Epic (game)

Epic game

Cover of Current Epic rulebook, showing a Lucius-Pattern Warlord Titan and Space Marines
Designers	Jervis Johnson
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.