Scenarios

[Content from Rulebook page 140.]

Exciting and varied ways to play.

Well, I never expected that to happen…

The pre-defined and slightly abstracted nature of tournament games is not for everybody, and many players prefer to play Epic in a way that allows them to really explore all of the possibilities presented by the game's background. If you are one of those players, or if you are someone like the author who enjoys playing both tournament games and scenarios, then this section is for you. In it we describe how you can devise your own scenarios, and we also provide half a dozen or so scenarios that we have devised and which are presented here as examples of what can be done. This section also includes more scenarios from Fanatic magazine and elsewhere.

We are using the term scenario here in its broadest possible sense, to cover any game that is not a tournament game. Many players imagine scenarios to be something that comes with a bit of historical background, a list of the forces involved, some special rules, and a set of victory conditions — like the training scenarios presented earlier in this book. In actual fact they can be anything that provides a context for a game that you play using the Epic rules and Epic models. Thus saying "Let's just set up all our Epic models on the living room floor and keep on playing until one side is dead!" is every bit as much a scenario as a carefully worked out reconstruction of the assault on the Emperor's Palace — and somewhat easier to organise and play to boot!