Rumors: Epic

 Rumors of new Specialist Games

I've been a big fan of Faeit 212 for as long as I can remember and they've always been a good source for rumors (even now when we don't really get the kind of far reaching snippets 10+ years ago). In their more recent post they've posited the likelihood of an re-expansion of the Specialist Games ranges starting with a reimagining of Epic which they're calling Legions Imperialis. 

Currently this scale of war is only in 30k, but via Faeit's source we might be getting it in the 40th Millennium before too long:

The work on Epic began in 2018. Epic Horus Heresy will be the last production by GW with Jervis Johnson involved. Before he left GW in 2021, he was one of the Designers and an important advicer for those who work further on the game. He also was the biggest advocate within the company to bring the game back. This new Epic is his Baby like the past "Editions" were and will be part of his legacy.

Epic will be the first one of the "nextgen" of Specialist Games with others to follow. Like Necromunda the game comes to stay - they know how they will expand the game in the future. They have plans for expanding the Game out of the HH into the Great Crusade, M31, M41 ect. if the Game becomes strong enough." via Faeit 212

Regularly fielding Chapter's worth of marines against literal Waagh!'s like a boss.

The exciting thing about this is the fact that most of strongest Tau lore comes from Specialist Games before the doors shuttered on it and most of Forgeworld's more independent books and it got turned into the 30k factory. The Tau actually had Epic scaled Cadres which you can still get with a crafty google search:

Courtesy of OnyxBlog

But we also owe Specialist Games our newer Battlefleet Gothic ships which was another game that fell by the wayside but has an excellent online community. It's an example of how strong some of the 40k Community has to and continues to be. We don't always need the support of Games Workshop and, honestly, we're never going to get the attention of the Space Marine/Imperial factions but we do have one another and that's important to remember.

The concept of us getting back to other ranges is extremely exciting though and I hope that's something we can all look forward too.