after EPIC’s origin.
EPIC 40,000 Marine Minis
This is the core pair of sprues for the military and my absolute favourite. The infantry Space Marine Battle Group sprue offers you all the pieces you might want to make each kind of EPIC infantry stand to your Astartes. The element is kind of spectacular for 20 years again and at 6mm scale. You can see Chaplains, Librarians, Apothecaries, Techmarines and a lot extra on that sprue. The Tank Sprue offers you 2 Land Raiders (reborn a long time later by Forge World) 2 Whirlwinds and 4 Rhinos on a single body!
Teensy Thunderhawks, (now reborn in plastic)! In EPIC they’d the maneuvering room they actually wanted and supplied the Marines with superb capability to get to the place they wanted to quick, and a few critical shut air help as soon as they took off once more. It was additionally a nightmare mini to place collectively so many teensy metallic items – DON’T DROP IT!
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So many Predators. Look in any respect the turret and sponson weapon choices. Then take a look at all of the hull choices. You might just about construct no matter form of Predator you needed – with or with out dozer blade.
The foremost infantry sprue above lined the usual Marine bikers. Here we get the bigger Attack Bikes with sidecars, Land Speeders (nonetheless my favourite design), and a tricked out Command Land Raider. Check out these teensy metallic flying stands for the speeders.
Here we see quite a lot of Razorbacks and Dreadnoughts. The unique Contemptor got here from Epic, however was discontinued earlier in EPIC’s life span and changed with the strolling field 40K dreadnought all of us got here to know and love. Luckily, the Contemptor would make a reappearance a long time later.
Last however definitely not least, come the Vindicators. Their EPIC booms have been each tiny and mighty in equal measure.
On the tabletop the military was gorgeous (Land Raiders are from earlier EPIC editions)
25 years later we lastly acquired that tiny Thunderhawk in plastic courtesy of Aeronautica Imperialis. We will nonetheless have to attend to see what number of extra years GW makes us await a full EPIC reboot. My fingers are crossed!
~Thanks for this journey down reminiscence lane people. Do you assume with Adeptus Titanicus and Aeronautica’s matching scale imply EPIC’s return is simply a matter of time?
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