Epic 40K

2 posts · Apr 15 1997 to Apr 16 1997

Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 19:36:05 -0400

Subject: Epic 40K

> A good while ago Brendan Pratt wrote:

In what way is Epic 40K (which I have not seen) adapted from WRG ancients?

I assume you mean DBA/DBM/DBR rather than umpteenth edition. Jervis
Johnson passed some comment about how everyone in wargaming should all be
duely inspired by these rules about... 2 years (?) ago. It made my laugh my
socks off at the time, since I think WHFB is such a rotten game in comparison.
Is all now revealed?

From: Brendan Pratt <bastard@o...>

Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 01:02:51 -0400

Subject: Re: Epic 40K

> David Brewer wrote:
the system of fire combat is based closely on the WRG Ancients rules
wherein units add fire factors, cross-refence a table and then roll
dice. Ancients uses a set of "standardisation dice" that generally only
produce results around a median - but occaisionally produce wildly good
or bad results.
 E40K just uses a non-linear chart to accumulate fire-factors and then
assigns dice "to hit" from there.