by NetEpic Coordinator Peter Ramos
Welcome to our special Titan issue of Incoming! We apologise for the delay and thank you for your patience, we hope you find that it was worth the wait.
Rather than tell you all about what is in this issue, instead I'd like to tell you about something big that we have planned for the future...
Like
many gamers who enjoy the Warhammer 40k universe I have always found myself making house
rules and tweaking the many epic systems down the years to try to get the most out of my
gaming experience.
No matter what the current epic system was I felt that some vital aspect of the conduct or war was missing or ill-represented. Some aspects like morale's influence in war, artillery missions and other were either never represented or not done to my taste.
One day I decided to change that. Leaning on my experience with the netepic team Kenneth Peters and myself with much input from the great people on the netepic discussion group are putting together a warhammer40k based rules set called Heresy.
In Heresy we are trying to gather the best from all epic systems as well as novel ideas from other "epic" scale games available. This is not a generic system. While ease of play and simplicity was the paramount goal army "character" was just as important.
In issue #4 of Incoming! we'll post the completed draft of the core rules and some background on why and how we came to these game mechanics. These rules are at this moment being heavily tested and the army lists being hammered out.
Heresy will be, when completed, a self contained game with counters, templates and tables all provided. All the player has to provide is his own miniatures a friend to play and a lot of enthusiasm!
Watch out for Heresy on a website near you in the coming months!
Peter