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Well I am glad that you all are interested, we have a "working copy" on my buddy's computer. We update things as we see fit. We are currently thinking of incorporating the E-A combat results system. ?And as I said, in many cases, we just melded rules from SM1, SM2, E40K, DSII, etc. ?For example, for aircraft, we dropped the air-to-air combat rules from E40K, that should be a whole other game. ?We use the SM1 off-board support rules for air strikes now with the proliferation of aircraft models in the game. ?By simply placing the aircraft model next to the target, place the 6cm burst template on target in base to base contact with the flyer base and take it from there. So as you can see it's not really that difficult a set of rules to use, but it really is a melding of systems. ?We also use the SM2 rules as a base for commander/ special troop rules, since now the have figures for Libs, Techs, Medics, etc. instead of putting them all on one base like E40K, they are individually based with 4 other Marines, + a Banner like in SM1. ?We also took some of those ideas from old Citadel Journals. ?We also use the pop-up rules from SM2 for the Thunderhawk, land speeder, Chaos Disc riders, most Eldar vehicles, ?etc. ?So as you can see with these example we really did not rewrite the rules as we mixed them together. ?We still use the SM1 templates and some SM2 cards to organize our troops, and we also continue to use the AT1/SM1 rules to generate scenarios/ victory conditions and basic force levels. ?So at this point it still needs some fine tuning with the intro of the E-A combat results system. ?So once we have a solid set I'll let you know. ?But since we have been playing since '90, much of these rules are instinctive to us. ?However, with family matters, work, etc., we have less time to play and more time to discuss.  ? However, since we are veteran players, we quickly can assimilate changes. ? With some of the examples I gave you maybe you can try these ideas. ?If you have any specific questions about how we do things, please feel free to ask. ?As time went on we became very open to trying new things to add (or delete), from our "hybrid" rule system. ? I could go into the reasons why we do this, but that really isn't as important as how vs. why ... ?And this works for us ... 
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It sounds very interesting... 
!!! It needs more "fine tuning", before it's ready for "public consumption", with the possible addition of the E-A combat system. But for us, it's a matter of our years of gaming, (starting in '70) and not just Epic, that many of our methods are instinctive. However, I'll see down the road, we might be able to produce a hard-copy for all to see, as opposed to our little cult who knows how to play amongest ourselves. But many of the rules are unchanged from the original systems we took them from, so as I said, we just added them all together and modified as needed.