Welcome to my website, home of the "Old" cards for the "New" Epic: Armageddon from Games Workshop, as well as reference sheets for the great game by Mongoose Publishing, A Call to Arms - Babylon 5 Space Combat.

If you're visiting this page then undoubtedly you've got some interest in the latest edition of Epic, or at least Warhammer 40,000.  My introduction to the epic scale battles was actually my first exposure to tabletop miniature gaming, and it remains my first love as far as miniature gaming goes.  It was back in 1992 in Idaho Falls, Idaho, and I had just transferred from my schools at NTC Orlando, FL, to NPTU Idaho Falls, ID.  Like probably a lot of you I was into comics and D&D and was looking for a place to get comics locally.  Well - the local shop had comics and more!  He had a big 4'x8' table with lots of epic terrain, and many well-painted epic armies.  Of course back then, it was known simply as "Space Marine", a "3D roleplaying game"!  Well, it was hardly roleplaying, but I was soon hooked, and hard.

2 weeks later I had my first epic miniature, a lead Imperial Shadowsword Super Heavy Tank.  I was very impressed with its ability to reach out and touch someone, ha ha!  It took a while to get a hang of painting them, but I persisted.  I wound up splitting a box with some Navy buddies  (back when there were 3 armies in the main box!) and over the years have amassed quite a large collection of armies, most of which unfortunately still needs painting!  ARGH!!! 

Since then,   Space Marine evolved into Titan Legions, Epic 40,000, and now Epic: Armageddon.  This 4th edition has been extremely well received and playtested by the epic gaming community and promises to be probably the best version of the Epic rules to date.  But, being an "old school" Epic gamer I felt something was missing from the rules that really gives it the nostalgic feel of the first games I played. - The Army Cards, of course!  Army cards in Space Marine allowed you to easily select a force, and provided a visually appealing way to organize your army.  These days, with computers getting more and more powerful and user friendly, there's any number of custom made spreadsheets and commercial programs available out there that do a lot of the same stuff - I've got some myself (you should see the monster Excel spreadsheet I did for a universal E:40K detachment sheet - ugh!)  But they're lacking the portability and flexibility that the cards provided.  Unless you have a laptop, you can't take the spreadsheet to the local gaming shop - and then where do you print it?  What happens if you need to make changes, or finish early and want a second game?  How long have you waited to use the computer at the shop because someone else didn't make a list at home?

I've modeled these cards on the old ones, and made some improvements I think.  On the front, the silhouettes now are a bit more detailed in some cases, infantry are shown as the unit would appear on the tabletop (using the newer 1x5 strip bases), and army symbols and iconography are maintained.  The new E:A has 'subset lists' of a main army - for instance, the Space Marine army has 1 official variant so far, the White Scars Space Marine chapter.  So, instead of maintaining a common color scheme (red for marines, blue for Imperial Guard, as in the old days) I've added a 'watermark' type of symbol to the card background that will change color between army lists.  At one point I was really getting into detail of the army by breaking down the Ultramarines into each company and  providing company marking on the card, but after spending $50 printing double sided army cards at Kinko's I realized this was waaay to much and needed to bring it back a notch.  Below is an  example of the front of one of my old cards and a new card.
 

 

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Its a small, but subtle change.

 
The Space Marine-era cards had the Break Point, Victory Point, and Morale values of the detachment or company, and usually some fluff about the units in the formation.  These either aren't used at all or not in the same way anymore, so the backs of my cards replace this with the unit stats from the appropriate source material.

These cards don't, however, tell you how your army is organized apart from the various upgrades available to the particular formation.  So, I recommend either downloading the living rulebook from specialist games, or if you are able, pick up a copy of the actual rulebook - it has extremely high production value!

 

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What else is out there for Epic: Armageddon?

Multimedia Page - lots of things here are useful!

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What's all this epic stuff? Show me the Spaceships!

Nah, not those Spaceships - the New Spaceships!!!!

Skip all that - give me the tournament ships!!!!

This website was last updated on 4 September 2006.

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