After reading the for and against arguements, I find myself greatly heartened by GW's recent announcement.
While I have had Epic miniatures since 2nd Ed was released, I never once got to have a game until I recently decided to get into Epic: Armageddon.
From my n00b perspective, then, it strikes me that increased official support for Epic can only be a good thing.
There are many 40K players like myself who would no doubt look into and even try Epic...if they knew it existed. At my local club, for example, very few of the players (even some who have been playing 40K for many years) knew anything about Epic. They had perhaps heard of it, but never seen it. These are people who buy from the GW website all the time, so my hope now is that the E:A rulebook and miniatures will be prominently displayed on that GW site and online store.
The best indication of this is the "new packs" that have been promised. This presumeably means new Epic miniatures packs (re-packaged, perhaps?) going on sale. It is even possible at this point that this could mean entirely new miniatures.
Making new Epic packs available for sale indicates a level of investment in Epic that GW has not shown for some time, as the cost of producing something like (even repackaged) miniatures for sale is not small.
Feel free to shout me down if you think my logic is flawed or if I have missed something. I can see from a lot of the comments in this thread that some people feel they have been betrayed previously and fear to hope now (I am a Firefly fan, so I know what that is all about); however, in this case, I think GW's news should be seen in a very positive light.
I guess we will find out in time, but I am definitely counting myself in the Optimist camp. ?
' where we can get epic and (heretic '
'heretic) new unit also, and (now my soul is marked by the inquisition '
' for externinatus) even sale in stores, both (ups just a vidicare send out to kill me for these heretical remarks) GW and other independent stores (her is your chance "Bog & ide" and "FANTASK")
