Category: epic

Epic Tank Factory

Back at GamesDay 2001, Carl from Dropship put on a most excellent Epic demonstration game with some fantastic models and some fantastic scenery.

One of the key scenery pieces for me was the freight yard, railway track and one of the nice Forge World Tank Factories (which is sadly now long longer available).

Epic Tank Factory

More photographs from this demonstration game.

Imperial Guard Heavy Tank

Here is an Imperial Guard Heavy Tank from Simon’s collection moving through the ruins of an Imperial City.

Variant Imperial Guard Tank
Variant Imperial Guard Tank

This conversion was made, probably about ten years ago, so way before the Death Korps of Krieg models found their way into Epic Armageddon and Forge World.

I am pretty sure that this is a Hydra hull, as for the turret, well if you look at this picture of one of my Ork tanks from the same era, I think you will be able to guess!


From a fluff perspective, it can be easily imagined that an Ork army overtook an Imperial Guard tank factory and utilised many of the components including the turrets on their own tanks and battlewagons.

If I remember correctly, from Simon’s perspective I think it was because he had all the Ork vehicles from the Epic 40000 boxed set that he decided to use the Ork turrets.

Epic Orks

Back in 2004 at the UK GamesDay, Forge World were showing off some new Epic miniatures, an Ork Battlewagon and a Gargantuan Squiggoth.

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At this point lots of new Epic Ork stuff was coming out from Forge World and we expected to see lots and lots…

Little did we know that five years later, it would be 40K Ork stuff that would see the light of day and (Ork aircraft excepted) we would see virtually no new Epic Ork vehicles.

Will Epic rise again? Probably not, which is a pity.