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From the E-A Playtesters Board, in case you guys didn't see this one pertinent to this topic:
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My long term (and rather grandiose, it has to be said) plans for Epic are to create a *family* of games that use a common set of Epic miniatures. These three games are:
- Epic (E-A): Grand Tactical Combat in the 41st Millenia.
- Adeptus Titanicus (AT): Titan vs Titan battles.
- Air War (AW): Squadron level aerial combat in the 41st millenia.
I produced Epic first mainly due to necessity - there are lots of players with Epic armies out there, and I wanted to cater for them first of all. AT and AW will follow later as and when we get the time to make them.
I love aerial combat games, and have been playing them in one form or another for almost 30 years now, so the thought of being able to do my own game on the subject has a lot of appeal, and that means I want to write it myself. I'm hoping to get some test rules up next year if I can, but don't hold your breath.
- Why squadron level?
Well one of the things I've learny reading about aerial combat in real-life is that while Hollywood may fixate on aces and one-on-one combats, the reality was that it was the best trained *squadrons* of aircraft that usually won. The 'lone wold' ace was something that was really only seen early in WW1, and by 1917 all of the early lone wolves were either dead or had learned that they needed to act as a part of a team. The art of aerial combat at the tactical level then is not how well you can fly your plane, but how well you and the rest of your comrades can act as a team to defeat the enemy. So far no aerial combat game has really captured this, but it's what I'd like my game to reflect, if at all possible.
With regard AT, I think that Gav's rules really only need an update and some more development work to get them to a finished state.
As with AW I hope to get an updated version of the rules up in the vault some time next year. Once the rules are up we can start to test and develop them as we have the Epic rules and army lists.
Best regards,
Jervis Johnson,
Head Fanatic.
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Tas
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